Wouldn’t suprise me if it were actually true. My Beetle’s engine hated Pennzoil.

I quit using Pennzoil back in the 1980s when I made the mistake of using Pennzoil in my ‘69 Beetle. That crap foamed right up. No other oil did that in my engine but Pennzoil. Weird. Haven’t used them since.

Out here in the Sacramento area, I see beat-up Avengers once or twice a week. They aren’t _common_ anymore, but a few are somehow still on the road. Haven’t seen one in nice shape on the road in 10 years.

Lancias are too emotional, like most other Italian cars.

“Me and my boys did our part...” - Sandy “Don’t Givvadam” Smithers

Blacked-out lights make me think of that one t-shirt “you can’t fix stupid” and there’s a guy pooping in a urinal.

Revisited this page today because I remembered your post. I’ve had my ‘85 325e a long time and I’ve long wanted to stuff some V8 torque and sound in it. LS are sublime engines, but my thinking these days has drifted to the Rover V8. You know, that tiny little old-ass aluminum bastard that lived way too damn long past…

I have a ~300k-mile Wednesday-built leak-free ‘85 325e, full Sport package, but no leather. It’s an auto with 2.79LSD (no it can’t do a burnout on a dry road at all). I drive mine almost 500 miles a week. Love the auto because it suits the Eta engine well. My gas mileage measurements are pretty much the same as yours.…

I agree. Fun car, but way too much money for the work required.

Driver appears to have graduated from the Billy Joel Driving School.

Ahh, the joys of a perfect shift. Why so many on here bring out the pitchforks when those who _dare_ to defend that soulless automated crap determined by engineers with too much time, ingesting too much caffeine, and not spending enough time washing ass. Myself, I learned to drive manual back in ‘85 in a new ‘85…

Ahh, the rotary. The only engine that sits on it’s own balls. Of course, if you take it to Australia, then the balls sit on the engine.

I’ve been a relatively slow driver here in Cali since I started driving in 1989 at 13 by stealing cars. I got my license in 1993, lost it in 1996 (failure to pay smog fines on old Bug with no charcoal canister), drove on the sketchy DL for ~18 years, regained license in 2014 by driving ‘80's car that can pass smog.…

So, now Smokey and the Bandit can be truly remade, using this overdue electrolytic findmuck and that 1000HP Super Duty Trans Am advertised earlier this year. Special guest star: Dennis Rodman jumping a Fresh Mint Tic Tac-colored Miata over at least 100 sharks and 50 whales from LA to right into Dear Leader’s gaping…

History has proven time and time again that groups of bored people are bad. HoA members, cops, young millenial monkeys with hands full of iShit, Canadian sportsfans who’s team just won, Romans who crucified Jesus - it doesn’t matter. But HoAs have their own chapter in the book of shitcocks.

I’m not repeating myself for you. You’re just not worth it and you’re just likely to keep grinning and eating up whatever shit HaK lay out in front of you anyway. I bet you shop at Walmart, too.

Obviously, people who don’t have a typical schedule. I eat breakfast ~9:30 PM, lunch at 1:30AM, and dinner at ~6AM. So do all 40-odd of my co-workers.

I disagree. I like the more durable early front end with diving boards untucked. Sure, I think the sleekness of the facelift cars is great too, let alone proper euro bumper cars, but I like the looks of early E30s the way they are. Unlowered, fat 50 series tires with raised white lettering. Da ‘80's!

Yeah they could get Rodman to keister enough Denzel Washington ass bomb material to separate the Korean peninsula from China.

It could be a generational thing. I’m from a time and place that scorned painted or plastic bumpers, even if they are just covers. We give and take our bumps with passion. Also, diving boards make a decent place to put on or take off one’s size 14 steeltoes at work!