Saaaad. I sold cars for a year right after college at a ford dealer. Part of the chain was an an acura dealer up the street. Word got around that an NSX had come in for service and half the dealership (myself included) was making excuses to hop over to the acura store to see the NSX (it was glorious)

1966 GMC Vandura - a buddy of mine had one as his DD for a long time.

Mine is simple and small, but shocked me nonetheless. One of my endless stream of old beaters developed an exhaust leak, so I dropped it off at Big Al’s Muffler, a regional exhaust and brake place, asking that they take a look at it to let me know how bad it was, etc. I do my own maintenance, but can’t weld worth a…

I’d love to, but there’s no such thing around here. The prices on the secondary market are just terrible.

I had an old honda cb650 nighthawk, 83 I think. It’d been sitting a while and decided to not start. Dad and I pulled the carbs off, apart, and monkeyed our wasy through cleaning them. It took multiple weekends of pain to do this because, like idiots, we took all four apart. After much cursing and research, they were…

I’m 7/10. I’m apparently not slacking quite hard enough.

lew into Chicago O’Hare on a cross country flight years ago and we were the last plane in before they shut everything down due to crazy winds. The plane was in descent when then call to wave off was made, but the tower let us land. We touched down, made it maybe two seconds on the ground and suddenly the whole bird…

Exactly. Driving is a privilege. Follow the law, or lose the privilege.

I.... need to go clean out my 240. Be right back...

Just about everything on my 850 turbo. Pads, rotors, delta link bushings, PCV system, etc, etc. Also putting off either a cam seal or head gasket on my 245. I’m not driving either at the moment, so the repairs keep getting put off. Planning to drop a cv axle into my s60 tomorrow. I hope. Then a door glass, a few light…

“Right quick.”

The last time I wrote an all AL BMW, it had to be shipped three hours away to the ONE shop certified by BMW to work on the AL cars in my entire state.

Nah, didn’t mean to imply that you said that. Just saying that the increases won’t be huge.

I would like to subscribe to your newsletter, please. That’s a thig of great beauty.

It does happen. Remanufactured parts are essentially what you’re talking about. You can really repress most forms of sheet metal because of how they’re hardened. A simple repress would work-harden the structure or otherwise compromise the overall strength of the piece in probably unpredictable ways. But there are ways…

That kz550 is badass. So is the gixxer. Damn.

Ford does indeed have some answering to do in regards to ecoboost claims. I’m not defending ford. I’m just trying to dispel some bullshit regarding aluminum sheet metal on cars in general (especially as that is going to become more common).

I haven’t read into the study or seen any pics, and am just going by the info here. The sort of hit described is one that would very probably cause the sort of deformation that would require replacement. One downside to aluminum is that it tolerates less work than steel. This means the repair/replace threshold is a…

Driving (or even walking) around after a hurricane lands is a really weird feeling. Everything is still. It’s just you (and the looters).

When the 350z came out, I handled a t-bone on one that had a weird interior color. Dealer said the int trim panel on the passenger door was four months out. Customer was told to pick up his car and drive it with no int trim panel because nissan’s supply chain problems were not my fault.