I didn’t know a tow ball could be translucent (sheer). ;)

Wonder how many times it’s been stolen in its 20-year life.

The 2.3L Lima twin-plug Ford Ranger engine has been mentioned.

Oh, look, not only brodozers, but brodozers with “Carolina Rake”.

I was hoping this was going to be about Desert Bus, because Desert Bus For Hope is such a fun annual event, but I guess I’ll just have to settle for the mention in the last paragraph. :D

I played both Atari Indy 500 and Intellivision Auto Racing as a callow youth (on friends’ consoles, because my parents never ponied…

Single male, age 50, Houston, Texas (no state exchange). Have had a “gold” limited-network HMO plan since 2017. Big jump for 2018, smaller jump for 2019 but with higher deductibles for some things.

2017: $483/month premiums. X-Ray/CT/MRI: $300 copay. ER/Hospital: $400 copay/day.
2018: $802/month premiums. Same copays.
201…

Yeah, good luck calling the rear fenders on a dually “flares”. They’re the fenders. And thus count as part of the bodywork.

Because the author had PR photos of SRW trucks handy?

You’re awfully invested in this. There are many decaf brands that taste just as good as regular coffee.

Because marketing departments like to release PR photos of optioned-up trucks?

It’s optional on the SRW SuperDuty trucks (both 250 and 350), but standard on the DRW trucks (350 and 450) because their fat rear fenders push out well past 80".

Ford cheekily has kept the SD SRW trucks at 79.9" officially for about 20 years now.

Kansas City may have heard about it yesterday, but this happened last week. We have news sources in Houston, too. They even report on stuff like this the same day it happens.

Can’t say I’m surprised by this. In recent interviews and promo videos, Pat has had Bob propped up next to her but she’s doing all the talking and it’s pretty clear she didn’t have much idea about how to run that railroad. It’s a shame Bob got goat-roped into that mess. He’s a good man, always has been.

Movie: “Driven”. Scene: Sponsor function in, IIRC, Chicago office building. Young hothead driver gets mad, hops in display IndyCar, drives off. Old mentor driver hops in HIS display IndyCar, drives off.

1) IndyCars don’t have self-starters.
2) Display cars typically don’t have engines in them.
3) Even assuming a…

No, not really common in street cars (ditto diff coolers with attendant pumps), as aside from some high-performance applications, there’s really not much need for it.

There are some transfer cases with a built-in low pressure pump to make sure the lube gets to all the places it needs to when splash lubrication isn’t…

It’s a lot easier to load the ballast onto/off of a flatbed with a fork truck or gantry crane than to try to do so in an enclosed trailer.

Ding! Ding! Ding! I have pulled those very trailers before when I was doing cooling system work for what was then DaimlerChrysler.

Yeah, the web stream (which worked just fine for qualies Wednesday & Thursday) has had only a couple of in-cars for me, on any browser you care to try, so I’ve been using the app, which has been rock-solid.

AFFF (ColdFire being the most common) is the first-tier extinguisher at most race tracks now. Reason: it works really really well, and it doesn’t make anywhere near the mess dry-chem does.

Yeah, the SCCA Area 4 director at the time was hot and heavy about getting SCCA national to fund completion of it as a “resource” for Great Lakes Division (“Regions could use the pad area for autocrosses, too!” Okay, so maybe Lake Superior Region in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan has to drive 500+ miles each way to…

As I understand it, they got one layer of a 3-layer polymeric asphalt paving system down, ran out of money, tried to convince SCCA to fund it (the BoD didn’t bite on that one, thankfully), and it’s to a point now where the pavement that’s there would need to be pulled up and fresh laid down as the underlayer lacked…