You and your purple prose.

The only difference is that you’re using authentic sheetmetal and destroying a piece of history. Just look at all the custom cars from the 90s and tell me what a good idea it is to bring a car “up to date.” If you’re going to do all that work to fix a car in time, fix it at the time it was made.

Maybe not, but it’s authentically slow and miserable. If the goal is preserving old cars, preserve everything. Otherwise, in another 50 years you get enthusiasts who think “Gosh this Renault 4 drives exactly like a 2019 Nissan Leaf!”

Counterpoint: This is NOT what we should do with the old cars.

My money’s on Thor.

This confirms the hypothesis found in fiction that gods derive their power from their believers (first put forth by Douglas Adams unless someone has an earlier reference?). Ra is 5,000 years past his prime and can only manage 860W these days after being replaced by Jesus, Allah and Money (probably a few intermediate go…

In context, the Firebird is the weird car here.

Roller cam and multiport can’t make up for the fact that the poor thing’s trying to breathe through a 52mm throttle body. They made good torque way down low (270 lb-ft @ 2000 rpm) but they literally will not rev over 4500.

Have you ever driven a Bronco II? 140 hp is more than enough for that stone-age chassis.

I love how the manual specifies ELECTRONIC sound systems. As opposed to vacuum-operated maybe?

Yeah, but in China it only rains particulates.

But the way we’re going, by 2035, the rich may be the only ones left anyway.

“Sustainable materials” and “5000-year-old wood”

NP if you want a fucked-up Miata without going to the trouble of fucking it up yourself.

Showing my age here, but I remember when people dressed up to fly. Even picking someone up at the gate (yeah, you used to be able to do that) was a suit-and-tie occasion.

The weird thing is that it was only the Olds version that did that. 

2-doors were common family cars back then. They were cheaper than 4-doors, and “loading the kids in the back” meant opening the door and tilting the seat forward. Infants rode in the middle of the front bench. Seatbelts were for pussies and drunk driving was just boys being boys.

I don’t know how the hell you could drive a Sprite and not have fun. 

They’ve got “this type of owner” because they want a 40-car field. Really, there’s about 16 cars/drivers that have a shot at winning, and 24 getting in the way. 

So now the Chevy team will be scrambling to come up with a 13-inch screen, and Ford will retaliate with a 13.25-inch screen. Ram will drop a bomb with a 15-incher. Forget payload and towing, this is the war that people will care about.