Didn’t know we were counting accidental lock-outs in this. When I drove big trucks I’d just gotten back from an east coast trip and was prepared to spend some home time when my boss called and said one of our drivers was sick and he needed me to take a quick Chicago run, an easy 600 mile round trip, no backhaul, and…

Look up Ford Nucleon

So in the end analysis, it sounds like more people get screwed by having big bro seize and crush their dream car than by being victimized by the lame reasons for the law existing in the first place...ostensibly to protect consumers. OK, sounds typical U.S. bureaucracy.

Yeah, no, I got it:)

With the T-shifter that felt like it was gonna break straight from the dealership!

Man you guys are providing me with memories last couple of days. I had this same car, except mine was a 1973 and it was red/black. Lots of funny with this one. I was bored, looking for my next basket case to resurrect, cheap as possible...this be in about 1996 maybe? So I see an ad in the paper (remember those?) “1973…

Well yeah, but I guess at the time every Japanese motor it seemed had “DOHC” or “DUAL CAM” screaming on the valve cover(s)....Chevy was proud of themselves with this little hotty (and it was, for the time, the manual trans Lumina version was 215 hp)...so they wanted to get in on the “word soup” fun.... :)

Well it depends on the motor...if you had this one, yeah, removing the upper intake plenum was your best bet...but with the 3.1 (which I really like, despite its flaws) you simply remove the dogbones that go from engine to core support, and put a ratchet strap between the motor and the support (the 3.1 has a nice…

I can think of a few more...there’s ME, who, as I explain above, loved these cars, but can’t quite say why.

No...it has twin dual cams. Four, in total. I know, you were bein silly...

Now you gone and done it. Figured out my dirty little secret. In general, I consider all FWD cars to be essentially disposable tools, and while yeah there are some nice ones, nothing I can think of off the bat that qualifies as classic or really desirable. Except for this. I have been wanting one of these ever since I…

I was looking at Boxster pics the other day, because my boss bought one and we’ve been batting custom ideas back and forth. Normally I despise silver cars, but for some reason it works for me on the Box. That in mind, I found this pic, and my first thought was “Ew!” and then almost instantly it grew on me. Not sure…

My son was the same way. He learned to identify every single manufacturer by badge as soon as he figured out how to talk. Car models and manufacturers were literally some of the first things he learned how to say. Actually the first thing he ever said was “Cookie”, followed by mama, dada, and Jet-Dry! (they had his…

Will it drift?

Heh. I was talking to him last night about it, since this made me remember it. He said she told the cop that she didn’t notice the truck, was turning around looking over her shoulder trying to see the exit from the lot when she hit him. Assumed she was in an empty lot and didn’t bother to verify that before whipping a…

People are awesome at dumb. I have a friend who drives a flatbed semi for a living. He had a load of lumber for Home Depot, and since he got there after hours he parked on the lumber yard side of the building and sacked out in the sleeper, truck idling and lights AND flashers on. Middle of the night, BANG! and the…

Nice :)

That would distract the hell out of me if driving. LOL. I once lived in an apartment complex and there was a disabled vet in a wheelchair that spent all day running a nitro R/C car around the parking lot...and when you drove through the lot he’d make it slalom back and forth under your car and pop out in front of you…

RC-135's don’t “swerve” at anything. It’s essentially a 707 with a lotta gear on it. Unless you’re Tex Johnston, then you’d dive for speed, yank back, roll over the top of him and come back on his six, and sit there and be all “What’s up?”LOL

Was set to burn it until I saw the bit about the motor. I remember these cars (wasn’t impressed) but I didn’t know anything about that mill. Interesting. Sounds like its just dying for some judicious forced induction.