Yeah, the pictured truck is my dad's, 'just' a Ranger XLT. It's been parked for the last decade from being too costly to operate (something to do with having a 500 CFM carburetor on a 400 c.i. engine...) but it was my daily driver for the winter of '96-'97. I actually miss the thing, except for needing to hyper-mile if I wanted to do better than 10 MPG.

"12 out of 14 polydactyls agree that the Shelby Lancer is the performance bargain for '88."

How about a brown (and yellow) '78 F-150?

Don't feel bad, I'm 10 years older than you and I still buy Hot Wheels and Matchbox whenever I come across a replica of a car that either contributed to my hoonish tendencies in the past, or is a candidate for doing so in the future.

(Wait, I probably shouldn't be proud of that.)

Hi stormchasers!

I went to a fightjunior-league hockey game last night, part of our SAE chapter's winter social. Now I know where Five For Fighting got their name. The home team (Fargo Force) were up 2-1 at the end of the 1st period and scored another goal late in the 3rd to win 3-1. I enjoyed the game but some of my coworkers were bored since they showed up at the beginning of 2nd period and only got to see one goal.

Re: happy things, I got bored today and drew a thing that would make me happy: a '67 GTO coupe-utility.


I didn't have anything I had to do or anywhere I needed to be today, which should be good for relaxing except I get stircrazy from hanging around the house too long. My hobby 'workload' is pretty good when it's nice enough out to be in the garage, but I need some indoor hobbies I guess. I think this year I'll park my pickup at the family farm and bring the '96 Thunderbird back to Fargo for the summer, so that'll keep me occupied with all the little things it needs and I'll enjoy having both my behemoth RWD V8 coupes in the same place. I just need winter to end first.

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And here's my own intentional wheel mismatch... '95 Mark VIII alloys on a '96 Thunderbird. It worked though.

(Eventually I decided the 16" wheels really weren't doing me any good and went back to my stock 15"-ers like the green 'bird above has.)

In lieu of OEM wheels on the wrong car, I offer you OEM wheels on the car wrong. The left front is a right-side wheel.

You did nothing wrong. Me, though...

If the Star Wars ships were only doing light speed, Han Solo would have spent most of his life doing his 12-parsec shortcut version of the Kessel Run.

Did anyone else open up the large version hoping to see a rogue vessel, Firefly classification in there?

Also it brings to mind how badly the Empire would trounce the Federation.