Ace-Garageguy

Nah. But there will most certainly be an Urban Adventurer version with special compartments for all the necessary gear; just think of it as a big shiny 4-door purse with plenty of room to haul bales of organic kale.

Frankly, I'm surprised this concept has been so long in coming for US manufacturers. Honda's been building the transverse-engined front-wheel-drive Ridgeline since 2004, and VW was making Rabbit pickups way back in what...'78 or '79? The packaging makes lotsa sense for a light-duty "truck". Ford's pretty late to the me too!!! me too!!! game.

Much better. Looks good. Didja use ol' magic Por-15 on that?

You mean something like this?

Hit my marks today on the DeLorean project a little faster than I'd expected, so now I have time to mow the lawn before it starts raining again. I'm such a party animal.

And now everyone can get a trophy.

Gee willikers. They re-invented this. How clever.

It depends entirely on the company and the circumstances. Years ago (mid 1980s) I owned a full-service garage that worked with some of them. One replaced the gearbox in a Porsche 924 for a pretty hefty price (back then) with zero squawk. Same company bought a clutch in a Ferrari 328 a few years later. But they refused a claim on a Mondial after the owner, drunk, backed it...hard...into a parking-lot sleeper and cracked the transaxle housing. As with many things, doing reasonable due-diligence research will sort out the scams.

100% correct...mostly. But...I often see relatively new vehicles from snow-belt environments (read: salted roads) badly rusted structurally. There is sometimes quite obviously zero rustproofing factory-applied. And engines like the venerable small- and big-block Chevy, Ford, and Chryslers, transmissions like the GM 350, 400, Ford C5 and C6, Chrysler 727, and rear-axles from the era were virtually indestructible with any kind of reasonable use and care. Most of today's tiny-internaled, overstressed 6, 8, and more-speed automatics are essentially non-repairable, and hideously expensive to replace. 60,000 mile lifespans are commonplace. Little highly-stressed engines likewise. Out of warranty? Too bad, sucker. EDIT: And more frequently every week, I encounter vehicle structures assembled using a combination of adhesives, spot-welding, and application-specific rivets. There is NO rational engineering necessity for putting anything together that way. All it does is vastly complicate collision repair.

Delete. Duh.

Call me old-fashioned (that's a joke folks...) but I have zero interest in a big self-propelled electronics-laden murse, with the engineering philosophy behind it of an appliance...when it's broke, throw it out and buy a new one. And cars have been entirely capable of going 200,000 miles with minimal maintenance for many decades. My #2 '86 Jag has 225,000 on the clock. My '89 #2 truck is pushing 300,000 now (I rebuilt the heads and did a timing chain at around 200K). My '92 #1 truck had no significant issues until just at 200,000 (a new trans for $2100), and a roller-lifter failure at 225,000. And the '01 PT cruiser I inherited also has about 225K, and nothing significant has ever failed...though I maintained it from almost new, and did things like timing belts as required. EDIT: Heck...even my mother's '63 Olds had 165,000 entirely uneventful miles on it when she died. Regular oil changes and relatively inexpensive competent general maintenance, watching fluids, and not driving like a moron are the only things most cars have ever really required to give long and faithful service.

Not even that far back. Look at car and racing pix (or just crowd scenes in general) from the '60s and '70s. It's like a humans were a different species.

Nice hack-job on that old Anglia kit. High inspiration.

Nice score. Fascinating material.

Interesting. All the Series III cars I've driven have had very communicative steering feel...one of the things I particularly like about them. The rack bushings are notorious for going to poo fairly rapidly, however, and that can be the cause of a vague, imprecise feel.

Those are 90 degree boots. These are 45.

CA and microballoon, most likely. https://www.tapatalk.com/groups/revellations/fix-kit-repair-powder-t4967.html

Beautiful clean build. Those little buggers were among my favorites back in the glory days of the NHRA. Your model is a good representation of the cars of the era.

Nice start! Definitely in the spirit of the real car.

Very good idea. Wish I'd thought of it...but I'm not above taking inspiration from yours.

Here's a crate car to putcher crate engine in...

Anything woke that tells me, by virtue of my immutable characteristics, I'm responsible for all the world's woes. The infamous Gillette ad was the first one to really chap my backside, and the hits justa keep on comin', folks. I (and many of my peers) probably have more buying power than 100 of whatever dwerps these marketing geniuses think they're appealing to, so it doesn't seem all that swuft for ad producers to apparently intentionally alienate their core demographic...but hey...common sense is becoming increasingly less common daily. And the list of products I'll never ever buy again keeps on growing.

All agreed, but in general, eBay is becoming an increasingly glitchy mess. And many search engines are far more concerned with collecting marketable data on their users and ranking search results on the basis of the management's particular biases than providing a clean product.

Appreciate it and protect it.

Ebay's moronic "we looked everywhere" because old photos from eons ago still populate the interdwerbs, but when you try to go to the site, you get a shot of a dumb kid. Awww...isn't that cute...and useless. Entirely appropriate considering the way they apparently hire and manage their IT people these days.