First Gear: Jim Farley says lots of shit. And the fawning Detroit Free Press is more than happy to spread it. But that doesn’t mean that it’s true. And his company has delivered, like, 30,000 units? I’d say it’s premature for Boy Jim to proclaim Ford/himself the EV production champion of the world.

No. There was a lot more wrong with Pintos than the off-chance that they’d blow up.

But that’s what makes it so perversely right!

It’s worth it for the parts alone. And whether you decide to rebuild it to original condition or make a hot-rodded mongrel out of it (LS all the things) it’s cheap fodder for a rebuild/restomod transformation.

The 1900s/Mantas were far better than the Kadetts/GTs before them. If only for the fact that even though the engines were the same, you could at least get to them and work on them.

That may be a valid solution.

No, but 12-point Allen key metric sockets are. Or certainly were in 1978.

That would be fun ... if you could somehow pack it in there.

Ain’t you profound? Give yourself a cookie. There’s a difference between “hard to work on” and unnecessarily fragile and complex, dumbfuck.

Oh, God No!

It’s a little more complex than that. At least it is for independent refiners/distributors and non-affiliated gas stations.

A salvage title for a 40 year old Camaro, selling for, say, $1500 is no big deal.

An interesting period piece. Very clean, low mileage, desirable specs.

No dice.

There’s something to be said for that ... shred your trainer, then trade it in for a warbird after you get your battle legs under you.

If you’re autocrossing, you can save yourself a lot of shifting — and time — by spending a little time with a calculator and getting a gear spread that’ll meet your regular course speed ranges without speedshifting — or much shifting.

So fine. Rig it downstream. I doubt there isn’t dock space for this scow somewhere between the bridge and open water.

Poor Devin Nunes.

Terms.

Third Gear: One of the significant reasons that car buyers aren’t going back to smaller cars is that there are significantly fewer to small cars to buy. Want a Fiesta or Focus? How about a Cruze or a Dart? How about a cheap VW Golf or Honda Fit? Forget it. Those aren’t available anymore.