The best memories I have from when my kids were still at the “noisy furniture” stage was carting them around in my 240Z. It’s unsafe, semi-dependable, loud, lumpy, stiff, and buckets of fun, and kids fuckin’ love it.

Maybe he didn’t want some yahoo rolling it over before it even got on the boat.

Blowing out the oil cap sounds like a prelude to diagnosing compression loss. It’d take a whole lot of blowby to build up enough pressure to blow out a threaded connection.

Something from the East that isn’t a miata is the answer here.

It is a euphemism strangely appropriate to an article that began with Georgia O’Keefe, though.

Came for the X-files reference, left satisfied.

Is that really a “SUCKCRAFT”? Holy crap, what an unfortunate company name.

The Nissan dealership near me has 2 240Zs in the back, both series 2 (‘72-’73), been sitting there for 10+ years, never moved an inch (tires are flat, they’re at the back of the service lot near the fence). I offered $500 each in about 2005, as they’re non-running, sun-beaten examples that aren’t even really that…

Spent a lot of time (weeks) fiddling with timing, plugs, and SU carb needles before figuring out that someone had taken the head down about .010" below minimum height, and not shimming the cam towers.

All that soundtrack ruined by a $4 throwout bearing in need of replacement.

To get that rusty lug, get a big cheater bar, an impact socket, and just tighten it until it shears off. You were going to replace it anyhow, and those wheels should have steel lug inserts to tighten against.

They apparently have no trouble securing press coverage at the drop of a hat, however.

I thought it was rather nice when I went in 2013, but I was seated back by turn 12, so there weren’t any seats directly opposite me to reflect.

Hey, at least they’re taking some action. I’ve got these things in my ‘06 M35x, but because I’m not in a “wet” climate, Nissan is taking the position that everything’s just hunky-dory.

An Audi fan complaining about understeer seems nonsensical to me when you consider that even their upper-case Q quattro systems sit the whole engine out front of the axle.

Oh yeah, total CP. That car’s ruined.

On an older car like this (pre-OBDII), it doesn’t necessarily mean that. The ECU in this car will generally only illuminate if there’s something seriously afoul of normal - no signal on the MAF, no signal on the CAS, no signal on the O2 sensors. There’s no cheeky checks on emissions functionality, because they’re…

That’s almost enough of an incentive to forget the $15 I paid to drive from Chicago to Madison on the shittiest road in the history of mankind (I-90 W).

Would probably respond with “Temba, his arms wide”

How many times have you had to tell de Nysschen that Cadillac isn’t going to rename everything “C”?