I still have my 1996 Tacoma. It was my first car, and I’ve had many others alongside it. The Mighty Taco remains. 22 years old and never once been to a mechanic. Reliable as always.

Wow... was I the only person out there who actually had a GOOD driver’s ed teacher?!?!

Except there’s no turn-around there. Look on Google Earth. They’ll have to demo part of the safety wall.

They had some of the old Jags at last hear’s Historic 24. I was sitting next to my tent inside turn 3-4 watching them blaze by at like 3 in the morning. It was so beautiful.

More like OP didn’t know the proper color name. That’s Miata “Classic Red” alright. Porsche “Guards Red” is distinctly more vibrant.

Pretty much. Not my photo but I’ve done that exact procedure more than once. It works perfectly.

To be perfectly honest, it’s not my photo.

I tracked a short-nose for 8 years and never blew it up. It was a pretty small percent of 1.6SN cars that had issues.

Correct, Guard’s Red is a Porsche color.

In before the entire Miata community savages you over the timing belt mistake. These cars absolutely do have a timing belt, which I can verify having owned a 90 and changed its belt personally.

Fellow FloridaMan here, I don’t underestimate them, I book passage on them. :-)

The bigger, more high-tech cruise ships use azipods and bow thrusters. The pods can swivel usually 360 degrees allowing for massive freedom of movement, and the bow thrusters aide dramatically.

Hey now, Carrot Top matured into a pretty decent comedian the last few years, and a decent human being. Don’t dis the Carrot by comparing him to that sack of meat with a microphone.

A car is never dead, it’s just in need of some TLC.

Screwing up just gives you an excuse to learn something else.

I celebrate with beer when it’s all back together.

I enjoy wrenching so much that I do it as my own vacation. I guest-engineer for a TransAm race team for various race weekends, not for pay, but purely for the love of thrashing away on a racecar. Coincidentally I’ve come to see the team as a small family, and the experience is that much more rewarding when our driver…

We have air jacks on the TransAm TA1 center-lock single-lug car and have to use a standard pump handle jack on our five-lug TA2 car. We can swap tires on one of them in a fraction of the time as the other, I’ll give you one guess which one is more high-tech.

They used to have adjustable fuel maps, but they nixed that for cost savings.

Way, way, WAY better. The drivers have a lot of respect for each other and the racing is FIERCE. They’re all road courses, shorter races, two per weekend, and it’s as high tech as can be. Air jacks, center lugs, fueling rigs, etc. They’re amazing machines, amazing drivers, and amazing racing.