Hey man don’t take it personally, there’s nothing wrong with liking things that peaked in popularity by catering to 8-14 YO boys. I mean Jerky Boys, amirite?

A 5-speed Element would be a mighty fun toaster indeed.

...some of the more recent hits from the marketing cohort that brought us hair metal, gangsta rap, nü metal and uh more gangsta rap.

Somewhere, Harlan Crow startles and goes, “hm?”

Did you say TUNNEL?

I started out on a 1971 521 pickup with an L16 engine, and I’ve always appreciated how Nissan just stuck to beefing up and facelifting the truck, and boring/stroking the L16 until 1998, and then sold it through 2004.

Me, seeing the article: “How can you say that, pickups are like dogs, there’s no bad ones.”

WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER

Looks like the strategy was “remove everything in the way of the engine” followed by “fuck it, bolt on enough to make it sorta street legal.”

If you’re ever in the Portland, Oregon area, the WAAAM has Model T Driving School. Sold out for this year though.

Open-piped Subie H-4s sounds like goblin farts, but a racecar’d LL Bean Outback would be kinda hilarious.

Official parade car for the Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party.

Hard luck or theft.  A lot of both in that world.

Just your usual deathtrap VW trike, but I’m wondering where they got that fiberglass bodywork.

Good to know.  Always wanted one.

ND. I am literally more interested in the bascule bridge in the background of the top shot than the car in the foreground. (No really, looks like that’s under the West Seattle viaduct but I don’t remember that bridge.)

I’m curious if that counts the natural gas consumed to make the ammonia that feeds the corn to make the ethanol, or the emissions from disposing all the leftover corn stover.

Looks like something a dude would put together in order to impress other dudes on some overlanding/prepper/vanlife forum.

This car won’t leave you in a bathtub full of ice.

So on one hand, it’s only 1,700 lbs vs. ~2,200-2,400 for a Miata. On the other, you can bring a bag or a spare tire, but not both: