You simply drop it out the window just past some railroad tracks or a large pothole on your normal route. (handle with gloves, just in case)

One of the biggest lessons about the automotive industry I’ve gotten from reading Jalopnik is....

.... ALWAYS be prepared for a supplier to f*ck you over, hard.

Maybe Ford had it right in the 20's when they were starting with ore and lumber, and rolling a car out the other side of River Rouge.

If we’re going to these extremes, leave the tires alone. On an older vehicle, just pull the grease caps and remove the cotter pins from the spindle nuts, and wait.

On something newer there’s no end of things just under the car that will start leaking and complaining when disturbed. Find a vacuum hose and yank.

You aren’t a commenter to have a great time with. You aren’t interesting or fun to read. You’re a distraction for giggles. You do that just OK, but as inefficiently and wastefully as possible.

You know, if carmakers put forth the effort to integrate controls that didn’t need to be looked at to operate, that would cut a decent portion of “blanking” out of the equation.

It’s a Genesis, which is probably well north of $60K.

Hyundai is letting Genesis think in the old ways... far too small. A $1000 deposit on a car like this? Really? A lot of folks who could do such things are going to go “Only a grand? Eh.”

Make it exclusive, make it worth noting. $10,000 deposit.

The most fun time I ever had involved a NOT frozen washer fluid bottle.

End of a long drive north up I-35. Washer was full of water, and fluid thanks to 4 hours on the interstate. Arrived in Minneapolis. which had gotten 8" of snow the day before and the interstate was a little slushy for the 10F temp.

A truck…

Volume founding means stuff stays hot and doesn’t sit around to get contaminated...

Have you ever seen Bristol’s pit layout? That transition is almost the first pit stall...

Seems pretty smart to me to postpone an event due to unforeseen storm systems, especially ones that dropped 6-8" of rain in Nashville a few hours prior...

About 3/4 of the dirt used at Bristol is *literally* a re-used resource, somewhere outside the track they had stored all the dirt from some previous event. It wasn’t enough for this specific use and was the wrong formula, so they used it as a base layer.

Douglas Corrigan: “Leeerooooy Jeeenkins!”

TRIANGULATE, and keep fasteners out of shear and away from high mechanical advantage situations.

This horribly photographed getup carried a couple hundred pounds of lumber under reasonable driving conditions. Triangulated fore-aft and for side forces is assembled in a laminated configuration with torque on the joints…

You have a top beam screwed to a 6' support at a 90 degree angle, where the support is a standard 2x4 aligned on the short edge, and let’s be charitable and say two screws through the beam downward into the support.

The edge of the support is now a pivot 0.75" from the fastener, and a 72" lever on the other side.…

Intermodal thrombosis.

Stancing is a self-fucking activity, the car’s almost always eventually damaged or totaled.

“[the] non-Hispanic white woman with short blond hair who appeared to be in her fifties, claimed that smoke from the tires was killing nearby trees and that traffic from the gathering would make it impossible for an ambulance to reach her in the event of a medical emergency (though two other roads to the apartment…

Anyone want to clue Jody in that there already exists a legal document that defines what’s required to become a state?

You do realize these things are governed to around 3600rpm, right? And that they’re running on magnetos that don’t provide any ignition advance?

I was using a soft example for ease of math.

You are aware that kinetic energy increases as the square of the increase in velocity? If the duration of the event is the same, and my math holds up because it’s f*cking early, a 25mph impact has 2.78 times the energy to dissipate versus a 15mph impact. If you want a neat…