>For Classics made from 1979 or older, with few exceptions.>Everybody has their own taste, but some tastes are wrong. If you aren't sure if your car is classic or not, it's not.>Your Honda Miata doesn't belong here.>US, Euro, Jap, or whatever.>Post your classic, your work on it, your hackery, and get advice.>Any and all discussion about classics welcome, but may not necessarily generate responses; don't get butthurt.>Period correct performance > cosmetics.>Metal > plastic.>Classic shitbox > modern shitbox.>JBweld and RTV can fix anything>If you see rust there is more.>Rust and bodywork are the most difficult thing to repair.>Electrical work is difficult until you stop reading forum posts and buy a multi-meter.>Low oil pressure? Worn mains and rod bearings. Use Lucas and 15W40 until you afford a rebuild.>Do NOT buy a classic and plan to pay someone to work on it. You need to be able to do 90% or more of the work or you will go broke.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>28993961I bought spray cans of alpine green engine enamel, so it was definitely pricier than >>28994043 says. But I'm not at my home shop and don't have my sprayer, so I gotta work with what I've got. It was like $200 all in for paint.>fucking expensive, but probably not in comparison to bus partsI've found that the price of bus parts varies astronomically. Parts bin stuff like the brake drum assemblies, wheels, and engine stuff can be shockingly cheap. I bought brand new brake drums all around for something ridiculous like $100 apiece. The brake shoes were also brand new from fleetpride for like $30 apiece. Insanely cheap for the massive amount of metal there, even cheaper than brakes on my normal vehicles. But odd stuff like the old rotochamber brake actuators, torsion bars, shuttle valves, power steering components, etc. are so expensive that you're generally better off retrofitting parts that are more common. And then the body parts that are Flxible exclusive are nonexistent and you're stuck fabricating them yourself. It all seems to even out. It's not a cheap vehicle to work on, but it's not as expensive as you'd think.
>>28994159>odd stuff like the old rotochamber brake actuators,I was actually curiois about some of that shit.I hope you never have to cage that shit.
My door was having trouble latching all the way so I took out my door latches, washed them in the parts washer, lubed the mechanism with ATF and lithium grease, put them back in and now my door WON’T FUCKING UNLATCH. Tried to do the same to the door stopper and now it’s simultaneously making a grinding noise and a grease squelching noise. I’m so fucking sick and tired of this shit.
>>28994572>*just GM things (tm)
welp, definitely getting aluminium heads now
This is a real ad by Yamaha. What the fuck is wrong with japan?
>>28995706It's a death grips meme u dip (manson did say it thoughbeit)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqcTVVUFnKQ
>>28995717regardless there were a lot of fingers in that pieit says a lot that they would ignore elon musk's emails tooyou had to be in a special club, it wasn't just "jevacations' island tours for the rich and famous" you had to be vetted.
The fuck is wrong with gooks? >>28994742> your ancestors were marrying 12+ girls all the time for 6000+ yearsYeah when they were 12 too lmao. If you weren't nobility or royalty, you probably didn't marry a 12 year old girl at age 30, which is the fantasy for most people on this board.
>>28995694Why did any have to survive at all? Aren't all survivors just liabilities >hurr but people would raise questions People are already raising questions and doing nothing about it.
>>28995843>People are already raising questions and doing nothing about it.i can't get mad about this because shit man, what can any of us even do? talking about it and keeping it from being memoryholed until the next time the cia releases classified documents is about all we got. we have fucked up people in our government. clearly we can start by voting different, then taking a good look at the political pipeline to keep the morally unsound people and their money out.
> pop the hood, hardly anything under there> open the door, hardly anything in there> all you can do really is... just drive itShrimple as.
>>28994730I prefer the 6 cylinder American barges. Enough room in there to stand on the ground while you do a cylinder head or whatever
>>28994730Sure is a complicated looking automobile you got their boy, what's the stick lookin' doohickey at the back of the roof for, some kinda electrical mahoosit? How come your seats fold in half like that, that's an extra point of failure, you know! And those wipers on the front - why on gods green earth do you need TWO of them? You only sit on the one side, boy, why are do you care if your passenger can see, you ain't got no pussy to haul around! Them kindsa complicated spaceship things just ain't for me, sonny, you keep all your electrical fandangoes and whatsits to yourself.
>>28994737Ugly bastard works hard, can't fault him for that.
>>28994730Fucking stop trying so hard with this toyota shitposting retard. Holy shit, take a lunch break or something bitch
>>28994933Get a Giulietta or a MiTo.
my dashcam just broke after 7 years of faithful usethe market now seems to be filled with chinese junkcan I get some recommendations for a replacement? as long as it does 1080p30 I'm good
>>28993844Too late. We've already clocked you being a faggot.
>>28993746Neat trugg features.
>>28995246Dude was bad ass, simple as.
>>28990352I kinda want a dashcam, even though my MVA history indicates I'll never need it. I've been rear ended six times in my 16 years of driving. 100%, always at stop signs and red lights. So I'm just staggeringly unlucky.I'd want one just to show the insurance adjuster a nice, high resolution shot of their policyholder staring at their phone moments before impact. It makes paying out settlements a lot easier because that footage is legally radioactive.
>>28993749>>28993790So what you're saying is you're the reason other people get dashcams.
Growing up and knowing you are straight and this car was based all along. It's going to be a expensive as fuck collectors item in 15-20 years time
>>28995095wtf ?
>>28992445Oh look it has one of those touchy screen gizmos.
>>28991692I like the original one better. They poorfagged it in the 2nd version (removed headlight washers).
>>28992462>Why is the tachometer not in front of the driver's eyes? There isn't one to begin with. 25-something years ago, rev counters were optional equipment. I distinctly remember Smart and Mini listing them in the optional extras section.
>>28995105Only millennials think like this. Most normal people don't have this weird mindset of wanting to be a special snowflake through being quirky and unique. Only millennials have had that engrained into them as children. An ugly car is just ugly. It's not endearing, it's just hideous and affront to beauty. Just like most nucars.
Old cars > New cars
>>28995600Pre-50s cars were never really sought after.Its not like "its 2000 and I want a 60s car" and "its 1990 and I want a 50s car" and "its 1980 and I want a 40s car"There was a major shift in the 50s that defined whats thought of as a modern car.If you think of the exceptions (like a '32 ford or something) the only ones that are desirable have been customized and modernized- they originally had wood components for door frames and other structural components.Not to mention shit like solid linkage for brakes (first year Ford with hydraulic brakes was 1939).
>>28993361looks like shit. get something in the 1910-1930 range.
>>28995655the war planes taught the auto mfgs how to make curved metal
>muh tesla>muh cyclistWhy do boomers get so weirdly fixated and insecure about the most random shit?
That's like saying a 25 year old man can beat up a kindergartener in a fight. Congratulations I guess. The 1970s car was subject to literally zero emissions or safety regulations.
the general consensus of the automotive community is that the Corvette™ is the best car ever producedamazing how we all agree on the same thing for once
>>28995724The GR yaris is a rally car you fucking retard
>>28995777so why did it lose to a rental car on all seasons?
Insecure americans are the absolute worst posters here
The Corvette is not street legal in Europe.
>>28995792so it's yet another car europeans can't have?
why do normies LOVE trucks so much?
I rented one once, sitting high up makes you feel superior. But they are slow as fuck and sitting closer to ground is better for driving
>>28993874I oiled up your mom last night
>>28995204You are a fag, maybe you live where the weather is great all the time, but in Kansas, we have snow, lots of dirt roads and occasional flooding. I have no problems with any of that in my Trail Boss.
>>28995186>Yea i'm a poor piece of shit but a trillionairse lives here too! Lmao
>>28995779
Why does Scotty love Asian cars so much and hate American cars? It's always Toyota, Honda, and Mazda with him. I thought Texans were supposed to be America first.
>>28993256what’s that
>>28993260Baller. Were you born rich or you worked your way up?Im not that guy but im pretty broke. Gotta make due with what i have so reliable is a high priority.I also wrench as a side effect of being pretty broke so ease of maintenance/repair and parts availability is also pretty high priority.At the end of the day we gotta play the cards we're dealt
>>28993269I won the lottery (unironically)
>>28993260based power steering abhorrer
>>28991872Because scotty became a mechanic full time during the American econo car "boom", oil crisis times. His majority career time exposure to American vehicles was when they were first trying to compete with jap econoboxes and were blowing it. He has carried these beliefs since then.
will going mudding destroy my truck?
>>28994942lmao
>>28994942Make sure you don't forget to turn your essay in to the teacher on friday.
>>28994914the worst part of this is if you do this you might bring home new types of chemical resistant weeds and vines in the soil.
>>28994942
>>28994634No, but you might
Should I get a Jeep Gatorade?
>>28994012get a jimny instead for the same price
>>28994635>get a vehicle with less power, less space, worse ride, and more expensive parts instead for the same pricegtfo weeb
>>28994635Most people have no use for an off-road car, that's why they are buying these small hatchback crossovers. As they should.
>>28994644>>28994646the jimny wont blow up at 50k miles like that shitalian "jeep"
>>28994012That’s not a jeep that’s a fiat 500X with some slight changes
>>28993841How do retards in 2026 still think the Miata is supposed to be a performance vehicle? It has 180hp. wtf do you expect?
>>28993952
>>28993872schutz staffel
>>28993841Lads, every time I drove a Miata, the driving dynamics are so good But I'm too tall to fit in one comfortably.
Is the Chevy Cobalt even still running around? Like 5 on Auto Tempest.
Tomorrow is the first day of summer! Show us your projects, repairs, and tools. Summerfags welcome!
>>28992823>I have no fucking idea what I'm doing Whelp, here' goes.
I fixed the charging system on my Ducati.
I imagine this restoration shit is so much more frustrating/stressful than doing “performance” stuff. I hate having to worry about all the stupid details in a 45 year old interior and about cracked lights and how my doors close and shit. Can’t wait till I get this one to a stopping point so I can start with my shitty hot rod plans.
>>28994883Had to grind the socket down to fit within the hub.Local auto place quoted me $1000 to do both sides. (and they're normally reasonably priced) It's $200 in parts, 2 bolts for the caliper, and the axle nut.
>>28995633$1k for front pads and rotors?
Real funny racism, idiotsThe future of JDM imports is IndianYou stupid gora and Brahmin haters will never beat usWe take your jobsWe import your carsWe take your wifeMake sex movie on internet
basically everybody involved in importing second hand japanese cars is a charlatan, you just have to dig deeply enough to find it.most people who import a JDM car in 2026 are basedjaks and morons who think they know better than everyone else. protip: you dont.just buy a 1996 camry you'll have more fun and nobody you want to associate with can tell the difference anyway.
>>28994632Good thing mine was imported in 2025.
Traffic is caused by assholes trying to skip the line and merging at the very end, causing cascading braking that travels down the line. You have plenty of warning that a merge is coming up, so move over as soon as you can.Don't come in here talking about some reddit faggotry like "muh zipper merge". Move over early and wait your turn like everyone else.
>>28992910Stfu retarded mongrel. Your methods backs to the line for miles. Zipper merge is the smart way for everyone Kys subhuman
>>28992937it's not even remotely good bait, and yet it's still working.
>>28993034>>DO NOT MERGE BEFORE THAT POINTThat's a a codified traffic law.I SHALL merge whenever an additional lane is presented to me.So YOU can shut up.
>>28995537Obviously I meant:That's NOT a codified traffic law.
>>28992935If they wanted zipper merges, they would have traffic merge in the middle and then move that over into the open lane, but the extra cones are too expensive so they'd rather make facebook posts about how great the zipper merge is.
