Wow, TVR and an SV-1, both in my top 5 if money were no object. Nice finds

Wow now that is a unicorn indeed, and sorely underappreciated I’m sure (except by its owner)

What is that second one? I feel dense for not recognizing it but I honestly don’t know what it is.

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I assume whoever owns these lived in the times when you actually had to do that haha.

haha, nice

There are a few guys on the forums that have swapped in 3.8L 911 engines into 987.1 (first gen) Caymans with relative ease - usually adding some extra oil coolers for track use, and a third radiator up front (tiptronic models already have this). They can definitely beat 911's, and in some races, Porsche will sponsor…

Interesting. I know the E36 3 series cars had a similar readout in their cluster. One other car that has it, there is a code you can enter using the six buttons on the side of a Corvette C5 that allows you to scroll through any OBDII codes the vehicle has *AND* it tells you which codes it had in the past that were…

Here’s mine, but it might be more of an “annoyance” than “superstition.”

I used to palm-punch my Mercedes ML’s steering wheel a lot when it would do it’s thing. I got it with 145k on it and poorly maintained (I was dumb then), and it would occasionally not start. Then, occasionally stall out in traffic. Less occasionally, it would both stall, then not start in the middle of a traffic…

I’ve never heard of this before, but from where I live I thought you were going to say that he was thanking god the red light camera didn’t give him an extortion ticket.

I do this too, and get thanked sometimes by a passing employee who is gathering up carts from the receptacle. I like being helpful, but its 99% my own selfish, car protecting reason for doing it.

I’d still leave it in gear personally, but only because I’ve seen “parked” cars coming rolling along several times in my (relatively) short life. Once, my dad bought a new Mercedes and a Kia sedan in the parking lot came rolling down the hill - it was originally parked on flat ground, but had just enough to start…

When I had my honda, with a spare, I used to see objects in the road and just try to line up to go over it, tires on either side if necessary. I’d never swerve - if I had to take a little hit to my front quarter I’d be upset for sure, but “stuff happens.”

I think it’s because Bikes have much higher redlines generally and more room to bump into the limiter without issue. Also, bikes are usually second vehicles so if you rev up and screw something up, you still have your normal car to get to work.

On TV’s, I go by increments of five/100 if I can get away with it. My last few cars have all had very similar loudness to their stereos, so I go from off->5->8->10->12->15->18->20->22->25.

From what I know, big diesels basically can’t stall, or at least it takes some divine force of wind, uphill angle, and towing load to do it. It’s because they have a stupidly high amount of torque from very low rpm

What’s wrong with it exactly...? I’ve looked for them periodically and can never find one that isn’t is horrible condition

I’m in Florida and there are quite a few around here with little rust, but worn out paint from sun damage. Most of them high mileage examples though, but the right one is lurking around down here I bet.

Delayed reply since I found this way late, but the point of this car isn’t to buy it and race/daily it, there are tons of faster and cheaper cars than this. You’d buy this car to rebuild it and keep it as a piece of history, from when Mazda raced in Group A with an AWD turbo hatchback... how nuts does that sound in…