Is that what the “swing” button did? I thought it was there for owners who liked to switch-out occasionally with other people’s cars.....

“In the video it looks like the brake lights are on, but it’s not stopping very well. I hypothesise that the impact damaged the compressed air supply to the braking system.”

Having lived through that era, and having driven a Cutlass or 2 (as well as once owning a Fairmont), let me go through the reasons:

Between your post and Nic’s post above, all I have to say is this; look at the byline for the author. Elizabeth Blackstock is just a ‘hack journalist’ that GoMedia allows to create content, but only on the weekends. Her posts are invariably riddled with fallacies, ignorance, and stock photos which don’t match the…

American truckers use the term “rolling roadblock”.

Wow, those are some UGLY welds! Also, how do you remove the rear axle from those closed dropouts (you know, so you can change a tire..)? Do you need an arbor press?

I’m 60, a former trucker (1 million + miles on 18-wheelers alone), I’ve owned probably 20 cars since learning to drive in 1977 (mostly with manuals), I’ve raced, I’ve rallied, so I’m very experienced with transmissions. Not all of them shifted as sweet as that Fuller-Eaton 9-speed Roadranger I had in my old…

So, being that it’s “Lake Springfield”, might the truck have been driven by.....Homer Simpson?

Piquet drove into the barrier-it was just to have a crash worthy of having a safety car come out.

Yes, Bottas certainly paid dearly for that! I’m assuming the stewards had to devise some unusual punishment for him, lest Red Bull keep their vendetta against Mercedes going.

If it wasn’t for this blunder, he would’ve won.

Seriously, a starter replacement on a small-block Chevy is pretty much a high school shop class job, especially on a vehicle with enough ground clearance that you don’t even need a jack. This is the sort of very basic auto repair you expect any “automotive journalist” could easily do in about 2 hours, especially on a…

OH_GOOD_LORD! Flashbacks to high school driver’s ed; we had a 1977 Olds Omega (the Olds Nova-based model) with the same red interior, the same asinine half-landau roof, and the same small-block motor. What a dog this thing was; handled like a truck, rode like a truck, and.....it had no A/C! I took Driver’s Ed over the…

I got involved in racing as an adult, and I just cannot fathom any parent letting their child risk his life like this. I’m sorry, but the race track is no place for kids.

I just came back from a bike ride down an old rail trail near my house that dates to 1842.

She doesn’t care. She just took the first pic that comes up when she did a Google search for “really old locomotive”.

No, they haven’t. Here in upstate NY, 2014 model years already have rust HOLES on them.

That would’ve been Hugo. I weather that storm with an 18-wheeler, but I was up in S. Virginia. Charleston really got hit hard from that one...

The best move I was ever on was a suburban family just moving in from out-of-state. My company at the time (a recognizable international moving company) had 4 local crews, but we had scheduled 5 local moves. A crew from Buffalo was supposed to do the 5th job, but they had to cancel. It was late June, so dusk came…

I spent 2 of my truck-driving years in the household moving trade, and I can give you some advice. First, budget about $.40/mile for diesel fuel on that van if you’re going to drive it at 70mph; anything over 50 and the fuel economy goes to shit.