I have never even tried to submit a photo because their standards are so rigorous. However, they do feature some pretty outstanding photography, with very little chaff.

You missed a chance at a great headline:

196k on my '01 Golf. And the original clutch as well. I think your theory about the 2.slow is spot on. I'm really hoping to get it to 200k before putting it out to pasture. There's no indication that it won't make it. (knock on wood, etc.)

If only money actually equated to happiness.

Yup. You push the envelope and shit's gonna happen.

My old college roommate builds and flies RC planes, his motto is, "Don't fly them if you don't expect to crash them." Too bad for this guy, and fortunate that nobody was injurded.

I own a MkIV Golf. Yeah, the oil disappears, it creaks like your grandmother's bed, the headliner is in my lap, the springs have fallen out of the seats, the rear defroster doesn't work, I haven't opened the glove compartment in years because the handle broke off, the driver's door requires two pulls to open because…

I caught the reference, and starred it. But since this thread was started with essentially a geography question, I thought I'd add a bit. I was actually going to be a wag myself and say what Prophet of hoon said, but he beat me to it.

Bummer. I've got a soft spot in my heart for the 72.

In the Internet Age, yes, it's wrong.

Actually, the Halls of Montezuma are in present-day Mexico City.

Is that loud creak made by the driver's door when bro opens it? That can't be good.

Anybody understand Italian? It would be interesting to now what the rental employee was saying.

The arrow indicates a secondary explosion.

Sounds similar to the arrangement at the USAF Museum at Dayton, OH. They have a B-36 there, and it takes a while before you realize that there are airplanes displayed under the wings of the Peacemaker.

Logic dictates, yes. It works for the B-36, too, if you don't count the four jet engines.

To help you remember: B-24 = 4 engines.

Thanks.

So how does he pick up and drop the loads?

It all happened very quickly, and everybody's attention was focused up the road.