And yet, we keep lusting after them! Every time I look at FaceBook Marketplace there are $1,000 Range Rovers that people are giving up on, and I say How bad can it possibly be? So far I’ve always been able to keep moving by, but they are always so damned tempting - even just to sit in my driveway and serve as a…

I learned this replacing a Honda Idle Air Bypass Valve. The dealer part is close to $200 and you can get an “OEM” part made in China on eBay or Amazon for about $40. The cheap replacement is good for 0-12 months, so I now factor in longevity for hard-to-get-at parts that piss me off to replace and don’t feel bad about…

I learned the hard way to diagnose first before throwing parts at a problem. Also to look at the simple, obvious things (especially the last thing anybody touched) before assuming something new and catastrophic has happened. 

Seems like more and more people are just ignoring traffic lights and when a light turns yellow, a couple will go through on a “Stale yellow” and a couple more on the red.

I think what he meant by the submarine comment was that you don’t know (without the safety factor that the engineers and lawyers build-in) If you’re going to try it once for a record, the answer is different than if you are going to put tires on a car and hand it to a customer.

That was a bad time all around in automotive history (of course people were also wearing leisure suits) The Maseratj Biturbo from the same era had an interior that looked like a casket liner with seat pillows of poofy leather.

“Drives as amazing as it looks” Ha, Ha!

What it would look like.