They aren’t bad dogs, they don’t have crazy restrictions that some breeds have due to how they have been modified. They are pleasant and cute. I prefer dogs like Australian cattle dogs because I can go to remote places and not worry about how they handle it. My bulldog gets hot and lazy and will not do much, but I…

Yeah, every time I have a dog I look at them and know how hard it’s going to be, but I can’t imagine life without them.

Technically my truck’s 1st and 2nd are un synced, but going up into 3rd which is synced is fine, downshifting to 2nd is a tricky double clutch job. I need to practice it, usually you come to a stop and can go up from 2nd again, as long as you keep moving pretty well 3rd is ok to keep going, but I still want to get it…

Yeah that can happen, even in MASH episodes they rolled them two or three times if I remember correctly! My friend has several old flat fender Jeeps ready to be restored but I decided they were pretty dangerous in modern traffic and my dog and my wife would be in the vehicle a lot, so I got the M37 which is a lot…

True, with the original ratios it’s mainly for work, they were built to be tractors really, we call them the world’s fastest tractors. I’m swapping my gears to 4.89s so I can go 55-60 mph, but with the transfer case it won’t effect off road travel, I won’t be getting too crazy with it, maybe some trails in Death…

I actually have people ask me if it’s a Jeep, so I like to reply that it is not! It’s interesting how there is a pretty large disconnect in vehicle knowledge if you you go back this far.

I don’t drive no Jeeps! :P It’s a work in progress, hopefully finished and painted green soon.

Unsynch’d granny for the win!

Depends on the vehicle, granny gear means starting in 2nd all the time, unless you are off road and about to climb.

I bought it and it had that knob, I thought I would get rid of it but it actually helps and feels good. Double clutching is basically the same on all vehicles but various clutches and tranys can be very different. Once you get the feeling for the blip in the throttle and time it right you can keep practicing. People…

A synced manual is nothing, try downshifting from third to second in a 1952 military truck! First is a granny so it’s only really used at certain times, second going up is synced but third going down into an unsynced second requires the double clutch. One nice thing though is that handle on the dash is a throttle,…

Here in the Bay Area all the Telsa drivers are like Prius drivers who upgraded, assholes who can’t merge and when they need to put the power down, they don’t!

I have seriously considered getting one for my M37... The world’s fastest tractor. Even when we swap the gears to 4.89s it will max out at 60, best to keep it at 55.

Yeah they nailed that one.

Yeah the one in this article isn’t my kind of 80's music, I grew up in the 80's. There are some pretty decent new 80's sounding music if you look, I’ve got quite a collection now. I just found this one a little while ago, it’s like growing up in the 80's all in one track:

People have been making 80's remixes of this since 2011, here is one I have:

Ours have reactive armor etc.. I was a Marine, wasn’t in tanks but I know there are lots of countermeasures on them that I bet never went onto those exported.

Last time I was in Tsukiji they said the market was being relocated to a new facility, still there? I wondered how that would affect that part of town. Nice car, I wouldn’t kick it out of bed.

Yeah I was going to say, learn how to say, “can I pay my fine here” in whatever language....

I know of a Taco with almost 300K, guy I know drives all over skiing.