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Sustainable, one of the biggest lies in this whole world. Granted environmental damage to an already damaged place is minimal I guess. I do wish GM, etc. success in this venture as we need to be able to make our own. China will be happy to strip mine the planet to sell us some, but I'd rather avoid their junk batteries. I still think we need an alternative battery tech to Lithium Ion or just batteries in general.

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When I read this in the magazine I had two reactions. One of happiness to see an old family favorite and a Grand National, no less restored and being loved by the kids. The second reaction was sadness for the tragic loss of the husband. That was hard to read and I know harder for those immediately involved to live through. Time can heal all wounds and thankfully the restoration helped in some part in that healing.

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To me originality matters to a point. I'm all for safety mods or reliability mods, they make the vehicle more reliable and safer. Restomods can be fun too but the ones I see these days make my eyes water with their pricing. If you like it go for it I say.

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I'm sure that is going to be a beast to make a turn in. Crazy and odd and yet they are in Japan and not somewhere in the southern US.

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The craziest street going Mercedes ever and it could easily break records.

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I'll take the Lotus. It will be interesting to see what becomes of his business. Sounds pretty cool to me. No Amazon money like Clarkson for his farming. Too bad. Discovery+, another stupid thing to subscribe to. Hard pass.

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Which year/model Supra?

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All great cars. I have owned a '97 Eclipse GSX. It was a great car. I sold it to get my Supra back in 2002. I also owned an older '90 Eclipse GS and a '92 Eagle Talon TSi AWD. Good luck finding one of these that is halfway decent these days. Easier to find a live Unicorn these days it seems. Most are on their 20th owner and 15th body kit by now. The Prelude was such a great car. Too bad it never came back. Loved them. IS 300, great car, almost bought one back in the day. If I could have found a low mileage SportCross model in the past I probably would have owned one. Pulsar, I saw one here in Austin. Such a funky car and looks like a blast to drive. Celica is the weakest one here to me, but it will rev and it is fun to drive.

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Staying away from Taco Bell helps to keep the car un-stinky. Just saying. Good tips in this article.

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You either love him or hate him it seems. I love him (Bonamassa). Mayer is for the girls. **Shots Fired**

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The Renault's are some of my favorite oddball cars from France. Let's take a FWD car and turn it into a RWD car. What could possibly go wrong? It reminds me of recently LS swapped RWD Civic's and the old Fiesta Shogun's. Crazy cars!

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So many nice cars here. Saleen S7, Jaguar XJ220, Ferrari's. Yum!

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The SVO's, early GT's, later LX's and especially that last Cobra are always going to be favorites of mine. Crude and primitive by today's standard but still great performance at a still affordable budget. Except the Cobra's they seem to have gone to be still easy to come by. As for the Carb cars there is always the Holley EFI to try. Get the car you want and the mods are there to make it better.

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If somebody wants to offer me that kind of money for my Supra I could consider an R34 but that is never going to happen. These cars have just gone nuts in price. I will sadly never own one.

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Is Panther Love like Radar Love? (Anybody got the song in their head now?) I would be curious on this swap. I do wonder if there is any significant weight difference between the two motors as any increase in weight will likely offset the possible power advantage if there actually is one. Does it rev the same or lower? What is the power band like in comparison? I like the idea but wonder how much bang you get for the buck.

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As Kermit once sang, It's not easy being green. Definitely not beauty queens.

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You were too kind. This is overly busy design for the sake of design. Having said that it's no M3/M4 so it is worlds better than the naked mole rat design of those cars.

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Chemical inspiration, lol. It's the **bleep** love child of a Neon and a civic hatch. Sauce on a turd my friends. Is it a Nevic? Is it a Civeon? The mind boggles.

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Sounds like we have a long way to go for an equal or superior form of fueling up the car and having range, etc..

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I love his style. It has so much pop in it and the style is unique. Some hilarious cars like a Gremlin there. The Reatta was a different choice to see also.

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I'm sorry but I'm not going to put an electric motor in my Supra or in my future V8 powered sedan. The engine is part of the character. Without that character the car is a lot less interesting to me. If I wanted to go faster I could do that right now, nothing is stopping me from having "1,000hp" but I don't feel the need for it. I have more interest in a hydrogen powered Toyota Mirai than I do an electric running on batteries.

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Pretty cool looking 60's spaceships on wheels.

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I'd have to see this perform to say for sure but this seems like a departure from what Lotus does and instead being more like the others. Lotus has a narrow range/appeal. I'm not sure what this does to keep the Lotus faithful happy or a reason to skip something else for a Lotus. It's nice if somewhat derivative of other cars in it's styling.

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The races are hilarious and the racer names are too. It's a great channel.

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I would definitely drive the heck out of it if I could. Love the color combo on this one.

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I tend to find most of these kind of ugly, especially the MG's and Mantis. Shelby would still be my favorite. The new TVR might be interesting if it ever happens.

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To me the best color depends on the model. Yet for some reason yellow is my least favorite color regardless of generation. I'm kind of ok with it on the C6 Z06 but I'd rather have any other color honestly. Big negative point for any car in black mainly because they always look dusty or the maintenance is continuous.

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Lots of great vintage ads here. Let's go for round 3!

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If only that was real. Great writing and a great story. Wish I could stumble onto a Shelby too. But that would also be fiction.

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What is the weight of that engine? Needless to say it's probably a bit front heavy. Pretty funny to see that engine in there. It's going to be insane when done.

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It really is a great performing and practical car. However I am turned off by the boy racer looks of it, especially the side and rear profiles of it. The adult in me says, I just can't do it, no matter how good it is.

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The top gear reliant robin review is just gold. I could not stop laughing at the whole absurdity of it. https://youtu.be/QQh56geU0X8 The Best was the Peel P50... https://youtu.be/dJfSS0ZXYdo

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Hey that power steering can really burn the fuel. How much you use it determines the fuel consumption. Just kidding!

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It's a very nice truck. personally I never liked the convertible versions but the color and look of this one are very nice.

Gary_Bechtold · ‎01-07-2021

There are plenty of ways to get into the Corvette club. Granted the early stuff is pretty pricey. I'm still partial to the looks of the C6 over the C7 (not covered here). I'll take any of the C2 and early C3 stuff before they got smogged and slow, or a C4 ZR-1 (love the engine) also. C5 is good but I just prefer the C6 over it.

Gary_Bechtold · ‎01-07-2021

It would have been nice to just go and do the 80's, 90's, 00's and '10's and do everything up through the end of the C7. Nice list though. I'm partial to anything with some orange colored valve covers.

Gary_Bechtold · ‎01-07-2021

I don't remember the F40 doing the pop and burble thing like a teenager driving a modded Focus ST at a cars and coffee meet. I love the F40, but the pop and burble tune sucks.

Gary_Bechtold · ‎30-06-2021

I give the like for the story provided, but I don't like the story that the mural is gone. So sad! But like lots of things I love in Chicago it joins the list of things that couldn't survive the toxic environment of politics, taxes and/or covid.

Gary_Bechtold · ‎30-06-2021

The Haiku was great. I loved the stream of consciousness observations. I laughed!

Gary_Bechtold · ‎30-06-2021

I had a fuel pump issue that took over a year to figure out. Car died on me once. Let the car sit a little and it started back up. A year later it did it again. I can't remember but I believe a few months later or weeks is when it did it a third time . I eventually had to have it towed to a shop nearby and we replaced the pump. No issue for years since figuring it out. At least yours failed in quick succession mine took a year plus to do it again.

Gary_Bechtold · ‎30-06-2021

If it has a motor swap to a 1JZ motor like they got in Japan in the later years of this generation or a 2JZ from a MK4 Supra don't be scared. Do your research as there are some great MK3 swaps out there. I have seen plenty of them around done well and running great. The MK3 Supra Turbo solidified my love for the Supra as a teenager. So when the MK4 came out I was ready. The MK3 gets love but not from Supra enthusiasts. Unlike the new "Zupra" this car is all Toyota.

Gary_Bechtold · ‎30-06-2021

I like what was done to it. I would have kept it a coupe personally but kept all the stuff done to this otherwise. It's a great resto-mod.

Gary_Bechtold · ‎30-06-2021

The GT350 is easily my favorite of this current generation of car. Best looking, great handling, high revving V8. There is a lot to love here. I would also want the latter years too, but I suspect I won't be buying one anytime soon. Not sure if they ever cured the oil consumption issues with these cars.

Gary_Bechtold · ‎30-06-2021

Too bad the 300ZX wasn't in great condition or communication. That would also have been fun. Good luck on the Mini!

Gary_Bechtold · ‎30-06-2021

I mentioned this in the Friends article, Seinfeld had way more car related things as well as great cars. "ASSMAN" was the best license plate ever.

Gary_Bechtold · ‎30-06-2021

As a (former) Chicagoan for most of my life I have been to or lived near many of the spots in The Blues Brothers. Combined with absolutely great music it is just one of my favorite movies. The recent Blu-Ray or 4K-Blu-ray the audio is just perfect. Stay away from Illinois Nazi's or penguins!

Gary_Bechtold · ‎29-06-2021

The GM cars are mostly terrible in their styling. The Chevelle is just sad. The Toronado and Grand Am just don't do it either. The Opel GT was cool. I remember a friend who had one.

Gary_Bechtold · ‎25-06-2021

While I hate the Supra in F&F the white one at the end of 7 was quite nice. A lot of intersting cars have been in these movies but many were fakers in reality. I also had an Eclipse, a '97 GSX that was actually a turbo car unlike the movie one which was an Eclipse GS that had the non-turbo Chrysler 4 that nobody wanted. Everybody wanted a GS-T or an AWD GSX because both had the 4G63 Turbo motor.

Gary_Bechtold · ‎25-06-2021

Neal was apparently not the most imaginative person when it came to color but otherwise a very nice collection of beautiful cars. When my daily driver was silver like my Supra is I thought that was one too many silver cars for me. Too bad he didn't have a red barchetta in his collection, it would have been fitting. I miss his drumming and his lyrical output. A great man and he is missed. I'm glad I saw Rush for the last time at R40 in Houston.

Gary_Bechtold · ‎25-06-2021

It was an interesting car for sure. Would have loved to see that V10 in action somewhere.