Not my car but my friend had a 1972 VW Beetle as a first car in highschool. He brought it over to my dad’s place and we wrenched on it to getting working right, just me and him since my dad was away on business. We get his beetle not-dieseling on shutdown, call it good enough, and decide to set off to the land of Taco…

when can we expect penguinology? now there’s a religion I would give my life savings to.

that would be great until someone attempts a flip, then it would suck.

I’m a machinist, think they would let me bring a mill on a plane or should I stick to not working on vacation?

As far as I can tell Buk is the name of the missile system consisting of acquisition and targeting radars, a command element, missile launchers, and a logistics element — mounted on tracked vehicles.. Specifically a Buk consists of a tracked mobile carrier with 4x 9m38 missiles on board and a radar with a 21' mast.

So…

Good to know I’m not the only person who lies awake at night and is terrorized by horrible visions of thinks about things like M3 Ute conversions.

never knew I needed a ratrod hearse

500 dollar 1988 RX-7.
That sat outside.
Under a particularly squirrel filled walnut tree.
For several years.
While the previous owner was in prison.
It had also caught on fire from a fuel damper failure.
Twice. 

That doesn’t surprise me at all. This guy never sold anything, he just used it to make some crazy hot rods and trucks for himself.

I’m aware of that. My dad worked for GM and one of his friends there had a 5.7 olds that “fell off a truck in the proving grounds” in his old Suburban tow vehicle. He took pristine care of that engine and it had almost 500,000 on it when he pulled it and scrapped the rusty truck, but blah blah blah conventional wisdom…

Neutral: Is Michigan Full Of Shit?

Noooo, you know everybody loves going down to the dealership and dealing with a guy covered in badly concealed prison tattoos and his friend the wrestling jock like the one that beat you up every couple days in High School. It’s absolutely fantastic to haggle out a price with people…

On the topic of it being a tour, can we expect more episodes like the specials where they travel vast distances through foreign countries to do silly things like find the “source” of the Nile or build a bridge over the River Kok?

WE DON’T SPEAK OF THOSE DAYS
THOSE DARK, OLDSMOBILE DAYS.

I have 2 cars.
Combined they are worth way less than a tenth what this thing is.
Less than a hundredth if you count maintenance.

The version with massaging seats built in

The Shoulder Bolt

And neither of those are as good as “I’m a responsible adult who makes decent spending choices.”

I actually knew a guy in high school who destroyed his intake manifold trying to drill and tap it for a direct port system he (and I’m not kidding here) pulled out of a wrecked mustang.

So in some ways nitrous poses a danger to the intake manifold if it is being installed by an incompetent teenager.

6.5% of people on Jalopnik have too many dollars and not enough sense.

you’re making me regret my decision to buy a RX-7.

That car is sex.

what about the helicron?