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If I was a rich man..... Oy Vey!

@Faqyuman close enough! I dated a girl like you. Should have married her.

Saw you on "dumbstruck" . Keep up the good work. Too tall for the crawl space, I guess. You'll be the next Terry Fador. Keep the faith!

16 decks above 30 feet of draft. Interesting ride in a strong crosswind. Barf!

Great video by the way. I always wondered what they would looked like, side by side.

What the heck did you do to your hair? Looks like it was dyed with shoe polish and then soaked in Crisco. WTF?

The sticker price on my 1981 was $11,000 back in 1981. That was LOT of money back then. They had solved the rust problems by 1981, and it had a leather interior. Like any other car, they got it right, toward the end.

Love the steampunk look to it. Cool.

Fixies - stye over substance. I'll take brakes anyday. And gears.

Drive defensively, even on a bicycle. 29 mph might not sound "fast" but most bikes, even those with disc brakes, can't stop very quickly. Also, from your shadow it is hard to tell if you are wearing a helmet. You have to EXPECT people to pull out in front of you, that is the whole theory of def...

Bicycle or Motorcycle, it is the same deal - you have to EXPECT car drivers to do dumb things. Acting all shocked when they do is kind of asking for trouble.

You could have slowed at this busy intersection, you could have applied your brakes when you saw them pull out.

Sorry, but it takes two ...

The design was dated - based on the VW Beetle, which was a pre-war design, long in the tooth. By the early 1970's, VW was working on the replacement for the Beetle - the Golf/Rabbit. The VW was phased out, it never would have passed safety standards and emissions.

Porsche soldiered on, but eve...

Wow. How are the English as a Second Language lessons coming?

Here's a new one: A Repo Man is a PERSON who repossesses cars.

Hence the word "Man" in the name. You might notice that.

The hidden towbar, which is mounted on the truck bed, is often referred to as a "stinger". It can be hidden ...

@DodgeMan360 Funny story: A neighbor of mine bought a very used one (old and rusty), and we were tinkering with it and the "lean burn" carburetor caught fire. It never ran right, for some reason. It was pretty clapped out.

They were born-again Christians, and his wife told me, "Jesus gave us t...

The sprint six was Delorean's baby. He wanted a high-revving OHC engine like in foreign sports cars. Americans didn't get it. But then again, gas was cheap, and so were V-8's. You have a rara avis here - a rare bird. Keep it stock!

Love that show. I bought some artisinal light bulbs after watching it. I do have some questions about the chicken, though.

The report is just like any one of a number of "crap cars" types of articles - pick out some lame rides and then make fun of them. Picking apart the Vega or Chevette ain't hard to do. But funny thing, though, those are the types of cars people buy the most - the ones you see populating the high...

We never stopped on the slide, back in the day, it was full throttle the whole way. Oddly enough, if you lean OUT of the turns, the cart will stay on the track better.

What's with all the flashing? I am having a seizure!

What a classy ship. Allure of the seas looks like a second-rate shopping mall compared to this. No one at RC has any taste....

@Intechdude300 Bear in mind also that with dual VANOS the real power doesn't start until at least 3,000 rpm and doesn't really kick until 4,500 rpm. The beauty of a BMW engine is that it will lump along at low RPM while cruising and when you want more power, you just rev the snot out of it. Tow...

There are five modules, the bordmonitor, the "radio" module under the spare tire, the CD changer, the CD or DVD ROM for the maps, and the H-K amplifer. Water getting into the spare tire compartment will short out the "radio" module. It is very expensive to replace and after a decade, the whole ...

Always inspect a car before bidding on it. Buying a car signed unseen is never a good idea.

@jayandshaz1181 An F-150 with HD suspension should be able to haul close to 2,000 lbs and tow close to 8,000 lbs.

Appears to be an X5. Looks like she confused the gas and the brake pedals.

Sign those organ donor cards, kids! I need a liver! Thanks!

annual credit report.com is the REAL free credit report mandated by law.

The "free" site is a come-on for selling you credit protector.

You might be interested in Ralph Nader's _other_ book, "Small on Safety, the story of the Volkswagen". Not many people read it at the time, because hippies drove old VWs and hated GM. But if the Corvair was "unsafe" it was only because it copied the unsafe design features of the VW - such as th...

Some folks claim the whole "Neuclasse" BMW designs of that era were copied, in part, from the Corvair. There is a similarity between the reverse slant grill of the 1602/2002 and the 65 Corvair, and the taillights (the original round ones) are also strikingly similar. But I don't know which came...