merlyn11a

9/10/21

Flying the flag is really a patriotic notion. It’s not really that big a deal until someone starts doing it under the guise of nationalism. Then it just becomes a narcissitic exercise when one does it from their car, motorcycle, truck, etc. If one is going to do it, do it right. Put a decent pole in front of your…

9/10/21

Nice article. A great insight on Koenigsegg. Also, bravo to washing in the North Sea. Question : Is that Gemera (TFG) engine an interference valve engine or not?
Also, I’ve found that carrying a spare of glasses and/or a spare set of contacts as well is super useful. The contacts because they’re super easy to lose or…

9/9/21

It’s hard finding the right tires for older cars. I think for the Caddies, I’ve really only seen those Coker Classic WWs which while not horribly expensive are kind of tough to match up right with stock rims and wheel well trim. Fortunately, I don’t have a Caddy but for this guy I’d recommend one except for the tire…

9/9/21

Early retirement home for people over 30? JK, JK,

9/9/21

It is quintessentially the American dream writ in many ways together in one package.

9/9/21

LOL. You mean, ‘Murican. Nothing like disrespecting the flag for your own ego.

9/9/21

One could. But given those bastards are bunch of jr. Murdochs in breeding, no. I don’t really care about the money side of them. It’s the support they give to all the Qreeps, anti-vax, “Republicants”, and insurrectionists that inform me. So no. Eff them.

9/9/21

9/8/21

Really we only need 1 reason to not buy an Oculus :

9/6/21

For some reason, someone responded to something I posted here a long time ago. And in checking it out, I found your response. IIRC, the problem with that M18 breech failure was that the powder cartridge was a custom, non-OEM, cartridge where the propellant mix was home made. In essence, as the mix was put together,…

9/3/21

Have you ever seen the booze section in Costco? The same effect is amped up on the roads.

9/2/21

Viruses doing Gods Work.

9/1/21

Ya know, you have the travel bug, right? The military family background, etc. etc. Hope you find someday a s/o who likes it just as much as you do. A good traveling companion is enormously hard to find. Note : one who is a good navigator and can drive a stick at the same time is tough as well. But it makes the road…

9/1/21

David Tracy, that was great reading. Nice to see that part of the world and car adventuring through that. I wonder if the Bulgarian checkpoints are limited to the highways? It’s too bad you didn’t have a chance to do some countryside driving. Looking forward to Kapadoyka stories!

9/1/21

Oh yeah. Those roads. When I went it was during summer before the monsoons. So really bumpy without the crazy mud.

8/30/21

Seen any glaciers? I can see that you saw a lot of pavement....

8/30/21

Perhaps an electric fan would be a better option. It has the capacity to reduce the mechanical drag on the engine; seems though a simple fan blade swap should not introduce that much extra load to cause early overheating. Maybe a bad fan clutch? Or are you even running a fan clutch? Maybe that might be a thing to try.
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8/28/21

Anyone remember when he lost that Bugatti for a sec at the bottom of T9 at Laguna Seca way back when when the Monterey Historics were most excellent? That was when the T1-T4 complex were really fast. IIRC, the back end of it had a giant dent in it. Good times...

8/27/21

Saturn. A bastard company forged by a bunch of bastards from GM who wholly went along with treating Saturn as the literal bastard child. Lots of great ideas and processes punctured by the GM hierarchy as being too far-reaching; twenty years later and they’re still trying to emulate Saturn.

8/22/21

Sounds like Newark alright.