Yep, looks like a mid engined test mule with Corvette bodywork.

Cool cars

About 15 years ago, my dad and I bought a ‘94 Subaru Legacy that was sitting in a lot that flooded to about 2 feet deep. Luckily, we had a parts car...We replaced the seats, carpet, and door cards. And took out the ECU and Airbag control module (both on the floor), took them apart and let them dry for weeks.

LOL. Don’t try to tell me that a motorcyclist, even with a helmet, is safer than someone in a wrangler with no windshield.

There’s a reason I got married along the Turnagain arm, and spent a few days in Seward (we kayaked on Resurrection bay) afterward.

7.3 Power Stroke F-350. The only decent, affordable, diesel out there. Cummins and Duramax are expensive, everything else is junk.

The Ford Raptor. The ultimate compromise. Too soft to be used as a truck (not that most truck owners even need a truck). Too weak to actually be used as a desert racer (not that Raptor owners are actually going to do anything but drive over flower planters at the mall that my Celica could conquer).

Longarms

I work at a dealership. Many years ago, a fairly new tech drove off with all 4 of those still on the car. They fell off in the parking lot, one broke.

I wish I could recommend this more than once.

I patched rusted fuel lines and a blown radiator core with QuickSteel (like JBWeld) on the same car on different occasions. Fuel lines began to leak again several years later, radiator never did. I’ve had a lot of failures on the side of the road, but almost always had parts and tools with me.

My uncle had the 853 set all still boxed up (opened, but complete) when I was a kid. Being a kid, I built it, ruined the packaging, and lost most of the pieces.....but I remember it vividly, and i still have the tires. I also remember him commenting on the fact that it was air cooled and that that was strange.

Portal axles typically offer a considerable gear reduction in themselves, and with probably a 7 or 8 speed transmission, 1st gear might easily have some decent stump-pulling power.

I don’t believe for a second that the line you’ve drawn between engine and seating position is where the firewall is, it’s just where the base of the windshield is.

Meh, that’s basically a Forester XT

I see pushrod coilovers on the front, mounted longitudinally above and behind the front wheels, with red springs.

To be nitpicky....this incident happened at night. So the paint on the taxiway wouldn’t be relevant.

This. Something I recently learned on my ‘87 4Runner, flushing brake fluid through the lines and out the bleeder does not flush through most of the caliper because the brake line comes into the caliper so close to the bleeder. The caliper has to be removed and drained.

As mentioned, those things are not very common, which is all this study proves.

Whew! There’s some investigative reporting!!!