Tip of the hat to cartoonist Catana Chetwynd whose art I’ve Pao-ized. Maybe she’d approve?

We had a little JDM get together here in Tampa FL a couple months ago which we brought our Pao to. I discovered that Paos are becoming (gasp!) common?

Seriously, I appreciate your addendum. I just felt wordy.

Thanks - I knew I could count on Jalopnik’s highly esteemed commentariat (you specifically) to properly alert me to pop-cultural antecedents of which I was sadly previously unaware.

Back when Hurricane Sandy smashed NYC, I had a FEMA co-worker drive up from NOLA in her HHR to join me. She had a bright idea as gasoline was unobtainable in Queens where we were stationed: she bought a big plastic bin with a snap lid and filled it with 20 gallons of gasoline.

I’ll submit myself to a tarring/feathering by the dumber Jalops here: I’m all for safety inspections if it’ll make car exhaust quiet again. Tampa sounds like a war zone, there’s not a 5 minute span in my house that I don’t hear everything from clapped out automatic Civics with no muffler to stunningly loud bro-dozers…

The one question NOBODY is asking: how the F did these mofo’s get here? I’m convinced this is sabotage by a bad foreign actor, intentionally bringing a colony to the USA as an act of agricultural economic sabotage.

As a devoted Abarth owner I’m sad that I was unaware of the existence of this. My parallel twin Honda CA77 Dream motorcycle agrees that this engine configuration is way cool.

We rented a base Fiat 500 and liked it so much we bought an Abarth. It’s hard to go wrong with a 500.

Not enough “How To Bro Your Truck, Bro” or “Plumes Of Diesel Exhaust Get Me Hard” type stories here? There’s other places on the internet.

Love it! Our B2300 is the wife’s ride. She could literally have any truck but is perversely devoted to the Mazda. It’s got a poverty-spec grey vinyl bench seat, steel wheels, manual locks, manual windows and cold AF air con. It’s had a mountain of $ lavished on it: thorough suspension rebuild w/new bushings all…

Great advice! A notification site similar to camelcamelcamel.com for Harbor Freight deals would be nice.
Not sure what you mean by speed governor. We never got that heavy trailer over 55mph out of ample fear of invoking Darwin’s theories.
Feel free to post a pic of your cheap-o trailer. We had a 6x10 enclosed trailer…

I’m about to follow your example and just buy a Harbor Freight trailer instead. Speaking of not having the guts, here’s our pipsqueak Mazda pulling a 2000 lb dual axle trailer with a 2000 lb Triumph and a pickup bed full of books and LPs. This is more than double than its capacity, all we did was add Timbren helper…

Agree entirely: I’ve had U-Haul trailer envy ever since renting my first one. We both rock Mazda tow vehicles, even if ours is a faux Mazda. Our B2300 is a four cylinder / 5 speed and despite lack of herspers it tows those aluminum trailers like pulling cans on strings at a wedding.

BAM.
Now I want a Changli just so I can honor the spirit of David Carradine.

“Just a wandering stranger, with a truck and a ridiculous Chinese old-man’s microcar, not looking for trouble, but somehow always finding it.”

So are you David Carradine’s Kwai Chang Kaine wandering the American West or are you The Hulk? Either way I’m all for it!

Yep. I remember when E30s were pocket change. I also owned a 240z back when they were a $2k car. This Civic is the last of the cars built under the lingering influence of Soichiro Honda, before the bean counters and cost cutters made Honda just-another-car-co. It’s a sublime car, just like the last Integra and just…

And this is why I grit my teeth when reading the comments: someone (you) actually thinks a ‘99 Civic SiR in fantastic condition with a fresh engine should sell for ~$3000. This is the hottest market ever for used cars and this model has become one of the most desired among those looking for investments that pay a big…

Nevertheless, he’d be a cinch to get the GOP nomination for state office.

I feel like a sucker, in the midst of my country unravelling with a two-bit orange sociopath about to steal an election while people literally die in the hundreds of thousands of a pandemic, replying to a four year stale thread regarding a question of no importance whatsoever.