London to San Francisco is only 10 hours but I watched the entire BBC “War and Peace”. Including dinner and breakfast there wasn’t a dull moment.

I was planning to pay cash for a new BMW motorcycle for my 50th birthday ride to Alaska but they wouldn’t take it. So I took their offer of no down, no payments for 5 months and 0.9% interest and with a couple signatures rode the bike home.

In 2009, during the building of the San Francisco Bay Bridge replacement, the entire bridge into San Francisco was shut down. It usually handled 270,000 vehicles a day, and they all had to go somewhere.

In 1975 I put my 1963 Jaguar E Type convertible up for sale in Eugene, Oregon. Within a couple days I found a buyer from Portland (100 miles away) who agreed to come back the next day with cash to drive the car home.

When will they offer as probably a $10,000 option a totally analog dashboard, with un-labeled toggle switches and inaccurate “Smiths” round gauges like a great car has?

Leica camera does something similar in that they offer semi-entry level cameras badged as Leicas but manufactured by one of the camera mass producers - these days Panasonic. They tweak the base camera, the software, and redesign the exterior and controls.

For no logical reason I was a member of this Maserati club for most the 1990's that had a semi-glossy monthly magazine that came in the mail. No logical reason because I did not, had never, and wasn’t really planning in the future to own a Maserati.

I totally agree. I live in San Francisco, and the city has mass transit data going back way more than a 100 years. The scary thing is that the average speed of public mass transit in San Francisco has barely moved +/- from an average of 9 miles an hour throughout the years of data. While the mode of travel…

I am an Architect. Everyone of those buildings in the image was designed by an Architect. Should we be suing too?

So if they sold the truck without seats I could put in old seats from the 1950's without headrests or seat belts?

No. the website you link to lists 2017 and 2018 glider trucks for sale - new trucks sold without an engine. This is not fixing old trucks at all.

One thing I remember from the first decade or so of Hondas in the USA is that they didn’t have “new car smell” when you brought them home.

I remember when San Francisco had the same problem with their new to them underground Muni Metro in the 1980's.

I remember a sort of transitional phase, where cars had headrests but they were very easily removable. Often only leaving a couple small round holes in the top of the seat that you could only see if you tried to.

62.49 Russian Rubles = $1.00

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Meh. In San Francisco it rains inside the buses.

In pre-smartphone Italy I would travel small town to village to small town by trains and buses. Often I only needed a few hours to see what I wanted to see. So I would bring my bags into a bar, have a drink, read the paperm perhaps have a snack while I practiced my limited Italian on the bar man. When settling the…

Evel Knievel. In 1998 I was riding my first motorcycle, a Yamaha 600cc “Seca II” across country (Still my user name).

Yes, I have the proxy vote materials sitting on my desk waiting for some down time to play with it. I didn’t realize there was an actual “vote no” contingent.