It’s the hero car. Stunt car was found basically stripped in a junkyard in Mexico a few years ago. All verified.

Considering what Sean has turned down for the car in the last year or two it will DEFINITELY be A Lot. Be interesting to see the action on it. Certainly will be a spectacle.

Once you get past the first couple of times trying to downshift with the window crank and flipping the wipers on when signalling a right turn it’s not bad...lol. Hell, I leaned how to shift left-handed as a kid when my mom would let me shift while she drove. It’s a bit harder to do a money shift RHD because your…

911s don’t count. Since day 1, any service to one goes something like this:

Single. Hamster. Overdrive. Do want.

Not worth 3 grand to me, but I still have to find an appropriate frame to put my Dad’s old racing engine on. A McCulloch MC-6 from circa 1961 that was hot-rodded to within an inch of its life. Shown here less the dual carb setup because the reed plate was bad, but it was a screamer back in the day.

Eons ago when people still sold cars using print ads, I listed a ‘79 Datsun 510 4-door in the local rag. I picked up an issue the day it was supposed to appear in print, only to find there were no ‘79 510s listed. Not under “Nissan”, “Datsun” or otherwise. Figuring it missed a day for whatever reason, I decided to…

Saburo Sakai made the Zero dance against much better aircraft, but he was a once in a generation pilot.

Having had my share of those M20 six-inna-rows, put a timing belt kit at the top of your list unless you have ironclad proof of the last time it was done. You’ll be buying another head quickly if it breaks.

Bird and Corinne built that car right. They run an outstanding operation in Kentucky, and will go out of their way to locate and handle all of the import process for you. Had some things come up on my end that derailed my search for a Mk. III Supra, but they were awesome to deal with during the process.

I always liked these from afar. A buddy of mine owns a performance shop for German cars and was doing a 1.8T swap with all the ancillary goodies in one a number of years ago. I really dug all the stuff he was doing to it....then I sat in it. I’m 6' tall, and had to sit bolt upright, with my knees nearly touching the…

Pluses: Coupe, Manual, 2006.

Indeed.

Indeed.

Single Hamster Overdrive

So, like many people, including Raph, I had a thing for air-cooled VWs back in the day. Had a few Beetles, but always wanted a bus. My college roommate had (and still has) a ’69 Westy that we put thousands of road trip miles on. Long story short, somewhere around 1994, a buddy of mine tells me about a bus sitting in a…

The only Chrysler F body that moves the needle is the ‘78 Aspen Super Coupe. Still a dog, but at least it came with the 360 4bbl as standard equipment. The “kit cars” with the Petty graphics and fender flares, along with the “Road Runner” Volares were great pretender trim packages were that could be had with any…

Saw this little trucklet at the IA show in Nashville last summer. It’s well-executed and a very well-sorted example. That said, it’s lunacy to drop that kind of cash on a Brat.

The adaptive bi-xenon and LED headlamps found on a lot of European cars get up that way in a hurry, and many of them (looking squarely at BMW) don’t come supplied with bulbs or any of the various control units, so that factors into the potential cost as well. All automotive lighting parts, but particularly headlamps…

Coming from the other side of the counter…I’ve been a parts guy for nearly 30 years. Put myself through college working behind various parts counters. While in college and working a retail counter, had a guy come in wanting a water pump “for a 350”. Ok, fine. My standard answer to anything “for a 350” was “Ok, which…