Posted on 10/08/2023 4:20:51 AM PDT by marktwain
I’ve never driven on the “opposite” side of the road. Guess I’d get used to it, but it would intimidate me at first.
Ben Spicer is all over the place with his pronouns, so that it’s hard to make sense of the story. He says the suspect is a man, but then calls him “them.”
He started out robbing banks but was frustrated by his inability to write cursive.
EVERYONE in MY 1957 graduating class could most likely drive it.
I have owned 13 horses since 1985.
Competed for YEARS in Long distance events called endurance. 1976 1 ton Chevy 454 4 speed now has over 348,000 miles & I put on 250,000—mostly towing.
NOT FOR SALE
Had a guy try to buy my 1976 1 ton Chevy in 2021.
I said no-—for about 20 minutes. OVER & OVER.
HE said “I will pay you cash-—any price you want-—”
I told him:
The 6 position hitch stinger stays with me
The 90 gallon water tank in the truck bed & the mounting items stay with me
The 454 NEW BUILD gas engine built by a racing engine builder has less than 7,000 miles on it-—it stays with me
He could have what was left for CASH-—ONE payment-—$30 MILLION.
HE was quiet—then he said’’YOU REALLY DO NOT WANT TO SELL YOUR TRUCK, DO YOU?”
NOPE!!!!! MY OLD IRON MECHANIC gets it when I die.
MIGHT work for newer cars——
NOT for 1976 & 1979 vehicles.
YOU WIN POST OF THE THREAD
👍👍
Just grazed? Unfortunate.
“They are forcing real incomes down while they are shutting down real cars so the EVs will be for the elite and the res of us will have to be satisfied with bicycles, “
I think the hierarchy will be: we get nothing, Regime supporting NPCs get electric cars, Regime elites get gasoline cars for “security”. And because it is for “security” it is paid for by the State.
We already see this pattern in countries like Denmark.
And in the EU, private jets and luxury yachts are exempt frm their green carbon tax fuel levies.
When I was a state copper working in Cook County I was in Chicago in the Greektown restaurant area when my partner and I monitored a Chicago Police Dept flash message about a car jacking that had just occurred in the area within the last few minutes.
Just moments after we made note of it, we heard cars honking at a late model import that was moving slowly in the left lane, jerking and stopping as other cars swerved around it. Since it matched the description of the suspect vehicle, we made a felony stop, detained three suspects who had two pistols in the car, and notified CPD Tactical officers to meet us at the scene.
These suspects were subsequently identified as the offenders in the car jacking, and the reason for the erratic driving that had captured our attention was the fact that the ringleader driver couldn’t operate the 5 speed manual transmission in it very well. One of his accomplices was an 18 wheel truck driver who was entirely capable of driving it, but the boss said that he had always wanted to drive a stick shift and this would be his first chance, so he ordered his buddy to stand down and took the wheel himself.
We wouldn’t catch so many of these clowns if so many weren’t so damn stupid.
As a result of this experience, my 2010 Hummer H3 has a 5 speed manual trans. The transmission also helps me to get the most performance from a relatively heavy vehicle with a relatively small engine. (3.7L 250 hp, but moving 4800 lbs).
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