There’s a huge aftermarket for these in the company 3SX, so I wouldn’t be too worried about keeping one running.  They are constantly coming up with factory replacement parts and even modern replacements for obsolete stuff.  My dad only had an ES version Stealth, so far less gadgets, but that car made it 355,000+…

Interestingly enough, it kinda feels like the 90s all over again when all trucks were super boxy and Dodge came out with a styled truck that had some curves and grabbed some attention.  The GM and Ford offerings appear to be leaning really hard on that tough and square aesthetic while the Ram (to my eyes at least),…

To keep it in the Dodge stable, would have been nice if the Viper went out with a little more fanfare.  The chassis was pretty consistent from 2003 through the end.  There were tweaks and updates, but nothing super crazy.  One guy actually turned a wrecked gen 4 into a gen 5 with only minor modifications.

Yeah, I think that was part of my issue as well.  I was expecting to be able to do everything the first go around, but I’m pretty sure the game is really built for that to not be the case.  I was thinking of starting it over on easy as well just so I could actually finish it and not be frustrated.  Really the original…

I still need to finish Trails of Cold Steel II ><.  I started that one some time ago and just ran into so much other stuff to do in my life.  Getting married was one of those.  Not that my wife cares if I game, but I just have other projects that I’d rather do first and it seems like I never have the time to sit down…

I’ve had a partially started Lightning Returns on my shelf for years now.  The solo combat was just hard for me to wrap my head around and I think I finally started to get some of it, but then put the game down.  I don’t think I could even pick it back up without starting over.  I like a little more reserved turn…

I think some of the issue with perpendicular parking might be getting out of that spot.  Say you are on a busy street and pull in nose-to-curb.  Now you go to back out and if you are parked between two taller cars you don’t really have much idea what is going on in the street behind you.  When you are sideways you can…

You had a book to read, the Haynes/Chilton’s manual that you packed.  Should have put it in your carry-on.

I agree that this is exorbitant, but I also do think that having some kind of unique key is cool and akin to colored seatbelts in that it is an untapped market.  The Viper keys were kinda fun and had the Viper logo on them in various forms over the years.  You could always use a plain Dodge key, but it was neat to…

Interesting. When the recall first came out way back when it was really more about the module itself. It was in millions of Jeeps and also just happened to be in the Viper, so that’s why it was included in the recalls was my understanding. What didn’t make sense was that it was used in pretty much all the gen 3 and…

I think type/brand/year/etc on a car can mean a lot too. 100,000 miles on something 5 years old or newer is a lot of driving, but probably also means that was a lot of highway miles, which tend to be easier on a car. And 100k miles on a Honda Civic is likely going to result in something different than a 100k miles in…

Eh, not really for me. That car is so boring and lifeless that it sparks no joy for me to drive regularly.  I come from daily driving a 71 Vette in high school, a 67 Dart with a 5.7 Hemi I built myself, and an 04 Viper.  Boring cars are mindless for me to drive and why I sold the Jag I had for a while.  It was a…

This just reminds me of any low volume product and the crazy markups.  I recently rebuilt the engine in my 04 Viper due to a pair of spun rod bearings.  Between replacing other wear parts while I was in there and a small upgrade or two it was a few thousand bucks.  I checked prices to see what a rebuild on the 350 in…

Uh, my 71 Vette has the spray nozzles on the wiper arms, that’s not really a new idea.  Didn’t understand how they worked for the longest time, but also never used them.

I could see the benefit of deicing the whole blade to give it better flexibility, though I would agree it does nothing for removing anything from the windshield.  It would help the blades to better conform so they don’t streak after the windshield is clean though.

My wife and I have been talking about a new car for a while, and the end of year plus potential recession has been giving me more incentive to look into it, but the reality is that finances still just aren’t really there and her car has been running okay since the transmission was repaired under a technical service…

I think there is one point there that is missing though, entertainment. A lot of things don’t need to exist today, but do because they are entertaining. One that comes to mind is music. Do we need artists to spends millions to fly around the world just to make pretty sounds we enjoy? Nope, but we do it anyway. Same…

I’ve got a friend that lives in SF and have come to appreciate the transit options there quite a bit.  Granted he has a spare clipper card and gets a stipend from work that loads onto those cards, so it’s basically free for him and me, but the options work well enough and we’ve gone all over the city relatively easily…

I wondered the same thing for years.  When I first saw the dimming rearview mirror I wondered why it wasn’t on the side view mirrors too.  Maybe it was an environmental thing where the original electrochromic stuff wouldn’t survive being totally exposed or something.

These take me back.  My brother and I have a Tiny Toons and a Darkwing Duck handheld game like this.  The Tiny Toons game was about balancing an ice cream cone with more and more scoops.  Don’t remember the Darkwing Duck game off the top of my head.  Will have to dig them out now.