@amoore100 Volvo Trucks owns Renault Trucks, so that could be a part of it.

Only a part of it though. But when did Nissan's lineup ever make sense? They always seem to be making an uncountable amount of cars.

@CB
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Never have I learned so much in one day as I have today.

Also, I've never had a major news story broken to me via Oppo sharing Facebook and Twitter memes.

What a day.

@dogisbadob said in From Inside a Catalytic Converter:

Either you'll be chased by cops 👮 or bees 🐝 🐝

Or by some... thing that WANT HONEYCOMB

@fintail

Appears to be on a pretty old plate, too.

Good eye! That plain text white plate was only available from 1990 to 1995, although oddly Merkur only sold the Scorpio up to 1989. So this car must've sat on a dealership lot for a year or so before being sold.

@KngT
Tired: CVTs
Wired: 'Glide high only mod w/t-brake launches and 6k+ rpm convertors
Fires: From too small a trans cooler for the above
Expired: Esoteric bracket racing knowledge from the 90s

@amoore100

Ploue would later go on to fix Blakeslee's mess at Citroen with the gen1 C4 and C6, both of which were really excellent 2000s designs.

@P1eased0nteatme's dad used to own a C6. Hearing about it really got to me to appreciate its quirks. I think it was Citroën's last truly great car.

@WhoIsTheLeader the Audi is actually faring really well, believe it or not! It ticked over 170k miles last year. A really big factor in its reliability is that it's the older design of V8, from before the self-destructing timing chain tensioners.

The spec of your truck is amazing!! Green over tan is easily one of my favourite colour combinations 😍 Hope you're able to get it sorted eventually because that's a lovely machine:)

@WhoIsTheLeader The Trooper and the 2002 would make a great round-headlight two-car garage. Wouldn't change a thing on either of them.

I should have bought a 2002 or 320i back when you could get a scruffy runner for a couple grand...

@MarquetteLa Right?! Looked like he was really pushing into the braking zones and down Conrod straight. Plus that V8 symphony, too good.

@Qaaaaa Every car is infinitely better with a manual. It could be the lazy heel-toe downshifts, that perfect rev match. Those little things that make a manual good. Sure the automatic on paper fits it better, but the real world is different for some. I would love a manual with that glorious V8, it's waste to not atleast offer one.

@A-Former-User I do love me an Oban - may have to hunt this out and try it. Thanks for the tip.

@farscythe wow-oh-my-god.gif mick gif.gif

@JeepOfTheseus were you listening to this??

@Taylor-Martin the scheme I was describing was more of an “ah shit I need to get home” type of shitboxing technique… there shouldn’t really be any need to do any topping off running cap off unless the coolant light turns on, you’ll probably be fine. Don’t do this long term. Good luck!

I've seen a LaForza! Not recently, though.

@HoustonRunner if there is any way you can make a last minute decision I’d do that. Otherwise don’t plan on it. We had good snow a couple weeks ago but it’s been straight sun since with not much of a chance in the 10 day forecast. It was getting crunchy last weekend. There is a pretty good base so if we do get another storm later this month it will freshen up but that’s not a sure thing now. Just a bit further north Colorado is in much better shape from what I’ve heard from family up there.

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I was out earlier when it was closer to 10°, and yeah it was cold. I was old going a block to the UPS store, so I was a bit lazy about putting on warm stuff and it burnt me. Possibly literally, I ended up with some sort of irritation on my thighs.

@CarsOfFortLangley this means they got it running, finally, and please God let me sell it before something else breaks

@AestheticsInMotion i don't really want to know how many bottles of alcohol we have. Because then I'd start doing math on how much money i spent on it 😬

@Powered_By_Howard the roofline looks like that of a Maserati merak to me. Whatever it is, I like it.

@facw There is also the possibility that if it is some kind of Intel decide the NSA may have already dialed into it to see exactly what info it is gathering so they will just leave it alone until it gets close to something sensitive.

And then the even more remote possibility that China is telling the truth about it.

Either way we could shoot it down now if we really thought it posed a threat. It isn't even a question of capability.

@CarsOfFortLangley Going karting that day! Not a bad idea for a future Oppo activity, come to think of it...

@way2blu said in DOTMFS:

guess what car I WASN’T driving

Was it perhaps a little TOO blue for the occasion? 🤔

@PowderHound I’ve long thought that, like at-Photography, the site could use some regional groups to subscribe to for opportunities like this.

Welcome 🤠

@Sam-Blockhan Interesting. I bet some leftover sales in 92, but don't know about the intro year, maybe an early launch in 83 for 84 - too lazy to look it up 🙂

@amoore100 I’ve read his first book. It’s pretty funny. Just a collection of his stories and opinions.

@Svend a pizza with a side of kebabs!!! Want.

@Roadkilled I was waiting for you. Lol

@AkioOhtori Lots of good picks from Craigslist. Especially those MGs….nudge, nudge. The hardtop on that MGB is probably worth close to half the asking price, btw. I keep looking for one like it for the Midget.

@blacktruck18 Doesn't get much better than that, clearly you deserved better and she knew it! Best of luck in the new position

@Just-Jeepin Just throw rubber ducks at David till he comes to say hello.

@john-norris said in Formula one Geniuses - a one question quiz on 2022 results:

@ClassicDatsunDebate

Congratulations!

You get to write the next quiz question!!!

😧

@Snakesm13 I'm super late so $1

@Exage03040 said in Rental Car Roulette and more:

@pyroholtz

Man that sucks. Watching the Mark Roper vid though this is organized crime.

Cali police should really be on this if it's this rampant across the large cities. What a nuisance.

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Agreed but it's such a quick smash and grab, hard to say what the police can do.

Swanky '59 300!

@CarsOfFortLangley Just like the rest of the world watching Putin for the last year.

I'd encourage you to get users of the present system on early. One's that have no knowledge of SAP and see how they pick it up. That will help you understand how right the software is for the users and what it will take for them to adopt it... Better to understand that as early as you can.

@Roadkilled I have no idea how it's handled but I've never heard of it being a big disruption here. Just from watching videos on youtube however it seems like there are no planes on the taxiways when VC-25 or C-32 are moving around the airport. In this video you can actually see a couple of suburbans escorting C-32 on the taxiway to the runway.

@Roadkilled So it is, somehow I missed his response. He lost his suit for what that's worth.

I will give him credit for immediately securing the firearm and checking if anyone else was hurt before worrying about his own foot.

But yeah, I suspect he needed a refresher course.

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@bison78 The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia

https://www.cbc.ca/news/fifthestate/robert-miller-steps-down-1.6736048

@DipodomysDeserti Yeah, I'd say the number of kids rocking Nirvana shirts today is 10x what I saw from Pink Floyd shirts in the 90s, despite the same relative time passage and band popularity.

Punk is a good genre for comparison because it's a lifestyle, and many bands are still adding to the canon (even though the heyday of late 70s/early 80s is over).

But Classic Rock, IMO, represents a very specific phase in the evolution of rock. Newer than Bill Haley and Chuck Berry, and past the "four guys singing in harmony" stage of early rock, including early Beatles. It's guitar-forward, blues-inspired, lots of solos, relatively technically complex stuff (not just the generic 12-bar or 3-chord "oldies rock" formula). Often including social protest themes around Vietnam, or just the good old generic "drugs sex and rocknroll" approach.

That's my story and I'm sticking to it -- and I think most radio stations/XM also stick to that idea. It's not to say there aren't more bands today doing that basic same style, I just don't see them adding to the genre as easily as with Punk, or Hip-hop, or other genres that aren't defined by a specific era. I feel like those (and EDM, etc) are open-ended more than a lot of pre-2000 rock, which had a distinct beginning and end. IMHO, of course.

@tophercrowder wow, we had a grey one of a similar vintage (with the same mesh-effect wheels your old one had) that was our road trip warrior back in the early 2000s. My parents weren't keen on driving either of our old 740s for the 350+ mile trek to SoCal as they were getting increasingly unreliable so we'd borrow grandma's old Caprice and it was such a great cruiser. Sadly it got retired and sold off when we got our Odyssey which in nearly every respect was a better cruiser, but damn, I still miss the Caprice. My mom always said she'd have preferred a wagon, though her dream car is a hearse.

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Honda tuners started doing this 10 years ago... maybe it will finally catch on for the mainstream?

@JunkleMKVII said in When Snonuts Go Wrong:

I’m not sure the top of the parking garage at Family and Children’s Services is one of the more scenic sights in Tulsa.

That is interesting. I wonder if he's an unsatisfied client? Did they test him for substances?

@Fish-McSticks The kids these days are alright.

@ttyymmnn said in This Date in Aviation History: February 1 - February 3:

At Defcon 2 or higher, meaning that nuclear war was the next step, or that an attack was imminent, the Looking Glass pilots were required to wear an eye patch over one eye. If a nuclear explosion took place near enough to blind them with the flash, then they still had one good eye to fly the plane.

Many years ago, an older lady told me about her husband having been present for the first and last underwater nuclear tests as regular crew on a Navy ship. For the first test, everybody was ordered to go up on deck and stand facing the detonation. For the last, everybody was ordered to go up on deck and stand facing away from the detonation. That was the only difference for him.

@Exage03040 One ticket for Mr. Garlos Chosn please

@ash78 said in My week in review: A story in 4 frames:

One does not simply reach cruising altitude directly above Mordor.

That's what it looked like a few years ago when the forest fires were bad.

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@Mazda616 This sucks to hear, but keep your head up. Things usually work out one way or another. It sounds like you made a good name for yourself even if it didn't work out this time, and if nothing else it could be some good practice for the next opportunity.

Like others have said, it is entirely possible there was already a candidate in mind and they just had to go through the process. When my predecessor retired a few years ago, this was the case. It had been made clear the day I was first hired that my role was to learn everything I could as quickly as possible because the clock was ticking to my predecessor's retirement. When the lead position posted, I felt bad for anyone else that applied to it, as the hiring process was just a formality we had to go though. I'd already been doing the job for a year at that point, basically just waiting for the title to catch up.

@HFV_Junkyardin That's an entirely different class of vehicle though.
I get your point, but I'm just looking at what $17k buys for a modern 5 passenger AWD with under 30k miles and it's not much.
Even less of it will be as efficient, cheap to operate, or cool as this little Colt.

@functionoverfashion LOL she's been like "maybe it'll be purple!" (my favorite color)...I don't have the heart to tell her, no my dear - rental spec camrys are always gray.

@Taylor-Martin It's... Really not snowy. And not really planned to be. Just give the Acura a good wash once you're across state lines.

@JRC99 Coincidentally, this was posted this week.

@HFV_Junkyardin I almost bought a focus wagon with the 2.3 and a 5 speed about a month ago but decided I really didn't need another car.

I had an 01 ZX3 and loved that, it was a hoot and I regularly think about owning another one!