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There is also a safety factor when the credit card is validated electronically. (Anybody remember having their card checked against the printed list of "Bad" cards?) One station I worked at required I check every card. I don't think all bad cards were on the list because it was hard copy back in th...

In Michigan anyway, there seem to be no pump jockeys. I feel honored to be one of the last pump jockeys as I served in the 1970s and I think they disappeared soon after. I even got to man the "island" during the oil embargo when we had a $5 limit on gas and cars were lined out the drive and down the...

tankinbeans wrote: ↑

Sat Sep 14, 2019 11:17 pm

Does it have any sort of a splat pattern?

Nope, a nice clean O, Kind of like this:

Can anyone tell me what is the meaning of a large orange letter O in the back window of a car. I have seen this three times in the past week and it is usually about a 10-inch-high O and smack in the middle of the back window. Why would anybody put that on their window?

RE The destroyed Hellcat engine, there really doesn't seem much need to boost power when the car comes with a stock output of 797 horsepower!

2019 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye at Woodward Dream Cruise Look what this guy did, not only a $70,000 car but a lot of speed shop work to boost power considerably: ...the tires spun effortlessly through first gear, bouncing off of the rev limiter before he was able to shift into second. As he...

was the show on or near Mustang Alley / 9-Mile Road in Ferndale? I saw many Ford Broncos (Bronchi?) at the Woodward Avenue Dream Cruise this year. I thimpk Ford was encouraging their participation as part of drumming up interest in the next generation Bronco. Show was at Ford World Headquarters in ...

Link for specs on Ford MuscleStang Shelby GT500 Lots of details resplained. https://s3-prod.autoweek.com/2019-08/2020-Shelby-GT500-Esourcebook_0.pdf I looked through the linked brochure and can't find the option for manual transmission. I figured the Mustang died when they put the modular engine in...

Probably the worst car I've ever owned in terms of top gear acceleration were my old Foxbody Mustangs. 5th gear was so severely overdrive that the car couldn't accelerate without downshifting first at highway speeds. Flooring the gas pedal did just about nothing unless you were over 80 MPH, and eve...

Rope-Pusher wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 20, 2019 2:34 pm

Sew, eye no ewer axing "Hoo wass Richert Bong?" and "Y did they naim this park after hymn?"

They also named a 2-mile-long bridge after him. It crosses Duluth-Superior Harbor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_I ... ial_Bridge

Sometimes it takes a while, especially with newer cars, but eventually you'll realize that you've stopped thinking about driving and it will be easier. I hope that's the case! :D Yes, it is the case and even after driving stick for 42 years I am not always perfect--in fact, I am rarely perfect, but...

potownrob wrote: ↑

Sat Jun 29, 2019 9:30 am

Lucks gut too me. Knot shore wye he’s sow embarrassed. Now, if he got it in brown, then eye cud under stand... eye think one of his Maine come plaints was about the rev hang...

I like a gut looking car. If a car has no guts, what is it good for?

...but this repair process only works with two S-10's, right? I think the having two S10s helped much as the bumper heights were the same and all S10 owners are automatic friends with other S10 owners which explains why the guy was so concerned as to ask if my S10 was okay. Now the real proof is to...

So this morning I was in the S10 and rear ended another s10. It was a square-on hit as I slid into him on my fairly worn (but still legal--barely) front tires. It hit firmly and it seems some dust or rust flew, but we pulled over and neither truck had any visible damage. My S10 already had the front...