Yeah, that’s a good one. Just the creepiness is outstanding alone. But, really, as a game that’s managed to stay relevant since 2005, it runs on pretty much any piece of gear nowadays and has sequels so if you like the 1st, you can move on. Plus, they’re pretty much before MMORPG became a monstrous money-grubbing negat…
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Don’t know if anyone else posted this but Google, for once, did me a favor and dumped me a link to this ad :
I used to work next to a fairly well-known Catholic boys school for a few years. Every year when the school semester started, we would get a flood of those kids coming into our bookstore. It wasn’t because they were coming to buy books like the public school kids were doing. The public school kids would get assigned a…
Ahh, the irony. Nothing like a bunch of Catholics trashing on other People; like they haven’t done enough damage. Now they got to start acting like a bunch of WASPs because apparently being Catholic isn’t enough.
Same brakes on early Formula Fords....
what did you use for heat shielding?
I don’t think the shifting on these is that big a deal. As part of the normal manual shifting process, people adapt pretty quickly. But, what I think does mess people up is learning how chokes work and how to use them properly. Manual chokes were on most of these and a lot of other foreign cars in the early to mid…
That’s interesting, not much room in there for typical a/c gear. How’s your engine temps right now? Are you running a bigger rad? I would expect putting in an active a/c unit might jack all that up.
Nice. Looks exactly like my brothers 6+ except his was in Surf Blue, IIRC. Shifting wasn’t that big a deal, my friend had a modded Spit with a Buick 215 and GM T-10 and that thing (pretty worn-out by the time he got to it) was a real pain trying to find the right gears. What was difficult was changing out the donuts…
Very interesting. I suppose the expedition leaders were much more thoughtful about how to manage their crews then, compared to how NASA used their astronauts to the point where the Skylab 4 mission crew had an in-flight strike.
What you’re noting is the failure of US GOP politics to hold the center. Instead, they have swung hard-right and believe now in their own propaganda. There is a similar failure (though not as destructive yet) which is going on in the Democratic party. But, really, that too is a response to the failure of right-wing…
Beware, US airline deregulation has little to do with party politics and more to do with economics. Any political party that claims or declaims responsibility for airline deregulation is merely taking advantage of something that was long in the making for the airline industry. Really what happened was many business org…
Ahhh, yes, the inevitable CanAm-ization of FD et al. It’s too bad. Hope it doesn’t happen. If Porsche gets their grubby little hands on FD, it’ll be game over. Maybe the thing is to not allow any factory representation; only indies allowed. Love those engine mods; that’s some sweet stuff. Glad to hear it was only a…
Reminds me of Grahame Burton’s Hewland Mk. 8 teardown . And the need for some fresh Hylomar....doing gearsets is always a bit of a twitchy bit for me......
Always funny to see how the NASCAR guys wane nostalgic for the carbureted days et al. And then, it’s sad to remember how Smokey Yunick used to tell everyone that they needed to understand electronic ignition/management systems way back in the ‘80s. It only took 30 some years for NASCAR to catch up to Smokey, just like…
You’re right; probably when ancillary (but not immediately critical) services start failing is when people will really start hurting. If Medicare or CMS starts having problems, then you’ll really see the worms coming out of the woodwork. People not being able to get medications, referrals, procedures, that’s all stuff…
I miss their little mushroom turnovers and the truffle infused olive oil.
Jeremy Corbyn and his Russian supported gang are like Duncan Sandys’ Tories. Except, instead of destroying British aviation with the White Paper, they’ll just cut to the chase and destroy Britain with Brexit.
It would be very interesting if Porsche were able to offer a dead-simple dead-easy model that didn’t have any bs installed and offered an entirely owner maintainable mechanical set. Rather a bit of a throw-back mentality, yes, but, for me, that car would be far more attractive than the current GT3 or Turbo which are…