It’s not so much the “killing” over, it’s why should the victim be the only party at risk in this transaction? If thieves and criminals are free to do whatever they want without any apparent risk to themselves what incentive is there to stop? Not everyone wants to live in Gotham.

I was flying far too often on AK airlines MD-80's during that time period, and when the news got out about the jackscrew the MD80 got a bad reputation that it never quite was able to shake.

A lot of office equipment is designed to be the portal to buying those added features, programs and functionality that involves no extra hardware. At one time the industry was pushing to be a “solution” industry primarily with a secondary emphasis on hardware, buyers balked at this and now it’s back to selling boxes.…

Used the hot patches to fix bike tires all the time as a wee lad, then would punch a new hole in the tube by using a screwdriver to mount the tire and then do it all over again. They kind of smelled like 4th of July “snakes”

Ford Everest. Over on the Bronco 6G forums there is a group of owners who wish there was a fixed roof version of the Bronco. Well that is essentially the Everest, BOF 4WD SUV that is the Ford version of the 4Runner. Ranger chassis like the Bronco so the same off road mods should be adaptable. Ford is probably afraid…

Does Ignited have their own dedicated maintenance facility or has it been farmed out to the low bidder?

Ahhh, right next to DC which makes sense being a defense contractor. I guess they got the stuff that supposed to blow up confused with the stuff that carries passengers.

When I lived in AK, I studded up knobbies and rode my motorcycle all year. So did the local “AK49" stunt team, and the leader of that particular team managed to damage one of his digits so severely that it evetually had to be removed. Studded knobbies, yeah, sheet metal screws, on pure ice, saw blades? Gonna have to…

The ABS on that version of BMW K bike wasn’t all that good to begin with, and the expense of repairing it was likely in excess of the asking price. I would have deleted it too.

A EFI system for my 1979 Chevy pickup. I decided the 21st century wasn’t all bad for old trucks. It was a fair bit of money but the improvements in starting, driving and probably better fuel economy made it worthwhile for me. 

I do like the look of that 2 door. 

NP for a Willys that’s hard the hard work done, and about the third of a cost of a Roxor or side by side. I’d dump that funky bench though, and go in favor of a good old fashioned military styled tube frame seat.

They can boost Hellcats when they grow up. 

the hands were OK but we really liked what you guys did with the horses and bison. 

I didn’t even stray from the path and encountered wolves. 

and if you do miscalculate your mileage and push it tooooo far, an emergency fill up is a fuel can away. A bucket of electrons isnt quite so easy.

That makes sense. Once it gets out into the bush, it never leaves.

There was a local estate sale featuring an Omni that was basically showroom condition, asking $4K OBO. It ended up at the house of the cemetary guy which tells me he traded an Omni for a headstone and a plot. Talk about a dead end car.

the early adopters have their EV’s, now they have to sell them to the rest of us on actual merit and price. It will be interesting to see what happens to the market once the Chinese bring their cars to the US market. I suspect the market for $20K EV’s is better than $70K EVs.

“Clear some junk off the property” said no AK homesteader ever!