I gave it an NP, but I also think it might be a tad overpriced, especially with the automatic. Still, this is a fun, usable older car that will probably cost you pennies to run and insure as long as you don't do anything stupid.

Jeremy Clarkson actually died in 2004, of asphixyation after doing a burnout in an old TVR Griffith with the top and windows up. He was replaced with the winner of a Top Gear lookalike contest named Arthur Wadham-Biggs. All of the subsequent newspaper and magazine columns under Clarkson’s name were written by James…

CP, partly because of the driveshaft issues and partly because it's a grey import I didn't import myself, so I don't want to deal with the titling issues. This despite the claim of a clean title.

Yeah, that show improved massively when they ditched the studio segments. TGUK would've been a far better show for minimizing or eliminating the studio segments.

I still think Edd China and James May should do a show together.

You hit on one of those little known facets of these old Champ cars. By the sixties they were outmoded in other formulae (some would say earlier than that, such was the specialization of these oval racers), but you cannot deny that they were beautifully engineered and wonderfully crafted. Lotus, Cooper, Ferrari, et…

I mostly agree, except that I would heretically put stuff like Monterey or The Hawk above the Revival. Mainly because, as glorious as the vehicles and racing and the track itself is at Goodwood, the Revival puts a huge emphasis on the dress up aspect of things. It's all a little too Ren-Faire sanitized for my tastes.

I would prefer something along the lines of Alain DeCadenet’s series Victory by Design, incorporating historic as well as new footage. One can do such things for modern cars, not just historic racing cars. Adventure stories are good, but I can do without scripted “challenges” and ridiculous build ideas. Kind of like…

It’s a VIN and a tag and maybe a title and valid registration if it’s been sitting in someone’s barn rather than a scrap pile. Now you're just a few phone calls to Dynacorn away from a new old Mach! (But seriously I've read of people resurrecting old cars from chassis plates, a bell housing, and thin air)

Interesting, I hadn’t known that the 323 was considered for “gunship” duty. I recall similar experiments by the USAAF with the B-17 (or the 24? I can’t recall at the moment), where a heavily armed bomber would be in formation with regular, bomb carrying craft, to provide defensive firepower. Not considered a great…

They also ran out of places to build planes (and other weaponry) due to the destruction of many factories.

I’ve seen plenty of customs with tuck and roll plastered absolutely everywhere - trunk lids, under the hood, every conceivable surface in the interior, and like I said, even in the wheel wells. It’d really be for a certain late fifties/early sixties era heavily customized car. Such cars were strictly show cars and not…

If you go look up pictures of vintage custom cars, they used to cover everything in pleated, padded vynil, including the wheel wells. Some builders still do stuff like that today.

You don't understand show cars or customs.

Technically, this is an NP, because it’s right on the money for the custom car market. Hell, it may even be a little underpriced, as I’ve seen these trucks go for more, as well as other custom cars.

I’m actually a bit surprised that Dodge vans are a thing in Japan. I’m less surprised that someone’s racing them, since if you get two vehicles together in on place someone’s gonna want to race them.

Yeah, I’m currently car shopping and spent most of the Chicago Auto Show actually looking at cars I was interested in buying, so I spent plenty of time looking at things like how much room in the back for my bicycle, rear seat access, and whether or not I can drive it wearing boots. It made a nice change of pace from…

I talked myself out of an Abarth because of the awful door cappings. They felt like they were made out of the same plastic that my grade school pencil case was made out of, and it had a sharp edge to it. I mean, I get that the 500 is a cheap car, but the Abarth is supposed to be a class above a basic Pop, some thought…

I voted NP because as it looks it seems solid enough. But this being a 70’s Japanese car in the Midwest, I’d have to look long and hard for rust, since these things just dissolved around here. The almost too shiny paint, ridiculous wheels, dirty engine, and trashed interior smack of “in over my head”. So, barely an…

I swear I’ve seen a Bug painted like this.