The Lucerne had the L26 Series III; the Series II was generally sublime.

1985 GTs, the first year of the GT trim, do not have the faux fastback, all other GTs years do, 1986-1988.

The 1988 suspension was the best stock Fiero suspension, but Lotus had nothing to do with it. It was done all in-house at GM - the Lotus myth is long-running and pernicious, but very very wrong. However, if you are building a kit car or doing a big engine swap, the 1988 chassis is the worst one to use. The 1988s had…

Getting the front wheels turning would probably be a lot harder than just swapping in parts. The S-10 chassis up front is pretty heavily modified/narrowed to decrease the turning ratio, so any front-wheel drive S-10 parts would have to similarly modified, assuming they fit at all.

About the only equipment you’ll be able to strip out is the mail table next to the driver’s seat, there generally isn’t anything in the back to pull.

What about both cab-forward AND cab-backward at the same time?

Pontiac Catalina Safari. It’s not just a couch on wheels, it’s the whole living room.

I drove a 3.5 v6 Vue from 2004-2019. I didn’t get the Redline because I wanted to be able to use the full towing capacity, but I’m pretty happy with the choice. It’s still one of the best all-around vehicles I’ve ever driven. And I’d still be driving it if not for 15 years of Midwest and New England winters eating out…

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Oh, they match. The left-rear matches the right-front and the left-front matches the right-rear... 

LBVs are highly unstable, short-lived stars that quickly dump many solar masses of gas and dust into their surrounding environment, then explode in some of the most powerful supernovas known. Any civilization capable of building a Dyson Sphere around one has the capability of choosing a much more stable and long-lived…

Constructing a Dyson Sphere around a luminous blue variable would certainly be the most byzantine exercise in futility ever conceived.

This phenomenon is actually pretty explainable. Fiero people collect Fieros like you collect jeeps. They hear about them for sale cheap online or through friends (who of course all know they are into Fieros). They pick up extra parts cars because a couple hundred bucks buys a lot of spare parts and inevitably they…

You confuse Jalopnik for ‘automotive journalism.’ It is actually more in the genre of ‘automotive torture porn’.

Wait, all that time, planning, and money spent, and the linchpin of this scheme involves one of Tracy’s rusted out shitboxes? This seems like the perfect way to snatch defeat right from the jaws of victory. 

This is a Jeep from New England. The metal that undercoating was once attached to is long gone David. Rust is all that’s holding that thing together now.

“Then again, maybe you don’t get to have a sweet two million to blow on a car without a roof if you lack taste to the degree I do.”

I liked the concept of the CTS-V wagons, and certainly lusted after one for some time, but then I realized that my former rental car V6 Impala is functionally faster since it doesn’t have to stop for gas every two hours.

Sorry David, sometimes things are rare because they suck and no one wanted them, not because someone is trying to hide the good things from you. The best version of that era GM minivan was the 3800 4-speed. We had a 1990 Lumina APV and later traded it for a fully-optioned 1994 Trans Sport, which I ended up driving for…

The vast amounts of capital controlled by the Baby Boomers is currently being used to freeze time and prevent any type of cultural advancement or evolution in media they are interested in. They liked the idea of a black American president after seeing Morgan Freeman in a movie once, but the reality of Barack Obama…