Same thing with my MkVI. I think the design of the wheel (the rotary-phone dial looking ones) with the 5 huge gaps make it easier for pebbles to launch their way into the brakes.

Yeah. Actually, the dealer couldn’t even replicate the problem when it showed up. We all believe it was a rock or something that got jarred loose on the tow truck.

This sounds like something similar to my Miata. In which case, it turned out to be a simple pebble wedging itself firmly in the brake caliper assembly. It took about 20 minutes to jack up the car, realize that I should’ve used the breaker bar on the lugs BEFORE jacking up the car, lower the car, break the lug nuts…

East bound and....... stopped.

Outlaw country!

Now when someone asks “how much do you have into that thing” we can honestly say we have no idea. And fewer people will think we are dumb.

I think we have stewardship over these old beasts and our job is to leave them better than we found them. keeping track of the money can only lead to regret. Heh.

I had a shop teacher who warned us of this. On top of possible tearing off of a finger, he had a mechanic friend stick his hand behind a dash board, and caught a positive terminal between his ring and a ground. After the hospital cut the ring off, he had a permanent wedding ring scar from the 3rd degree burn.

Go over at night with a can of primer and paint it for the douche!

When you buy your Pantera, find the absolute best one you can find/afford. A project Pantera is a financial death wish. The wide body cars should not be owned by introverts. Having said that, they are crazy fun cars and everyone should know great they are.

Back in maybe 1991, I bought a poop-brown and rust-perforated Volkswagen Rabbit for $150. I found a loaded.25 cal pistol underneath the passenger seat.

Does this count? Opened my hood and discovered this...

Well, while working in the engine compartment of my Mr2, I found a watch that I had mysteriously lost 5-7 years ago. How it managed to stay in there and not drop out only it knows.

not a race car, but you know those “fake ladybugs” which have seemed to pop up everywhere? I think they’re “Asian lady beetles” or something. I was doing some wiring work on an F-150, which had me pulling the seat and lifting the carpet. When I pulled the carpet up starting at the door aperture, there was a huge pile…

Thats the whole money cant buy class movement.

I hear a lot more stories of good experiences. The reason the bad get so much attention is because they’re out of place.

They’re great asides from the fact that everybody with a slammed Honda and a Subaru with plastidipped wheels within a 50 mile radius completely fills the parking area so that actually interesting cars have to park in the spectator lot. That and nobody cares about your car unless it's modified, ask me how I know.

Honestly, the Coffee and Cars events are generally pretty awesome, especially the one held at Canepa. I wouldn’t let the morons that do burnouts into trees ruin it for you - check one out if you have the opportunity.

I’m still laughing at the congruence of our screen names.

I’ve had two electric cars (previously a Nissan Leaf, currently an i3). I rarely mention to anyone that I daily drive one, nor do I go off on environmental rants etc. Our other cars in the house are a Q7 TDi (gasp! Dieselgate) and a Porsche Cayman. So clearly I still love ICE cars.