crotchetycurmudgeon
Crotchety Curmudgeon
crotchetycurmudgeon

How much was the restoration? Without that info I can’t vote NPOCP.

Hopefully this is the first of many articles to come.

Not including a spare tire is silly too, but some manufacturers do it anyway.

In addition to APUs and dutch ovens (lol), in some places there are truck stops with electric hookups.

I live in a town with a lot of lumber mills (Longview, Washington) and pretty much every log truck I see has a bunch of heavy steel U shaped arms that extend up the sides of the load, doesn’t stop the logs from sliding out the back like you describe, but it’d keep them from rolling off the side. Occasionally I see log

18 speed transmission with an oddball 13speed knob. Somebody messed up in the factory.

That is crazy. Although some of the latest manuals I have seen are 90% infotainment operation. (which I hate. Just provide a port to plug my phone into. Don’t need a hardwired system which will be obsolete in 3 years. )

Unfortunately, owner’s manuals aren’t ubiquitous. The newest Jeep Wrangler apparently doesn’t come with a printed manual by default.

A surprising number of new cars have jumping procedures that aren’t like your grandfather’s pick-up truck.

The first thing that anyone should learn how to fix is that loose nut behind the wheel.

I usually spend longer waiting in line at the oil change place than it takes me to do it myself. Also, I used to work at those places. While screw ups are rare, they did happen, and the one we worked at did their best to cover it up.

Taking a left hand turn, to jail. And them someone is going to bump push him the jail shower. He should be comfortable there being a former Nascar driver.

They gave you a midrange sleeper because that’s their all new 70" box. They should’ve gave you the big boy VNL860. I used to have a 2016 Kenworth T680 and it was a decent truck to live in and it drove reasonably well but I didn’t really enjoy it as much as the old narrow body PACCAR trucks. Also, the new PACCAR trucks

We are talking about truckers here, so the correct terminology please.

Technically speaking, they aren’t colors, but shades.

Green is my favorite color, but alas, none of the cars I’ve owned have been green.

Honestly, the rule should just be that your next car should be any color other than any shade of silver or grey or black or tan... color, or no car for you.

Is it bad that I want to find an old Neon ACR, paint it Nitro Yellow Green, strip it down to nothing but the bare essentials and make it my daily driver?

Kinja behaving badly.

My point still stands.