Good morning
95 F150 Flareside. 302, 4wd 5 speed (!), and pretty clean.
Prosser's Gabriel
The mention of the parking lot at the end is as close as I can come to car-related content.
Obscure interchange questions
“Hi, I’d like to order a washer nozzle for a 2002 Toyota Echo.”
Shoebox Ford
My afternoon is going to consist of figuring out what it’s going to take to give this thing a more modern smallblock V8 (can go Chevy, but would prefer to stick with Ford), an automatic (currently 3sp column shift with Borg electric overdrive), 6V to 12V conversion, power steering and brakes, while attempting to…
6 hours of dealing with the IRS and insurance companies; or how a dead, bloated deer with a balloon became the high point of my day.
I’ve spent the better part of three weeks fighting with an insurance company over a sub $1000 collision claim. This is, for all intents and purposes, a paltry sum to an insurance carrier, given the average claim checks in somewhere around $2600. The terrible thing is, they’ve cut all their own staff estimators (who…
Fuel injection not allowed.
85 C10, 70 Nova, 56 Dodge, 70 El Camino, 65 F100. One of the few times in my life I’ve looked out at the shop floor and thought “I like all of these!”
Hour-ish rule.
In a few hours, I get to pick up a nice, shiny rental car to bomb down Maine logging roads in the rain for four days.
Oh really? Your paint hasn't faded, you say?
It’s a 20 year old 4M9 Toyota. Yes, it’s faded. You still don’t believe me? Let’s find something that hasn’t seen the sun since 1997...
A question for frequent flier Oppos
Doing a bit of no-notice travel this weekend for a funeral, and have a 4 hour layover in Philly on Saturday morning, from 9-1. Are the airport bars open that early? Any restaurants that would have a brunch menu? I’m not too proud to get shitty on mimosas or Bloody Marys.
Hour Rule
Customer/friends pride and joy.
0.0? 13.1? 26.2?
Nope. The next twenty three minutes won’t pass fast enough...
"Mummy, a goldfish left Lincoln Logs in me sock drawer!"
Happy Easter, everyone.
Oh Craigslist
Introducing the Oldsmobile Silower. Just walk around to the lift gate, it tells you how to spell it.
Hour Rule - MIA Pip edition
Fresh out of the oven.
Late model VAG remote system failure?
So my mother just called me, my parents 2015 Passat decided to not receive input from either remote at the grocery store today. Seems no one ever bothered to show them how to remove the lock cylinder cap when this happens. I explained to her how to pop the cap off and use the key blade to unlock the door. They…
Grammar check, anyone?
After reading the article explaining the scheme to help the DeVos confirmation campaign, I decided to take a peek at supportdevos.com (I’m a masochist). Pretty much the first bit of text I find on the site seemed a bit amiss (screenshotted and cropped to spare you the misery):