When did Georgia become the whipping boy of backwards states? Ever been to Mississippi? West Virginia?

It's only a sore spot because it took me years of presenting evidence to convince my wife, who grew up in Memphis, of this fact.

ACH! Yer both wrong! John Pemberton originally created the formula for what would become Coca-Cola in Columbus, GA.

In Georgia, "LA" refers to Lower Alabama. It's a place unto itself that I hated driving through on my way to NOLA from Columbus. The stretch from Montgomery to Mobile on I-65 is the most desolate I've ever encountered.

I think they found it more cost-effective to implement optical scanners on cop cars that can read and interpret the numbers and letters.

I thought it was annoying when my Garmin suction cup mount falls off the windshield on hot days. Maybe I should start tucking it away in the console during the day to prevent Car-B-Que.

Off wiv 'is feckin' 'ead!

Ouchies. Read my second comment, please. I confessed my ignorance. I'm a newer convert to non-compact shooting, so forgive my ignorance of cameras that cost more than any car I've ever owned.

My mistake. I suppose I was thinking more about the way the camera handles and the resulting style of photography, but then I realized that the Leica M-series do not have live preview, so they handle in the way that only a rangefinder does.

Have you forgotten the Olympus PEN, Panasonic DMC-GF, Sony NEX, and the other compact mirrorless interchangable lens cameras? They might not have the sensor and lens quality of the Leica, but they give the same basic shooting expenses at a fraction of the cost.

I was 16. I'd only just gotten my license a week earlier. I was driving my '88 Ram 50 home from school at night after a football game. The road was a twisty rural 2 lane, the kind that could be fun in a car that could turn, but was better for lazily driving with the windows down in a truck. Also the kind with deer…

Oh man, I once got that setup in Rush Hour. Took me hours to solve!

I imagine that's one place where having those ugly rubber bumpers on your outer door edge is actually useful.

Nae big loss. They're just shiny lighty things that go "beep", ya ken?

Vintage Italian V12 that isn't a pile of rust? NP!

Most successful? No.

I think battery electrics will have their time before hydrogen. The reason? Infrastructure. For electric, it's already there. Hydrogen is not produced in large enough quantities, and there is no established distribution system.

I think this is exactly it. Good eye.

Stanced, you say?

Crux of the matter here is that I don't want to purchase someone else's shedbuilt project. If I'm going to have a 7 clone, it will either be a top-spec Caterham (after my lottery numbers come in) or something I built in MY shed with MY own cheap tools and shoddy labor.