Hard Endorse on that one.  If you do even a little bit of work on hydraulic lines like that, these things are a life saver.  Sometimes a little difficult in tight spaces but provided you can at least break the line loose, something more flexible can step in to clean things  up.

I did not know these came as wagons, too!

“Quivering Tesla-stans”

My wife had one of these in the convertible edition, loved it. Then she went to look something up online and stumbled across a thread about an electrical issue that the entire platform suffers from, one that can kill the system at speed and which Chrysler has stated it will not fix.

I’m hoping to catch an NHRA event before I’m gone. I can’t imagine an experience like it. Maybe next year’s GatorNationals, assuming the covid crud’s cleared by then.

Boy oh boy ... as a former QA engineer and current DevOps guy, I can tell you that I wouldn’t trust software engineers to balance my checkbook, much less write software that made critical decisions about my safety without an override front and center.

My experience with these and similar Japanese cars is that they’re usually bought to drive hard, and are driven hard, making buying a used one a gamble.

Something tells me no one is probably going to be racing in that.

Oh, I have no illusion the thing would be a decent DD nor would I treat it so disrespectfully :)

It’s best not to look too closely around sporting events or you’ll be on the phone with the Flag Police all day.

Maaaaaaaaaaaaaybe if it had the original engine.  But ND.

Another thing: In Floriduh, vehicle inspections aren’t done. So there’s no assurance at all that the hazards will be working, or, if they are, if all of them are working. Is that a guy signalling to change lanes, or a guy with hazards on and a burned out right tail lamp?

It’s telling how a woman with a no-fucks-given attitude gets a certain reputation, while it’s standing room only at the Church or Earnhart.

What were all those dark spots under the truck? If not oil / transmission, the optics are pretty bad.

“The Honda was almost the exact same price as a Buick Century in 1980 — around $6,500, which would be about $21,000 today — and they somehow managed to still make money on their cars and have the windows roll down.”

I’m reminded of an old Ferengi Rule of Acquisition: “Pride and an empty sack is worth an empty sack.”

Camrys of this vintage are like cockroaches. They just keep going and going. The low mileage makes it especially attractive until you hit the price tag. If it was priced a little lower it would made a nice first car for the kid or something.

A fella entered one of the Pinto-based ones in a car show I was a judge in. This would be okay, except he insisted on entering it as a “classic”. He insisted that wasn’t a Pinto automatic shifter or Pinto control knobs to me, a person that had arrived at the show driving a 75 Pinto w/automatic. Had to DQ him, which is…

Collins was a thoughtful, eloquent man. He also wrote a book about it, and it reads exactly like that clip sounds.

After the abomination of the previous gen Bronco, this was a breath of fresh air, something you could draw a line from to the original. I liked it.