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.
Keep it up, y'all!
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Eternal thanks again to @jminer and the @Curators crew for giving this community a landing place following the Kinjapocalypse, and then keeping our online home not only alive and kicking, but thriving as we [pedal on the right!] into the future.
Long live OPPO.
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
For any of you who have been featured here, thank you for making OPPO awesome. Please feel free to add this image below 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 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 the past decade.
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 (they’re 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, “This is my dream car, man.” An older guy didn’t 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, manual… SSleeper. 
When they had my car ready a half hour later, I went in and talked to an advisor I’d 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 he’d 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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Here’s 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 April 8th:
@bwp240 @bluemazda2 @StuckMTB @Urambo-Tauro @Just-Jeepin @sony1492 @ranwhenparked @interstate366 @Brickman @MasterMario @ItalianJobR53 @mjswee @benjrblant @Dusty-Ventures @MM54 @jayvincent @TheDutchTexan @RacinBob @HoustonRunner @AkioOhtori @Mark-Tucker @EssExTee @orneryduck @tysmagic @AkursedX @FractalFootwork @Taylor-Martin @i86hotdogs @Noodles @MarquetteLa @Zaphod-s-Heart-of-Gold @Huzer @Spasoje @CivicWagonEngineer
@ttyymmnn & @Skyfire77 at Flight Opps
@HammerheadFistpunch, @CarsOfFortLangley, @Just-Jeepin and others at Overland
Authors - if you don't already have a thumbnail image on your featured post(s), please add one.
Here are just a few of the great posts featured recently:
FYI - user's posts are not moved over to Best of OPPO until they're at least a week old. If we've missed your article, I apologize (thumbnails and good titles help out a lot) - please feel free to send me a private message with the link, and if it "passes muster", I'll add it.
Stay excellent,
Dave
With @Mississippi_Matt and @partypooper2012 back in the fold, we've hit another milestone!
And we'll hit a cool quarter-million total posts/comments very soon.
Long live OPPO!
I’ll allow it...
Just a pair of big cats, resting in the shade.
Decided I'd be more than happy with a nice repro instead of paying waaay more for a real-deal vintage one.
29" by 39", baked enamel on aluminum.
Can't wait to get it hung in the shop (recently bought a Phillips 66, a backlit BP, and a Speedway sign that will go up with this one).
Ranger is 4200 lbs base.
Bronco 4 door is 4500-5200 lbs, depending on spec.
And is more brick-shaped.
I think I'd be perfectly happy driving the 2.3 manual on 33s, but a 17 mpg highway rating is abyssal. Not sure if I could do that. I get 19-20 mixed in my Tacoma.
@dr-zoidberg said in Doug's review of the (manual) Bronco:
savagegeese
The geese are great. Love that they take every car up on the lift.
I really like the EverydayDriver guys for driving impressions as well (after Harris, Catchpole, Cammisa, etc.).
Seems to me that a separate category would end up more like an exhibition than a competition, due to the likely very small number of participants.
Not a good look... First year buyers are always beta testers. Hope Ford's supplier sorts it out before long.
Here it is:
Yes, very good point.
We've had Mrs. addiction's Telluride for a year and a half, and it has 45k miles on it. 
He says manuals are only accounting for like 5% of sales, which means it will only last for a year or two, which means that these will likely hold their value (or appreciate).
And he said he really likes the transmission, fwiw.
2.3 Badlands gets WORSE mileage than the 'Squatch - crazy.
Yup, removable top and frame-less doors?
How long will these rubber coated buttons hold up, I wonder...?
