A poo emoji on an Austin Allegro. That is the correct way to use an emoji.

My favorite FC was the one at the Sun Valley (Idaho) resort that used to resurface the ice on the outdoor rink. The rear of the truck was set up like a Zamboni unit. This was in the ‘80s so I doubt they still have them.

Sorry I was talking about the original Land Rovers with the 2L petrol or 2.25L petrol or diesel iron lumps. I believe head gasket problems were more of a problem on Discovery engines.

That’s why I’d prefer not to own anything newer than a Series III Landy.

The Cape Henlopen, one of the ferries that go from New London, CT to Orient Point, NY was originally the USS Buncombe County, LST 510, which participated in D-Day. There’s a plaque on one of the decks listing LST 510 and its battle star from that day.

USS Constitution is still part of the US Navy and is crewed by active duty personnel. 

Thanks I couldn’t remember. 

One of the books I read on Ford mentioned how the “E-car” division was supposed to be radically different and new platform, but the costs involved made them scale back to use the existing Mercury and Ford platforms. I think that there were two things that killed them; first, the price/performance of the Edsel slotted…

It was called “Teletouch” and I think only lasted two model years. Besides the ergonomic issues, the system was not very well executed, and had a lot of solenoid problems. One of my friends growing up had an Edsel wagon with this transmission, and IIRC it was in the shop a lot for transmission problems. The flying…

The Aerostar was the company vehicle that many of the service techs got when I was working in HP sales in the early 90s; as I recall the techs loved them.

It would never make it down a lot of trails in northern New England - it’s way too large.

It should have been an Austin Allegro.

Our old town was Boscawen, which has no wealthy vacationers and no post office. :/ (The mail is delivered by the Concord PO.) However for a town with one large plow truck and one pickup plow truck, they did a damn good job of clearing the roads — better than a lot of the larger towns/cities.

We used to have to sometimes push the mail truck when it would get stuck on our old street during the winter (we live in NH.) It wasn’t that there was a lot of snow (the street was plowed and sanded) but they had the worst/bald tires on those vehicles. Our current rural carrier has her own RHD Jeep Wrangler Unlimited,…

Nav Canada is funded by “publicly traded debt and service charges to aircraft operators.” No government funds are used. Works for me.

It might be time to make ATC a private, non-profit corporation like Nav Canada. We could also re-privatize the TSA while we’re at it.

I used to have a 1st gen Volt and have a GMC Sierra, and have noticed the same thing. I used to get cut off in the Volt a lot. I had the Volt for the same reason as you - I got it used for cheap.

We did that on Filbert one night in a rental GM “dustbuster” minivan with 7 people aboard. One person almost threw up when we went back and did it a second time! 

For something like that I pay in cash. Not for this one though.

It’s not bad. Their dealership/paperwork fee is high IMHO ($495), but they seem to be pretty fair on pricing their used cars.