Must we inject our political views into everything?

The issue here may be in your understanding of the phrase “fucks given.” If you append “about what others whose opinions they’ve not sought out think” to the end of that phrase when you see it, you’ll have it correct 99% of the time. It’s not that they don’t care, it’s that they care enough that your opinion doesn’t im…

A few weeks back I passed a tractor trailer in Florida that had large letters on the back saying “If I just passed you on the right you are an asshole.” It’d be cool if he passed this guy.

2 doors and stands out among exotics?

I would watch Shania Twain gut a fish.

Don’t feel too bad, my transverse & longitudinal T8 configuration didn’t get much love either.

Going on a tangent, there's a minor league baseball team in NJ, the Somerset Patriots. One of their mascots is...General Admission.

I gave someone a suggestion on how to write gooder. 

What what about our livery at Classic BMW and Fast Track Racing? It’s the ‘67 Sonoco Camero! 

That Wynn’s AMG GT is the shit.

Damn, good call. Forgot all about thermite.

I like seeing his name on the byline, mostly because I like reading his stuff, but also because there’s always a chance one or more vehicles might be having one or more perplexing issues. Then it can turn into a troubleshooting and brainstorming session for us out here in the peanut gallery.

The car came with a telex machine pre-installed. How modern. I’d start searching for Helvetica Font hammers and rubber-coated roller bearings from reputable vendors like IBM or Olivetti.

You forgot the most important reason they are still used in NASCAR racing. Due to the design 4th gear is 1:1, basically the input shaft and the output shaft are locked together. So there is significantly less power loss in 4th than any other gear. At a circle track you basically only use gears 1-3 for pit lane and…

I assert that “over engineered” is a poor phrase choice because the “engineered” part implies that it works, and the “over” part implies that it is better.

That’s not as bad as the ‘Pizza is Not a Meal’ piece, but competitive.

A little poking around in the parts catalog linked in this article:

I don’t really understand why the engineer would say something so counter to what reality appears to be