lebaronjames
LeBaronJames
lebaronjames

That was the throwback Number era of the Aughts. When Ford renamed the Taurus the 500 (then quickly back to Taurus) and when Chrysler inexplicably named a rightful New Yorker “300" . And let’s never forget a chrome-plated Durango named “Aspen”. Did Chrysler forget how bad the last Aspen was???? Why regurgitate that

The thing that struck me about all the GMs on this platform was how quickly they began rattling and squeaking (and breaking door handles, and chewing up rear brake rotors and calipers and interior materials just buckling and falling apart), and how the base engine punched above it’s weight, while the DOHC V6 felt like

I recall that partnership. GM had the best car they ever made, the Toyota Corrolla-Nova gleefully named “The Toy-let”, and Toyota got probably the worst car to ever wear their badge, the Japanese market Cavalier.

That vehicle is one I’m trying to eliminate from the annals of automotive history. I’m a Never Azteker. 

I don’t hate it. I mean, I hated working on them, and I hated driving them, but that one’s not bad to look at.

Ugly Duckling Rental.

The 300 should have been named the New Yorker and the fact that it wasn’t is the greatest injustice Chrysler has ever committed.

I guess these things just missed the mark completely. 

Should be more wagon and less X5. 

LOL. No. I redid all that stuff. There was this crusty old guy who had all these NOS parts for old sleds and he got a pretty penny for them (think $400 for an ignition box for that thing). The sled was about 25 years old when I “revived it” from it’s sad life in the nether regions of a warehouse-turned auto shop. It

Business sounds complicated. But for our purposes here, we’re going to simplify it: Lets make fun of everything everyone does, unless it’s that new thing, then it’s awesome, until we decide to collectively hate it. 

This is the PM game:

Star for “Fragile Masculinity”. 

Maybe GM has the old tooling and molds laying around from the gen I avalanche and the 90s Grand Prix, the kings of cladding. 

That’s because you’re paying attention. To remedy these lucid thoughts, go on Facebook or Twitter and read replies to politically-charged threads until you become numb to information. 

Love this headline:

I eventually did find the problem. This is so dumb too. The tension springs on the mixture screws were bad, so as I’d drive it, the screws would back out, leaning out the mixture and causing it to burn up. I only found out after one piston melt-down and when I started it and tried to adjust the mix and the screw was

AGGH!! You beat me to it. You’re too good!! 

It’s because Formula 1 is good, but they’re trying to make it grate!

Rental cars should be fun to beat on: This doesn’t seem like fun. CP.