Unfortunately in America all too often the answer is “five”. I would have loved to have bought a 3-door Fiesta ST if Ford saw fit to sell such an animal in America. I suspect that they will even do that to the Focus RS which would be a downright tragedy.

Are there websites that check VINs from before 1980 beyond simple decoding? I’m not aware of any and while in my state you could ask the DMV it’s not at all an instant process. Sure you should be able to see what year it is from the original VIN but if that's been modified there is no way to know. That said I’m not…

Please, please, please base the new show in Seattle :-). We have a few abandoned runways in the area that would work just fine :-).

Both a 767 and a 747 have been lost in that area of the world so the part could be from one of them. Also parts have been known to fall off of aircraft so they have to make sure no 777 ever lost its flaperon in flight.

He’s referring to the Russian theory that the CIA stole MH370, filled it with dead people and crashed it in Ukraine instead of the real MH17 so as to discredit Putin. Laugh all you want but the story has gotten a lot of traction in Russia.

Anyone that thinks LGA is the worst airport in the U.S. Hadn’t experienced the thrill of a full bladder or empty stomach in a MCA (Kansas City) waiting room. I know locals live it because they can make a quick getaway when arriving but to me its a third-world airport at best. At least at LGA while there is little…

Maybe I’ve just flow a lot or trust Alaska Airlines pilots a lot but the one time we had a similar situation landing at SeaTac I wasn’t too worried because I knew likely they had seen much worse conditions up north.

The “Turbo Rocket Fluid” wasn’t water cooling for the turbo as we know it now, it was a water injection system (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_inj…) used to cool the intake mixture to prevent detonation. If the tank with the mixture ran dry the turbo was bypassed. The Corvair came with a nearly identical…

All I can say is I've been in landings that felt worse in winds significantly less than 70 mph.

That should have read “skilled”, not “skipped”. Bad typing plus autocorrect.

Really? I thought the landing was done very nicely, all of the wheels hit at the same time and there was no bounce at all. I’ve seen a lot harrier-looking landings in weather not nearly that bad. One skipped pilot there IMHO...

So the big question is whether this is a photoshop or not? :-)

It’s harder in a small company but a large chain (CVS, Walgreens, etc.) could have a roving set of folks (like travelling nurses, just pharmacists instead) that fill in where needed. It wouldn’t kill the execs to only have the jumbo size yacht rather than the super jumbo...

Sometimes items on cars are only goofy in context. While I love the look I think the fake “radiator”, “radiator cap” and ornament on our air-cooled ’28 Franklin is pretty darn silly. The same can be said of the fake grill on a Tesla. (not ours pictured, but it’s the same)

Moving anyplace in North America we’d likely take our complete 6-car fleet (Fiesta ST, Mercedes C230 hatch, NA Miata, Corvair Corsa convertible, 1928 Franklin, 1922 Essex). If we were to move to Europe or something I’d sell the Fiesta and the Mercedes, put the three older cars in storage and ship the Miata over unless…

Has he been spotted in the general vacinity of One Infinite Loop this week?

How about adding more staff? That seems like a better solution. Women, at least of childbearing age are, gasp, going to have babies now and then and it’s up to their employers to hire sufficiant staff to cover for when they go on leave, not make the remaining staff work crazy hours. And don’t get me started on the…

Rollie Free beat you to it by 67 years and he did it at speed at Bonneville and he set a record in the process.

I spectated at the 1989 race (http://jalopnik.com/i-witnessed-an…) and the only negative thing I can say about the place is there are something like 6 toilets for the entire spectator area. Thankfully it’s France and to the average Frenchman the entire world is a toilet so the lines were not as bad as one would think,…

A coralary to #3 is “Don’t F with the reality”. Four friends of mine were on the two different seasons of the “Setup” show on Speed where they raced Pontiac Solstices. The producers were constantly trying to screw with the rules or create fake drama to the point that a friend with a real shot at winning got that taken…