Car and Bike Talk

[rod]

This guy is 90 years old. He is running his jet go-kart at the drag strip close to me this weekend. He was 89 when this video was made. I believe he was clocked at 154 mph on this run.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

Test drove the Sirius 4. It was a lot less boxy and much smoother than I thought. $29K.

I still want to check out the VW TDI Clean Diesel.

 

[Brownslave688]

Test drove the Sirius 4. It was a lot less boxy and much smoother than I thought. $29K.

I still want to check out the VW TDI Clean Diesel.

The what?

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

The what?

Oops.

Prius 4.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Yugo.

 

[oldngray]

Yugo.

I had a neighbor that bought a new Jeep and they threw in a free Yugo to go with it. He drove that thing for a long time because it got good gas mileage.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

An Eastern European copy of a Fiat. What could possibly go wrong? I still see them on very rare occasions. Same goes for Pintos and Chevettes.

 

[oldngray]

How a Constant Velocity Joint Works

How a Radial Engine Works

How a Wankel Engine Works

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Don't touch my Wankel!

 

[rod]

Test drove the Sirius 4. It was a lot less boxy and much smoother than I thought. $29K.

I still want to check out the VW TDI Clean Diesel.

its a Prius 4---try to keep up

 

[burrheadd]

An Eastern European copy of a Fiat. What could possibly go wrong? I still see them on very rare occasions. Same goes for Pintos and Chevettes.

I dated a girl in High School that had a Cosworth Vega that thing would scream man was it fun to drive

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

I dated a girl in High School that had a Cosworth Vega that thing would scream man was it fun to drive

...and the girl?

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

I dated a girl in High School that had a Cosworth Vega that thing would scream man was it fun to drive

You had your chance. Here she is now.

 

[oldngray]

Vegas weren't bad cars. Not good either though. Rusted out pretty quickly and they had lousy aluminum block engine as standard. If I remember correctly it was a major process to do any maintenance on them. That may have been the car you had to pull the engine just to change the spark plugs.

 

[burrheadd]

You had your chance. Here she is now.

This one had a twin cam Cosworth motor in it redlined at about 8000rpm I drove the snot out of it

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

This one had a twin cam Cosworth motor in it redlined at about 8000rpm I drove the snot out of it

I know.The whole Lambrecht situation still boggles my mind. He had to be getting his inventory for free. Doing things that way was impossible.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Vegas weren't bad cars. Not good either though. Rusted out pretty quickly and they had lousy aluminum block engine as standard. If I remember correctly it was a major process to do any maintenance on them. That may have been the car you had to pull the engine just to change the spark plugs.

I heard Buick V6s worked nicely in them.

 

[cosmo1]

You had your chance. Here she is now.

Not a Cosworth.

 

[cosmo1]

Vegas weren't bad cars. Not good either though. Rusted out pretty quickly and they had lousy aluminum block engine as standard. If I remember correctly it was a major process to do any maintenance on them. That may have been the car you had to pull the engine just to change the spark plugs.

I had a '71. GM replaced the front fenders under warranty even though I bought it used. Not a bad driving car, not quite a sports car, but way more fun than the typical sedan of the era.

Maintenance was a pice of cake. Everything was accessible. The problem with the engine was the aluminum block didn't play nice with the cast iron head.

 

[1BROWNWRENCH]

Not a Cosworth.

Like I said, I KNOW. But it IS "New".