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    • Hour rule
      Oppositelock • hour rule bring a trailer toyota • • Just Jeepin'

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      @Just-Jeepin

      I LOVE the 1st and 2nd generations of the MR2.

      Beautiful cars.

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      @Krusty-Walnut
      The Buick V6 first appeared in Oz in the 1989 VN Commodore. That car weighed a smidge over 1,300 kgs and it was a four door saloon. So I think my quip stands....!

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      @pip-bip
      It's always the beige one that brings the rest down...

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      @The3DTuner
      A polished turd...

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      Urambo Tauro

      @pip-bip Somebody call The Reassembler

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      @Just-Jeepin Oh god you're setting off my Corvair craving.

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      @Roadkilled Passenger side mirrors are still not required under FMVSS, but drivers side mirrors became mandatory in 1968

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      @Just-Jeepin -- The bit about "Bubbling paint and corrosion are noted by the selling dealer." might be putting a damper on the bidding. They must be remarkably honest and/or have better eyes than mine; I stepped through a number of the abundant pictures and any such things must be subtle. Here's hoping this magnificent grande dame of days gone by finds a good home -- surely it won't make reserve anywhere near four figures (people ask nine or so for "before" pictures).

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      SilentbutnotreallyDeadly

      @pip-bip
      ...the tax you can't escape.

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      @pip-bip
      A very fat Mini...

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      @pip-bip
      Ours was British Racing Green...

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      @Just-Jeepin If it be anymore brown it would be a turd 😛

      I do like the turbo gauge

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      @Just-Jeepin Very few cars could outrun or even get close to most sports bikes. Plus, I'm an early bird and everyone working from home meant basically no traffic in my rural area.

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      @The3DTuner very true

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      @DSM_OR_DIE
      Perhaps...and far more recently I'd expect, since it never kept itself in shape.

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      @pip-bip OLd Japanese auto ads be cool...some of my favorites are for the Daihatsu Fellow Max and the Mitsu Minica Skipper! 🙂

      Daihatsu:
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      Oppositelock • hour rule bring a trailer volkswagen • • Just Jeepin'

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      @dieseldub Well said on 98 vs 2010+. The rules changed so fast, and so did customer preferences and demands, and VW got caught in the middle and made a bad choice, but I’m not going to pretend the rules and regs were ever really that fair or logical, especially in the US. Diesel was almost always doomed here* and had the deck stacked against it.

      *currently in the UK, where diesel is still doing really well, which I didn’t expect! But the fuel is still pretty cheap. Not the $1-$2 premium like at home.

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      Roadkilled

      @pip-bip

      If my internet search skills are working, this is the current view.

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      @pip-bip
      I'll bet that tiger had some questions...

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      @іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi said in hour rule:

      @pip-bip Mrs Distraxi’s first car was one of those. It was the most horrendous POS I’ve ever had the displeasure of trying to keep running.

      I still want one...

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      Oppositelock • hour rule bring a trailer porsche • • Just Jeepin'

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      Just Jeepin'

      @Stef-Schrader Now I do.

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      WhoIsTheLeader

      @pip-bip Imagine how much that field would be worth today.

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      Urambo Tauro

      @pip-bip Where everybody knows your naaaaaaame!

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      A name (and design) that should have been applied to a better car.

      Not sure I've ever seen one in the wild here in the US. It's fun to imagine one with a modern turbo Four, assuming the survivors (they were said to have been a favorite food source for the tinworm) aren't too valuable for such shenanigans.

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      @pip-bip
      I'd set that thing on fire without a care in the world.

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      HFV_Junkyardin

      @Nauraushaun The only shela allowed in my ute is me wifu.

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      siennaman

      @Just-Jeepin actually, looks like a decent daily driver to me. Wouldn't be a bad choice for road trip car camping* either.

      *car camping where you're too cheap to buy a hotel, not where you're driving way off paved roads

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      SilentbutnotreallyDeadly

      @Ad-absurdum-per-aspera
      That's fine for 1990...but it's 2023 and GM still only give you three years.

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      @Just-Jeepin actual tunnel vision?

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      @pip-bip Yep

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      @Mark-Tucker I'd settle for Packard merging with Nash and Hudson and leaving Studebaker out of the equation entirely.

      Would have been a nicely balanced mix - Nash (low price field, against Chevrolet, Ford, and Plymouth), Hudson (lower medium price field, against Dodge, Pontiac, and Oldsmobile), Clipper (upper medium price field, against DeSoto, Chrysler, Mercury, and Buick), Packard (luxury, against Cadillac, Lincoln, and Imperial).

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      Milky

      @pip-bip Teal wheels? Hot.

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      @pip-bip
      Short Circuit: The Return

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      @Just-Jeepin

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      ash78

      This looks shopped. I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing a lot of Audis in the shop in my time. 🙂

      As a 2001 VAG owner myself, I would run, I'd run so far away. Even if it's mechanically perfect, every single plastic on this car is on its last legs. And probably most of the rubber, too. Every repair or mod will create 3 more issues.

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      @SamV8 fair comment

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      @ForSweden well that would be another problem, I have yet to see one in person

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      @Just-Jeepin I'm sure nothing works and it needs an Isuzu diesel swap.

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      drVanTraveler

      @Just-Jeepin said in hour rule:

      As soon as I saw the spam post vanish I knew my hour rule post was a race against the clock. Alas.

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      https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1992-autozam-az-1-7/

      Already CP, heading for CP ++

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      RallyDarkstrike

      @pip-bip That wood panel wagon is epic!

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      EssExTee

      @pip-bip "buy British because we have a robust parts network for when it inevitably breaks down"

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      Such a beautiful machine.

      The Carrera 6, more commonly known as 906, is not only astonishingly beautiful, but indeed one of the most important cars in Porsche's racing history. See, as gorgeous as the 904 looked, with its ladder-frame chassis it was a technological dead end. Part of its torsional stiffness, for example, relied on the heavyish layers of fibreglass that enveloped the actual steel structure: fine for a small sportscar/GT, not so much for a true racer.

      With the Carrera 6 things were approached differently, with a proper spaceframe and paper-thin bodywork - the outer shape itself being researched in a wind tunnel. Heady stuff in the mid-sixties for a small outfit as Porsche was then.

      There were compromises: suspension arms were carried over from the 904 (although I understand the uprights may have been different?), and the wheels were huge 15 inchers when even in F1 they had already transitioned to 13". Maybe the reason was just parts-bin raiding to keep costs in check - or maybe Porsche still fancied fielding a racing car that technically could be driven on the road (although not in Vaterland, of course). Driving on the road the Carrera 6 duly did, anyway, entering a few rallies and, of course, the Targa Florio.

      Even the engine was a little special. Based on the 2.0 911 six, it had quite a few interesting parts (titanium rods, twin-plug ignition, for example), with a max power output of 210 bhp. Later the same spec was used in the legendary 911 R and the 914/6 GT (also known internally as 914/6 R).

      Arguably Porsche big-league dreams (and results) started with the Carrera 6. Up to perhaps the 962, all their pure racers that followed (i.e., 911 derivatives excepted) can trace their lineage to that spaceframe and early aero efforts.

      The beginnings of the Carrera 6s also involve a works hillclimbing special, the 906 Bergspyder (see?), which, simplifying a lot, could be considered the missing link between the 904 and the Typ 906 as we know it. Very interestingly that first spaceframe chassis repurposed some Lotus parts (uprights and hubs, IIRC). Perhaps for the first time in Porsche history someone was paying real attention to unsprung mass.

      Guess who was the driving force behind the car, a young engineer ready and willing (or rather anxious) to make his mark in the motoring world, let alone the company? His name may sound familiar to you: Ferdinand Karl Piëch.

      About that lovely picture: I immediately thought "Nürburgring, maybe Flugplatz" and "Leo Kinnunen". According to the Net, it is indeed Nürburgring (and, due to the "yump" it could well be Flugplatz), in the year of the Lord of 1969, but the gent was another Finn: Hans Laine, teaming with a Swede, Sten Axelsson, and yet another Finn who did not drove, Antti Aarnio-Wihuri. The year before the same car had been raced in the same event by Aarnio-Wihuri and Pauli Toivonen, no less (father of Henri and Harri and a legend in his own right).

      That car, s/n 906-125, has survived and is owned by Miles Collier: https://www.collierautomedia.com/1966-porsche-carrera-6-case-study-in-archaeological-restoration

      Side note: many moons ago I met a car enthusiast who used to own, or maybe still owns, one of these. A true time-capsule-style barn-find, only in this case the "barn" was a basement in a small village. I don't know all the details, but I remember being told that the first floor of the same building housed the local office of an extremely radical political party notorious for direct, violent street action. Removing the tiny racer from its resting place entailed careful planning so as not to attract undue attention.

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      drVanTraveler

      @pip-bip said in hour rule:

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      My 74 Celica was a ST very similar to this one. Of course mine had some ugly USDM bumpers.

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      @Just-Jeepin -- Always loved the looks of those—sort of a contemporary Mustang hand-carved from a solid ingot of old money. Great color for it too. The only one I've ever encountered in the wild wasn't doing well, but it wheezed around downtown in the most to-the-manor-born manner imaginable.

      I am getting just a little OCD about that side marker, though. Since this is an English car, you have to wonder if that's a documented factory anomaly they're preserving, or it is ready to spontaneously disengage, or what. It seems to be receiving electrons at the moment, so there's that...

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      @siennaman GIB