Now compare it with typical buying power.

I didn’t think the leopards would eat MY face!

Advanced geomootry.

Top men were dispatched to wrecking yards around Germany to find well-seasoned engine blocks, soaked in oil and heat-cycled for years.

BMW was getting well over 1k horsepower from a stock-block 1.5L I-4 in the mid-80s. Look up BMW M12.

20 years later the FD RX-7 still looked fresh.

WEC has got to be shrooming.

And that’s how you kill a racing series.

I’m snapshotting your second paragraph. I want to frame that shit. Captures the moment perfectly.

Driver was aggressively wielding what’s classified as a deadly weapon, in a patently unsafe manner, so the armed guy had reason to fear for his and others’ safety?

Almost like the police prioritize revenue over the safety of citizenry.

>Seriously, these people need prayers.

Journalism school 101: “Missing man found” conveys the same information as “Man found after being missing”, without sounding like you had a stroke while writing it.

That’s what the E85 pump is for.

I instantly dislike the neighbor for thinking skunks are undesirable.

That’s fair. The CCUV program was pretty much a failure, using commercial trucks on the battlefield. Much better than a HMMWV for running around base and into town, though.

The Navy and Marines use the Super Hornet for basically every job. The F-16 gets tasked with everything under the sun. The F-35 is being asked to do all those jobs plus VTOL and stealth. Your analogy is faulty.

I’d like to know from people within the industry: was there a real manufacturing roadblock to getting a decent manual like the T56 into production in the ‘80s, or was it GM just being GM, incapable of changing to meet the challenges of the time?

No one you listed is a particularly good singer.

Entry is about 2JZ.