Watch out for them lot lizards.

If you want some really cheap 15" wheels, then i hear that the mk4 VW Jetta/Golf oem wheels will clear the brakes on this car

Drum Brakes as a 12 year old kid.

I was not raised to be a wrencher.  My first car was a ‘74 bug, and my father would take it away for any maintenance without letting me even watch what was happening.  I probably started with light bulbs myself.  I then didn’t own a car for many years and was well into my thirties before I started doing things on my…

It took two replies to get to “engine swap”, a Jalop record!

What do you mean? Should their first car be a 911 Turbo or Mclaren 720S? Nobody’s first car should be anything special (unless you’re a rich kid or trust fund baby). And what is the first car have to do with being an enthusiast? You can drive a POS and still aspire to something awesome.

They’re such happy little cars. I’m being “forced” to DD my 91 coupe since I broke my DD and my future Rallycross car. Just got it back from the shop having a bunch of little things done, most importantly a shifter rebuild.

Some engines are just a little more resilient than others. They can’t all be winners. And it sounds like a great DD.

I don’t blame you. The timing chain...that’s a nightmare on near every car. I secretly dread that being an issue on my Merc. 

I feel you. Didn’t do the BMW route, but my 190E is it’s own adventure. What’s next on the E30?

We’re glad to be back!

I hear his homeland’s glorious military has quite a few new openings for motivated young men...

Oh, damn. Did we just watch your retirement plans blow up?  

Of course gas prices will have to go up, otherwise the companies can’t maintain the record profits they’ve been making. 

Mercedes is a pretty good writer. 

It continues.

Yup. Skip the stick, buy a new GT1 Stinger. Donesky. 

This Tom wouldn’t mind having that Tom’s money. He did pretty well when MySpace was bought.

This is to Spanfeller and any other herbs.

I think the most gratifying thing of shade-tree mechanics is when you’re pretty sure X is the problem, and after getting to X, finding out that holy-cow X is the problem, and I’m a mthfing genius/pro-mechanic.