Well, they’re hybrids, so I imagine they use both the pantograph and the onboard engine to run the truck as needed. The trick is seamlessly switching between the two power sources as needed.

Pretty sure that engine has a timing chain. My 1.8t did.

And I got 260,000 miles out of my control arms. :)

His trunk was full of dead hookers.

Pretty much. No better way to understand how spark advance effects an internal combustion engine though.

Heh — I grew up working on and driving Model T’s. My father’s a collector and I grew up with his collection. My first job ever was to meticulously spray every bolt and nut with WD-40 on a 1915 he was restoring. My older brother and my dad would then attach one with wrenches to dismantle the thing and eventually…

Well, you see, it’s an *autonomous* car, with *sensors* and stuff. It knows when there’s a car coming at 35mph (or any other mph for that matter, other than 0 mph, which is no mph at all,) and, being one of them fancy *automomous* cars,

Well at least one person here gets it.

“Muggles”has been taken, so:

Actually there are several types:

“Mechanics” for those who work on their cars.
“Drivers” for those who have a passion for driving and driving well.
“Operators” for those who drive as a beans of transportation.
“”Passengers” for those who dislike driving.

This is what happens when you buy cheap labor.

The problem was that the tires were Firestones.

The driver is about 1 second behind the police cruiser. Most states require 2 seconds following distance, so the driver *is* following too closely.

Still, brake-checking someone is never a wise option. My guess is he was trying to cause a collision, knowing that in a rear-end collision, it’s pretty much automatic that…

Not much competition.

And the Miata’s competitors when it was introduced were...

No, they’re 2+2's, which is practically the same thing. Ever try to sit in the back seat of a ‘66 Mustang? Unless you’re less than 9 years old, it’s going to be painful.

They’ve only just broken the 1 million mark? Wow! I would have thought that would have happened LONG ago.

The little bugger came out in 1989, so that took about 27 years. The Mustang sold its 1 millionth car in 1966, only 2.5 years after its introduction.

I am underwhelmed.

1 - When disassembling something. Reinstall the fasteners into the threaded part. IMMEDIATELY. the not only keeps you from losing the fastener, but it keeps the fastener associated with the correct hole. Important for stuff like Ford smallblock waterpumps, where every fastener is a different length, and some are studs.

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If I’m not in the car, it’s locked. Yes, even in the garage.

Oxi-Clean FTW.

You’re channeling Trump’s speech writer, aren’t you...

Yep — an obsolete airframe at the end of its service life can be cheap, since no one wants to buy it and actually put it into service.

Aluminum has no fatigue resistance, meaning every flight stresses the aluminum a little bit and it’;s not *quite* as strong as it once was. That means there are a certain number if…