So I guess that the point of this story is that there need to be inspectors re-torqueing all the bolts on every part of the airplane? I don’t think these folks understand how inspections work...

Portal axles increase the clearance between the axel and the ground for better clearance over rocks etc. Lift kits just jack up the body and do not add any clearance over the rocks. If you don’t want to hit rocks, you get a portal kit. If you just want to get the body up in the air to look “cool” then the lift kit is…

Bless your heart.

There is already a pretty new dedicated rail line that reduced the load on the highways a lot already by adding new capacity. Google “acta rail map” for maps of the alameda rail corridor.

1st. As an owner of a 2017 R who just replaced an engine due to the failure of the thrust bearing, the gas tank due to the badly designed vent (and the fourth fuel pump that failed because of it) . I would be happy if they got better engineers.

The tractor and the pickup truck on either side are more interesting...

LIFO was always a tax scam and has been abused by all that use it. It makes no sense in the real world as the “inventory” that is supposedly still on the lot simply does not exist. It’s time to pay the piper.

PT Cruiser of course.

Rigby

I can see it ending up as an Airbnb rental at that price, don’t have to make it roadworthy and woudl be a great for a weekend guest.

“ At $3,500, this one seems to be an outlier to all of that. The question is; why?”

I like this one better:

You need to have dedicated high speed tracks rather than sharing with freight or you are not going to be able to do that. Amtrak has its own track in the NE corridor, but other places they do not. There are other high density areas where it might work, but your not going to be able to capture all that real estate for…

Further note on trains, Passenger rail in Europe runs on separate tracks, in the US it shares track with freight as they own most of it except for a few Amtrak sections in the northeast corridor . Freight runs slower than passengers so each time you run a passenger train you have switch out the freight trains ahead…

In real life many companies get custom versions of the credit scores that rate things based upon their specific needs. This allows them to weight certain characteristics of their customers differently and make the score more accurate. I worked in the cell phone industry many years ago and they had customized theirs…

The only option on the current R is an automatic. Something like $1,500 and they tend to discount it away since they sit in the showroom longer.

(b) the vessel is eight metres or more in length and is carrying passengers.

The link in the story:

The German apprentice system and the emphasis on mechanical trades produces a lot of people that do this sort of machine work. I have a old 1956 Victoria Bergmeister from Germany and the owners group is run by a guy who has a network of machinists that provide reproduction parts for the bike. They also provide…

Close, but as an ex meat cutter I can assure you that dairy cows do not end up in steak, but hamburger.