Hahaha I also noticed that guy’s with V6 Dodge Chargers have the same issue on the highways around here.

Frat guys with four door Nissans are truly lousy as well in Manhattan, Ks.

Indeed, Kansas is pretty much fine. Its a very car enthusiast friendly place with limited safety inspections, little in the way of emissions regulations, active race scene that features anything from drag racing to SCCA. At least for the most part I can work on my car in my garage without idiots sticking their nose…

Every year my alma mater performs a large research study on airlines. Wichita State University collects information regarding safety, customer service, employee performance and the like. For the record, the 2017 records have Delta in second place. United is in 8th. Both are placed out of 12 airlines.

So I drive to the post office with my fun little ‘86 etta after working at the shop all day. I have the three dogs with me because they like to “go places.” As I’m walking into the post office a little old man is smiling and waving at my dogs. I go inside, grab mail, come back out and get in the car. That’s when…

Couple days ago I was in a vintage game store and they wanted $60 for Suikoden II so this just continues to hack me off. Either I pay the $60 for an old copy to play on my old PS2 (bad graphics on 1080p) or I buy a used PS3 and get it all squared away to play them via PS store. Meanwhile my eager PS4 sits here…

Crash and burn.

I’m just reading this thread because its been tangentially interesting but I have to note. From an academic point of view, although it is fair use it would be dishonest. For the most part you are not going to be charged with committing an illegal act (still pretty gray area in some cases) but would be considered a…

Like a horde of angry chainsaws, I love it..

Having worked on various cars since ‘94 I can attest that some vehicles just require a blood sacrifice before they will run.

Yeah we have something similar to “spinning tires in the city limits” in the great state of Kansas, they call it “excessive display of horsepower.” It’s like a generic catch-all category an officer can use if they didn’t catch you directly in the act of speeding or reckless driving. I had an officer pull me over in…

Have a 9-12 year old little sister yelp from the passenger side “NUH-UH!!” when the officer says you were speeding.

My grandfather stuck me in the cab of a brakeless 1953 Chevy pick-up when I was 6/7 years old. He had the idle tuned up high so it would move along in 1st gear. Told me to keep the truck pointed straight while he was in the bed tearing apart a bail of hay to feed the sheep. So by age 12 I was driving his “good”…

Here here. Years back when I was test-driving the POS ‘95 M3 we had for a couple years I took it through town to show it to my father. He was going to be the one daily driving it (hahahahaaa, until it wound up in the garage for months) so he wanted a good look at the car. So of course at an intersection I had a…

I applaud your comment with great enthusiasm. I used to have a stats professor in grad school who pretty bluntly said that you have to be very careful in reading research studies. With (manipulated) statistical analysis you could pretty much make the data roll over, play dead and bark on command to confirm a…

First off, thanks David for writing this up. Its been a real trip following this locally. Second, I just noticed something interesting. When she drives off in the video her license plate flaps in the breeze. She’s been doing all this on a new car temp tag!? Kansas issues a 30/60 day temp tags for new-to-you cars.…

Yer welcome :-)

Tentative NP, but for the love of God make sure that FI system and the transmission are in top form. I’ve always found the jetronic FI systems to just be annoying to work on, likely its just me. We had a 1990 Audi 90 once and the auto transmission decided to go blooey within two weeks of dad driving it off the lot. …

Here courtesy of Jalopnik and your car colors are two out of three quite wrong.

Oh please...he’s not going across on I-70 which is an absolutely dreadful bit of boredom. From the looks of the map he’s following a good bit of old highway 24 or 36 which runs parallel to I-70. In the NE, 24 is used by a bunch of the old guys who like to run timed races in vintage cars. It’s a very pretty route…