I was going to say Citroen CX, my dad had one when I was a kid and it was impossible to be in the back seat without immediately dozing off because of how comfortable it was.

It would seem to me that’s probably a Type 4 prototype from the VW museum and someone just took the picture and posted it without realizing it was a one off.

On my last trip to Cuba in 2017 I remember being in a gas station that still sold leaded for the older cars, haven’t found any sources on when it was banned there but it must have been very recently.

With a little patience I’m pretty sure that you’d be able to find an original XK140 or 150 with a V8 or an XJ6 engine for that price.

You’re getting a lot of hate but I agree, I always wear my seatbelt while driving in public roads but there’s still many occasions where I end up not wearing it. Farms where I need to get out to open and close a gate every hundred yards or so, for moving a car parked behind another car, off road trails, loading and…

I don’t think this is really a new thing, in most of Latin America we’ve always been able to get base model cars without a radio.

So if I understand correctly, this DC/DC converter basically does the same thing as the mechanical voltage regulator on old cars with dynamos, only much much faster.

Back in 1998 when I was about to turn 16 my parents and I started looking at cheap cars for me but pretty much everything we saw was in terrible unsafe condition so they decided new would be better and the budget was raised to just about cover a new base spec Chevy with all of 78 hp. My dad has always been a car guy…

Was thinking this as well, probably a combination of down and forward thrust to take full advantage of the torque going to the wheels.

So Jeeps didn’t make it but the world’s most unreliable production vehicle ever did, that’s a lot of credit to Land Rover Special Vehicles.

Yes, also it was so much nicer just scrolling down through your comment than going through the annoying slideshow.

I believe I read somewhere that this is how you’re supposed to do it always in a Porsche Carrera GT, and attempts at feathering the throttle are what ends up with the car stalling but unfortunately I haven’t tried one myself.

Very reminiscent of my old Velosolex, probably a lot quieter and faster though.

I live in Central America where we get a lot more pickup options than in the US and even here the long low beds have disappeared. Last one available was the Nissan NP300 but even on that the bed has risen by more than a foot over the last 10 years which makes it a lot harder to load them.

Been doing this on a budget with my dad’s 59 Jag, looking through your list you could probably save some money by not changing:

Been doing this recently with a 1959 Jaguar... Think I’ve spent a similar amount of money but for sure a whole lot more time.

While I agree on the safety on many cars it’s a pretty involved modification to make. In my current fleet there are 4 cars with single line braking systems:

My dad and I work on older British cars for fun, many have a mix of imperial and Whitworth; with the most baffling being the bolts on an MG TD engine which have French Standard Metric threads with Whitworth heads.

Reminded me of this one:

There’s pretty much no practical purpose for this ever except for that very unusual tight parking situation, but cars where you can scoot easily from the driver’s seat to the passenger seat feel nice for some reason.