One common vein on almost all the answers: Discovery channel networks...

I watched an ep or two of graveyard carz (yes, with a Z because so edgy and cool). The main guy just kept coming up with (i.e. likely completely scripted in) useless knowledge of mopars as a “gotcha” whenever his ego felt particularly fragile. “yeah well, you didn’t know that in 1972 the coronet RT only had 765…

I love motorweek, and particularly love their retro reviews. My wife absolutely hates it and can’t see any reason to watch it. For me its not only a slice of childhood, but also a pretty straightforward consistent review source.

Since its premiere in 2012, this series has centered way too much on the drama of its cast, instead of the vehicles they’re meant to be restoring. It gets real old, real fast.

Blanked switches and stuff, no big deal. Staring at this all day? Wow that sucks. They could have at least put a clock there or something. That said, this car doesn’t really need a tach since its an auto.

Erin’s sole purpose seems to be any excuse to make a political point, relevance be damned.

Anything old is going to be slow by virtually any modern standard (and those of about 30 years ago). Buying a car like this you’re not going for fast, but going to appreciate the existence of what it was in its time, styling, sound, etc.

You do you man. A bunch of random ass cheap parts thrown at a pretty nice frame. You’ll want to keep a close eye on those cheapo headset bearings, and also address the bottom bracket/bearings since the thing has been sitting outside for years. I know they’re not flashy or look cool, but thats the shit that will bite…

Valve adjustments. They aren’t super hard to do but they used to be pretty a pretty frequent maintenance/tune up item, and can take a bit of time depending on the engine.

Vanthoor was trying to bump his way past for the last 90 minutes of the race, nearly every lap he was bumping Jaminet going into a corner (not sure which turn it was). I was waiting for him to take them both out. Exciting but kinda shitty tactic.

I like this — I think the Camaro was also a contender here. This 74 is just

I’ll add the much un-loved C4 corvette. I actually quite like these, even from the 80s/pre facelift.

Ugly, trying to use its name/muscle heritage as a selling point despite that its a soft FWD cruiser. At least the later ones had the 5.3 V8.

These can be made decent. From the factory they were competitive in their time (tbh the answer to the QOTD is practically every muscle car between 1974 and 1989 or so). I used to see these pop up in the American Iron NASA series whcih was always pretty neat. Not sure it’s still the case though, I’m sure newer cars…

Similarly, what is NADA smoking? I know they are always largely inflated, but this seems insane too. Fun point though, they provided the option to choose from a bunch of V8 options with only one “4 cylinder” out of the bunch. Curiously, one of them was a 5.9 liter turbodiesel 6....

Mash ‘em, bake ‘em, put ‘em in the road

Yeah this really messed with my head, what a cool design. 

The problem is that it sits in between the Testarossa, perhaps the pinnacle of 80s rad design (the other contender being arguably a countach), and the 355 which refined the beautiful shape with more appropriate styling. I find these to be a great looking Ferrari and never got the negative hype, but it does sort of…

Man and I tot our traffic was bad here in Philly...

You can get Kjet parts from other cars (potentially) since a lot of those Bosch parts are used across the euro spectrum. The actual fuel distributor, not sure. It’s been a while since I looked into these and worked on them, but even 10 years ago a new or reman fuel distributor would be in the 4 figures IIRC. That…