It’s in good shape but that’s a fairly strong ask for what is, at the end of the day, not a collector’s car. It isn’t worth the premium to pay more than $3000 for a 40 year old car that isn’t especially noteworthy.
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It was making the rounds a few years ago, a father-daughter team building what came to be called the MoPacer. They hogged out the old 258 and dropped in a stroked 4.0HO (4.5 with the addition of a 258 crank for extra displacement) for a juicy power bump, reliability and fuel economy.
I was there when my parents’ new truck was rolled off the transporter...in 1985!
That’s an awful lot of money for a Pacer.
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Will Angry Tank Top be in it, or are we just going full Hot Wheels now?
Nicely said. There’s good, and there’s great. The Apple watch is good, but the Submariner (or in my personal case, the Omega Megasonic) is great.
“Better” is contextual, and the only context that matters is you. How you interact with the car is going to define what will make it better.
“Better” itself is a woolly term and if we don’t define in what way they’re better, then we’re all just batting arguments back and forth that aren’t necessarily even on the same subject.
I really don’t know. I can only find one other comparable at about this age and condition, and it’s priced lower but when you’re talking fifty grand to start with, the range gets wider. Is it a great deal, probably not but a good enough deal? I guess?
Looking at a sales chart that has the Pacifica Hybrid on it, it’s a small fraction compared to the Tesla 3 during the same period. That’s a shame too, since the PH with 30+ miles of EV range does an awful lot of grocery-getting and soccer-momming before the dinoburner kicks in.
I know it’s a pain to hear it but if you can keep the speed down the fuel economy will probably improve noticeably.
Dammit, I even knew that. The bigass single screw driven by a gigantic diesel is the most efficient drive configuration, and these things are built for maximum mass-miles for minimum money.
When I was a kid in the NoVA area and we saw our very first RTS in service with Metrobus in, what, 1978? Around there - at first I thought I was seeing things. It was like watching the Space Shuttle roll by. And it went past a building and was lost from sight before I could really register what I was looking at.
Bingo. The 3 might be in the niche I would want to attack but if I were going to build an EV,I’d be inclined to build the one that had the most possible appeal to the most possible people.
Pilot units = beta testers, at least in this reader’s mind. If you’re using the term to mean the first ones sent down the line to shake down the lines, get all the jigs dialed in etc, great - the line’s dialed in. So now where are the rest of the cars?
I would’ve thrown the starboard screw to flank astern while keeping the port at half ahead - try like hell to shed some speed so in the event of a collision, there’d be less scraping to tear the hull, all while trying to move the head without pushing the stern into the dock.
...and completely unrecognized for how crucial they are.
Looked like the rudder was cranked hard to starboard and the screw making turns to get the bow to move to the right, but these things don’t turn on a dime. She’s equipped with a bow thruster but I didn’t see the boil of it operating; I have to wonder if it was fouled or inoperable? That failing at just the wrong…
THAT’S IT. Posh but not top of the line. Luxurious without being ostentatious. Competent without being harsh. It’s a good ride all day, a good car all day, a solid contender if not winner in a ranked choice voting election.