“Anyway, Gulfstream is trying to win the race to build the largest private jet on sale. It has a new one, from Bloomberg:”

Yikes, that one is pretty much toast. Fixing the existing uni-body would mean basically replacing the entire ladder part of the uni-frame and the rockers (and good luck keeping the body straight when you do this, with either the rails or rockers gone it still might have enough stiffness to stay straight, but with both…

They don’t have a high CG and are pretty hard to flip unless you do something really stupid (like sliding sideways into a steep ditch at high speed), unfortunately lots of people do really stupid stuff like this.

It is not all that hard assuming you have half-decent tires, understand how a limited slip differential (LSD) works, and are a half-competent driver. But that moron likely had none of these.

You couldn’t give me a car with an early Northstar V8 those were nothing but problems. So, I’m certainly not paying $4k for one. - CP

An M35A2 (duce and a half) military truck with the multi-fuel engine. It will go just about anywhere, run on anything that is liquid and burns, is relatively easy to repair and maintain, and offers plenty of space for equipment and cargo.

And the Democrats are any different??? Both parties have pretty much the same MO at this point, just with slightly different ideological slants.

Er... assuming the waver was given by departmental policy or executive order and not an act of congress in the first place he does. California never had a “right” in the first place, in fact cars being an interstate good (both in production and use) California would be expressly forbidden from making their own…

COUGH ***Interstate Commerce Clause *** COUGH

The Red Rabbit in Duncannon PA.

These Eco-Terrorists need to be treated like what they are, Terrorists. These sub-human pieces of garbage should be put in front of a firing squad or locked up in some place like Guantanamo Bay and throw away the key. The fact that they can commit such acts and often face minimal consequences is ridiculous, they…

Fix, are you kidding, if he files a claim with insurance they’re just going to total it and give him a check for $500 or so. A bumper replacement and paint alone runs $1000+ these days at body shop rates (what the insurance company will use for their estimate) and that is already more than an old rusty POStal Jeep is…

The JT8Ds on the 737-200 are low-bypass turbofans not turbojets (727s and DC9s used the same engines as well). You’ve got to go back to early 707s and DC8s to find turbojets on passenger aircraft (and all of those have either been retired or re-engined with turbofans).

It would be interesting to see what the ~2,800V output of a microwave oven transformer would do to it though.

The Jeep XJs didn’t switch to R134a until 1995, a 94 would still be using R12 unless it was converted.

“a Michigan State Police officer was driving an unmarked Jeep Patriot” Wow, Michigan must be getting desperate to be using Jeep Patriots as police vehicles (even unmarked ones), a vehicle 176 HP and 0-60 times in the 10 sec. range (assuming it has the “big” 2.4L engine even worse with the base 2.0L) doesn’t seem…

What’s dog for “Hold my beer”?

Same here in PA, with the BS “storm water management” fees (basically the municipalities neglected their storm water systems for decades and now need money for all the differed maintenance and upgrades to meet unfunded EPA mandates, personally I wish they would just tell the EPA to go F-themselves, even if the EPA…

No chance about it, a 1 st. gen Compass would be better in just about every way. The compass would be safer, more reliable, more comfortable, faster (by a wide margin), and likely better off-road as well (at least if it was an AWD varriant).

I don’t know what all the complaining is about. Is it a crappy concept? sure, but if you want the cheapest tickets on the cheapest airlines you get what you pay for (the absolute bare minimum). If you want comfort and something resembling service get a first/business class ticket (you still have to deal with the…