What kind of discounts did Playboy offer?

Nick’s followup tweet to Starns was stellar.

I’ve always found webers to be set-and-forget. The worst I can say about them is that the aftermarket fits terrible throttle linkages that fall out of sync.

I know what the little plastic things which are concealed behind the driver’s seat under the plastic interior panel in a Nissan 300ZX (‘90-’96) are for: headlight alignment, with a tool that doesn’t actually exist anymore.

You’re right. Subaru has had the most success as a head gasket company.

I thought crashes were because cars hit things.

I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that Chrysler probably has done the mapping to make the gauge reasonably accurate (obviously, it’s just an interpolation of throttle position and RPM to make the gauge do its thing).

Goddamnit, somebody fix the GPS on that TU-95. Fucker’s been off course since the 1960s.

The very first cat circumcision.

Keep on thinking that putting two MAF sensors in front of at least 20 possibly leaking joints apiece is better than one MAP sensor sitting in the manifold measuring the air right before it goes into the cylinders.

My newest car is 12 years old (‘06 Infiniti M35x). The rest are: 26, 28, 47, and 51 (1992 Nissan 300ZX TT, 1990 Cadillac Brougham d’elegance, 1971 Datsun 240Z, and 1967 Pontiac GTO).

I know, and the bodies still flex there after the fill, because the frame isn’t actually all that stiff. It’s why so many of them have those shit faux leather roof band-aids.

Surely there are places one could go to buy a car that isn’t necessarily brand new.

Might want to look at the C pillars of any A-body car and count the wrinkles in the paint there.

Is the full frame car really stronger, though?

I’ll see your “step 1" and replace it (and all the subsequent ones) with: step 1- buy a car that’s years out of warranty and then do whatever the fuck you want to it.

Screw that, if you’re gonna go that far, just go MAP and never worry about vacuum leaks ever again.

Yes. The angles involved are such that it would be impossible to have top-feed fuel injectors and retain cruise control.

A band-aid for the Z car is to flush ATF through the cable and then shoot some white lithium grease down it, but in my experience that only delays the inevitable.

The non-digital dash Z has a mechanical speedometer with a cable that runs down to the transmission. The cable is essentially a very tightly wound spring, and over time will exhibit this kind of boingy behavior.