total dream car.
can't believe it's $110k, not sure I'd opt for this as my only $110k car, but if I had ten of them...
Such prescience...
Originally Posted by Car & Driver, February 1997
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits - Mark Twain
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy / Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
And that's the easy half of the car. There's nothing like the contortions needed to do things under the steering wheel, like replacing the brake lamp switch bumper.
"You win 100% of the fights you avoid. If you're not there when it happens, you don't lose." - William Aprill
"I've owned a guitar for 31 years and that sure hasn't made me a musician, let alone an expert. It's made me a guy who owns a guitar."- BBI
Trying to get Dakota Digital electronic gauges retrofit inside a classic Pontiac dash
The end result was badass, but I never want to do it again
The last time I had to do similar I got started in my upside down dive, but stopped, said effe it, and removed the seat. Aaaahhhh, that is much better.
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits - Mark Twain
Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy / Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Growing up we had a duster with the slant 6 in the family till the late 90s. If it didn’t have damage from some drunk jackass in a f250 who took it out beyond all repair. I’m pretty sure it would have still been around.
We had a Dodge Aspen as a field car. At one point we hit a tree and took the radiator out. After removing the radiator, we continued to drive / abuse it. When it over heated, we’d park t for a bit. After cool down, we’d drive it again. That slant 6 was truly bullet proof.
My best friend’s first car was a Dodge Dart with a slant 6 that he bought off a couple that had gotten lifetime driving bans for too many DUI. I swear it was under $1k. Maybe even $500.
This would have been around 1990 and the car was a 1960-something.
We replaced the piston rings twice before he sold it and bought a ‘77 Thunderbird that some gay dude labeled “the thunderchicken”.
No idea why an engine would need piston rings replaced like that but the whole thing made me assume the slant-6 was a POS, having not really come across another in the ensuing 35 years.
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