That’s easy; US 6. Not only do you get spectacular scenery in the Rockies (Loveland Pass, etc.), but even the eastern half is scenic as well (N. Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and especially Cape Cod). Traffic is usually light, since it really doesn’t serve many big cities, and isn’t truly completely cross-country, ending…

Yeah, but I’ll bet it happens a lot in Russia and China! Certainly in India, too.

That’s probably just the coupler slack. Over a mile of cars, even lass than an inch of slack will allow cars to move back and forth several feet.

Torch, as a Beetle owner, I’m surprised you don’t know the reason. It’s the same law that forced VW to move their indicators from down by the headlight to the top of the fenders. US law set a minimum height for signal lights, and small cars like the Civic and the Beetle sat too low. By 1978, though (the year my Civic…

I think I’ll head over there, and donate $.02 to his fund. It’ll be worth that much so that I can call him a douchebag in the comments with my donation.

I dunno......wait for a mistral?

I remember this as well. I’d only started paying attention to F1 mostly through those little 30 second clips on Wide World of Sports; this was SO much more exciting than Indy cars! And Jackie Stewart was probably the single most informative F1 driver to have ever lived. I think it was the 1970 Monaco GP that was the…

And yet, your example from 30 years ago (Japanese GP, 1990) when Senna deliberately took Prost out on the first lap in order to win the championship; if that isn’t cheating, then what is? Nelson Piquet Jr. a few years later deliberately caused a crash to help his teammate Alonso win, and several team managers were…

I would guess that then “average Joe” wouldn’t run headfirst into a protest while dressed up like a cop, either. I mean, if I were dressed like that and an ‘angry mob’ was nearby, I’d turn the opposite way. Unless maybe I was looking for a fight?

Yawwwnnnn.....To be brutally honest, I doubt that ANY F1 champion’s biography is worth a movie. Guys like them are often laser-focused on winning, and are rarely very interesting people outside of their hour or 2 of glory every week. Quite a few of them are borderline sociopaths as well, and nearly all of them are…

Yes, who cares if you smell like you slept in a repair bay? You’ll be warm!

Well, I guess you are not afraid of Virginia Woolf....

Trois Rivieres? Why would she want to spend time in a stinking papermill town?

I used to be a cross-border truck driver 25+ years ago, and I used to cross the border daily, often at the same border crossing. Customs Canada used to be a breeze, compared to US customs (which, luckily, at least half of the time, I returned empty). When I had a pre-cleared load (meaning that I didn’t need to park my…

Hey, at least he’s doing something to earn his pay. Hard to make chicken salad out of chicken sh!t, but sometimes that’s all ya got!

FWIW, there IS a very large Scots community around the Charlotte area. So, maybe his heritage just got the best of him?

Brings back memories of my mom’s 1969 Ambassador sedan; it was the first car we owned that actually had A/C! And power windows! It was a sort of bile-green, with an interior of vinyl and cloth of probably every shade of ‘muted green’ known to man. Even survived getting rear-ended by a Buffalo city bus once with no…

“Most Beetle owners, myself included, just kept a rag handy to wipe away fog.”

It’s a “GRANADA”, Greneda is a Caribbean island. The Granada was based on the old 1960 Falcon platform, so it was getting old by then. Live axle with leaf springs guaranteed that the rear axle will skitter and bounce across broken pavement while cornering. But they were damn cheap! I’d bet that one with a 250 cu in.…

Well, yes. At the very least, he deviated from his flight plan (I guarantee if you file a plan stating you will be flying under a bridge, you will need special permission), probably flying under your assigned altitude, flying in a restricted area, etc., etc.