The real reason for flying boats was the fixed pitch prop. Prior to adjustable pitch props you had either a climb or cruise prop, if you wanted to be able to cruise at altitude at a decent speed and at a low cruise RPM you needed a flat pitch prop. This was the equivalent of fifth gear in a car and just like top gear…

Holy shit, are you ACTUALLY working today? As in, apparently the only person in the Jalopnik office, since every other post so far seems to be just reposted crap from sometime in the last 6 months? So far we’ve got a story on the Iran missile crisis from January (including the first sentence “yesterday Iran launched a…

The Belgium plant actually did engine transplants for GAZ-24s. The cars were shipped from Soviet Union semi assembled without engines and they received Indenor diesel engines in Belgium. Volga M24D was the sedan version and M24DB was the wagon (break).

It’s a Izh-Moskvitch 412, not a GAZ-24

It’s beautiful. Like the ICON Derelict, an aging beast that’s been around, seen some shit, and continues to soldier on into the future, unbent by the winds of time.

The issue is that John Deere’s proprietary tech is ridiculously invasive. If you have to wait for a tech every damn time you have a breakdown during harvest - and all of your neighbors have to wait for a tech too - that’s a ton of lost time. And techs aren’t cheap either.

As I age, the shift of everything to a “you don’t actually own it, it’s a SUBSCRIPTION you pay forever” is turning out to be the first thing to make me full-on old man yells at clouds angry whenever it comes up in conversation. I guess it had to be something eventually, but it has been a surprise.

I am no fortune teller but I predict pre 1990 cars will be in hot demand when people are sick and tired of their hot new autonomous vehicles not working like they should if working at all and having dealer reps come to unlock it with a usb key

Great, another area where classic Porsche prices are gonna get stupid.

By the time I read everything, only about half of the car pictures had loaded, but 13(!) individual ads loaded for a pretty fancy woodchipper. So I am left thinking that a woodchipper was the most important thing of the last 15 years.

anytime someone talks about bringing graphics from the past to the modern day, i’m always gonna post up my Magnum.

I have to say this comes a off as extremely entitled and basically confirms the argument made by the author. Your thesis is that you can’t find the job you want and that’s bad, when the only jobs you want are programming at IBM or at a game company. That is like me saying capitalism sucks because I want to be a pro…

Oh, dear Lord. This tail end baby boomer (born 1958) is tired of all the whining from all of you, including Gen Y and X. Biggest disappointment? The endless adolescence that seems to be part and parcel of life now. When I was 20, I couldn't wait to get the hell out of the house and create and manage my own life. …

I'm a genX.... now bash me if you want but I think this was just intended to be a humorous editorial. If you are all going to complain and flip each other off just calm down and think for a minute. We have all (no matter what age) a responsibility to try and do something with ourselves that improves our lives as…

AWESOME POST. I'm reminded of the SAT tutoring work I did during college and over the past 7 years meeting teenagers who grew up well-off but still worked hard at school and held weekend jobs. I'm reminded of the teens who knew how to write applications for their phones before they finished 9th grade. The next…

RANT:

I'm a 'Boomer' who was raised by a couple of 'Depression Era' kids who were both raised in a 'Dust Bowl' family. Get over yourselves allfookinready. It ain't when you grew up it is and always was where you grew up.

Run DMC and Radiohead and Nirvana and Notorious B.I.G. Not that it gets any credit.

Everyone always thinks they had it worse than others. The truth is, all the 'good times' generation X had is partly to blame for the mess we are in right now. Additionally, generation X never bore the brunt of all those wars and bailouts you mentioned, they just added them to the deficit and passed it down for the…