I genuinely love early 80s Japanese imports (see: my frequent posts about my 1982 Celica.) BUT. This is just too much money for what it is, and the nail in the coffin for me was the auto transmission.

I’ve always loved this one:

It’s only been 2 years? So much has happened since then that it feels like this happened ages ago.

I don't get it... 

But was it FOV 90 of feathers or FOV 90 of steel?

Also the rumour consensus seems to be that the next GTA is going to be Vice City, so they likely want to lay the hammer on anything VC-tangential

Remasters are on the way, or Take Two is just a jerk publisher. Both can be true. 

I always imagined Fancy Kristen to be a lot younger

I think the ‘76 Cadillac Sixty-Special Fleetwood Brougham d’Elegance may have had too much name weighing it down.

Oh, and if you, the reader, are thinking Jalopnik is about to become a little bit less left-leaning in her absence, I promise you, it’s going to get much worse. Not because Erin was a voice of restraint, but because she’d want it that way.

In stock form and in that car, absolutely true. But they were a popular swap because they weighed the same as a small block chevy and you could get performance parts for them (not cheap compared to ford/chevy parts). You could get the power of a big block with the weight of a small block. I had one installed in a…

Couldn’t help but think of...

Holy shit. I’ve driven RVs that got better mileage.

Holy cow. 6.4 MPG City & 9 MPG combined. The 27 gal tank could only get you 173 miles around town. Yikes

I had to look it up. Wow, what a slug.

8.2l 500ci in my grandmothers ‘76 Cadillac Sixty-Special Fleetwood Brougham d’Elegance.

Hem-E

With green fender guards and a speaker making exhaust sounds. Perhaps a plastic cover over the Frunk that says “HEMI”

Exactly. If you have to point to a movie to show how badass you are and most of the cast died of old age, you are no longer counter culture.

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