Hey Bradley, I know old American iron isn’t Jalopnik’s forte so just a quick note. A 383 Chevy is a stroker small block not a big block. 

“American Simpleton Likes Shitbox, Is Idiot.”

I don’t think it was the horsepower, it was the number of cylinders that offended the type of buyer who would be interested in that nostalgia trip. 

A Dagwood. Too big, too messy, mostly fictional. 

When companies refer to employees as “team members” you can be sure that they are screwing them over. 

In the military, the Navy in particular, the Kool-Aid type stuff they serve is called “bug juice” and the flavors are only referred to by color since those flavors do not exist in nature. Red was my favorite.

The Subaru swap in the VW redeems it. The idea of driving that from Canada to the American Southwest without the swap gives me hives. The idea of being stuck behind it in the mountains isn’t any better. Whatever he chooses I really hope it’s something that can maintain its speed in the mountains and not something…

YouTube videos are also a great resource, but be sure to read the comments and the rating to see if the person in the video is an idiot. My Camaro benefits from being old enough that the Chilton’s for it is fairly comprehensive but I still have the assembly manual, the Service Manual plus a couple of restoration…

I was really bummed the last time I went to KFC and they said they didn’t have wedges anymore. I thought they were great and of my favorite fast food potato products. 

I watched one of those videos where experts critique how their jobs are portrayed in movies. A chef was going through all of the movies that are supposed to show a restaurant kitchen and found most of them wanting but the kitchen in Ratatouille? That was, according to him, every chef’s dream. It was laid out perfectly…

Strangely enough a lot of what we think of as “fancy” food started out as poor people making due with what they had. That’s why coq au vin uses an old rooster and not a tender young chicken, for example. 

The only other possibility that I could think of was a mechanical oil pressure gauge, the kind that has a tube that gets oil in it.  

You accidently replied to me instead of David. I too have a box of assorted O-rings that’s how I was able to try different sizes until I found the one that didn’t leave a big red pool on the garage floor. 

I think most of us with experience with mechanical speedometers could have guessed what was going on even if it’s a unique and thoroughly David Tracy failure, though I didn’t know it connected at the transfer case and not the transmission. When the O-ring for the speedometer gear housing on my Camaro failed it just…

I think of Myrna Loy as the ultimate 30s face, but let’s face it she was gorgeous in any decade.

I agree, though I think putting an LS in will go out of style for big budget professional builds since they are large sums of money to be unique. I don’t think it will go out of style for people building their own cars for a very long time because they just make sense. 

The Safari-ing / Overland-ing everything fad will probably go out of style in short order so you probably only want to do that if it’s something you will enjoy and not because you want to flip it or impress the C&C crowd.

Not nearly enough. I redid the upper A-arm bushings that I did last year as part of a coil spring replacement because I screwed it up and didn’t torque them down with the car at ride height and they were binding up. Other than that I’ve spent most of my outside time doing yard work.

That’s actually what I was originally referring to. The damage he can do during his lame duck months is incalculable. 

The fact that multiple states already vote by mail exclusively and don’t have any fraud issues is obviously beside the point.