Black. Always bet on black

DD

Apparently, the sump on the slant goes dry in the corners. Not sure if baffles in the pan could fix the problem.

I won't knock (pun not intended) the Slant Six though. the 21k mile example I had in my '69 Valiant was the smoothest running engine I've ever known. With points.

-Kurt

P.S.: If the OP's derailer was a Simplex Prestige, we wouldn't be having this conversation. The plastic bag would have will gradually disintegrated for easy opening.

It’s like deja vu all over again...

I think the buyer should recognize that there is no package, and it is simple he that opens.

But what if it's vuja de, where the package has realized that it's never been opened before the buyer?

-Kurt

Huh-huh, huh-huh, huh-huh, you said "package".

I think we need a sub-forum for questions about sellers opening packages.

...this sounds like a classic case of user error.

...which is why this one is well worth 80 bucks.

...hard cornering a slant six Dodge Dart.

Exactly. Bought the wrong bike.

If it can open a drawbridge, and it's worth $80 to the general public, slap "MIL SPEC" on it and sell it to the Army for $800.




-Kurt

generally accompanies a whine or an attempt to rationalize the imposition of one school of thought upon others

Umm, I was joking?... hence "j/k" &

Apparently so. 🙄 Or at least a banner that pops up, when you attempt to start a new thread, asking if you’d like to do a search first. 🤔😁😉

I learned to drive in a ‘69 Dodge Coronet, when I was 12. 😲 That must have been a pretty good year for slant sixes. 😎

Wouldn’t that depend on wether or not it’s wearing a glove or mitten? 🤔😁

My apologies. Until now I had not figured out the meaning of "j/k". I thought those were your initials!
Brent

Don't be silly. It stands for a JIS kickstand.

-Kurt

I am enamored of the rocketesque paint job. It is mahvelous, simply mahvelous.

Overall body roll doesn't look too bad, either, for a live axle hunka Detroit Iron.

.
...my first car after a couple of Dodge Darts ('67, '68) was a '67 Alfa Romeo boat tail Spyder I bought when stationed in Italy.
That was when I discovered that the majority of American cars were designed to proceed in a straight line, but very quickly in a straight line.

I spy a sway bar under it that definitely isn't stock. Methinks these are much better honorable mentions:









-Kurt

Body roll and good handling aren't mutually exclusive! I blame BMW for initiating that fallacy. Consider for instance that this won the Rallye Monte Carlo in '63.




Racing against this.

Would love to see that on a Plymouth Satellite...

IIRC, stock front suspension would've been torsion bar, with the aft end of the bar splined into a mount welded to the sheet metal floorboard. What could go wrong?

No need to worry. The torsion bar crossbrace rusts out long before the torsion bar has any chance to impale the passengers inside. You could say the collapsing suspension in Mopars are a safety feature.

-Kurt

Might be because the old Saab appears to have used the 2-stroke triple's smoke screen as a weapon against the opposition?

And because a softer suspension, despite body-roll, can do wonders for traction and handling over undulating surfaces.

The Saab's front wheel drive could have also been used to advantage, again whenever traction was found wanting.

Yeah, but when all is said and done it is, well, still a Saaaab.

That upside-down car; I believe I remember it. Wasn't it one of Patrick Bedard's follies? I reserve the right to be wrong on that; I am old (cue You Are Old, Father William)

I'm glad you guys have taken this worthless thread I started to the next level, automobiles....

Uh, automobiles are lower in the totem pole than bicycles. That's the thing - there's nowhere to to go up from the bicycle.

Except empty boxes.

-Kurt

I agree, I wasn't implying it was the next level up....