@otto Goodnight.

@just-jeepin
Aftermarket grille, garbage paint and an orphaned 85 HP turbo diesel that was well known for being unforgiving if maintenance was lacking....and that was in the context of the 200Tdi engine that came after it!

If it can be had for the sort of coin that allows for an engine upgrade, new firewall and paint...it'd be OK. Otherwise, nope.

@partypooper2012 as long as you also put a red arrow head where the corvette flags are.

@pip-bip It doesn't look like the inflator fired fully. This probably wasn't triggered by the sensors. I'm guessing something else happened. The igniter could have been partially triggered by the vibration. Either the camera mount was very loose or there was something else wrong with the car making it shake like that.

@silentbutnotreallydeadly You're probably right, but the latest Opels have some style. I think they'd have made quite nice Holdens. Better than the GM Korea stuff that was foisted on us for years.

@pip-bip getofftheroad.gif

@pip-bip

Typical New Yorker.

the size of t-tops opening doesn't do it for me, but sliding into the t-bar is pretty snazzy

Like warm take: we need more weird six wheel drive vehicles. We've already got enough bland white crossovers/SUVs.

@pip-bip Honestly, if something like this is available next summer when I'm actually ready to shop for a car, I would have to at least check it out. If it really is mechanically sorted out but just dirty and scruffy, that would suit me fine. And yeah, it may end up being a disaster, but when you're old and stuck in some plastic self-driving monstrosity, do you really want to tell the story of the old Alfa you almost bought? Or the sure-to-be countless stories of the Alfa you once owned?

@pip-bip
No.

@pip-bip 45+ years ago, I first became aware of Rally as a thing when I caught a few minutes of TV coverage showing a Stratos, filthy, in the woods, flying..

@pip-bip

Engaging in the innocent joy of life can still be painful...to this day.

@ttyymmnn tumblr is ok, its newTumbl you need to worry about with all the porn

@pip-bip Ooh, I recognize that scene! I've never taken the train, but it's quite striking to see the railroad running up on the side of the notch.

Here's me going through last winter right after passing the station where they start the trains:
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You can't see the track, but it runs parallel to the road through the pass there, and then cuts off to the right to run high along the mountainside.
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Just south of Bretton Woods for fans of the post-war monetary order

@pip-bip So in 1925, the fastest ford you could get was half chevy? I guess some things never change!

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@just-jeepin That's cool. The rust in the cab corners looks pretty bad and I was going to say that the tyres must be a million years old, but they look Russian, so maybe not. I like the big PTO winch hanging off the side of the chassis.

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@flatisflat
My memory of the CT motor mount is that it's a long way back and not that substantial. That's why there is an underslung frame on @functionoverfashion and @Vondon302 bikes and, on my modified bike, a brace from the engine head to the down tube.

It certainly helps to keep the engine in place when racing and landing jumps...

@cé-hé-sin
I'm not sure I could help it!