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eric - September 5, 2014

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eric - July 22, 2014

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eric - July 10, 2014

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eric - June 11, 2014

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Bikes Like They Used To Make ‘Em . . . Again!

eric - April 11, 2014

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eric - October 29, 2013

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eric - October 7, 2013

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eric - April 28, 2013

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Sarah in TEX: Liberty, I would love to find a ranger, they are SO DARNED expensive for a good one. Cheaper to buy the full size , which I...
Eightsouthman: Yep, a friend had a red and white 73 Riviera with that ducktail rear. It was a beautiful car but she excelled in trashing...
Bryce: The Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac, or BOP, divisions of GM were their real money makers, more so than the mass-market Chevys or luxury...
Eightsouthman: My father felt he had to show a meager existence so he turned down a 64 Riviera demonstrator that cost $200 more than the...
BrentP: Buick offerings in China are much greater and not the same as the US last I heard.
BrentP: The Chinese. Buick will probably continue in China. Something to do with name and brand recognition going way back.
Cold Frog: If it makes you feel better, to insure my $1200 1995 S10, $985. That is zero coverage in the lowest rate region in BC. The...
eric: Amen, Imbroglio – My biggest expense with regard to my 2002 Frontier is insurance; then property tax. Together, it amounts to...
eric: Excellent advice, Sarah – and thanks for the kind words!
sarah in TEX: If he can’t wrench, this person should find a person who is a shade tree mechanic, who can turn a wrench. I have a...
Jason Flinders: I remember well when there was a vast difference between the various GM brands. They really operated as separate,...
MarkyMark: Anarchyst, What especially galls me are the guys who loudly and proudly proclaim that they’re LEGAL gun owners, as if...
MarkyMark: All I can say is: what an a-hole!
brazos_bend: Hell you see more new Mitsubishis on the road than Buicks. Who the hell buys a new buick these days to have a new badge on...
brazos_bend: VQ40 engines since 2005 DO have issues, but can easily be fixed and kept for 300k miles if you can turn a wrench. Should...
MarkyMark: Eric, Those Buick V6s (the 231) were GREAT engines. They were reliable and held up. They were so good that guys building their...
Argent47: Rhetorical question. (What is the minimum character length to reply to yourself without an edit button?)
Argent47: Wanted to ask this out loud — if the acquisition of raw resources for most things is getting easier, the transformation...
imbroglio: My mandatory insurance bill = 72% of the Blue Book value of my putt putt. Then add these other fees plus excise tax, and in a...
imbroglio: But this practice does make buying cars cheaper for those of us who tool around in twelve year old Civics and Corollas. On the...
Mooeing: I hope this is good for the used market. The sad part of financing is the resale value of some these cars is so high that its...
ReadyKilowatt: “It’s better to burn out than it is to rust” Neil Young – My My, Hey Hey
SojournerMoon: Supposedly, Buick’s are GM’s best sellers in China, the largest car market in the world, now. That’s what is keeping Buick...
anarchyst: Quite often, firearms owners are their own worst enemies. The duck hunters don’t like the AR-15 “black...
anarchyst: The problem is, we have allowed the anti Second Amendment crowd to define the terms. A firearm is a tool which possess no evil...
eric: Morning, Xathras – Excellent tip in re the Speed Queens; I’m sure many people are happy to have been...
eric: Hi T, Repair costs vis-a-vis depreciation is without question a big problem – one that is getting worse as vehicles become...
JACK: Another very good article by Eric ! The financial conditions in our US market are threads in a larger economic quilt. The extended...
karalan: Looking forward to the rant. This issue can’t be highlighted enough. Although MGTOW and similar movements have tried to...
SixShooter: My daily driver is a F150 with the tried and true 300 L6. Bought it for $3500 used with 117k on the ODO and have put 260,000...
Tionico: There is another driver for loan defaults, and a really sad one. Friend of mine got hmself buried. Boght a near new Nissan...
Tionico: The crazy thing is, back in 1970, one could buy a Volvo 140 series (2, 4, 5 door) with the ONLY engine optioin availble, mthe...
Shotgun Chuck: Also, I’ve heard DI gasoline engines are particulate dirty like a 1970s diesel… so now gasoline cars are...
Shotgun Chuck: That assumes you can even get 93 without going all the way to race gas or (frequently illegal) octane-in-a-bottle; here in...
Shotgun Chuck: They already tried to hose the Mustang once. In the late 1980s they wanted to rebadge a Mazda MX-6 (FWD, NA or turbo I4)...
Libertarian: The US is a police state now. Americans should be out in the streets with pitchforks and torches, but instead they would...
Eightsouthman: Zathras, where do you find them? I like old school….even crotches with hair!
Zathras: If you want a reliable, old fashioned washer and dryer, buy a Speed Queen. You might recognize the name, they make most of the...
lost in the fire swamp: The tape is the mounting bracket, but I like the way you think.
Shotgun Chuck: I recently tried to work for “a major department store”, made it through 3 days of training before I had to...
ReadyKilowatt: only if you use a 3D printer to make a mounting bracket.
ancap51: I’m in extreme danger of being tortured on the side of the road by one of these bastards any time I get pulled over. I...
Tuanorea: Unusual Size, That is literally less than 3 pennies a day. Think about the folks that put a $1600 high efficiency w/d on a...
Zane: So how do we counter these heartless and brainless brutes who enjoy torturing poor civvies when given an opportunity? More I read...
anonymous of unusual size: I bought this w/d set from a guy down the road who married a lady from out of state who had a newer w/d set...
Eightsouthman: Nun, it’s still used in Texas and I loved the replaced sections of the interstate and other roads where it is new....
Nunzio: I wouldn’t have one of these, just because they remind me of pig-mobiles. I don’t even want to drive what those...
X: I generally oppose lynching, but in some cases — Brailsford, for instance, and this creep, too — I wouldn’t shed a...
Eightsouthman: RK, they really want to stick it up our ass by doing such. I always wondered….and verily knew, that a supposedly...
Rush2Liberty: I can’t see myself ever buying a new car again. I lived in Europe the past 2 years, and while I was there, bought a...
Travis Beck: It used to be said that “Those who can, do. And those who can’t, teach.” Now we have an addition:...
Libertarian: Some Americans may have thought that tyranny would never come to the US because the rich, celebrities, media, politicians,...
Tuanorea: Mostly, Bad dogs on the old Whirlpools. One of the biggest reasons people get rid of them. If you see one on the side of the...
Tuanorea: As soon as a payment was missed.
Tuanorea: Eric (and Nasir), Self repo cars. Remember Mel Farr the Super Star? He would have the LoJack shut the thing down as soon as a...
Tuanorea: Chips, Plastic turns into Fe3+?
Tuanorea: Thanks Brent. One of my buddies squeezes the bottle until the fluid comes to the to and then uses pliers to close the cap....
mostly anonymous all day: A few years ago our old whirlpool stop agitating. I looked it up online and it was three little pieces that...
BrentP: Debt has been substituted for income allowing the illusion of a middle class. Between taxes and debt there isn’t what was...
MarkyMark: Doug, Speaking of playing football inside, the Minnesota Vikings have not been the same team since they started playing...
The Handler: People have gotten so dumb and greedy that they have no idea what it’s like to live a quality life. For example, the...
gruhn: Just after watching Doug’s review… https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=nL5l-_9bIVk of some Mercedes. And, iirc, he was...
no one to be trifled with: So then, will a laser pointer and electrical tape be “constructive possession” ???
not left handed: I’ve always wanted to install an oil-injection system into the exhaust pipe, like they have on airplanes at air...
BrentP: This was the choke line. All it did does bring hot air from around the exhaust manifold up to the bi-metal spring in the choke.
Jason Flinders: Carbs are usually fed at about 4-5 PSI, so compression fittings or rubber hose would work OK there. On most of them...
The Handler: I don’t think those with short attention spans would appreciate a truck like that.
BrentP: Compression fittings are used in cars in some spots or can be used for some repairs. Just not brake lines. For instance the choke...
Jason Flinders: I helped a friend repair a plastic-coated brake line that rotted out on his car. The plastic had worn off on a corner...
Jason Flinders: I remember those ads well. “Today’s Army wants to join you!” Riiiiiight… I tried to post a link...
BrentP: On the rust I forgot something. 20 something years ago manufacturers came up with this plastic sleeve for brake lines to protect...
BrentP: I got tired of the traditional type flaring tools so I bought an on car flaring tool and bench flaring tool from eastwood. both...
BrentP: road salt from the outside, old brake fluid from the inside. More the former than the later. I’ve used opened brake fluid...
BrentP: The plastic bottles use less energy than cleaning the glass ones.
BrentP: The european headlamps from the sealed beam era are even better Eric. They are the glass lamp but with a replaceable bulb. Now...
BrentP: The fedgov has been lying the nation into war after war with the same techniques. When pointing out the lies of the past that are...
Lyin Doc: Hi ReadyKilowatt they have been there, and they have done that….. uniformed paramilitarypredators reportedly filled the...
BrentP: People make excuses to create needs from wants.
BrentP: Chuck, pretty much anyone who becomes a cop for the right reasons will follow that path if they don’t lose themselves. The...
BrentP: These tailgaters come in a wide variety of motivations. Some just speed up to nestle up to whomever. They just have to be close...
ReadyKilowatt: And that’s why we no longer have a draft. When enough people burned their draft cards and it became clear no one was...
ReadyKilowatt: But that headlight assembly is easy to build in an outsourced factory and installs with a few clips and a wiring plug....
BrentP: And if you point out the slippery slope in action they’ll accuse you of a logical fallacy. Afterwards they’ll argue...
ReadyKilowatt: “Also that one can avoid Gate Rape if one flies privately. Because “terrorists” can’t afford to charter an airplane,...
MarkyMark: What especially pisses me off is being tailgated when in the RIGHT lane. That pisses me off! You have at least one other late,...
eric: Hi No One, You have just inspired a rant…
eric: Hi Chuck, I used to work with Sam Francis at The Washington Times, another lifetime ago. Sam coined the term, anarcho-tyranny...
Shotgun Chuck: Not necessarily related to speed enforcement or running – not something I’d recommend anyway – however...
Chris: Yes!!!!!!!! And why I went to trucks in the 90’s, cause there were no more big sedans/wagons left. I’ve been in trucks...
Chris: haha, you’re so right Ice Age. It boggles the mind. I have had relatives trade in cars because of mpg, and small differences...
no one of consequence: I don’t like to mention this, be we were actually given a 2yo car about 10 years ago, that was way more...
Nunzio: Yeah, ya don’t hear much about that anymore, 8. I remember, 30 years ago I went to see my uncle in CA., and the highway...
Cold Frog: LOL. I have seen people complain about the price of gas ($1.20/L Canadian) while drinking $2.00 per 1/2 L bottled water. Gas...
Nunzio: HAHAhaha! Any time, Mark! Yeah, I dunno what it is, but I just enjoy watching the guy- and he makes sense on most things. Some of...
Ice Age: Jack Baruth once pointed out that you can buy a new vehicle to satisfy nearly every desire – power, speed, environmental...
Ice Age: The thing that’s always annoyed me is the selectivity of people’s complaints. Cars have many expenses associated...
bluegrey6124: Exactly! It doesn’t matter whether it’s a one-way or a two-way street; you never take anything for granted...
Anonymous: Eric, I tried to post this under ‘Ask Eric’. Seems broken. So, governmentslaves.news/2019/...
Chris: Interesting that you bring up proprietary issues. It’s a growing problem for sure. When I started my biz 20 years ago,...
dread pirate anonymous: Would be better if once again they would just offer a six passenger V-8 RWD car. Then the people currently buying...

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The Not-Disposable Bike

I’m Tired of Wearing a Helmet

Your Carb on Ethanol

Saw The Weirdest Thing …

Motorcycles Afflicted by The Car Sickness

A Moment’s Feel of Freedom

Bikes Like They Used To Make ‘Em . . . Again!

Under The Wire

Bad Times . . . Basic Bikes

I’ve Got a Golden Ticket

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