For those of us old enough to be around during the beginning of the internet, remember when everyone thought it was going to usher in a new age of enlightenment? Yeah, that didn’t work. Read more

Mercedes Streeter is indeed a real name! My last name was recently changed to something else but I’ve kept my old last name as a nom de plume because it’s just too perfect for this line of work. Read more

If I were wealthy enough to be shopping for a 3rd car, this would be a fun car to take out on a nice day, to something like Cars and Coffee, to a little brewery in the mountains.... Read more

So I feel, as the resident K-car guru here, that I need to chime in. There are rules to setting collector car prices and rarity alone is not the key factor. Prices are driven by rarity, cleanliness, mileage, fun/excitement factors, and most importantly demand.
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Oh no! I just watched School of Rock with my son a few days ago. Kevin was great! He definitely could have pursued acting if he’d wanted to. Read more

Not exactly an expert, but gyroscopes tend to keep things oriented the way they are facing. So I don’t think they would help with cornering. You might be able to do something with just flywheels, but the weight involved would probably ruin it.  Read more

Her fellow fascists might tsk tsk her for continuing to be a shrieking nutjob but would they support throwing her stupid bigoted ass out of the House? Gonna guess no. So they can take their wagging fingers and insert them deeply into their own asses.
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“I’ll say it again: If I ever meet Rand Paul’s neighbor I’m going to hug him and buy him as many drinks as he can consume.” Read more

Those of us who lived the 80's don’t feel you. Each generation has plenty of beloved crap music. His ballads aren’t awful. I mean, they’re no Monster Ballads, so you can see, we had worse. Read more

Single party rule is the system of every AUTHORITARIAN country, not specifically Marxist ones. Lots of fascist countries also like single party rule too. Authoritarianism isn’t a left-right thing. Read more

I’m waiting for “My sister isn’t racist — her sister-in-law is half Korean!” Read more

Aaaaaaaaaaaaand you just jinxed yourself. Read more

Well, you either die a hero or live long enough to become a juggalo. Read more

Look the simple story here is that octane rating is a means to prevent pre-ignition. Any car with OBDII will tell you if you are doing it wrong because it will have knock sensors to detect pre-ignition. The best tuning you can hope for is as much timing advance as you can get before pre-ignition. Thats the point of… Read more

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Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Really. A nicer guy wouldn’t do this shit. Read more

Having spent about an equal fraction of my life in the automotive and computer worlds, I feel qualified to speak on both subjects. Y2K WAS a problem - for a very small but significant fraction of the computer world= specifically financials and insurance companies who were “married” to programs written for technically… Read more

Right after you announced that the Jeep had popped up in a junkyard, one that happened to be 15 minutes from me, I went to check it out. Ended up buying the rear door for my sister, a Jeep nut who has always wanted a mail Jeep. I believe she’s just going to hang in on their patio fence as art.

It kind of reminds me of Y2K, where everyone was panicked about this technical issue, but manufacturing had already moved past it by the time the situation came to a head. Read more