Pre 2010 TRUCK engines.

It’s not getting there so much as getting home if you’re overseas if this happens.

Malaise era land yachts and personal luxury coupes, the Mustang II, many years of Ford Thunderbird, AMC Matador, a lot of 1958 model year domestic cars were just eyesores

Nice article! I’ve been a professional mechanic for (yikes) nearly 30 years now. Got my start fixing my bicycle, because I couldn’t afford to pay the bike shop to fix it. Moved on to motorcycles, same thing. Then cars. I’ve taught several adult continuing-ed hands on auto shop courses when i owned an independent shop…

Re: the current Truck and Bus Rule requiring the removal of 2010 or older diesel engines from California roadways - no reason to believe this new regulation will be any different, AFAIK

“Any truck operating in the state, regardless of whether it is domiciled in the state, must meet the regulations”

From an article on the current CARB Truck And Bus rule:
“Any truck operating in the state, regardless of whether it is domiciled in the state, must meet the regulations”

I don’t see why this new regulation would be different, if only to pre-empt companies doing exactly that.

I think this is also why you see…

Breaking and reforming the frequently- terrible culture of US policing and police unions - which frequently encourages misconduct, corruption and excessive force - is key here. Hiring candidates with better attitudes is a good start, and training them properly to work with better practices is the next step, while…

To a point, sure, but no dealer in the country will do a significant repair under warranty that the manufacturer refuses to pay them for. And no dealer wants to get a chargeback during a warranty audit or after a manufacturer failed part pullback for an owner abuse/competition/operator error repair they submitted on…

You remeber Uvalde, TX, where a large number of police officers didn’t do shit about the active shooter murdering their kids for over an hour, while they waited around on scene and did nothing except hold back other people who wanted to rescue their kids - incredibly, including another police officer who was manually…

Good. I commuted into lower Manhattan on my motorcycle for several years via the holland tunnel and the amount of traffic was insane, even over a decade ago. Let alone when I had to bring our shop van to and from NJ via the GWB, that was 2 hours each way fairly frequently. Paying $23 each day would have been totally…

No, because leaving those cars on the road meant supporting them with expensive, money losing replacement parts for that time, and it wasn’t worth the cost for a tiny number of cars that already lost the company a huge amount of money per unit. And if the cars were more popular and sold in volume (which they did not),…

JFC. The EV1 *was* a production car - a production car that had amazing aero and technology, far ahead of it’s time. But existing battery technology at the time meant that range was going to be abysmal in winter - like, under 50 miles when parked outside and driven with the heat on - so the car was only available in…

This is going to be in every Boomer facebook car group within minutes, with dozens of New Balance and jorts clad retirees posting “hurr durr, EVs suck, go Brandon! FJB!”.

It’s inevitable :P

No. What do you think a carb does? It mixes fuel and air, and the intake manifold warms it up on the way in, along with all the various devices manufacturers used during the carburated years to get warm air into the intake during warm up.

There is no way that swapping similarly sized carb will double or triple the…

Why, because one part isn’t available for one 13 to 20 year old model, out of the ~51,000,000 cars and trucks GM has sold in the US since 2005 ?

Come. on.
Objectively untrue, my ass. Your cherry picking isn’t remotely objective.

They didn’t do that the last four times Texas had a grid crisis, IIRC. They just let their constituents suffer and die, while Cruz fled to sunny Cancun to do the important work of hunting down a frosty margarita

Dude, fuck all the way off. Texas is run by Republicans; they wouldn’t make it better the second time around - in fact, from their prior history with multiple weather caused grid crises over the last 30 years they would probably make it even worse, more profit driven and more mercenary the next time around. And you’d…

If my 91 y.o. mom loses her power (and thus her air conditioner) for days to weeks on end along with the rest of her city during a 102 - 107 degree stretch, she will likely die. As will many thousands of other vulnerable elderly and disabled people.

If the grid actually crashes - anywhere - it will likely take *weeks*…

FWIW - I had an $800 ‘87 Chevy Spectrum from about 1993- 1998 - also made for only a few years (1985-88) & by Isuzu, also discontinued - and I had no problems getting dealer and aftermarket parts for it while I had it.

You know the newest Geo Storm is about 29 years old, right?