How is the Mini Cooper not near the very top of this thread?
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I’d add the Chevy/GMC C/K series to this as well.
Ford F-Series, Dodge Ram/D-series.
The older F-Series and Rams/D-series were all about torque and gearing. Pitiful horsepower, but that’s not what you need to drag things behind you that weighed four times as much as the truck. The new ones get by just by being stronger, as they’ve traded off suspension stiffness and…
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Reminded me of this film.
Two valves weren’t uncommon in the early 2000s.
“What were you thinking? You could have been robbed!”
It suffered from VWitis. They made a good affordable “peoples car” sports coupe in the Scirocco. Then VW built the Scirocco III (aka the Corrado) and realized that they had priced it too high and no one would buy a Scirocco for that price and had to rename the car to Corrado. They slowly and steadily have done the…
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The Dobbertin Surface Orbiter.
How about a car that’s already a spaceship?
Dobbertin Surface Orbiter.
How has nobody named the Aztec?
Spaceship or Salamander? Hard to tell.
They actually did reuse part of it to make a spaceship prop:
One small step for Man, one gigantic laugh for alienkind.
Those are the most fun if it’s a conversion van with lots of extra wood parts glued to the doghouse making impossible to remove.
You can do the plugs without removing the cab, but that’s the common way to do head gaskets.
Spark plugs are a fun adventure on a GM G-series van. There is just enough room to get a socket in ther *if* it is the exact right size. Of course, you need enough room to loosen and pull the plug out as well...
Most things on a 7.3L in an E-series chassis. Ooof that’s a tight fit.