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I have been atteming car blogs for several years. I eno####ered lack of facts and glory in cars that kill people. My own real life career, and militant upbringing (of the real Air Force kind) drove me to revealing lines drawn of stupidity.
As blogs go and future, I too am looking around, how to recover the quest for real machinery. Even daily driving saw 5 bucks a gallon a year ago. Not one to believe in less is more, the concept of little inline fours as a whole has never been my target. If it is less, it better be damn good, with MY facts as prerequisite. In fact, if my 74 chevelle with the 350 CI was still with me today, affording it would just put me back into hindered reality, and i would still be disappointed that I can't keep driving it.
I wondered if thier were any cars at all, surviving every industry change since it was made.. Any origin, anytime, car for now and years ahead. I think I found one in an unlikely origin...
Speaking of carpocalypse. This is a 1987 sube dual range next to a blazer. 1781cc 3 main boxer.Note the 22 year shadow underneath the the roof rail that was removed on the subaru, the paint is a different color. In maine top down "arizonian" sun burns would need two decades to get its way like that. It is the first I have ever seen it on any vehicle in my 22 years living heere, wtching daily drivers fade away after 10 years at a time. A rarity for northern states. Getting to the point, like the blazers hood and centerline, the lopsided crank of the 4.3 liter blazer made it an easy choice for cars for clunkers deals, the owner of this one still has a use. I learned by looking out the window, "little" and sube wagons do not necessarily go together. The subaru is longer than the blazer, has a flat roof for the longer rack. They both have the same size wheels. The sube is independent suspension all the way around, full diff lock in 4 lo. The thin walls of the sube unibody give it more interior room than the blazer as well. I deciphered this over the winter, my car gets pummeled by the plow going by..no other vehicle gets it but mine. 14 feet 6 inches crammed into its parking spot wall, and buttheads with plows still make it a target for width of the one way road behind it. Years ago, I wanted the blazer sized suv. The bigger tires, parts galore..and my time in servicing vehicles learned of the v6. That is one bad bad engine, it is never balanced in runtime. Attempting 90 degree blocks on 6cyl engines that still weren't correct at 60 degrees, is really dumb for engine builders to think about. To up it to 305 v8..may as well have a full sized truck then. I passed on the blazer, because of it. The last kickers..the sube is wider, the same ground clearance, lower CG, and shallow offset increase handling into the naturals of rally realm, and it is over 6 years older, as a daily driver, like the blazer next to it. They both need to give a bit more throttle in the hills..but one is nearly 3000 cc's less with 3 main bearings and a trochoid oil pump reliefing to its 120psi ability, on its original build. I am not afraid of engineering facts and history, it keeps a mind to find the better of everything. The true facts of every machine, is the real opinion.The sube in photo, is the only japanese car I have ever targetted as a serious project to keep, modify, maintain, and put car inspectors in thier retarded places...as well as stubborn hillbillies.
The greatest of compassionate car owners, maintainers, even american seekers (like I used to be, almost obsessed), know not to say much about it. I have heard this car called an orphan that survived. A perfectly different color in a racist neighborhood. An innocently surviving ghetto king...guiding a path just by existing, in its true strength never glorified. All while never being wrong when real justice stepped in. All while being spotted in the most difficult times throughout a maine season, functioning, sounding like it is hardly doing anything at all...for over 20 years now at the helm of a car builder/maintainer... If real history stepped up to correct itself with todays diversity, a modern museum of wonders of machinery, this "little" machine would still be in a section all on its own, in a spotlight very well earned, from a country with a reputation that still makes me cringe. I found a true orphan..a very special one.
How is this blog? I need opinions.
As blogs go and future, I too am looking around, how to recover the quest for real machinery. Even daily driving saw 5 bucks a gallon a year ago. Not one to believe in less is more, the concept of little inline fours as a whole has never been my target. If it is less, it better be damn good, with MY facts as prerequisite. In fact, if my 74 chevelle with the 350 CI was still with me today, affording it would just put me back into hindered reality, and i would still be disappointed that I can't keep driving it.
I wondered if thier were any cars at all, surviving every industry change since it was made.. Any origin, anytime, car for now and years ahead. I think I found one in an unlikely origin...
Speaking of carpocalypse. This is a 1987 sube dual range next to a blazer. 1781cc 3 main boxer.Note the 22 year shadow underneath the the roof rail that was removed on the subaru, the paint is a different color. In maine top down "arizonian" sun burns would need two decades to get its way like that. It is the first I have ever seen it on any vehicle in my 22 years living heere, wtching daily drivers fade away after 10 years at a time. A rarity for northern states. Getting to the point, like the blazers hood and centerline, the lopsided crank of the 4.3 liter blazer made it an easy choice for cars for clunkers deals, the owner of this one still has a use. I learned by looking out the window, "little" and sube wagons do not necessarily go together. The subaru is longer than the blazer, has a flat roof for the longer rack. They both have the same size wheels. The sube is independent suspension all the way around, full diff lock in 4 lo. The thin walls of the sube unibody give it more interior room than the blazer as well. I deciphered this over the winter, my car gets pummeled by the plow going by..no other vehicle gets it but mine. 14 feet 6 inches crammed into its parking spot wall, and buttheads with plows still make it a target for width of the one way road behind it. Years ago, I wanted the blazer sized suv. The bigger tires, parts galore..and my time in servicing vehicles learned of the v6. That is one bad bad engine, it is never balanced in runtime. Attempting 90 degree blocks on 6cyl engines that still weren't correct at 60 degrees, is really dumb for engine builders to think about. To up it to 305 v8..may as well have a full sized truck then. I passed on the blazer, because of it. The last kickers..the sube is wider, the same ground clearance, lower CG, and shallow offset increase handling into the naturals of rally realm, and it is over 6 years older, as a daily driver, like the blazer next to it. They both need to give a bit more throttle in the hills..but one is nearly 3000 cc's less with 3 main bearings and a trochoid oil pump reliefing to its 120psi ability, on its original build. I am not afraid of engineering facts and history, it keeps a mind to find the better of everything. The true facts of every machine, is the real opinion.The sube in photo, is the only japanese car I have ever targetted as a serious project to keep, modify, maintain, and put car inspectors in thier retarded places...as well as stubborn hillbillies.
The greatest of compassionate car owners, maintainers, even american seekers (like I used to be, almost obsessed), know not to say much about it. I have heard this car called an orphan that survived. A perfectly different color in a racist neighborhood. An innocently surviving ghetto king...guiding a path just by existing, in its true strength never glorified. All while never being wrong when real justice stepped in. All while being spotted in the most difficult times throughout a maine season, functioning, sounding like it is hardly doing anything at all...for over 20 years now at the helm of a car builder/maintainer... If real history stepped up to correct itself with todays diversity, a modern museum of wonders of machinery, this "little" machine would still be in a section all on its own, in a spotlight very well earned, from a country with a reputation that still makes me cringe. I found a true orphan..a very special one.
How is this blog? I need opinions.
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