This isn't all that shocking. A friend of mine has a great story from a Caddy dealership he worked at involving a wasted Illitch son, an Escalade with a flat tire, a service call in the middle of the night, and a wheel lock being used as a crack pipe ("sir, where's your wheel lock?" "What's that look like?" "Uh,…

How soon we forget...

They finally listened to the masses and built a "SRT" powered Challenger without the SRT "luxury." A few years ago at the SRT kickoff event in Auburn Hills, RG was very specific when talking about the brand: Not just power, but amenities. That meant a nice sound system, leather, etc. That meant no race cars for…

No, you still go to Woodward....just not the few days before the Dream Cruise. Everyone still meets, cruises there....then if they wanna race, they split.

So what you're saying is....a month ago I was right.

I just added that as a reply to JLZ06, since he mentioned his fbody. That being said, my fucking daily driver stock truck has run a 13.75. Relevant because that's slow as fuck for a any modern "performance" car.

I ran 13.75 in my stock Ram R/T. Granted that was close to it's best possible and my trap was only 99.8...

My first two cars were both stick, both '86-'87 5 speed Mazda 626s. Dad taught me on my first one. I don't think I stalled much, just a few times. Car was really easy to drive. I did burnouts everywhere. At college I taught a friend to drive it, and when he got home he'd drive his dad's old Mazda work truck. His…

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I was almost always inside in them, in high ceiling factories mostly. Then my brother in law rented one to cut down some large trees, he was scared of heights so my dad and I went up to trim from the top down. Going 50ft plus up outside is an entire different feeling than doing it below a roof!

Is it mandated at any height? Back when I worked with them on a routine basis it was always required above 6' (which is looked like he was anyways). Maybe I just remember wrong though.

Werd. It does get sketchy moving them while in the air, booms or scissors. We'd move booms around in the air a lot, and our plant was super OSHA compliant. I don't remember there ever being a fuss about it.

Huh? I drove those at Chrysler all the time as a UAW worker. You drive them from the boom, that's how they are always driven. You just have to not be a moron.

You drive from the basket. Harness wouldn't have helped at that height.

When the rumor started that the Mustang was going to lose weight, I thought it was kind of silly. I talked to a friend of mine at Ford about it, and he said as much. He said if anything it will be heavier. Thinking that it will be 300lbs heavier though is as dumb as thinking it will be 300lbs lighter.

The cheapest Tremor I could build on Ford's site was over 40k. Base Raptor is just under 45k. The Raptor has tons more "one off" tech in it, the Tremor is a parts bin truck....not all that special. Way too much $$

Nope. The cheapest you can build a Tremor on the Ford Truck site for is still like 42k. RCSB 2wd trucks are on lots stickering for 50k.

I can answer the second question: no. My buddy built the Haggerty Fantasy bid Tremor. He ended up really liking it, it's a nice truck, but it costs nearly as much as a Raptor without any of the specialized engineering. All parts bin stuff which is why the price adds up I guess. You're not paying for a cool truck,…

If by low budget you mean close to 50k sticker, than yeah. It's just a parts bin truck for an outgoing model. They woulda been better off ditching the expensive add ons and just doing a basic eco-boosted rcsb truck. Forget the Lightning, my Ram R/T is still quicker than this and cost a ton less.