imperialist1960
imperialist1960
imperialist1960

I want a pony.

That was a guess.  Straight-edged chrome trim like that only came on early 80's domestic crap-can cars, so I tried for obscure but not impossible.  Man, that was a horrid point in time car-wise.

1982 Ford Granada

The housing on outboards is normally aluminum and houses the propeller driveshaft, so it’s sturdy enough to do that, even could be re-engineered if we really had to argue about how many angels can dance on the prop blade.

steer the boat wheel, turn the outboard.

I changed jobs recently, and new boss let me pick my work truck.

Dad went and bought a new Volvo wagon perhaps 25-30 years ago.

Don’t like your HOA?

Single biggest thing for durability was the replacement of the carburetor with a computer that could sniff its own butt and adjust on the microsecond. Everything flowed from those horrid things.

I second that motion.

Get the lifted 4x4 community involved in these and just as the music group Boston saved us from Disco, the results would be transformative.

Also, note that everyone reading this story and watching the video are viewing the high-res recording of the camera image that was stored to the flash card memory carried on-board the drone and downloaded later. The product seen here is a recording, and it is on a relatively giant screen if you’re on a computer or

The DJI drone that I use (DJI is very, very popular) has tons of information onscreen about altitude, battery, and so forth.  It also has limits built in that can be manually overridden, but limits none-the-less.

Lawyers.

I nominate Plasti-Dip for the livery.

I had a flight attendant tell me that she laughed because people made all sorts of noise about getting bottled water but that they did not question where the ice in the cup came from.

I disagree with the conclusion about the last point, and I do so because I disagree how the last point is set up.

It was the Ambien.

I got to ride an electric motorcycle for a week, and it was everything that it needed to be. AND it was unashamedly an appliance. Not much to service besides maybe brakes and, I dunno, maybe wheel bearings or some such.  Perhaps replace the grips every 50,000 miles?