Archive for May 2019
Misadventures of a Drift Newbie, Part 6: Chizuru’s Debut.
This was a big week for us! On Friday Nate came over so we could do some more work on Chizuru the 300ZX to get her ready for the public debut. He replaced some of the broken and duct-taped-together rubber bits in the intake plumbing, which cured a lot of vacuum leaks. She’d been pretty…
Read MoreMisadventures of a Drift Newbie, Part 5: Chizuru Emerges.
Chizuru has left the driveway! Teammate Nate and I have gotten the Z31 up and running enough to start making short ventures out into the world! The maiden voyage was last Monday to the the Autozone still within my neighborhood. The battery light on the dash was on and we wanted to see if the…
Read MoreThunder Turd Turbo Poop!
Everyone’s favorite ford to give a funny name. There really is not much here to make fun of. This 1987 Ford Thunderbird Turbocoupe is actually in fairly decent looking shape. It seems to be all there too. The automatic trans is an absolute tragedy but since we don’t have a key we won’t have to…
Read More1970’s Style, unreliably packaged
If you are like us you appreciate vehicles that exhibit a perfect balance of quality, performance, reliability, comfort, and style. Here at Roscoe’s, we don’t have that vehicle. What we do have is this Ford Pinto, and for $750 this shining example of why so much of the ’70s was just bad and needs to…
Read MoreMisadventures of a Drift Newbie, Part 4: Chizuru Awakens.
Last Sunday my teammate Nate came over, and we set about rousing Chizuru from her slumber with the help of a new fuel pump. We thought it was going to be just a matter of removing 2 screws and popping off that access panel in the trunk floor to get at the pump, only to…
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