In the video they mention the racing took place in an outlying industrial area with no houses or cross streets, so the police looked the other way. So not strictly legal, but I imagine trying to curtail street racing, *in Detroit*, at the height of the musclecar era, would be a lost cause.

Any of you that grew up in a rural area probably know that’s it’s not uncommon to have a “farm truck” and a “Sunday truck”. My parents had a 2oo2 GMC Sierra 1500 4x4 that they bought new. After a decade, they bought a new 2500 crew cab, and the Sierra became the farm truck. Another decade later my stepdad found some…

>I got more for scrap aluminum 35 years ago than you do now

>Volkswagen has always been great about their classic fleet

I had a roommate ~20 years ago with a fox-body that had all the typical bolt-ons of the era (cat back, underdrive pulleys, ignition, etc) and thought it was absolutely bonkers. Thankfully ECU’s/suspension/tire compounds/etc are waaay better now too...

I thought this when I read David’s article about welding the Postal Jeep, but I really don’t trust a 120v welder to have enough penetration for structural welds on a car (or go-kart) frame. At least, I wouldn’t put my kid in it.

>I MAKE OVER 100 THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR

I drove a lot of shitboxes when I was younger - on lots of them, the steering wheel wasn’t pointed straight when I was REAL driving.

My dad had one of these (which was weird, because he was a bit of a goombah and usually drove American luxo-barges). But he was a sucker for turbos and all the cool gizmos it hadfor the era (heated seats - in 1986?!?) He gave my oldest sister a sweetheart deal on it when she needed a car, and it was a clapped-out…

Some of the HobbyTown stores now have “Radio Shack Express” sections that sell components for electronics projects.

>Price wise, 65k+ is a little high

When my grandmother stopped driving in the mid 2000's, we sold her car - a 1988 Plymouth Sundance with somewhere around 12K original miles. We had people clamoring to buy it, and got around $500 over the high book value.

I’m fully aware that police procedural shows aren’t real, but these are the kind of instances where there’s no reason they SHOULDN’T be able to do that - all that info at the DMV is stored in a database, getting “There are (x number of) (x model) in (x color) made between (x year range) registered in (x county)“…

I like the texture/crunch of Cheez-Its, but the taste is my main complaint - they don’t taste like any cheese that has ever existed, anywhere, ever.

Maybe not 329 million, but you’ll need a LOT more. You’ll also need people to build the equipment, write the documentation for it, deliver it, install it, train the staff to use it, repair it, perform maintenance on it...

When I graduated with a degree in film & television in the late 90's, I applied for a job at Skywalker Ranch - I didn’t get an interview (it was a run-of-the-mill PA position that probably had 1,000 local applicants that were more qualified than me, and I was applying from across the country). But the rejection letter…

This is what I was thinking - both of the stations I frequent have 12 pumps, but only like 5 parking spots (4 if you don’t count the handicapped spot), and barely a car width between the pumps and the parking. If you expect people to shuffle their car around between getting gas a buying something, you’re just going to…

I had a 2000 TJ (the first vehicle I ever bought brand new!) About a decade later I looked at a used LJ and man, it was CRAMPED - I could barely fit behind the wheel! I had certainly gotten fatter in a decade, but they HAD to have stolen a few inches from the front seats to get that back seat in there...

>what the hell happened to those seats to require shag pile covers?

Theres a Jimmy John's in my neighborhood, and my wife sometimes brings home a gargantuan... it gets split among two adults and two toddlers, and there's usually still enough left for me to take for lunch the next day. And I'm a fat guy.