fell OFF

Haha yep! My job duties include annual meetings with manufacturers, including GM. When we were meeting with them in 2014 - they had a preproduction Camaro prominently on display and one of the platforms engineers who was showing the car to us proudly exclaimed “and this is the FIRST Camaro with a 4 cylinder engine!” to…

Come on, mate.

What a fucking spanner.

I can GUARANTEE that this is a big problem that is lurking here in California. There is ZERO inspections of any structural repair done or SRS components required when registering total loss (salvage) vehicles in this state.

Found a pic of Mr. de Leon...

Holy shit - just reading that sentence took me back 50 years and I swear I can still taste that pain lol.  My aunt’s ‘73 got me...

Absolutely - then again, she may have realized what she was driving and saw an opportunity to not to have to drive it anymore.

If your car stalls in a flood due to deep waters, get out of the car immediately and seek higher ground.

We had a Celebrity wagon with a rear facing third seat in the 90s. I was towing a tow dolly and was stuck in traffic when an impatient semi truck tried to switch lanes and clipped the tow dolly. One of my sons was in that rear-facing seat and still talks about how traumatizing that was. Maybe if we didnt have the…

Deep cut bro.

F150 with the uber rare 1-on-the-tree transmission

WE’VE GOT COWS!

I wonder what ever happened to his kid, Rated?

$500 today wont cover an alternator replacement at a shop for most anything built in the last 15 years. Yes, I know a lot of us here can handle this repair but many cannot. I just checked and an alternator at Autozone for my 2010 Camry is $375+ tax. Shop labor is an hour. $175/hour is not an uncommon shop rate here -…

And now it is my favorite too. Haha the flyby at the end...