917 because turbo-mother-effing-panzer!
My current project is my most realistic, attainable one. 1969 Karmann Ghia. Great shape except for a destroyed interior. Perfect canvas for a little autocross machine. Strip the interior and make it more driver oriented: Buckets, steering wheel, gauges, pedals, shifter. Replace 1500 single port with a 2.0 Type IV bus motor currently in my parts stash. Shod it in shorter wider rubber and tune the suspension a bit and it can be my poor man's 356 outlaw. I have everything I need to do this, just need more spare time, hehehe.
Yes please.
Dear 1990 DSM Eclipse GS (aka Y-mobile),
Thank you for giving me my first taste of freedom. Thank you for showing me the way of the manual transmission (at the cost of your synchros). Thank you for showing me how much fun small cars can be. Thank you for looking respectable, if not a bit dated. Thank you for your AWESOME flip up headlights. Thank you for giving me my first taste of hydroplaning and teaching me how to stay calm when it happens. Thank you for teaching me the fun of handbrake turns. Thank you for teaching me that no matter how tight a turn is it should always have a radius greater than zero at the corner (a smoke filled sideways story for another day). Thank you for showing me how much fun it can be to work on a car. Thank you for showing me the joys of dual overhead cams. Thank you for allowing me to shuttle attractive girls around whilst socializing. Thank you for getting me through college. Thank you thank you thank you for being you.
Fuck you for eating alternators 4 times in 2.5 years. Fuck you for eating motor mounts. Fuck you for your catastrophic (and expensive) domino-effect epic failures. Fuck you for refusing to start about 10% of the time. Fuck you for your electrical problems after every sprinkle from the sky. Fuck you for costing me over 2X the original purchase price in repairs alone. Fuck you fuck you fuck you.
That said, I really miss you and would not mind having you back as a daily beater. Preferably in AWD turbo form though.
Ive wanted one of these since they came out. Why oh why did I decide to have children??
Yezzir.
Yo dawg, what is this shit?
Seconded.
Apocalypse you say? Im riding this bitch out.
That makes me want to wag my wood. Wait. What were we talking about?
1st Gen Mazdaspeed3. Rule 1: Pass. Rule 2: If you measure from the cargo floor as indicated in the above examples, Pass. Just barely at 50%.
I just went outside and checked. :D :D :D
Hot?? ::runs and hides::
I KNEW thats what the jingle said all along...
As happens with all performance cars once they reach affordable levels, I saw one for the first time riced out by some kid. Huge body kit, murdered out color scheme, dual fart cans out back, and driving it like he stole it.
Dont they make fancy infomercial grade wax or polish that will remove that spray paint in a jiffy?
Total sucker for VW beetle based kit cars. No matter how horrible the imitation.
You must but be warned. They are strangely addicting.
Needs more "Sit Ubu, sit!" "Woof!" "Good dog."
