How slow is that 6.2 n/a Detroit in the Blazer? I see military surplus blazers come up for sale once in a while with the diesel, and I love me some K5 Blazer. The soon to be wife actually WANTS me to buy one, since she loves the body style as well. I have just heard so much hate on those motors that I’m hesitant. I’d…

I’m going to chalk it up to stupidity for sure.

Same here. Turn 30 in a few months. First car I owned had 0 safety features, 1986 Lincoln Town Car. But it did have a car phone! Never drove it, got it when I was 15 to fix up (leaked/burned oil like crazy), then my grandfather asked for it back. It was his girlfriends car, he replaced it with a Caddy. She hated the…

I feel like every fake phone number in TV before the 90's was KL5-5555.

I don’t get the Captain Kirk pose at all. I feel like there are people who do it solely because they think it will prevent a cop from pulling them over.

My middle school football coach/friend’s father told us that you don’t pay a hooker for sex, you pay her to leave afterwards. Excellent life advice right there.

Ahh man, so much damage to the official car of my people. Mullets everywhere are crying.

AC definitely uses power, but come on with the circuit breaker reference. That breaker needs to send enough power to run the compressor, condenser fan, evap fan, controls, and resistance heat/gas heat (if equipped). The of course window units are different, same with ductless mini splits. Sure, the compressor is the…

Gotta upgrade to the High Output Metro. My dad had one. 4 cylinder 4 door. No AC to drag you down! Same with no radio to add excess weight, or any other creature comforts for that matter. Only option it had from the factory was rear window defrost.

Window louvers are my favorite redneck mod. I bought my 1980 Z28 a few years ago, came with louvers. First thing I removed, put them on Craigslist, and some guy from Pennsatucky came out to NJ to snap them up for an easy $100.

Got a good chuckle from that, thank you.

Could be, but if it were 100% due to the low draw of the LED, I’d figure the warning would be on most, if not all, of the time. It comes and goes, but the warning comes on way less than 50% of the time. I’d say maybe 20-25%. Not enough to really bother me.

I’ve never touched the stuff but heard horror stories and people swear by it. A trusted mechanical source, my buddy at work, said he bought it once for his Harley. When he poured it in and saw it flow like water, he immediately stopped and went back to conventional oil. That was a long time ago though, when Amsoil was…

My E34 has been decent on bulbs in the 2 years I’ve owned it. Changed the front parking/turn signal bulbs out because the parking light filament failed but the turn signal filament still worked. Changed the headlights to yellow 9006 bulbs because I had a cheap-o pair laying around, and they died after a few months, so…

As soon as I saw “Hindenburg II” I thought, well that’s dumb, it should be called Skytanic!

I’ve gotten this in chain emails from gearheads at work. Knew it was the same exact lines when I read that a stock Hemi can’t drive the supercharger. Still amazing to think of the sheer power.

Yeah timing was the easy adjustment, we had to fiddle with the dual stromburgs for a while to really dial it in. The worst part was, from what I remember, “idle” speed was limited to 1100 rpm. At 11500 or so, the car would run clean enough to pass without changing anything. What a pain. I begged my dad to put QQ…

Not necessarily all that weird, but a car I never knew existed until my father bought one. Jensen-Healey convertible. Apparently after Healey split up with Austin, he hooked up with Jensen to make some true British roadsters. Suspect electrics, lotus engine, leaked like a sieve in both soft and hard top configuration,…

Ohh yeah they completely suck, but sometimes (ok once in a few decades) you might find a place that already has some complaints listed, so you can pile on.

Ahh yeah, that that point you are at their mercy, unless you follow up with a complaint to the BBB or something.