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Cake day: July 10th, 2023

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  • From someone that daily’d a 2006 GTO for a few months - I’d recommend against it.

    I fucking adore older cars (preferably 85 to 2010) - almost the perfect blend of tech and mechanical elements without being too overly reliant on tech. Fuck touch screens.

    However, dailying something that old will definitely be a little bit more challenging than something newer. Sure, it can be cheap to replace parts on an old Toyota, but then you’ll need to start looking at your time as a resource. Like how often are you going to want to keep working on it as parts inevitably fail due to age?

    It’s all up to you, really. If you’re in a good spot to be able to make it work then more power to you - but always look at time as a resource as well and recognize that an older car will definitely be biting into your time. Personally, I wouldn’t go older than 2003 for a daily.



  • It’s such a goddamn shame that he’s now some sort of Alt-Right icon in their quest for “free speech” cause I’ll admit that I used to look up to this fuckin guy.

    Take us back a few years, before COVID, and when SpaceX was doing their cool shit - I was fucking pumped about the guy. He was pushing forward in the realm of space exploration and I was absolutely fucking jazzed about it! Or at least that was the appearance; I know that SpaceX has a different company structure to Tesla where Musk can’t interfere as much.

    Fast forward to now and I gotta ask: dafuq happened?

    But I know what happened - he really was always kinda like this. It’s just that now - it’s going to be a really big damn financial mistake for him and good riddance. He’s definitely not some scientific genius - he’s just some emerald mine legacy that wanted to throw money at that sort of image.



  • Funnily enough, doing a color scheme of something lighter (like white or red or blue) with black wheels does a better job or making the car look sporty than most “ground effects” packages. Looks super nice!

    And I’ll die on this hill, but you can have as much fun in a small FWD econo-box as you can with a high-powered RWD sport coupe - take a cruise on a few of the less-used interstates where you can find some windy roads and have some fun!

    Slow car fast is just as good as fast car fast. :D




  • Hi Inky! First post on Lemmy and I used to be a perpetual Reddit lurker, especially in r/cars (but hoping to contribute more with the new change of scenery).

    I like the themed day ideas but one thing I wanted to take another look at the “what should I do Weds.” I know we’re still pretty small and have a lack of automation tools but having a rolling weekly or monthly thread solely for automotive tech questions would be very beneficial in centralizing all of that related discussion.

    Otherwise - excited to join and contribute and show off my crazy-ass stable of cars!

    • 2006 Pontiac GTO (22k miles with a 6spd)
    • 2013 Volkswagen Jetta (beaterrrr)
    • 1966 Ford Galaxie 500 (all original 390+C6, no brakes lmao)