old mini’s have door latches like the doors in your house. any deformation of the side and they pop open. most cars use loop/hook style latches now for precisely this reason.

If you’re into this kind of documentary stuff, here’s a late 90's BBC documentary called Crash (3 parts) Seeing some of the testing footage in your post reminded me of this series as it was used in it too. Has UK and US points of view.

it’s a telehandler. I’m also concerned that I found the woman at the funeral picture arousing....

TRD LZR!

Because deep down you’re a sadist? Nah it looks fairly straight overall, no front end would scare off most punters. Hopefully it being sat so long hasn’t caused mechanical issues that will cost you big bucks to fix.

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I think you may be right, it almost looks like industrial guttering to me, so light gauge steel, couple hundred kilo (say 2 large guys) if that. note the deflection near the windscreen. There’s no thickness on the turns so it likely isn’t normal C channel structural steel...to my eye anyway

get the head and block machined properly. ARP stud kit, and Metal Head gasket. the 7M is a strong engine, if you fix the factory issues.

if it was made until the early 2000’s yes. After that the engineering got worse and they are very much built to a cost. feel the thickness of the steel on the body of a new 70 series cruiser versus an old 75 series etc. New ones are like paper. One possible exception may be the GT86, know a few people with them with…

Australian racing in the 80’s and 90’s was insane. Check out the Johnson Sierra. Remember this thing was Rear wheel drive, with a control size tyre

that burbly noise when shifting is probably the ecu retarding engine timing to reduce strain on the transmission while it shifts. My ‘93 Soarer 1JZGTE auto does it if it has to shift while on boost, and it just has a regular old Slushbox auto.

Here’s my understanding of it. The car has excess fuel going out the exhaust because (guessing here) it has an Ignition Cut rev limiter. Hits limiter, cuts ignition, but not fuel, excess fuel gets shot into the exhaust, ignites from heat. An exhaust that short I’m not so sure a cat would stop it flaming. It’s also an…

This is near my hometown. I’m going to just assume it’s Meth related.

Nice video. But the F40LM Sounds even better.

in Australia, where this video seems to be filmed, these are called a Tarago.

Somewhat related. Rolling Bomber Special

In all honesty my personal opinion on it’s origins are the VIP guys in Japan (very low Luxury vehicles). They lower some cars so low they scrape the floorpan out. Photo Courtesy 7tunes facebook

at least play something representative of the genre, not pop