“But it does beg the question, why not just film a real pit crew one afternoon?”

I think “car hole” is more at their level.

“In motorsport — and primarily within European motorsport circles — a paddock is the name given to the garage area, where teams park their transporters and prepare their race cars.”

Either in on the scam, or just looking for a quick flip. It was a Raptor, so the Blue Book is around $100k. That’s a big profit for not a lot of work. But then, a price that low should have been a red flag.

Free speech absolute-ish.

Good luck hitting those conditions in a tent.

Even runout should expressed as a percentage of distance. Whether it’s dimensions or runout, this is pretty much only achievable by surface grinding the panels after stamping. That’s only kind of insane. The effort that would go into mounting  the doors within 10 microns of flush is batshit.

All of them.

Transplants also forget that if they could drive in bad weather, they wouldn’t have moved away.

Subaru Crosstrek, and zero. Any depreciating asset that I can’t write a check for, I can’t afford.

You forgot about his time at Guantanamo.

Counterintuitively, this would work better if they took out all of the markings. Studies (and my experience on rough forest roads) have found that in the absence of signs and markings, road users will communicate real-time to negotiate the space. As soon as you suggest to someone that they have a right to be where…

This is unlikely to be helpful. If a car is parallel parked street-side, the car behind it is blocking view of the tail lights until a cyclist is well closer to the door than their minimum stopping distance. A light on the door mirror might work.

When in (a tacky plastic knockoff of) Rome...

Texas has a Texas driver problem. I was in Dallas a few months ago, and in just a few blocks of Market Center Blvd counted a half dozen spots where people had driven through the new guardrail between the street and the sidewalk. The project was still under construction and already half destroyed. They could lower the…

Even if there was no direct financial gain, by having them manage book sales she was directing court staff to do work outside of what is presumably their job descriptions. In any non-partisan government job that would be grounds for termination.

More like the Hell’s Angles. They may be outlaws, but they’re still a bunch of squares.

Now, a reasonable person would think that - don’t go to an island that’s whole “thing” is a lack of motorized vehicles if you would like to use a motorized vehicle. But to the unreasonable, there’s a certain allure to going off to an island where nobody else is using a motorized vehicle. The freedom of being an outlaw.…

Anyone with the self awareness to know that they need to master lane discipline has already done so.

“It would be a waste to not get this thing ready to run and drop it into something interesting to drive.”