I was just mentioning to my club brothers the other day that I want to sell my pickup and replace it with a slant-six Valiant. Once they were done laughing they realized I was serious.

IF you feel the need to get rid of the points just put in a Pertronix - much better and simpler than an OEM upgrade - and the 225 was available with a 2 barrel in later years which WAS a reasonable upgrade - but definitely not “needed” - and properly set up I NEVER had choke problems on any of mine. The car has 5 stud…

It’ll get there fine. However 10 hours of interstate speeds might take the shine off the new relationship.

When the most reliable cars throughout your whole writing/editorial staff at an automotive publication are a Changli, a Pao, and a Beetle.....you have Jalopnik.

Yeah.... Contrary to some of the hype surrounding it, the Slant Six can wear out and/or blow up just like any engine. Ref.: been there, threw that rod.

My first car was a ‘66 Valiant 100 with a Slant-6 and the 3-on-the-tree. Mine was even that same shade of blue. It really was a little old lady car with fewer than 65,000 miles when I bought it. I found out it would do 100mph, but that was definitely it. It was the definition of basic. Manual windows, locks, steering,…

I had a ‘66 Dodge D-100 with a slant six and three speed column shifter. If cockroaches will be the only life form surviving a nuclear apocalypse, they will be driving slant six-powered Chrysler products to get around.

Obviously.

Sadly, the days when you could sell the same vehicle for 20 years are gone. The Journey gets poor fuel economy numbers, barely meets emissions, and does poorly in overlap crash tests. Fixing all of those things costs money. Not only that, supply-chain decisions made years ago may make continued production all but…

One day, I will have to explain to my son what this thing is:

Dodge, putting the “barely” in “barely competent” since 1900

AMEN!

I’ve been wondering if losing a large part of their demographic has anything to do with it (or rather, that demographic is changing). It was always about being 20-something, the cool girl who had some money and lots of ambition. And now there are moms and grandmothers, women who know a great deal and women who have…

It sounds like the main thing, is that having the owner of a notably progressive news group, change to a private equity firm, puts into question who has editorial control, and ultimately, the reliability of that source for a progressive outlook.

Never forget this story. An NYPD cop was speeding on the wrong side of the road without any identifying lights or sirens, and he killed a student who was crossing the street, and the NYPD lied about it over and over and over until they finally agreed to pay the family $500,000 in taxpayer money, but refused to…

It was textbook whiskey throttle.

It looks like he’s not accustomed to a bike at all. That entire disaster could have been averted if he just squeezed the clutch. Dude had NO business even trying to ride that thing. 

Cadillac driver spent the night in jail for “acting slightly annoyed”.

Thanks for the link. Univision never gave a single fuck what happend here. Corporate shills/flippers all of them. And Gizmodo’s union looks janky too. I actually hope things can get better (although I don’t give a shit what happens to Jezebel).

Say hello to your new overlords!