I’ve noticed an attitude on the internet and particularly on Gawker blogs (Jalopnik included) where if you admit favoring domestic manufacturers/brands some people will jump on you for either being a jingoistic nationalist, or an idiot who can’t do math for paying more for a similar product. Semantics aside, I’ll…

Well, duh. 90% of swaps are because someone wants a reliable, higher output powerplant without too much work. Not everything needs to be a SEMA Frankenstein science project. A LSx swap isn't exciting to me either in 80% of cases, but I can appreciate the value in money and time.

Well, duh.

People who bitch about ‘boring’ engine swaps have probably never done one. You know, the usual ‘all bark and no bite’...

I wouldn’t call the Jesus Nut tiny, but helicopters can also glide without power, albeit with a shorter glide ratio than a comparable fixed wing craft. See

Seems to be people like my high-school brother and his friends; they all have part time jobs, their own debit cards, few bills and plenty of free time, so they don’t have a problem dropping probably around a grand between the six of them on microtransactions over several months.

Thanks, forgot to mention that. That carbon has gotta come from somewhere...

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.