Oh, when I went to get it from the tow yard, the windshield frame’s top was about three inches from my forehead when I sat in the seat. My dad and I straightened that jeep with a powr-pullr and a handy tree, and a 30ton bottle jack. We replaced the front end with a one-piece fiberglass unit (which made the front even…

19 years old and DD’ing a 76 Jeep CJ5 with a 258ci I6 and 3spd manual. Skittish as hell, squirrelly but dead fun. The brakes were twitchy and one day on the way to work left front suddenly grabbed while on an on-ramp onto the highway. The CJ dipped left, rolled and cartwheeled along the guardrail to land on the…

I know, I know. I’m an asshole for replying to a post that’s three years old. Just saw it thanks to a link from another article and this post, and so very many of the comments, are so full of misconceptions that I will probably explode into little multicolored ribbons of pedantry if I don’t respond.

Even as a lifelong mopar hater, I love those Superbirds. Well and truly iconic.

I wish. I’ve worked at national-level companies that used software better suited to DOSSHELL than windows, and this was when I was using Win98 at home. Hell, I’ve worked on stuff that used machines with monochrome green screens in the late 90’s, all because updating was crazy talk. I remember seeing the machines and…

And those companies have considerably quicker roll-outs, I would guess.

Only sort of. I remember back in the late 90’s visiting a navy friend who was on duty christmas eve. He was stationed on the SSN Newport News, a 688 attack sub, then basically cutting edge. As he walked us around the unclassified portions of his tiny and exceedingly deadly boat, he pointed out a 486 PC still running a…

Glad to see the Blue Marlin. Amazing vessel.

FN Five-seveN? the 5.7 round has decent range out of the handgun, solid penetrative ability, and carries a pile of ammo in a compact package. I was able to get solid accuracy out of my buddy’s 5.7 out to 50m, and it’s not grossly bigger than the (over-large) Beretta M9.

“high performance mail vehicle”

Dude, I know. Legit electrical craziness from brackish water in contacts and in the computers. A real jag owner would expect that, I’m sure, but it was still a thing.

Every race I’ve seen with Sheldon Creed in it, that kid was 10/10 all the way. Super impressed with his Go.

A few years back we had a pretty severe hurricane and a local high-dollar attorney decided that his Jaguar XKR with 3k miles on the clock was clearly a James Bond car and could go through water in aquatic mode. It was brackish water, got into the interior, the engine, transmission. Totalled. It was the devil’s own…

My technofetishists statement was no less nor more accurate than your jape about people ignoring safety issues of human drivers, and it is certainly more than one firm making these predictions. If you’d done any research, you’d find plenty of articles talking about the massive upheavals coming. Hell, I was quoting…

You know, I’m sorry. I shouldn’t have called you a dipshit, even if you are one. It’s mean, and there’s no point.

Man, I feel sorry for those two tires.

You are a blinkered dipshit. I simply cannot explain it any more clearly. Nowhere in there did I say we should not advance, nor did I say the technology was evil. My core point is that the technofetishists tugging it to robot cars and no steering wheels are not looking beyond the shiny gadgets to see, and plan for,…

I actually like these cars, but that price is ludicrous, especially for an N/A. I don’t care if it is RHD. It’s too much when I can get similar in nearly as good condition for about a third of the price. The work done to bring it to US spec is meaningless when it is a car that was available here in LHD.

So I get a call from a middling regional insurance company that was doing some pretty serious expansion along the east coast and down and they say they’d like to fly me out to Boston for an interview. I was mostly qualified for the position, a multi-state regional claims management thing, but not 100%. The best…

Do some research. The 10 million jobs figure is not mine. And, yes, automation destroys more jobs than it creates, period. Again, not my assertion. Do some research. Not ALL tech destroys more jobs than it creates, but specifically automation very much does. Again, do some research.