"Caprighia" sounds like a communicable disease.

I wrote a post on Oppositelock shortly after the 2015 announcement talking about the weight of the new model, and concluding that the best way to simplify and add lightness was to get a Fatstang. Totally trolling, but the numbers bore me out.

The 239 flathead six is the one I think it would be. If one was lucky and got a streamliner Pontiac with a flathead eight, it would be a travesty to swap, but a flat six significantly less so. I don't know if the old 239 flathead shares a bellhousing pattern or anything at all with the later GM sixes, given that just…

True, and I'm a fan in most cases of improving what's there more so than shooting for something radical. Granted a lot of these were made into rods and a rod is in some sense period correct, but it loses some of the grace in the process. Subtle improvement if any.

It wouldn't be a bad base for a performance build, though - not too horribly heavy, and has a six. For that matter, a slightly more modern OHV six wouldn't be a bad swap if one wanted to avoid the SBC or LS cliche. Maybe a Jag 4.2 six? The look would be good enough.

As a side note, I want all three of the cars in my post. Massively, and in that order - Pontiac first.

How about fastback *pre* muscle cars?

I should point out that it "Muscle car" is a category of classic, and not an overplayed model. But, since the rest of your argument (given the origins of many NHRA stock classes and the origins of NASCAR) is fallacious as well, I can see how you didn't feel like letting that stop you.

Speaking of painfully outdated, I haven't seen white people from the suburbs rapping as a commercial trope since the 90s. Good thing his own stereotypes are up to date... or not.

I think he's alleging we shot it down with a Thud to be equally anachronistic and to keep things sporting.

Just as with the classic computer "PEBKAC", the best solution may be to remove the user.

One of the guys who posts on Oppositelock just completed rebuilding a chassis for a Spit that had a bunch of rust. My normal thing to this point has been repairing firewalls and chassis on Series II Land-Rovers - my family have a bunch of them.

No preblom.

There is a Prius often seen on my way to work with fenders and other parts in primer. I'm not sure Prius and "restore" should be spoken aloud in the same sentence without the speaker combusting, but it doesn't look bad at all.

Falcon Ranchero. Falcons are about as infamously rusty as Scouts. I have roof rust, bed rust, pillar rust, firewall rust, floor rust, door rust, rocker end rust, gate rust, and rear fender rust.

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Oh, sure, like he was gonna buy a "not-rustpile". You sound like a crazy person.

I own a set of these for my project, but have yet to have the fellow Opponaut in whose custody they are ship them to me from the UK. Totally necessary to have, though.

Fridge Largemeat. Buff Plankchest. Flint Ironstag. Gristle McThornbody. Smoke Manmuscle. Bob Johnson... oh wait.

It's a "big convertible", so despite crossover ungainliness (or perhaps in harmony with it), it's the ideal car for a modern day Fear and Loathing.