“Light bulbs can be rated in horsepower.”

Technically, that’s “The American,” Mike Skinner’s livery, not Dale Earnhardt’s.

Geography fail - Adelaide is South of Darwin but there is about 500kms of mainland Australia south of Adelaide (including the state of Victoria) and the island state of Tasmania which is used to getting forgotten on maps.

In fairness, I could see why they wouldn’t want to inject a bunch of DMX lighting commands/logic into the code for their shooter.

I remember seeing this at the Detroit Autorama too and wondered if it still had a crazy maintenance schedule...

It’s a shame we don’t have the option to downvote.

I’ve only been to a handful of monster truck events, but they tend to be about 40% kids. Lots of families and dads toting their kids to the show. And not your redneck drunk-ass families, lots of everyday people out there to have a fun afternoon with their kids. It’s the kind of show that everyone can enjoy.

Monster Jam is a marketed directly towards kids as a family friendly event. This is an awfully closed minded and prejudice statement.

Well duh. If anything ever goes wrong you blame Pellet. That’s been a rule forever.

Slabs of granite are in every single machine shop and manufacturing facility, basically anywhere. incredibly common and easy method for measuring tolerance, whether big or small.

Devils advocate here. My friend Liz is a professional model, motorsport enthusiast and owns a killer RX-7. She actually looks forward to the F1 and MotoGP race at COTA in which she is a grid girl.

Why is it stereotypical that girls that choose to model are looked down upon by the very women that should support them?…

I’ve been lucky enough to shoot Beyond The Law a few times. Super nice guys. If I’m not mistaken they’re from up north around Maine. Truck always runs good and is one of the better landing Mega Trucks I’ve seen. Despite being a Mustang I haven’t seen it get out of shape too many times.

+1 “if they don’t find you handsome, they should at least find you handy” point.

Toronto, where people are neither handsome or handy.

Wrong. You can have an engine with lot of HP and little torque and you won’t go anywhere, you’ll stall the engine.

Horsepower is a great thing. It helps cars move

As a radio news girl, my entire career has projected off this single episode.

We were camped right across the fence from Larry Minors Miller Sponsored Top Fuel Team at Brainerd. We were drinking some kind of beer. Larry came walking by and stated you cant drink that kind of beer next to my trailer. “Larry we don’t have any Miller”. He went into the trailer and gave us two cases and and we drank…

If you’re in front you get to pick your racing line...