Cars

New contest: Best Delorean driven by Larry.

Hold on, dude, that doesn’t look quite right…

There, that’s better.

How about this nice concept for a flying car from Audi?

My current daily driver… at least until winter sets in…

My former daily driver and soon to be winter car if I can ever get the poor thing put back together…

My old project, sadly gone now…

My dream project…

awesome Mustang

back in February I bought a used 05 F-150 with 73k miles on it…I freaking love it

picture is from about the second day I had it and still had temp plates

I’m 6’2 so I’m loving the leg room in it, I had a little tiny Saturn SL2 before that…but I was also driving 31 miles one way to work when I had that, I transferred and moved in December of last year and now I drive 7 miles one way :slight_smile: I only have to fill the gas tank once a month

also looking to maybe work with my dad and take his 82 Trans Am convertible and restore it, the engine will runs but it needs a new gas tank, tires, and a new paint job

Just came across this thread.

I had a car that I sold years and years ago.
And I still grieve the loss.

This is what she looked like.
What a blast to drive !

Chuck
You have no idea how I feel your pain when it comes to the dreaded Lucas electrics, AKA the prince of darkness! I have a 1989 Range Rover that I thought would be a “nice project vehicle.” I just didn’t realize that project = painful! The princess is currently in the shop having a new distributor installed because the old one had a broken shaft. How does one “break” a distributor shaft? And the weirdest thing is with all that pain and suffering, I still love that damn thing.

I think I need to lay down for awhile, my head hurts…

Someone once told me that the only products Lucas makes that don’t suck are their line of vacuum cleaners. :wink:

On the subject of Miatas, I’ve been dreaming of having one with a turbo charged 13B (rotary) engine. It seemed to me like this would be a fantastic combination!

…then I googled and found out that lots of other people had the same idea and have been making the conversions. The power to weight ratio is fantastic, it must be a kick to drive.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCHvB2-yDfs

8.7 second quarter mile, crikey! You know your Miata has an appropriate amount of power when it needs a wheelie bar.

Now, to turn things around a little, let’s combine rotary engines with the DeLorean part of the thread and make something wonderful:

http://www.eliseusa.com/rotary.htm

A DMC with the gutless engine replaced by a… Mazda 20B (THREE rotor, versus the RX-7’s 2 rotors) Wankel engine + twin turbos.

Finally, an appropriately futuristic engine for this sweet ride.

Back in the 80’s I had a 56 porche speedster replicar that looked like this one.

execpt mine had fender flares that really made it look Bad A_ _.

Sadly no pictures of my actual car survive from that time…:frowning:

So it was a VW with a new body… it was still cool to drive.

Suuweet !!

I really want one of these.

Car geeks will probably appreciate this article from io9.