One of the reasons I like to occasionally travel for work is I get to have cable TV and some movie channels we don’t have at home. I can always find some guilty-pleasure movie to watch that would surely make my wife groan and go to bed without me (Fast & Furious 8 on my last trip, a number of vampire moves on the trip…

Excellent point. Besides, he’ll have trailer brakes!

‘Awful with a glass of wine’ is one of my favorite genres; almost always enjoyed alone to eliminate shaming by my wife or her move of going to bed shortly before then end (a move that I am generally incapable of making because I really want to know how the incredibly stupid movie ends!)

How about bellypans? They’re a big deal over on EcoModder. I kind of geekily want to try to make some aero mods on my full size van (front air dam, belly pan, side skirts) just to try to eek out any slight improvement in its horrible fuel economy.

Not unless you did summer theater in the DC area in the early 90's ;-)

That sounds totally plausible to me. I’ve had a friend or two like that. We seemed to alternate who was into who and after many years the timing just never worked out. It’s all good though we’ve all ended up with good partners and have been able to stay friends that can care deeply for each other (or at least I do)…

I think he is referring to the horror & catastrophe move trope: “Come Onnnnn! Come Onnnn! Why Won’t You Start!” the character cries to the car that has had no mechanical maladies in any other part of the movie.

AHHHHH! That is an important detail! Yes, I apologize, I am brain dead and in spite of the snow outside I was only thinking of expansion due to heat! your Bro is correct. I have had cars blow out their freeze plugs due to frozen coolant. Again, my apologies.

Holy Crap! What an A-hole!

Psst- Your bro is dead wrong. The expansion characteristics of the liquid is immaterial because the radiator cap has a spring that releases the pressure that builds up as the liquid expands. Usually the cap is rated for around 15-20psi. For further support against your Bro, antifreeze is super slippery, (go ahead,…

After 30 years of driving Japanese and German cars I just bought my first Chevy and had a similar experience. I turned the lights on (twist knob on the dash tothe left of the steering wheel, like my old Mercedes) and I noticed there was a blue headlight icon on the dash. It took me a while to figure out how the hell…

I admit I’m sad to give up my Toyota Sienna for a huge Chevy Express.

Or maybe the ‘56 Pine Tint.

I’d be totally ok with 6 if it had a dog-leg first gear. This way sixth would set off to the side far to the right like 5th in a traditional 5-speed.. This would actually be the perfect commuter car that also does track days; You’d never need 1st or 6th on the track so all the fun gears would be in a perfect H…

Did you say something?

And they haven’t even bought the boat yet! They need that capacity for when they might someday buy that boat they’ve been talking about for the past 10 years. But, when the time comes, their truck will be ready!

Or convienient when you want to prank your friends and they too had ‘70's Toyotas. That’s what we did. There were several of us with ‘70's toyotas when we were in high school in the late 80's; we’d frequently screw with each other and move each others cars.

I like it! Very Jetsons.

My boss was just getting 2 new tires for his VW after blowing out one on a pothole. The fact that his commuter car comes with 40 aspect ratio tires is just stupid.

Seriously. Next to Jeep, Cadillac may be one of the worst offenders of showing awesome, damn-near-production-ready prototypes and then never producing them. Did anyone care about Chysler 300s before the current “budget Bently” styling that came out several (10?) years ago? NO. Chrysler took a car that C&D loved, but…