Have a star!

To each their own. For our area and climate (northern panhandle West Virginia), they worked surprisingly well. As far as reliability, we had very few issues.

Oh yes, they are wholly impractical for cars. It’s just an interesting thing that was ingrained into all of us kids growing up. And when we all left our bubble of northern West Virginia, many of us were surprised that wasn’t a bigger thing.

Every schoolbus in my county were required to have automatic tire chains. I graduated high school in 1999. Even now, almost 20 years later, I am flabbergasted at how few people have heard of these.

As a master technician with decades of experience with a certain Asian manufacturer whose names rhymes with “Fonda”, this was a well thought article with gobs of useful information. And your MacGyver skills are top notch. I hate replacing whole devices when it can be fixed easily. Hate like the white hot intensity of…

I guess getting into the fetal position shows the world the baby he is.

Vigor, please.

Yes. Let’s.

Yeah, you got some interference issues for the speedo. The driver is maybe getting EMI from the tach signal maybe? Grounds, loose connections, PCB solder issues, and the likes.

Enter an abridged conversation with a friend’s daughter as I had to take her back home after she babysat my girls.

Oh good gods yes.

Agree with the others here. It’s more of an unintended consequence than a planned move. I’d love to tell you my mindset about it, but it’s gone. Probably forever.

So, um, true story.

The first time driving a car is fuzzy for me. Growing up on a farm, I was “driving” trucks from such a young age that I honestly cannot remember when was the first.

Not without the appropriate bath salts or meth.

I was seriously confused for a bit. I thought the Akula was the Typhoon class ballistic sub (Project 971). However, I learned just now there is native and NATO naming designations.

Morphine isn’t “illegal”. Its Schedule 2, which means it can be prescribed.

That’s how my regular driver was. He could do flawless uphill starts. Which considering how steep our hills were and how heavy those buses get filled with dozens of kids, it is an amazing feat.

Oh yes. They are definitely still around.

This reminds me of a cool thing I have tried explaining to people. I graduated high school in 1999. While that is a whole generation ago, something really interesting happened in the couple years preceding that.