Yeah, they basically died out after the 50's, because an overhead valve is obviously superior in basically every way. The flathead, also known as a side valve engine, was an extremely common style of engine for a very long time, found in nearly everything. Even though they’re old tech they’re my favorite type of…

Never heard of a flathead? or and L head? or are you not being serious? I can’t tell.

Ok, mostly right.

The Roadkill guys wouldn’t have done half the work David is doing. Running on 3.5 cylinders? Only 2 working brakes? Only first and third gear? No functioning lights? Not a problem! Grab some trailer lights, duct tape them on the back and give the passenger a battery with some leads and let them “operate” the brake and…

1950 Willys Jeep, owned by my uncle. It was every bit as fun and terrifying as I imagined it to be. It was bumpy, rough, loud, hot (especially with the windshield up), the seat had basically no foam left, and only the rear brakes worked, but it was incredibly fun and I could have driven it around the back roads of…

I guess I thought 360° was still more common than it is, I knew not everything was 360°, but thought it was still pretty common. Also some quick draw research led me to that conclusion.

It’s not the firing order, but the timing. Nearly all twin cylinder engines have a piston fire once every 360 degrees, the first piston fires, then 360 degrees later, the next piston fires, repeat. The timing on a Harley engine is different due to the way their engines are designed. Instead of an even 360 degree…

It has more to do with how they fire, in an uneven pattern. Most twin cylinder engines have a piston fire every 360 degrees, where as a typical Harley V-twin will have firing degrees of 315, and 405, giving that uneven pop pop...pop pop sound. Like it or hate it, it is something that is unique and a characteristic of…

My weirdest one was an amphicar driving through the Black Hills of South Dakota.

The wipers on my truck will, on very rare occasion, cycle once, and only once, without me touching a single thing on the stalk. I call them demon wipers. Even more elusive is the double demon, where the wiper cycles twice. It’s been doing this for years with no discernible pattern or frequency.

When everything I own is broken, because old things that need a little work are better than new things, until all of the old thing need work at the same time.

Car tag reminds me of someone I used to know. Him and a buddy had the same truck, jelly bean F-150's (coincidentally, so do I) and they used to “battle” on the insterstate at 75-80 mph. Because their mirrors were collapsible, and at the same height, the goal was to use your mirror to collapse the other persons mirror…

I haven’t read the comments yet, but if no one has suggested a 7.3 Excursion yet then I’ll loose all faith in Jalopnik.

I’ve done something remarkably similar, but with just a rope, behind an Escort wagon, in town. I didn’t ride on the sled, but I rode along in the car. We stopped when someone came out of their house, had a good laugh and said we should probably go home before someone called us in.

Not that those trucks aren’t awesome, but I don’t think any of those cab-overs came as consumer grade pickups. They all were heavy duty, chassis cabs to which custom pickup beds were added.

Surge is back, I’m not sure if it’s a permanent thing though.

Glad you found a good picture, I couldn’t seem to find a decent one.

Can’t find a good picture, but one of my favorite automotive easter eggs is on the Harley Davidson Edition F-150's, each of those dots was a little Harley bar and shield logo. Say what you will about the company, but that’s some really awesome attention to detail.

Pretty much every time I eat Arby’s it comes out faster than it went in. I’m trying to figure out what specific item fucks with my usually iron stomach so much because I fucking love Arby’s. I think it’s the cheese.