For that kinda cabbage you could get your hands on a nicely-done Roadmaster wagon. Maybe not as much hipster cred but more than made up for in terms of street cred...

The trucks these guys are building were actually envisioned—and slowly entering the market—as production vehicles, with the International CXT leading the way as the Big Three watched closely and readied their own entries to the market.

Video has been removed.

The Toyota HiLux will be what the locals will use to tow you back to civilization if you harbor the illusion that anything else on that list will work for you.

This is a variation on the vans that pimps use to haul under-aged prostitutes around my city—which spurred us to bolster our human-trafficking laws. So yeah, crackpipe. In the most literal sense.

My first car was a '77 Monza Mirage, which came with a body kit inspired by the IMSA cars of the day. I bought it in '84, and by that time the lower rivets of the panels had broken from the fatigue that bad design and amateur aerodynamics have a knack for causing. I still remember the fear on the faces of the drivers…

When Soldiers in uniform get into convoys, a weird "must stay with the pack at the expense of every other consideration" mindset sets in. Not totally mature people driving large, fast, imposing vehicles (even though it's an un-armored, un-armed un-glamorous LMTV carrying commodities which is a hoot to drive once you…

In other industries, all bets—and warranties—are off when you attack the factory finish on an aluminum component. +1 for speculation on powder coating, which could also account for the part of that (sketchily engineered—those spokes are kinda skinny) wheel that completely disintegrated.

Meth is REALLY, REALLY bad for you. We know this. What's even worse for you than the meth itself? The residue from its manufacture.

Funny, I have a two-monitor setup and my un-calibrated monitor shows a slight magenta flare, my calibrated monitor (admittedly, calibrated for my studio's cameras and printers) shows a distinct purple one.

Me neither.

The irony of this is that the car may not have been the source of ignition. That's a HUUGE carrier. My bet is that they had some useless junk in the front of the trailer (people keep all kinds of stupid stuff up there—like flammable chemicals, battery-powered tools and/or lead-acid-powered voltage inverters) that…

Puckering is socialized. Beings with fewer inhibitions will void their bladders and bowels. Scared shitless, as it were.

Nope. heaviest load goes up top to prevent pendulation. Which is baaad. That handler looks to be a pretty big dude, so the Man and his Dog are top of the stack...

Being below the dog on air ops is probably one of those "not so cool" things about being one of the Coolest Dudes on the Planet.

My bad, MH-60. Wasn't really cueing on other features, given that it was wreckage from one vantage point at web resolutions; the distinctive, mostly-intact rotor was what I fixated on...

Nope, the Abottabad wreckage was a UH-60 Blackhawk. Which they tried to burn to protect the secrecy of the electronics, and fact that it was a UH-60 Blackhawk that sort of didn't exist. They were able to incinerate everything but the tail boom. Everyone who's spent time in and around UH-60s recognized that tail boom…

Yup, definitely a sketchy extraction. They guy on the ramp with the camera is laid out to deliver suppressive fire with his trusty 'scoped M16A4.

The technical term is "aborted sling load."

Nobody—NOBODY with the chops to stay alive in Afghanistan is using Bushmaster firearms, which are seen as the gun equivalent of the Porsche 914 or 924. No strike that. Remember those American muscle cars that weren't actually fast enough to be Indy pace cars? Bushmasters are kinda like those.