I live in the middle of nowhere (I cannot get Cable or DSL, I do not have curbside recycling pickup available, property taxes on my 23 acre lot are about $800 a year). I lock my house doors at night when we go to bed, but I take my chances during the day. My cars are unlocked in my driveway with the keys in the…

I’ve hauled plenty of junk in my little cars, but I’ve always been jealous of a tailgate on a hatch or wagon

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Yes, I am. I’m putting a 1UZ in my 4Runner. I am buying the parts and doing the labor. LS was not an option. I would be just as bored looking at it in my driveway as I would at a car show.

With the current setup on an oval? none. Which is why he said, “That really gets you excited for the road courses and what it’s going to be capable of there.”

Umm....yes. New tractors (a few exceptions not relevant to farming tractors) have to meet tier 4 standards. This is why older machines are popular, no computers, no DPFs, no DEF etc.

Yea, I work at a Bobcat dealer, and the ‘90s machines that were almost completely mechanical are very popular.

I assume everyone around me can’t see me, and is going to take at least twice as long to stop as I will (might be realistic in the winter since I use Hakkapeliita snow tires).

Francis Bacon didn’t know it, because the E-type (or cars in general) didn’t exist yet, but he was referring to the E-type when he said, “There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”

That steering box has an adjustment that will help dial out that free play, if that is the problem.

For many years, RallyAmerica (and I think SCCA before) required that the engine in a rally car be from the same manufacturer of the vehicle. Of course, there were loopholes. My favorite was a Geo Metro powered by a Hayabusa engine.

I find Toyota’s cheating WRC turbo from 1995 to be fascinating.

But Peugeot also made some of those wheels, that look identical to the 15" versions, in a 390mm diameter. 

Each year, he told me, he and his friends fly into some city, buy a few shitboxes,

That’s really interesting! The first time I really noticed that wing was on Andrew Comrie-Picard’s EVO here in the US from ~10 years ago

There was a vintage of Lancer Evo WRC cars that had a rear spoiler that I always thought looked goofy

There was only one working prototype. I’ve never seen anything to indicate it was ever used in “mule” form, and it was always silver. It would seem that you were mistaken.

I’ve wondered how they don’t drift everywhere. I picture the physics to work something like a hovercraft that would be sideways everywhere.

My thought exactly. It might be a stellar example, but a 3VZE and A340H? Nope.

This whole “selling vehicles you love” thing is just hard.