I saw a new-ish Mercedes GLK doing this on the freeway last week. The body didn’t have any visible damage which seems to rule out severe structural damage. Could that have been caused by a broken toe link or just a really poor alignment job?

The scene: 2010, family vacation in Italy for my graduation. We rented a Fiat Panda in Florence to visit Maranaello and the Ferrari museum for the day. On the way back to Florence we took some back roads and stopped at a grocery to get snacks, my brother got a 2-liter of Coke. He decided it would be funny to tip the…

This is what happens when you take "race car for the road" to its logical conclusion. 

I’m not totally sure in this photo. This is the test-rig/aircraft that was used for a lot of different things.

Speaking of places to put an engine...

Google: “Fuck you Captcha”

My drivers-ed instructor deducted points during my test because I didn’t physically turn my head and check for cross-traffic on every street I was passing.

Its actually the octagonal stop signs that are optional...

no.

Finders keepers, losers weepers.

I can’t wait for the 2035 scandal of Volkswagen’s electric cars secretly pumping out excess electrons when they detect they aren’t being tested. Electron-gate, you heard it here first.

You can generally get away with about 90mph on that stretch of road. You’ll regularly see minivans crammed to the gills with mormon families going 100mph but they are the ones who get ticketed. Sections going over the few passes drop the limit to 65mph and its enforced there instead of on the flats (speed trap-ish).

Do desmodromic valves next. Because who doesn’t like hearing about wacky Italian engineering (I’m looking at you Ducati...)

I don’t know man, it looks to me like her left skate slipped out before she got touched. Maybe she could’ve saved it if the hand was still there but maybe not.

“I put on my gear. I put on my gloves. I forgot to put on my helmet. I took off my gloves. I put on my helmet and then my gloves and shoved off.”

If they just decided to put that sweet, sweet engine into something else I would be happy. That noise is like nothing else on the road. From 7000-9000 its just, ...sploosh.

If you think that’s crazy you should check out some of the towns in Utah County. I was at a stoplight in Highland, Utah once and I counted 11 churches on just the right side of the road by looking for the distinctive steeple. I’m sure there’s more than that if you include the left side of the road and churches beyond…

I’m glad I’m not the only one who finds thing kind of thing fascinating to read and learn about. Although I sometimes wonder what kinds of lists I’m on from those readings.

There was nothing but an abandoned building that I assume served the mining industry at some point, and a single farm house. I wasn’t trying to say anything about supercharging, just that there are still vast expanses of no gas left in the lower 48. I guess if somebody wanted to though, putting a supercharger along…

Central Nevada would kindly disagree with your statement about there ALWAYS being gas. 165 miles between stops last summer meant we almost ran out thanks in part to the constant headwind and climbing passes. That’s also 165 miles on one highway, if you want to take any detours down another highway you can add another…