‘Thirteen Big Rigs’ sounds like a 70's country song title, can almost hear it.

The Finns made good use of them during the Continuation War, at least. It didn’t stack up to the A6M, but few late 1930s designs did.

Mint.

When... what?

BTW, there’s a group beginning to build a T-1 (second picture) from the ground up: https://prrt1steamlocomotivetrust.org/

You can buy some: http://www.townsends.us/mushroom-ketchup-mk946-p-1404.html

I imagine weaponized marketing aimed at kids.

You’ll want IL-2: Battle of Stalingrad for that. Has a Battle of Moscow expansion and just got the Battle of Kuban expansion. Both add a new map and additional aircraft.

IL2:CoD is very much a sim. If you wish, there is a very in-depth engine management mode where you’ll need to keep track of fuel mixture, prop pitch, radiator intake and the like. Some of the British aircraft with early carburetors on the Merlins will briefly cut out when subjected to negative-Gs, as in real life.

Sounds like a guy I knew who drove a whorehouse red ‘79 Mark V (hooptie class: self-changing oil and moss growing on parcel shelf). Never could figure out who generated more smoke, him or the car. Together they were a rolling fogbank.

Technically the bastard thing isn’t lost, it’s still in the car. I just haven’t figured out what void opened to swallow it in the engine bay.

I’ll make no apologies for automotive jargon, there’s too many things for everything to be called thingamabobs and whatsits. It can be esoteric, but one ought to know their turboentabulator from their velocimatrix lest Shady Larry at Grift’n’Lube pull a fast one on you.

For the average bear, any tan or olive drab box on tracks or big wheels is a tank.

I’m younger but had similar experiences being the oldest of three. Couldn’t watch Cartoon Network (but Nickelodeon was permitted oddly, and grandpa let us watch just about whatever we wanted); had my Harry Potter books taken because ‘witchcraft’; couldn’t watch PG-13 movies or play t-rated games until I was 13-14…

I HIGHLY doubt he butcher a real GT-40 for this, given the scarcity and cost. Relax, you’ll live longer.

Reading comprehesion is your friend:

It’s not like the car is broadcasting its speed to police. Most if not all new and recent cars have some form of a black box to record data in the event of an accident, specifically things like speed, brake input, seatbelt use, airbag deployment, etc. They can be very useful in accident reconstruction.

There’s also another hybrid snowmobile/Miata; Balto the 2-stroke 700cc Miata!

It is getting stupid, I remember when my dad bought his last truck (3/4 ton) in ‘08 he paid about $28k (extended cab, 4x4, towing package, folding tonneau cover, etc). He’s not getting another because the same options run above $40k, not counting dealer markup and it’s not like his income went up an equivalent amount.