Don’t forget the 48 HP.

True, but even though it’s described as a daily driver, only someone of “Columbo”-adjacent eccentricity would actually do that. The occasional setback and a perennial scavenger hunt for parts is life with a hobby car, and that’s a good way to look at anything that’s both this uncommon in the US and this old.

That would seem to be the logical order of events.

It’s been some years since I brought a vehicle into California, but I’m pretty sure you go to the DMV with smog check in hand, then do registration/title/plates.

Squinting hard at this panel, I guess she is maybe supposed to be holding onto the bottom of his seat, since it’s a tandem bicycle with a rare lack of rear handlebars.

The problem is the exhaust:

I wonder if the truck will be laid low by a hundred different mysterious electrical gremlins before the corrosion starts to show up...

Of course, if you wait until such a potent hurricane is upon you, the trees, power lines, and occasional roof in the road might slow you down some. As I’m sure you know, but am just mentioning for the record, the best use for a car in a hurricane warning is getting well out of its predicted path, or at least to a…

The market in general seems to share your uncertainty about the value proposition. Despite being a nice looking car in a metro area of roughly 8 million, with none of the indications you sometimes see in these ads that the seller is a kind of a lot, it has languished on Craigslist for a month. Why? Well, of the big…

Another nuance that perhaps needs a bit more unpacking than the article provides: The Far Detector isn’t being built underground because it is large, but because all that rock serves as shielding against cosmic rays (but is more or less transparent to neutrinos). People build neutrino detectors under deep water, or…

Every night some self-appointed border guards neither get in a firefight with the real thing nor plug an innocent bystander is a blessing, and we can’t expect that to last forever.

the manager “also did not check, through the computer, if all the projections had already been closed” (no idea what that means).

As you get further away, the amplitude changes remain in the same proportion, so the receiver doesn’t see a change in the information, just in loudness.

A good tire shop does most of that. Seems like the least we can expect on jetliners. The questions are twofold:

I don’t know the technology behind AM radio, but I know it has been around since the 1910s or something

Also, gas prices are cheap in the US (for now...) while EVs are still perceived as at least a sorta-premium product. Meanwhile, when lithium was perceived as being too scarce, everybody and their cousin started looking for it, and a lot of them succeeded. It’ll even out.

I’m always amazed that those local stations are hanging in there as well as they do. In my wife’s home town (population back up over 10,000 but not by much), the only radio station, both AM and FM, folded a few years ago. The original owners had passed away, the general manager wanted to retire, and they couldn’t find…

Not to mention that back when these laws were passed, stealing a horse could be depriving someone of a capital asset (I’ll take, apologies in advance, a horseback guess that in the late 19th Century US it was a hundred-dollar animal or more—and a dollar a day was a good wage for, say a farm laborer); a tool needed to…

In other news, there’s a thief out there who knows how to drive a horse and buggy. I have never performed this once commonplace task and probably never will.

Biggest groaner of the day, according to the latest Gallop Poll.