Do not go gentle into that good night, Viper.

Solution: Purchase all sovereign rights to an island from a financially poor country, found your own country (and renounce US citizenship), and build/launch your rockets from there. As a sovereign nation that never signed these space treaties, they no longer apply.

Time relentlessly marches on. A decade ago I’d not have called it vintage. But I think 30 years is a very reasonable cutoff point for referring to automobiles as vintage. Something doesn’t have to be rare or upscale to be vintage either.

My 1969 AMC Ambassador was a vintage automobile when I owned it in 2001. It was 32 years old at the time.

in my state, it’s classified as an antique!

it has an M10 4-cyl, it’s vintage

vintage BMWs are best BMWs

They’re useful too

Are there aftermarket options for a front locker?

When viewed in this context, $75,000 for a new top of the line pickup doesn’t sound too bad. They’re more powerful and capable (not to mention more comfortable) than 25 year old medium duty trucks.

Ford’s only diesel engine offering in their (2017) medium duty F-650s and F-750s, is the 6.7L Power Stroke. Why would they put an engine into medium duty truck, as the ONLY diesel engine option, if it was not up to the task?

You’re welcome, to be honest I didn’t know the difference either until a few years ago when I did a wiki walk that ended up on compression/jake brakes. Fascinating stuff.

Are you sure about that? Last I checked, they only had exhaust brakes (as opposed to compression brakes).

The 6.7L Power Stroke and 6.7L Cummins are both considered medium duty diesel truck engines (just like the Navistar DT series), and are in fact used in medium duty commercial trucks. Dunno about the one GM is using.

I actually saw a HD pickup towing a two-level, 5-car trailer yesterday.

A brand new F-450 could already physically tow 40,000lbs at highway speeeds. It would slow to a crawl up a modest grade though, and be out of control on the down grades.

80,000lbs is the normal cap for GCW in most states, so if the truck weighs 10,000lbs by itself, it only needs to tow 70k.

At this rate, in 10 years we’ll see Ford/Chevy/Dodge pickups being used instead of Freightliners/Kenworths/Peterbilts.

Who needs wealth & family when you can be perfectly happy and fulfilled with video games?

I bought a 1987 Z24 Cadavalier, not unlike this one: