Posted on 04/26/2018 10:06:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
Did you own any of these?
I did.......................
I had a Datsun F-10 once. Pea green.
MGB GT here. What synchromesh?
Odd that Peugeot isn’t on the list?
Yep, the hippie Kubelwagen! I'd like to own one, too - parked right next to a pristine Manx dune buggy.
I wowed my neighbor recently by driving home her stranded Sentra without a clutch. Her cable had snapped. A 45 minute drive in traffic. RPMs, brakes, throttle, and a waiting zone in the neutral position until you felt the ratios greet each other.
Most of the 1960-64 Dodges, the 71-77 Mustangs, 77-84 Dodge Onmis, Any Plymouth\Chrysler K-Car variants, The new Jeep Compass, most any Subaru, most Rolls Royces.
Some good looking cars, 1955-1967 Corvettes, 1969 Camaro, 1969 Mach 1 Mustang, 2016 Mercedes-AMG GT, BMW M3, 2014-today, Porsche 911..any year, 1989 Lamborghini Diablo, almost any Ferrari, any Aston Martin
Ouch!
Hey you’re lucky to have spark ;)
Isn’t your model the one with the Lucas intermittent headlamps?
Or a Lucas fuel pump that you hit with a hammer to keep it running?
Oh, baloney. The AMC Matador is a fine looking vehicle. And the Ford Pinto/Mercury Bobcat were not ugly, either.
Thanks for that. There were a few GM cars that had that “duck kicked in the @ss” look - horrible.
Why do British men prefer to marry large British women?
So they can push fast enough to pop the clutch when the car goes dead!
WTH? No firearms? Oh, boating mishap.
You always need to have a torch in your boot as well!
The Chevy Citation. I had one as a company car. No overdrive after 1200 miles. Dealerships thought it unreasonable to expect it to work. Windows on the side doors fell into inside the doors. The seat broke and wouldn’t stay upright. The dealership welded it. Only problem was it was a 2 door with bucket seats!
LOL
Just get home before dark! :)
Hope there are more than a few Datsuns on the list. Their current “Joke” or whatever it is one of the most homely cars on the road. Along with that inflated looking SUV thing.
Never had any major problems with mine. I was able to diagnose the rear-collision vulnerability and fixed it by pulling the tank and putting in a shield plate (with the help of a welder friend). When Ford did the recall to do essentially the same thing the dealer looked at my fix and said it was better than the one Ford was offering. The only other problem was the bulkhead rusted out around the clutch pedal but that was from normal age and wear. My welder friend fixed that, too. Clocked over 100,000 miles and I think I’d still have it today if I hadn’t got run off the road one day by a FedEx delivery truck and the Pinto ended up partway up a tree. The ER neurodoc said the seat belt saved me (but I still had to fend off the hoard of ambulance-chasing lawyers).
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