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Another Tesla All Fired Up

eric - June 14, 2019

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AGWs Hut! Hut! Hut! Bicyclist

eric - June 14, 2019

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Reader Question: The Elio Not Cometh?

eric - June 14, 2019

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The In-Car Checkpoint

eric - June 14, 2019

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Latest Radio: Bill Meyer Show (KMED) 6/12/19

eric - June 13, 2019

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Reader Question: Harley Value?

eric - June 13, 2019

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E-Rant: The Appreciating Old Truck!

eric - June 13, 2019

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Reader Question: Don’t Leave Home Without Them?

eric - June 13, 2019

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Reader Question: Yankee Pricing?

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2019 VW Beetle Final

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Douglas L Self: Eric – you’ve discovered what a one-time business partner (we did janitorial together when I was putting...
MarkyMark: Hear, hear! I feel the same way. It’s easier with just me and my cat… 🙂
MarkyMark: My late mother used to have a 1969. That was a big, heavy, powerful, and GORGEOUS car!
MarkyMark: 8S, A mom got ARRESTED for letting her kids walk the dog? Are you kidding me?! I used to walk the dogs when I was a kid, for...
Crusty Old TV Tech: “They” claim the trade is between “dirty air” and “paying a little more for your...
MarkyMark: With Real ID coming online, if one doesn’t have a compliant license (i.e. a Real ID driver license), then one will need...
Jeremy: Morning Eric, Great rant! P.J. O’Rourke predicted this in the 80’s with his fabulous “Safety Nazi” essay....
MarkyMark: Is it me, or do governments go out of their WAY to hire a-holes like this to be AGWs?
MarkyMark: Exhibit A of why the law is an ASS!
Eightsouthman: Ignorance of the change of the planet is replete and Missy typifies that ignorance. Why do American natives look Asian?...
eric: Amen, Eight. As I’ve said/written many times – as someone who was there (in DC) and who lived there for years –...
eric: Hi RK, I feel myself evolving to equanimity with my singlehood. The paradigm today isn’t appealing to me. Perhaps because...
Eightsouthman: Typical person(esp. wimin)in this country, fat, uninformed, uneducated and satisfied by the next “happy meal”....
MarkyMark: Absolutely it’s easy to get a used jet if you know where to look.
ReadyKilowatt: That scene was a throwback to Barbarella, the only Jane Fonda film I can tolerate but only because it’s so easy to...
Eightsouthman: I still want to see the countless CCTV videos from the Pentagon. You have to wonder, if you have half a brain, what...
eric: Hi RK! Thought exercise: What would prevent someone like Travolta – who owns a 707 – from flying it into a building?...
Eightsouthman: 3-4 years ago I got in line to pick up a load at a pit that start(not loading, just fueling, checking, etc.)at 7am. I got...
ReadyKilowatt: A few years ago someone flew a small private plane into an IRS building in Texas. It caused $36 million in damages. What...
Eightsouthman: I think it was John Carter, but may be mistaken, who said “If Congressmen abided by the Constitutional oath they...
Eightsouthman: My 93 Chevy pickup looked new but forget about comprehensive insurance. Still, I’ll take a pickup as late at 94....
eric: Hi T, Medicine seems to have grown mercenary – as well as DMV-like. I cant abide either thing. I am very creeped out by the...
Mark3: Im worried more about women on cell phones personally. Ive seen women right next to me doing full makeup in their cars at 70 miles...
eric: Hi D, It’s eve worse with late-model diesels; some will turn themselves off if you neglect to refill the DEF (Diesel Exhaust...
D: Have a low mile ’13 CTS. It has thrown 2 error codes in the the 3 years I have owned it. Both were nothing and were erased with...
Tionico: Yeah, I’ve laely began to produce “high blood pressure readings” when I have to go visit the Whit Coats....
Douglas L Self: Whether this ditzy “Congressperson” takes the SUBSIDIZED Acela Express OR a jet shuttle between DC and NYC,...
Douglas L Self: The upside would be one less Kosher Kriminal in the US Congress.
Tionico: watch her swear her oath of office, then when she begins trashing the state and fed constitutions, have her charged with feloy...
Douglas L Self: I was just telling #1 son today that EVERYONE, as a condition of voting, should be required to view “Demolition...
Douglas L Self: Understood. I suffer from diarrhea of the keyboard as well.
Douglas L Self: Blame the idiots whom VOTE these dingbats into office.
Douglas L Self: American COMBAT deaths in Vietnam are currently tallied at 58,000. This doesn’t include deaths by accidents,...
Tionico: Instead of, as you seem to promote, treating EVERYONE as if they were impaired until your magic machine establishes they are...
MarkyMark: Even if they eliminate her district, AOC could get around that by taking on Chucky Schmucky Schumer. If she has the Justice...
Jeremy: Hey Brent, If you don’t mind me asking, how tall are you? I have a NOS Gunnar Crosshairs frame-set that may be ideal for...
tom: Couldn’t you add a rider to your policy, thereby having the base ins plus rider provide enough coverage? I’ll guess that...
Guererro: “Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.” Benjamin...
MikePizzo: Great video Eric! You perfectly articulated why vehicles of your Nissan’s vintage (give or take about four years)...
bluegrey6124: It’s quite interesting how Elon and his “Musk-eteers” manage to get away with selling these 4-wheeled...
BrentP: You got me looking at bicycle websites. I am quickly remembering why I stick with what I have.
bluegrey6124: Exactly! It’s just like computer HDD/SSD’s that advertise being 500GB; but in reality, only being able to use...
BrentP: rodbikes.com claims a model with a steel frame lighter than carbon fiber. Anyway weight is not a huge deal to me. Compared to...
Eightsouthman: Seen it more times that I can recall. It’s common for that type to speed up, never looking at the rear view, but...
BrentP: Private roads might work if it was a stateless society. But so long as there is a state private roads would end up being owned by...
bluegrey6124: “Who cares if your Tesla burns up, as long as you yourself are not injured and Musk sends you a replacement.”...
ReadyKilowatt: The Hillary arm of the party is looking for their new messiah. AOC is seen as the new “Well-behaved women seldom...
BrentP: Our dear neighbors to the north now allow police to come into people’s homes and breathalyzer them within two hours of...
Nunzio: Ya’d think if a refurbishing industry was going to happen, it would be happening by now- as new vehicles have been...
MarkyMark: GTC, years ago when I had my ZRX, I almost got taken out on 287 by some stupid bitch driving a Range Rover. She was just in...
Eightsouthman: I’ll be damned. WP wouldn’t let me post a link to kick them all out and then said the previous comment had...
Eightsouthman: Let’s put responsibility for every damned thing where it belongs, the Congress of these United States. I think...
MarkyMark: More than anything else, women seek SECURITY, and they’ll sacrifice almost anything to get it…
MarkyMark: How restorable are you? Sorry, I couldn’t resist… 😉
MarkyMark: Eric, I don’t think most people know about private aviation. It’s beyond the means of most people. If I...
MarkyMark: I took no offense at all. I was more blasting AOC’s hypocrisy. If she’s preaching her GND gospel, then...
X: I think another reason why classic car owners are all old is that they have not only the time to futz around with cars… they...
Allen: Do you remember the Dodge Ram D50’s in the mid to late 80’s? A rebadged Mitsubishi Mighty Max that were extremely...
Max: My point was if they are going to assume and presume these things are to be required they ought to shoulder the results. “My...
Antia Bryant: Had a ’74 Datsun 510 that was really something. Me and the pals pulled the 4 banger out without an engine hoist and...
Anonymous: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1: :+1:
bluegrey6124: I saw that PC propagan…err, I mean “commercial” on YT as well. Needless to say, the auto manufacturers...
gtc: I agree, and there are probably roughly same % of bad motorcycle drivers as car drivers. One would think that a biker would realize...
Vonu: Which talking head’s discreditable testimony did you buy hook, line, and sinker about Michael Jackson’s supposed but...
Vonu: And yet you keep voting for your personal congresscritter because s/he is one of the good ones?
Vonu: One would have to wonder what they see in your compassionless eyes.
Vonu: So the two of you are even, since she cares no more for your dead rights than you do for her dead child.
Vonu: Actually it is all about everyone being required to take personal responsibility for the results of exercising their individual...
Vonu: I doubt if the devices will ever appear on production vehicles. What will happen is an app for the smartphone that will block the...
Muggles: While the instinctive libertarian reaction to this proposal is immediate rejection and disgust, there are larger considerations....
Vonu: Most of the women who think like that follow the biblical direction to stand behind their man, and most of their men don’t...
Eightsouthman: I know I’ve said this before but Hall’s Mentholyptus lozenges will make you fail a breathalyzer. Fruits are...
Travis Beck: All it takes to ruin a good thing is for government to find a way to stick its nose into the tent. Or if not government...
Eightsouthman: “beer” left I meant to say…..fuck you WP.
Eightsouthman: So you don’t want me to ever drive again? Nice of you. I left the house last week drinking a beer, the first of the...
Eightsouthman: These people must have an IQ of a cold day. Where does the money come from? The few owners who pretend to be the federal...
Crusty Old TV Tech: Oh yeah, and not just any scantool, the specific tool for that vehicle, make, most times also model. OBD2 codes do...
ReadyKilowatt: And all those British roadsters (if you can find one that isn’t a basket case), 1970s Japanese sports cars and even...
Eightsouthman: I’d love to watch him for 5 minutes with both of us locked in a highly lit closet. Didja notice Texas legalized not...
Vonu: Your state must be the outlier since national statistics consistently show several times as many male drunk drivers arrested than...
Vonu: And yet, motorcyclists continue to ride like they are bulletproof while disregarding the common sense solutions to the problem if...
dread pirate anonymous: I may be old but I’m very restorable. // wink
Vonu: It would be interesting to see this proceed to a limitation based on the federal standard for driver holding commercial drivers...
Eightsouthman: MM, the LRC piece is no surprise to me at least. Selling high tech US weapons would seem to be worse news. You have to...
Jeremy: Hi CG, I’ll be surprised if Tesla is around 10 years from now. Once the majors get heavily involved, the numerous problems...
Jeremy: Hey Brent, “For my next bicycle I would like to go with a semi-custom steel frame bike. I just like the feel of steel...
Anonymous: Well, there are classics that will fit in small garages: Geo/Chev. Metro; Plymouth Champ; Chevy Chevette; the Bug; the Karmann...
ReadyKilowatt: Dan Aykroid is one of the few actors I’d like to meet. He seems like he’s pretty far outside of the Hollywood...
ReadyKilowatt: Sorry for shitting on your point. That wasn’t what I intended. But though it was important to dispel the myth that...
Clover George: I have no first hand experience with a Tesla. At the local ‘premium’ mall I regularly see people taking...
MarkyMark: Ah, Robert Francis O’Rourke, the fake Hispanic! I can’t even watch that clown for 30 seconds…
MarkyMark: This is all true, but we’re talking a short flight here; we’re talking DC to NYC.That’s what, 40 minutes?...
MarkyMark: Here’s an interesting townhall.com piece about the HYPOCRISY of some of climate change’s biggest advocates:...
Eightsouthman: The last time I voted I did so to vote “against” Beto Rourke, a veritable commie idiot and for Cruz, not quite...
ReadyKilowatt: Once it gets to cruising altitude, a passenger jet is pretty darn efficient. Sure it’s gulping down jet-A at 10s of...
ReadyKilowatt: It’s a problem of churn. Back in the day the old guys would die off at 62 of a heart attack. The widow and kids...
Eightsouthman: I noticed the first time I opened the link, there was my comment from this site right at the top? It had no moniker...
ken: And don’t forget the scan tool needed today to work on the newer cars. There is no other way you can figure out which of the...
MarkyMark: The Lew Rockwell piece is interesting and sobering. We’ve BECOME what we despised… 🙁
Kevin L Benner: Brother, you are on a Libertarian, freedom loving fourth amendment roll these days. PLEASE keep it going! I love to share...

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