That’s Naval Air Engineering Station (NAES) Lakehurst (my father-in-law lives around the corner). Not likely. Anything that’s there is transient, and wouldn’t be tasked for intercepts, or armed, even for an exercise. McGuire is an airlift command, and doesn’t have any tenant fighter squadrons. All the other bases…

Are you sure they were Hornets? The ANG flies F-16s out of Atlantic City, and the Navy doesn’t typically handle intercepts.

Remember that time the US tried to replace the Minuteman III missiles with the Peacekeeper missile, which was deployed from 1986-2005, but then were decommissioned due to the START II Treaty (which the US never signed)?

I don’t even know where to start. It was delivered with dents in the roof and passenger door. Those were fixed via paintless dent removal at the dealer’s expense. The Sync 3 Nav system started failing the day I brought it home. The map would just die, and I’d get a message that there was a navigation fault. The…

I almost went Guard for my 2016, but went the complete opposite way, and picked Race Red. Given the issues I’ve had with my car, which was special ordered, I kinda wish I’d have taken a chance on something else.

No, it wasn’t. It was still an S197, just with some suspension and brake upgrades.

According to Wikipedia:

I’d hit it, and I’d let it hit me back.

SVT Contour with the 3.0L block from the Taurus/Sable/Escape and the 2.5L SVT heads from the Contour plus a beefed up 5-speed with a Quaife LSD = awesome.

A few months ago, I was driving home from work, along the route shown below, which is a wide road, which then has an on-ramp to I-526, in North Charleston, SC. This whole area is frequented by trucks that are delivering wood chips for the paper plant (upper right of the picture). I turned onto the bottom of the ramp,…

Kinda like how Chevy puts a Corvette logo on their prototype racer?

Yeah, but CAFE standards aren’t going away. They need to get lighter, as evidenced by the amount they’re investing in their trucks. For the Mustang to make sense at 475 HP, they need to be down to 3400 to make it fuel efficient enough to avoid the gas guzzler tax and meet CAFE.

The S650 comes out in 2020, hopefully with a LOT of aluminum.

They are LED, but I don’t think that’s for headlight cooling. I’m hoping it’s for brake cooling ducts. I expect I’ll be disappointed.

Agreed. That car was a goddamn rocket, and was plenty of fun to drive. I’m sure it’s even better with a manual.

I’ve seen nin probably five times, including on their Wave Goodbye tour. That was incredible, at a small club in NYC. Their stadium shows are pretty lackluster, from what I’ve seen. I definitely want to see Cornell solo. Huge fan of the ‘Songbook’ album.

My wife and I saw Soundgarden with Nine Inch Nails two summers ago, and despite the fact that I’m a far bigger nin fan, Soundgarden blew them out of the water. Cornell was fantastic. He did a solo tour that came to CHS early last year, but we were coming back from a wedding that evening, and I didn’t get to go...

Yup, which was surprising, because it was a Hendrick dealership. My friend sold cars at the Dodge dealership next door, and said that she could order it for me, but I was too annoyed by then.

Nope, SC. Hendrick in West Ashley was unwilling to work with me, the Chevy dealer in Mount Pleasant didn’t have any and said they couldn’t get what I wanted, and all other dealers in the area gave me the shoulder shrug. The Jag was at Baker, I test drove a Mustang from Palmetto, but couldn’t stand the sales guy. Ended…

My mom has had three. The oldest died a couple years ago, deaf, blind, incontinent, and with two broken legs that it suffered when it wandered off the bed (on which it ate, slept, drank, and did other things), then blindly walked between the bars at the top of the stairs, and fell ten feet onto a concrete floor. It…