Sorry to be a pain in the ass Jason, The Landy from Damnation Alley may not be on the list of choices but I cant help it! Every time the apocalypse question glosses Jalopnik (because as you say we are gluttons for such things) this one pops right into my head. It stomps them all!
Hey Jason what about a VW van engine? Do they not have a larger displacement and more robust power output? Would it fit in the beetle? I say this knowing I am way out of my league when it comes to old Vdub powertrains, but I heard that the van engines were larger more powerful somewhere down the road a long time…
I have an old friend who, back in the 80's now, bought not one but Two separate Diesel Chevrolet Chevette's and loved them. to me they rode like a buckboard, the whole car rattled and shook with the engine and it couldn't get out of it's own way, but they got something on the order of 50 mpg. But still.... what a…
Hey good or bad you have an idea, see it through, don't dive up cause it didn't work the first time. Try again!
Boom Shaka Laka
He should have been singing!
Kudos to the driver for keeping his cool for an otherwise frightening event, having hit and killed a deer similarly myself, you can't account for just such eventualities if you live where deer live.
It may not be illegal to scheme your way through life, unless you do something stupid, but it just seems so counter productive. For all this guys efforts, wouldn't it be smarter to just go legit? On the other hand maybe he's just an asshole.
Buick Grand National.
Back in the days of fixing up the car in the barn we used to call the hammer the "factory fine adjustment tool".
Should have used the entire audio track portion of the Zombieland opening, if your gonna do slo-mo and all. "Fasten your seat belts, its gonna be a bumpy ride!"
It was around 1983 - 1984 when I went to a friends house to hang out for the day, I was probably 15 - 16 years old when my friends parents had purchased two 1964 Chrysler Imperial Crowns. They were in pretty good shape, the silver one one had a bad rod knock in the engine, but it was equipped with everything. The…
Dear Raph, you say you are late in the game in fixing your car.... knowing you are already an auto journalist an may catch hell for not knowing "everything" about cars. Let me remind everybody that it is NEVER to late to start, provided that you do! To me fixing things on your own is the first step to self…
Be a dentist! And be a success!
Jason you did the right thing by calling out to us for help, unfortunately I couldn't do much as I live on the east coast, I was amazed at the level of support everyone gave. The way people responded made me feel good about the internet for once, and it just seemed like people cared about right from wrong. Having…
I have secretly had a strange affection for station wagons over the years, why I do not know, but there are some wagons I thought looked better than their Coupe' counterparts. Having said that I love this project car, but it's fall's just a hair short in the imagination department. If I built a Camaro into a wagon…
Keeping up the good vibe, I give you "Movin Right Along". Two Muppets, a little music and a Studebaker.
Id like to think this is some sort of surprise but lets face it if you buy a Viper of any generation you are worm fodder! Jus Sayin bitches!
Dear Jalopnik, is a person still cool if they drove an old Volvo (when it was new) an was never a "Hipster"?
For #5.)
