I had a ‘74 in very similar condition. A few rust holes, mostly original, mostly complete, but very serviceable. I sold it easily for $10K about three years ago (a $1500 profit after all parts and supplies were tallied up). They’ve been one of those models on the rise, so I think this may honestly be a borderline NP…

Cage match time.

IIRC, the early ones were twin turbo, 90° V6, non-intercooled, and carbureted with 80s Italian electronics and steel... Also, I seem to recall they aren’t especially good to drive, and I know they’re ugly. I once simultaneously owned cars with NA diesel, rotary and air cooled engines; I’m a mechanical masochist, but I…

I’m a classic car guy to the core. I may be about to buy only the third car newer than myself since graduating from college, and I go through one every six months or so, and one of those three was my junior by only a few months. I can’t stand modern cars from the standpoint of “feature” bloat, the proliferation of…

Very well done! I really liked the initial graphic element of the FWD explanation. It would be excellent if you were to take this concept of simple explanatory videos and expand it to more technical and mysterious elements of automotocracy. I.e. carburetors (seemingly magical, yet so incredibly simple), distributors…

I’ve had two vehicles with crotch coolers; a ‘74 FJ40 Land Cruiser and an ‘84 M1009 CUCV (K5 Blazer). I really genuinely like them. I’m a sick puppy, and I genuinely prefer cars without AC (and power windows, locks, or anything else), and the more ventilation the better. In modern cars, having proper ventilation…

Looking at it from an engineering/manufacturing/regulation meeting perspective, I think you might be looking at it slightly wrong.

I obviously haven’t watched in years, but it was so much shit polish I couldn’t stand it. The only reason I watched in the first place was because I knew the guy personally, his kid was in a movie my wife worked on, and the guy restoring my bug was one of the background people in the shop... I still couldn’t stomach…

Seriously... I’ve had to stop reading his articles in the same way I had to stop watching Richard Rawlings’s show...

I had to look this up. It sounds like it’s a British flavored cross between an American Douche-bro frat boy with a little Persian/Italian bling/Gucci/go-fuck-yourself thrown in to kick it down the social ladder a bit. Then they get their own lingo; i.e. “bruv” (“bro”). Fair assessment?

I love the 86/BRZ from an engineering perspective, but aesthetically I’ve thought it looked a bit puffy from the get-go. I can’t quite put my finger on it, but it needs to be a little longer or slimmer or something. Making it into a brake, however, fixes the proportional imbalance while adding additional utility. With…

Around here (Colorado), I see trucks all the time with modifications that assuredly make them ride and handle so terribly as to be unsafe on the road by my standard. I doubt road manners are as important to many as internet cred, and I was thinking more in terms of KoH and other more extreme builds anyway. Besides, it…

It’s a very simple design, very few parts, none of which are limited in how beefy they can be (thinking independent setups that are limited by half shafts, shocks, springs, etc.), no clearance issues... Why is this general design not more common in the off road universe?

I got into cars from a combination of frustration with the especially unreliable car I got in college, and an extremely stubborn independent streak. After being wrung dry for over a thousand dollars in repairs a year at a time I could not afford it, I swore I would find myself a car that would either be infinitely…

It is not a compliment.

What’s the history of this particular bus/engine? If it sat for any period of time out in the open, maybe some dirt dobber/paper wasps/other similar creature made a nest somewhere inconspicuous. Cooling fins offer an excellent mounting surface for such constructions. Their larvae look a lot like this, and it might…

There are lots of these sorts of commonly misspelled words, and as a car enthusiast it’s entirely possible to use them to your advantage. For instance, using Volkswagen since it’s at the top of the list, you can get a pretty solid deal for a beatle/beedle/beadle on Craigslist because no one with a brain spells it that…

Drivers education, specifically regarding mirror adjustment, and simple darwinian survival instinct to LOOK could save people buying new cars and bikes a lot of money and hassle...

I was actually excited about this until I read about the spec machinery. That means it’s a software contest. I’m a software engineer (in the automotive industry, even, until a month ago), and that doesn’t excite me one bit.

Excellent! The only contention I have is with the twin turbo V6. V6es are inherently unbalanced, and add two turbos to that, then making even more power just sounds like a recipe for disaster. V6es are also pretty miserable when it comes to torque (something Batman would undoubtedly need). Assuming further rationality…