Driven plenty of manual transmission cars in cold weather -20F. Feels like shift lever is stuck in molasses but they still shift fine. Now the 2 to 1 downshift in cold weather in an old car with worn synchros is a different story.

Cubs fans got class!!!

Fuck the Cubs and fuck their insufferable fans who think they’re suddenly baseball royalty after their team won a world series for the first time since about the time the Wright brothers were discovering powered flight.

Could also use a ‘Kaner’ reference

Throw in a “Trubinsky” and it would be perfect.

Do you call the Score, perhaps between 1 and 6 pm?

Real estate brokers, working in cahoots with banks and governments, redlined the country and kept segregation going even until now. In short, nobody cares what you think.

IIRC, in 35 years of driving, I have changed a flat once. The only other time, I came across a couple of ladies (Sunday morning in the South - all dressed up for church) stranded with a flat, so I changed the tire for them. I do insist that all of my driving kids know how to change a tire and drive a stick - even if…

Even with run-flats you’re not supposed to drive it if the damage is to the sidewall, because it’s the sidewall that makes run-flats work in the first place.

Engine was replaced?

Sure, just nip off the protruding bits with an angle grinder and get at it. Your safety cage is almost halfway done.

Ironically he was also standing at attention

Its a new Toyota. The engine flat-lines at 5k and all but dies at 6.

Don’t most cars automatically disengage the AC compressor clutch when you go WOT? Sounds like Ford missed the idea on that one.

“Used Magnums”

One really simple example of the whole shear stabilizing panels concept are the chintzy looking cardboard.fiberboard panels they include in furniture kits (typically for covering the majority of the back panel on a dresser). Without this panel installed the entire structure is weak and unstable, with the panel…

Or get BOOK by Cadillac for $1500 and V it up. Can get manual ATS-V for the weekend, then CT6/Slade it in comfort during the week.

Please tell me Papa remarried so the family could have Hot Shot Part Deux.

It’s an M, E, and B for Montreal Expos Baseball. I see the L though, for sure.