Being land-based suspension pivots and struts suffer enough loss of dignity in simple winter DDing... I’m wondering how much of a maintenance headache maintaining a full-hull suspension on your boat is gonna be. Not doubting it does the job — that’s plain to see... but I used to service ocean powersports craft... they…

Maybe the issue isn’t the windshield, but sunglasses...

Welders wear filters that react in a few thousands of a second, cost about a hundred bucks (for the whole hood including filter). Why not a set of Wayfarer-style glasses with two such filters, hearing aid-sized batteries in the earpieces? May sound comical... but…

+10^100 — I have them in my car, in my toolbag, few in my home. Cheap, and lithium batteries keep them torching for years. When I was still riding, it was in my tool pouch under the seat and saved me on the side of the road enough times where I got to thinking ‘it was one-second decision putting this in my tools... if…

Awesome... I sort of like the style of that generation of Toyota; have that confident (if ‘90s-ovoid like same-era Celicas + Sera), almost Espace-like space pod look. And I wonder if you can sneak a screw-type supercharger onto that head under the floorboards :D

Late-1st-gen Lexus GS, with 2JZ swap...

Guess this’d give away my age but any RWD Toyota pre-’96. Yes some of them had quirks but most of them these days have great aftermarket, even the 1UZ-powered Lexuses. And agree with previously-lauded 3800-powered cars, esp the supercharged ones...

If not in a rust-belt state, Mazda-based Escorts are super-cheap to buy…

Jimny styling with this ecks-bee’s tech and refinement, take my money.

I petition units be converted to power/weight. A 300-hp turbo’d NA Miata is definitely going to be more fun than a 300-hp Azera...

Don’t think so.

All the OG JDM automotive pioneers are passing on...

I doubt it...

IMO the sum total is the extra width accentuates the fender/door top line more, making it look sleeker, esp from rear 3/4.

Are you claiming the ‘82 FB/TA is derived from the car in that image? Haaahahahahah! Oh, best thing not out-of-town-guest-related I’ve heard all day...

The issue is not what the FB/TA was derived from. It was and is, that from too close a distance, they bore too close a resemblance to non-enthusiasts (i.e.,…

Gotcha...

Very good lines, in coupe or convertible. Why?

Because tasteful, restrained lines, with no baroque grille openings, weird proportions, or ill-manifested homages to past concept cars. Classy lines.

Also, gold-chained-aloha-shirted-trophy-wife’d-slushboxed old man lines. Half-inch-wide-panel-gap-lines. Finally,…

Awesome to see some Japanese marques duking it out on a rally stage with Continental brands... so nostalgic, but sad that Mitsus and Scoobs no longer play. Nice that Toyota has at least a pinkie toe dipped again...

But yeah, the Ur Quattros have few peers when it comes to aural or Finnish-flick wayback powers... I…

In a bigger sense, it shows how often the tendency was/is in America, to randomly misappropriate things from other cultures for profit, allow that misappropriation to embed itself over time through repetition, then have people later try to defend the misappropriation as if it was indigenous.

Not everything, but most of…

A dissenting vote...

I bought my ‘92 in ‘96 used, just getting on my feet leaving the military. It had 45K on it, but nothing leaked and I overpaid a ton on it because of a shitstain dealership that no surprise, didn’t exist much past when I paid it off. It was $10K... and I certainly got a lot more than $10K out of…

That engine is basically, a YZR-M1 works MotoGP engine, scaled up to two banks, 10 cyls, 4.8L, VVT-i, etc.... if you consider how much one of the bike engines are, not gonna be happy with the cost of the 1LR, even if it is technically a series production engine.

Brodouche & Corvette mule, entering racetrack