East of Rolling Prairie, Indiana on US 2 there is the Navistar proving ground which use to be a test track for Bendix and Studebaker. If you zoom in north of the track and make West the top of you screen you will see that the layout of the trees spell STUDEBAKER. 

In Indiana we get the ball rolling! This will keep drivers on the ball! Last month I was on 465 West just after the interchange for I-70. Box semi was on its side blocking 3 of the 4 lanes. No skid marks, no exits/entrances nearby, Christmas day so traffic was very light. Guess driver fell asleep and then woke up…

The story I have heard involved Bob Lutz. He really wanted a two seater. During his time at BMW the Z4 predecessors came out. He was involved with the Copperhead concept at Chrysler. While at Ford his pitch was shelved and then given to their partner Mazda (which became the Miata). Finally at GM he got the…

CTS-V and winter tires. You will go to places the long way just to be in it more.

Hey I got the Chevy Lumina APV in 1990. We hauled three kids with it and with the five removable seats we could haul the entire family and still have room for a lot more. One time we hauled everyone and a full size roto-tiller by spacing the seats as needed. The seats just clipped in and took only a few seconds to…

I like turbines!

Also the interest on a equity loan is NOT deductible unless the loan is actually used for home improvements. So if you get audited this would be a very expensive auto loan.

It seems the video shows too much wheelie, especially going over obstacles. I see the back wheel making contact first causing the bike and rider to rotate down too fast. In trials we were told let the front tire kiss the top of the obstacle, rotate over using the skid plate just fast enough to get the rear tire on the…

My mom drove everything, lived through the depression and WWII, she drove a bus (manual) thirty miles to a munitions plant with a full load each way. She said it was only bad in the winter cause she was out before the plows. Dad did auto body repair, so mom would pitch in and make deliveries, pickups, and errands. She…

I would say the guy was tailgating, two car lengths and going faster than 20mph is too close. Unless the police car had a good weight distribution for braking and excellent tire traction, why would it be better? If there is any vehicle that may stop or slow down unexpectedly it would be police car. He may have been…

A Chinook pilot once told me it doesn’t fly, it is so ugly the earth repels it.

I use a marker or paint pen to put marks on stuff to make alignment easier on re-assembly.

Never criticize your wife’s choices, you are one of them!

Just how close to stall was the jet and how close to maximum speed were the two guys? Bet there was not much overlap. Looked like the flaps on the jet were fully deployed.

You know you have the wrong car when you don’t have a perm-a-grin after driving it.

Here in Indiana we have insurance laws on how compensation is calculated, no matter who your insurance company is, they all do it the same way in Indiana. No surprises here.

Need something like this for EV owners that use aggressive regen to brake. They slow up pretty quick without brake lights. Volt owners that drive in “L” comes to mind.

For the low limits, such as 19, these were done by the local community so they don’t have to share the speeding ticket revenue with the state. In Indiana the deal was communities had to share if the limit was 20 or over, so a couple places posted limits of 19 so they could keep all the loot.

Lot of good ideas, but if you work in your garage you really want your walls clutter free so you are not banging into hanging tools, causing them to cut you or fall on something. If you walls are light colored then hanging things really suck the light out of the space. Here is one of five I built:

Wife and I did a four week trip on our motorcycle from Lafayette, IN to northeast Iowa, then up to Duluth, International Falls, International Peace Garden in North Dakota, over to and through Glacier National, up in Canada to Banff (Lake Louise was great!), Yoho (Spiral tunnels on the CP), and up through Jasper to Mt…