do tires even have speed ratings that go that low?

My bf Goodrich mud terrain tires were rated to 75 mph
L rated
http://www.tirerack.com/tires/tirete....jsp?techid=35

The speed rating on the tire is for continuous duty.

Bruce, Bruce, Bruce. For shame. 80 mph is the speed limit in all but a very few areas in the USA. And PA doesn't have one over 70 anywhere.

Of course, you and everyone else obeys the speed limit, right? RIGHT?

So? What's your point? :confused:

Bargain of the day.
 

http://s17.postimg.org/cxqplgwdr/Land_Rover.jpg


An absolute bargain at only £200,000! ($290,233)
I suppose that could be considered a working definition of optimism.

Anyway, zip over to ebay (about ten more photos) and help the UK balance of payments.

Series One Diesel 88" CHASSIS NUMBER ONE. 1957 first one off production line

That's very pretty.

That color is called Very Fucking Red.

Well, should be.

And it's a true red, not an orangey red.

Good old days when Mopar's target was a 14 second quarter for less than 3 grand.

Goddammit I was born a generation late.

Sewer line breaks and this guy's Fiat sinks into the hole. But never fear, The "Ministry of the Russian Federation for Affairs for Civil Defence, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters " came to pull it out. :facepalm:

I know the thread's about Rims. Got it. But I roll my rims through this intersection twice a day. It is a little unsettling to see all those headlights headed right at you!!!!!

Really, what were they thinking?

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Certainly relevant and on topic. I assume these movements are controlled by traffic signals, are red and blue moving at the same time? You have the red straight through lanes turning left and the blue straight through lanes in addition to the blue turn lanes turning left.

I'll see and raise you. Behold the loveliness of the South Lamar and Ben White intersection:

The blue lanes and the red lanes feed in from different highway-speed areas. Obviously their lights are never green at the same time, but the blue lanes sometimes get confused and think the green lights just off to their right are, in fact, for them. Also, the green lines do whatever the fuck they want regarding illegal U-turns.

And the poor schmucks getting off the highway coming up from the bottom of the shot can only turn right. What if they want to go left?

A crossroad over a highway is hardly a difficult intersection to design. There must be a hundred thousand of them in the US. It's not like they had to reinvent the wheel here. And it looks like they had plenty of real estate to work with.

I play Cities:Skylines, which is basically a better SimCity. I'm faced with these problems routinely and I don't know how to solve them.

The problem in C:S is always that in a compact interchange with a four-lane, you wind up with lights on the end of the exit ramps. Traffic can then prevent the exit ramps from clearing... and you fuck up the highway.

This is admittedly a little larger, but I bet it could be reduced in size and still work. It works quite well as it is.
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I'm sure there are more compact versions of this in Europe that could be copied and fit in the space allowed by V's intersection.

Clodfobble's intersection, however, is fucked up. I don't see an obvious solution there. Gates instead of red lights?

Yeah. I'm spending too much time on this.

BigV's intersection looks even worse when you zoom out a little bit. They had so much room to play with. All those roads coming together could easily dump onto a big roundabout and move the traffic without the need for lights. It already looks a little like a roundabout the way the roads circle that pond. There's no need for that dense intersection at the top if you spread all the traffic around one giant circle with lots of room for each road to merge into the circle.

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Fuck that roundabout shit, it's all well and good on paper but in reality they don't work because... people. :mad2:

I'd rather go for this one:

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I'd trade that for a backhoe too. Much more practical.

The grenade launchers will come in handy for those transits through the 'livelier' part of town. ;)

The armour plating sounds a good investment as well. :eek:

A backhoe doesn't have nearly the cachet...

Better for the hobos though.

This picture came from the AACA (Antique Automobile Club of America) website. It's labeled 1934 BSA three wheeler, but I don't believe it unless somebody took a '34 BSA three wheeler and put that zoomy body on it. A real one is on the right. I guess if someone added that body moving the steering wheel would be no problem.

Happened to find one (three-wheeler) on the net mah own self:

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^^^This one's a Morgan.

And this one ain't:

Pay a wheelbarrow full of cash for an imitation truck that will cost more to operate? Why not just get a real truck and become wealthy like Pam? I heard walmart loves to give truck drivers bundles of cash. ;)

You may remember awhile back we had a discussion about drag racing, I think it stemmed from a post about the Don Garlits Museum in Florida. Anyway, after Scott Kalitta was killed at Englishtown, NJ, in 2008, the NHRA shortened the track from 1/4 mile to 1,000 ft. First to get the speed down, and secondly to give them more shutdown room. The record speed for top fuel at that time was 336.15 mph, and it did drop, but it's now 332.75 for the 1,000 ft. What's a mother to do?

I think this was posted before, but consider it a review for the final.
On a happy note, John Force's daughter, Brittany, broke 4 seconds with her fuel funny car. :thumb:

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Well if you want weird...

Ice racing is a hoot, both cars and motorcycles.

My guess is electric with motors in the wheels, but that's only a guess.





Oh, wait, the rear wheel has chain.

When he pulls it out of the water, there is a little smoke too. Engine.

Ballsy tank driver
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Yes, when he flips it around in the snow I can see the engine and exhaust pipe on the left side of the bike. missed it the first time.

That Russian tanker must have been hitting the vodka.

I want that bike. It must be incredibly light, or that guy is incredibly strong.

IROC El Camino!

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:devil:





You do remember IROC, don't you?:eyebrow:

the chalkboard painted vw is pretty cool. :)

That trailer's forked.

Drifting.

In an M-1 Abrams. That's a tank, btw.

He puts the hard pack in hard packed snow. Well, I guess that is how glaciers are made. Moral of the story, traction is king.

Tanks drifting on ice?

Ok, here ya go:

That's not a tank. :rolleyes:

the Castlebank man.

Cummins Diesel power. Mercedes first diesel car introduced in 1936.

New York to L.A. on $7.63.

!

Maybe it's time for a nap. :haha:

Curious. I'd like to know the story.

So would I.

Just the thing for building that ce-ment pond.

Thirded.

some sleuth on the internet drew this diagram. Said they hooked their winches up at a bad angle and both pulled themselves over.

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