Hard disagree. We can’t even get cops to be fair, and almost everything they do is on camera nowadays. Give that power to semi-anonymous civilians with no accountability and things get ugly fast. Haven’t you ever been on the losing end of something like a downvote brigade?

Your stories stress me out. I have TWO classic cars, and I still spend all my free time keeping them road-worthy. Granted my standards are high. I’m actually in the process of selling one, because it’s starting to feel like an obligation instead of a hobby.

Theres no way this could possibly be used for oppression of the lower class! Absolutely no chance that someone parking their dirty used car in a nice neighborhood would be targeted. Can’t imagine that an exhausted single mom headed to her third job might be more likely to make small traffic errors that annoy other…

It’s always the people who have no experience with Italian cars that have the most trouble with them. He also has a strong opinion about Italian aesthetics, but doesn’t know that Giugiaro penned a dozen other cars that look exactly like the Ghibli? The “car guy” has logged on

I’d say it goes the other way in my experience. I’d rather use cheap power tools than cheap hand tools. Hand tools are all about finesse, and tolerances/materials/balance matter a lot. Cheap shit will ruin every fastener they touch in some small way.

I’ll buy cheap combo wrenches if they stay in a vehicle permanently, but the ones at my shop have to be snap on. The flank drive combo wrenches are so much better than anything else that I’ll actively search for them instead of grabbing something closer.

I have a hard rule that I only swing high quality hammers. Defective hammers are more dangerous than people think. 

It’s more like buying a prepped Miata to get yourself into autocross. Theres a false economy to cheaping out on the basics. Buy nice or buy twice.

Sure, if you’re gonna be pedantic. Some of the fastest people don’t use force feedback because it slows down the inputs. Some of them use controllers.

It’s a very DIY endeavor, or a very expensive one. You choose. I set mine up for around 1.5K by doing everything I could by myself.

They oversteer like any other rear engined/ swing axle car, IME. Getting the tire pressures right helps, but the real issue was americans got an unfamiliar format with a powerful engine. And it sold well. Turbo models had 180hp, more than the same year’s 911. There were no unique faults in the design, though. Porsche…

BMW let the dealers handle stereo (& a/c) installation, so all I had to do was remove the console they threw in. Because they weren’t integrated into the dash from the factory, they look out of place anyways.

Carbs sound better. Any car old enough to have carbs is being driven for the experience, why sanitize it?

This. I went to the trouble of hiding a stereo nicely in my old sports car, then immediately realized it’s just noise in that car. You don’t need to entertain yourself like you do in a modern car. The car is engaging so the stereo becomes a distraction.

The engine on a Corvair is extremely light, it’s all-aluminum. The hot setup for these cars doesn’t even involve uprated springs, just a change in damping. The suspension was perfectly appropriate from the factory.

I’ll take it further. A house in that radius of SF is worth so much that an elderly owner will never worry about money again.

I’ve found 32/36s are more suited for street driving, no matter who is tuning. I still choose sidedrafts for the sound and WOT power, but you have to put up with some unruly behavior somewhere in the progression.

Yep I do live in CA, I suppose thats part of it for sure. Although one of my cars came out of a barn NY. You can repair rust. For the better known classics the sheetmetal is available. BMW still supplies almost every part for my car, OEM parts. On old cars, if you’re brave enough, you can fix anything in your garage.…