Amen. Let the airedales have their horribly expensive F35s, and give us ground pounders the Warthog. Hell, Big Army is taking away the Guard’s Apaches, give the ‘Hogs to the Guard and Reserves. Four of the sixteen A10 squadrons belong to the Air Guard, and another four to the Air Reserves, just slide ‘em sideways from…

Concerning transporters, sci-fi author Cory Doctorow famously debunked the whole idea of Star Trek based on just the transporter technology. TL;DR - when you transport, your basic atoms are scanned and stored into a computer, and then the computer rearranges them somewhere else. Why not just keep digital copies of…

This does look like lots of fun, and practical as all get out (who needs gas?), but the problem is... where do you buy one? The parent websites are all defunct, and doesn’t appear as if anyone is selling them. Just my like, this was the most interesting of the lot, as it wasn’t just the same old SUV, military vehicle,…

I’ve seen this with other hobbies, namely paintball. Decades ago, when Builder’s Square lost out to Lowes and Home Depot, a Builder’s Square in a seedier part of Kansas City’s urban sprawl went empty and for years the local paintball field owners tried to lease the property from the foreclosure bank to expand their…

Right about now someone should be posting that animated .gif of Fry from Futurama screaming “Shut up and take my money!”

Suddenly, all the 24HoL/ChumpCar racers looking to pick up a Metro on the cheap cried out in horror, and then were silenced (as they realized the Mounties were likely to auction it to recoup some of their toll losses).

I’m really surprised this one didn’t make the list - My Chemical Romance’s Na Na Na Na:

Don’t worry, Doug, the Army Guard will still be driving the HMMWV well into the next decade (and probably the decade after that, plus one more). How do I know? When I first got into the Guard a little over a decade ago, I got both CUCV and the old deuce and a half M35A2 on my military license. We finally got rid of…

I remember that, Crimson Skies was an excellent game (for the time). I still want a Devastator, even though I know that pusher prop planes don’t maneuver as well as puller props (the rear propellers act as a stabilizing anchor for the airframe).

I see this one far too often in the Midwest - 19xx whatever muscle car roller, only $2000 - no engine, no transmission, no wheels, no tires, great project car! Basically they started a project, stripped it down to a frame (hopefully all of it, but not always) and some of the body panels (not all, and of those…

I have to agree with the rest of the Greek chorus - not only no, hell no. Do you know why I’m glad to see one of these on the road? Because I automatically know that whoever is behind the wheel has exactly zero interest in driving, so I’m warned from a long way away to avoid them.

I would like to say I have an “awesome” local junkyard, but my junkyard skips past step 7 (haggling) and go straight to step 13 (cut off your arm to pay for a $50, 30 year old. unpainted, aluminum camper shell).

Dude, a welder is much better to have than a PVC DIY cockpit. You can still build the cockpit if you want it, but the welder can repair and create so much more.

If you glue all the joints instead of leaving some of them unglued to store it away, no squeaks. Trust me, the glue used on PVC actually melts the two pieces together - it’s as if you forge welded two pieces of iron together, it’s that solid. Of course, since you have about 5 seconds of adjustment after you’ve…

iRacing is why anyone would ever need an Occulus Rift (or one of their competitors) and a DIY pvc pipe racing cockpit. One of the many things on my list of “if I had enough time and money”.

I have a gearhead friend who swears by these (he’s even a diesel mechanic by trade), and just won’t believe me when I tell him they’re so much snake oil. Oh well, at least he doesn’t have a FuelShark.

The stripped out Mopar from Half-Life 2 Episode 2:

Hold on a minute, didn’t the company that sells the Exocet sell a rear-mounted Ford Focus SVT engined kit? Hang on while I check...

That dream lasted longer than I expected it to. I’m honestly surprised this didn’t happen 3 to 6 months ago.

Good luck to you and the 3 Pedal Mafia! Have fun, looking forward to the after report.