The thing most people who cut their stock springs don’t understand is that this makes the spring rate go up, which is counterintuitive. Unless, of course, you realize a coil spring is actually a torsion bar wound into a circle, in which case it makes perfect sense.

When I am running things, all level crossings will have the crossing arms removed, and they will be marked only with flashing lights.

So close... shoulda gone with Autos und Kaffee.

That’s why it’s funny.

Armor would only make it slow, and even then it would only help against small arms fire. Better to maintain mobility, so that you don’t get shot in the first place. Recon vehicles aren’t gonna sit there and duke it out with anyone - that’s not their role.

I love the helpful tip in the infographic about how if you finance it for 60 months, your payments will only be about $400 a month...

Two thoughts:

You mean Fireworks Guy? That wasn’t a credible attempt at anything, besides getting a parking ticket.

The mid-70's Caprice convertible that me and my idiot friends rented and drove from San Diego to Las Vegas circa 1992 or thereabouts.

Neither here nor there, but why is it that in every video I have ever seen with people using fire extinguishers, they always start spraying way, way too far away from the fire as they run toward it? Just adrenaline, maybe?

A potential loss of their lives, not his. American law enforcement is 100% about protecting the officer’s own hide at any cost.

No, that didn’t happen. I am positive the car was built from scratch. It’s a pro mod chassis with C7 Corvette bodywork specifically made for doorslammer drag race cars.

This actually happens all the time. Or at least often enough that I have seen at least a half-dozen news items with cars that have driven up guy wires and gotten stuck. This one probably takes the record for altitude maintained, though.

I think that GM would really like to continue to have a RWD, V8, 4 door car to sell to police forces who haven’t jumped on the crossover/SUV bandwagon, and if you’re going to import/build something like the PPV, it’s not a big leap to sell a civilian version

Why would anyone steal the airbags?

You are correct, sir. Those are bridle catchers.

In my home town of San Diego, some genius is floating a plan to replace street parking in the most congested parts of town with more bike lanes to help ease congestion.

That’s the problem with standing water. It wants to be all flat on top, and deep underneath where you can’t see it. It would be much safer if water would pile up on the top so you could tell how deep it is just by looking.

Oral voice warning systems in cockpits have been around for many decades, augmenting and in some cases even replacing the warring lights and chimes of the early jet age.

Just keep whistling past that graveyard. This is about the third or fourth Gawker network article I’ve seen this week that celebrates how completely some pundit has dismantled Trump. And yet, for some reason the full weight of minor league former kinda-famous people’s scorn has failed to derail his candidacy! Could it…