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Oops, forgot to remove this from the hatchback. Not quite full either.

Read the New Yorker article I linked to, then assert again that the cops in Texas don't steal from motorists. Seriously, read the article then tell me that a revered journal would print a lengthy and completely contrived lie. The cops in Texas, and to a lesser degree around the United States can confiscate your…

Oh I "think" I smell marijuana in your car. Now I'll take everything, your car, your phone, the cash you were carrying, and you're powerless to fight it. If you do fight it I'll take your kids too.

Are you sitting down?

No.

Seems legit.

Here's the dashcam I bought. It has two cameras, one I've placed in my back hatch. The front camera can be pivoted to face inward, which I'll do when the police pull me over. It has a great microphone and is very discreet at the top of my windshield. I bought it after being rear ended by a thug who then fled, but half…

As it stands now, cops search and harass an enormous proportion of innocent people hoping to bust the .01% that's breaking the law. They have no skin in the game. It's like playing a free slot machine.

Funny how a bottomless pit down which we throw a mountain of tax revenue can also look like an airplane. For anyone oblivious to the inexorable march of progress, manned aircraft will soon be considered a liability for weight, complexity, g-loads, cost and etc. And this coming from an Air Force brat who dreamed of…

Never never never consent to be searched. It's unAmerican to just roll over and let the popo have their way with you. Back in college (15 yrs ago) my pal's sister consented to a search - they left her on the side of the road in Louisiana with a disassembled car, door panels off, seats on the median and so forth. If…

Hobble? Or hovel? Applicable for ankle sprains, not so much failed townships.

Texas mandates a front plate. Screw Texas. There was no way in hell I was going to put a plate on the sexy, pointy, freshly painted bumper of my Rx7-GSLE. Later when I had my Prelude Si with the lowest hood line in the industry I continued to scoff at the law. Now I drive my 1st gen Insight around the country for my…

Folks buy classic American iron with a straight 6 and immediately want to yank 'em & chuck a V8 in their place. I don't get it, I'd waaaaay rather hotrod the stock 6. As you didn't post a photo of this gorgeous engine I thought I would.

Money's tight and police departments get too much anyway. This is a far cheaper alternative.

Bingo - I did this to my TR6 and it went from ox cart to Honda precision. Also got aluminum steering rack mounts, 16" Konig Rewinds and stiffer rebuilt lever shocks. It's like my car woke from a coma.

A very left field choice of tunes Raphael, thanks! These guys, Monochrome Set and Snakefinger were some of that era's quirkiest writers.

The bosozoku are a bunch of imbeciles and I'm not going to glorify their lifestyle. When I lived in Odawara there was the omnipresent background sound of unmuffled motorcycle engines bouncing off rev-limiters 24/7. Sometimes they'd ride around in the traffic circle by the train station for up to ten minutes, round and…

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