Yes, never underestimate the power of the gunk bugs, which hold old engines together!

“Hey honey, gotta work on the car today. This should only take me an hour or so, and I’ve got everything I need already.”

The game of Lava, Mustang, Crowds is a lot like Rock, Paper, Scissors.

People who buy a house in the flight path of an existing airport have NO RIGHT to complain about the noise from said airport.

oh man. please come to connecticut and help me with the final assembly on my dad’s healey.

I once ran from the cops in my Karman Ghia... It happens. Wasn’t particularly high speed though.

It is a fantastic read. Good luck. A google search shoes it in the #320 range. Ouch. On the same search, scrolling down does show a Free PDF version for download on Reddit.

It’s harder to jump an automatic because the transmission is bigger and it throws off the balance for the landing.

Find a copy of Sled Driver, it is an amazing read. Every SR-71 nut should read it. They talk in depth about refueling. I cant recall specifics this Monday afternoon but i know the pilot was working his ass off during refueling while the navigator ate lunch and enjoyed the view.

Indeed, flying slower than it was designed for AND taking on 80,000 pounds (!) of JP-7 made refueling difficult. Pilot Brian Shul described having to put *one* engine in afterburner near the end of the refueling cycle to have enough thrust to maintain altitude and airspeed, but then having to fight the resulting yaw.

I actually worked on the SR-71 in the mid 80s, as a junior computer programmer. The systems were mind-bogglingly primitive, even by the standards of the time. The autopilot was programmed via massive stacks of punchcards.

Sounds like maybe it was close to the SR-71's stall speed.

I just had to comment on how fucking great that weld is she laid down. That’s a stack of nickels if I’ve ever seen one.

I can’t stand it when people refer to their car by internal chassis code, their engine by its code, and so on.

Right? Then it’s just sculpting with motorcycle parts. Fun but not nearly as interesting as a working vehicle IMHO.

It doesn’t matter how good it sounds, I can’t get past those stupid stancypants wheels.

The design for the American dream was based on the 1970 Cadillac Eldorado limos, and Ohrberg started drafting it up in the late 1980s with his dreams coming to fruition in 1992. Clocking in at 100 feet long

I don’t think this was a concrete piston, I think they filled the cylinder with the stuff and it was basically a 3 cylinder car.

I currently own a 2014 XT, yeah I’m a pleab.

It’s like catching up with a friend from college who now has 3 kids, no sleep and drinks Michelob Ultra once a month to “loosen up”. Subaru, what happened friend?