Makes me wonder what Project Swiss Cheese would do with two 4.0s :-P Other than simply twist in half! 

My 68 Dodge Polara had a glass rear window, it was even zippered and could be removed from the rest of the top. I think they were even available with a defroster but not positive on it. Sadly, though, since mine spent like 25 years sitting outside, the top was pretty much nonexistent when I got it) 

Hell, I would buy one just for the “Giant RC car” factor. Put a glow in the dark skeleton in it and a UV light and have fun on Halloween... 

IIRC the Power Wheels used 1 or 2 6 volt lead acid batteries. Speed limiter switched it between both batteries in series (high) or parallel (low) and if memory serves me it took 8 hours to charge and about 15 to drain it.

Girls down the street from us when I was in high school outgrew theirs, and it sat in front of their house with a free sign on it. So my friend and I did the only sensible thing and put a car battery in the front of it, spray painted it black, bypassed the speed limiter, and figured out how to get it to pop a wheelie.…

That picture just makes me sad :-( 

Drill the ends, grind it to a V, braze it, file it flat, get an extra thick head gasket, and run a bottle of Blue Devil through it and call it good. ABG :-P 

I’d use “Orlove’d” for whenever someone uses -’d instead of -ed (like “turbo’d” instead of “turboed” etc) 

I did this once, except I was on I80 in Laramie, Wyoming, in a 1987 Subaru GL turbo station wagon, road was dry but it was COLD, like 15 degrees, I was doing 75 or so approaching a bridge on a slight curve, when I notice the bridge is iced over, so I reach down and pop it into 4hi (The old Subarus had high/low part…

I always thought the older manuals were better, I have a Haynes Subaru manual that’s from the late 80s, and it’s got info on tearing down the alternator, as well as info on tearing into the manual transmission. The later print of the same manual just shows you how to change the gear oil, shifter bushings,…

DUI/DUII also isn’t limited to being over .08 or whatever the legal limit is - if you blow a stop sign and blow a .01, you can be charged with a DUI (Probably would not hold up in court though but IANAL), DWI is what you get if you’re over the limit (Which doesn’t exist for pot so generally if you have any in your…

Sad part is the Legacy GT wagon was only available stick in 2005, where the Outback XT was available with the proper number of pedals until 2009, although I think after that they dropped the turbo Outback, but one could still get one with a manual transmission. 

Washington charges a “use tax” when you buy a car, it’s either the purchase price or blue book value, depending on circumstances (For example, if you buy a car for $500 that books at $1500, you’ll pay tax on $500, but if it books at $4500 you’d pay tax on $4500 unless you can show that the car is damaged or needs…

For the insurance, my insurance lets me “Suspend” coverage such that I can’t drive the vehicle, but it’s still otherwise covered if something happens to it like if it’s stolen, tree falls on it, drunk driver crashes into it, etc... and it’s still considered “insured”. 

San Diego, dollars to donuts it’s never been in Low Range... 

Thanks for sharing, my grandfather used to publish some of his stories of childhood in the Ribbit News in Salome, Arizona. After he passed away in 2014, they compiled all of his stories into a book that they offer for sale at the Chamber of Commerce. Although he never took a drive halfway across the country I don’t…

Here in Portland (Oregon, not Maine) we have an office complex called Montgomery Park that back in the day was a Monkey Wards distribution center/offices

My high school did a “spring picnic” every year and part of the festivities was a stereo contest. The rules were pretty lax, and basically just had to be a sound system in a car. Borrowed an extension cord, put my Marantz 2275 in the back of my parents’ 1993 Mercury Sable wagon, along with the two Marantz HD88…

When I was in high school one of my best friends had a Mk2 Jetta. After an idiot at a stop sign backed into him and totaled it, he’d take it in the mud and such. Once him and I were at a gas station, Jetta covered in mud, and this guy in a brodozer looks at the car, shakes his head and just says “Why?” We both looked…

I remember years ago they had an episode about cigarette lighters, and for one part of it they mounted like 200 of them to a piece of plywood and set it ablaze inside a 1970s Toyota Crown :-( And there was another episode where they blew up a Camry wagon, so maybe the production company has something against Toyota?