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Sounds like it’s time for the drivers to get sick in a cluster just before a race is to start. Or just say, “He’s out, or no race today”. Even the NHRA, as messed up as it is lately, doesn’t dare to fine John Force when he says shit or the F word over live TV. They know it would blow up in their face if they tried. 

I’ve had a grudge against ambulance companies since 2007, when I was taken from a rehab place to my doctor’s office after falling in PE. It was a “scheduled transfer” so my insurance paid almost all of it. At the doctor’s office, it was clear I had ruptured my quadriceps on my left leg and would need surgery. If they

There is a school near where I live on a busy corner that used to be without major problems with dropping off/picking up kids, but when they put the roundabout in, that’s changed. The parking lot is oddly shaped, and too small, the 2 lane road the school is mostly on is 45MPH, and the speed that many people take the

I like it in general, but there’s something about the taillight bar, whatever it’s called, that is “off” to me. I guess if I had to say what it is, is it’s too “wimpy” compared to the rest of the car. The black wheels can go, I don’t even like them on my own car, but I don’t hate them enough to pony up the $$$ to

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Vinyl? No thanks. I was happy to say goodbye to it soon after CDs came out. If you want some great trains, go here:

If Toyota would make this, and not screw it up, as a lot of great concepts are, they just might get my money. I would never take the top off of it, I wouldn’t want the graphics, inside or out, but the looks are pretty great, especially considering what Toyota trucks and SUV’s have looked like lately. Can Toyota, for

I was going to suggest a can of hair spray, but yours is much better.

They have some truly ridiculous gun “rules”. I had a Sig/Sauer P229 two tone gun, black frame, silver slide, that I was selling on Gunbroker.com. Not sellable in CA. If it was all black, or all silver, OK, but the two-tone is not(or wasn’t then, anyway) on the approved gun list. Worked out OK for me, two guys got

I replaced the OE Pirelli PZero Nero tires on my ‘18 Challenger Scat Pack with Michelin Pilot Sport A/S’s, and the difference is amazing. The back end can still come around very easily, but I have to actually want to do it, the traction in all conditions is much better, and stopping distance on wet pavement is

Don’t go too close to the bananas in the produce section. I’ve seen a couple of Banana Spiders there. One dead and one very much alive. People freaked out. 

I liked the looks of it, but that was about all I liked. I spent a lot of time in the passenger seat of a ‘71, and it was just awful. The owner, a friend of mine bought it as his first new car, and it fell apart, even in the Vegas desert, really quickly. When the engine began burning oil at a rate that made it look

That would be my guess too. The only animal I’ve ever seen personally on a plane was on a flight from Chicago to Atlanta, there was a huge spider, one of those ones with the brown fur on them, A Wolf Spider. He(?) just sat on the empty seats across the aisle from me. A few people came and looked at him, but they left

LOL, those rear quarters are my most hated thing about them, with the rear of the greenhouse right behind. I hated the interior styling, still do, the useless trunk, the nearly useless back seat, so much to hate. If the Challenger hadn’t existed, I would have probably bought a Mustang, and I’m about as big a

It’s almost like the car companies, most of them anyway, were like trying to destroy themselves. Yeah, emissions took the power away for about 10 years, but they seemed to just give up and put out terrible car after terrible, and ugly car. Granada, Monarch, Pacer, Vega, Pinto, Mustang II, Citation, Volare, Aspen, etc,

I would say the Vega is number one, with the X cars close behind. I would love to have heard the talk about it as it was about to be launched by the executives in private. Like when did they realize what a total turd it was, and how it got approved in the first place. Business train wrecks are something I just love to

I was friends, sort of, with a guy who came from a Chevy only family. They just couldn’t conceive of buying any other make, not even another GM brand. Their cars, pre Vegas, were an Impala, a Camaro, and a Chevelle, all pretty low end models with A/C and a 307(I think)in all of them. They bought a pair of them,

In the pic, he doesn’t look much better than my dad did in his coffin at his funeral. Unlike every single other person I’ve ever seen in a coffin who looked great, my dad looked just awful. A couple of people at the funeral home said, “He looks so good!”. As upset as we were, we laughed. I don’t think Rudy will be

I can understand having problems with autopay. It took me many many tries just to access the stupid portal my apartment complex had for electronic payment. I tried and tried to get it to work, but it would take my card info, and when I clicked on, “PAY NOW”, it would bounce me back to the desktop. This happened to my

I’ve been into the shortwave radio hobby for many decades and in the 80's, they began selling decoder boxes that decoded a bunch of different digital signals you could hear. These ranged from news feeds to weather fax maps, morse code spy stuff, and marine traffic. One of the modes was “SITOR” which was very common on

A friend of mine recently was pulled over for supposedly not stopping at a 4 way stop. My friend let the cop write him up and just as he was getting the, “You have a nice day sir!” from the cop, my friend said, “I think it’s gonna be better than your day is going to be!”, and pointed at his dashcam, which had the