This troper actually ''inverted'' the WhatAPieceOfJunk ideal. Perfect-looking Crown Victoria. The engine was three years past dead, the brakes squealed like a wailing chorus of the damned, and the radio didn't work. No one save myself got into the car willingly due to a combo of this and my own severe case of DrivesLikeCrazy.

My Computer's ATI HD 5800 graphics driver following the last update. Why would I want underscan on as a default setting? Why the hell does it not stay with 0% underscan when it boots up when I changed it? It stops the graphics in the force unleashed working!?!? I only just bought it!!!

Somebody needs to do some googling about the Linux graphics stack. Also, it defaults that way because most HDTVs need it.

Linux?

This Troper was once part of Operation: Mustang Sally. We took an old, battered, rally-modified Subaru Impreza (stripped interior, roll cage, superbrakes and suspension and so on), removed its poor, battered engine and replaced it with a Chevy 350 engine. (The crate the engine came in was marked with the Mustang logo, hence the name). We more than doubled the engine capacity, and our main problem was stopping the AWD from exploding. So... fast...

This troper's grandpa had an Austin 850(aka Mr. Bean's car). It was retrofitted with a 1000cc engine for racing purposes. However grandpa got rid of it after it got too expensive to maintain. On his end, he still owns a Macintosh Beige G3 and a IBM PC-300GL. Pieces of junk? Nope, both of them are great for retrogaming: why use DosBox or Basilisk II when you can have the game in it's native environment?!?. And to be truthful, both of them are rather heavily upgraded, but with parts that are barely old enough that the peripherals all work in MS-DOS and Mac OS 9 respectively. Plus, the 300GL has a Laguna3D video chipset (supports OpenGL, meaning most GLIDE games will work with it if a wrapper is present, and with the P2-266 backing it, will play most Glide-accelerated DOS games smoothly) and most importantly, he was able to fit his treasured SoundBlaster AWE64 into it for awesome sound (my first Wavetable sound card! paid RM470 for it!).

Where I work, we still have a bunch of IBM PC-300GLs, but used as file servers and router/firewall.

This troper's former daily driver (An '89 Dodge Omni) fit this trope perfectly. Even after I cleaned it up, it still didn't look that great; the silver paint dull and faded, some light rust on the trunk and hood, the windshield was cracked on the passenger side, and it had duct tape covering where the handle to one of the rear passenger doors used to be before it broke. While it did have other problems (Mainly bizarre electrical problems; especially in the dash), it's engine was still strong; it would always start right up first try, ran smoothly, got great gas mileage, and had no problem hitting warp speed when needed. Sadly, it suffered CriticalExistenceFailure after it's brakes died; ending its legacy.

This troper's father used to have an old Toyota Tercel, that ran very well despite its age. Eventually, though, time got the better of it and it became TheAllegedCar.

This troper's brother is a DIY mechanic who buys old cars and soups them up for autocross racing. The best one so far was a rusted-out '84 Mustang: he upgraded the drive train and tires, tuned the engine, and, most importantly, installed a turbocharger. 'Cause the thing about turbochargers is that they a) can double the engine's horsepower, and b) take a second to kick in. When out on the road, he'd pull up next to shiny new sports cars at stoplights and rev his engine at them. The other driver would see a beat-up old junker with what sounded like a sad little four-cylinder engine and, smiling smugly, would accept the challenge. Then the light would turn green, the turbocharger would kick in, the Mustang's engine would give a mighty roar, and the other car would be left in the dust. (Copied from TheAllegedCar)