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that lasted about as long as it took to pull up the tarps from painting that monster.  can barely walk in there now that snow season is upon us.

Even Richard Pryor at his worst would run from that pile of crack.

no bungie cords..where are you seeing bungies?    WTF did I get myself into was exactly my thoughts as I built it...and the first time I drove it.  LOLOL  The looks I got from the neighbors were priceless on the shakedown run.

interesting story - the main frame was one of three very different pedal powered ‘bike’ type objects originally commissioned for a TV commercial - then afterward, they were raffled off. I re-engineered the whole thing and fabricated the go-kart portion.  He uses it in parades and such - sort of the anti-Shriner kart -

turning radius is about 25 feet...you can do it in the street if you go wide enough curb to curb

indeed

You think that’s stupid? LOL - I’ll see your stupid, and raise you 9 feet (custom built by me for a really cool dude who commissioned it. It pedals, it karts, and yes, it pops one mother of a wheelie)

a brand new gasser Jetta gets the same mpg with cheaper fuel.   Crackety crack crack crrrrrrack

you can get a brand new Jetta with an actual warranty for that amount of money - this isn’t crack...it’s a John Belushi grade speedball. 

Brad, you’re the David Tracy of crappy campers...you two should hang out.

I HATE autoplay video.

there’s a word for that, which we cannot say here lest we be banished to the misogyny barn, regardless of whether or not the object noun of the pronoun is actually offended by said pronoun.

All Jag’s are crackpipes - source: took a bath on every one i’ve ever tried, and am now clean and sober from Jags for 6 years.

holy shnikes! 

but ‘climate change’ bruh....

we could sure talk about that bustle butt Seville in the background tho..

if this were as nice as it would need to be for me to buy it, it would not be 3 grand.  I’d totally rock one of these on the daily - long before a Karmann Ghia - but probably not this one.  reluctant CP, but I could be swayed after inspection.

Higher education is as corrupt as government anymore.

very difficult thing to answer - ford’s total YTD margin is about 4% - last quarter was a half a percent - on any given product line the contribution to margin will vary substantially - however, generally in the auto industry, the margin comes more from parts than from whole goods (cars/trucks). So in all likelihood,

i’m arguing that this is garbage journalism first - secondly Arthur’s idiotic bad math (100K vs 1BB) - thirdly the dumb notion that 5% of the cost of a car is in labor (implying that on a $50K Exploder that there’s only $2,500.00 in ‘labor’ or roughly 50 total man-hours of union ‘labor’ baked into that entire car’s