I have a fat, amiable housecat, if that counts. Granted, I don’t take him out to the garage, but if I were to have an animal out there with me, it’d be him.

Hey, I’ll admit I’m an idiot who’s not the best with the wordy-bits as well, but I also don’t write for a living.

“Starting with a white sheet of paper allowed them to put the occupants on top of the driver just like Tesla did”

I have a Windows phone, which has an app store...

Well that’s good to hear, I tracked a standard SLS and bounced it off the limiter because I didn’t shift several hundred rpm before redline.

I have no idea what this is from, but one thing does make sense: the date stamp.

I’ve been working on getting through the slaloms more efficiently at the autocross, and getting through as straight as I can, without excessively avoiding the cones. Watching that gif makes me cringe. it also reminds me of Asetto Corsa, where once you go much beyond 90 degrees of input, it decides you want full lock.

The lesson I learned from this video is...I need a third set of wheels and some Cup 2s to wrap them in.

I’m thinking tail light bulb replacement.

I gladly accept your defiance.

The school is fining its own band $5,000 for a simple formation mistake? Sounds like the band is really getting shafted.

Thank you! While there are innumerable drool-worthy features on the Singer 911s, that finish really caught my eye. While I don’t believe I’ll ever be able to afford one, unfortunately, I’m certainly locking this particular idea away. I’ve had a project in my head for years now, and I think this would really add to it.

Hey now, over the weekend I had to help my girlfriend move back to school, which involved moving a couch. That couch wasn’t fitting in her Civic or my Camaro, and the school is around 170 miles from our hometown, so a rental was prohibitively expensive. I borrowed a friends dad’s truck, and brought it back to him 24…

Oh boy. In my car, I’ve almost always got jumper cables, a tire inflator, gloves, safety glasses, my trusty trunk hoodie, and a breaker bar, plus a sweet little tool bag that holds a hammer, vise grips, zip ties, a tire pressure gauge, a box cutter, bungie cables, a multi-bit screwdriver, a couple beater screwdrivers,…

What finish it that on the bumprette-things? They’re not mirror polished, but they’re not brushed...are they plated with something else?

Good lord, somebody tell that cop to pull the lead weights out of the trunk. I had an Impala of that generation, and it was lowered, and even with subs in the trunk, it didn’t droop that far.

I can get behind this. I need to get something practical eventually, and while I’ve been hypothetically leaning towards the Colorado, a Jeep truck rustles some major jimmies.

One minor, anal revision I’d recommend, the SS models come with Pirelli P-Zero tires, a meh 240 or so UTQC summer tire, whereas the Z/28 runs on Pirelli P-Zero Trofeo Rs, a 60 treadwear rated, barely grooved gumball. The naming scheme doesn’t make it sound like a big difference, but the performance (and tread life) is…

The rear suspension, mostly. ‘12 model year cars got a larger rear bar, different lower control arms that moves the endlink mounting points farther out, giving the bar more leverage. They also gave it a steering wheel designed to be held by human hands in 2012.

We had two of these when I started work with my current company. One of them, a 2006 model, just got sold off because of rust, and the other is so, so gutless, although it is still chugging along at 160,000 miles. We bought a ‘14 Durango a few months ago, and it’s lightyears ahead of the previous generation.