Ever in search of the ideal three-pedal dad-mobile:
Acura Legend to Mazda 3s hatch to E90 M3 to SS Sedan (+ 3rd gen Tacoma)
Plotting future Porsche/Miata/Lotus/Caterham/Ariel ownership...
That's... quite a lot.
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The previous owner had somehow put tons of light scratches on the clear, despite only driving the car 1300 miles. So nice to get her āperfectā, if only for a while. No garage queens at my houseā¦
Continuing the great work of @DasWauto , and the work several of us carried on under his banner at OppoBlog on Kinja, sifting through the fire hose of OPPO posts to find diamonds among the shitposts, here is the first in what I hope will be a long series of compilations at our new home:
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(1st edition - November 18th, 2020)
I suppose something as stubborn and indestructible as Oppo demands respect. Cantankerous Oppo, offered an honorable, merciful death on a platform that has gone to absolute shit since I left but decides instead to take the dying hoopty to an abandoned parking lot to do 20mph loops until the wheels fall off. - Ernie
OPPO mods: Eat Shit Oppo
Jordan: This isn't my goodbye post, it's a thank you. (Kinja crosspost)
mtdrift: The Lost Porsche - Part 3
Mark Tucker: Dad's Fiat
sony1492's Potentia (Locost) Build Thread and he went to Arizona
Old Busted Hotness' guide to light restoration
doodon2whls visited the Swiss Air Force Museum
Ranger Smith's Big Cat Rescue
SilentbutnotreallyDeadly: The Art of Breaking Down in your own Driveway
WhoIsTheLeader's town's absurb taxi fleet
CarsOfFortLangley: What Video Game Car Defined Your Youth?
RacinBob's SAAB 99 Ice Racer back in 2000
sn4cktimes' goings on in his garage
Wrong Wheel Drive's Miata workshop
ItalianJob53's C5 Corvette Review (repost)
RallyDarkstrike: The FIAT 500, Italy's Cheerful Jelly Bean (repost)
Just Jeepin's Why Jeeps Matter (repost)
ttyymmnn found airplane stuff on the internet and documented TDiAH
Skyfire's Flightline: 75 (more on his profile)
Urambo Tauro's favorite JRiTS posts
jminer's got stats!
RallyDarkstrike made a userguide and shared the OppoMap
and your humble correspondent, davesaddiction compiled a Kinja post leaderboard
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If I missed your article/photos in this edition, I apologize (thumbnails and good titles help a lot) - please feel free to send me a private message with the link, and if it "passes muster", I'll add it to the next edition.
Stay excellent,
Dave
Went to the Chevy dealer to get an oil change (theyāre quick & pretty cheap) and several guys came out to the drive-thru to check out the SS. One younger guy was noticeably loving it, so we talked a little while. He confided, āThis is my dream car, man.ā An older guy didnāt believe it had a V8 in it (I get that a lot), and the two of us had to educate him: LS3, Camaro chassis, RWD, manualā¦ SSleeper. 
When they had my car ready a half hour later, I went in and talked to an advisor Iād dealt with before, and he mentioned a couple other owners in the area that love theirs just as much as me (one orange, one blue). Will have to hit up the local Holden meet soon.
As I was settling up, the young guy came back and told me everyone in the shop was loving my car. I thanked him, and told him heād get his before long.
Definitely left with a smile on my face, and with the confidence that my car will be in good hands any time I take it there.
Just after I pulled away from the dealer, I passed in front of a wicked black GT350 that was stopped at a light. Gave him a big thumbs up - hopefully he noticed.
Share the love, OPPO.
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Hereās an old photo from the enthusiast section at our parking garage at work:
Continuing the great work of @DasWauto, and the work several of us carried on under his banner at OppoBlog on Kinja, sifting through the fire hose of OPPO posts to find diamonds among the shitposts, we present to you...
For any of you who have been featured, thank you for helping to make OPPO awesome! Please feel free to add the image above to your post, with a link back here, if you'd like. My hope is that this small token of recognition from our community will encourage others to put in the time for long-form articles or high-quality photography, or to start great conversations, or take more trips or start more builds and share them here, and maybe, possibly, to get a few more aspiring writers and photogs their start on a career in automotive journalism, like several OPPO alums have done in years past.
Here are the Opponauts featured in The Best of OPPO since May 19th:
@Dusty-Ventures @ranwhenparked @Zaphod-s-Heart-of-Gold @gmctavish @ItalianJobR53 @Urambo-Tauro @Brickman @JunkleMKVII @monkeepuzzle @TheDutchTexan @FractalFootwork @awesomeaustinv @i86hotdogs @100percentjake @Bman76 @Just-Jeepin @MybirdIStheword @annoying_salman @OPPOsaurus-WRX @sony1492 @KITT222 @StuckMTB @gmctavish @azw123 @Green-Truck @WhoIsTheLeader @Miss-Mercedes @Old-Busted-Hotness @duurtlang @t0ast @Shop-Teacher @mjswee @benjrblant @tysmagic @Tripper @Qaaaaa @CarsOfFortLangley @jminer @Taylor-Martin @MasterMario
@ttyymmnn & @Skyfire77 at Flight Opps
@HammerheadFistpunch, @Rufant & others at Overland
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Here are just a few of the great posts featured recently:
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Stay excellent,
Dave
Yeah, looks almost identical. Lowering springs, I guess?
It is almost a foot shorter in length, but nearly as tall.
Wonder how the H-point compares - I'd guess it's lower by 4-6 inches since they're clearly marketing this toward women (as well as men).
Seriously. It sounds like you're pretty much done with it. You need to let her and your son decide if they want to keep it (and maybe share it as a low-speed occasional cruiser?), but that means you get to have your own project again when the time comes.
I actually didn't mean mileage - was wondering if it had the power to sustain speeds like that, especially with some incline, without seriously straining.
(80 is the speed limit on the highway closest to my place)
Mileage would still be far better than the ~15 my Tacoma gets at those speeds! LOL
@huzer said in Classic car as a first car:
This is really the first car she's shown hesitancy about me getting rid of it.
Okay, sounds good, babe. This car is your project now.
Here's the shit:
if he did this in a safer place--a track, insurance would not cover it
because he did it in this much more dangerous place, he's covered
0-60 in 7.6 seconds is pretty great, too.
I wonder how it does at 80+ on the highway.
https://www.motortrend.com/reviews/2022-ford-maverick-hybrid-compact-truck-first-test-review/
You may have buried the lede. LOL - nice!
Does your son like the Mustang? Would he have to drive it on the highway? If he could do all of his driving at 40-50 or below, it would be pretty sweet for him to say it was his first car (he'd get some serious "cool" cred from his friends at school). After 6 months, you all could decide together whether it's something you want to keep in the family, or it was time to let it go.
