Wonder if it will end up as cranky as my chainsaw, which refuses to start when the temperature is below 80?

I think he's waiting for a mosquito control contract. :rolleyes:

It brought a shade more than $5k...



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Would you settle for a jeep?

I need those upgrades for GrandCherokeeOne...

Tire test - Winter/Snow vs. All-Season vs. Summer Tires, by Tire Rack.com



Extra points for telling me the narrator's name, by recognition, not by Google.

Long term test wrap-up of the 2014 Corvette Stingray Z51:

Aw, they're just trying to sell more tires, I never drive on skating rinks.

Save money but be sure to use 2" screws for maximum traction. :haha:

Holy shit, 137 ft stop from 70 mph! My '69 took something like 170 ft from 70. Probably the major difference is the tires now put a bigger footprint to work.

The brakes are more effective also.

Bitch.

Ford Offering Factory-Authorized Slide-In Campers and Camping Trailers For The First Time

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prepare to learn something

presented in youtubewide because your phone isn't big enough to watch it properly.

It's taken them a long time, there were well aware of truck camper's in the late 50s. I guess it just took a camper maker to offer enough money and lawyers to work out liability.
My '67 F-250 Ranger, Camper Special, was set up for it. Wiring harness in the bed, 4:10 Detroit locker, 16" split ring wheels with tubed tires, two gas tanks for 45 gallon total, 352ci, automatic. I could climb a mountain with my Dad's camper on, and get 10 miles to the gallon going up... and coming down. :haha:

V, that looks simple until the squeeze into an itty bitty package.

I wonder what this guy would say if;
1- he wasn't dead, which I'm sure he is, because he wasn't a kid so he would be the oldest person in the world, and that's impossible as the oldest, and the line of succession, is always women.
2- he could stand there and see it today, 90 years later.
I'd bet real money the rock under the car was used by somebody to block a wheel so their fliver didn't roll away while enjoying the view, or having sexy time in the back seat.

Ah hah. Figured out how to convert the wide tag. You have to hit the 3dots option thing, then pick copy post content. Reply, paste, remove the word wide from the tags.

Easy-peasy, lemon squeezy.

A bit more involved than doing what Bruce has been gentlemanly enough to do, in posting both types to begin with.

You want an itty bitty package? (heh) Here's a gearbox with an 11 million to 1 reduction ratio.

In the palm of his hand.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2wqns8

I won't watch a 30 second commercial so I brought it here.
It doesn't look very strong, it would cost big bucks to make it strong, then what would you do with it?

The way he says 'eh' in between every 3rd word makes it all sound like bullshit

He has a funny accent so he must have stolen the design from an American. :lol:

So, you know what gentlemanly means...If you'd asked me, in a gentlemanly manner, to post small YouTube clips/vids, I would be doing that now. But you managed to suggest it was my responsibility to post in a way you find acceptable. And that's why I didn't change anything about how I was posting vids.

And then you created a thread in which to complain about it some more. In the same you're-here-to-please-me-tone, I might add.

So, you win. I'll not be posting anymore wide YouTube vids.

15 Days Under the Hood. Been there done that.
Aggravating, rewarding, exhausting, simultaneously.

I hope this happened on the way to work and no on the way home. Nobody was hurt.

I started by asking if it was just me that couldn't see the wide links. When other people confirmed that it was symptomatic of Tapatalk, I suggested that people might not use them. There were steps along the way. Because you only noticed when I hit you over the head with it, says more about your level of consideration than my bitchiness. Please continue to use the wide tags if you feel that they are more appropriate than the normal tags. I only ask that you ALSO drop the regular tag if you want people that use Tapatalk to see what you're on about.

It's just a matter of hitting ctrl-v and one click more. Takes 2 seconds.

But I don't want to control V, even for 2 seconds, twill would kick my ass. :yesnod:


1907 Marmon Air-Cooled V-8.

Noted.




ETA: I noticed when you "suggested", I also noticed it came across as quite douchey. More than once. If I got more outta that than you intended, well, that's my failing. Yet another of many.

Now, I haven't posted a wide clip since you got snotty, I don't intend to post any more wide clips, so, can we drop this now?

Please?

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drop it? cmon. this is the fun part.

Here's the earliest reference I could find (almost 2 years ago)

and then I simply mentioned it.

was this douchey:?

so maybe I've been building up to it for longer than you've been aware of the issue. Don't take it personally.

Dropping it.

Damn shit stirring Horned Headed Hun. http://cellar.org/2012/bwekk.gif

Some DIY projects are better than others. My buddy built a VW powered trike from a short Honda frame, and had to weld three 12"x12"x1" steel plates across the front of the down tubes of the frame to take off with no throttle. The PA State Cop took one look and said no way. :lol:

Apparently, I was mistaken.



Can you explain what part of this post is not douchey?

This one isn't douchey, but, contains a douche-like dig.

And this post is comprised entirely of vinegar and water.


Ima go cry for a while now.

Oh, THAT thredd was 100% douchey. Intended to be.

I was saying that the times it came up before I had comported myself with great patience and gentlemanly manners.

I think we have it sorted now.

Any posts about tapatalk or other systems, I ignore because I don't use or know anything about them, that's for the schmarties.

This is entirely what I was expecting.

:corn:

A car show from 1954. It was a B&W picture that's been supposedly accurately colorized.
I only know one of the cars but he hit that right on the money.
Those aren't hipsters, that's what they wore, before it became retro. ;)

I wish cars still came in more than 4 colors...

Amen, sister, shout it from the rooftops!

Silver, white, red, & black is all we have around here.

Wiki
But what do they know, they spelled color wrong. :lol:

Smell nice...

I was surprised. I've been vaguely aware of Whippets(cars, not the dog or whipped cream capsules), pretty sure I've seen a couple, but didn't know they were built by Willys.

http://cellar.org/2015/WippetRoadster.jpg

Cannonball Baker was the inspiration for the Car & Driver Magazines, "Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash" races from NYC to Redondo Beach, CA, in the '70s, which I read about each year with irrational exuberance. After five years in was too well publicized with cops across the country competing to stop and ticket the most racers, in the name of protecting the public, and preserving Crook Nixon's 55 mph national speed limit. The series was followed by a couple of books by participants, then a slew of Cannonball, and Gumball movies.

It's funny(to me), the complete and correct, "Cannonball Baker Sea to Shining Sea Memorial Trophy Dash" name, which few knew at the time, rolls off my tongue effortlessly, while I can't remember what I had for breakfast. :crone:

♫ Oh, do you know the popcorn man, ♪
the popcorn man, the popcorn man,
♪ Oh, do you know the popcorn man,
That lives on Drury Lane? ♫

http://cellar.org/2015/locomobile.jpg
I wonder if the same steam used to power the car, was used to pop the corn after he arrived?

This belongs to one of my SSR group.

Wide load...

VERY illegal to move an oversize load like that after sunset. tsk tsk

No, that's not what he's saying. The mine owners, rather than paying these guys to truck things, would drive the bigass Haul trucks over the road. Those fuckers are 31 ft wide.

1914 Militaire had outriggers that could be deployed with a lever at slow speeds. That $165k was this year, not 1914. :haha:

I used to drive a huge Cat 769 at a mine in PA.

We had to drive them up the mine road, across a public road and up to the edge of an abandoned mine, back up to the edge, dump the waste and return, over and over.

One poor soul got too close to the edge, which crumbled out from under him and he and his truck went over and rolled to the bottom. The bed was torn off the chassis but the truck was otherwise undamaged. The owners brought in a big wrecker, righted the truck, got it running, drove it out of the pit, replaced the hydraulics, put the bed back on and had the thing back at work in two days.

The driver, not so much. He lived to tell the tale, albeit with a broken leg and two broken arms.

That's a shitload of weight, living on the edge is hazardous to your health. He was lucky to live.

This is a beut.
She left the Amish order about a year ago, got her CDL in May, rented the truck from Penske. Pulling a 53' box with 43,000lbs of bottled water to walmart, hit the superstructure at 30mph, then the damaged bridge couldn't handle the weight. Doesn't say if she was shooting for walmart's 15 minute window.

Too tall and too heavy? Idiot.

I can still hear you.... :eyebrow:

Coming to a US Post Office near you...

That '38 IH is a beautiful thing.

I like that Cornbinder.

The problem with the '38 IH is the cab was made at the end of the depression when most folks were skinny. Two of us fat guys wouldn't have room for a lunch box.
Whenever we had to fit three in, if there was a girl, she got put in the middle straddling the shifter. Sorry, but I need first and third too. :blush:

One of the SSR guys customized his truck to look like that '53 chevy.