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eric - July 3, 2011

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eric - February 10, 2011

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c_dub250: No shame in that Ken. I had to look it up too. Expanding one’s vocabulary is one of the many joys gained from reading Eric’s...
c_dub250: No shame in that Ken. I had to look it up too. Expanding one’s vocabulary is one of the many joys gained from reading...
richb: Wow, didn’t know Volvo was that dead in the US……
Ethan Noble-Valentine: That isn’t understating what they cost or giving a projection based on govt welfare
Shotgun Chuck: You know, if you and all your coworkers quit tomorrow, they’d have no one to develop that smokin’ hot...
Shotgun Chuck: Sorry, but that’s really what the things you say come down to. It’s hard not to drive like you’re...
TOASTYSEATS: Just rented a Ford EcoSport for work. Had to run down to northeast Georgia from Columbus. 500mile+ trip each way. Lots of...
Nunzio: That guy breaks the stereotype- he tells the TRUTH! AHhhhhh!!!! So rare to hear!
Eightsouthman: Damn eric, I’m shocked. Well, I was shocked the first time, nearly 50 years ago, when I understood what Patton had...
The Handler: This is a good one: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=EHzPwQr7GB0
The Handler: I haven’t seen that one in years! I’m shocked it’s still on Youtube. Marc Faber said something a year or...
Allen: If “uncle” thinks I’m going to fall for all his BS and nudge me into an EV, uncle can go to hell! I started...
Eightsouthman: I occasionally go to a big town, 100K+ population, dumbed down to the nth degree. But due to a big AF base, there is a...
FoolAndMoney404: Ken, you’re a saint for admitting that.
Nunzio: Darn…they cut it off just as it was getting to the best part!
Eightsouthman: I hope you intend it to be some huge BB. Back in the middle 60’s a friend had a Vette..pretty salty, hard to take...
Nunzio: Ha! Someone else up;oaded it! Great stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=eCu4yV6vgIk
Nunzio: Damn! Handler! I was gonna post an old video of this BLACK preacher ragging on Obama, and saying how there’s something...
Anonymous: I get great satisfaction knowing that every time I take my 440 cid 71 Charger out on the road, I am actively curtailing the...
ReadyKilowatt: The most used feature on my Mac is the fully integrated dictionary. Just highlight the word, right click and “look...
BrentP: It’s just thicker wall rubber, it’s not like they are made of lead. I don’t even notice the difference in...
The Handler: “But it’s O-K because “they have big dicks”- big, dirty, AIDS and STD-infected dicks, to compensate for their lack of...
BrentP: The US dollar retained “word reserve” status because of the oil trade after Nixon ended Bretton Woods.
The Bobster: That’s assuming that the existing power plants have enough capacity to power tens of millions of EVs. In my area,...
Anonymous: I want a 1960’s muscle car with 2 four barrels that is kind of like flushing a toilet when you put the pedal to the floor.
The Bobster: Is this Jeopardy? Okay, I’m game. The court jester in the WH press room.
The Bobster: “He touts the price of the Model 3 as much less than it actually is – $26,950 vs. $35,000 by discounting what you’ll...
MikePizzo: Volvo……the General Motors of Europe.
ken: Okay,,,I admit it,,, I had to look up ‘hagiographically’ ….
Anonymous: I was referring to the car having to be re-started just so that you can turn it off.
Anonymous: https://www.zerohedge.com/news /2019-03-21/nj-governor-signs- rain-tax-bill-residents-proper ty-rates-rise-based-weather LOL....
JARHEAD Mike-Foxtrot: BUT… you cannot claim “Muh Constitution” as YOU are not a party to it.
JARHEAD Mike-Foxtrot: HERE: https://archive.org/details/pd fy-e91lgFZ1CSW9t87q HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=AO4n0eqSx84
BrentP: The limiting factor in the range of a hybrid is the same as any internal combustion engine car, the size of the tank(s) that hold...
mrfnuts: You know these ‘ASS’ features certainly provide entertainment. The other day I was downtown, where it’s...
eric: Hi Doug, Yes, indeed. And it is a tragedy beyond measure that Patton’s advice in re carpe diem wasn’t followed....
Douglas L Self: General Patton noted that once the shooting had stopped, once the US Army had secured a German town, the residents were...
Douglas L Self: The Interstates were originally sold to the American public by the Eisenhower Administration as the “National...
David J Webb Sr.: The Chinese are working on a diesel hybrid with a 700 mile range. Our local power company could install 440 volt lines...
MarkyMark: I can’t remember where I read it now, but I read that if you’re going to be idling for more than 30 seconds,...
dread pirate anonymous: How much extra gas gets wasted by the car having to be re-started? BTW, I’ve had vehicles years ago that...
MarkyMark: Ah, James Traficant, an American hero! I used to hear him on shortwave radio back in the 1990s. I couldn’t believe he...
Douglas L Self: “I mean BONING, the WILD MAMBO, the HUNKA-CHUNKA…”
Douglas L Self: Ah, Model Rockets — in sixth grade, my friends and I played with them a lot, we dubbed ourselves the...
Nunzio: What’s chert? (Non-descript filler here to pacify Turdpress’s spam thingy)
Nunzio: Yeah, remember them?! Today, those model rocket engines would probably be considered “explosive devices”- and if you...
Nunzio: HAhaha,8! I love Rochester! Jack Benny? Meh…. But Rochester? He was the show! Of course, the libruls would say that such an...
Nunzio: Hey, Eric! Yesiree! Those idiots who apologize seal their own doom. They lose the respect of their fans, for caving in; and the...
Anonymous: Is this it? Can’t listen to it right now [at work] https://www.youtube.com/watch? v=TqPNgMipjeQ
Nunzio: It truly is both hilarious and sad how self-blinded our society has become, that they can ignore that giant black elephant....
swamprat: He was the greatest congressman of all time. He let the cat out of the bag for sure. I have tried to find this on youtube. Of...
JARHEAD Mike-Foxtrot: James Traficant’s U.S. Bankruptcy Speech The Bankruptcy of The United States United States Congressional...
JARHEAD Mike-Foxtrot: The Baboons in Congress know they seat over the Bankruptcy Foreclosure. If they mention it let alone challenge it,...
gtc: Richmond VA has had most all of their signals synchronized to keep traffic moving, for at least 50 years. In the 80’s, I could...
JARHEAD Mike-Foxtrot: We are a Bankrupt and foreclosed Nation. and have been since 05 JUN 1933 from Wilson’s betrayal with the...
swamprat: This is back in the news. Tick tock. I’m looking at 300s right now.
gtc: lol! Don’t you know? He was the sportscaster rival of Howard CoPayment! Where did you grow up? Lolol!
eric: Hi Tom, I like music – and sometimes turn up the volume. But I turn it down when I’m in public, around other people. It...
eric: Hi Tom, My main concern with a used Tesla – or any used EV – would be the state of the battery pack. Just like any...
Richard Preston: Who is Bob Acosta? Lol
tom: One train of thought I have frequently regarding large scale car repairs is, “the devil you know is better than the devil you...
Tom: What say all you readers about *used* Teslas? The cars have been coming into the market, albeit slowly, over the past few years, and...
tom: I combat this by pulling up next to them in my drag-piped Harley, and wail on the throttle while the light is red. Then dump the...
eric: Hi Tom, Agreed; that’s cheesy also. But the difference here is that there has been almost no comment by the...
tom: How does this jibe against dealers sale ads, which go like this, “New F150 from $17,999*!” Then you look at the * and it...
Eightsouthman: Since there’s a chert filled road we have to run to get to the pavement….but mostly don’t and use the...
Eightsouthman: Nun, we have an old movie, a whodunit thriller. It has Rochester playing the part of the chauffeur for a rich guy. There...
Eightsouthman: I leave the list on the cooktop too often too. And the wife often says to get something else. I just reply, “put it...
Eightsouthman: You can get good warranted crate engines cheaper than GM. One of two of these places builds GM crate engines since GM...
Eightsouthman: Yep, and I have those little cheap ratchet 12 points I bought at HF. I have other wrenches, just can never seem to find...
eric: Hi Nunz! Stern never apologizes. He tells people to turn the channel. Never, ever apologize. It chums the water.
eric: Thanks, OP … I haven’t yet encountered ASS in a manual equipped car; sigh. I thought that was still an out.
The Handler: It’s actually quite hilarious how people deliberately ignore the giant black elephant in the room when they debate...
The Handler: It’s disturbing how their “culture” became mainstream so quickly. We see it in ads (ex: McDonald’s...
The Handler: That’s what my grandmother called them. It was a term gracious southern ladies would use. The area they lived in had a...
Mark: I used to be big in building model rockets when I was a kid. I havent heard anything about this hobby in 30 years.
ReadyKilowatt: Well, the dollar’s “world reserve” status is because the oil can only be bought using Federal Reserve Notes and nothing...
OppositeLock: My manual transmission Ford Focus RS has ASS. It’s not too awful, though. It only turns off the engine when fully...
OppositeLock: I work for a developer of these technologies who sells them to OEM’s. We’re not very well known, and like it...
Nunzio: I bought some of those before I switched to Gatorskin tires….. They were so heavy, I ended up throwing them out without...
Nunzio: Sounds like ya need some Gatorskin tires! They’re still pretty darn light and perform well….but hard for anything to...
Nunzio: Ed, remember a while back, some celeb got in trouble for using the word ‘niggardly’- even though it has nothing to do...
Nunzio: You know how to silence an Italian, Jason? Cut off his hands! HAhaha….I DO talk with my hands- so much so, in NY Jews used...
BrentP: better watch out those strawmen you’re building could catch fire.
BrentP: Tubes got to be very low quality. Many years ago I purchased thorn resistant tubes. I haven’t had a flat since.
Ed: The old people back home said “nigra”, and that was meant as a polite way of referring to the race of the people they...
Ed: 8, I make a list, then leave it lying when I go to town. Recently I started just emailing myself a list to my phone. ‘Course,...
Ed: Yep. I have two ratcheting battery wrenches, a 5/16ths and an 8mm. The trouble is that they both have blue plastic handle covers and...
Jason Flinders: You beat me to it, Nunz. For example the use of the word nigger in “Huckleberry Finn” was not intended as a...
The Handler: Trashy whites that act like niggers = wiggers. Wigger gangs are the main source of the crime (burglaries, home invasions,...
Ernie: Umm… Whitworth? Yeah, I have to deal with it occasionally. And yes, some sizes are the same or functional equivalent. Just...
Shotgun Chuck: Probably scared of hitting bicycles. But according to some people here, that’s just how it should be and they should...
to5: The bicycles are no longer cheap or easy or inexpensive to repair. I gave up on bikes 15 years ago due to the constant flat tyres,...
Shotgun Chuck: Pollution is just one of many unhealthy things that happens when you try to cram too many people into too small an area....
local fisherman out for a pleasure cruise: Sixty-nine grams of prevention is worth a half a kilo of cure.
dread pirate anonymous: Oh yeah, I have worked with those, uh – “types.” They are very clever and can write code like...
Eightsouthman: And negroes referred to pore white farmers as “po buckra”. Pore white farmers probably didn’t take too...
DavidC: Nice review, Eric. Like the 48-volt system, the MBUX system is a complicated, expensive solution that consumers aren’t...
Eightsouthman: Marky, an old adage I learned to be true. A boat is a hole in the water you throw money into. $600 for nearly...
Eightsouthman: eric, here’s a ditty by AutoWeek or when I quite them, Auto every other Week. https://autoweek.com/articl...

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Worst Things About Old Cars

Servicing the Semi-Retired Car

Taxing (and Antiquing) Them Off the Road

The New vs. The Old

Why The Old Stuff Was Cool (Even When It Was Slow)

A Sabot in the Gears?

The Old Car Loophole – When Will It Be Closed?

When to Say When?

The Old vs. The New… Part Two!

Logan’s Run … on Four Wheels?

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