SIMS: But we ARE still in time for the plummeting death part, right? (Klyde Morris webcomic “The Program”)

If you get one of these vehicles, you’ll have to consider it a wheels-to-top project car, not something you can get done quickly or cheaply. I owned a pickup truck a few years ago that must have been in a flood at some point or another. Electrics would get glitchy and need replacing, then engine peripheral parts—and…

Trusting my Dad’s shadetree mechanics. I took it in for a “catalyst fault” and they STOLE the catalytic converter and stuck a straight pipe where it had been.  The twats were too poor to sue.  I should have had them arrested.

Ed Berrier has made a habit of bringing his NASCAR stocker to Goodwood and making a spectacle of hill climbs in it.

Of course the big big problem for Robotech is the judgment on intellectual property between Big West (the franchise rightsholder for the creators of Macross) and Tatsunoko (the production studio/copyright holder for the TV series of Macross which was adapted [or pirated in the opinion of the franchise’s creators]).…

Found an unrepaired recall on my vehicle.  I’ll likely have it fixed in a few weeks.  Thank you!

I studied a little of the Iroha system when I was playing Gundam Network Taisen, as I was using it rather than alphabetics when chosing the names for my bases and carrier ships. What is even more idiosyncratic about it is that it uses a more medieval version of the Japanese language than the modern version that…

More and more Defense Department manuals and tech orders are generated as .pdf files first and then printed in hard copy, rather than the other way around. I know because I build scale models and I found the latest Navy/Marine Corps/Coast Guard directives for markings on aircraft from a semi-public database--the…

I really wanted custom shops to grab these Amaties and further enhance the vibe out of them and either make them look more Benzish or more Jaguarish. They were very popular in the area of Tennessee where I lived. When the drivers’ Pontiac or Olds or Mercury finally bit it, they got one of these to replace it.

If I were the Italian military, I’d set aside a couple weeks out of the year, and invite NATO to train their UXO and UDT people at the site. Seabees too. There are a lot of lessons learned there that could apply to maybe the situation on the Black Sea? Or the Baltic Sea pipelines?  Make the cleanup not just a job in…

King George The Millionth

They own the KFCs there?  They should call the car the SANDERS.

I’m not saying either/or.  I’m saying yes, and...

They can, but an array of lights spaced along the sides of the lane can control a much larger stretch of highway for the same cost as one light sign.  Too many signs and the drivers will tune them out.

While the message signs are good, I think there needs to be indicator lights along the divided highway, that can signal not just for wrong-way vehicles and pursuits, but for other hazards such as heavy volume, environmental hazards like ice or fog, and so on.

Sorry about the double-post.  Must be a hardware/operating system glitch on this end.

I just bought a pre-owned Escape and the front fender badges are missing. They were likely removed by a previous owner. Anyway, my thought was to find some Chana badges from China, as their truck badges somewhat resemble the Federation insignia from Star Trek.  Chana is affiliated with Ford, so I hear.

I just bought a pre-owned Escape and the front fender badges are missing. They were likely removed by a previous owner. Anyway, my thought was to find some Chana badges from China, as their truck badges somewhat resemble the Federation insignia from Star Trek.  Chana is affiliated with Ford, so I hear.

Re: LAUNDRY. That TV series when they attempted to re-enact daily life in 1900 and found that the most popular laundry soaps used then are banned now for being toxic substances? Forget mere drudgery...you could be putting your very life at a risk and not know it.  Now we don’t have to play dirty to get clean.

My sister and I live in western North Carolina. I once helped her take delivery on a car in Atlanta.  I fully expect to have to journey far and wide to replace my current car myself (it runs, but there are too many things wrong with it for it to pass inspection and the registration runs out next month!).