$18k gets you a brand new 2WD Hilux diesel, just not in the US.

Haha, Toyota actually sells the Hilux where I live, and it starts at $18,350 (that’s WITH taxes).

I imagine the woman in the store laughing knowingly after they took the keys away from her; that’s probably not what happened, but I’m really hoping it was.

I fooled mine into thinking it has a CD changer, I’ve also tried both the cassette adapters and the little FM transmitters and they’re usually so awful that it’s better just to use a Bluetooth speaker.

My car didn’t come with one so I added an aux jack to the radio, does that count?

As I scrolled down the pictures I was thinking the only actual MGB part was the front grill but then he removed that too. I mean, I like it but it does seem at this point that having a donor car was completely irrelevant.

Same goes for the unloved rubber bumper MGB, my dad used to have one and it was very liberating to be able to park it pretty much anywhere without caring too much if someone bumped into it

I don’t get this either, in about 25 years of ownership my dad’s GT6 (stock, with points) has only given trouble once and that ended up being some trash in the tank that was blocking the fuel line.

The Germans have figured this out already:

Either:

That was just the motivation I needed, I’m actually rebuilding the engine on one of these and the cylinder head is going back on this afternoon.

I’d be in as a driver, it’s always nice to find excuses to use the cars more.

I’m more surprised that a Corvette was being driven not only not by a middle aged man, but actually by a young woman.

There are a few reasones, if you own one of the country’s largest businesses it’s probably impossible to sell it as no one else can buy it, and even if you live outside the country you’d need to spend at least a couple of months a year there just to manage the business.

The wiring to make them work only when the trunk is open is extremely simple so I’d expect them to even on old cars; having them on inside a closed trunk all the time would also produce a lot of heat.

They’d never get much use so the bulbs aren’t likely to be burned out; the other cool thing is if they use the same bulbs then you’d always have spare bulbs in case one of the main lights blow (doing this could actually cause the problem you described though). Everything is going LED nowadays so probably won’t be an…

Apart from the accidentally killing people every once in a while that seems like a pretty cool hobby.

Another advantage is voltage stability, a DC dynamo will produce more voltage at higher RPMs and less at lower engine speeds. This is brought down to around 14 volts by a mechanical regulator that has to be precisely calibrated.

I have a full size spare but it’s on a mismatched steel wheel, another tactic if you keep your car for long is on each tire change to pass the least worn tire onto the spare wheel.

I know the UK has or at least used to have a regulation where tail lights had to be visible from behind even with the trunk door open so some cars ended up having a second set of tail lights inside the trunk.