looks to be a gasoline-fueled heater under the hood, too (which are worth some money on their own, afaik...), which is a good thing since that fan shroud does away with the air hoses to feed heater boxes (and thus, engine driven heat).  carb looks like a weber progressive, which can be nice when they’re tuned well,…

unfortunately, this lunkhead made the mistake of getting his directions from Altavista.

I was thinking the same.  at 15,000 feet (or even 5,000), there’s time for a parachute to open. at 100 ft? good luck.

The scale/distances between things are part of the issue in the US too. did some quick google maps. 827 miles between Penzance and John o’ Groats, pretty much the SW to NE ends of the UK Mainland. Meanwhile, California alone is just shy of 800 miles from South (San Ysidro) to North (Hilt) on a straight shot up…

around here they were doing ~$10-15k markups on the CTR before the world went off the rails; it also trickled down to $5k markups on the SI (“yeah, we don’t have a CTR, how about this SI, it’s also stick and turbocharged”) and around $2k on the sport-trim hatchback (“oh, you don’t know how to drive stick? here’s the…

“but wait, there’s more!”

5.0 stick bronco?

hell, skip writing on the tape and write it on their face, so everyone in the airport can know they’ve been a monumental jackass.

The CARB cert is kind of big thing, though. Number one, the hurdles to jump through (and the money) to get something certified. Two, with that cert in mind, I could mod the car to blow pure oxygen, and still fail for not having the CARB stamp on xx part. Three, not restricted to gearheads, but again with the cert,…

1. Find a friend/family member in (whatever registration friendly state)

Not just the Delica owners, but ALL owners of non-US imports should be behind sinking this. The responses from the state pretty much say anything that wasn’t manufactured to US crash standards will be in the crosshairs soon, perhaps even the ones that were ‘federalized’.

The truly shit part of this is that these weren’t vehicles that were registered “by mistake”, as Ms. Cook contends...it’s that these were vehicles that WERE legitimately registered at the time, and now the legislature has after the fact changed the law to define them as off-road vehicles so BMV can yank the rug out…

alternate option: price out the selling prices of trailers at your destination, and purchase prices on new & used in both locations. with all the charges they add to moving trucks, especially 1 way, it may work out cheaper to buy a trailer for the move, and sell it later, especially if you already have something…

no Cavalier?

having cracked one of the now-unobtainable flat taillights on my bug while push starting it...i may have an idea of the feeling.

i’ll just leave this here:

the fact that one of the nissan dealers here also sells hyundai is a red flag.

seconded, as a rider AND the owner of an old beetle.

steelies can look good, or they can look like the hubcap fell off. lots of honda and toyota stuff are particularly ugly, NEEDING to be covered up. surprisingly, chevy has put some decent looking 5 spoke steelies on the malibu (and maybe others) in the past. those on the jimny look not too far off of some of the stuff…