If I’m not mistaken, Boeing delivered this plane to Continental in 1994, so whoever had last touch on that part of it, this might be hard to tie to either their choices in materials or their current manufacturing woes.

Every time I think I am sufficiently cynical about how they take advantage of the insufficiently wary consumer, somebody points me toward the next level down... 

Yeah, that 1979 bailout (in the form of loan guarantee), the biggest ever to date, was actually a success story. The overt logic was what we would later call being “too big to fail”... and Chrysler also had military and aerospace divisions that the government didn’t want failing, especially the one that was developing…

I suppose that if you want one, this might be the one you want—a little-old-lady example—though I can think of a vast array of things I’d rather have than $3800. (It would get attention if nothing else; I hardly see one in any condition anymore.)

Yeah, just dumb luck for the little silver car (probably because of the angle of the overcrossing) that the detached dump body went right instead of left.

For that matter, isn’t there already a good-sized database of similarly sized groups of people living under constrained circumstances aboard ISS for comparable lengths of time?

My (mis)understanding is that Oklahoma allows 32% plus the Federal funds rate on the first $7k—horrifying enough, but not nearly the claimed 63%.

I’d love driving or just looking at the car, but am not so sure owning one would be for me even if money were no object and I had a good specialty mechanic in the area.

767 mph

I wouldn’t call him one of our worst, but he certainly was one of the great tragic figures of the Presidency.  Weighing his domestic achievements against the highly avoidable catastrophe of Vietnam (both the escalation and the management of the war once undertaken) is a task with no real endpoint.

Maybe early in the pandemic when getting away from one’s fellow plague carriers was superimposed on the #vanlyfe influencer fad. I’ve got a hunch that even if you try to play into the “overlanding” bit with this one, it’s a bit late to the party to command sixteen-five.

We had a Cairn Terrier and she was awesome.

I’m not generally into donks, but the proportions of the CrossCabriolet are perfect for that look.

You’re quite generous toward not only that deep “sheesh!” exploration headline, but also the body of the article. I’ve always understood the default for just “carrier” to be the aircraft kind (especially in the context of WW2), and if you mean one of the other sorts (ore carriers, etc.), the other word is necessary.

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: