I see. (hehe) Well, feel better soon. It’ll be a pretty cool x-mas present to yourself to unlock “manual mode”. lol

It's all about consent my friend

Congrats on doing some of this yourself and learning about the basics, I grew up in a family of car people and broke car people most of the time, so I learned this stuff the hard way, but I suspect my gal would be just as confounded in this situation as were you.

Never have I seen a dipstick on a manual transmission.

Maybe someone has recommended this to you, but get a box of disposable gloves, preferably multiple mil thickness nitrile. If you ever do brakes, the gloves will disintegrate from brake cleaner (and carb cleaner), but in general they hold up well for poking around the car and keeping your hands relatively clean. Or…

I have owned an 86 and 88 Firebird, and have worked on a friend’s 96. Your V6 should have the same T5 that was in the 83-92 cars and should work just like mine even though they are a bit older. I can confirm the manuals do not have dipsticks, they work as described above. Also you fill them with ATF (Automatic…

Because it’s a manual, it may not have a transmission fluid dipstick. Many manuals require you to get under the car and find the fill port; it looks like the oil drain plug, but it’s on the side of the transmission near the top (do NOT unscrew the transmission drain plug on the bottom). You then just undo the plug -…

yikes, sorry! try some tubes of sand or old cast iron engine parts for some weight over the back. I had an old buick I used for a winter beater since my 70 commando did not have heat and defrost and it was like -25 out. I used two cat 3208 cylinder heads for trunk ballast. 

The tires are actually fairly new! I think six years old and stored indoors, so they look pretty much perfect. High-quality Nokians. They’ll do me good, I reckon.

Yeah, that’s not how this works.

The tracking system has limited utility. It’s good for recovering property, but that’s about it. Most of these vehicles taken in car jackings aren’t connected to some “bigger operation” or kept at a “secure location.” They’re driven around for a while, maybe used in a drive-by or a…

The loophole is to charge the teens with the cop hitting the pedestrian. It’s the way they’ve been passing blame on terrible policing for year. Just like if police engage in a shootout with a suspect and the police shoot bystanders.

Um... are we forgetting the Chevy Nova from “Deathproof?”

Depends.

Slide 8, a hearse?

And for those not living in the swampy states, a big issue is that without running A/C (or a dehumidifier, which is really the same thing just without venting the heat outside), after a week or two your house will start to get moldy inside. It’s not just the inconvenience of being hot and sweaty.

Metamucil and a box-set of Matlock? 

Hey now, Copy and Paste is the engine that makes G/O sites run.

I work retail. You would be SURPRISED at how many people are clueless about age restricted items that can be used for getting high, from glue to paint, to apparently now deodorant?

Looks like I picked the right week to stop huffing spray on deodorant!

I’m surprised Kinja didn’t list the products as a slideshow.