For the people who have not learned to drink from a glass....

We have a similar event, but thankfully ours is held indoors (Chili Bowl Midget Nationals) and at a hugely popular event hall. Its a shame to see this place go by the wayside, but the local political leadership has allowed it to fall apart and now they will use that excuse to destroy it and make way for more affluent…

I used to work for a International’s Integrated Coach Systems, subsidiary of Navistar. We built complete school buses using the Navistar/Ford diesel powerplants. Federal law mandated in 2012 that all diesel powerplants needed to be cleaner in exhaust. The CEO of Navistar wanted to avoid adding urea injection to the…

Of course not. So what is the answer then? Stop everything? No more fossil fuel usage? No more electric generation? Its not a matter of semantics. What we have is a problem, with thousands of private corporations and academics demanding they be allowed to fix it at their profit and no oversight to assure its done…

And all of the ones making definitive statements are standing with their hands out for grant money. That has huge effect on their position on the subject.

True, but the data does not include why it is occurring. Only that it is occurring. No one knows exactly why its happening, but there are economic reasons for many to claim they have the knowledge. And to simply say its one factor is not science because that assumes the data is procured in a vacuum and taken in a…

I realize that the heat wave is taken as a global average, but those numbers are what we typically call Summer here in the central plains of the US. We however have been enjoying moderate temperatures for a good part of this summer and we look to actually have a Fall season instead of everything being dead and dried…

To this day, after owning 6 cars and 2 pickup trucks, I still have yet to purchase or own any with an automatic transmission. Not a statement, not an elitist thing, I just enjoy shifting the gears. Doesn’t matter if I am in stop-and-go traffic or a winding country road either.

As an old fart, someone who grew up learning to drive in my Dad’s early 70’s GMC half ton work truck with no power steering or assisted brakes and a clutch pedal that was nearly impossible to hold in during length of a typical red light, I find these kinds of things amusing. Don’t me wrong. I didn’t enjoy the fact…

“It looks like a movie bomb to me” says the Cop. Well “You look like a movie cop to me” but apparently we were both fooled. #dumbass

All jingoism aside, I hope he does get a legit opportunity (as good as Manor is). Not that I think the series must have an American presence, but Alex has been working hard and improving and I think deserves this chance as do many of the others in the lower formula.

Its a tried and true formula. These shows are not designed to appeal to fans of all things automotive, but to the non-car fan sheeple out there that find the shadenfreude somehow entertaining. Te only one of the shows that regularly has truly epic work is the one from Kindigit Design, but even there they go from a…

I saw an episode, was not that impressed. Mostly him having some sort of drug induced paranoia.

They are unbelievably popular here in the central plains states. Always loud and generally moving slowly due to rider skill more than performance. And I am not saying slow as a sportbike wannabe racer, I am saying that as a guy driving a 150k mile Honda Fit and they are in these Harleys are in the way.

That was offered as a kit car back in the 90s I believe. Reskinned Civic

Even though its an AMX, that s $3k to $4k car. Needs body work that you can see, and I would imagine a lot more you cannot. No matching engine, tranny or wheels? Major losses. Cannot expect the interior to be great, they pretty much were not when they were new. Only thing desirable about this car is that it is an AMX.…

Because 90% of it sucks. Low contrast screens you cannot read, sync systems that barely work with your phone.

Living in Tulsa, OK and working in the energy sector for a production equipment company, the market doesn’t have as much affect on gasoline prices at the pump, it really comes down to market manipulation and speculators driving the price. The largest strategic oil reserve in the US is in Cushing, OK (if its not now it…

THANK YOU DOUG! I’ve been preaching this every time the mid-sized/small truck debate comes up.

California suffers because they allow rampant urban construction and population growth without infrastucture to support it. They have no problem building homes on hillsides and in places that are not suitable to support construction, no problem with rampant urban sprawl and endless shopping malls, but won’t plan for…