@Cé-hé-sin said in Bowstring truss:

@ash78
That's a crap idea ...

Yet I am undeturd in my resolve.

@Jordan I still need to check it out!

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@RallyWrench
Fox body Mustangs
The original front grill
Was sacrificial

Aleix Esparago before his massive high-side in FP4.

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Also courtesy of motomatters.com. I've been following David since he used to post on ADVRider.

@ttyymmnn bonus: don't have to go to DFW

@RallyDarkstrike It has been pretty solid. Bought it used over 3 years ago. Almost a hundred of commutes between NY and MI without a whimper. Only tires and oil changes. I do have to get a new windshield to re-register it in NY. The windshield is a rock magnet. I do miss my 06 chevy express van that I traded in with 350k miles.

@Just-Jeepin 70 years from now, some guy will write an article about today's generation. "She Was a Pioneer of ONLYFANS!"

@Gabriella Great to hear you've escaped from the hospital. Maybe you can find yourself a hand car to roll around the beach, but I think most of those have fallen out of favor in the past, uh, century or so.

If you have the patience for a long con you could try to slowly get your friends thinking that the screws in your ankle occasionally pick up radio signals.

@e90m3 said in On today's edition of "Good god, what's happened to Jalopnik"::

@EssExTee Blinkers can't self cancel if you don't use them

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I sincerely hope the writer is a stereotypical BMW driver that finally looked at that sticky-outy bit on the left side of their steering column.

Otherwise... This individual has no business driving.

nah I'd unfriend them for selling the Lotus and Atom's

They're just known as a Hyundai Coupe across the pond, no idea why they decided to change the name

@davesaddiction Jackpot!

@Zaphod-s-Heart-of-Gold said in Vehicle compromises:

@ike808 I was in a similar spot a couple years ago. I had borrowed trucks too many times and was looking at those but really wanted another Wrangler (had an '05 TJR for a while). I had completely forgotten about the Gladiator until my wife mentioned it. We test drove one that day and I think within a week I had bought mine.

My primary path was a truck (I don't need opinions on whether or not anyone "needs" a truck) but I really wanted to get back into a Jeep, this time with a soft top. For me the Gladiator was a perfect compromise.

I cannot say it has been a perfect vehicle but everything so far has been taken care of. A couple issues I had were known problems - mine is an early build that came with the aluminum steering gear (replaced with a steel one under TSB) and it had the rear locker sensor issue that pops up on Rubicons from time to time. I didn't know about that when I bought it but I could still drive it just fine. I have an appointment on Friday to have a couple other little things looked at but, again, I can and do drive it every day without issue.

It rides like a Jeep, but a really nice Jeep ride. The bed isn't enormous but works as a bed. Mine is only rated to tow 4,500lbs because I opted for the manual but I have towed only a handful of times and, having exceeded that limit once, not sure I would want to go anywhere near the 7k limit of the autos. Gas mileage is decent for a Jeep. Not great but it's a rolling brick on 33s, can't set those expectations too high.

It's a truck. It's a Jeep. It's not the best truck for truck stuff, and it's not the best Jeep for Jeep stuff. But god damn is it exactly what I needed. I love this thing

This is the kind of feedback I was looking for. I had a TJ and a 2012 F-150 so I understand MPG, handling and payload. Sounds about right for my needs.

That's a whole lotta Knudsen nose for one car...

@gettingoldercarguy said in Tomorrow's dinner - the beginning - continued - Done:

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Ask and ye shall receive. I should've known - I have a skillet for the smoker. Makes awesome bacon.

@Cé-hé-sin but wood frame construction is familiar?

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@Taylor-Martin Kings Dominion is a decent park though, maybe call an escort service and tell them to send over a 40 year old scorcher (and do use those words)?

@Saracen I like mint ice cream. Dislike the bits in it. If I wanted to eat frozen hard chocolate I would freeze a bag of chocolate chips. And that’s sounds terrible to me… but I get how mint ice cream could be totally unappealing to some.

@bison78 said in I was worried about blinding people at night:

None of them are as bright as the Euro-style rear fog lights.

Those Euro single rear fog lights are an excellent tool when properly used. However, the number of people in the US that could properly use them is probably in the hundreds. The masses don't get it at all..
Speaking of dark tail lenses, not all are bad, homestyle, spray jobs. This is the rear of my former Quattro,
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Audi made the dark tails part of the later Quattro production in Europe. The dark tails came from Hella and were good tail lights. They were not spray on tints which dim the light. That was the style in the late 80's. Mine were new euro hella's and I liked them.
I agree that the spray on dimming is stupid, but there are rare exceptions.

@FourMalibus Both of those drivers/cars are nuts on the ring. I'm fairly certain I'd shit myself doing that.

@siennaman @facw @Automation Alright alright you've made your voices heard. I'll drop it to 1965, but don't say I've never done anything nice for you.

@Nauraushaun said in Here's an Acurate Take on the new Integra:

it feels like they're reviving the badge so people will pay for the badge. it's a marketing exercise first and foremost, and that will always rub me the wrong way.

Oh, part of this I believe is for Acura to survive its dealers need to be successful. And having a compact class product helps them in achieving that goal.

Granted if the dealers had their way they would ditch the Integra and just bring over the chinese market HRV
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@Roadkilled that was a different vehicle

@SamV8 said in Hour rule:

@Nauraushaun are there purists for replica kit cars?

never seen a 7 rep without a rollbar, looks a bit weird without one

i don't think so 🙂
even for something like an older Lotus or TVR, i think it's pretty well accepted that some things were a bit shit from factory and you'll be fixing/changing things.

hell yeah. hope it's still used for intended purpose. but i can't imagine it's not

@facw said in DAL A220 @ KAUS:

Have to create value for the shareholders!

Designing airplanes is a mature business, farm it out so subcontractors. Bonus!

@Long_Voyager94 can’t see one of these without thinking about whipping on in reverse like the “Hypnotize” video.

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@Italia
This one is a British made version so we are more than half way there! Besides we already have the Grillo...which is so Italian it's almost a caricature!

@Highlander I believe mine is about 13.8 gallons? Still gives a total range per tank of almost 500 miles per full tank

@GrindIntoSecond The now the warranty is running out in a couple years and want to get that apology in early.

@GibbsEmphasis Oh, well in that case - see ya there!

@GrindIntoSecond said in Airplanes are closed today.:

National Air&Space museum

My favorite museum. A close friend of my parents has been a curator there for decades. Last time we were there she took us through the offices and showed us all the archived geologic imagery and such taken by Apollo-Soyuz (which my dad was a part of). And a ton of other cool stuff.

We'll be in DC later this year. I'm excited to see the new additions to the museum once it reopens.

@Long_Voyager94 said in Detailers of Oppo, Let's Talk Ceramic:

it would be an easy task

There can be surprises during this step. To do a paint correction, you need to get to the paint. The sides of my Alfa Spider were very thick with old wax. Looked okay, but when I hit it with the random orbital, the wax heated up and turned a bit white. It was on there really thick and took quite a bit of product and patience to get to the clear. Even multiple washes with Adam's Strip Wash didn't really help. Just a lot of product (and pads) to lift all that wax.

You also mention "run through the car wash and drive." I'm not sure what type of car wash you're referring to, but this is a good watch about what 1 automatic car wash can do to a finish.

My wife bought a used, black Macan and I would guess the prior owner constantly used those automatic washes a the gas station. A paint correction made it look really good, but the paint was brutal when she got it. (I knew she was getting it. She really wanted it and the paint condition was factored into the price (much lower than similar used Macans). I told her to get it and I'd do my best. It turned out rather nice given I'm not a pro).

Ahh 12 and Mound, GOTTA GET TO WORK GET OUTTA MY WAYYYYYEEEEEE

Sorry about your 'vette, hopefully it'll buff out without too much damage, and glad it wasn't worse!

@Snakesm13 lol, I didn't see my bid in your post, so I assumed I hadn't bid yet. Deleted.

87 prices go up and down with inflation... 93 never seems to go down. 😠

@Arch-Duke-Maxyenko Speaking of Rolex 24, I really excited for next year's race and all the new hypercars (including BMW). I'm thinking of going to see it since there will be so many new cars at once.

@ttyymmnn said in Back it up, back it up....:

@doodon2whls

Can I sue the same drive to backup two different computers? Is that a matter of making partitions?

You can certainly use the same external drive for multiple computers. If you're hoping to backup an image of each computer's boot drive, you'll need to ensure that option is enabled.

Remember though, when configuring a notebook to backup with an external drive, it'll run on a schedule, it likely goes without saying....you will need to have the drive plugged in to complete a backup, that sounds obvious. But, more than likely this step will be forgotten and you won't get regular backups, since plugging in an external drive that's only used for backups is an easy step to forget.

@RallyWrench he's Australian?

@Milky Funny, as Toyota was a key offender in that with its 1990s cruise control being used in Lexus 20 years later. I think that cult excuses a lot in exchange for some durability.

The controls in this SL aren't particularly cool (even the period e-class was much more modern), just catches my eye in a cost cutting way.

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@MidEngine

I suppose that's enough that you can cross jailbird off your bird watching list!
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@derp said in The 5 daily drivers I kept for the shortest amount of time:

any trims of ranger with air conditioned seats?

They didn't through '22 but maybe on the '23 refresh?

Its also fortunate that the engine didn't pump oil onto the exhaust manifold. Otherwise the plane's pilot might have gotten a chance to see how well that firewall actually worked......

@HFV mine looked like this F7227A0C-0C70-41B5-A33B-603F9CA81B3B.jpeg

@Old-Busted-Hotness Look up what's legal where you live, I know OR and WA have different laws as to what's acceptable. Cops don't like vehicles that are too dark, they can't see what you're doing.

@Future-Next-Gen-S2000-Owner Isn't the case here that the auto manufacturing business units are separate businesses than OnStar?

As such, their leadership is a full "hell no" to burying the OnStar cost into the car price and having it drag down their margin.

So I suppose what happens is that Corporate say's well we need the volume and the car units say fine, we will make it a required subscription just so everybody knows the $$ amount and why they are paying it,

I think here that OnStar is a boat anchor that nobody wants and GM is doing what they can to make it pay the freight. The problem is that they have sunk a whole lot of cost per car and overhead into a product that consumers don't think they need and sure don't want to pay for......

And PS, a product that none of their competitors think they need either.

This all started when some visionary thought mobile automotive communications would be such a game changer and that all we need is to put up a fleet of satellites to make it happen. Too bad they didn't consider that in 15 years the country would be covered with cell phone towers.....

@Peter_Black blipshift

@Turbineguy-Nom-de-Zoom I was in my buddy’s Rivian the other day and he gave it a little bit of beans. Plenty quick, we were also towing a big surf boat and it barely noticed it was there. I need to go with him without the boat and feel the full power of that thing one of these days

@Scary said in V8 swapped Corvair?:

Either full ass or no ass.

@davesaddiction Some ways of beating the market are better than others.

@Dash-Doorhandle-and-Bondo Up in Tisdale!

@Eric said in Does any state do DMV well?:

The fun thing about the US is that none of this is standardized across states in any way.

That's, strictly speaking, no longer the case. On the back-end? You may have noticed all the states moving to "issuing paper plates while your 'real' plates are on order? That accompanied a widespread shift to a new integrated national database for issuing and tracking registrations. The DL side of the house also has integrated with the Feds more on the issuance of "STAR CARD" DL's.

It may be the same people at the counter? But the back-end processes are much more coordinated.

@derp That's true...