Sadly I don’t have pictures of my Fiero on my last Cross-Canada trek when I was moving back home temporarily after university. The trunk was full, the frunk was full. The passenger seat was stacked to roughly shoulder-level with stuff and I had a soft-sided roof bag filled to the brim with yet more stuff. There was…
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Rigid bones are important to provide proprioception (the sensation of knowing where your various bits are) as it limits the number of degrees of freedom that your brain needs to consider to determine where your hand is.
POOF!
I took out a quail driving home a few years back. I saw a poof of feathers in the rear view and didn’t think anything more of it. A few weeks later, I’m doing an oil change, so I need to drop the aero tray. I was not impressed when putrified quail guts spilled out. Luckily I was wearing gloves for the oil change.
Check the fuel pump. I had a bad hose in the tank on my 4 banger and it did the same thing. Full throttle was okay, anything less than that and it would bog and die.
Is it the coolant leak inside the cabin? That one was fun in the dead of an Ontario winter...
I was still living with my parents at the time so I was well stocked on tools and my dad sent me off to university with a set of wrenches from a similarly awful brand ;)
I had $12 foglights that I bought from Princess Auto on my Fiero. I had to install them upside down so they probably blinded everyone else on the road (with their 12 Watt bulbs...). I took those off when water got into the connector and corroded the contacts.
I’m going to do something sacrilegious, I want a proper, performance oriented battery electric coupe or GT-car. Something like an electric MR2 or a slightly shrunk Z.
Also, why not use this trick with an actual diesel, and get the economy of a Honda Cub?
My favorite car in the Canepa “Gift shop” is their Ginetta G12. It’s small and silly and not road legal but I want it more than any other car in the building.
No the first time I drove, but the first time I drove an Automatic. I borrowed a friend’s van to move a barbecue. I’d been driving for 3 years but had never had cause to drive a two-pedal. I pull out of their driveway and stop... HARD. Drive down the street, stop at the stop sign... HARD, like nose of the van…
Reminds me of the time I was driving into town in a rain storm. I saw some tree branches drop on the road, and then a few more tree branches, then an entire Douglas Fir fell and landed on the telecom lines. If I’d not slowed down when I saw the first branches fall I’d have been directly under the tree. The trunk…
I was born in 1984 and I know what an autoexec.bat file is. Definitely born into a computer household though because my parents are nerds too.
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My mother-in-law, but with her as a passenger. She’s a terrible passenger. Whenever something even slightly alarming happens, like someone drifting slightly into our lane she’ll yell “watch out!” This leaves the driver wondering if they’ve missed something important or if it really is just the car drifting into…
What about that crazy GT-86 transmission that’s a conventional torque-converter automatic under the skin, but has direct gear selection with a thing that looks like a normal H-pattern. Or a Lenco which is a torque-converter/planetary gear jobby without the ground unicorns that make a normal automatic work?
Yup. I work at a large company, every time I’m about to be told about something secret I have to electronically sign a new NDA for that thing. That’s in addition to the blanket NDA I signed ink-on-paper when I started. This is just Tesla reminding its employees of their obligations; this isn’t at all abnormal.
What would possess a person to do this? It’s like it’s trying to piss off everyone. The corvette folks will be offended by the chrysler front end, the porsche folks will be pissed off by the SBC, the chrysler people will be pissed off by the fact that it’s better than anything that’s come out of chrysler this…