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there is significant variance. I have a 6'4" torso (and wear the exact dress size as my 6'4" brother), and 6' legs. It comes out to 6'2" But it does mean that I can comfortably drive my '06 Miata with he top down. Well, around town. I learned on the first out of town trip that I absolutely...

y'all missed the point! it worked so well for mattresses that they've moved on to "bumper in a box". You open it up, let it expand for a couple of days, and de-gas for a couple more, and it's ready to go! 😜

well, they do call it "flash" . . . flash went the garage! Flash went the car! Flash went the neighborhood! What, you don't trust the third revolutionary battery breakthrough announcement of the week? :crackup: that's all? My old neighborhood had so many that we didn't even bother to...

good idea. I already possess pink nail polish for the most manly of reasons: marking the starting link when sharpening my chainsaw chain! :teehee: Overkill. :crackup: Two are three ton, for the E150 I had at the time, while the other pair are 2-1/4 ton that I bought by accident. All...

I looked into those, but it's hard to justify the cost for just a few months I ha untilve multiple lifts on hand . . .

that tells you what comes out from the barrel--but not how much outside energy was consumed in the conversion. Corn isn't even a front runner in the ethanol yield/acre race. However, for some reason, folks get nervous about growing kudzu on purpose! :eek: a decade or two ago, a couple of...

The first time I saw an Aztec my immediate reaction was to wonder how AMC had started producing cars again, having been acquired by Chrysler one before . . . Cue George Jones' "Corvette Song" :crackup: My girlfriend in college's father had one for his farm truck. He found the speeds to...

I'm still trying to wrap my head around the concept of selling a perfectly good vehicle . . . I've never done it for one of my own (but did handle my mother in law's to pay for assisted living)

This is probably because I'm missing something obvious, but . . . where in the blazes are the jack points on a '25? I can see from the diagrams in the manual roughly where they should be, but when I crawled under, I couldn't find the arrows that are supposed to be pointing to them (per the...

It is commonly mentioned that it takes more than a gallon of oil to make a gallon of ethanol. What I haven't seen is a figure for how much oil is consumed to create a gallon of gasoline. 🤔 🤔

Ahh, kind of like how "R" means to reach down by your left foot and flip the valve when the image sputters, to let the Reserve gas flow? 😜

Ethanol has roughly 2/3 the energy per volume as gasoline, so lower mpg when using it. However, it has higher octane, which means compression can be higher without detonation, and thus an engine that adjusts timing and/or boost can put out more power with it (although burning more than it...

speaking of which, has anyone found the damned clutch on this things? I mena, it's nice and all that the little spinny thing lets you go forward (but why is it D, and not F?), but it would sure e nice to shift into second . . .

Isn't the obvious solution to apply a lift? :facepalm: Due to failed "diamond" hinge (which in turn caused the one on the other side to snap), I have the hood to a '72 Eldorado hanging over it in my old garage, where it bangs my head every month or two as I pass between it and the workbench...

:rolleyes: more seriously, though, due to differences in the crust of the earth and the "squished" deviance from an actual sphere due to spinning, there is a roughly 1/2% difference on the surface between the the strongest and weakest gravity. My high school Physics teacher told us about a...

The mind boggles at the potential backstories leading to coming up with a policy about such things! :crackup:

These days, it's that if you buy a car wash, you only have to pay 50c/gallon over market for the gas! I dunno, I have a lot more sympathy for the chap that couldn't have meat until 45! For a windshield??? decades ago, my father had California Casualty. They had a deal with a windshield...

I recall back in college looking for interesting things to stuff in the annoying junk mail return envelopes. I recall a umbrella handle, but don't think we ever found an available brick. As for Sirius, I gave it a try in the trial period, and after r couple of hours, went back to Pandora. My...

Ford was first for the full blown assembly line. Cadillac, though, was several years ahead in interchangeable parts. In an era in which the master mechanics basically sat at tables figuring out which pieces would need the least adjustment work with one another (e.g., piles of cylinders and...

In the late '20s, luxury manufacturers were designing and implementing V-12 engines. Cadillac quietly encouraged the rumors that it was doing the same--so that it could sandbag them with the V-16 that it was actually developing! (a couple of years later, they added a V-12, too) That wasn't...