When Citroën created the modern unibody FWD sedan in the ‘30s they did try to make the whole drivetrain (engine, gearbox, transaxle, steering column etc.) modular, both for servicing and for replacement.
When Citroën created the modern unibody FWD sedan in the ‘30s they did try to make the whole drivetrain (engine, gearbox, transaxle, steering column etc.) modular, both for servicing and for replacement.
During the Great Depression, people would pull the engines out of their vehicles and put a horse between the frame forks. They were called Hoover Wagons in the US and Bennett Buggies in Canada.
One-unit cars? It’ll never take off.
I love the thought experiment, but I think your alternate universe would have converged on ours, once someone realized they could make an integrated car much more cheaply than the “two box” ones.
What? No Jabberjaw? No sale.
A round pier would be silly
Where else were the aliens going to store their grain once they took over?
JFK shot himself to frame Oswald.
Bob Vila has never built anything and cannot build anything. He just talks about building things.
Jesus Christ was not a real person, but rather a mythological hybrid conjured up more than 100 years after his supposed death by individuals who needed a figurehead to promote their new religion.
Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face. Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water?
I had high hopes this post would solve the ancient mystery of how to skillfully combine beer with ice cream for a sweet forbidden treat. Alas, it was not to be.
When you plug in your iPhone, iPad, or just about any SD card with a photo on it, Photos loves to pop open. We’ve…
Dale just got the news...
For one thing, the cop’s shooting percentage would be sky-high.
A big thing for the past 5-6 years has been finding ways to sell people services that allow them to show off and pretend they’re important.
Yep. All these stories lately kind of make me wonder about me. Between playing soccer for most of my school years and just farting around like kids do, it is kind of nagging me in the back of my mind. As a kid I had 6 or 7 concussions that I can remember and back int he 70's and 80's you just kept going or took a time…
Stories like this are really important for people who wave away concerns about concussions with “they knew what they were getting into when they chose football.” They really, really didn’t. When most of today’s pro players started out in the game, they knew about the possibility of physical damage but the neurological…
This one works for me.