TIL (from the invoice) that AMC built the 258's in a GM plant that they operated...

@Jb-boin
I'm the same when I see a picture of a car in North America still with it's local to me UK licence plate.

@pip-bip
Such a shame. I grew up watching him from The Sweeney, Minder, On The Up, etc... then most recently New Tricks.
I loved On The Up.
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I still say, 'just the one Mrs Wembley'.
Dennis Waterman played the wealthy business man who started out from a taxi firm into a chauffeur driven car service, who was going through a divorce, the show revolved around his house, the house keeper, Mrs Wembley, His Chauffeur, Sam, his assistant, Maggie (who sort of had a crush on him), and various others that played parts here and there.
Mrs Wembley, fond of a glass of sherry.
Mrs Wembley would say, I think i'll have a glass of sherry,
Often, all at the table would say in chorus, 'just the one Mrs Wembley'.
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Or,
MW: would you like a glass of sherry?
other: yes, that'll be nice!
WM: I think I will have one too, just the one!
other: just the one Mrs Wembley.

Can't find any on YouTube, but dailymotion.com have some episodes.

@415s30 Jeep said they received 30k orders for them, which is IIRC close to 10% of their annual output. That seemed high to me, but hopefully there’ll be a few around.

I’ve only spotted one or two.

@Roadkilled Sadly, it does happen. I remember a couple of accidents where the drivers overcooked bends in the road or overshot intersections and shed their loads, but fortunately no-one was hurt in those instances. Collisions were a more frequent occurence and then there was the odd mechanical failure that would result in something like a grain trailer tipping at 100km/h on a country highway. You can imagine the mess that makes.

@pip-bip Amazing riding and flying. I also spotted a W123 and a longboi.

@pip-bip
I'm not a baseball fan (aka rounders for adults), but the bat comes in hands for re-education.

@ttyymmnn or is that the excuse the aircraft manufacturers came up with to cover for the fact that every fighter jet on the market failed the small front overlap test, and was rated zero to 1 star?

@KngT yeah i like this channel too

@pip-bip

was this relevenant?
not even a little bit 🙂

Oh look, the Germans came up with yet another thing that's needlessly complicated but requires a ton of engineering to show just how clever they are.

Fuck off. What a pointless thing.

@trivet He gets up almost immediately so I think he's fine.

@pip-bip I get motion sickness just watching that.

i like both of these.

@tophercrowder ah, yes. The agony of defeat. I will never forget that.

@tophercrowder Ima let you finish, but these guys from Maryland had the best towing video of all time

@zhp-sparky-the-5th said in In another lifetime, I was a Coastie:

We're hoping he'll have one last hurrah restoring it for/with us now that he's retired.

Seems like that would be an easy sell, at least if you can convince him you'll do most of the leg/back work.

@urambo-tauro He does seem very cool

@taylor-martin Feel free! I'm happy to add one so there's continuity between it and the site.

@flatisflat said in Well, there goes an hour of my evening...:

@rallydarkstrike Seriously, that EVO WRC is hhrhrrrnnnngggg.....

It's so sad to see how far Mitsu has fallen.....SO sad...

@svend same here 😂

@bicyclebuck that was good.

@pip-bip
The first one was better than the sequel:)

@fractalfootwork

Thanks for sharing!

@pip-bip huh. I had no idea that would even work. I would (no pun intended) expected more burning.

@pip-bip that was pretty sweet. I thought the WRC would win. They make such a ridiculous amount of grip

@jarrett said in How to build a supersonic trebuchet:

@functionoverfashion hide the Colin Furze, show them the Mark Rober 🙂

Mark Rober is their favorite, which is good!

@lanciere either XW or XY Ford Falcon

@roadkilled you could well be correct

@shop-teacher original as in new old stock. He imported every available body panel from south America. He doesn't care about original to the car. He's all about using a better available piece instead of restoring a savable piece that came on the car. Not that any of this is bad it's just less restoration and more building.

@pip-bip Reminds me a bit of this event, flatfenders in Moab. Nice to see classic vehicles still working instead of being hauled out only for car shows.

https://www.motortrend.com/events/1506-flatfenders-wheeling-in-moab-gallery/

@bloody-the-resident-shitposting-saffer I’ve always wondered whether we’re celebrating the fact that he failed or the fact that he tried. Guy Fawkes Day having officially recognised status (in some countries) suggests the former, but celebrating with fireworks suggests the latter…

@drvantraveler target fixation. happens with sleepy drivers too.

maddening that the guy turns away with the camera as soon as tyres start to squeal!

@shop-teacher As the van slid sideways, the front right wheel was the first to go off the pavement into softer dirt. If the dirt was soft enough, the wheel would have dug in and acted as an anchor. The van sliding sideways would probably have rolled over that wheel regardless of the loading. (At least that's my guess.)

@pip-bip good job not hitting the wall I guess lol

@pip-bip Biiiiiiiig Oof!

@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.

@pip-bip I saw that video yesterday and it made me think of good and bad designs in the United States. In my town, the local shooting range, the Sportsmen's Club, is next to the schools. The targets are placed away from the buildings and it's set up for safety. It just means that you get used to the sound of gun shots. It's been this way for years and everybody seems to be reasonable about it. There are a lot of hiking trails near the range, but it's set up to avoid issues and it works. In other words, you can have a shooting range in the middle of an American city as long as everybody acts like reasonable adults.

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@pip-bip That's pretty brutal. The rear belt pretensioners aren't much chop.

@urambo-tauro No, no, I think what happened here is that the collision detection routine encountered an overflow error, and glitched by reversing the velocity vector. Game engines act weirdly sometimes.

@taylor-martin I thought it was accurate! 😄

@pip-bip So many bright colors!

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@pip-bip
XV sedan represent!

@pip-bip

Those things were wild.

@pip-bip Yeah, he's the playlist today. So sad.

@pip-bip If people haven't seen the others, they must be very confused. Incidentally, if you have seen the others, you're probably very confused.

@s65 I never worry about the level of overspend on bikes that are like family pets.
Bike painting, I think, is better done by those with real painting skilz. A hastily spray bombed bike almost always looks crappy. Guy in the video has many skilz.

@facw well now you're getting all sorts of etymologically accurate here, nice!