I was always amazed how that place stayed in business as long as it did. It was pricey, even by NYC standards, due to the astronomical rent in GCT, and was rarely busy. They did have a nice corporate/private rental thing going on, which was entertaining when they’d have a terrible DJ out on the balcony area at like 9… Read more
yup, know that space well. Always cool to “know” what’s going on behind a closed door. There are a lot of those closed doors in Grand Central... oh the places I’ve been and seen.
I have been a fairly avid detractor of current Jalopnik, especially with the tendency to tie everything to politics. However this short video and new series with you looks fantastic. Seeing new and unique jobs will never be boring for me, another reason I loved Dirty Jobs with Mike Rowe.
Not as good as the London Underground’s Rescue Units TBF.
Fun fact: Those walkways up in the windows have see-through “floors”. It’s a pretty worn/scratched tempered or bulletproof glass composite, so you can really only see kind of the floor below, but some people freak the fuck out when they gotta cross because some panels shift a bit or creak. It can be hilarious to… Read more
I had to do fire training before working offshore and never thought about clothes being claustrophobic before but holy geez. They put us in about 18 layers of fire fighting suit plus the head sock and the mask and helmet and respirator and that all promptly fogged up so I couldn’t see anything and there was no way I… Read more
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With just about every manufacturer obsessed with coining a corporate face and striving for predictable, tedious design consistency across their entire fleet, I can’t overstate how refreshing it is to see Hyundai forge this path of making wildly unique cars. Read more
This thing looks amazing. Someone should show it to the Cybertruck team at Tesla.
So, so many Code Brown incidents, but here are my two most amusing (at least to me), both happening within 50 miles of each other. Read more
A dozen college friends & I went on an annual ski trip in West Virginia every year (they still do, I think? I don’t live in Ohio anymore though) & one year it was my turn to be one of the drivers. My ‘98 Jetta had not-great front tires and bad plug wires and we (along with the entire East Coast) were hit with a… Read more
Harshest? Being in the middle-east all year. Same thing with Ft. Irwin,CA in MOPP level 5 gear in a M113 or a Bradley can make you lose 30 pounds in 2 weeks.
It’s also because that’s where the rear fog light is.
You also saw this on the low volume (but still mass-manufactured) Volkswagen XL1 between the running lights:
Fifth Gear was a car show for Top Gear fans who didn’t like cocking about and plot devices cooked up by Willman. Enjoyable, but in the end, something I’d watch at the time, but not rewatch later. The episodes are less evergreen and more informative than entertaining.
Consider me stoked. I’ve never watched the 2000s-era Top Gear and just recently stumbled onto clips of OG Top Gear on YouTube. The holidays are enough time to catch up on two decades of British motoring television, right? RIGHT?!
