Sumitomo that the higher ups are denying problems.

Nope. Apparently the porcupine was forcibly removed from the runway by the ground crew. With a shovel. Into a trash can....

We have a family of four and a small business.

Great plan until gas prices (inevitably) spike again.

No joke, got home for Christmas vacation and as I was telling my friends that I had “killed a porcupine with a Cessna”, one of them began to look confused and after a moment of that “deep thinking face” turned to me and asked, completely serious mind you, “How? Was it wearing a parachute?” The rest of us were…

I was flying at Embry-Riddle in AZ at the time and when it entered my landing light I literally had just enough time to think “Is that tumbleweed?” before a loud “BAM!” confirmed that no, it was not a tumble weed. I got to call Mayday over the radio however. Hopefully the only time I will ever have to declare an…

For my fellow pilots, don’t swerve around animals on the runway either. Even something as light as a Cessna 172 can take on a porcupine without issue.

Don’t worry. With the shape of that nose and its size, if a soccer mom slams on her brakes and you skid you’ll be ok. You go under the SUVs. Ask me how I know.....

Wheeler Dealers did a wonderful restoration of one of these recently. They went into depth on how the headlights work. It was actually pretty well done.

Sadly my wife is the stereotypical example of why the car market is dying. We have 2 kids and like to travel as well as a small business.

Someone needs to buy this and continue to preserve it as a warning from the past. We must remember our falures or we are doomed to repeat them. Someone buy this!

I was about to say, “Well, thats the last straw. I will never buy a Mitsubishi now that they have ruined those names.”

There is a reason it is called the “Demon project” in my comment above. BTW spent 2 hours (and a fair bit of blood) this weekend getting the old starter out. Replacement starter went back within 5 minutes...

Seems like the only way to keep an S13 functioning, huh?

Yes! That’s rule #5!

Honestly I was following along until you mentioned that this is from the era of Notchbacks being modified into convertibles. That means three dreaded letters.....A....S....C. As the owner of an ASC convertible, um...,yeah no thank you.

And now you can do the repairs without issue.

Glad I could be of help!!

Extremely true. It is very rare to get to a point that you can’t get your self out of. Again, taking your time and thinking are the best ways to avoid being in that spot.

David, you hit on the key thing that keeps my friends from wrenching. “What if I screw up?”