Ace-Garageguy

Oopsie doopsie... https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/jeep-recalls-320k-hybrid-vehicles-for-fire-risk-7970906/? Jeep recalls 320K hybrid vehicles for fire risk

Seriously folks, where do I sign up for pizza dumped on my roof, or delivered by an autonomous vehicle ('cause in my neighborhood now, they'd steal the pizza and the vehicle too)?

From that angle it does look pretty good, but I still like Russell's sectioned version with the enlarged grille opening better.

Making it now. Q&D chicken enchiladas using up leftovers, cheap Merlot, fresh strawberries with a little sour cream to finish.

Never apologize for using email. Adults who actually have something of value to communicate accurately...rare, I know...prefer it to mindless drivel txtng. Try to put nuance or anything complex or technical in a txt.

Don't you find that your UJs installed out-of-phase causes a really bad vibration? Asking for a friend.

Pizza delivery by drone started in 2016, but until I looked it up, I thought it would be a joke.

Sinatra supposedly once said "You buy a Ferrari when you want to be someone, you buy a Lamborghini when you are someone, you buy a Porsche when you want to be yourself". As for me, I bought my first Porsche because it was the only one I could find for $600 after I stuffed my hot-rod Porsche-engined Bug.

Of course, a man might come to realize that his father was just as full-of-it as he seemed to be much earlier, too. The son sometimes gets right what the father missed entirely.

I'm only 5'10", and last time I had to do an out-of-state job and needed a truck to actually work out of, I rented a 2021 Chevy pickup. The bed was so high, it was as close to useless as anything I've ever driven. I took it back and rented a van with a reasonable-height load floor.

There's a lot I like about that. The overall lines are good, and the proportions manage to avoid the too-thick-in-the-middle look of many recent vehicles. It has some nice sculptural surface development that, while reminiscent of several vehicles, combines what it borrows in a fresh way. There's also a fair bit I don't like. A lot of the details appear stuck on haphazardly, with no attempt to integrate them into a clean package. I think it could have been absolutely stunning with a little more editing and a little less design-by-committee.

While I agree entirely with most of what you said, I have to take issue with that last statement. I don't complain about (nor am I jealous of) Singer Porsches, or the really gorgeous Ferraris, Lambos, Astons, etc., or the wildly inflated prices that have driven many of the cars I grew up with, worked on, race-prepped, and later restored, entirely beyond my means. I cannot possibly ever afford one, but I'm still glad to know that there are people who value beauty and performance enough to pony-up the big bucks. And it's gratifying to see that some of those folks also actually race their cars, hard, risking heavy damage...as you well know. EDIT: Is it a little annoying to me when some total bozo comes in the shop with his 356 or E-type or Bugbus or early Bronco or split-window Corvette or whatever and has no clue about what he's got, what kind of condition it's in, what it's crying out for in terms of work, or how to get the best out of the vehicle's particular performance envelope? It sure as jell is. But you know...the only reason HE can afford what he's got and I can't is nobody's fault but my own. So it'd be pretty stupid to be jealous, wouldn't it?

It's bloated in the middle, looks (and is) excessively heavy (almost 5000 pounds for the gas version), and isn't particularly original anyway. Russel C's rework is a much more attractive and balanced piece, even though he's not a "professional" car designer. I'd like it just fine if it looked like Russell's rework and weighed 1000-1500 pounds less. Not complaining, just truth. EDIT: And even though I've been a high-performance hard-core car guy all my life, I STILL don't understand why any production street ride needs 500+ horsepower, especially in an age where we are constantly subjected to hand-wringing, pearl-clutching, and wailing about the "existential threat to humankind from carbon emissions". 'Splain it to me, Lucy.

"Compadre" is probably better than "comrade".

I have a Neon...of which I am very fond. I neither need nor want anyone's approval or "compliment", and an oh-so-clever stranger calling it "poo poo" says far more about the stranger than about the car. We live in a world where too many boundaries that used to be defined by respect for other people's property and personal space are pushed past the point of civility. Some little zero puts anything on my car, any of my cars, if I catch 'em in the act, they'll wish they hadn't.

Kinda inspired by Steve above, I had some feta that was starting to get fuzzy, and being one of those cheap old geezers who hates to waste food and has a cast-iron stomach, I made some creamy garlic-feta sauce for my pasta...after scraping the fuzz off the cheese. Mighty tasty, and no werewolves or vampires should be a threat tonight either.

I've run several things through Googli's AI, phrased slightly differently, but all the exact same topic. And I got responses all over the board, some entirely contradictory. Just more proof that consumer-level AI doesn't understand context and will say anything that sounds remotely plausible. Which is pretty much the definition of LLM-based AI. Yet more and more people are depending on these inane gibberish-generators for 'information'. And interestingly, I just ran this assertion through Googli, and it says I'm wrong...even though the self-same AI just gave me a load of contradictory responses. I sure wish I could get paid the big bucks for making stuff that doesn't really work. EDIT: I just rephrased the above assertion slightly differently, and Googli says I'm right this time. Boy howdy. Ain't technology grand?

Meh. AND...how many consumers are even capable of fully utilizing 250 HP, much less the wretched excess some of these things make? Only stuff like this I see being driven around here are the dinkytwinks with semi-open exhausts and automatics making as much noise as they possibly can when the light turns green, and then backing off the throttle when they reach the speed limit. It's all kinda like the huge pickups that never haul anything but fat butts. Lookit MEEEEEEEEEEE !!!!!!!!!! Back in the late '70s and '80s, my car-guy buds would call all the yups in Buckhead driving their Porsches and Ferraris around in low gears to make a lot of noise "first gear artists". Nothing ever really changes. EDIT: If you're not going to race (not many local drag strips anymore), and you can't even drive a stick (which implies a driver who's not really very involved with the man-and-machine driving experience), why do you need 500 or 600 or more horsepower?

Wow. I could have gone my entire life without knowing about one more mindless "trend".

Reach fer the sky, pardner.

I can second that. They are absolutely beautiful.

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Across from someone who eats noodles through his nose isn't my idea of a great place to be for a meal.

Past experiences involving bench seats are among my fondest memories...like learning to drive in a '63 Oldsmobile just exactly like this one.