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You forgot to mention that the drum brakes were advanced, lightweight aluminum ones with the same braking properties as cheese.

You can wear stringbacks if you are Graham Hill, or if you’ve beaten Graham Hill.

TROLOLOLOLO

WTF?

missed opportunity to make a "bye turbo" joke

Don’t get mad but I have to ask: What do you drive?

You may not want that stuff. A guy spending $80k on a luxury car does.

The Chevrolet Corvette C5 is an amazing performance car bargain with a manual transmission.

Unfortunately, the C5 interior was unbearably bad. Like... UNBELIEVABLY bad.

Well the majority of our car industry doesn’t require them.

Very true, but this will get me by till we get at least 1 of 2 kids out of Daycare. I want to build my own interchangable bearing hubs eventually, so instead of swapping the entire hub you press out a common roller bearing, forget the company that was selling them. You use good Timkin or other high end bearings in

The reason for the sudden surge of these around 1990 was that the NHTSA mandated “passive restraint” systems in all vehicles. Going back to an existing design and engineering an entire airbag system and then crash testing it was horrendously expensive, so most automakers just stuck in automatic belts until their

I sure hope C4 track day guy upgraded his wheel bearings...

If this was the Suzuki version, it would be a Sidekick called Robin.

America

I have no clue why a simple “check engine” light covers everything from a loose gas cap to catastrophic damage. This is especially true when it is simple to have a screen or readout state exactly what the issue is.

Porsches last. It’s not uncommon to see a 911 SC for sale with over 200k miles for close to $20k. And if you do the IMS upgrade, you can buy a high mileage 996 in the $teens

“Avenge...my...death...” [Above: A dying man passes a spark plug to his son during Triton V8 service.]

HA!! Needles IN the future. (Crushed it!)

Those needles will be digital, but there will still be needles.