Having driven both, it’s not, and I80/I25 was full of semis doing 75+ through the blowing snow

I was driving on that road once, middle of the day, guy coming at me starts flashing his lights and honking and swerving back and forth, I’m like what the %*@*@ is this guys problem? About a half mile ahead of that point, the highway makes this nice S curve, right in the middle of it as I’m coming around the first…

Perhaps the fact he was a jerk with his whole family in the car, and the fact you got out to confront him might have made him think twice the next time, you very easily could have been a HUGE asshole with a gun, bat, crowbar, etc.. I personally try to just let the assholes be assholes, I can’t control their behavior…

The ones around here (Portland, Oregon) seem to all drive like their gas pedal is made of egg shells and balsa wood, and if they hit it too hard it’s going to break. I’ve rented a few Priuses (a second gen twice and a third gen once) and I always drove them like I stole them (More fun to drive a slow car fast than…

Saw a bro with those in his first gen Dodge Ram, bright as hell.. Flipped on my brights and what does he do but turns on his LED light bar.. Like bro, if people are flashing their brights at you, its because your headlights are too damn bright!

I think you mean PALLET jack, palette is what an artist mixes paint on... I’ll get the popcorn waiting for someone to make a JPG of a jack with a palette on it, bonus points if it includes Bob Ross.

Subaru SVX, yeah they’re old and long in the tooth unless you hunt down a super low mileage one, but advanced styling and most are $6,000 and under. Find one with a dead transmission and swap in a newer 4.11 gearbox and rear diff out of an Outback and you won’t have the transmission issues or sluggishness of the older…

lol a Country Coach, depending on when it was made, I probably built the suspension in it :-P

What about the old 80s Mazdas that had like 5 different badges, and they were all different sizes and different fonts, like Mazda just dipped into several manufacturer’s leftover badge bins and slapped them on. Saw a 323 turbo once that I swear had “Mazda” “323" (with the little “Mazda” off to the side) “1.6" “Turbo”…

One of my friends in high school had a Grand Am that had “4 wheel disk” molded into the brake pedal pad :-P

I wonder if it’s EPS in the sense that either the steering column or the steering rack contains an electric motor that assists the steering, or if it’s a conventional hydraulic system, just with an electric motor driving the power steering pump instead of the engine. Subaru used the latter system in the XT6 starting…

As much as I think people who steal other people’s hard earned belongings are among the scum of the Earth, it looks like they didn’t trash it getting the stereo out etc... Friend of a friend had their Civic ripped off, thieves used a crowbar to get the stereo surround off to get the head unit out, pried the trunk open…

I have a pretty tame chidhood, was always afraid of getting busted so I never did anything too crazy, but since I was too once a young dumb teenager I have done my fair share of stupid shit but nothing too crazy.

DEF isn’t used for regeneration, it’s sprayed into the exhaust almost continuously (Unless you have a TDI) and works with the catalytic converter, regen is accomplished by dumping extra fuel into the exhaust, raising the EGT and causing the filter to burn off the accumulated particles. It’s slightly more complicated…

That and they ship them over here with windows and seats, and when they arrive they remove the seats and windows from the rear part, because removing them, scrapping them, and replacing them with solid metal panels and covering the holes in the floor from the seats, is cheaper than paying the import tax on them (The…

That was sold here as the ff-1, I want to say from 69-72 or 73, came with an 1100 cc engine (There was an ff-1 1300G Sport that had a 1300 cc engine (which had 2 more hp than the 1983 1800cc turbo!) but I don’t think we ever got that one. I have a friend in Seattle who has one, in addition to a few 360s, including…

I know the guy who did most of the work on the top one, I see it regularly mobbing around Hillsboro, Oregon (West suburb of Portland)

My high school was pretty much a big popularity contest. The yearbook had a “best car” category, and do you think it was the kid with the fully restored 67 Camaro that him and his dad spent the 4-5 years prior rebuilding? No, it was the popular kid with the bone stock Mk3 Jetta that his parents bought him when he…

I went to high school with a kid with divorced parents, his rich dad lived on the east coast, and when he turned 16 he bought him a brand new fully loaded Grand Cherokee (was the late 90s), and he also gave him a gas card (which he paid the bill for, and gave precisely zero fucks how much was put on it each month) but…

I remember going camping with my grandparents close to 20 years ago, and a few campsites over from us was an older black family with a 70s Cutlass Supreme with Dayton wires, towing a vintage trailer about the same age as the car, both were either very well taken care of, or freshly restored. And yes, the guy had a…