When you drive tiny cars, you need to drive like your are on a motorcycle. I have experienced something similar in my 80 RX7, except I was looking at a mommy texting in an SUV coming up to my stopped car from the rear. Same deal, dove for the shoulder and saved my car and me. She had no clue ever that I was in the…

Carbs are analog and analog is a lot more fun! Digital is for the babies out there.

I knew you would like that truck!

In the states we got VW Thing. Related or inspired by these? I’m sure theres some history there to mine.

I bought one of these in 1989 new off the lot. I wanted a cheap beater that would last 3 or 4 years. It had just snowed 10 inches that morning. I made my way to the nearest Ford dealer and asked for a test drive. It took them 30 minutes to de-ice it and start it up. It was great in the snow.

Yes!

Its not an RX-7 if it doesn’t have a rotary. 

In any other part of the country, this would be a $5,000 car not running.

You’re an idiot.

Rob I get that you are trying to bait me with all that doom and gloom about the rotary and its inventor. Its a unique engine and requires the user to pay attention to it, feed it oil, and redline it once a day. So F you!

That manual shift is to die for. I have the same version of that truck but its a 2007 model year. Still, its a bit over priced, so CP on it. Its worth maybe 2K. I would check the brakes, clutch and power steering pump with that mileage.

David, show us an electric 4x4 at MOAB please!

A great game I’ve played on backroads was called double the speed limit. Its all based on your personal integrity but the idea is to do 2x the speed limit as posted everywhere on some fun road. Marginally safer cause there is only you and its a great way to learn your limits. 

Just fix the chain whether it needs or not. Cheaper than an engine.

Not all loads go to a dock. Ever seen new home construction where the driver has to drop the materials off the back of a lang rollback trailer?

Ok, stop saying this stuff, its scaring the VCs. I’m about do my elevator pitch to them on remote driverless trucks.

They do this now with planes, they are called drones. The only problem is that with trucks a lot of times a human is needed to facilitate off loading or other tasks to get the load out of or off of the truck.

My EGO Electric Chainsaw has a 1200W motor in it. That things going to be woefully underpowered, but please go forward with it. I want to see how it turns out. 

SC has gas for $1.83 and falling. Gotta fill the truck and the Subie.

Have to say, I’ve been doing this since 2007. In my case I like to wrench on my lunch hour (which may be longer depending). I also start early, like 8 a.m. while most of my peers don’t reach the office until 9:30. The irony is today everyone in my company is now WFH due to coronavirus.