I had a similar regret. What made it especially bad was that the new owner lived not far from me, so I saw her driving it somewhat regularly.

English better for an unreasonable goal necessary not, really.

‘Defies the odds?’ Nah. I would have bet my paycheck on it. Yeah, it was a very impressive achievement, but these guys are resourceful and... well, nuts. If a wheel had come off en route and they arrived with a Target shopping cart propping up one corner of the Jeep, I wouldn’t have been all that surprised.

Oh, I get your point and agree with you. I’m just picking at CMS. In your opinion, is it “one of the good ones” or does it suck?

It was good enough for Neil Young.

“Hail Mary” coolant infusion and “have faith...” Old trucks can give you religion faster than a Sunday school teacher.

You can keep the penny. Save it toward some cheap-looking wheels for your BMW. Now, get the fuck off my lawn. :)

“Vintage cars look better with vintage appropriate sidewall ratio.”

“Think about how we exit a car: pivot on butt, swing feet out.”

And yet the rims still look better than the overly large, overly shiny ones fitted on the example in the wallpaper.

Funny you should mention that. Same guy that owned that Opel I mentioned later traded it on a ‘72 Duster.

Exactly. All it took was sticking a needle in it and turning it back to aim it at the windshield. Was more fun to squirt people with it, though.

Whatever, it let you know you weren’t far from empty.

You can never have too many foot-operated controls.

I don’t remember a foot-controlled washer in a VW (not that you’re wrong, I just don’t remember), but I had a ‘61 Beetle that had no fuel gauge. On the floor to the left of the clutch pedal was a lever to change to a reserve tank. If you were driving and the engine started to stumble, you flipped the lever and had…

And your appreciation will probably be under appreciated, too. Stars for you both.

Late ‘60s-early ‘70s Opels used a flattened rubber bulb on the floor for the windshield washer control. You stepped on it, and it used air pressure to spray washer fluid on the windshield. Buddy of mine had one, and the passenger side nozzle was loose and sprayed wide right, missing the windshield altogether, but…

True... but even watching The Weather Channel for ninety minutes is better than Fast N Furious.

Yeah, the Paseo was basically a Tercel, but the engine was not quite the same. It was a dohc 16 valve, with about 20-25 extra hp over the Tercel’s sohc mill in the earlier years. The MX-3 did not come standard with the tiny v6, but with a four-pot from the 323. My point was that all the cars in this class were…