More of a motorcycle tip, but if you own an angle grinder then a chain breaker is absolutely unnecessary.

As Killa K pointed out and needs reiteration: the Electoral College was conceived and intended as a backstop against unqualified, populist weirdos from getting to a position of power. Various “traditions” and some “faithless elector” laws that’ve popped up over the years have broken that. If we’re fully committing to…

One day you’ll grow up to be an advertisement for a stock ticker.

Depends who you ask. This sick filth is not in Freedom Units!

Interesting and somewhat related side note. I was on a contract with the DOD a couple decades back and got to talk to some of the old timers who worked on reactivating the the battlewagons for Reagan’s 600-ship Navy. They told me one of the big concerns was the state of the massive gears in the driveline after all the…

Aw man, 3.8 with a blower!? Look at this racecar here!

No, this is trying to be clever and instead just obnoxious.

Good lord, I wish. LD9 Quad-Four.  Good (enough) engine and would still walk the Caddy, if only because my ‘Am weighed in a helluva lot less at the scale.

Exactly: the 90's flavored LT1 was GM’s big displacement option, next to the L03, L05 or you cheap bastich with the L99. Ooooh, you got that Corvette motor in your Caprice?

Comparatively speaking, this Merc’s only down half a Coke can’s worth of displacement from there.

“. . . at least for V8. . .”

As the kids over on The Root say, if the phrase “all white people” offends you. . .

I grew up with and owned cars with larger engines as well. I’m also old even to remember when peak Detroit iron went from simply being “neat old cars” to “Hey, I just got my classic plate in the mail!” here in the Commonwealth. However,…

Tongue was planted firmly, albeit darkly, in cheek. You have roughly a decade on me but I grew up with/owned cars with larger engines (than this) as well. That said, I’ve never heard anyone our respective ages call something this displacement a “small” engine in earnest.

Which makes you infinitely smarter than the ones around here, who almost got kicked out of the chosen venue for their cars and coffee equivalent this summer because they wouldn’t wear masks, stand the hell apart and not get in the way of people trying to use the business.

As member of the “transitional cohort that shall not be named”* I’ve also owned a few cars that had bigger engines than this. My point is that the big monster engines vanished during the smog/embargo era and pretty much stayed dead-dead-deaditty-dead until the (comparatively) recent horsepower renaissance when GM…

But, if you don’t mind me asking, what generation are you?

Because that’s my point. My father grew up in and learned to drive during the period when a 5.5L engine (Not even a 350? Winga-dinga-LOL) would be considered small, especially for a V8. When I was the same age, the “big” displacement engines on offer were the…

My friend (well, his wife, really) has one of these barges that has handed down from their (her) grandmother. Beautifully maintained, awesome cruiser.

This one? Too many questions. . . and as for the whitewalls, let’s just say I can smell three decades of stogie baked in there.

“Now, you might not consider five-and-a-half liters to be a big displacement, “

I’m sure most of the people who have practical experience from an age where that was a “small engine” are dead or figuring out how to sign up for Parler.

Needed the long bed to haul around his wang.

Seriously. If you have space at the back of your driveway, it probably should be filled with one of these. Get a couple of (trusted) friends and family to pitch in on a sort of truck co-op and it’ll be cheaper than a cup of coffee a day to own and maintain. Get ready to be automatically drafted as wheel man until you…

Unless he edited the post after you made this comment, Rob’s got it covered.

“Also, in my opinion, more trucks should have Yosemite Sam “Back Off” mud flaps.”