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I'm a dinosaur. I think my brain is allergic to unibody. To me, a turbo is just an added extra unnecessary expensive part to fail. My 3/4 truck and all the cars are all V8s, and it seems my next car will have to be another pickup truck. If I want a new big comfortable car now. F150s make a...

My street car for about fifteen years was the first-year CRX-Si. If it had been a rear-wheel drive car I might have replaced the engine again. But the year I replaced the CRX with a Grand Marquis was the year I won my first championship in open-wheelers. You would think that that defies...

You guys all scare me. No matter what color you are. But then, I scare myself more than y'all do

Yep. Sorry. I had P-51s on the brain and I started thinking about the Allison-to-Merlin switch when I started wondering whether he had an Allison or a Merlin in the P-51 he crashed. I think you meant to say that it was the P-51 that came into service mid-war And, like you said, the P-38 was...

Well, duh. Thanks That would probably make it sound different, ehh ? Actually, P-51s had drifted into my brain when I typed that. My dad bailed out of a P-51 once and I started wondering which engine was in the plane he crashed. But it was a stupid thing to not think b4...

I really like 12-cylinder engines. I've heard a P-38 with twin-Merlins. I wonder if the counter-rotating props sound much different. Gotta repeat that I'm a sucker for P-51s

And pump ethyl...

Idealistically, wouldn't it be more complete to start with a ten-speed and limit it to two-speeds ? Maybe even a 4x1 instead of 4x4....

Has anyone read "Horse Warriors" ? A band of Special Forces soldiers 'procurred' horses entered Afghanistan just after 9/11 and chased Taliban through the mountains on horseback. Great non-fiction, yet still hard to believe, book. Cavalry on horseback calling in smart-bombs. That's the story...

Yep. I call it a gun bag, not a gun case.

They don't have a Constitution that protects them, so I don't know what the few gun owners up there can do

When I bought a Glock, I got cleaning accessories, a (plastic) hard case, and included parts diagrams that were clearly readable on quality paper with it. I didn't realize that decent documentation wasn't the even the bare minimum until I bought a gun from Springfield. And, of course, I needed...

Cool Actually, I'll bet it was was pretty cold

My grandpa bought a new Corvair every year. That's when I learned what turbos were. I like them.

Ruger Vaquero ....

I saw a 'Combat Planes' TV show about the Chinook gunship with a view of it shooting all three guns at once. I'd hate to be a target The Chinook is the fastest helicopter we have. My dad flew lots of fighter jets, but the only model aircraft.he ever bought me was of a Chinook

From my place of ignorance having held a 1911 but never shooting it, I like the straight-forward simplicity of the 1911, but I'm curious about the devotees. Curious enough to buy one, but since I've just inherited a bunch of guns ( around ten rifles and maybe even ten pistols ) and I'm sure...

I just figured SA were a bunch of paper-saving managers who think more about the bottom-line than they do their customers.

Social justice workers are on welfare and unemployment. They have spare time. Industrious people who pay the taxes for them are working and don't have time to protest about it.

Hey. I resemble that remark. And the regular cranky old curmudgeons here are much more helpful than I am