@Roadkilled said in Atlantoppos hide yo cars:

How bad could that be to a car?

That'll probably buff out.

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@FourMalibus I see Cornell lost to BU in the round of 8. In any event, as a someone with a long relationship with Boston terriers, I guess I should root for BU?

@Shoop

Sure, but we rate engines at their peak horsepower, not based on the average you expect to get from them in a day. I wouldn't want to take the gas engine from a car and try to run it at peak horsepower for 8 hours straight.

@facw oh yeah, I didn't think you were claiming that. I just wanted to get a story in!

@AuthiCooper1300 Issigonis never intended it to last more than 7-8 years, 10 at the most. If he had had his way, the replacement would have arrived around 1967, the money just was never there.

BMC didn't help things by underpricing the Mini for the first few years and running a loss for no reason.

@spacekraken Exactly. I could go lower and a little slower than 0.5 but only on a smooth gravel road. One obstacle and I don't have enough momentum to get over it. Need more speed on loose gravel too.

@MUSASHI66 brb visiting

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@HoustonRunner ah, replacement car parts in the kitchen, that's their 2nd most common habitat.

@Miss-Mercedes

Another story along the same lines:
https://wapo.st/42IPx0r

@Svend: with US medical insurance, you may spend thousands to meet your deductible and out of pocket max for the year, but if you change job, and your insurance is through your job, you will have a new deductible and out of pocket max to meet -- so more thousands.

@Urambo-Tauro said in People Suck:

That part was so weird. People like that don't usually refer to themselves as "homophobic"

Because they don't know what "phobic" means. Or take on the challenge of a 4-syllable word.

@CarsOfFortLangley

This is fantastic.

You are going to be so glad you have these pictures and videos a decade or two from now.

@Nibby Not enough uplifting posts these days...

@nickhasanexocet this video has right advice, I've read articles by so called "driving experts" saying it is possible to completely eliminate your blind spot by aiming the side mirrors even farther out. While this is true it creates a different problem as you now can't see any distance back in the lanes either side of you when driving on the highway. I like to know if there's nobody hauling up at autobahn speeds before merging into their path.

Convex mirrors like @RacinBob suggested tend to produce a small image that may get missed but buy them anyway as the round ones are fantastic for parallel parking.
Atm you don't have any muscle memory so are having to use conscious focus for every single task - just keeping it straight at steady speed requires effort. This means it's easy for you to become mentally overloaded and miss something critical, so don't do too many things at once and definitely no executive function stuff like navigating or talking on a phone. Anything that dulls your focus like tiredness, loud music, alcohol or idiot friends in the backseat is also deadly and learner license rules often try to limit them.
I nearly did a sudden lane change into a volvo during an evening driving lesson once because I was tired and thought someone merging wasn't going to yield.

@glemon the prototype mustang served as the inspiration for the Jack Rabbit Special. It served as a jack-in-the-box promo car, and starred in a cartoon! I did a short write-up of it once. https://opposite-lock.com/topic/49230/jack-rabbit-in-the-box

@Cars

So you went today too? What time were you there?

I opened it up at 10:00 and was out the door by 12:00.

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Toby supervised my work doing the same this afternoon. I've also got some patches of fescue, mixed in with the mostly bermuda grass. There's enough sprigs of green at the base of the Bermuda that this afternoon was time to cut back the dead stuff down to the lowest setting on the mower in a couple of steps. I'll have to pickup some fertilizer tomorrow to complete waking up the grass.

@pip-bip
There's a few here too. Getting rarer though...

@ash78 best advice for driving in London - don’t

That was in an old lonely planet guide book

@Green-Truck I had an 83 diesel squarebody for a few years and it was an excellent truck. The back of that thing was cavernous!

@Trekkster__T Great shots as always, I have a 2022 model Honda 600 HW

@Sam-Blockhan Pajero Evo 😮

@10R That is awesome, closest I will probably get to one is the GT(x) driving game.

@sampsonite24
We don't get it anymore either.

Great race! COTA never disappoints!

@facw I'm a little late to the party but let me know when I can pick up that mighty max, it's so good.

@tophercrowder That is pretty cool haha. Reminds me of a random desktop background I have in rotation (source unknown)

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@Taylor-Martin said in Taylor’s Default Doodle:

yes, I’ve been here a year but haven’t completely moved in

This is perfectly normal. And one reason why America's garages are full of crap while cars park in the driveway.

@AkioOhtori depends on if you want a quartz or mecanical movement but in any case you don't buy a (relatively) cheap watch for it's resale value and the used market is usually not very interesting for recent used watches as most people tend to keep them as long as they are working.

There are watch forums with the equivalent of Swappo which can be a good solution to find interesting watches at a good price.

About the brands, there are plenty of micro-brands in that budget bracket, mostly Chinese made ; there are plenty of those good value watches on AliExpress with brands such as Seagull, San Martin, Tandorio, Merkur.
There is a topic on WatchUSeek about AliExpress watches that is quite interesting.

The other solution is to go vintage : be sure to buy watches that are in fully working order, ideally from a seller who serviced the watch or had it done.

I also just ordered a new San Martin SN0105-G-XB watch on AliExpress for about 85€ including VAT and shipping.

At least they know why the mantis is there. No one seems to know why this one is in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

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@VincentMalamute The seat heater was on, too

those lyrics sure are something

@ash78
The VW Transporter T6 is a nice (this one a Sportline spec) would do quite well in the U.S.
The new T7, I'm not too keen on the front end of.
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It's Ford Transit Custom sibling though, much better looking.
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@aperson Accidentally hella flush is best hella flush, amirite?

@WhoIsTheLeader I had a good chuckle with this post, because there were no less than 3 occasions when I read something, thought something, and then immediately read your words speaking to the exact thing I was thinking, lol!

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@MM54 it’s probably 20 up there but the broken sign makes a good picture

@ranwhenparked I don’t know anyone there. Sounds like they do a decent job.

@Urambo-Tauro Welp, that C6 is totalled. Whole scene looks like it could have been out of a screwball comedy movie - got the hood, the door, and the spraying water fountain, and the guy just standing there all defeated while it happens

@Nauraushaun There's interest in them, they're just expensive. There's a shop in Santa Fe that specializes in these and importing them. Even the older turbo diesel ones are eye wateringly expensive.

@ash78
I was down south years ago and the driving was shocking, it was like a free for all.
The sheer number of drivers who didn't seem to give a crap.

Don't hit anybody or anything. Don't let anybody hit you. Try hard to follow rules 1 and 2 without scaring anybody.

@RacinBob If this was legit, and if Jim really felt that way, a lot of cred could be gained with some financial help to this site. It probably isn't wise for a corporate overlord to run a site like this, but they sure could be a donor!!!!

@Trekkster__T They do cost a pretty penny nowadays. I was lucky enough to find mine for 2 bucks at a thrift store.

@Krusty-Walnut 2 post lifts need reinforced concrete for the anchors to do their work and keep the posts upright under load, 4 post lifts are inherently more stable and don’t need the anchors.

I’d still anchor it, just in case.

@Roadkilled

Yes, I did think it looked familiar. Been there several times.

@Cé-hé-sin exactly how I would describe it. Amazing how few Italian options there were for small and auto. Basically you get the same trans in three brands.

@Darkbrador how dare you not share the same opinion as me? I kid, I kid.
He's not the best guitarist by any measure, and his vocal ability is an acquired taste if you're not from or have family roots within 100 miles of northern NJ. Even now at the age of 50+, the songs don't resonate lyrically as they did when I was 17.
But damn, it sure was as fun last night as 1988.

@pip-bip said in DOTS:

@Nauraushaun idk maybe v8

i think not 🙂 to my eye it looks like the 2nd gen, which was only available with the 12.

@awesomeaustinv i'm afraid i can't agree. it looks as if it may have once been executed well, but when we're talking about an ugly bodykit with ugly rims, good execution won't save it. it's never going to be to my taste.
i'd much prefer if the owner left it as it came out the factory and took care of it, but neither of those things happened unfortunately.

@pip-bip I test drove a 2nd gen 90 hf for a buddy.
I had to laugh in that shifting into 5th gear at 50 mph put the engine at about 1200 RPM..... No wonder it got such good gas mileage, the engine barely turned over!

@Just-Jeepin 15 minutes well spent!

@Qaaaaa swapped coils, misfire is gone so far. They look like factory coils, so I’ll likely replace them anyway

@Stef-Schrader I was watching the final day of the sumo basho and there was an old school stare down as well! sumo.jpg

@john-norris It's a bit of a mess. Useless clutch pedal (was a 4 speed from the factory, long gone before it came into my family), a water temp gauge that isn't hooked up and just dangles, and lots of dust. The hat on the seat was one of Pappaw's. He had two Dorman hats that I seem to remember him wearing a lot, so I have one in this car and one in the Mustang.

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And the currently dead 454.
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View from mine. PS, I agree and find the Civic Si dash/windshield layout to be excellent!

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@WBizarre They sold the first and second gen Explorers in Europe to little impact. They brought it back to Europe with the current gen as a Plug-In only, and while I can't say how well its doing as its not sold in the UK, it must not be very well as it's being replaced by this.
Apparently the reasoning for using the MEB platform is to get out an EV entry in the segment ASAP, with the rumours saying that it will be a stopgap product until Ford gets round to developing its replacement on its own platform. Still, the Mach-E is based on a C-Segment platform, why couldn't they use that? Is it because it was not a ground up EV platform, but an adaption of an existing ICE one?