Coke is a byproduct of coal or petroleum processing used in foundries due to how hot it burns. There is going to be pits at the plant where they store mounds of it (It looks sort of like gravel or coarse sand but stinkier) before it is conveyed inside the foundry to heat the furnaces and crucibles.

Pretty much every ‘youth’ car from the last ~20 years is like that it seems IMHO. With the exception of the original xB and SRT4 Neon, most other Neons, Kia Souls, Cubes, xAs, xDs, PT Cruisers etc. all seem to be bought and owned by cat ladies and people the other side of 40, no offense to anyone here.

If you showed up in this to Lemons tech inspection I’m pretty sure they would handwave some overspending just for being insane enough to attempt running this. Not to mention one has the time-honored option of bribing the judges with food, beer and shwag.

My thoughts exactly. It's a dated look, along with polished billet anything, and the two-tone blue and silver/ black and silver color scheme that was popular recently (e.g. half the cars on Overhaulin')

I live in a state where the motorcycle helmet law was basically abolished recently with predictable consequences, and I‘ve overheard coworkers wishing they would do the same for seatbelts. It's one thing to bitch about the 'nanny state', but wanting to do as you please and expect the rest of us to pay your hospital…

I'll add that it is probably a good idea to stop every couple hours and stretch your legs. Someone I’ve done some road trips with once went to the hospital due to a blood clot in their leg after deadheading from Detroit to Atlanta. They were in their 30s and not overweight, so it might pay to take a break every once…

I'm curious- why was that RV stopped in the road? Glad you were able to recover from that one, there was a similar accident near me recently that ended up being a fatality (drunk/distracted guy in a Jeep ran into the back of a semi stopped on the shoulder).

I’ve worked with a few guys kind of like that, where it seems one has to go a little bit farther to earn their respect if they don’t see you climbing into a pickup in the parking lot at the end of the day, and you might get remarks along the lines of 'We gotta get you to get a truck one of these days..".

All variants ran on gasoline (The Ford GAA, the Chrysler Multibank, Pratt & Whitney radial etc.) except the M4A2 which was developed for Lend-Lease program. The British ended up turning down this variant since they already had several gas-fueled variants and wished to standardize to one fuel type. The surplus that…

To be fair, those were developed for a highly specialized role in breaking the Siegfried Line fortifications.

I’ve had somewhat paranoid thoughts about the discs on my mountain bike for that reason. Did you have it on a work stand when it happened?

1940’s and 1950’s Tennessee and Montana plates are shaped like their states. Less cool than bears, but more cool than rectangles with boring straight edges.

Hell, I would be happy with a HD re-release for current gen and PC of both Revolver and Redemption, not to say I wouldn’t welcome a sequel with open arms and open wallet.

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.