If you don’t need the seats just straight go for the tundra, the practicality of a truck bed over an suv for just cargo duty is immeasurably greater. I’m just biased against the tundra series because of several experiences with first gens and the crazy expensive repairs they needed, that's why I bought a 30 year old…

I like my '74 Buick Apollo. I liked it so much that I got it as my first car over twenty years ago and still have it. I'll only give it up when my son turns sixteen and he then gets to be the third owner. But '74 muscle cars were gutless wonders. The TA you mentioned is about the only one that still had any real…

Weird, somehow the same thing happened to almost everybody I know. Except of course for the fellons I supervise, they’re not exactly bright as they know I’m going to search their homes for weapons every time I walk in the door(it’s part of their parole agreements so no violation of their rights.) and yet they seem…

That's a fair assessment, but I still think it'll be a bit chaotic since there is a fair bit of unknown in it all and there's been a reduction in testing time allowed. 

Agreed. That's why my thirty year old truck works so well. It's very much low mileage but was driven regularly every year just not very far so only a few things have deteriorated and were easily repaired. Mostly a few electrical gremlins and plastic parts such as window regulator gears that just got brittle. 

One flaw in your logic is the nova hatchback vs standard car, they’re virtually indistinguishable except for the rear hatch.

Personally I'm looking forward to 2022 not because of what team may be at the front of the grid but because of the potential for chaos as each team interprets the relatively dramatic changes in a myriad of ways. I think it could be fun to see some actual experimentation rather than straight copies of each other's…

The last nissan I drove was a rental altima with the cvt. Holy crap was that thing tedious. It was memorable only for it's blandness, not least if which because my daily at the time was an LS with a supercharger so it was actually pretty quick. I kind of wish I hadn't sold it thinking back on how entertaining it was. 

My buddy liked his dart because it had a manual but stopped liking it so much after I pointed out that while the challenger demon is one of the fastest accelerating production cars ever, his dart was one of the fastest depreciating cars ever. He traded it in in a charger that promptly had the front bumper fall off so…

While I don't pretent to know, I would presume that it's because it's based on the scorpion which itself was based on the beta if I recall correctly. 

There have been a few times, the first gen Geo Metro that lost a race to a guy in crutches, the brand new ‘07 chevy 2500 HD that we couldn’t get out of because my brother opened the door from the outside and the inner half of the door stayed firmly in place, or perhaps the Jeep liberty CRD that munched the head and it…

Let’s see. . . There was the purple Hyundai named Maui(after the mythological character not the island) the orange beetle named Penelope, the gold Hyundai named Canth after a dragon in my mom’s favorite book, then of course we had Pinky, The Brain, and Snowball a series of one ton trucks for work, the first one was a…

I know it’s a stupid design. I know it’s horribly unreliable. I know it doesn’t make enough power to justify it’s existence. I know it’s a maintenance nightmare. Despite all of that I’ve wanted one and it’s manual transaxle for years to build a ‘60s inspired formula car around just for the sound. Given the chance I’ll…

A buddy of mine found something perfect last night and had to tell me about it. How about a 900hp mustang gt500 on ksl.com in utah.

A friend of mine had a diablo and if you take out that style light they were actually branded Nissan, at least they were on his anyway. 

For several years I went to a local mechanic that did fantastic work, the guy that actually worked on the cars that is, but then I met the shop owner. The mechanic would quote me a price and do exactly that work etc. But then the owner would step in and randomly add several hundred dollars to the bill to “Make it a…

Such a wonderful string of puns so aptly applied, I have never before beheld. 

Seriously? Nobody put up “Hey Little Cobra” by the Ripchords yet! I know it’s cheesy but that’s kind of the point isn’t it. A close second for me is “Beep Beep” and “One Piece At A Time” but those just refer to cars not actually naming them.

2000sq feet, full mill, machinist lathe, welding equipment, plasma cutter, flow bench, chassis straightening rack, lift, tire change equipment, paint booth, full carpentry shop, propane forge and blacksmithing corner, second floor with a bathroom and plenty of space to hang out/ relax without kids screaming around you…

M dad tried to sell Lancias in the early 80's and he still complains about them out of nowhere. Stuff like having them vomit all the oil out while backing it off the truck and pieces falling off them while sitting on the lot because they were already rusting away. It's actually pretty fun to get him going by saying…