Motor upgrades are ‘spensive! Here, try this magic motor spray, maybe that 540 can motor will last another weekend before you have to buy a new one.

I had a Tamiya Frog that held up respectably against the RC-10s at our club track. Never beat ‘em, but I could hold my budget-racer head up at the end of the B main.

But I’m continually dismayed by just the sheer amount of Depraved Indifference.

Meeting in the middle is great, in theory. But, where is “the middle” between, “we want all of your race dead because of your race” and “please don’t kill me just for existing” ?

Time to work up a plausible reason for it to catch fire and sink where it is so the crew can abandon ship and go home. Let the insurance companies take their sweet time arguing about who owes who how much, but let the crew GTFO.

Don’t ships in canals require local pilots in command? Why isn’t this the SCA’s pilot’s fault?

My kid’s band required three 26-foot box trucks to haul their gear. Well, 2-and-a-half. The truck they crammed all the marimbas and xylophones and stuff like that into was only about half full because you can’t stack stuff on top of a $10,000 marimba, apparently.  

They could be living next to you every minute. how bout’ dat?

you don’t have to posses a single qualification outside a driver’s license to rent a 26' box truck.

Do scam startups count? If so, I nominate 20th Century Motors and the Dale.

Happens with all brands. I bought a new ‘89 VW GTI 16v and it took me about 6 months to catch on that the left and right interior door panels were different.

Probably several to choose from for sale in Costa Rica. Just stick a Sienna badge on it and you’ll breeze thru customs.

But how will passerby know the purpose of your vehicle?

Articulated bus? Check.

And that is why you need to keep someone on site after the rebar is inspected/approved, until the concrete gets poured.

A well-planned circle can be awesome. Poorly designed, though... There’s one in Austin that’s awful, at an intersection of an arterial street and one side of an Interstate. Three entries, two lanes each. Two of the three exits are one-lane, but one of the exits allows two lanes out. So that’s fun. Oh and there’s a…

That’s what she said.

Flippers and middlemen are the natural offspring of the free market. As long as something is in limited supply there will be those who buy it and sell it at a markup. Limited supply is the problem - Ford can build more Broncos and this problem will go away.

This. Assuming it was a SCA authorized pilot at the helm, why isn’t the pilot being held accountable?

If you have a stainless steel carafe, a bunch of  denture cleaning tablets will remove that coffee residue. Ours takes two rounds of cleaning with 6 generic grocery store denture tablets every 3 weeks or so.