Maybe the resurgence of a belligerent Russia will lead the Pentagon to rethink its decision to scrap the magnificent A-10 Warthog.

Very nice, though of course being able to buy an actual Panda 4x4 would be better.
What's wrong with it though is that Jeep grille and headlights, which looks just crudely grafted on rather than properly resolved into the design (indeed a lot like the Jeepster photoshop).

The house was a fugly neo-grecian monstrosity too, and they drive a Ferrari so I can muster no sympathy

Back in the early 90s a friend and I were working and climbing in Lake Louise, Alberta for the summer, and at the end of the summer he bought an old, brown hardtop Land Cruiser in Calgary for, iirc, what seemed like a bit too much money. It barely ran, and when it did it drove like a tractor, and there was some sort…

Beloved 1988 Toyota cargo van with a busted cylinder head gasket: after months of dealing with overheating and geysers of steam coming out of the engine compartment (that granular stuff you pour in the radiator would work for a few days at best) I first cut a hole in the engine shroud to reach the leak from inside the…

Thank-you. I was trying to find some explanation of just what exactly it was that he'd done to rig the meters, which is sadly lacking above.

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I just saw (and retweeted) that Ferrari picture. It's actually a beautifully composed image - shame you didn't show the whole frame.

It was actually pretty small, like the size of a Ford Transit

I used to love the Matra Rancha (I *think* it was Rancha, not Rancho) back then. I even have a 1/24th scale model of the thing kicking around in a box somewhere. Our family car at the time was a Simca 1100 which I can't even remember what it looked like, apart from being metallic blue. The Renault Espace too. It was…

These Japanese micro-trucks - Subaru, Suzuki, Diahatsu etc - are pretty common here around Halifax, Nova Scotia. I think a local company imports them and they come off the ship in Dartmouth. Older models but very clean, diesel, 4x4, tiny and cute, and surprisingly not cheap at all - $5500 *is* probably what they go…

I'd call that 'lame surfacing'

I wonder if it's the same hearse as this one?

"Happy Easter, asshole." I loved that movie when I was a teenage punk, then I saw it years later and realized it was actually rather terrible.

My old Toyota Van had this feature. Pretty handy actually.

My parents had a 404 just like the one pictured, bought in the UK in 1969 and shipped to South Africa. The license plate though was a 'CF', for Grahamstown; 'CL' is a slightly smaller town someplace else in the Cape Province. My dad finally gave in to the people who were always pestering him to sell it to them in 1998…

Ad is down but I'm curious about this 'Afrikaaner grill'. When I was a kid in SA and out camping with my folks on university field trips, the grown-ups would take the steel grill off the university land rover to use over the fire - I wonder if that's what he means.

We had a Renault 4 in the UK when I was a kid (my mechanic stepfather picked it up at an auction for £100 and fixed it up), and it was just a perfect little car.

The habit that annoys me most about Nova Scotia drivers is that feel they need way more room around parked cars than they actually do, and will cross way over the yellow line into oncoming traffic to leave a 10 foot space around an empty car. You see them weaving down the road, alternating between driving in the…

I was watching 'The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest' last night - a Swedish film with no nudity - and was amused to see that the biker gang has an old Suburban. A full-size old Chevy truck also makes a cameo appearance in the background of a city shot.