yeah ours went a good 160k miles before a combination of the interior falling apart and the AC compressor grenading led us to finally trade it in for scrap value Read more

Questions about the mechanicals/maintenance history for me are somewhat resolved merely by the existence of a CRX in the seller’s garage. Read more

if it’s post-’73, it’s not for me
if the windshield curves, it’s for the birds
it it’s got big taillights, it’s no dice Read more

225,000 miles on my 98 Jetta + 75,000 miles on my 01 Cabrio + 120,000 miles on my 02 Jetta = 420,000

Not even counting the meager mileage on the current 12 X1. Read more

Good lord, just buy a Mk3 Jetta VR6 and get a car that’s better in every way. Read more

TIL there was an episode about Joey “having” a Porsche. I used to live across the street from Matt LeBlanc’s father, who drove a red 911 that he was later forced to sell in some complicated family business I was somehow in the middle of. Read more

my LeSabre was an ‘87 Limited, and thus had four doors and none of this fun stuff and the T-Type is the one you really want, but I do need to stick up for this car as it very much was an excellent vehicle that never lacked for power, never got me stuck no matter how many times i foolishly drove it into snow drifts,… Read more

don’t plan on rushing any pregnant ladies to the hospital in one Read more

making this conversion 50-state legal Read more

It seems there is an equilibrium price for brown manual wagon and it is below $7,500. Read more

Oh man, I had an ‘87 LeSabre in high school and could do that. Fun party trick. Read more

The more expensive version just uses a 24v 7.5A power supply, which you can get for usage with LED strips for extremely cheap. Just buy that instead of paying their premium, and splice in a 4-pin Molex CPU plug off a bad or old power supply and you’re set. Read more

I’m a TR6 guy but on a day like today — with our only car in the shop — and this car right here in town, and at this price, I might be able to convince my wife it’s worth taking on.

(haha just kidding she already made me sell my previous convertible) Read more

Believe it or not, they all had that—4.3 Vortec or 2.2.

I looked at that and wonder why they did so much work to recondition the car but left the A/C and rear windows broken. Read more

NP if you are a real estate agent because you can write off the maintenance and repair costs and have a car that will impress 90% of your clients.  Read more

Some more background on this is that it’s a (common) Jetta front-end swap and that the rest appears to be fully Euro-swapped, WRT the trim, bumper covers, and fender trim. this is generally a desired look and if i had either my mk3 jetta or cabrio back it’s how i’d do it. if you’re going to have an A3 VW this is… Read more

they didn’t all have radios until the last year but it was a dealer-installed option before then. Here’s the diagram showing where the speaker goes.

These are cooler than most people are giving credit but this one is so nice you couldn’t really use it for the purposes that make it cool. Read more

Maybe I’m crazy but I think all these cars previously appeared on display or in exhibits unrelated to cars in general? I think this is literally just them putting a bunch of cars they happened to possess on display and calling it an exhibit. I’ve definitely seen a few of those before.

The Cisitalia first appeared at… Read more