The race was for pre 66 cars so they would be for the 283ci Mk1 cars. The 427 Mk II’s also have very different sheet metal at the rear to account for the much bigger engine. The MKII with the 427 is a pretty rare beast I think only around 10-15 were built compared to around 85 Mk1's. They actually built enough Mk1's to…
I lived in Scotland for 6 months. The switch to left-hand shifting was almost intuitive. The shift pattern is the same and the pedals are in the same order. It was very little effort. Human minds are amazingly capable of adapting.
Many of today’s most celebrated chefs appear to be completely bored with the concept of food. They’re like modern artists who, with great fanfare, present a completely blank canvas as an ironic commentary on “art” - and then a crowd of sycophants gathers around to acclaim it as a greater achievement than…
A county sheriff just got busted drunk in a county car in MN and everyone was like he said he was sorry and he takes responsibility and that is fine but these same people want a 18 year old shoplifter to be incarcerated for life with their hands removed. So I totally get that there is a certain group of people with…
Weird. Normally in the midwest we hunt with a moving vehicle, not from one.
Four extra-jurisdiction cops were chasing a guy from their city into Austin. Went into our neighborhood at about 3 am. Blasted up and down the streets for several minutes before the guy drove through someone’s fence and yard. The cops chased through the yard. One cop lost control and totaled a truck sitting in a…
The loophole is to charge the teens with the cop hitting the pedestrian. It’s the way they’ve been passing blame on terrible policing for year. Just like if police engage in a shootout with a suspect and the police shoot bystanders.
My college group of friends had a GL500 that got traded around like a dirty whore. Initially discovered under the deck of a rental property owned by someones dad, resurrected and ridden, passed on to the next user, etc. About owner #3, the Windjammer II fairing was retired. Then, it took a spill off a homemade carrier…
Bullitt is the easy go to, right? Maybe a bit too car focused?
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Why does anybody still pay attention to his word vomit tweeting?
30 year motorcycle rider, I just bought a Triumph Rocket III sidecar in Olympia, WA, last Friday and did 1220 miles down to Los Angeles in two and half days. Weather gods granted me a brief less-rainy window, but still cold and super foggy around dawn and dusk. Took the whole trip to remember NOT to put my foot down…
I had a bright yellow semi-manual Spyder at one point, and that thing was really fun to ride around because it was so goofy. You couldn’t shut off the traction control back then, which made it a bit of a chore when really carving twisties. But the frunk was large enough to comfortably fit a backpack full of textbooks…
You and me both. California’s prices on, well, everything are a bit too much for my cornfed self. But living along the coast of Monterey must be an absolute dream.
PUBLIC transit. Boston should do it, and so should everyone else.
Do you have any evidence to support that contention? As mentioned above, in the cities I’ve lived in (not just SF), operators are specifically told not to challenge fare evaders because they aren’t trained for it, and because they don’t want to escalate the situation into a real safety concern.
My biggest reason to not use public transport is not the cost of the fare, but the annoyance of having to pay. Some train stations are manned, some are unmanned, some have digital only where you need a card, some have stops where conductors bill you. Busses I just don’t understand as they don’t make change and don’t…
Also, the cost savings from getting rid of “fare officers” and the related BS that comes with it makes a ton of sense.
Make all public transport free, it is already taxpayer funded in one form or another, directly or indirectly, so might as well just make it free and save money on having to run office costs in calculating fares and subsidies.
