@CB More like, if you want to sell your house and travel the world, this rig has already done it, and was owned by Oppo’s who know their shit.

@awesomeaustinv If you've got some metal window screen and a candle, you can press some block or diamond tread into the tires, but you want to be careful with melty plastic. It's easy to put too much heat into it, and then you've got a mess.

@MUSASHI66

Whipped up a batch of hot buttered rum mix. I being a good boy and waiting until after dinner though.
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@Just-Jeepin said in Back home 🙂:

some cantankerous old members

I heard that, you... you... jackanapes!

@Gabriella Take care of that foot,and yourself in general.

On a side note, been taking care of Mrs Hotness since she got out of the hospital on Thursday... nurses work their asses off.

@іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi was an attempt made at collecting the hair? Or total lost cause

@ttyymmnn Milk’s on Harbaugh tonight!

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@bluemazda2 Yeah that looks like the guy. I only like those and turbo 996s. My friend has a Carrera and we give him shit, but it does have GT1 headlights, technically.

@liam

I have traditionally put the lights on the house the weekend after Thanksgiving, but we've been out of town visiting our oldest over Thanksgiving the last two years. I'll get them up Monday or Tuesday, but we won't turn them on until Dec. 1.

@LimitedTimeOnly said in Special beer night:

What is Oppo drinking tonight?

The salty tears of Ohio State fans.

And Shiner Bock.

@Just-Jeepin

Trebuchet MS is the name of the font. I'm a fan of sans serif fonts, and used to use it for my email.

@gmctavish Came here for this:

Left disappointed

@Fish-McSticks I went with the BMW, but maybe the real answer is the 3000GT Spyder?
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Obviously there were fancier things out there as well, but the Mitsubishi was pretty attainable.

@ForSweden said in At the UNT game. Bought a pizza.:

You could be watching Ohio State play instead

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LOL pundits. Woodson is the only one not smiling, and now he's laughing all the way to the bank.

@facw yes it was one of the few things still in good shape when I got rid of it.

@Taylor-Martin you got this and should probably get a new clutch when you get home.

@Brickman we draw the line at mini marshmallows.

@WilliamsSW -- This, obviously, was not the victor's Valiant that day at Daytona -- the of-whom-more-later kid behind the wheel recalled his race as lasting just a few laps -- but Valiants took the first seven places in the road race and the first four on the oval. His father Lee Petty finished sixth and would take the checkered flag the following year at Daytona.

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Despite the racing, the car's image would remain more the vicar's Valiant, and the same and more could be said of the backmarker Falcons and so forth, so the Compact Car Series didn't last long.

@Albino-Kangaroo Fort Collins always intrigued me as a place to live. I went there once to pickup an ejgine and people were pretty great. I also enjoyed the fact it was a bit greener on account of the extra moisture further north.

I didn’t love Colorado Springs but I still enjoyed it. Pikes Peak is a good drive early in the morning, during the middle of the week. - The Race to the Clouds also usually takes place in June. Woodland Park and indeed Teller County as a whole is lovely.

Glenwood Springs is beautiful but can be touristy, Grand Junction is also geographically interesting. I’ve loved most places I’ve been beyond the front range itself.

@TheStiggyOne Definitely worth tagging @Photography on this, some lovely shots.

@Manwich said in Place Your Bets: Is this Finally the End of Sears, for Real?:

my family always got lots of tools and appliances from Sears. And I also bought some of my first appliances from Sears too!

Me too, down here in the Lower 48 Provinces... but that's about all my wife and I or anybody we know ever went there for: Craftsman tools and Kenmore appliances and the occasional Diehard battery. I assume that somebody was buying the clothes and electronics, but we didn't think of them when we needed such stuff even though we saw the ads in the Sunday paper every week for decades.

(Well, I bought a home cassette deck there in maybe 1983, but waited for it to come on sale, as most people I knew did, and never bought anything from that department before or since -- two factors that doubtless made for a pretty thin living for the company.)

@Just-Jeepin I enjoyed that article, thanks.

I still like the little Ami, while the button placement would be annoying, I see that as just showing it's French side. The truely difficult part would be the 28 mph top speed. Even the places I go to that are less than 5 miles away require going on streets with 45+ mph top speeds, and taking those at 28 would be terrifying..

@Darkbrador yeah! Even took out to an oppo meet already

@ike808 said in Internet Advice : Buyer beware, never trust the seller:

@orneryduck I’ve always wanted a PRS semi-hollow custom 22. Play them at the guitar stores all the time but can’t bring myself to part with that much cash.

My favorite and only electric guitar at the moment is a black cherry Schecter Hellraiser. I know a lot of traditionalists don’t care for them but I love active pickups.

Had to Google the Schecter, that’s a wicked guitar!

I hear no end of shit for liking Noiseless pickups, I imagine Actives get the same attitude from the old guard.

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly The struts and top hats are still fairly new so part of me hopes it isn't that.

@Mark-Tucker Counterpoint to difficult to replace lighting - my house had 8x10x4 granite Belgium block lining my driveway, including the too narrow entrance. I spent a couple hot summer days re-setting and pointing them after we had large topsoil trucks put a couple inches in the backyard.

Ground was also a little wet and it ruined the driveway. We knew it needed to be replaced so we were okay with it. However, time being time, I didn't get the driveway redone for a couple of years. Right before listing for sale.

Looked great for the new owners.

@Qaaaaa Dammit, I'm calling the police for falling for your quality shitpost. 🙂

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@JeRC1500 oh that's a good idea

@bison78 said in Apparently my car has OTA updates:

@MrSnrub

2 Years?

It hasn’t happened before as far as I can remember

@vdubyajohn Not much like that here - a bi-annual toy show, a lot of "vendor mall" things which are like a very low end antique mall or a flea market putting on airs, that's it. It's a big time and fuel sink going to the "malls", so I rarely imbibe, just going to the shows.

I didn't need these, but when price gets down to around the $1 level, and I am empty handed, they become tempting (pictured with my other finds, some Lego MBs):

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@GibbsEmphasis Updated with the pics 🙂

@awesomeaustinv I used up all my free gas for now, wish I had a bunch of cans to fill at the time though

@WBizarre ive driven a 528e in Iowa once...its slooooow. The torque really isn't adequate for city stuff imo

@DipodomysDeserti
I just had a couple Biscoff’s with tea. 🙂

@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera

Motor technology was reasonably mature and likely wasn't the biggest issue. Lead-acid batteries were really the only option for high-capacity storage that allowed a quick draw of current. Unfortunately, they don't provide a lot of watt-hours per kilogram. Even modern lead-acid batteries can only provide about 25 watt-hours per kilogram. Ni-Cads doubled that, but that was only enough for hybrids and not full electric cars with a good range. Lithium-ion batteries are now approaching 300 watt-hours per kilogram. It also helps that lithium technology has matured to the point where there are known charging profiles for safe charging at high C rates.

@frinesi2 Damn that looks like a good day!

I think the ranger is in good enough shape to take it out like this, I need to do that again soon.

@tophercrowder Looks good, is the transport museum just buses or are there trains too because I might go and have a look when I’m next in London.

@DipodomysDeserti not just manual 4wd but manual 4wd SR5. Only a V6 tho.

@10R

@EssExTee He was good for 2.5 hours, but definitely looking for something to do, something to chew.

@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera From my trip there earlier this fall, I can tell you that apparently these all live on Nantucket now. I'm fairly confident I saw at least a dozen Sidekicks/Vitaras/Trackers out and about. Most were well worn, but I guess if they can drive on the beach, and on heavily rutted dirt/sand roads, there's a home for them.

And naturally, I wasn't all that happy with it, so I re-did the stitching. You know what a picky bastard I am, especially with my own work.

@flatisflat

I hope that idiot has to pay for the damage they caused to the grass.

@Sam-Blockhan 2nd gen looks really pissed off

@Mark-Tucker said in Downtown Mini Mall II and DOTS:

@ttyymmnn Man, that's my kind of store!

Mine too. I could have spent hours there. It’s tough, though, when so much of the “old” stuff are things you remember from your youth.

@davidh

I would never take something like a Vanagon to a VW dealership. The vehicle is too old and out of production for too long to expect the dealer service staff to know their way around them.

For a vehicle like that, you want to go to a VW specialist who specializes in the old Type 1, 2, 3 and 4 VWs.

@Old-Busted-Hotness said in Christmas-themed Mazda6 continues.:

@Mazda616 said in Christmas-themed Mazda6 continues.:

my two-year-old daughter ... wouldn’t be still

Say whaaaaat?

Right? Totally unbelievable. 😂

@annoying_salman I've always liked how those looked! Is yours the turbo diesel?

@Nibby
The figures I have for 3 Series and X3 boot capacity are different, but I'm happy to be wrong.

@xsnowpig

That's a solid ND to me at that price.

@Miss-Mercedes said in Taylor’s Odd Airport Traditions:

When I finally get to the plane, I even have a strategy for seats. I choose the very last window seat in the whole plane.

I once paid extra to be in a row of 2 on a widebody jet. What the airline staff did not tell me was that it was in the last row of the plane, and the seat did not recline ..... for a transatlantic flight. 10 hours of sitting bolt upright, that I paid extra for!

@Snuze hell to the yeah. Can’t wait to see them on the car!!