The French Connection

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Southern Culture On The Skids— Voodoo Cadillac.

Hot take: Almost nothing feels “dangerously underpowered” if it has a manual. The only time i’ve ever felt that “Woah...I really need to go faster here for safety’s sake” feeeling has been with autos that refused to kickdown.

So it drew a dick, then got stuck in the mouth of the Suez and there aren’t enough seamen with enough thrust to push it out. And the longer it’s in there, the more screwed we are...

I think they might be around $500 - the Summit intakes (at least for an SBC) are something like $125, and the Summit carbs (which tested...really well on an Engine Masters episode) aren’t too expensive...at least compared to other entry-level carbs.

Just confirmed: right around $600 for the combo: intake, carb,…

Maybe you could hook up other wrenchers with people needing help, then get both sides of the story on a project

Single cab trucks have room for me, the dog and my hermetic contempt for the rest of you soft-shelled apes.

I know most people don’t have the opportunity, but I learned stick on an old Ford 8N tractor in a field. They have about 25Hp, but about 90 ft-pound of torque at 1500 RPM, and top out at about 25 MPH.  It was a great way to practice shifting and never get moving too fast.  I’ll teach my kids on my MGB someday, but I’m…

One of the top entries, Abolish ICE, was removed from the final list, the New York Times reports. It’s absolutely the perfect name for a plow truck, and I can see why it was right at the top. But Department of Transportation felt that the name was too political.

David, if you ever make it down to Florence, Y’all you can drive my unicorn of an F-150 I just bought sight unseen and drove back from North Carolina.

This is the least insane thing you have ever done, which is hilarious.

I get personal satisfaction from anticipating moves from other drivers on long road trips. I guess you can call this Defensive Driving.

This is how they should do the hood-line on all pickup trucks for pedestrian safety.

It’s such a one-dimensional, narrowminded, troglodytic notion of car enthusiasm too. Mashing the ‘Go pedal’ and going fast isn’t the only way to appreciate cars.

Electric E-brakes. It’s a solution in search of a problem. The regular manual e-brake works just fine, and didn’t get in the way when driving.  Aside from the general sense that “making everything electric” automatically makes it better, I don’t understand the rationale.  Also:  makes winter driving less fun.

Lots of other issues that have alreay been written, so I’ll do this one: the lack of dipsticks in some cars. It solves nothing, and adds aggravation.

Easy.  An instrument cluster that is backlit even when headlights are not on.  Because of that, I often see people driving down the freeway with no headlights or taillights on because they have no clue they are off.

Yeah but that TrueCoat...

I won’t lie, I had to look up the word tumescent. Remind me to never again do that on Google Images with the Safe Search off.