True. He hired on in ‘69 and save for a 2 year stint in ‘Nam, that’s where he worked until he retired in ‘06. To think of the changes in the auto industry he witnessed from when he started til he retired is pretty wild.

That’s not how my uncle explained it. Worked at the Lorain Ford plant until it closed, then at the Avon Lake plant until he retired. If you bought a new vehicle, it better have been a Ford. Old beaters for a DD in the winter didn’t matter, could be a Nissan from Japan.

It isn’t so much union vs. non-union. It’s more like “Hey dumb ass, for not supporting the company who gives you a paycheck, here’s your prize”

My parents bought one new back in the day (not sure on the exact year though). The only memory that stands out to me is the day a tie-rod end let go and luckily enough, the car pulled right and we wound up in someone’s front yard rather than going left of center into a head on collision. Dad was pretty upset about…

I wonder if he has deleted the power steering. I learned to drive on an ‘86 Jeep Comanche w/o power steering, it was probably 5 turns lock to lock and when I was hooning it around in the winter, it would definitely come back to center on it’s own and then you’d just have to palm the wheel and help a bit to get to the…

That’s a bit more involved than what Penguinsftw was asking, “Could I go find a c6 zo6 roller and just plop this thing in plug and play?”

When you look at TV ratings, even the best shows reach less than a tenth of the population. So the fact that someone may not “get” a popular TV show actually puts them in the majority. It’s more about how vocal the fans of a certain show are that makes it seem popular.

A sitcom about a working class family in Indiana. This year it’s finishing up it’s 9th and final season. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Middle_(TV_series) I wouldn’t call it must see TV, but we do watch it on a semi regular basis.

I can see how the show is lost on those that are not from flyover country and don’t come from a blue collar background. For me, it was one of the shows that was must see TV when I was growing up. I’m looking forward to the new version.

Dude, that movie was the coolest thing ever to my 12 year old self when I saw it for the 1st time!

Chevy is popular because they were the first to offer hop up parts at the parts counter at your local dealership for a reasonable price long before Ford and Chrysler. If you were a teenager in the 60's and wanted a quick car on a budget, you picked up a tri-5 and hit the local Chevy dealer for a cam, intake, carb, and…

The tough part will be getting the ECU to talk with all the other electronics on the car like the ABS, traction control, speedometer, etc... This is a marine engine so the ECU is only for running the engine and a tachometer and nothing else. If this roller is destined to be a race car where you don’t care about the…

Yup, top level racing is 50% talent and 50% sponsorship backing unless you are an “alien”. Also, with regards to MotoGP, just like F1, all the feeder series that teams follow are based out of Europe. Most of the MotoGP grid racers were racing 80cc and 125cc on road tracks while the American kids were cutting their…

This. I live 20 minutes from National Trail Raceway. I know a few street racers who refuse to go there for Wednesday bracket racing or Friday Test ‘n’ Tune sessions, but will go at in an industrial area at 3AM on the weekend.

That’s pretty much what I have done my entire adult life. Standard cab F-150s with the XLT trim and a KTM in the bed. I race enduros, over the last ten years, I’ve spent at least Raptor’s worth of money doing that lol I wouldn’t have it any other way.

Reading about the movable air-dam tells me the idea I have been kicking around in my head for 10 years was worth pursuing. Shoulda put pencil to paper and got it out of my brain. Oh well. Reason 101 on why I’m not rich yet lol

Oh, Lincoln isn’t gonna die any time soon because their CUVs and SUVs are printing money for them. Anyways, the higher spec platforms that BMW and MB use are the basis of the quality they are perceived to have. You can dress up a Fusion or Taurus platform all you want, but there will be compromises built in because of…

Like the time I saw a newer HiLux. In and of itself, it’s not a rare or noteworthy vehicle if you live where they’re sold, but in Ohio with Ohio plates, yeah, pretty cool.

Sure, we’re talking about US sales, but I’m talking about why M-B can invest in the E-class and build it on it’s own platform while Ford had to re-purpose an existing platform that’s used in cars starting in the low $20's. Granted most consumers don’t understand that, but they do understand what the tri-pointed star…

Actually, it is relevant. Those sales help keep the revenue up to justify R&D investment. When you sell 150,000 units a year (they sell 100K/yr in Europe), you can invest far more at far lower cost per car than your competitor who is selling 10K/yr.