Bad pic, but I drove an ‘82 Alfa GTV-6 through several New England winters. Thanks to the old school rain gutters, I was even able to mount a Barrecrafters ski rack over the rear hatch (thus making it useless) and took it skiing many times.

A few years ago the latch clasp on the center armrest of my wife’s A4 broke and I needed a replacement. The only option at the online parts stores was an entire lid/cushion replacement which was $250 for OEM or about half for a questionable knock off. I stumbled onto a website for 3D printing vendors and one of them…

That’s Countach and BB 512, youngster!

This, this, this. Taped Cannonball Run off of cable, watched the intro a thousand times.

Well they did use Obi-Wan’s voice speaking to Rey in her vision when she first touched the lightsaber at Maz Katana’s so there’s some precedent, but the biggest reason would be a big fat Disney tie-in for the supposedly upcoming Obi-Wan anthology movie.

Bodes well for a Ewan McGregor cameo in Episode 9.

Excellent branding opportunity for Amazon Now if Lockheed wants to offset some development costs. Bezos does love aerospace.

It’s weird, but I was just wondering this morning why you don’t see more Neons still around. They were everywhere for a while.

I think it’s simply a matter of the other chairs being in the wind shadow of the building where the person filming is standing, or it’s deflecting/amplifying the wind. 

If they have to show the Kessel Run, please let them do it more justice than the Kobayashi Maru sequence in the Abrams Star Trek movie.

Yup. Frankly I am a but annoyed at this approach of letting the directors write their own stories without much consideration of the overall story arc. It’s clear we are getting an expanded universe from Disney and there will be plenty of room for new and interesting stories, I just wish they’d kept some tighter…

#COTD

While I love Laura Dern and have no particular issues with the character, how much more poignant would it have been if Admiral Akbar had been the one to sacrifice himself for the fleet rather than this stranger we only met a short while before. Such a better conclusion for a fan favorite character than the…

It should be on all the lists. It should be on the Worst Red Carpet Look at the Grammys list.

I came for Juicero. Was that 2016, it’s been a busy year? If it was last year it’s so dumb it deserves an extension into this year.

No shit. I think they just finished paying off the ‘76 Olympics like a week ago.

BMW requires 89 for the 2.0 turbo in the X3, but 91 when that engine is used in some other models.

If your friends hate you for making them binge watch Star Wars, they are not friends worth having.

If your friends hate you for making them binge watch Star Wars, they are not friends worth having.

As a rabid fan since 1977, I actually fully agree with this statement. Give me some good characters, good action, some decent humor and none of the over the top slapstick and corniness of the prequels - that’s all we need. I can forgive a little repetition (like I did in ‘83!)

I wonder how much extra range you could get with a trailer roof covered with solar panels.