I kinda wish there was more detail on this. Does airbag deployment shut down vehicle controls? This is the exact situation you would want to at least limp the car to the shoulder even if it was badly damaged. I know deer strikes can mess a car up some good, but that thing sure looked like it could move.

Certainly the crane truck driver wasn’t paying enough attention, but I’d be curious exactly why the pickup was sitting in the middle of the highway. I wasn’t there, but it didn’t look like it was so severely damaged that it was immobilized.

Gas is expensive, but filling stations are running on that 15 cents per gallon margin; they aren’t the cause of the high prices. In this case the owner probably saw $500 to $1000 in what he paid for the fuel lost, or about what he now has to sell 3,000 to 6,000 gallons of fuel to pay for.

Go on a 100 mile ride without padded shorts would be my vote.

The very little rear leg room sounds more like a Lincoln than a Cadillac. My '65 Calais 4 door had tons of room in the back, but also a shorter hood than most Lincolns, at least the ones after the suicide Continental was replaced.

“Forget it if it is a crew cab.”

Wonder if this is a sponsored post.  That would be good information to see.

I sold my ‘13 FR-S to Carvana in December for $21,522; I had purchased it four years and 20K miles earlier for $15K (and I got another $250 via eBay for the aftermarket taillights after replacing the originals that the prior owner had thankfully included). I’ve had a ‘22 BRZ Ltd on order since two days after the check…

this thing was 33yo. what is the expected life of such a large airplane? im told 100,000 hours for commercial. at some point this thing was going to need to be re-skinned and major structural components replaced due to metal fatigue.

It’s fit for use as souvenirs and wall hangings and maybe some memorabilia office furniture. Much of aircraft aluminum is either heat-treated or cold-worked for strength. Being near a fire leaves the properties questionable and unsuitable. If it had been simply chopped up or shot up, that might be repairable, but…

This is so sweet! Much love to you (and Rory!)

> he shows me how you have to open the glove box.

Something like that.  However, had the ramp not been down, the car, itself, would have probably struck the truck instead of her head. This was virtually a razor blade slicing her helmet, rather than a flush (or even corner) hit with a blunt object — such was the Mansfield crash.  Jules was more akin to Mansfield’s…

She ran helmet-first into the loading ramp of the truck.  Had it been 8 inches lower, it might have taken her head off.

Her helmet hit part of the truck. I’m still not clear why she drove into it.

The same with Jules Bianchi. Wrong vehicles in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Exactly what I thought.   Like how in the hell can you die, at a much later date of course, from a crash in a F1 car at 40 mph.  I t boned someone at 55 mph, their fault, in my 2006 Chrysler 300 and only got a single bruise.  Seems like a massively freak accident to me.

They’re mainly designed for impact with things typically found on/around the track (other racing cars, tire barriers, etc.) and can do surprisingly poorly when colliding with “real world” objects.

I believe! I think you are right, the o-ring just welded onto the adapter over time. I bet ti was more like four years. The car was sold to the most recent owner before me three years ago. No idea when the oil was changed before that. It was sold by West Coast Classics, you would THINK they would change the oil, but I…

I am still stuck on the fact that anyone that knows enough about cars to have a nice ‘Cuda like that would use Fram.