Unfortunately local protections don’t mean anything if the state government has other ideas.

I just want to note, as someone who grew up in Michigan, that Dick Scott also owned a Buick dealership and their slogan will not leave my brain. Some mornings I can’t remember where I left my keys, but I can always tell you “they’ll never give you less than their best shot, when you buy a Buick from Dick Scott.”

The forms of “gender affirming care” being applied to minors are overwhelmingly non-permanent — things like puberty blockers, which are not even unique to transgender kids. (They’re also routinely used on children who go into puberty too early.) It’s exceedingly rare for minors to have surgery. If preventing permanent…

I think Texas may be too big to fail in terms of boycotts. Look at all the companies that have moved there in recent years.

They lost one engine on a 3-engine jet that wasn’t even his — it was loaned to him by a donor.

If there’s pushback I suspect it’ll be from homeowners along the route. They sometimes got pretty irate about roads being closed even though the county approved it and they were notified months ahead of time.

Well, if you say so. I helped run a number of rally events in western WA and there was never much environmentalist pushback, but I guess there’s a first time for everything.

The parts of WA that rally events run in aren’t the more liberal areas. And a lot of the land that gets used belongs to either timber companies or tribes. The tribes like the money events bring in and the timber companies are fine with it as long as they don’t face liability and nothing catches fire.

Agreed. In the US the key is having a good relationship with landowners, both private and governmental. Events that have been running for years will usually have good local contacts.

Give it another 10 years, they’ll get cheaper as more Boomers age out of driving.

As far as I can tell the #1 most pressing issue for most US truckers isn’t vaccine mandates -- those largely don’t apply to them. What they really want is places to park so they can sleep.

Just because something isn’t made anymore doesn’t make it popular. No one makes wind-up pocketwatches anymore but I can still buy them all day for $20.
Collector cars rise and fall based on the generation that has money to buy. Everyone wants what they wanted but couldn’t have in high school. That’s why 90s imports are…

Okay, I realize this is an unpopular take, but it’s a time capsule to an era of cars that wasn’t that great to start with. Compared to any modern sports car (and many modern sedans and even crossovers) this thing is slow.

Surprisingly well. But it was a lot in a pretty remote part of campus, not next to the dorm itself.

Considering there are places that will rent you far more dangerous things there’s probably some established legal protocols here.

Power tool rental chains often rent engine hoists, either ones that fold down or towable ones. In college I knew someone who rented an engine hoist in order to do an engine swap on their truck in the dorm parking lot.

When I was trying to get my Del Sol to pass smog I found myself really wishing I could rent a tailpipe gas analyzer. It would have really sped up the repair/retest process. But no one seems to rent them.

There’s nothing really wrong with a pickup + camper. You’re probably right that some of it is the “cool factor.” You do get less interior space for the overall length, though, because the cab area can’t be part of the living area when you’re parked. And getting a slide-in camper to stay put on rough terrain might be a…

I don’t like the long hood either, but the Suburban was always a big seller, and it has the same proportions.

“Foolish Talk Is No Good Now. Stop It” is such a great masthead comment for a newspaper. ;)