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Reader Question: Real – or Vaporware?

Off Topic eric - October 21, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Drew asks: Would be interested to hear your take on the aluminum air fuel cell described in this Daily Mail article. Real or...

Two Wheeled Clover!

Off Topic eric - October 19, 2019

Not all Clovers slow-poke on four wheels! Here's one on two - gimping down one of the best series of S curves in southwest Virginia at about 22 MPH... the speed...

Reader Question: The Heroin of Signing Up?

Off Topic eric - October 19, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! TC writes: I just got my mafia notice (in re Obamacare and the "Shared Responsibility Payment") and was wondering what came of yours....

Reader Question: Switching to Roller Cam?

Off Topic eric - October 19, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Bryce asks: Should I take into my possession an older car with a flat tappet camshaft? And does it make sense to switch...

Reader Question: Keeping it Going?

Off Topic eric - October 19, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! John asks: You just continue to justify repairing my 2004 Explorer with 420,000 miles on it. I'm starting to replace factory installed parts....

EPAutos Partei Pins

Off Topic eric - October 18, 2019

Everyone - I have just sent out a batch of EPautos pins to recent contributors but am concerned these may not make it through the mails (based on what I have been...

Reader Question: Killer Kiddie Seats?

Off Topic eric - October 18, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Dave asks: How many ways can a car seat kill a child? Hot car deaths, strangulations and now positional asphyxia. Are there additional...

2020 Mustang Walk-Around

Off Topic eric - October 17, 2019

Here's a quick look at the 2020 Mustang; the big news isn't how much power the V8 GT's got. It's how much more power the 2.3 liter EcoBoost four offers!

Reader Question: Chevy Colorado Fire?

Off Topic eric - October 16, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! Oskar writes: I have an aging Silverado with astronomical miles on it. I'm looking to buy a new Colorado; and then came across...

Reader Question: Titan, DI and “Good” Gas?

Off Topic eric - October 16, 2019

Here's the latest reader question, along with my reply! William asks: I finally found what I thought was a decent deal on a used Nissan Titan and had a question about something...

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brazos_bend: if it came to it i’d hack mine and pipe Calliope noises into the accelerator
Eightsouthman: Hell, Brian is in the right state, Missouri, with Constitutional carry. They’re working on it in Texas but of course...
Nunzio: Gotta hide them African animals, 8! They’ll be wanting to build housing projects for ’em.
Eightsouthman: I believe you’re right and he was right also.
Eightsouthman: eric, there’s beautiful mountains in Texas. You could brush up on your long distance shooting since you’d...
Nunzio: As of late, you can conceal-carry here in KY without a permit. I picked the right state! Didn’t see that coming, but sure...
eric: Hi Nunz, This is so… even the (rightly) feared Waffen SS refrained from doing what the Red Army did routinely. Which is why...
eric: Amen, Nunz! Hey, have you got a copy of the copperhead tract, Abraham Africanus? If not, email me and I send you a copy… that...
Nunzio: Trouble is, the uncivilized barbarians are always more likely to win. Mercenary Northerners with their conscripted angry rabble...
eric: Hi Anon, I will do so! Also, I have friends with Fifties… and other things, too!
eric: Hi Eight, Well, yeah… she jacked the thing up about half a foot and put huge mud-bogger tires on it!
Eightsouthman: Actually, a year or more ago I found a pickup nearly the clone to Blackie, one ton 4WD, diesel that was in excellent shape...
Anonymous: Save your pennies! Plenty of batteries and not worth fixing electronics on them that are on a countdown to economic death....
Nunzio: Hey Eric! Awww, it’s so good to at least now know some [here on this site] who understand the gross injustices that...
Eightsouthman: eric, there’s something wrong with that truck. I drove one Dodge after the other when working for a construction...
Mike in Boston: Hi Robert, sadly that strain of Puritanism waxes and wanes but never dies. I grew up in NJ and got my EE degree in Boston...
eric: Hi Bostwick, Yup. Having to write about these EVs is literally killing me. Well, killing my spirit; my desire to write. If I had...
eric: I’ve gotta have mountains, Nunz… it’s in my genes,I suppose. Next stop may have to be Idaho. I’ve been...
eric: Hi Eight, Good friend of mine has a half-ton Ram that averages maybe 12 MPG. She drives this thing 60 miles every day, round trip...
Nunzio: LOL, Robert, I’m from Lawn Guyland. MS was on my list. Never made it there ’cause I found what I was looking for in...
Bostwick9: The Leaf. Nothing that a Versa gas engine and a Hyundai 6 speed automatic [no CVT ever] wouldn’t fix just fine.
Eightsouthman: So we’re all killing our diesels for only driving 25 miles to the post office and back? I guess we never knew that.
Eightsouthman: I recall when you could open carry in Co.
Robert: I second that wish, Eric — and I agree with most of what you said. But I might take issue with the idea of the South...
Eightsouthman: Well, I’ve wished for a shoulder or sidewalk in S. Carolina. The Texas rigs are longer since we used to haul a lot...
Bostwick9: I would love that on my 63 Signet. Wish I could adapt that 4 speed for the column. It’s one of my favorite things about...
Gabe: To see the excuses they make, Jim, I don’t think even a violent interaction would change their mind. The most it would do...
Eightsouthman: Thank god the wind never quits in west Texas, everyone drives like it’s a race, it rains every now and then even the...
Nunzio: EV or ICE, the very idea that they gimp everything by replacing simple mechanical or electro-mechanical controls with computers...
Eightsouthman: Robert, they’re well washed. Trying one won’t hurt you. Honestly, I can’t stand oysters, taste like...
Eightsouthman: The south was being starved out with the first act of war by the standards of any country as the North blocked their...
Eightsouthman: Crusty, I still live by that mantra.
Eightsouthman: Well, the Hag said it all for me long ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=pQd22MhCL8E
Anonymous: Yes, of course – which is pretty much the way it is/was in the western mountain states from the beginning, at least...
eric: Hi Robert, I hear you… I rarely block people here. But at times it does become necessary. If he (she?) keeps it up, I...
eric: Well-said, Nunz… sadly. I have this recurrent fantasy of traveling back to 1861, knowing what I know… and (somehow)...
Robert: Yeah, the coastal thing is right — the whole East Coast has become an extension of Long Island. I remember when I was...
eric: These EV cultists are willing to swallow – and overlook – everything. They believe – and that’s all that...
eric: Hi Anon, Libertarians want no gun laws at all; at least, no laws in any way forbidding or restricting possession by adults...
Anonymous: Texas gun laws have NEVER been exactly “libertarian” dating all the way back to Reconstruction.
Robert: Good one, Eight! Yeah, that would probably work! Although then I’d fail myself — that’s one Southern...
Eightsouthman: Watched this YT video the other day by two soyboy Tesla suckers. I laughed out loud when one triumphantly explained that...
Anonymous: Diesel isn’t so good for short haul driving either. And keeping up a second vehicle to get better gas mileage is a toss...
Eightsouthman: I installed a 3″ inlet on an old propane tank, filled it with crushed beer cans. Several hours later when I began to...
Nunzio: Robert, that reminds me…. A few years ago I was down at the courthoiuse renewing my vee-hickle registrations (which takes...
Nunzio: Yeah 8, the coastal states are done. Water; warmth; and “cheap” (By northern standards- but now outrageously...
Mark Matis: Mr. Musk is merely the reincarnation of P.T. Barnum, but with more money and less ethics. Why pretend to be surprised???
Eightsouthman: Good luck with finding an older diesel that’s not ragged out. There are plenty of them out there and they are not...
Nunzio: Hey Eric & Robert, I think what’s helping keep my area good longer, is that it’s not a coastal state; no...
Tom M: My old 2010 Samsung flip phone is the only phone I use. I am writing this on a 10.5 year old laptop, with a few fixes along the...
Nunzio: Heh, yeah, I lived the first 39 years of my life in NY- being born to parents who were born and raised a few blocks from Times...
Eightsouthman: Her picaresque background is coming out and she’s powerless to stop it.
Robert Williams: Eric, is it possible to BLOCK assholes like this? since they’re obviously either mentally unbalanced or are...
Eightsouthman: That sums it up. San Antonio is little Mexico now and everyplace South of there is too.
Eightsouthman: And BTW, does anybody around here sell Louis Vitton?
Eightsouthman: Damned if they haven’t flocked to S. Carolina. It’s close enough to the Mason/Dixon line they can almost see...
Robert Williams: I’ve been following this whole discussion and despite the fact that I essentially live on the Internet and read...
swamprat: There has to be something to take it’s place.
swamprat: Yeah, I hear exactly what you are saying. When I moved to Texas 30 something years ago, I would have thought it would have been...
Jeremy: Hey Eric, All signs indicate that this guy’s a troll. Trolls don’t care about facts. They’re puerile, petty...
Eightsouthman: Robert, just slap a plate of hot fried mountain oysters in front of them. The next couple seconds you’ll know.
Jim S.: “AGWs wonder why they’re despised by almost everyone…” Eric – While I don’t disagree with your...
brazos_bend: “but but but EVs have so many fewer parts than smelly ICE’s and they wont break down!” -some idiot on...
Dutch: The 2020 Koenigsegg Jesko makes about 1280 hp on gasoline. Add E85 and it can turn 1600 hp. Crazy right?
Robert: Sorry to hear about your town, Eric. Sorta like you describe, I can remember sitting on my grandmother’s front porch...
ken: Hi Mark “If four-year-old Chevys, Fords or Toyotas were bricking – going inert, not moving – …” It’s...
Robert: Hi Eric. Yes, I’ve known many people too who were “Southerners at heart” — even if they were born...
eric: Hi Robert, I was born in NY – no fault of mine. Being Southern seems to me as much about attitudes as birth places. I know...
eric: Hi Robert, Yup. It’s happening here, where I live… Floyd County, Va. Was a sleepy little town; becoming a tourist...
Robert: Wish I knew of a place where you really could avoid those types, Nunzio (and glad you’re keeping yours quiet). It seems...
Robert: Is that virus zombie thing good or bad, Crusty? 🙂 It IS amusing to see leftist Yankees become NASCAR and SEC football fans, and...
eric: Clover – As far as: “You can dish it, but you can’t take it. ” All I’m doing is pointing out the objective...
eric: Amen, Ken – that’s it, exactly! New cars are so fast they’re not much fun. Everyone has a fast car, first of all....
eric: Clover, You say: “…the world doesn’t and won’t revolve around you and your ideals.” I expect people to not take...
eric: Clover, Now you’re making things up that you know nothing about to make a straw man argument. You assert I am “the guy...
Anonymous: You can dish it, but you can’t take it. Classic bully trait. You’re the guy who makes fun of the slow kids in school, but...
Johnny Reb: Heh, here where I live these RAD bikes are all the rage. Big fat tires lots of framework, etc. Lots of mods like cargo racks,...
Mike in Boston: My favorite is the morons on the bus who wait till they get to the fare box to then fish around in their...
MarkyMark: I dropped my old Motorola flip phone in to water. I opened it up, and laid it on the dash of my car on a sunny day. It was dry...
MarkyMark: Pardon me for asking a stupid question, but why isn’t this covered under warranty? I just checked TM’s website,...
ken: When younger and had the need for speed, hopping up the engine was most of the fun,,, and you learned a lot. Now they come with...
wise juan: Shlomo…get it ? Probably not … lol
Nunzio: Crusty, I’ve often thought the same; but then, that is tempered by the thought that even with the Founders comprehensive...
Zane: And they wonder why stereotypes exist
Crusty Old TV Tech: Why do sharks not bite lawyers? Professional courtesy. If the Founding Fathers had another bite at the Bill of...
Crusty Old TV Tech: You just described Travis County, Texas, Robert! Though, there seems to be an innate weird Austin virus zombie thing...
Nunzio: Hmmm….must’ve gotten my names confused. What the heck was the crappy Ford tranny called? AHhh! Maybe Select-O-Speed?
Crusty Old TV Tech: That’s EXACTLY what they did, go with cheap flash because Elon is only paying for offshore script kiddies to do...
Nunzio: Heh, that’s why when I escaped from Hell…err…uh… NY, I made sure to pick a place that would not appeal to...
Shotgun Chuck: If true this is par for course given what we know about Tesla. The vast majority of the problems with their cars come from...
Eightsouthman: I was surprised to see “Powershift” since it was a name that was patented by John Deere. Those were great...
Robert: I know the feeling, Eight. While I realize there are lots of good people who really hate the socialism that’s imposed on...
BrentP: This is just another form of incompetency or planned throw-it-away-ism by Tesla Motors. They quite obviously never put this unit...
Eightsouthman: eric, I was reading about a train hitting an abandoned car in Haltom City near Ft. Worth yesterday. Here’s a...
Anonymous: Both the long gone Ford (somewhere in Texas, last I heard) and my current Chevy are/were both 1989 models.
Nunzio: “Powershift”- That’s what they called some of the trannies in their tractors back in the 50’s…and...
Eightsouthman: Dutch, it’s not my place to give you advice but I’ll give you the experience I’ve had with various year...
eric: Got damn, Swamp – thanks you for that one!
eric: Amen, Eight . . . voice of wisdom there! I get sucked in because I have this weakness; I am fascinated by people who can’t...
Scott: Wear leveling causes a rewritten block to get written elsewhere on the storage medium. With a larger medium, there are more blocks...

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EPAutos Partei Pins

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