Pro-tip for laying the intake down onto the block: Cut down some bolts which use the same threads as the intake manifold to use as locating studs. Most of the time, the reason you'll have a problem sealing the intake to the block/heads is because the intake moves around as you're sitting it down. Using studs eliminates that possibility.

I have pulled the intake on my LTD more times than I care to think about.

Oh MAN.

When I win the lotto, I'll buy a late model Corvette and swap its mill into an FD RX-7, then put the rotary into the Corvette just to piss off the purists (at least those who didn't know that GM was toying with the idea of putting a rotary in them back in the '70s).

I'd rather punch myself in the testicles.

Ah, the Chevrolet Chevy!

For a few years, GM trucks sold in Mexico were all GMCs (well, they had GMC grilles) with a filler plate that covered where the GMC logo lived and replaced it with a Chevy bowtie.

Gotta love the California plates on the RHD JDM cars. I am pretty sure those are real California plates too, although the two cars have plates from years apart (starting with 2 vs 5).

For some reason, lots of Japanese car ads of the era show their cars with American plates.

Are you sure they were sold in Mexico? The ones I have seen down there have a weird round headlight nose.

The Isuzu Aska was, depending on year, a GM J-body:



A Subaru Legacy:



or a Honda Accord:



In two generations:

The whole "stance" trend can go away any time it wants to.