@HFV-now-with-more-H

Get these tires
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I have the predecessor to this tire, the Altimax RT43, on my Fit. It's a very good tire.

@pyroholtz they had some fun with the who a while back too

@415s30 seriously? wow.

Edit: SHE WAS 71???? fuck, I am old now.

@Shop-Teacher excellent tire for a cheap car, that's what we have on my wife's Rio too and have been very happy so far.

@Nicky-Chagrin-Janitor-of-SHIELD

Could also be a dispute between the owners over what should be done that could be holding things up.

@Fish-McSticks The next rollcar in the making?

@BJ

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What all has happened to it?

I can’t think of a new ICE car under like $40k I’d want over my GTI, certainly not enough to brave the car market right now. In addition to the hiding backup camera there are a few other features that would be hard to find in a replacement, like the ratcheting armrest and parking lights. There just aren’t many cars out there that are as well rounded as a Mk7 Golf. I feel like with a discontinued model like the Alltrack I’d want to hold onto it even more. But mine has been pretty trouble-free.

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@Snakesm13 $43k. Sold for $47.5k in 2020 and $48k in summer 2021 when prices were higher, pretty close to 100k miles, and the wrap is definitely divisive.

@Manwich -- One look at the Subject line and I knew a pun thread was lumen.

@functionoverfashion I'd share a couple feet of this last dump out here if I could! Mammoth is at over 100 inches so far for the season with 50 of it being in December. Heading up Thursday night for a few days on the hill. The funny part is it will probably be warmer on the hill here. That's always the depressing part with NE skiing is the frigid, bone chilling conditions and clouds on top of the conditions. It does make a "good" day become 100/10 though when it happens. I still think my favorite runs ever have been in Vermont on a truly good day. While objectively worse, it was the excitement and wonder that made it better.

@Noodles dude. So sweet. Carlomo. They're nice. The white one is one the old peg system. The rolling difference is night and day.

Normally I'm not much on giving cars regalia that doesn't belong there, but that S-Blazer needs a vintage Pontiac badge...
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@Krusty-Walnut so I just watched a replay of the first half. Brazil look really good. Don't think Argentina has enough to stop them. Maybe mbappe does

@OPPOsaurus-WRX I like CVTs to drive, but I do have longevity concerns. How is yours holding up? Do you do the 30k fluid flush interval?

@ranwhenparked You're a maniac... but I suppose you'd make the best of it. I'd rather freeze.

@HammerheadFistpunch I don't like it when people say "terminal rust," as I own a car that by all accounts is terminally rusty...

I just have to be rust oblivious and hope nothing falls apart.

@Sam-Blockhan I am pretty sure it was a darker shade than the picture there - probably been 5 years ago though, maybe even repainted by now.

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@EssExTee Also with old cars with vacuum lines running everywhere...

Pick your poison...

@Highlander said in Well that escalated…:

Neither of the other cars broke $100k.

So here's what amazes me. Those 240Z's seemed to be everywhere in the 1970's where I grew up. I guess in part because they stayed pretty similar through 1973 and they made about 150,000 of the 240Z's in total. Of course this one has an early serial number and had a very thorough restoration. But it is still pretty much just like every other 1970 240Z that came off the production line. There were plenty of 1970 Cuda's and Mustangs too. But far fewer came configured like those two.

1970 440-6 Cuda's with 4 speed
-- 919 produced

1970 240Z's
--17,005 produced

1970 Boss 302 Mustangs
-- 7,014 produced

$165,000 was an amazing price to pay. It got there because there were two buyers that really wanted it. The third place bidder got out after $132,000. You have to love BaT.

@AkioOhtori One thing I didn't account for was the sheer width I'd need because of the 12v power connectors being on the side of the GPUs.

@Dr-Zoidberg I don't know if it is too late for a HELOC in the current market.

@Darkbrador This might be what led Santa to enslave a bunch of little people.

@ash78 I just remember that mount Semeru is inside the Bromo - Tengger - Semeru national park, and the vista from there is amazing. Mount Semeru is the highest one in the background:

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You can climb the crater down left, and to go there you have to rent a "Jeep" ( @Just-Jeepin 👀 ) (which actually are FJ40s and Taft / Rocky) to drive through the sea sand, then climb the stairs to the crater.

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@Flavien-Vidal Go take it for a test drive around the yard if you want 😁

@LimitedTimeOnly yep, A Spec with Tech package. Honestly, I’d probably be happy with a lower trim level but unfortunately it’s not an option. And yes, availability is decent. Last I talked with the dealer it was about a month for a red or blue car and less for the grey.

@pip-bip
True...why use such a long piece of timber if all you want to do is keep the doors shut? I'd have cut it to size....

@estoril235
Biggest one offered in Oz is the 115 horsepower PX1153. But they still regard it as a utility tractor.

Personally, compact tractors like the MF35 and MF65 are more useful for small acreage and I have been eyeing off a 42 HP Kioti CK4210 to replace the MF65 and the MF40 but the current asking price is AU$36,000...

@Peter_Black said in This weekend was very interesting car wise.:

and whatever THIS thing was. (yea, 70s wagon

That would be taking the TooYonge Street exit. Keep going and get off on 1966 Fury Road.

@ttyymmnn said in NTSB releases preliminary findings in Dallas warbird crash:

I don't think that discussing the crash or speculating about possible causes is disrespectful to the lost pilots.

‘... As @drVanTraveler said, ultimate responsibility lies with the Cobra pilot who was in command of his ship’

‘Air boss directs a risky maneuver, plane hits drone, plane crashes into other plane’

‘… without an altitude separation The air boss better find an attorney.’

So it's entirely possible that none of the above is the root cause. Perhaps there was a mechanical failure, or a mechanical failure caused by the P63 hitting the drone or whatever object was up there. The death of six people was then wrongly attributed to specific individuals by us in our discussion. I don't think that is good, nor fair.

'The NTSB et al will do their investigation, and we will discuss again when it comes out next year.'

Yes, and that is the appropriate time to discuss; when fault has been determined by the experts, and the responsibility for the death of six people is no longer being speculated on by those of us that likely don't have all the data. At that point they typically share the pertinent facts and the rest of us can see the whole picture.

The NTSB often releases preliminary info when they believe there is something to be shared that may benefit others, in this case, other air show flights. I am sure every other air show is reviewing how they do their formation flights right now. Even if what transpired here is less than the best practice it may or may not be the primary cause in their final report and the responsibility for the deaths may not follow.

I believe it's not fair to the potentially innocent, dead or alive, to attribute the deaths to them. Certainly when we are doing so on less than complete data.

@Nicky-Chagrin-Janitor-of-SHIELD

We had tilt jets back in the 60s.

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@PowderHound Well now it will be both.

@NKato nice.

That looks like a great Sunday!
Get KOFL a toboggan in a few years:

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@dogisbadob
So what does their headlights commercial look like then?

@dogisbadob The two hardest things about Harvard are getting in (if you're not related to an alum) and getting thrown out. It's almost as hard to get a C as an A.

@Roadkilled said in Who needs forward vision anyway?:

you share the road with people like this.

Only for a short while, at least.

@Fish-McSticks said in I have a very important announcement:

servesafe food handler certification

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<insert humorous quip here>

@Svend I had a place I was talking to about remote work ask me if I'd be open to coming in to HQ for their monthly social gathering. I said that I'd never do that because I had already stopped going to those back when I worked at local companies. That HR person pretty much disqualified her company from consideration right then and there.

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@Svend said in Some things I spotted in rainy old England:

still never tried a Subway sub

Quality can vary a lot from one to another. Dunno if they are more selective in the UK, but here in the US, they got a reputation as an exceptionally low-entry-barrier franchise. Come up with a modest amount of money as that sort of thing goes, maybe 50 grand as I recall, and they'd let you open a Subway just about anywhere that wasn't actually inside an existing Subway, and run it as well or poorly as you pleased.

(The polar opposite would be McDonalds, an expensive franchise that is very selective about who they will allow in, but goes out of their way in site selection and training to make sure you succeed.)

The other recurring knock on Subway is from a business more than a culinary standpoint: headquarters coming up with promotions that franchises were required to offer but found to be money losers.

Even at its best, though, what you get is a submarine sandwich. Nothing against a decent sub, mind you, but there's a certain sameness to the genre, and a limit to how far out of your way I'd suggest going to try s particular one...

@AestheticsInMotion rookie last pick qb3

@CarsOfFortLangley thought about it for return trip, did not bring passport.

@e90m3 lol. Fun is certainly a word to describe that process. It all worked out in the end.

@BeaterGT I have seen more for sale locally in the last couple of years than in the ten years before that. Now that the rotting ones can be sold for a few grand they are coming out of the woodwork, or maybe growing in the fields.

@tophercrowder Well, that reminds me of this little bit of internet lore. I can't believe it's been almost 20 years already.

Warning: NSFW link.

@GSW note I didn't say it does anything better than any other city. Just that if you can't find something you like about it other than the gambling and boozing, the issue isn't the city.

@Sam-Blockhan Cool, always loved X1/9s! That old VW Bus is cool too! 🙂

@Snuze We've got the pacific fleet here in my town, so we're right behind you.

@іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi Gadamn...

@MM54 I’ll take one of those brand new Town Cars at invoice!

@HFV-now-with-more-H didn’t you build the Tower Boso 8? Maybe they copied your design

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly thanks for those suggestions. I did the drive from Blayney to Canberra a few months back and it was amazing. But I was unfortunately in my wife's base 2015 auto cx5...
5hrs north.... I spent my uni days in Armidale, Tamworth, Bingara, Narrabri etc. Know the area well. Some great roads up there.

@іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi said in More Brooklands..The leaks continue. It's Bike Day!:

Chopper! All the cool kids had those when I was seven, while I had to make do with an ignominious Raleigh 20.

My older brother had one and it was such a death trap, my parents forbid the bike from being passed down to me. I had to make due with a blue sparkly Schwin

@mocamino I don’t always love tan interiors. But when I do, it’s a green exterior.

@Skyfire77 -- Yeah, that was a real life horror show.

My (mis)understanding is that it was a very early C-130 and had some known unknowns and unknown unknowns in its written operations and maintenance history because it had been "sheep-dipped" and then brought back to the US and into the system by which such things are tracked. The original customer was an agency that wasn't doing things in places where the US wouldn't have been fighting even if there had been a war, so "ain't nobody here but us chickens" priorities overrode the keeping of logs.

Subsequently, the rather intrusive fix for the known problem was not applied to early marks that were no longer important parts of military fleets that were dominated by newer ones born with greater strength in that area.

In roughly the same timeframe came the beginning of the end for the WW2 surplus firefighting aircraft after a wing came off a PB4Y.

It was ultimately down to fatigue cracking in both cases.