Internet high five to another winter sports car driver!

Bridgestone Blizzaks are the reason this thing gets through snow while SUVs don’t.

Ok. Now that’s sexy.

Challenge:

The Tremec 3650 in my Mach 1 gets extra notchy in the cold.

Woot! Internet high five for another person who won’t accept that parts no longer exist for their old convertible!

Can confirm cable clutches are heavy as hell. I daily a 2004 Mach 1. Last of the Mustangs with a cable clutch.

That’s what I really want to get.

I’d love a Pacifica but they are too new. Our current situation limits me to used vehicles so it’s much easier to find a cheap CUV. *shudder*

1) Because after 3 winters driving the Mach 1 on dedicated snow tires, I’d prefer the torque to be split between 4 tires instead of 2. Should be easier to get good traction at low RPM.

Do I lose my Jalop Card for saying the car I want in 2018 is something with 3 rows and AWD?

We are at 109,xxx miles on ours. There were a fair number of recalls but ours was a first year car too. Worst we had was a wear bearing failure at 76,000 miles. Ford replaced it free of charge in under a day.

I hit that deer at less than 30mph. A Festiva without an exhaust was doing like 60 ahead of me, spooked the deer out of the woods, into the empty oncoming lane and I slammed on the brakes. Last second it darted in front of me. It walked off. Wife was SOOO not happy.

Hood, grill, bumper, both fenders, side glass, reinforcing bar and foam, and a headlight. Plus the fact it’s a 3 stage metallic blue paint so they feathered the color 3/4 the way down to doors to blend it all in. Only took 2 weeks.

The deer survived. The C-Max has been a great family car. My other cars are a 240SX Convertible and a Mach 1 so one of our cars had to be “normal”.

Most the most “normal” car we have is my wife’s ‘13 C-Max. In fact it is so normal, the only photos I have are after I hit a deer this fall. $6,100 in repairs. Thank god my deductible was only $250.

Nope. We were an in-house prototype and process development shop for the rest of the giant company. So we had a lot of leeway to do “government jobs” as long as we could justify how it would help the company.

Fully approved by management actually. But yeah it reads that doesn’t it?

You will have no idea what you can use it for until you get one. Then ideas will spring up daily.

That is quite honestly the greatest reason to use a 3D printer I have ever heard. I still need to get one for myself. These were “calibration artifacts” on the shop order. ;-)