Yep, I got a piece of crap in my eye. I was not wearing safety glasses, but I was not using power tools, but I was laying under a car. A bunch of rusty gunk fell off the car, bounced off my cheek and into my eye. I skooted out, carefully dabbed at the corner of my eye while blinking, and all seemed fine. Next day it…

“Too many cars”

So true, I have historically looked for relatively low mileage (100kish), but questionable maintenance history, and they can be a project (worth it, if it’s cheap enough).

Terrible news. RIP

Now that you mention it, the window on mine was fine. It was the fabric that failed first. So I replaced the top, now that I know what a bitch of a project that was, I religiously apply convertible top and vinyl window cleaner and protectant.

On my ‘91 Celica Convertible (convertible parts by the American Sunroof Company/American Specialty cars, who did a lot of those convertibles). The top folds in half about 2/3s of the way up the window. Obviously not possible with glass.

There weren’t a lot of production V8s smaller than the 289

Obviously not an exact science. But when I use words like that, I think it’s usually in regards to displacement-per-cylinder. I subscribe to the ideal 500cc-per-cylinder ruler, so I would consider that “medium”.

I’m from northern MN. Yep, very common.

Although....it does show MPH and Fahrenheit.

I just did something involuntary.........and messy.

I’ve been to a few rallies were Crazy Leo competed.

It would have been less obvious as a prototype if they hadn’t camo’d it.

Also, power steering fluid. When it’s cold, the pump cavitates much more easily (which damages it, which introduces metal particles into the fluid, which damages the rack/gear). It warms up fairly quickly without a load, so a minute or 2 goes a long way. If you don’t have time, make extra sure that the car is rolling…

When you let the clutch out in neutral. Many of the gears spin, and the gear oil is circulated, and therefore warms up. When I started my car this morning (-28), and let the clutch out in neutral, it tried to drive forward like an automatic in gear. That gear oil is more like molasses. After a few minutes, it…

No. It’s just one belt. The clutch sticks out further than the ribs.

No, I don’t see how it wraps all the way around the pulley. I clearly see it go from one of his added little idler pulleys down to the crank pulley in this picture (behind the alternator/Power steering pulley:

Don’t give in. These “sell them all and get a nice car” people can suck it. If you don’t have a functional vehicle to drive, buy another. A fleet of $200 is the way to go (I’m not really kidding. I’ve owned close to 25 cars in my 15 years of driving, and never spent more than $2k).

I’m so excited about this. I was so disappointed when the F35 came to the Duluth Airshow last year (I think, might have been the year before) and just did a heritage flight. That’s cool, but everyone is itching to see what that plane is capable of, and I don’t think they did so much as push it into afterburner.

A very good friend of mine has one sitting in his garage. The exact source is unknown, as he got it in a swapped, wrecked Saab Sonett. It caught my eye as it had a shitload of plug wires coming off the distributor.