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Ten years ago I got laid off from my job of 35 years. Since then I will occasionally have workplace related dreams. None of the dreams have been bad, but some much better than others. Sometimes they're a kind of generic shop setting, other times they are the exact test lab, down to the last...

Long ago I stuffed my A100 van head on into a telephone pole at about 35 to 40 mph. The headlights were pointing at each other after that. Since I was wearing my seatbelt I walked away from that. Without seatbelts, I probably would've been seriously injured or dead. A few years later I was out...

Funerals are a strange and stupidly expensive thing. Back in '84 I helped my wife with her mother's funeral. The strangest part was visiting the casket showroom. You can get a plain pine box for $900 or work your way up to something really fancy for several thousand dollars, guaranteed to not...

Once upon a time, people weren't real proud of the fact that they were the village idiot, tended to keep it to themselves. These days we put it on the internet and share it with the world.

There's lots of places in this country that aren't so free with restrictions on what you can do or bring into residential areas, either because of homeowners associations or local ordinances.

I had a hard time reading this to my wife because it made me laugh so hard, and she did too.

She did a concert tour with Tony Bennett a couple years back I would've liked to have seen.

Corvettes had transistorized ignition as an option in the mid 60s and Chevy and Pontiac had mechanical fi as an option in 57.

They also ran big block Chevys which don't have inline valves.

NASCAR is a family business, owned and operated by the France family, although I believe that now they offer stock in it.

About 20 years back I used to hall scrap metal from work to a very large scrap yard, large enough that it had it's own rail network and a scale large enough to weigh rail cars. They even had people directing traffic so you ended up in the right area for what you were going to unload. They also...

The mute button is also very helpful when there are politicians speaking.

I've had friends and coworkers go to China on business. The companies sending them generally don't want them driving because of how crazy the roads are. One friend commented that the air in Shanghai smells like a mixture of diesel fumes and an outhouse.

Just another example of Trump making something up to suit his needs without bothering to check the facts. Nobody at the Wayne assembly plant is losing their job, they are going to build something else that has a higher profit margin. Ford has almost doubled their US employment numbers in the...

While mowing I knocked the wire off the sparkplug by shoving the mower into foliage at the edge of the yard. I had the mower at full throttle, so I thought if I get the wire back on the plug while it's still spinning I won't have to yank on the rope to get it going again. Real bad idea...

Several years back while driving to work on a 4 lane wide e-way some fool in a 4wd pickup goes blazing past on the inside lane which hadn't really been plowed. He loses it, starts spinning around and the rest of us are doing all we can to avoid contact. There was some minor contact between him...

The gas station they pushed the car into was built from scratch on a vacant lot, it was blown up for some footage that didn't make the movie. Also the motel where Twiggy was waiting for Elwood to show up was about a mile from the gas station. This was near the town of West Chicago, Ill. where...

My neighbor just recently bought a tractor very similar to yours to use to rebuild a retaining wall. It has a front end loader on it I thought looked homemade, very well done but homemade. The arms and the bucket look very similar to yours but the frame mounting structure is very different...

I was at an auction last week and they had a carrier similar to your illustration as well as some forks just like the one in the illustration. They also had a lot of old engines, engine parts, and engine work related shop equipment. Model T, model A and flathead V-8 complete engines, partial...

On the Jimmy Kimmel show they will occasionally make up some nonsense question and then send his cousin out onto the street and pose the question to random people. Some of the dumbass answers he gets are incredible, sometimes he will ask something further and the people will make themselves...

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Quite a while back (early 80s) there was a movie out called Used Cars starring Kurt Russell that has a very similar style scene but more extreme in that the car ends up totally trashed and the sales guy has a heart attack. The guy driving the car was supposed to be a stunt driver from a...