The last couple years of the C4 I think are the better looking ones, inverse of the C3s where the early ones are fine but post’73/’74ish they’re... not so good. Not a knock on them in particular, that’s just the Malaise Era. Giant rubber bumpers and asphyxiated engines were a plague. 

You would think smelly foods would an obvious consideration in public spaces. There’s someone at work in another department that occasionally comes to our department to microwave a can of tuna for lunch. It’s clear he knows it’s unpopular since he’s not nuking it in his area and acts oddly like he’s smuggling drugs…

I hear you on that, one side of my family is from West Virginia. My great grandparents didn’t have indoor plumbing and didn’t get electricity until the 1980s. Meth and the recent wave of opioids have done a number on people down there too. Hopefully outdoor tourism development will bring some money in, not much…

Yep, and that’s about a ten year old car by this point too. In the class we also got to look up close at a S-10 based Blazer that had been been struck partially by an oncoming vehicle on a two-lane road and we were shocked how bad the cabin intrusion was. The front driver’s side wheel was about where the driver’s knee…

It’s not that they’re picking new tests out of the blue, but more along the lines of how only recently have they begun analytically looking at how and what they test. They found some years back that perfectly perpendicular frontal collisions are not nearly as common as partial frontal impacts of some variety for…

You don’t need to tell me what it’s like living paycheck to paycheck, I’ve been there. But having some foresight would help. Leaving twenty minutes earlier beats suddenly needing a tow, car repairs, and being late anyways.

It can be asking a lot for people to use tires with tread still left. Lots of people driving with almost-slick bald tires, especially in more economically challenged areas around Detroit, Flint or some rural areas. Seem to be the ones who try rushing to work at 80 MPH during heavy snowfall and end up in the ditch or…

I’m solidly on Team Tracy on this one. Old vehicle, wear items of unknown provenance, and easy to get at/already have access to them? If you don’t mind the cost, maybe not a bad idea to check or replace to set a baseline on certain items (water pump, ignition module as noted, brakes, etc) if you know they’ve a history…

But which one is the informant?

I find news radio or online to slightly more up-to-date about traffic news and the like (especially with the similar spike in bridge collisions in the last few years).

It could be that it’s just reported on more, but is seems there has been a spike in the last 12-24 months of drunk drivers going the wrong way on 696, 75, or similar and killing someone.

IIRC 94 is one of the oldest interstates in MI, hence the skinny medians and short on-ramps. Couple that with the volume of traffic and one gets a relatively high rate of fatal accidents.

Perfect for a cars of the people museum, or rent it out for period film/TV pieces. My folks had remarked on some recent films/shows set in the ‘80s how few ‘common’ cars they remembered survived and thus sets had tons of new-looking musclecars and maybe a Gremlin, Pinto or wood-sided station wagon, but few plain old…

‘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.