Everywhere! I see at least one car on the side of the road every morning on my way to work. I only have a 15 mile commute. Basically, if a car breaks down, the owner just calls up someone to pick them up and they leave the car on the side of the road to get impounded.

Keep the badge, roll-up some duct tape, slap it back on right before you sell it. Make sure it’s at a slight angle. “It came from the factory that way! It’s unique!” Resale value doubled!

Or just do it yourself for $2.99 with some fishing line.

I recently watched a really good presentation on how the different generations think differently and the presenter hit this question right on the nose. In a nutshell: the Millennials were raised by Gen X’ers, who happened to have a “helicopter parent” mentality when raising their children. For example, driving your…

If the entire lot is full, I will, oddly enough, park next to a cart corral. My though process being that hopefully people will try and put the carts in the corral if it is close enough instead of leaving them all willy-nilly. I am probably wrong. And anyone that has the gall to just push the cart towards the corral…

Could I take the pumpkin with me and do the good old-fashioned multiple times? Or is this a one time deal? Do I actually have to try or can I pop as many Viagra as a crooked doctor will sell me and just let it hang on my camshaft for 4 hours? Cause if this is a one time deal, I would take the magical motor oil in a…

Does this count?

OMG, you too? I thought I was crazy or getting ‘too old’ for games when this started happening to me. I can only play for about an hour at a time until it just gets too uncomfortable to play. Only two things have given me nausea like that: this game, and the scene where Neo gets ‘born’ in the Matrix, nothing else. It…

Racing needs more chassis and driveline shots during races. Even better would be if they had a tiny camera inside the throttle body to see the butterfly(s) opening, or inside the transmission to see the dogs engaging the gears when the driver shifts. I know a lot of the motions that happen inside an engine (and a…

I know the feeling: 37 hours straight from Lake Havasu, AZ to basically nowhere, Michigan (I could name the city but nobody will know where it is, lets say halfway between Pontiac and Flint). This in a ‘95 chevy 1500 with no cruise control, terrible brakes, and no air conditioning (and bad heat, as we found out going…

High and Low ranges baby! We are slowly switching over to Semi-trucks, one gear at a time!

The brightness was the detonation cord (basically a small amount of explosives in cord from). There is probably a slow burn detonation cord that is right by the main explosive to help get the timing right. If you watch any building demolition that used det cord, you can see the bright, squiggly lines for a few seconds…

3000 lb-ft of torque transmitted to two 3-inch tires via a chain. That. SOUNDS. INCREDIBLE!!!!!!!

Michigan is also the state that classifies an ‘04 Ford Excursion diesel as a station wagon ...

Hopefully they won’t need to make up an excuse, infrastructure funding (honestly all funding in this country) is shit. There have been a few pushes to raise the gas tax here in Michigan to fund infrastructure but it has always been shot down specifically because it was bundled with other crap nobody wanted. But,…

Yup, that’s what the edit is for.

Neutral: Would You Take A VW Deal?

You could probably get a good scrap value for the steel.

Questionable material or not, that is a fracture critical bridge. Meaning that every piece has a job to do and if just one piece goes missing (so long as it isn’t a zero force member), the whole bridge comes down (think I-35 bridge collapse in Minnesota). I definitely think it was the weight of the truck that brought…

OK, you are wrong on so many levels it makes me hurt. First, bridges aren’t designed with safety factors of 5-7. If that was the case there would be no way a city, county, state, or even country would be able to afford to construct a bridge in the first place. Bridges of a reasonable size are designed with safety…