I’m still unhappy with myself for never buying a LX 5.0 manual notchback. I came this close to getting one. I found one at a dealer, low miles, $7000. I said I’d be back in the afternoon with my checkbook and when I showed up, it was gone.

I happened to cut right through the whole breadth of Arkansas.

Don’t set painted body parts directly on the concrete. I cringe when I see that hood resting on its lip directly on the ground. Wrap those things in blankets if you have any kind of decent paint left.

My college room mate did this in his 78 Trans Am (probably a TH350 transmission). He was trying to manually upshift his transmission at wide-open-throttle and he missed Drive and went right into Reverse. There was a really big bang and shock that went through the car (kind of like hitting a big pothole) and he quickly…

Correction. Magnetic scanner friendly. The font on checks is MICR (pronounced “micker”) for Magnetic Ink Character Recognition. In the 1990s check sorting machines were introduced that could read checks optically, at least in my experience of writing programming for them.

My speculation. Motorcyclist merges onto freeway. Starts moving over to left lane (some distance behind the truck at this point). He is about to merge into far left lane when 100+MPH Acura comes flying past, laying down on his horn at motorcyclist who is moving into his lane. Motorcyclist is pissed off at nearly being…

Just a thought. I get “checks” from my credit cards all the time. If your loan balance isn’t unreasonably high, you might just float yourself a loan by using these to pay the balance and sell the car outright. Be very careful though or you’ll be financing a car at credit card rates.

I’m on Breedlove’s side of this, but isn’t it pushing the envelope a bit to have a car on loan to a museum for 50 years solely on the basis of an oral agreement? This is why you draw up a contract specifying things like authorized repairs and maintenance (and who is responsible for the costs.) Then again, hindsight is…

Of course this is France. If it were say, the USA, it would have suffered from being shot 500 times.

I dread getting old. My father suffered a stroke, and it seems his mind just went. He believed every huckster and phone solicitation. Every time I’d go visit, he’d have a list of bullshit products he wanted to buy off the TV, and he’d ask me to call and give me his credit card to get the junk. Fortunately, he was…

If you get the appropriate Tivo box (one with a cablecard slot), you can replace your cable box.

If you get the appropriate Tivo box (one with a cablecard slot), you can replace your cable box.

I have a Tivo Series 2, and the Lifetime keeps rocking along. It is Humax branded so I think they may have had a different agreement with other manufacturers that licensed the Tivo technology, however. Tivo will no longer subscribe boxes that were not under Lifetime subscriptions. I had a backup box that is now only…

I have a Tivo Series 2, and the Lifetime keeps rocking along. It is Humax branded so I think they may have had a…

Heraclitus answered the question long ago. “No man ever steps into the same river twice, for it is not the same river and he is not the same man.” Your Jeep is not the same from one day to the next, from one mile to the next. A car with all the parts as it came from the factory is not the same at 100K as it was when…

I understand that Adam and Jamie weren’t particularly fond of each other. (Actually it seemed like Jamie didn’t always care for Adam than vice versa. Jamie reminds me of my stern uncle who was a retired Air Force Colonel. He suffered no fools.)

It may have slipped out of park into reverse. Chinese cars are of questionable quality and maintenance so it may not be exactly the driver’s fault.

True. My grandfather and 2 of my uncles were John Deere men, so its the brand that comes to mind when I think of row crop farming. Another uncle who came to farming later was an oddball and bought an Allis-Chalmers tractor. He was always scouring the country for spare parts for the “AC”. One uncle is still alive (in…

John Deere likely ended any ambitions of using a CJ as a farm implement. . All these attachments listed for the Jeep are available for a tractor pretty much to this day, given that they all have PTOs and hydraulics.

That’s a bacon cheeseburger without the patty, you know the kind your mom would make you because she never buys buns at “the Kroger”.

It’s a big sedan with a V8. What’s not to like? What I don’t get is that if these were meant to be fleet vehicles, then whats the problem with finding parts? GM would have have to assure police departments that it would stand behind the vehicles with parts and support. Yeah, maybe Autozone doesn’t carry even common…

I haven’t even finished watching it yet, but this is wonderful. As Clarkson once quipped of Richard Hammond, “deep down, he is a secret American.” The Grand Tour of Italy demonstrates this in spades.