The interior door handles on the suicide-door cabs are also nothing to write home about. Dorman does a brisk trade in replacement handles, I am sure.

I hate disc brake dust shield rubbing noise. It’s so subtle and you figure it should go away eventually, but it never does.

Just wait until senility kicks in and then you can buy him whatever you want.

DeTomaso’s story shows us all that if you are born rich and politically connected, and marry rich, you too can build a series of really bad-ass grand touring cars.

There’s an AWD 3-rotor RX-7 too: http://www.speedhunters.com/2012/07/peak-performance-resurrecting-an-iconic-rx7/

You’ll need to strip this thing back no matter what, but I do wonder what a roller job with something like POR Hardnose or Rustoleum would turn out like.

Rival Jeep guys will sometimes dress up like “Hoarders” producers in order to liberate your most desirable spare parts. Don’t trust them!

Having been around many Detroits I’m not actually sure it is broken.

I think it’s the jake brake.

This video has a better angle on the whole twin-stick antics:

The charity is called Mitsubishi Motors.

Although the first-gen Panda is notorious for rust and also being hard to work on, the idea of available (at least partially) Steyr-Puch 4x4 running gear and trim levels like the “Young” and “College” thrill me to my very 80s econobox bones.

My favorite engine-blowout video is still this one from the Nissan Juke:

I have so many Subaru EJ25 pistons sitting on my desk now that I think I might take up smoking so that they can at least get used as ashtrays.

I’m excited with that drunk French teenager line that it might be a voiture-sans-permis French DUImobile this season.

The Iltis is a great little truck unless you want to survive low-speed collisions, mild rollover, IEDs or striking a curb particularly hard while leaving your parking spot.

Although I fear it may border on Jeep sanity (which we both know is in actuality only a passing delusion born of thankfully-ephemeral buyers’ regret), aren’t there a ton of vendors that make super cool fibreglass shells for nearly every Jeep?

Flyin Miata said that there were some build quality problems with the first batch so they are waiting on a second, improved batch before they start selling them again.

(low whistle)

Once the problems with the Paco 3" lift kit get worked out, Flyin’ Miata will be your ticket. Sure want to pick up a low-resale-value NA to throw it on.