If you have salt corroded lug nuts holding on to your wheels with a death grip I’ve found that heating the lug nuts with a propane torch and melting candle wax on them allows you to remove said lugs. Capillary action draws the liquid wax into the threads, coating them with lubricating wax. Look for the air bubbles in…

And put the plates from the stolen car on the car you are boosting the plates from. Happened to my neighbor. He got stopped by cops with guns drawn. Once they figured it out the cops used plate readers to find and arrest the crew driving around in a stolen car with stolen plates.

A sensor in the seat detecting the weight of the driver would solve this problem. I suppose someone could put a sack of spuds in the driver’s seat to fool the system, but it would keep Tesla’s nuts out of the fire.

When I purchased my 1942 Chevy 3/4 ton six years ago it came with five tires, four different manufacturers, all from the late sixties. Tubes. All held air and had tread. I replaced them after a fairly exhaustive search. 6.50 R16 are not a common size. Felt odd putting Yokohamas on a truck that was built after Pearl…

I have a regular old 1989 300CE with 89,000 miles on it. Five grand would probably get my wife to consider it sold. No weird wiring harness issues, it’s a California spec M103.984 engine. I don’t see paying six times more for this 500E.

A Russian built Fiat? Crack pipe, Comrade.

I drove a year of introduction T100 new for work, had a V8. Standard cab. Decent truck.

Paint ‘em both satin black.

Our Panasonic sucks, and has done so enthusiastically for 20 years. Recommend.

18.9271 liters Wasser, bitte.

All the heroin users in Seattle are treated differently due to their “disability”. Allowed to “reside” in their broke down cars and RV’s in public rights of way, allowed to “reside” in tents in public parks and green spaces, leaving used (uncapped) needles, feces, urine, trash as they please. Seattle Police are…

So he didn’t mind the risk of asphyxiating his kids? I never had any exhaust gases infiltrate the cabin of my Type III, but did sell my Cabriolet when the kid came along, because, two door. I was cool with it, but wife was not.

Had one as a company ride in 1994. Was completely unimpressed by the heavy, ponderous handling. It was boaty. I gathered it would be capable off road, but was too shiny for such things. Was happy to turn it in and drive something else.

I think a Miatang makes sense if my Mazda sustained damage on most of the panels by a wreck or a hail storm, what the heck. It won’t make it any less fun to drive.

Mercedes should hang it’s head in shame as to how they reacted to the non case hardened balance shaft gears in the M272 engineand the idler gear in the M273 engine leading to premature failure. Ford has gained my respect and I will certainly look at a Ford before ever allowing Mercedes a chance again.

A horizontal “bonker” pipe suspended by a chain would give these poor souls a loud notification of their imminent peril.

I was thinking of a chain around a stout tree, hit reverse as required.

The Citation was Motor Trend Magazine’s Car of the Year for 1980. I had a Citation and never read Motor Trend again.

My 1942 Chevrolet 3/4 ton has a bed low enough I can toss stuff into it without needing a step ladder. Still hauls all manner of cargo on a regular basis, including towing a boat of the same era. Never has a bad O2 sensor or fuel injection malfunction caused me any grief. It does not have a navigation screen or a blue…

As a legal messenger working for Boeing’s counsel I was tasked with delivering a document for signature to a man in the mock up section of Boeing/Renton. My path to the mock up shop was via the aircraft sales tour area which had several current Boeing aircraft interiors set up, full size, side by side. Having never…