rockbottom81
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rockbottom81

My 16 year old 'Muri-car is far from a super car, but is pretty super to me! Also, it's currently stuck in the garage because snow-drifts. All of them.

Damn right!

Step 1: Remove all the safety labels from everything

Look closely at the order of the ratios... where 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and 4th is...

Ford tractors (after the 8N) used this mess. It really wasn't that bad since you don't shift while moving, but it still makes you double check you have the right ratio every time you start!

That's pretty fantastic... and obscure as hell!

Pretty sure I drove the Subaru variant once...

I refuse to accept that this is a real thing.

I drove one of these all the time in the mid 90s and thought it was pretty neat. It certainly didn't help the already underpowered Beetle move any better, but I thought it functioned surprisingly well.

Creeper.

A couple years ago I watched a Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupe crash at Laguna Seca during the Monterey Historics... in front of Pete Brock... during a race. It was both glorious and grotesque. The fact is that this car will be (or already was) repaired and returned to racing (regardless of the damage severity) because

You're the only one here who's got it right. This is a case of stupid woman, stupid repo man, and stupid legal structure.

Mr Roarke, your car is ready.

Is it weird that I still have a set of Soaps in my closet?

The number would look like the national debt!

The streets of Detroit. If a car can perform well here in this moonscape of death and destruction, it will be downright spectacular in any other situation.

Damn right it ran! We still have one of the engines, but the turbos were removed years ago. I used to clean it when I worked for the family business. Pretty sure it hasn't been touched since I left to go to college (in 1999). Legend states that there were three engines and one found it's way into a Town Car at the

Damn right it ran! We still have one of the engines, but the turbos were removed years ago. I used to clean it when I worked for the family business. Pretty sure it hasn't been touched since I left to go to college (in 1999). Legend states that there were three engines and one found it's way into a Town Car at the

NASA has a very broad and awesome charter: Do science.