5th Gear/Neutral: Anecdotally, most of the vehicles that I have ever heard about or seen self-combust were A: Fords and B: parked. This stretches back to my childhood in the 1990's when a friend’s Ford EXP ignited in their driveway. Another friend’s manual fox-body mustang randomly engaged the starter while in 1st…

3D printing is generally not a tightly controlled process. If you’re interested, the FDA issued guidance on this. Unfortunately, the document hasn’t been updated in several years: https://www.fda.gov/media/97633/download

Loved that movie.  I haven’t watched it in a very long time.  I’m thinking it doesn’t hold up.

Very experienced mechanical engineer/product designer here. The bullshit that comes off of most 3D printers is not even remotely safe for medical use. Micro particles and nooks & crannies to foster bacterial/fungal growth abound. How do you ensure that the material isn’t off-gassing some toxic shit that the person who…

NEUTRAL:

Are you Mitt Romney’s dog?

Like a Trace Buster Buster!

AMC did SX/4 first with the Eagle:

I bet David is wondering about that a lot too.

Never forget to deploy your tailhook.

Yeah, I get it. On the other hand I did put 30k trouble-free miles on the car outside of this one particular incident that was caused by my own oversight.

In case you are not familiar with fuselage-bodied Chryslers, here it is:

This will be a TL;DR for many of you, but I thought you might enjoy as it is relevant to this story.  Excerpt from my book about personal near-death experiences that I’m writing:

V6 +  man trans = 2000# towing capacity. Wheeeeeze! CP

Relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy_0u08C_ak

Thanks for the insight.  I own several antique tractors that use thermosyphon cooling systems, so I am intimately familiar.  Putting my mechanical engineer hat back on, I still think it’s silly to devote a huge (somewhat complicated for the time) casting to merely hold two bearings.  It’s an interesting solution, for…

I wondered that initially, but 2-stroke engines generally don’t have valvetrains.  But I don’t know anything about this engine.

I love the massive casting jutting out of the head that seems to serve zero purpose except to hold two bearings for the fan shaft.

So if you have Roman numerals on your speedometer and rich Corinthian leather on your seats, do they come to life when nobody’s looking and do battle on the floorboards?