I can sympathize with that. The engine we fragged was from a ‘05 or ‘06 Yamaha R6. The first engine we tried to swap in was from a ‘08 R6 which was almost entirely unlike the ‘05 - everything was different, including the motor mount bolt pattern, engine electronics, trans output shaft spline count and a half dozen…

It just occurred to me that I can finally have that watch now that smart watches are a thing. Holy crap I want one.

Did you fold the seat bottoms up against the front seats, or are yours cocked up at a weird angle?

Awesome. My team fragged the engine and trans in our car in late April on the first drive, forcing a frantic drivetrain swap and reinforcing of the motor mounts after they bent when the trans seized. We barely made it to Lincoln by the end of June and only completed a few events. The fact that you nearly wrecked your…

I love how you have a bunch of small, fun little sports cars and then a CVPI. This is further proof that when Miata isn’t the answer, a Police Interceptor probably is.

I’m not sure how many other manufacturers do this, but on the Continental Purecontact Grand Touring tires, Continental molds ‘D’ ‘W’ and ‘S’ into the tread. As the tread wears, the letters wear away, indicating whether the tire is still safe in the Dry, Wet, and Snow. While this isn’t a replacement for measuring tread…

Trying to catch up to the Miata up ahead?

That is officially the manliest truck ever.

Am I a bad person for wanting to buy one of them, add better tires, brakes, and suspension and put a blower under the hood? If you keep the exhaust quiet and don’t lower it too much, it would make an awesome sleeper.

Rust, non-original paint, and a beat up interior? This is a full restoration candidate for someone with money and time to burn. CP, even if it decodes as an original 390 as the seller claims. Maybe for $7.5k, but not for $11.5k.

I’d kill for a Focus wagon - my hatch isn’t big enough.

The SyAAF’s Su-24s have access to plenty of PGMs and dumb bombs. You would think they would have bombed any building big enough to hide a pickup truck after losing Tadmur.

The issue I have is hitting something important enough to stop it. Modern tanks are compact enough that any penetration hits something important, be it fuel, ammunition, or the crew. A hit to the front of this thing might blast the engine, giving you a mobility kill, or blast into (relatively) empty space and pop a…

Charlotte is an island of displaced Yankees and urbanites in a sea of Deep South.

Am I the only one who misses Gadaffi’s silly outfits?

That requires getting behind it though. If it gets close enough to you to put a rocket in it’s differential, it’s probably close enough to kill you...and now it’s dead in the water right next to you.

I don’t think anything smaller than a 2000lb laser guided bomb could stop this thing. What would a TOW or Kornet do to it - knock a wheel off or damage the engine? You need something bigger.

The Chinese swamped US military forces at Chosin Reservoir - the North Korean Army were beaten and essentially driven out of their own country before then Chinese joined the war.

You would need hundreds or thousands of them, and lots and lots of ammunition to have a chance of shooting down that much incoming ordinance.

What did this guy do to get a K1 carbine rather than a K2 rifle? Maybe he’s a radio operator or mortar man?