@Pixel Aluminum + stainless is not a good combination (hello galvanic corrosion) but if you make the tube from mild steel you can still weld it but it should be fine (painted) with an aluminum button.

@Snakesm13 I bought a fully restored 1971 Super Beetle for $5,000 in 2001 and sold it for $5500 18 months later, so that seems like a solid price, all things considered

@Exage03040 The vette will last forever. The Z3 is probably on its third water pump and will need a new coolant system 3 weeks after you buy it.

@pos_camaro That's precisely why I wanted them. Flowmasters sound good and all but they're played out and I want something more era correct.

@Bloody-the-resident-LandRover-apologist yeah, that one not working out is some of what pushed me back toward the Maseratis. If I'm spending what it takes to get a DB9 or a 456, I'm very on the fence about getting a color pairing I don't want. I'd rather have a Maser in colors I love than a DB9 in colors I hate. Spending more effort looking locally. Things of that nature. If it was easy to find these things to put some seat time in, I would. The closest 456 for me has been a 7 hour drive each way. DB9 has been further.

@phenotyp that's good to hear. wikipedia made it sound a bit depressing:

Initially, there were very few options on the 3L, as options added weight which affected fuel consumption.

but it also gets some cool stuff like a unique body and an early iteration of engine start/stop.

@іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi That reminds me of the Giocattolo, which was an Alfasud Sprint with a mid-mounted Holden V8-
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@Mazda616 Maybe it will Explo(d)rer?

@The-Car-Motorist Nice! I haven't been to the Italian Alps, but I have skied in Austria twice. So epic! I'm so jealous of you right now.

It really was fun skiing that night in the picture. Luckily it wasn't super cold or windy, so it just about a perfect ski day in Michigan!

@Britishvillaininatl said in Oppo Car Show Meet Recap:

@AestheticsInMotion The Bug thoughtfully had its insta and youtube handles on the side dailycozwerks if you are interested.

Ironically, that makes me less interested! But yeah I've always been a fan of the New Bug, and I'm a sucker for star wheels.

@wheelerguy Yeah, my rule here is that I can only buy stuff that I'd never be able to find outside of Japan. There are so many hobby stores here that you can always find something unique. That D1 AE86 diecast was like $15 which I thought was a lot until I looked them up on ebay and saw they normally go for around $150

@ranwhenparked

A Carvair featured in Goldfinger with Auric Goldfinger’s Rolls. I’ve watched DAF a hundred times and I don’t remember one in that film.

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@Milky Ah, I thought it was $75k/150k, not $150k/300k. In this scenario, we still qualify, mostly because my wife's income comes as draws instead of salary which changes tax consequences. I guess I can be a baller and go shopping for my BEV now!

@estoril235 I could see that, looking at some that might be the case before the 1 got the LCI, as there are some 135i's that lack the m-sport wheel and even sport seats. Like this one.

@Milky said in My client is unreasonable:

@Chariotoflove No clue, just saw land rover wasnt on the excluded list and thought going from a FCA to land rover product would be funny.

It was to me!

@john-norris I was unaware either, I just liked the picture

@davesaddiction not my pic, but cool to see someone doing it. IMG_20230130_161044.jpg

@TheJWT Yeah.....I don't HATE the new Crown, but the weird-ass 'lifted sedan' thing just does not jive at all to me...

my dogs seem to have figured out the threshold between "kick human to get what I want" and "leave human alone, he's grumpy"

@BicycleBuck that was us as kids in the CJ5

@Highlander If I had a garage where I could just get in it and go for a drive it would be different. It bothers me that it isn't in a garage and I'm always fighting something to protect it. The truck isn't pretty and I don't worry about it. My friend has to do some stuff and I'll see how I feel after all that. Cyclists ruin the good roads too haha, I go out and get stuck.

@MidEngine said in Well Oppo, something happened...:

If I had to have a CUV that would be the call, but I really don't like CUV's and SUV's at all. Didn't care for my brother's Panamera either, I guess I like small RWD manual Porsches too much.

I agree 100% but I gotta tow a race car.

@Just-Jeepin I know it's not street legal, but I also don't think it's going to meet the reserve at this rate.

@Urambo-Tauro said in My favorite JRitS posts of the week, Vol. 302:

...Customer had a battery put in at a place down the street. They never fully tightened the hold down bolts and after driving the battery slid forward causing the positive terminal to short to the hold down. The "notch" was not on purpose but from it arcing over the last few days.

Customer states another shop installed a battery and the lights are dimming while driving

Lucky that one didn't escalate into a car fire and possibly the earlier post about "...electrical fire resulting in a complete loss of our shop..."

@Ashley That's why you need a big 'ol V8. Not much of a fuel economy penalty when there are already such big losses from driveline.

But still, smooth I6 is smooth. The obvious solution is to have gotten the factory turbo.

Fun fact: the XC70 gets worse fuel economy than the old XC90.

@mocamino

Haha - nice going!

I managed to combine 3/4 of a civil engineering degree, a BFA in graphic design, and a (later) graduate level cert. in GIS all together into a very good career.

@AMGtech I’m Donny

@AkioOhtori
Bless you for this.

Now go buy the Stud!

@wheelerguy There's a Hot Wheels 507? I NEED that!

@HotWheelsAndFriedChicken

Tell them I thought this was a Lambo not a Tesla 😛

That does suck, especially for the price they charge

@DSM_OR_DIE said in You wonder why you deal with all the bullshit of living in a fake paradise:

@ClassicDatsunDebate The thumbnail squatty potty is what I remember of Italy...

Conversely, so many tourist places with traditional western toilets have to remind people not to squat on them.

I know the hole in the ground is more anatomically correct, but ain't no way I'm hitting a bullseye 100% of the time.

Plus, how can I beat today's freecell challenge in a deep squat? Wait, maybe that IS the challenge!

@pickup_man Seems fine to me tbh

I remember this car or it's twin being for sale in NC a few years ago. I think it was in the high teens when I saw it then.

I'd love to buy this car and make the same upgrades I did to my Caballero.

My gramps had a '63 Aztec with N1MV (which they called "Number one moving violation"). It's been reissued after he had to land it on the beach and total the gear and props/engines in the mid-70s.

@pyroholtz

That is the line between St. Tammany Parish and Orleans Parish. Theoretically, it would follow the historical channel of the Tangipahoa River which defines the Rigolets - the primary outlet for Lake Pontchartrain into the Gulf of Mexico, but the most recent bathymetric data shows the area isn't well defined - or at least defined well enough to reflect that channel.

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The original boundary was drawn in the 1700s, presumably when there was still a river there.

I did find that Legislative Act 159 of Session 1912-1932 established the boundary of the City of New Orleans and it follows that line. But it's not clear if they were following a pre-established line or otherwise. Presumably, they were following the original Parish line.

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@i86hotdogs said in My Racing Buddy and I Did A Thing This Weekend:

With it caged already, we plan to chop the roof off and make this an obscene topless mini.

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@dieseldub
It gave me Armorall flashbacks.
Used the wipes a couple of times and it was like a dust magnetic.
I threw the things away after that. Awful stuff.

I need to learn how to weld, specifically sheet metal so I can fiz the miata's rust. My parents' neighbor has a nice Lincoln Electric I don't think he has ever used, that he is plenty happy to let me learn on.

@Roadkilled I would not trust my daughters to sit there and not say something completely inappropriate about "potty stuff"

@Roundbadge
I think chili dogs need a roll, honestly. Something that can handle some liquid. I’ve never had a chili dog with enough chili that I didn’t end up finishing with a fork.

@Italia Wordle 590 4/6

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@HFV_Junkyardin said in Paint Job Idea For the Civic:

@Just-Jeepin my fear is that it’ll look like a Joker car.

Easy fix: add these as a hood ornament.

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@CarsOfFortLangley said in An old prairie trick:

How could I manage the issues that come with that cold and kofl?

It's a challenge some days, my youngest, 1 1/2, refuses to keep his hat and gloves on, rips them off as soon as I put him in the truck. Thankfully the truck is reasonable warm from being parked inside, it's a short drive to daycare, and I carry him in as quick as I can. My 4 YO handles the cold like a champ, but on days like this you just stay inside.

@Sam-Blockhan yeah, you can either oil rub it, or lay a satin, or flat clear on top. I think we'll go with the clear option as it makes it easier wit sand and lay paint, or vinyl wrap the car later on if you want to.

@415s30 I’ll be darned. Thanks!

@Sam-Blockhan Just tell him he's guaranteed that you won't by a car from him now, or ever if that's what he's coming at you with. Spread the word about him on local media as well. It's called a hatchet piece.

@tysmagic

This one has a pair on Instagram, but I liked this yellow one best.

@foghat1981 I've only ever played with electric hobby level and that was plenty fast for me. According to some tips from the Autopian folks, these nitro cars can hit in the 70 mph range if they'll stay on the ground/get traction

@Sam-Blockhan we had one of those at my college, ca 2008/2009, the grounds department had it but seemed to use it very rarely (trotted it out for the Earth Day event).

I was surprised the first time I saw it, because I had no idea you could get Microcars in the US, hadnt heard of the ZENN operation at that point, I think they did the conversions in Quebec

@ike808 Took a nap. More Primus

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@pip-bip

The car is still there.
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@pip-bip There is a lot going on, on there ...

No sure how this picture helps selling a car, though ?

@Zenith2455 it’s okay, there will be another one

@tysmagic it really is a work of art. Made in Spain. Im very pleased to have such a quality piece on my $500 beater lol

@john-norris That chart pre-dates many of the modern nannies. Would like to see how much, if any, improvement there's been in the last 7 years.

Overall, we're past the point of diminishing returns. I would argue that cars are more than safe enough, and it's time to work on the drivers.

@OPPOsaurus-WRX I mean they're selling this one...

@іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi Pretty sure Clarkson has on more than one occasion quoted PJ O'Rourke, he is a fan of his writing.

Atlanta is the home of Porsche North America (and the Porsche experience center) which I think does lead to a higher than normal population of Porsches in the city, although most of them are Macans and Cayennes these days.

@amoore100 said in What do you guys think of the Corvette going EV.:

@CoolMinivan-Nobody I personally don't trust the government mandates and the "it'll happen by 2035" garbage, but for some of us there are real possible benefits to EVs. I barely drive 15 miles a day, and I know it's slowly killing my engine since I just drive back and forth 5 miles at a time on a cold engine and the lifters are getting steadily louder every year. With an EV there's no chance of that, and even a crapped out, heavily-degraded gen1 Leaf with 30 miles of range would be fine for my needs, saving the Volvo for cross country and out of town drives where the oil can actually reach operating temp and stay there for a while. Basically I just want a golf cart but one where if I get hit by a Ford Expedition I might possibly survive. Anyway, that's just a personal use case kind of thing, I have no horse in the race when it comes to the logistics of energy production or battery manufacturing.

And I have no arguments that it can in fact be perfect for a lot of people. I'm not one of them, but I won't hate on people who it does work for.

Frankly, pull the incentives, stop mandating, and let the consumer decide what is right for their use case.