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veedubfreak posted:recently bought a mid 80s Ferrari for like 25k. But this is a good decision
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atomicthumbs posted:Hey remember when Ford tried to make a FWD Miata competitor using 323 parts and a Mazda engine, like some sort of "stop hitting yourself!" thing Just saw one of these critters in the garage at work today. At first I thought it was a Geo Metro convertible until I saw the rear end.
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The Capri was Ford's Elan. Pavel Petel stumbles upon the classiest RX-8.
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atomicthumbs posted:Hey remember when Ford tried to make a FWD Miata competitor using 323 parts and a Mazda engine, like some sort of "stop hitting yourself!" thing I feel bad for Ford USA during this period because they wanted to build something, anything, that was sporty other than the Mustang but car buyers just wanted fahvhunnderit horsepower and a solid rear axle.
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Curb rash as modern art.  I think it's statement about not giving a gently caress about the colors of curbs you hit.
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8ender posted:I feel bad for Ford USA during this period because they wanted to build something, anything, that was sporty other than the Mustang but car buyers just wanted fahvhunnderit horsepower and a solid rear axle. Lol if you think Ford in the 80's ever wanted to build anything other than a shoe box with CAR written on the side in sharpie. The market is what forced them to make actual cars.
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8ender posted:I feel bad for Ford USA during this period because they wanted to build something, anything, that was sporty other than the Mustang but car buyers just wanted fahvhunnderit horsepower and a solid rear axle. Thankfully they compromised and what people actually got was the worst live rear axle ever and a choice of 85hp I4, 102hp V6 or 120hp V8. Everybody won.
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Venusian Weasel posted:He was arrested in his diamond-studded Mercedes.
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WebDog posted:It's like that immature forums exchange where kids argue weather something like a McLaren could charge through a brick wall at top speed, and then adding that if it was made of diamonds it would do better as they're the hardest substance on earth. That conundrum was solved ages ago 
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8ender posted:I feel bad for Ford USA during this period because they wanted to build something, anything, that was sporty other than the Mustang but car buyers just wanted fahvhunnderit horsepower and a solid rear axle. And Ford punished them for it, by making the Mustang II the last not-bad looking Mustang for almost a quarter century.
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Rugoberta Munchu posted:The Capri was Ford's Elan. more of WILL I AM's vehicular misadventures?
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Throatwarbler posted:Thankfully they compromised and what people actually got was the worst live rear axle ever and a choice of 85hp I4, 102hp V6 or 120hp V8. Everybody won. How, how is it even possible for those numbers to happen.
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World class engineers, it takes talent to be that deliberately bad.
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veedubfreak posted:How, how is it even possible for those numbers to happen. CAFE requirements. Looking back it really is a miracle any of the US manufacturers survived the 80s.
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1500quidporsche posted:CAFE requirements. Speaking of terrible car poo poo: the 1980s Chrysler Bailout to the tune of $4 billion http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2008/11/looking-at-the-1980-chrysler-bailout/
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veedubfreak posted:How, how is it even possible for those numbers to happen. quote:Supplies of the 2.8 L proved inadequate leading to it being replaced in late 1979 with Ford's 85 hp (63 kW) 3.3 L straight-six.
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I could fart into turbine and generate more than 85hp most mornings.
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Rugoberta Munchu posted:The Capri was Ford's Elan. I likes me a car with some booty 
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Special fasteners on your plate doesn't help around here, the usual method is to use a tin snips and just cut the corner of the plate off so you can lift the sticker later on in privacy.
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freelop posted:That conundrum was solved ages ago This is amazing.
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veedubfreak posted:How, how is it even possible for those numbers to happen. The 351M (5.8L V8) in my 1980 F-150 put out 138 HP, with single digit gas mileage. And a tire-shredding 263 ft/lbs of torque. That's when it was new.. by the time I got it, it was probably putting out about 1/2 to 2/3 of that (I actually got spanked by a Geo Metro in it once...) The 2.2L I4 in my Saturd puts out slightly more horsepower (2 HP to be exact).
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atomicthumbs posted:Hey remember when Ford tried to make a FWD Miata competitor using 323 parts and a Mazda engine, like some sort of "stop hitting yourself!" thing I had one sitting in my garage about 7-8 months ago. I spent a couple weeks trying everything under the sun to get the axle but off so I could do a brake job for a friend. After 2 weeks of failure, the owner said gently caress it and sold it. In his 6 months of owning it, it never did more than 500 miles and I vividly remember the common replacement for the power steering pump reservoir was a garden sprayer which this had. gently caress the mercury Capri. Edit: Also, the various suspension bushings were no longer made, so some dude bought the parts to make them and he is now the only supplier. 
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some texas redneck posted:The 351M (5.8L V8) in my 1980 F-150 put out 138 HP, with single digit gas mileage. And a tire-shredding 263 ft/lbs of torque. That's when it was new.. by the time I got it, it was probably putting out about 1/2 to 2/3 of that (I actually got spanked by a Geo Metro in it once...) No replacement for displacement 
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Most of us would like to forget the late 70s/early 80s engines ever existed, thank you.  That was a very dark time in our history. I just looked up the engine specs for the 2015 Mustang. The smallest engine available is a 2.3L, and it still cranks out over 300 HP, and is estimated to get 32 MPG highway. 5.0 V8? North of 400 HP, and still 25 MPG highway. That just blows my mind. I don't even get why they bother with the V6 at this point, when it puts down less HP and torque than the 2.3 (though the 2.3 has a turbo) and gets worse mileage.
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Where else is the endless supply of riced-out base models going to come from for people in 2030, though? There has to be a spec with a tractor engine and a blue suede interior that'll still be going and have stupid wheels and a dumb exhaust and twenty FORD POWER MUSTANG COBRA stickers.
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Slavvy posted:Where else is the endless supply of riced-out base models going to come from for people in 2030, though? There has to be a spec with a tractor engine and a blue suede interior that'll still be going and have stupid wheels and a dumb exhaust and twenty FORD POWER MUSTANG COBRA stickers. You joke, but the Briggs and Stratton engine option is also likely to be in the best shape in 20 years when people are looking for project bodies. See also Kent engined Cortinas, 161ci Toranas. Anyway, as my contribution to the thread: the Suzuki J24b has its thermostat on the cold side of the radiator. There is ample space for the thermostat to be in the head, it is where it is out of sheer spite.
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Code Jockey posted:One of the things I really miss about my Grand Prix is the A/C. Dual zone climate was nice since my wife and I are totally opposite temperature wise, and holy poo poo was the A/C cold. The CX-5 isn't bad, but I couldn't keep the Grand Prix at 100% cold for very long, and I love it cold. One of the things that I don't miss about my Grand Prix is the dual zone climate control. lovely plastic gears in the actuators broke all the time and were very expensive and difficult to replace. By the end, I would just reach into the dash and manually turn it hot for winter and cold for summer.
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Id swear that was my coworkers car, but it doesnt look like FL plates, and it doesnt have giant "VEGAN" and "god is dead" stickers ..
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SneakyFrog posted:Id swear that was my coworkers car, but it doesnt look like FL plates, and it doesnt have giant "VEGAN" and "god is dead" stickers .. Your coworker sounds like a person that I would enjoy having a conversation with*. *slapping in the mouth
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Your coworker sounds like a person that I would enjoy having a conversation with*. Id say that's a great approach. (He has vegan dogs)
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Does he do crossfit too? Because he's starting to sound like a Portlandia sketch.
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some texas redneck posted:Most of us would like to forget the late 70s/early 80s engines ever existed, thank you. My daily driver from when I got my license in 1987 until I bought my Sentra SE-R in 1994 was a 1984 Ford Ranger with a whopping 72HP 4 cylinder and a 4-speed manual transmission. It could top out about 65 MPH if I was lucky. Plus it was dark blue with dark blue vinyl interior and no air conditioning. It was like driving a slow sauna around in the summer.
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SneakyFrog posted:(He has vegan dogs) please call an animal rescue
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This M3 made me sad. 
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SneakyFrog posted:Id say that's a great approach. Lol. A goon killed his dog by feeding it nothing but heavy cream for months because he wanted it to do a keto diet with him. Why do people keep trying to put their dogs on person diets?
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Lol. A goon killed his dog by feeding it nothing but heavy cream for months because he wanted it to do a keto diet with him. Why do people keep trying to put their dogs on person diets? Because people are hosed in the head
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some texas redneck posted:The 351M (5.8L V8) in my 1980 F-150 put out 138 HP, with single digit gas mileage. And a tire-shredding 263 ft/lbs of torque. That's when it was new.. by the time I got it, it was probably putting out about 1/2 to 2/3 of that (I actually got spanked by a Geo Metro in it once...) 80's V8s were the absolute shittiest things. I had an 85 Trans Am and a 88 Mustang GT and both of them were so hilariously underpowered that the 94' Acura Integra 2 door I bought after bootcamp felt like a loving drag racer in comparison. I don't get how something with that much displacement drove like a cinder block being slid across gravel when you'd try to accelerate.
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Booblord Zagats posted:80's V8s were the absolute shittiest things. I had an 85 Trans Am and a 88 Mustang GT and both of them were so hilariously underpowered that the 94' Acura Integra 2 door I bought after bootcamp felt like a loving drag racer in comparison. I don't get how something with that much displacement drove like a cinder block being slid across gravel when you'd try to accelerate. A while back I ran across a copy of Motor Trend from 1982 with an ad for the return of the Mustang GT. Big, bold letters "THE BOSS IS BACK". Fire-breathing 302 cubic inch V8 blasting out a whopping 157 horsepower! It was indeed a sad time.
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LeftistMuslimObama posted:Lol. A goon killed his dog by feeding it nothing but heavy cream for months because he wanted it to do a keto diet with him. Why do people keep trying to put their dogs on person diets? what the gently caress!
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