Seeing all of these iconic vehicles in this condition just makes me sad. This, to me, is not a collection but just a jumble of old, rusted cars that won’t be there much longer thanks to Mother Nature.

THIS!!! I was reading along, thinking about the Opel Rallye my wife and I bought off the showroom floor back in 1970, and suddenly I saw the picture with the slushbox lever.

Um, yeah. (Slaps self in forehead.) It was pretty late when I did this. Sory.

Yeah. Blew three holes right out of the block. They had to ship a new engine in from Japan.

A friend of mine already had this happen. New engine and a loaner car for several weeks. 

This goes back a while, but sometimes in the late 60's or early 70's Ford started putting the cruise control buttons on the steering wheel. GM persisted for years with the awkward turn stalk control.

I remember this! People would drive all over town looking for to save a couple of cents on a gallon of gas! Pretty sure that people still do this. I have never understood this.

Because this worked so well for Hummer.

Gee, I guess I need to dig out more “crazy truck driver” stories.

Been thinking about this all day. A friend of mine HAS a REAL Caterham, and it is a scary car (if you can get into it). To me, this particular “project” is just insulting to anyone who has the real thing. 

You could also call them “fire ant preservation doors”.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!

I don’t know. Seems to me that those studs were an accident waiting to happen. In 60 years of wrenching, I have never seen studs break like this. I’ve had them over torqued to the point of having to break off the nut, but breaking like that? I’m thinking the man (or committee) upstairs was looking out for you.

I mistakenly voted ND on this and will go back to change the vote. This car is 27 years old, which puts it in “classic car” territory. This means that you can insure it with the various companies who deal with classic cars at an insanely low rate, and also set your own “agreed value” with the insurance company. In…

This argument is getting stupid. I have 20 years experience as dispatcher for a major van line’s High Value Product division and another 15 years OTR experience over 48 states. I am not making things up, here. I have seen many independent truckers who have bright, stainless steel rear doors or some sort of bright,…

True for company drivers, but I am talking about the independent Owner Operators who don’t drop and hook trailers. Many add as much “bling” to their trailers as they do to their tractors. 

The natural solution to all of this is simply to buy a Jeep with a Hemi and upgrade the exhaust. I drive a Grand Cherokee Hemi and an RX7 FC. They are both equally exciting to me.

The natural solution to all of this is simply to buy a Jeep with a Hemi and upgrade the exhaust. I drive a Grand Cherokee Hemi and an RX7 FC. They are both equally exciting to me.

There was a period of time when truck drivers thought it was cool to have plain stainless steel rear doors. I don’t know what their mindset was on this, as it would for sure be distracting to drivers following at night. 

This is real cool and all, but it’s kind of been done before.