Wow—there’s a strong MGB vibe about that remake.
(I have converted the picture above to monochrome to make it look more like the Thunderbird in the quoted image.) Some may argue it’s an inauthentic picture of an MGB because there are no gaping holes where the body has rusted away. My first car, Crunderthush, was a 1966 MGB.
Nah, it’s inauthentic because the bonnet isn’t open with a mechanic looking inside.
… Or the owner walking behind looking for parts that fell off when driving over the bump into the garage.
How many cars are there where when it won’t start you’re asked, “Have you checked the oil in the carburettor?”
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Steve Saleen made so many of those that he glutted the market for the 2015-16 GT’s base 18 inch 10-spoke wheels with Pirelli all-seasons. He’d sell you a set for $699”
I always thought Steve Saleen did more damage to the Mustang single-handedly than all the other mopes together. Let’s not forget the Ford 289 may be the most modified, raced engine on the planet. There are more versions of that basic block than pretty much all the others put together. Not only did Fords use them, but they were the basic power in the original Cobras, Sunbeam Plus (or whatever they called the darn thing they shoehorned a 260 into and turned a “cute” English car into an idiot car), Mustangs, Lotus 19’s, and many, many other racing versions of cars. If you went to the track in the 60’s or 70’s (or even later) you were bound to run into a pack of them. “We” drove one of our house guy’s 64-1/2 Mustang convertible with a 289 that was bored, stroked, had Mickey Thompson tuned headers, 3/4 roller cams, non-existent glass packs, and … 4 Weber dual-throat downstroke carbs! It could pass pretty much anything - but a gas station. Even in those “cheap gas days” we only got about 4 or so MPG. BOY, were those Webers LOUD when you hit the boogie pedal.
Science.org Editor in Chief:
Here’s a key statement from the editorial:
Political endorsements might not always win hearts and minds, but when candidates threaten a retreat from reason, science must speak out.
Source.
Many dogs not barking. Why the insufficient Muslim sample size?
As with many studies “Jews” ends up as an ethnicity rather than a religion. Take two equally irreligious people, one born to practicing Jewish parents and the other born to practicing Protestant parents. The former is still a Jew, whereas the latter is an atheist. That’s likely a big reason for the dislike of evangelicals in the the Jewish and atheist numbers
I had a Lotus Europa in the mid 70s, with dual carbs that required regular carb oil changes. The body never rusted, it was fiberglass, but it leaked oil, overheated and blew the cooling fan switch out of it’s bung if idled for very long, and dribbled off odd parts on a regular basis. It took at least two hours of working on it for every hour driving, and it was only a couple years old
?Isn’t that the definition of a Brit vehicle - needing about twice the maintenance time as use time. Remember - George Lucas was English.
I think you mean Joseph Lucas (“the prince of darkness”), founder of Lucas Industries, makers of the “Lucas electrics” in many British cars as well as appliances and other equipment.
Joke: “Why do the British drink warm beer”.
Punchline: “Lucas also make refrigerators.”
Joke: “What do you call a Lucas vacuum cleaner?”
Punchline: “Their only product that does not suck.”
That would be the dude. I don’t think he knows what an electron is.
It is possible. If I recall correctly, Lucas electrics have the polarity reversed from most everyone else.
Only food products meeting certain criteria – such as organic certification, fair pay for farmers and workers, and short supply chains – would be able to be purchased with the allowance,
That’s right. All cars made after World War II with Lucas electrics were positive ground until the 1960s. Jaguar switched to negative ground in 1965, and the MGB in 1967. U.S. cars had been pretty much all negative ground since the switch from 6 to 12 volt systems in the mid-1950s.
When jump-starting with cables from another car, there were no problems as long as you carefully checked the battery terminal polarities instead of just assuming the one connected to the frame was negative. If you didn’t do this, or tried to connect the negative cable frame-to-frame, things could get spicy. Of course, people with Lucas electrics in their cars were generally happy to get any polarity at all from the battery, never mind which way.
The National Geographic GeoBee, held annually from 1989 to 2018, was a contest in geographic knowledge open to students from the fourth to eighth grades in the U.S. As of 2020, 2.4 million students had participated.
After cancellations in 2020 and 2021 due to the COVID-19 panic, National Geographic released an “Update on the Future of GeoBee” announcing its permanent discontinuation.
After many conversations and reflections with students, educators, and community members, we’ve made the decision to permanently discontinue the National Geographic GeoBee to make way for new, transformative, and innovative geography education opportunities in which students around the globe can more equitably participate.
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While we are proud of the National Geographic GeoBee’s 33-year legacy, we believe that this moment presents an opportunity to reimagine geography education and empower young people around the world as solution-seekers to confront our century’s most pressing challenges. In addition to the drop in GeoBee registration in 2020, important shifts—from the COVID-19 pandemic to an increased focus on racial injustice—challenge us to find new, transformative, meaningful ways to engage young people globally in geography.
I suppose they concluded the winners of their contest did not sufficiently “look like America”.
That’s right! A profound lack of Chinese Americans and Japanese Americans. Those vile racists at National Geographic!
Arguably, back in distant pre-porn days, National Geographic was a great transformative force for good in breaking down racial barriers, introducing many a young lad to the charms of under-clothed African ladies. 
Anybody know an Egyptologist who’s a sheep expert?
If they hadn’t broken up, she’d have changed her own name to Yoko.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/handyman-turns-tables-squatters-took-110018649.html
So he hatched a plan. Shelton wrote up a lease agreement between himself and his mother [the legal owner] designating Shelton as the legal resident of the home.
He loaded some guns and his dog into his Jeep and set off for California, arriving at 4 a.m. to find cars in the driveway. Shelton said he parked down the street and waited until everyone [the squatters] left the house several hours later.
Shelton let himself in using the keys to the house. Video shows a bed and other furniture sitting inside the home as well as boxes of belongings and what appears to be a California Department of Corrections uniform.
Shelton said he started installing security cameras when two women pulled up to the house.
