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What's your flavour of cars? Personally I'm into older japanese makes, currently playing with circuit racing in an early model mx5 (miata).. But also a big fan

What's your flavour of cars? Personally I'm into older japanese makes, currently playing with circuit racing in an early model mx5 (miata).. But also a big fan of Australian and American muscle. I find it really good having a physical/mechanical hobby outside of the on-screen work I do during the day. It's like sorbet for your brain.

mindcrime 9y ago
What's your flavour of cars? American muscle-cars from the 60's / 70's mainly. I own a 1968 Camaro that was my first car (a gift from my dad) but it's been parked for a while with a blown engine. Lately I've been thinking a lot about trying to find a cheap 1970's era pickup, maybe a Chevy C-10 or something, to play with. I get tired of newer cars and how complicated it is to work on them. Take my RX-8 for example: you have to jack the car up and crawl underneath just to change spark-plugs. Uuugh. OTOH, take something like a 1975 C-10 and you can almost get inside the engine compartment and stand on the ground with the engine in place. You also don't need a lot of special tools, secret manufacturer codes, etc. to work on something like that. Honestly, I spend enough time during my day job doing "computer stuff". I'd rather have a car to mess with that's old enough to be pre ECM era. No fuel-injection, just a plain old Holley 650 or something. :-)
- King-Aaron 9y ago
  I totally get the idea of avoiding computers in the car side of things. My Dad and I used to work on old Holdens (GM) when I was a kid, and I ended up with carburetted Datsuns for a long time. I wish we got some of the cool 70's American products down here in Australia, though we get some equally neat imports to make up for it I suppose. But it's certainly a good hobby to have outside of work I reckon. And haha, yeah the rx-8 probably isn't the best example of a newer car in terms of maintenance or reliability :) But I do love rotors!

mindcrime 9y ago

What's your flavour of cars? American muscle-cars from the 60's / 70's mainly. I own a 1968 Camaro that was my first car (a gift from my dad) but it's been parked for a while with a blown engine. Lately I've been thinking a lot about trying to find a cheap 1970's era pickup, maybe a Chevy C-10 or something, to play with. I get tired of newer cars and how complicated it is to work on them. Take my RX-8 for example: you have to jack the car up and crawl underneath just to change spark-plugs. Uuugh. OTOH, take something like a 1975 C-10 and you can almost get inside the engine compartment and stand on the ground with the engine in place. You also don't need a lot of special tools, secret manufacturer codes, etc. to work on something like that. Honestly, I spend enough time during my day job doing "computer stuff". I'd rather have a car to mess with that's old enough to be pre ECM era. No fuel-injection, just a plain old Holley 650 or something. :-)

King-Aaron 9y ago
I totally get the idea of avoiding computers in the car side of things. My Dad and I used to work on old Holdens (GM) when I was a kid, and I ended up with carburetted Datsuns for a long time. I wish we got some of the cool 70's American products down here in Australia, though we get some equally neat imports to make up for it I suppose. But it's certainly a good hobby to have outside of work I reckon. And haha, yeah the rx-8 probably isn't the best example of a newer car in terms of maintenance or reliability :) But I do love rotors!