Pumps. Gonna need lots of pumps.

Oh, he still had the 5.0. IIRC, he did try to do a follow-up song about the Gemballa that didn’t exactly go anywhere as the clock expired on his primary career.

Ex-Wife #1 came into the marriage with an ‘84 Chevrolet Cavalier 4-door and a 60-month(!!!! In 1988!) note at something around 25% APR that would have been upside-down on that turdwagon (we’d already replaced the cylinder head and camshaft as the previous owner had apparently overheated it something fierce and the cam…

Argh. Typing before caffeine kicks in...

“...to the surprise of pretty much *no one* who was paying attention.” is what the last sentence should read.

There was a doctor in my hometown who bought a new 1986-87 Porsche 911 Turbo with the factory slantnose conversion, then put several thousand dollars worth of pro-grade audio gear in it, for his daughter’s Sweet 16. There was even news coverage about it, something we didn’t see again until Vanilla Ice (yes, that…

The S550 cabin filter replacement is 15 minutes and requires only a T20 Torx driver for one screw. Hardly the worst thing I’ve ever seen.

Late to the party, but before you commit to the front end backdate, make sure you can use the radiator, charge cooler, AC condenser, etc. as the radiator support changed to fit the later headlights/hood/fenders/etc. There will also likely be a need to either replace all the wiring for the lights or make jumpers…

Even my Mark VI-loving uncle, who is definitely in the white-shoe wheelhouse, thought those were a bit much. His Mark VI did not have the aux lights, despite having just about everything else on the option list checked off.

I can’t help you with that decision in the absence of potato cakes.

These are dark times, when passing ruffians can just replace potato perfection with the contents of a bag of Ore-Ida that’s just been run through the fryolator instead of warmed on a baking sheet in the oven.

The NASCAR nut is a hex nut. Similar to IndyCar, and various IMSA/WEC cars, and Aussie Supercars (upon which the NASCAR NextGen car is heavily cribbed from).

Oh, I get it. In the ancient past, my time in quick-service food during my early college days was marked by observation of the power of marketing on purchasing decisions. “My” now-long-since-relocated Braum’s location suffered from having essentially one-way access after a freeway cut off two-way through travel on the…

I am old enough to remember when potato cakes were the only potato offering at Arby’s. They were (and still are, for me) a big part of my Arby’s order. Potato cakes, lovingly dunked in Horsey Sauce. Nothing could be a better accompaniment to mass-market roast beef sandwiches.

Right now, the active, gasoline-fueled portion of the autojim fleet consists of one vehicle that specifies premium fuel (‘99 Mustang Cobra), and two that recommend premium fuel (‘12 Mustang GT and ‘19 F150 3.5 Ecoboost) but will run just fine on regular, thanks to the knock sensors.

In addition to the previously-mentioned comments about leaking, misplaced, or too-long galley plugs, it’s also possible that one of the oil holes in a cam bearing is not lined up with its corresponding block hole.

All of these things are deep inside the engine. The AMC V8 oiling system is perhaps more convoluted than…

I’m glad the video stresses the importance of the human marshals. The trained Mark I Eyeball sensor apparatus connected to Mk I wetware remains the most flexible and adaptable means of incident response, and the tech toys are a supplement to that.

Yup. The whole “when can you come in?” thing when I’m calling from 400 miles away and just want an actual number (in my most recent case, I wanted to know how much ADP they were putting on top of MSRP on a particular limited-availability model) is infuriating.

Had both bags stolen out of my ‘94 Probe GT from my then-apartment complex in Pittsfield Township, MI (between Ypsilanti & Ann Arbor) around ‘96 or so. It was a theft-to-order ‘cause they left 2 other dual-airbag Probes alone, both with black IPs, mine was gray.

The worst part of it was there are two ways to drop the…

Saw Elsewhere that Johnson’s car is set up with the Guidosimplex hand control system, which was developed with (and for) Swiss F1-and-a-bunch-of-other-stuff driver Clay Regazzoni, who was paralyzed in a crash at the 1980 USGP West at Long Beach, though it appears from all the descriptions that the accelerator/brake…

Can someone with a 35" inseam (or, more relevant, 20" femur from H-point to mid-knee) actually fit on the thing without modifying the tank?

I ask because a few years ago I looked long and hard at the Monster and discovered I’d need to have the tank modified with longer knee cut-outs if I was to be able to ride it…

I particularly admire Drinking Buddy *not* just taking the first opportunity to nope the hell out but actually checking clearance for the 3rd-dimensionally-challenged “pilot”.