i am glad my newest car is a 2012... and from there span the 90s to the 60s. what we as a society has done with data is frightening. you have no idea what is collecting it, what is being collected, or where it was going ... View more

bored of going fast... the thought makes me shudder. i'll stick to my desk job ... View more

the important missing figure... 1.6 million   that's about 5 grand per MPH ... View more

Unfortunately when I first started driving dusters like novas were largely POS beaters with 6 cylinders that people bought when they couldn't afford real muscle cars and that image is still stuck with me a little. All you need to do is add brown or puke green paint, a cracked interior with stuffing coming out, and armrest laying in the console, and some rust and i'm in nostalgia land ... View more

no 80s Malibu wagon? they almost qualified as cool back in the day ... View more

my approach has always been drive 'em. with the exception of my partially disassembled project car, i try to cycle through my cars and drive them at least every week or two. every preparatory step to store a car is something that has to be undone, then redone, every time you drive it, which tends to discourage driving of the cars - particularly covers. i stopped covering cars a long time ago because they would sit longer simply because i was not in the mood for fussing with the cover more often than not ... View more

i am going to be the cranky old guy who refuses to get with the times. Cars are machines. EVs are upscaled golf carts. I realize more people are going to start driving these upsized golf carts, and it is all for the greater good, but what makes a classic car a classic car is that it has the classic stuff in it ... View more

strictly appearance-wise i just don't get a 300K vibe out of it. the taillights and trunk line look like they belong on a hyundai and the interior looks like it belongs in a party limo used to ferry high school kids to the prom. not going on my lust list ... View more

i had a 99 Buick Regal that was a pretty plain jane car but i liked it except for the sideways motor and lacking in a few HP. I always wanted to do a RWD conversion, retain the 3800, but have it properly front to back with an intercooled turbocharger ... View more

I skimmed that entire article (my ADD prevents me from actually reading the whole thing) and missed the political part, so i guess i'm up on most folks where i just got some financial justification for buying a 60K pickup with a big motor.  ... View more

as a boat owner; 1) i don't see an RV as anything much different than a landlocked boat, and one is enough, so i stick to my boat 2) #1 is easy enough to get rid of. in the boat world, #2 can generally be handled by a bucket with a trashbag in it and some quick response time. anyone depositing #2 in a boat toilet tends to not be invited on the boat anymore ... View more

my BMW is a precision instrument. my big block C3 is a big, loud mallet. I love 'em both ... View more

cool and depressing at the same time... ... View more

a Porsche 944 where my head doesn't touch the visor ... View more

I know that the lady I bought my 65 impala off of got a new tattoo in 1993. I also later learned that she used to live in my house and the car used to sit in my yard ... View more

I remember the Flxible buses in New Jersey and I remember being somewhat impressed with how modern and carlike they looked... although the RTS has similar curb appeal ... View more

One of the things that plagued poor Rudolf Diesel was that the difference between his patent and the Otto engine was more complicated than compression ignition... some early Otto variants had compression ignition   Anyhow, one of my biggest complaints with the modern automobile is that emissions, safety standards, and picky customers have so overly optimized the car that there is not much interesting going on under the hood. it will be sad to se one of the last unusual engines go. ... View more

there are pros and cons to doing favor work... yes the cons are that you will only ever be remembered for the one mistake and not the ten successes.. and your free repair comes with a lifetime bumper-to-bumper warranty... but on the other hand i have been able to sharpen my skills on a number of interesting projects including 30s and 40s era packards, 67 GTO, disassembling a 3-series beemer from the drivetrain (usually goes the other way around) which got me over my fear of beemers and led to me owning one... all with me getting the fun and experience and someone else sweating the financial decisions on how far to go with the car ... View more

I have already filled a two car garage, built a two car carport, filled it, and still have one in the elements. Fortunately I have limited myself to one in the project stage at a time... which is good because the upkeep on the remainder takes some time too. but yeah - with the exception of the daily driver, if there isn't something wrong with it, I don't find them as interesting ... View more

I think it boils down to designing a car for a big corporate conglomerate. You want to make a low volume specialty car. GM Corporate tells you these are the chassis designs you get to pick from. You want a custom drivetrain, they want 600,000 units a year ... View more

I have never understood the collector response to the Allante. Yeah I get it... if I spent 55K in the 90s for the car, all of the complaints are valid. But now, it's just plain snobbery. I love my Allante. For a nearly 30 year old car, the styling still holds up. For a cruiser convertible, the performance is more than adequate. The car turns heads and gets comments everywhere I take it. I am glad the collectors hate them though considering what I paid for mine, which was next to nothing ... View more

I figured the throwback cars would eventually start getting rounded over, smoothed out, and blanded away. I'm guessing that the 2022 model will be indistinguishable from a Toyota camry ... View more

As a proud owner of an Allante, I always cringe when I read stories about American manufacturers trying to do something out of the box... then get criticized for not being in one of the right boxes... only later to be criticized for building boring cars that can't compete with overseas. The worst thing that ever happened to American manufacturers is American car buyers ... View more

It would be interesting to know some of the science behind why these V12s underperformed and drank more fuel That thing would have looked very impressive under the hood of an Eldo ... View more

More non- 4 cycle reciprocating piston examples would have been interesting. I have also seen examples of aircraft radial engines used for motorcycles. Not sure if they ever made it to a car ... View more

A 2 door V8 Eagle has always been on my wishlist… unfortunately it looks like they are somewhere between costalotium and unobtainium these days ... View more

The guy is talented and all, but i'm sorry they did it right the first time.  That thing looks more like a chopped and lowered 911 than a jaguar ... View more

When I started driving in the 90s, I loved the cars of the 70s... because they were cheap and I could afford them, because they were highly modular (I could always contemplate putting a V8 in my inline 6 Camaro even if I never actually did it), and they came in every quirky shape, size and appearance imaginable. you could find one to fit your style and taste without effort   Modern cars are over optimized and over homogenized. I can drive a camry, and yes, there isn't much to complain about, but there isn't anything particularly interesting about it either... it looks just like all of the other cars in the parking lot. Forget performance upgrades unless you have deep pockets and know a hacker. That car came out of the factory running as good as it is going to and anything you do to it will make something worse   Yes, cars are better, but they are extremely boring which is why I still drive the old ones. Since 90% of people seem to like them that way, I am not as optimistic about a change in the future ... View more

Most of the folks I know start talking about bypassing cats when it comes time to replace them... due to the relative cost compared to the rest of the exhaust system. The cost of the cat is easily half of the price of a new exhaust The problem with cats and older cars, as indicated by some of the other responses, is that if you do not have optimum mixture, it will cause performance robbing backpressure Its nice to know that a well tuned modern motor can make 700 hp on cats, but I won't be putting them on my carbureted 454 vette any time soon ... View more

I was a mechanic in a past life, and the number of times people would ignore the mechanic and go with whatever their brother-in-law jimbob said used to crack me up. One of my biggest pet peeves is when people add stuff to their oil and then tell me I should do the same. I tell them if it was any good it would already be in the oil, but that usually doesn't go far. ... View more