As someone who owns more than one car, and none of them with functioning A/C, I fail to see how this is neglect rather than a tragic accident. Sure, they should have known better than to embark on a long hot drive on that particular day, but it doesn't sound like they just didn't care about the baby.

I still disagree with your overall point, I think, but the last couple paragraphs of your last post make sense to me. But part of the reason I can claim that it is not a distraction, or at the very least not a meaningful one, is that I allow it to take up a portion of my attention under circumstances which are not…

So if I sip a beverage, is the drink getting the priority or is driving? Because in both scenarios, I'm still actively driving while doing those things. My point is that if I need to be paying so much attention to the road that I can't fully do both at the same time, the phone conversation is the one that fades to the…

I think the effects of talking on the cell phone vary greatly from person to person. I've never noticed my attentiveness go down when I'm on the phone and always make sure to still be checking mirrors and watching what I'm doing even more carefully. I've never even had any close calls while on my phone. The biggest…

Disagree. I mean first of all you're using generalizations. "People talking on phones are not paying attention to driving." So explain why when I'm on a cell phone while driving and something unusual is happening around me, or I get caught in heavy traffic, my attention shifts from the conversation to the traffic. I'm…

I agree, they do look better on the later ones. That yellow racer was based on a '23.

Lol, I just saw this comment. I replied to your other one saying mostly the same thing.

Yeah, I mean... could be. Technically. But the pressure of just the ordinary weight of the car shouldn't be enough to break even bad wood, and this car looks well taken care of. I'm guessing that the wheel had lateral pressure on it and snapped the weakest spoke and caused a chain reaction resulting in the wheel…

Yeah, I know what you mean! I drive my father-in-law's '52 Buick pretty often, and even though it's big and sturdy for an old car, it doesn't have much in the way of safety. No padded dash, no airbag, single-piece steering column, no power brakes. It's too fun to drive though to pass up taking that risk. You just have…

Oh there are all kinds of wheels that fit the Model T. My great-grandpa, when he died, had a total of 3 Model Ts in his garage. One was a '16 Touring in nice shape, another was a little "buggy" Model T built to resemble a boat-tail race car from the early days, and another was an unrestored heap. The race car had…

A lot of people don't know how to take care of wooden wheels anymore. Back in the day, I've heard they would sometimes let the wheels rest in some shallow water or something to get the wood to soak it up and tighten up. It doesn't sound like a good long-term plan to me, but that extra flexibility and tightness may…