We’re getting quotes on a double-din unit to replace the awful single din unit a DPO (dumb prior owner) installed. We might need smelling salts afterwards. The goal is to keep the Bose amplified speakers if they’re looking good and don’t have decaying surrounds.

We just bought a mint condition ‘90 Corvette convertible with a 6-speed and despite not being the LT1, it’s pretty rad. After a lifetime of tiny sports cars with low torque engines (RX7, Prelude, 240z) it’s a revelation to drive a tank-sized “sports” car. Getting one with working a/c, cruise and a sharp interior for 5…

Sigh. Again, I said *metal flake* “metallic” green. Of course there were bright green colors esp. on Mopar products back in the day.

Certainly there were metallic green cars before the Insight. I myself owned an ‘81 Mercedes 300sd in “thistle green” that was metallic - but was def. NOT retina-searing nor stand-out. The Insight was the first car in my adult life that was eye popping in hue and was certainly the predecessor to similar colors on the…

Totally agree. That particular green color was revolutionary when it came out, literally no other mass produced car had been sold with a retina-bursting green metallic finish before the Insight. And it was very well applied, I guess because it went down the assembly line literally next to the one that was screwing…

I sold my green Insight after 13 years and 150,000 miles of adventures. Some cross country trips averaged 70mpg and it was always a crowd pleaser - except for the occasional cowboy in a lifted truck who thought I was a communist. LHT Performance is the new owner - they specialize in K20 to Insight engine swaps. You…

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Good grief, read the reviews on this! Chances are it’ll leave a big gnarly ring on your dashboard IF you’re lucky enough that the portion of your dash its adhered to doesn’t chemically react and break off.

Good grief, read the reviews on this! Chances are it’ll leave a big gnarly ring on your dashboard IF you’re lucky…

NPOCP End Of Year Review FTW! As the proud former owner of the K20 220hp Insight that received a right-good buggering from Jalops in basements all across the country, I hereby agitate for this to be a thing!

MB Tex is miraculous. I bought a hella-dirty 300SD with years of mechanic grease and dirt ground into it. I pulled the seats out and scrubbed them with Purple Power and removed the carpets and soaked them in the same solution & voila, good as new. My friends were in disbelief, they thought I’d bought a new interior.

“I can buy too many better cars for the same price.”

What’s the point of being able to comment on Kinja if dissenting comments get stuck in Pending Approval limbo?

I’m a taupe-American and given the opportunity I’d shove Roy Moore into a volcano.

Is she literally bovine? I’ve seen cows with more expressive faces ...

Remove the spark plugs and VERY important: shoot penetrating oil into the bores before attempting to turn the motor over, unless you like playing broken-piston-ring-roulette. When they didn’t do that, I lost interest in the video.

Succinct. I like your style.

Remember the NPOCP 220hp K20a all-aluminum Honda Insight w/ 6 spd & limited slip diff that Jalopnik’s basement dwelling denizens voted crack pipe? The one being sold for peanuts - aka - FAR less than the cost to build? Yeah, that was mine.

Thanks for saving me the trouble of typing those exact words.

Isn’t the Jeep Comanche what the saucy minx Murilee Martin thinks about when she’s spanking the monkey?

Haynes says that the torque spec for my ‘99 Subaru Legacy’s harmonic balancer / pulley is 80 ft lbs. So that’s what I torqued it to when I replaced my timing belt. About a month later a funny rattling caught my attention under the hood and some sleuthing revealed that pulley flopping around on the verge of flying off…