They see the things they need through the windows of a hatchback...we'll hitchhike our way from Odessa to Houston... Read more
brandonvalentine
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I live in Nashville where NNA's HQ is, and I fully expect and desperately hope to see a few of these cruising the roads. I'll call in every favor I can to get some seat time in one next year. I don't know any Nissan execs yet, just some lower level folks, but that might change. Read more
The only car I've ever had any mirror tackle in is my '74 Beetle. I have a pair of flame-patterned dice I bought at Disneyworld like six years ago or so. Was an impulse decision but now it's just part of the character of that car. One more thing that makes driving that car different from the other ones. Read more
@kittikin: You should watch the excellent drive-through-liquor-store-in-Louisiana documentary: Don't Fuck With The Lewises. Read more
The Dude abides, every time. Read more
@SeanKHotay: Yes. Absolutely. This is part of a comprehensive purification of Jalopnik. We will cleanse the comments of all infidels. Read more
@frank_rizzo: Oh, I didn't say I didn't have the skill, just that it's a complicated pitch. The instructions are actually in the factory owner's manual. The real trick is doing it at speed. You've got to toss it into the slipstream just right. Read more
@eltonito: Tennessean here, and yes we do allow passengers to have open containers. We wouldn't want to ruin Volunteer tailgating! Or at least that's the excuse the legislature uses every time a bill proposing an open container law comes up. The beauty part about the passengers-can-have-open-container laws is that… Read more
Hear hear! Not to mention that if you're a competent VW mechanic, you can pretty much figure out one of these engines in an afternoon. The amounts of power coming out of this aircooled engine in, for example, 959 trim, is absolutely jaw dropping. Read more
You guys are the only support group that could possibly understand the disappointment I felt when I woke up and the shooting brake Datsun roadster did not exist. Read more
Alternately, I'll hijack a 1973 Dodge Polara complete with Texas DPS officer and drive to Sugarland to get my baby back. Read more
@cyclopticgaze: You and Murilee both. Read more
@Mad_Science: The road? None required. Read more
@brandonvalentine: Oh yeah, and that 914 will have a cow skull mounted to the front hood and a machine gun turret on the targa bar above the passenger seat. Read more
I'd rally Los Jalopniks for a Road Warrior style convoy straight to some defensible hollow in Eastern Tennessee or Kentucky where we'll make our stand. Personally, I'm gonna be in some kind of junkyard chic 914 engine swap, preferably some kind of big block American V8. Read more
He makes it so much worse by getting out of the car in the middle of traffic. Read more