Slavvy posted:

Yes because truckers are the ideal example for this incredibly irrelevant discussion because truckers have an otherwise perfectly healthy normal lifestyle

Slavvy posted:

Your point being? Correlation is not causation. Plus:

Preoptopus posted:

Second time this is posted and I still dont get it.

Edit: gently caress newpage

PBCrunch posted:

But not as good as climate controls operated by three rotary knobs. Even fancy automatic temperature control can be operated with three knobs and two or three buttons.

Phy posted:

The length of row isn't going to be the same every time, so they have to vary the stall width in order to get a whole number of spaces.

MrYenko posted:

Nope. You should all learn to drive like us.

How bad is it going from a RHD manual transmission to LHD, or vise-versa? I've only ever driven LHD, and the thought of first being out and up makes my brain hurt.

Propaganda Bob posted:

Are there three separate master cylinders?

holocaust bloopers posted:

Some of those aircraft are actually flying initial bombing profiles on the stadiums. It's decent training. The rest are either on their way to training areas or coming back from. Either way, they were flying that day regardless of the fly over.

Das Volk posted:

I'm considering taking ownership of my great-grandfather's Model A truck. It's a 1928 with an extended bed made of oak and in excellent condition. Still has the original worm gear drive rear end and is basically useless unless you're going very slow. Thoughts?

ReelBigLizard posted:

The only benefit to that design as I can see it is the one they don't appear to be using. Which is that if it was upside down from how it is pictured, the prop shaft could sit significantly lower, increasing space in the passenger compartment by virtue of not needing a transmission tunnel in the floor plan...

EDIT: It would also keep the worm drive better lubricated.

Wasabi the J posted:

Is that the actual torque curve? Because that would be loving wonderful.

Hunter S. Thompson posted:

“The Coupe de Ville is not your ideal machine for high speed cornering in residential neighborhoods. The handling is very mushy… unlike the Red Shark, which had responded very nicely to situations requiring the quick fourwheel drift. But the Whale Bad of cutting loose at the critical moment – had a tendency to dig in, which accounted for that sickening ‘here we go’ sensation.

At first I thought it was only because the tires were soft, so I took it into the Texaco station next to the Flamingo and had the tires pumped up to fifty pounds each which alarmed the attendant, until I explained that these were “experimental” tires.

But fifty pounds each didn’t help the cornering, so I swent back a few hours later and told him I wanted to try seventy five. He shook his head nervously. “Not me,” he said, handing me the air hose. “Here. They’re your tires. You do it.”

“What’s wrong?” I asked. “You think they can’t take seventy-five?” He nodded, moving away as I stooped to deal with the left front. “You’re drat right,” he said. “Those tires want twenty eight in the front and thirty two in the rear. Hell, fifty’s dangerous, but seventy five is crazy. They’ll explode!” I shook my head and kept filling the left front. “I told you,” I said, “Sandoz laboratories designed these tires. They’re special. I could load them up to a hundred.

“God almighty!” he groaned. “Don’t do that here.”

“Not today,” I replied. “I want to see how they corner with seventy-five.” He chuckled. “You won’t even get to the corner, Mister.”

“We’ll see,” I said, moving around to the rear with the air-hose. In truth, I was nervous. The two front ones were tighter than snare drums; they felt like teak wood when I tapped on them with the rod. But what the hell? I thought. If they explode, so what? It’s not often that a man gets a chance to run terminal experiments on a virgin Cadillac and four brand-new $80 tires. For all I knew, the thing might start cornering like a Lotus Elan. If not, all I had to do was call the VIP agency and have another one delivered… maybe threaten them with a lawsuit because all four tires had exploded on me, while driving in heavy traffic. Demand an Eldorado, next time, with four Michelin Xs. And put it all on the card… charge it to the St. Louis Browns.

As it turned out, the Whale behaved very nicely with the altered tire pressures. The ride was a trifle rough; I could feel every pebble on the highway, like being on roller skates in a gravel pit… but the thing began cornering in a very stylish manner, very much like driving a motorcycle at top speed in a hard rain: one slip and ZANG, over the high side, cartwheeling across the landscape with your head in your hands.”

VikingSkull posted:

cursedshitbox posted:

m55a2 based pile of sex.

kimbo305 posted:

Clockspringed at the ball hinge?

Preoptopus posted:

A few pages back I posted 2 original AC Shelby Cobras on one street and no one cared but a Kei van... My priorities are all hosed.

Seat Safety Switch posted:

How do you even manage a tire that big solo? I can just imagine calling my buddies over to help me take a tire off so I can check brake pads.

MrYenko posted:

TPI small blocks. All of the fuel economy of a V8, none of the power!

Guinness posted:

Relatedly, just yesterday I saw an Audi with a big fake euro-style plate that was done up like a Washington State plate. Had the Mt. Rainier background and WA state crest in the blue box that normally has the EU country abbreviation and presumably even had the real plate number. But no way that is possibly legal, and I didn't see the real state-issued plate mounted anywhere, either.

Wish I could have caught a picture. That seems like it is just begging to get pulled over.

kylej posted:

Saw while grocery shopping. Thought it was cool.

Terrible Robot posted:

Toyota Century though the Nissan might also have had it.

InitialDave posted:

I haven't watched any.

But I picture someone staggering back to the road after highsiding into a field of sheep at three-figure speeds, and a farmer in a battered Hilux rumbling up and asking "Y'alright there lads?"

Slim Pickens posted:

The US goes month/day/year, but most of the rest of the world goes by day/month/year, so maybe month/year was just more universal.

Rhyno posted:

That's badass. Dude's gonna be a legend once it's painted.

Applebees Appetizer posted:

Yeah but didn't it still handle like a truck tho?

Applebees Appetizer posted:

I've just always hated riding in or driving trucks they are awful