shy boy from chess club posted:

Holy poo poo this rules. I love the way those AMC engines sound and that's the best looking one they made imo.

I worked on a 68 a few years ago and it was a 290 but had 343 badges on it. They beat the "Type R" upgrade faker badging by decades, hah.

E: Oh yea if you ever have to change the water pump pay attention to the distance the pulley sticks out. There's like 3 different sizes. Ask me how I know.

Raluek posted:

This is a '68, and it was originally a 290-2v 3-speed car. I guess when the displacement is proudly displayed uhhh... underneath the engine mounts, you can be a little more brazen in your lying.

The knockoff AMX spoiler on a base model with drum brakes is a nice touch, too.

If you had asked me two weeks ago what my favorite car was, I'd have said it was a '71. But the more I look at these first gen cars, the better I like them.

It really could stand to lose an inch or three of ride height, though...

kastein posted:

That thing rules.

I still have everything except the block from my 79s 360, btw. I'd rather it go to good use than scrap it. Anything you want or need, call it half of PicknPull price and it's yours.

Today I turned the half-a-Jeep I bought for $100 about 8-10 years ago into a trailer:

A jobsite toolbox will be going on the tongue for semi dry locked storage. I do have some more welding and other stuff left to do but it's mostly complete now at least.

Jeepep Comancheche

Mcqueen posted:

Figure, you've already done a Volvo, why not double down and try a Saab?

Raluek posted:

I just brought home something new yesterday.


it was someone's race car

I want to get this sorted and slotted into the "daily driver" spot

shy boy from chess club posted:

Yea everyone seems to love the 71 with the big fenders but the 68 is way better looking.

Boaz MacPhereson posted:

I'm the same way. Seems like everybody talks up the long fendered seconds gens but I love the stumpier first gens. Actually jealous of that thing.

Raluek posted:

McTinkerson posted:

When did Toyota stop the gold tint on their factory glass? It looks so very good.

White letter KO2s look dope as ever.

Raluek posted:

thanks for the props, all. the more i look at and touch this car the more im glad i bought it. at first i was like, did i make a mistake? is htis going to be a bundle of problems? but im feeling better about it all the time. well worth the work it will need, even if it will never be perfect

funny story, i was outside working on my brother's car and someone drove past, stopped in the middle of the road, and backed up to gawk at the jav. he got out and demanded to know why i hadnt responded to his emails on craigslist, apparently the seller didn't take the ad down. he seemed miffed to learn that i had just bought it, lol

shortly thereafter, i realized that since the harmonic balancers are unique to each crank, i could ID the crank without having to take anything apart. i got under the car, and... it's a 390. hell yes. apparently they use the same heads as the 343, so my earlier observation about the heads was a red herring. so the air cleaner doesn't lie after all!

kastein posted:

That thing rules.

I still have everything except the block from my 79s 360, btw. I'd rather it go to good use than scrap it. Anything you want or need, call it half of PicknPull price and it's yours.

Today I turned the half-a-Jeep I bought for $100 about 8-10 years ago into a trailer:

A jobsite toolbox will be going on the tongue for semi dry locked storage. I do have some more welding and other stuff left to do but it's mostly complete now at least.

Jeepep Comancheche

KakerMix posted:

I'm losing my poo poo at the rat fink art sticker on the wiper motor, this is like a kid's Trapper Keeper in car form

Raluek posted:

hey, thanks for the offer!

if the heads are the non-paired rocker kind, I'd be into that, but I think a '79 is well past that change-over point.

if you were local id ask for the valve covers, but something big but inexpensive like that would probably not be worth shipping across the continent to california. ill just wait for a set to show up here

my plan is to get a set of stock valve covers and paint them wrinkle black, and do the same to the air cleaner to de-bling it a bit. seemed like a shame to scuff up otherwise nice chrome on the valve covers i have now

i love that you kept the tail pipe on your trailer, that has got to earn you a few confused looks

kastein posted:

They're paired, sadly. The covers are intact and I could send them if you want but at least one got partially caved in when the engine rocked back as I dropped the trans.

Anything else? Accessory brackets? GM TBI conversion parts? I hate craigslist way too much to try and sell this stuff for what it's worth.

StormDrain posted:

I never get tired of looking at this.

Raluek posted:

thanks for the props, all. the more i look at and touch this car the more im glad i bought it. at first i was like, did i make a mistake? is htis going to be a bundle of problems? but im feeling better about it all the time. well worth the work it will need, even if it will never be perfect

funny story, i was outside working on my brother's car and someone drove past, stopped in the middle of the road, and backed up to gawk at the jav. he got out and demanded to know why i hadnt responded to his emails on craigslist, apparently the seller didn't take the ad down. he seemed miffed to learn that i had just bought it, lol

shortly thereafter, i realized that since the harmonic balancers are unique to each crank, i could ID the crank without having to take anything apart. i got under the car, and... it's a 390. hell yes. apparently they use the same heads as the 343, so my earlier observation about the heads was a red herring. so the air cleaner doesn't lie after all!
Door

benro posted:

makes me miss my dad's Scout 2 and International truck. i love IH's so much.

chrisgt posted:

CROSSPOST ALERT.
I didn't necessarily need another car, but SharkyTM's Jetta followed me home today, very excited.

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

Is this the AI rotary thread? I don't understand the AI thread scheme haha.

Anyway, I bought this little gem on Friday and drove it ~300 km home from its hometown:



A 1983 RX-7. It's an auto with no power steering, no A/C, no power windows and no power from the 12A, but goddamn is it a joy to drive. I like that the lack of fuel cut and no computer override on the trans means I can still send it to 8,000 RPM in first and second gears (yeah it's a lovely 3-speed, and the gearing sucks). It's on 14 year old tires, but they're in good shape and it feels solidly planted no matter how hard I pitch it into a corner. Great handling and very little body roll, I love it.

This thing is a bit of a unicorn up here in Canada, an all original, all-numbers-matching rust-free specimen. I bought it from a classic car collector who by his own admission doesn't care about Japanese cars and only bought it from the previous owner to preserve its heritage. The car has a bit of a fun story: it was bought in 1983 at the Wallaceburg Mazda dealership, driven for a year, traded in, then the second owner did the same and bought it, owned it for 18 months and traded it in, all at the same dealership. Cumulatively they put about 8,000 km on it. In 1986 it was bought by a school teacher from the dealer, and she owned it for 33 years. She was known as the "cool old lady teacher" in town that drove around the old Japanese sports car in the warm months. It has never once been winter driven (that's purportedly, but just by looking at it, that's easy to believe), and has obviously been driven gingerly and babied its whole life. When I bought it, it had just over 90,000 km on it!

I guess the town has an annual "yard-sale" market type thing where everyone participates and does their spring cleaning, and it's a sort of town tradition. Well, in 2019, this lady decided it was finally time to sell the old girl. She threw a "for sale" sign in the window and parked it outside her house along with her table. She didn't want to sell it, but approaching 70, she could barely turn the wheel without the power steering, and her kids didn't think she should be driving around a car without crumple zones, airbags, or much of anything in the way of safety equipment. The collector, also with a reputation about the town (owner of ~19 cars and dwindling when I met him), seen it and decided to buy it on the spot, not wanting to let some young punk come along and despoil the car. He had some dreams of restoring the car and possibly giving it to the Mazda dealership it was originally sold at, but covid came along not long after and in his advancing age, the collector decided it was time to downsize the collection.

So I came along and snapped it up. I've been trying to buy Miatas for the past couple months, but it's hard to get a good one for a fair price around here right now. When I seen the FB I knew I had to have it. I rushed down, took a closer look (yep, looks as amazing as it did in the photos), and offered him on the spot. $6,500 CAD which I was more than happy to pay, along with a safety cert so I had it on the road immediately. Here are a few more pics: https://imgur.com/a/U7p6P78

When I was shopping for my old Japanese sports car (wasn't sure of what I wanted until I decided I wanted a Miata), I had these ideas that I'd be buying a problem car and doing a bit of tuner poo poo to it, respray it myself if I needed to, etc. But after finding and buying this one, I feel something of a responsibility to keep it antique status, as close to factory as I can. It needs a new exhaust soon-ish, which is its only troubled component, and I'm thinking I'll replace it with a full Racing Beat engine-back stock-port system. I'll be getting new rubber, but not sure if I want to go with some legacy 13" ones to keep the stock wheels on or get some 15" ones to modernize it. I know for sure I'll be doing a preventative rebuild of the engine (and maybe, MAYBE a mild-medium street port) which as far as I know has never been rebuilt. At the same time I'd like to swap the auto to a manual for my own personal enjoyment, but I'll definitely be keeping that auto in case I ever want to restore it to pure factory. Aside from that, I've been thinking maybe replace the suspension (shocks, springs, bushings and sway bars) with the RB stock-ish kit, but not much otherwise. I'm keeping the lovely 12A, I love the novelty of the carb that needs to be choked in cold starts, I love the roll up windows, I love the tape deck, just all of the anachronisms, and I want to keep it that way.

One minor thing that I haven't been able to easily track down through google searches (and I haven't spent too much time under the hood yet) is that after driving, I'm noticing a very small amount of what looks like engine oil on the front of the hood, where it hinges forward. Like just a few drops holding to the lip of the front of the hood. Does this jump out as a common symptom of a failing component to any of you rotary guys? It's holding oil pressure, I haven't noticed a significant oil loss in the ~700 km I've put on it, nothing really feels wrong with the car. I am absolutely driving the poo poo out of it, and it's now under more stress than it's probably ever been in its life, so maybe I popped some old worn rubber seal somewhere is what I've been thinking, just haven't gone hunting for it yet.

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

Accidentally posted this in Spyders personal thread about his awesome collection of rotaries, crossposting here. I may post a thread about this car (and my other vehicles which I have posted about a little in AI - an '04 Impreza rallycross car, a '07 4Runner I tow/offroad/haul kids with, and an '09 Impreza my brother is mostly driving and I'll eventually give the title to). We'll see how much I get into it!

chrisgt posted:

CROSSPOST ALERT.
I didn't necessarily need another car, but SharkyTM's Jetta followed me home today, very excited.

BigPaddy posted:

Today the dumb thing I did was lease this truck. It is the wrong truck in the wrong spec with RWD and has 20” wheels but it is the right truck to lease as it had been on the lot for months and has the 4 pot turbo that GM introduced a few years back. So used aone examples from the leasehackrz forum to send an email to the sales managers and shrewdly negotiated a decent rate for it after GM money and my Costco membership. Now I must rice with having a 4 pot turbo full-size truck for 3 years. Oh wait leather and wood trim with vented seats because GMC

BigPaddy posted:

Today the dumb thing I did was lease this truck. It is the wrong truck in the wrong spec with RWD and has 20” wheels but it is the right truck to lease as it had been on the lot for months and has the 4 pot turbo that GM introduced a few years back. So used aone examples from the leasehackrz forum to send an email to the sales managers and shrewdly negotiated a decent rate for it after GM money and my Costco membership. Now I must rice with having a 4 pot turbo full-size truck for 3 years. Oh wait leather and wood trim with vented seats because GMC

StormDrain posted:

That is so dumb I like it. How does it compare to the V8?

BigPaddy posted:

Today the dumb thing I did was lease this truck. It is the wrong truck in the wrong spec with RWD and has 20” wheels but it is the right truck to lease as it had been on the lot for months and has the 4 pot turbo that GM introduced a few years back. So used aone examples from the leasehackrz forum to send an email to the sales managers and shrewdly negotiated a decent rate for it after GM money and my Costco membership. Now I must rice with having a 4 pot turbo full-size truck for 3 years. Oh wait leather and wood trim with vented seats because GMC

Raluek posted:

I just brought home something new yesterday.

quote:

it has one, because racecar, but it's just floating next to the battery, because yeehaw.

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It's a 4-speed, though, so any V8 will be fun. It doesn't need to be fast. At least I keep telling myself that. We'll see how long I can hold myself to that.

shy boy from chess club posted:

Yea everyone seems to love the 71 with the big fenders but the 68 is way better looking.

kastein posted:

That thing rules.

I still have everything except the block from my 79s 360, btw. I'd rather it go to good use than scrap it. Anything you want or need, call it half of PicknPull price and it's yours.

Today I turned the half-a-Jeep I bought for $100 about 8-10 years ago into a trailer:

A jobsite toolbox will be going on the tongue for semi dry locked storage. I do have some more welding and other stuff left to do but it's mostly complete now at least.

chrisgt posted:

There's enough space you could probably fit one of those RV Onan generators under there. Then you'd have a use for the fuel door and exhaust. Would be a great little jobsite rig.

KakerMix posted:

No idea, as far as I know we never got the W I D E body version on second-gen 4Runners either like the Surfs got, with the fender arches and wider track. Maybe the gold tinting has something to do with that.

Enos Cabell posted:

drat that looks good.

BigPaddy posted:

Today the dumb thing I did was lease this truck. It is the wrong truck in the wrong spec with RWD and has 20” wheels but it is the right truck to lease as it had been on the lot for months and has the 4 pot turbo that GM introduced a few years back. So used aone examples from the leasehackrz forum to send an email to the sales managers and shrewdly negotiated a decent rate for it after GM money and my Costco membership. Now I must rice with having a 4 pot turbo full-size truck for 3 years. Oh wait leather and wood trim with vented seats because GMC

Imperador do Brasil posted:

Just a nice downtown picture of the Del Sol while we were in the bicycle shop

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

drat that Del Sol actually looks dope with those wheels. I almost bought a Del Sol but I couldn't convince myself they were cool enough. That's a great pic tho

e: what wheels are those?

hot cocoa on the couch posted:

drat that Del Sol actually looks dope with those wheels. I almost bought a Del Sol but I couldn't convince myself they were cool enough. That's a great pic tho

e: what wheels are those?

Darchangel posted:

gently caress, yeah!
My dad always contends that if that had had a Chevy badge, it would have sold like hotcakes. I always thought they were a little oddly proportioned (a bit long in the front overhang or a bit short in the rear,) but I like them nonetheless.

Q_res posted:

Yeah, you're dad's probably not wrong on that one. I agree on the proportions on the AMX, but I think the Javelin is just fine. That's what makes the first-gen so interesting I think, it's the only time the AMX was a distinctly unique model. On the 2nd gen it became more like the relationship between the Trans Am and the Firebird.