Most dashcams have a mic mute option.

kill it with fire. go to oregon and let a local try to fill up the gas tank or something.

it’s about getting oil to the top of the engine, if you don’t wanna wait there are alternatives...

I would just add that even know your engine and coolant temps look good, your transmission my very well still be ice cold. I monitor all my temps and and my transmission typically takes twice as long to warm up.

If it takes eight years to pay the car off, the technology in it will be older than that keyboard-having Blackberry you still keep in the nightstand you don’t need to be looking at buying/leasing any new car.

Oregon eh? I guess they decided to sell their car before it ran out of gas...

London, Paris, Madrid, Moscow, Rome, Berlin, Bern, Zurich, Milan, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, Singapore, Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Seattle, and D.C. would like a word with you about housing costs.

Luckily there is more than one city on the west coast! And in more than one country!

I’m just gonna leave this here...

You’re not kidding about that curve. It looks like the line originally took a gentler turn (see the cut through the highway median), but when the built I-5 they had it do that turn so that they could build shorter bridges.

Somebody say all-wheel drive?

As Nicholas Mee & Co put it, the car’s received [pun alert] a “Whole Lotta Love.”

I’ve followed the “no captives” rule: If she can’t react to my attempt at small talk by leaving (i.e., she’s waiting on you, or is otherwise in the performance of her profession, and can’t escape), then DON’T HIT ON HER. You can chat, but with no expectations of anything other than the sammich/drink/purchase/test…

Great story!! I found Kenny Reece is the name of this man.

I’ve only ever seen a single picture of it (which I can’t find...), but my favorite cheat was the asymmetrical oval track racer. The story goes that the regulations required 4 wheels, 2 of which steered, obviously meaning a standard car with a steerable axle. However, one intrepid builder wanted more traction on the…

This mid-drive was quite a bit faster. Not a production car though.

And the fact that they were all so very obvious from the street, parked in a neat, orderly, and colorful line:

Of course. That’s not the point. Here’s the point. Let’s say you run a business and are interviewing one of his kids for a job. You get curious and Google her name. This story does not come up. That’s the point.

He also had 12 other BMWs stored in the parking lot of the company he worked for.