I wonder if this’ll have an effect on the model kit industry - a lot of companies started charging license fees in the 90s, and that basically drove models into a much smaller area.

You are not the only one, sir.

Everyone’s mentioned the Beetle reserve.

Ha! The Sun Company one matches the one Dad had on his sailboat.

I can confirm that the Mini was designed for a person 6'6" to fit in with relative ease.

It’s probably been rode hard and put away wet - 300k miles? Plus that again in idling? But if it’s intact underneath, this is a great start for an overlander/minicamper.  Heavy duty electricals, an interior wall designed to have things mounted on it, you could probably set up a bunk bed, even!

My mind went to a Offy Midget briefly, then started reminding me about how some _really early_ safety cars did something like this in attempts to distribute the damage around the driver, before swinging back.

I have a keychain I am unreasonably proud of. It’s a bit beat up now.

But... I don’t use the touchscreen when I use Android Auto. I use the steering wheel controls.

They lift golf cars now.

Stance yo.

All Wheel Steering. It was a thing at the time. 

One of the many reasons I bought a WRX. My dog slides around on leather.

Eh, probably a ‘75, then. It’s been a few years, you know? I need to compare bumpers to bad memories to get the year right. I googled ‘73 Celica GT and it _looked_ right, but it looks like that was a ‘75 picture just being served up.

Oh, god, the seats were GREAT on it for GT driving. Just relax and start heading down to Jersey and you will get there refreshed and ready.

Thanks for reminding me! That was the first ‘made it’ car Dad bought - not his first Japanese car - that was a ‘73 Celica GT Hatchback. It was a new benchmark for ‘this is a solid car’ for us. Nothing squeaked, nothing moved, you were in a solid cocoon that was taking you places with verve and aplomb. Very unlike the…

It only existed to explain the ‘my father was a navigator on a spice freighter’ line, if memory serves, which was totally unnecessary.

I’ll just leave this here.

I will say the larger wheels have resulted in better control when I had an explosive incident. Chunk of concrete got soccer-kicked into my sidewall by another car. Better stability and better control, though the tire was a lost cause, obviously.

You know as well as I do why wheels got bigger. The beltline of cars got raised, because the hoodline of cars got raised, because of the European pedestrian safety regulations. If you put 14s on a modern car, they look horrible and undersized.