Then don’t move to a rural area. Stay in your shitty urban apartment instead, thank you very much. I have a neighbor kinda like Williams. He’s retired, in his 80's, and is the one NICE local resident in the neighborhood. I even let him park cars along my property because he IS a nice guy, and knows more about cars…

My dad (accountant) and I (scientist?) were in Home Depot and heard the following exchange:

Home Depot Girl: “Hey you’re pretty god at math right?”
Home Depot Old Guy: “umm, I guess so”

Seems strange that suggesting something could be dangerous opens you to liability. Normally it’s the other way around.

You mean when you say “I need a large case one wire GM alternator” and the clerk comes back with the “What make...?” And then you have to make something up because that crate motor you put in the Jeep didn’t actually come from anything.

... and then a view from where the oil pan normally resides, which resembled a mass of guacamole stalagmites

Because in 1980, we weren’t barraged daily with existential dread and reports of terrorism. The currently manufactured state of constant fear is a relatively recent development.

I get that the US market can be surprisingly shallow for collector cars, but really now. You’d think the E30, NSX, Viper, Z-cars, or even some old school SUVs would show up in there somewhere. It’s not like I’m asking for some weird Eastern Soviet Bloc sports car made out of Styrofoam and powered by a 2-cylinder…

Seriously, its like they forgot radio controlled helicopters and airplanes dont exist. Planes, in particular can carry heavier payloads with a longer ranges too.

I’m so very looking forward to this weekend and the potential for stories of people attaching roman candles and bottle rocket launchers to their $40 quadcopters.

He knows how consumers are modifying them to work beyond their intended capabilities, potentially making them lethal.

This is the free market* at work.

The comedy of it all is claiming that the 25-year exemption for emissions and safety regulations is to keep unsafe, “dirty” cars out.

I was being facetious. The point being in this day and age there are parts at your finger tips, and usually of much better quality AND price than compared to what ever O’Reilly happens to carry. Perhaps Amazon Prime wasn’t the best example, but then again I’ve found some great parts on Amazon in the past. A…

The first time I read it, I was wondering WTF this guy was talking about... and the second time I read it, it clicked, I was transported back to my last conversation with O’Reilly’s and realized man it has been a long time since I’ve had to call them for anything. Are they still in business in the day and age of the…

many stars to you

Imagine how terrible of a driver you have to be to 1) react to a biker kicking your car at highway speeds, 2) try to engage a retaliatory attempt to take the biker out, and 3) to then lose control of the vehicle over something that was so inconsequential and not worth reacting to.

Headifold in German is “Kopfbrecher.” I think that could work.

The shittier the marque the more acceptable

Well I am a pilot and have “autopilots” in all of my aircraft. They are quite advanced and cost more than the silly car he was driving. They are far from perfect and will, as we like to say;”fly you, with great precision, directly into a water tower.” So we never make any assumptions about its capability, rather study…

Sucks to be Alfa. If your competitor from Jaguar is outselling you 2:1, then you might be screwed.