@pip-bip Full tilt front end helps too!

@pip-bip looks like that time Mythbusters tried using manhole covers for wheels. Otherwise love it.

@Just-Jeepin there was even a pickup truck, the Mazda REPU!

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazda_B_series#Second_generation_(1965–1977)

there it is again - that cobwebb'd mirror

@pip-bip That got me thinking about Belgian automakers. Surprised to see that there were some.

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly The whole isn't greater than the sum of the parts.

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Well...that didn't work.

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Milhouse! Run!

@pip-bip Sigh.

unzips

@pip-bip I somehow never realized BMW ever did factory vinyl roofs

@pip-bip You did give fair warning, so I have nobody but myself to blame for the present emotional climate...

@pip-bip that also seems a little odd for a japanese car designer yes

@siennaman I'm planning on putting lotus elise seats in mine eventually... Should add some more wiggle room.

@pip-bip Love a GX71

@pip-bip
Well....I'm convinced!

@pip-bip
If they were anything like my godfather and his magnificent maroon Triumph saloon....parking was never an issue for him. Mostly because the impact was typically on the things that he parked on, against, behind or beside...

@RallyDarkstrike don’t know

@pip-bip
Pretty sure the top is a Ford Aerostar.

@pip-bip
A preeminent hedging tool...

@pip-bip This style is super popular in Japan; take a 70s or 80s UJM, give it flatslide carbs, a nice exhaust, upgraded suspension, better brakes, sometimes a swingarm from a 90s sportbike...

Kawasaki and Honda both sell retro versions (Z900RS and CB1100) which kind of flopped in the US but are huge here.

@Highlander I was thinking Montana myself

@pip-bip Yes please!!! I love the last two generations of Jimny....such cool little off-roaders!

@pip-bip I traveled up and down the US' east coast in the back of a Plymouth station wagon, back in the day. My dad never loved anything as much as he loved that 3-way tailgate. Thanks for the late night memories!

@ranwhenparked that's brilliant.

@pip-bip Gorgeous pic.

@pip-bip
Why not....

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly said in late night oppo:

@pip-bip
Ooooh.....a boat yard!

right? the lack of sports cars is truly upsetting.

@pip-bip Much sporty!

@Darkbrador said in late night oppo:

Also, a minor rear end/fender bender and the entire rear hatch needs replaced

In other words, an ideal situation for the automaker - plenty of sales of replacement hatch assemblies for collision repairs, plus possible extra sales of new cars when otherwise decent older ones get totaled from minor damage

I mean, the industry had to be dragged kicking and screaming into fitting bumpers that actually worked in the '70s, then, after a lot of whining, were let off of that requirement in the '80s and never looked back

@pip-bip Yes, please.

I love the idea that some Australian BMC engineers decided to have shot at fitting the Rover V8 into one of its brethren and succeeded. Of course, it was all too complicated so we ended up with the P76 instead!!

@ranwhenparked -- Now there's a morning cannonade from the TIL battery, and several things I'll have to remember to fold into future travels to those areas...

@Cé-hé-sin 🤣

@ranwhenparked poorly I believe

@facw The 9 speed is a big part of it no doubt - in gentle highway cruising the engine is almost idling.

@ranwhenparked oh yes. My dad was a pipe and tweed jacket SAAB driving college professor in the 70s and 80s

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@pip-bip
It looks so sleepy!!

I like it, but I don't love it.

@pip-bip
Flowery Finnish?

@Just-Jeepin hahaha holy shit. man that car just aged 7 years in 7 minutes, he was really going for it.
definitely example of old school innocent youtube gold

@davesaddiction alt text

@RamblinRover said in late night oppo:

@nerd_racing
What are you saying, that the front end was just a hasty mutilation of the Valiant with almost no independent design direction, and in consequence looked a little wacky?

How dare you.
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That brow ridge hood was so bad... then the "hitler stache" grill... ugh.

@pip-bip Make way, coming through!

@pip-bip Looks like a dream I had once

@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera It is. Is that a 67 Impala convertible above the red Falcon? If it is then I think that's the newest one in this photo.

@pip-bip Slava Ukraini !

uh wait ... no ... ahem ... För Sverige i tiden !

(although I suppose the Russian army would get the same, if not worse, treatment in the hands of the Swedes, were they to put a foot across their border ... for which they'd have to cross FInland first, which probably would not go too well for them either ...)

@pip-bip I'll bet the drivers door hinge wiring bundle is still a mess.

@pip-bip
Everything about this image is questionable...

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