Waggy’s Towing dragged the car out of the sinkhole

dehydrated-morning-piss-yellow Nissan 350Z

Navy aircraft mechanics would send newbies looking for buckets of “prop wash” and the keys to the airplane. Solid FNG training.

Yep. Like the cold hot air intake which is now soaked in grungy coolant.

I can’t see the video (I don’t do Facebook) but wonder if that guy used his dominant hand to remove the cap. If he did, now he has several weeks (more?) of using only his non-dominant hand.

he was willing to sell me the car for $500. I, of course, was physically incapable of declining.

Also, I feel kind of terrible that the first thing we did was to hijack this in the name of David Tracy.

It’s definitely a 1980s snapshot.

Yeah, I goofed up the quote a little bit. :-)

That reminds me of Mrs. Bueller’s car.

I scared the hell out of myself on one of these way back when I had a Ninja 250.

A K-car: a nice Reliant automobile!

When I went to Germany many years ago (pre-unification, so yeah, old), I took a copy of the man’s autobiography along. It was a good read, even for a much-younger me on a long plane ride. So long, Mr. Iacocca, and thanks.

Isn’t it? I legit lol-ed at that.

A motorcycle safety campaign from the New York City Department of Transportation tells riders to “stay in middle of travel lane,” which would’ve ended poorly in this situation.

I believe what you saw moving is the piece to which the height limiter (the bar the truck hit) is mounted. The wave-like motion in the video indicates an item that is flexible and not securely mounted all along its length.

Moxie-free drivers may substitute gumption, sass, or voe-dee-oh-doe.

I like this one:

Sadly this is a bit too late for Dr. Stephen Hawking. :-(

They overnighted parts from Japan?