Aluminum body parts have been in use for decades. Ford specifically has been using aluminum hoods for years now. Trust me, techs know how to work on aluminum. The massive difference is supply chain-related.

Then don’t buy new trucks during their first year of manufacture on a new body. They all go through this.

Nope. Supply chain. I once totalled out a brand new luxury SUV from a hit that would otherwise be repairable because the manufacturer told me that it would take six months to get a left quarter and floor pan due to parts back-orders. The time frame is definitely supply chain issues on a brand new body, as opposed to…

It makes me happy to see my fellow jalops having a clue as to how things work. Spot-on answer.

Breaking bolts has been my clown lately.

Indeed.

“When was the last time you read something that made you want to get on a bike?”

I heart UJM’s. I want another one.

Buddy of mine is huge guy, 6’8” and not skinny. He used to work for coca-cola restocking drink machines and was inside a hotel stocking one when some dude with a big, deep voice walks up behind him and says, “Hey, gimme one a them cokes!” To do the stocking, he one on a knee, and he stands up, turns around glowering,…

My pup loooves the AC too, but she’s much more chill about it. But if you turn on the sprinkler? This times about ten. She loves the crap outta the sprinkler.

I stopped in to mention Hajime Sorayama. I’m glad someone else did so already.

I bought a new car exactly once in my 43 years, and did so because I was working for a dealership at the time, it was last year’s model, and thus they all but paid me to take it, and my wife was pregnant with out first so I wanted her to have a really reliable car. It actually counted as a sale for me that month. I’ll…

“Did you know that recently vaccinated children can and do spread the live virus to others.”

I would slap a baby to get an SP-2, and I can’t stand VW’s.

Because Bragg was awesome. Or at least it was back in the day.

Note - Army brat, not army. My dad loved Bragg though, and so did I. And the quarters were so good that I would buy the house we lived in if I had the chance.

I’d love to see it happen.

This is a beautiful example of understatement. I applaud your effort.

The lead pic was taken about ten minutes drive from where I am at the moment.

That is the only pseudo-positive thing I can say about this particularly rage-inducing article.

Thank you for saying this, even if I want to punch someone at the moment.

“Pretentious hipster bullpucky.”

Perhaps I’m out on a limb here, but that phrase does have a tiny bit of connotation that you find it objectionable.

Yep. So good I bought $10 worth of lunchboxes even though they’re not necessary. I just wanted to thank them for this game.