1969 Lincoln Mark III. Equipped with a 365hp 460 cu. in. V8 before the EPA ruined everyone's fun. By 1973, power on the same engine dipped to 212hp and the Lincoln Mark series would never see a power figure north of 300 ever again. Having ridden in the back of one as a kid, there seemed like an endless expanse of…

Lincoln Mark VIII. Slightly modified!

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I like the TGUS episodes with original themes the best. Have the shows producers made a decision to quit ripping off TGUK plots wholesale, or will this continue for the foreseeable future?

At 1:51, "Disconnect the battery" - fail.

Let's not forget the whole "inert" thing. In the Army, we practice setting up claymores with what is essentially a hollow shell containing no explosives or ball bearings or any of that. It's entirely harmless, much like a replica hand grenade.

Nope, I'm pretty sure it's wrong. Until they get it fixed, I'll stick with foreign cars. (In case of nibbles: [i.imgur.com] )

There's something wrong with the build site. It won't let me select a two-door option.

I would assume that it's a per-model basis. Ferrari might make twenty different 458's and call them all the "same model with a different trim level" which is a matter of semantics, but I would imagine that the law would define them as separate models regardless of how Ferrari chooses to define the word "model." …

For CAFE standards, Ferrari doesn't really have a problem. They're figured in with Fiat already. Aston Martin didn't work that way, they had to go and license/rebadge the Toyota iQ design because they're not owned by a larger carmaker that sells tiny econoboxes in Europe.

I think you're confusing corporate average fuel economy (CAFE) standards with maximum CO2 emission standards. The former you can sidestep by selling lots of tiny Fiats. The later, no dice.

Fail. #1, because even number of cylinders. #2, because I said "not every American with a need for speed wants [...] RWD."

Because 350hp inline 5. Because Ford only made 500 of them, and not a damn one of them was sold outside of Europe. Hell, you can't even buy a Focus with a similar chassis here and build one of your own with aftermarket parts, because the all-mighty Ford has deigned that the only Americans that want a two-door car…

Not showing up for me either, the others are fine. #corrections

Put a tank on it, HET don't care!

All these suggestions of military or para-military vehicles lack imagination. Nothing says "F you!" like a giant f'ing truck with a Bradley IFV on a trailer: I present to you the M1070A1, or "HET."

It does help significantly with weight distribution. Car batteries can weigh up to 30 pounds or so depending on size. And you're subtracting that weight from the front and adding it to the rear, so moving a 30 pound battery from the front to the rear makes for a 60 pound change in weight distribution.

Actually, that "vent" isn't a vent at all. Plenty of modern autoloaders have a similar gap so you can see that a round is loaded. The brass casing will expand when fired and very little gas will escape past the wrong end of the chamber mouth. A gap *can* cause burns or worse, but not in that location. The gap…

Because corners.

Bought this 1987 Ford Bronco II in 2006 for $500 just after I finished Army Basic Training and AIT.