As long as the car does NOT depend on the phone for any normal tasks, I totally agree. The worst part of all these big LCD’s is having to use them to adjust the HVAC or other actual driving related tasks. So the car still needs a screen for the backup camera and maybe some warning/status info, but those could be…

I have a 1976 Triumph Spitfire and a 1999 Chevy Suburban 2500.  1.5L vs 7.4L.  1900lbs vs 7000lbs.  2 seats vs 8 seats.  13" wheels vs 16" wheels.  I could go on and on, but you get the idea.

Is this bike Carb or FI?  How big is that tank, and how much range do you get from it.  How is that seat on a long ride (looks mighty thin in the photos).  We will be very excited to hear how the Rally goes on this thing.

Anyone else thinking Hot Rod Drag Week?

“it’s no longer strong enough to actually kill bacteria”

Exactly what I came here to say, but Quade said it better than I would have. I have a ‘88 Chevy K1500 with the RWAL system. Back in the day it was a big improvement over not having any ABS at all. I remember the first time I tried to drive my Dads old squarebody in the snow. We always had a few hundred pounds of…

Frankly, this looks a lot like hell. Not the fun hell on wheels kind. This looks like the special hell reserved for people who talk at the theater. Those seats look like they are specifically contoured to alternately force you to slide off the bench onto the floor, or slide into the person next to you. It looks like…

Ah yes, the famous “charge indicator” on the old “maintenance free” batteries. What a joke. All the times I had a battery go dead, that little green ball was still happily floating in the window. And most of the batteries I had from that era, the green ball was gone within months of installing a new battery, even…

Exactly, when most of the older wet cell lead acid batteries were huge black lumps of god-knows-what, a battery where you could actually check the fluid level without unscrewing the caps was a nice feature. Except they usually didn’t work that well in the real world. For it to work you had to have light on the far…

Not quite. A significant amount of the cooling in an air-cooled motor comes form airflow over the cooling fins in the head and cylinder walls. Most small aircooled motors like lawn mowers, etc don’t have any provision to cool the oil itself at all. They rely on a big fan mounted on the flywheel to move air through a…

I don’t get all the Harley haters around here. I know plenty of Harley riders and most are just regular folk. Not a criminal or wanna-be among them. They just like owning the iconic American brand of bikes. I also do not understand the thought that the LiveWire will save the brand. Cruiser style bikes are not what is…

The real problem is the bean counter/lawyer solution to this issue. At many companies, all electronic communications are automatically deleted after 90 days. I suspect Boeing will have implement a similar scheme VERY SOON. This is awful for a number of reasons. In a world like aerospace, where product life spans are…

The other thing you might want to consider is how much pressure these employees were under from management. There has been much said about Boeing’s assertion that the plane would require minimal training. I suspect that Boeing employees may have been given ultimatums to make those promises a reality. It is possible…

I would like a little more data about the data. The way I interpret this, it only applies to new car purchases where the original owner keeps the car. A lot more information would be gained by looking at what car new car owners purchase when they get rid of a car and what cars are owned the longest regardless of when…

One year of data is not statistically significant. This is not news. Instead look to other states that have had higher limits for 10 years or more. Typically, what you will find is that the rates of traffic collisions, injuries, and fatalities are all declining, regardless of the speed limit. Most researchers…

While the IIHS tests DO measure glare, the test is static. In the real world, headlights with a sharp cutoff will go up and down hills and over bumps of various descriptions. This results in the bright side of the cutoff flashing in and out of the view of oncoming drivers. This is far worse than older halogen systems,…

I know this is going to seem weird to you, but to be considered a successful mod, it really should run and drive. I see little evidence that this thing still does. And it gets cold in Pennsylvania. And rainy. And Snowy. And I would not want to be inside this thing under any of those conditions.  And don’t even get me…

You might want to back off those USPS dates by a couple days. I am still waiting for a Priority Mail package that was shipped 12/2. On the plus side, the tracking information has been entertaining. It was within a hundred miles of my house for a couple days, but then got sent back to where it started. And is now…

ACT FAST, they have a special, 56 Letter size prints for $150!  But limited quantity.

My dad had a ‘63 MG Midget that he parked in the barn when my sister was born (a year before I was). Then he drove a ‘60 Imapla convertible that got traded in at some point for something less interesting. But that MG sat in the barn all those years. My efforts to get it going so I could drive it were in vain. Dad…