Huffytoss
Huffytoss
Huffytoss

Just stay away from Robbie's. They typically crash one every other week. This week was busy. Two crashes in the US for this month already.

It's a government vehicle, they were on patrol, just in the wrong area. The F-16 was conducting gun runs on vehicles.

Still goes pssssssss but louder. Once you punch a hole, the air just leaks out through the hole.

Two soldiers accidentally wandered into the target zone during night time operations. Both survived with only minor injuries.

That's because they been watching too many movies of shooting out the tires and seeing the tire explode. When you shoot bullets through a tire, the tire goes psssssssssss for a while. Only way to stop a vehicle is either shoot the driver or shoot the engine block with many large bullets.

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Champ cars did it at San Jose. The railroad crossing were sending the car airborne.

Burke Lakefront Airport in Cleveland. Super wide front straight with a tight first turn. Plenty of run off. Still my favorite temporary race track.

In 2005, many members of VCOA were suffering fuel pump problems. Everyone commented how stupid it was for the dealer to order the part from Sweden because Volvo USA didn't have the part in stock.

The 05 S60/V70R were plagued with fuel pump problems and they were special order from Sweden. Which was why I bought an 05 Legacy GT wagon.

The helicopter community was not pleased about what the guy did. Robbie pilots do stupid things so often that they crash almost every week earning their nickname robbietard.

about $80 a roll.

One of the collegiate SAE competitions were already doing hot swap of batteries during a pit stop. It took like 20 seconds. This was like 10 years ago.

Not sure which is worse, crossing the road without looking or the idiots in Britain taking selfies in front of the peloton in the Tour de France.

Chris Harris knows all about Ferrari and what they do if you do something they don't like.

Navy SEALs have been blowing up San Clemente Island since the Vietnam War. There's nothing secret about the base. Everyone knows about it.

Things don't get fixed until something happens. Take Alex Zanardi's crash at Indy. The response time was pathetic because protocol didn't allow any vehicles to travel backwards on the track. He was within 100 yards of the safety vehicles, but they have to travel the full length of the track to get to him.

Read Driving Ambition. There was a lot of emphasis by Gordon Murray that the car was not to be a race car. They put quite a lot of work when the parent company told them to make it into a race car since things like the suspension was not designed for racing.

F1 was designed without power steering, power brakes, or even ABS which was pretty much standard equipment on cars back in the mid 90's.

The F1 was designed as a road car with no intentions of ever being a race car. It was even designed with a set of suitcases including a golf bag. The tires weren't even super low profile like they use today for drive-ability, 235/45R17 and 315/45R17.