It feels to me much of the time and frustration spent wrenching is just trying to access and remove that Old Busted Part.

I agree- The fact that they used nice steelies rather than some godawful billet wheels makes me more amenable to the hood and lack of HVAC.

Kinda what I was gonna say; ‘old’ is less age and more about health. Most of us will end up ‘old’ one way or another, but some sooner than others. I know people in their 60s and 70s who remain very active and I hesitate calling them ‘old’, while I know others around 50-60 that have had their poor habits catch up the…

I was about to make a similar joke about myopia; while I more or less agree with her in principle that commuting practice needs to evolve, cars aren’t going out of fashion quite yet, dear.

It happened, welcome to 1998!

‘All I vant is a simple var. Not ze proxy var, not ze civil var, und certainly not another fucking cold var. Blue balled for forty years...’

I remember seeing a one on a BMW doing a brisk business on I-96 near Brighton last Labor Day weekend, can't remember the last time I saw a MSP Harley, though.

Anyone know what kind of settings and framerate I might expect to see with an i5 2500k and a GTX 560ti? Don’t have the budget to buy parts or build new in the foreseeable future, so I’m curious if getting Fallout 4 will be a waste of time.

Yeah, I scrutinize every gas pump and ATM reader I’ve used, but apparently that’s not enough any more. I’m lucky my bank caught them before they spent too much, and fully reimbursed after I filled out a fraud statement.

I see that now, reinforces my attention span is garbage :P

FYI: I got nailed by a skimmer last month; the newest type of gas pump skimmers are internal and use the pump keypad. There’s no way to tell if the pumps have been compromised (none of stations I regularly used have the seals on the card reader panel), so no way to protect yourself unless you pay inside, as looking…

I could be wrong, but my understanding is that if the car has the trim bits meant to simulate a convertible, it's a landau roof (e.g. most landyachts), otherwise it's a vinyl roof (e.g. the Superbird posted upthread).

I seem to remember reading something a couple years ago about Cadillac corporate asking dealers more or less to 'please do not do this', but as long as people are willing to pay dealers for their poor taste, we will still see such abominations.

It’s a dealer installed option, Cadillac refuses to offer it factory since they’re trying to maintain something like that Art & Science aesthetic.

Maybe an annoying design, but not a design flaw.

If you come live here for a while, you might get a better picture why bike commuting might not catch on as much outside the cities here.

Might be mostly relatives of GM employees, I see a metric buttload in SE Michigan.

The further from the cities, the more vitriolic it seems in my experience.

I don’t know if I would call them an idiot, but they’re sure not fooling anyone. There are people who manage to get by without a car (many get a car/hitch a ride soon as they’re able however), but the ones bragging about it are either lucky or affluent enough to live close to work/somewhere really built up, or have a…

We call it the Detroit Doughnut; the downturn and blight has been moving out into the suburbs (foreclosures+meth+slow recovery) as the innermost neighborhoods in Detroit are beginning to gentrify (hipsters priced out of Manhattan and San Francisco).