“Johnson, you’re fired. Get the hell out of my sight.”

No worry buying this car and getting it registered (through FL perhaps?). Customs wouldn’t bother crushing this, they only like crushing cars that crush our spirits to see crushed. (They’d probably just handcuff you to the car and force you to drive it for the next 20 years...)

The taillights are from a 2nd gen, refreshed Chevy Cavalier sedan, 1991-94, one of the worst cars I have ever driven in my life. It was so horrible I wouldn’t want any car that carries its taillights ever. Or any other part from this horrid, ugly thing. (Worked for a rental car company in the 90s, and I am generally…

They aren’t looking for one solution. They’re looking to replace the Grumman LLV. The USPS already has other vehicles for different routes and use cases.

Ok.

Generators typically will only output a certain wattage, usually in AC only, and a lot of times its not very clean, stable power. This means it can take a long time for a car to charge, the car can refuse to charge and sometimes it can even damage the onboard charger. Typical onboard EV chargers will only accept a…

Wrong post. Meant to reply elsewhere.

In college I worked for an auto parts distributor in the Bay Area and drove a 1985 Nissan Hardbody 2WD about 30,000 miles each summer. That truck was the oldest one in the fleet by a significant margin (the other trucks were early 90s 2wd tacomas). The odo had spun a couple of times according to the people who had…

You should now do a driving review of one of these vans on US interstate highways. That should cool the market down a bit for ya!

I sent in an email with way more detail. We own an early production Tesla Model S P85 (built Feb 2013). We’re in small town central Oregon and we’ve had our car for 6 years this coming June. We bought it from Tesla right after they announced their Certified Pre-Owned program. At the time we took delivery, the service…

Two relatively absurd incidents:

We have an early Model S (2013 P85). Ours has the original carpeting in that space and we love having it fully open. I can stash my whole backpack in there, my wife can toss her purse there, I’ve put an entire grocery bag there as well.

I have an early Tesla Model S (2013 P85) before Tesla started filling the center console space with an actual center console. Looks like this:

Another good tidbit about the IL-62:

Wait, so, the guy’s credit card gets deactivated because of a fraud detection issue the day before his trip (stated in the article), he takes multiple forms of payment with him (also stated in the article), and got stranded because of erroneous information in Tesla’s app and due to a quirk in Tesla’s billing system…

Here’s me and my wife overlanding to Zion National Park in 2015...

Agreed completely, but for one small thing:

Goddammit.

Was trying to figure out why my newly rescued 1980 BMW e21 wouldn’t run good. It was down on power and idled really badly, it felt like it was running on less than 4 cylinders. At first I thought it was a bad O2 sensor (the O2 sensor light was on), so I replaced that. I cleaned and then replaced all the spark plugs.…

Or you don’t have loud neighbors.