Maybe the total load is 80 tons? They are hauling a lot of ballast and the trailer with the mechanism on it doesn’t look light.

The mechanism allows them to turn the blade so they should be able to reduce the effects of the wind. In addition it looks like lots of sand used as ballast in the bottom of the trailer.

I always love learning about how things are transported. I’ve passed plenty of these blades being hauled across Iowa on I-80 but just with a long trailer. Obviously installing a wind tower in a cornfield does not have the challenges of getting one up a mountain in China.

Can I at least fill my wish list up with cars I’ll never buy? There’s a little satisfaction in hoping a relative will hit the lotto and wonder what to get me and find my list on amazon.

Lots of opportunity for fire on these buses, the work done by the coach builders isn’t to the same level as a normal car or truck and stuff like pinched wires, leaking diesel heaters and other issues aren’t uncommon. My dad is a school bus mechanic and is constantly ranting about how much stuff they have to fix within…

I have automotive ADD, but current obsession is swapping the 5spd setup from my rusted out 1990 Plymouth Voyager Turbo into my rust free 1990 Dodge Caravan Turbo. The goal being a comfortable, moderately quick cruiser and people/parts/dog hauler.

I feel like this is changing somewhat. I grew up the son of a farmer and thus never knew you could pay others to fix something, cut your grass etc... A lot of that rubbed off on me and even though I work a white collar office job now I still do my own repairs whenever possible (and a few times when impossible too).…

Look at all the Toyota trucks in recent years with rusted out frames, or Fords with the rear spring perches rusted off.

They make plastic ski’s you can slide under the locked tires to make it easier to load, but even the little 4500lb rated winch on my car trailer will load a car with tires that don’t roll. The winch on your average rollback would happily load a car whether it’s in neutral, park or on it’s roof.

Sounds similar to the first time we entered an 87 Lincoln Town Car in a Demolition Derby. First hit and the car dies and won’t restart. We learned the hard way that ford had an impact sensitive switch that kills power to the fuel pump in an accident. So we were the first car out in our heat, but figured it out soon…

I think there are quite a few semi trucks that can top that number

My favorite setup was the hurst V-gate shifter i had in my old Roadrunner. That got a separate lever for reverse and the car had a nice light on the dash that illuminated when you were in reverse.

Solid motor mounts in my Dodge have the same effect. Sure you can’t see behind you because the mirror vibrates and is blurry, and you have to hold it to 2000 rpm to get the CD player to read a disk, but lots of massaging going on.

Spy photo of the shift control from the 2018 Spinal Tap edition Civic Hatch

Honda focus groups have determined that many will buy the new Civic just based on the shifter that goes to 11.

That literally is my specialty, 80-90's Chryslers. And I’ve judged at many car shows (typically muscle cars). I haven’t gotten a call from Pebble Beach yet, but I’ll stay close to the phone.

So it shares a connection to the soda machine at Wendys

I have a suspicion your keyboard was sticky long before I posted this.

I got lazy a few weeks ago and left the spare parts and tools in the garage when taking a car to a show about an hour away. Ran great the whole way there and most of the way home, then leaving one light car lost power when I shifted to 2nd, stumbled and died. I was in the left lane of a four lane road through town…

This is obviously a test mule for Ford’s autonomous car. As you can see they have successfully cloned the Tesla Autopilot software.