Although not quite as obscure as these, my favorite bizarre part description came from the late, great LJK Setright - ‘non-manual cog-swopper’, a device I don’t want in any of my vehicles as I am perfectly happy to swop my own cogs.
Did this occur on a visit to Chuck Berry’s place?
Years ago, when I was just a child, I remember showing up late when meeting my stepfather somewhere. He had given instructions to my mom to take the Santa Ana freeway from where we were, and she was unaware that this didn’t necessarily mean staying on one particular freeway with just one number. It might have made…
The long skinny part is to connect the harbor area to the city of Los Angeles proper. I guess there’s some sort of rule or law that I haven’t bothered to look up that says that the city has to have contiguous borders, and this was their workaround.
Apparently Jay Leno is already doing just this for his collection.
Well, GE is making turbine engine parts for production engines via additive manufacturing so I suspect that the technique is good enough for parts for old cars.
what’s he gonna sit out on the lawn for an afternoon and watch these things go by?
If these people saw one of my folk’s neighbors houses they would probably stroke out. This in a neighborhood where the “cheap” houses are only $1M. Two old vans, two old 7-series (the E23 has a manual!) and two old Honda products? It’s been like this forever, and this is in a nice neighborhood with a pretty strong…
Well, I once worked at an office that had an emergency standby generator whose starting circuit/motor was powered by line voltage. Umm, OK, how exactly are you going to start it when the power goes out?..
Oh yeah.
What is under the hood of that Lincoln???
I remember Mr. Weinberg, err Wynn, from all of his TV ads back in the ‘80s and wondered what happened to him, thinking that he had passed away years ago. Time has not been kind to him...
When I was a kid in the ‘70s it was the VW Scirocco. I had all the brochures, knew all the specs, etc. The second generation came out and I was still in love, especially with that limited edition model with the fancy body kit and black leather interior. That was the car I was going to get someday. And then the Rabbit…
Years ago my mother rushed to buy the last of a particular generation of E-Class instead of waiting for the new model so that she’d have a car like dad’s because she wanted something that she already knew how to operate. When the climate control malfunctioned the dealer tried to say that it was operator error, and she…
I’m sorry, but that looks like a Corolla in anaphylactic shock.
Some time back there was talk of ending DACA during a period of seriously low unemployment, which raised the question of who is going to fill those newly-created jobs, especially the manual labor positions that 99.9% of Americans won’t do. Umm, who exactly will do them? Salvadorans perhaps? Uh, scratch that.
Nailed it. Agree 100%.
Fun for a van, especially since this one has a slick manual transmission. That’s probably not good for resale value, but it doesn’t matter since I will never get rid of it.
Love and hate are both strong emotions and thus quite similar. The opposite of those two is indifference. Unfortunately, with this dotard in office there seems to be no way to be calm and unemotional on either side of the argument, and that’s probably by design.