Automotive enthusiasts?

@Khauntzat Adramélekhizarovich Searmaev
but what do you do if you wanna drive 110 on 2 lane highway, but right lane is completely occupied with trucks and left lane is full of BMWs and Audis going 160-180 and violently tailgating you when you try to overtake a semi truck while obeying the speed limit?

@Speedwings
It’s saying “don’t stay in the passing lane, move over after you’ve passed”

Work was interesting today, I got a $1,200 exhaust job and one of my coworkers who works in the quick lube area totaled a 2021 4runner engine. He forgot to put oil in it. Thing had only 11,090 miles.

Probably gonna be a replacement, but they were considering a rebuild. We’ll see how that goes.

Oh and I bought some parts for my Mercedes, an oil pump for $80 and a bunch of little stuff. It does add up though.

Was just thinking about some of the cars my parents used to drive when I was a kid. These pics are pretty close to what they actually looked like, down to trim and color.

1983 Pontiac Phoenix

1981 Chevy Malibu Station Wagon

1983 Chevy Monte Carlo

1986 Plymouth Horizon (aka Dodge Omni)

1986 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme

@The magic 🅱oi
what if you’re passing basically forever?

@Speedwings
then move over after passing for a while and then go back to passing

@The magic 🅱oi
ugh

@Speedwings
The issue is being in the passing lane when you’re not passing, not so much people behind you wanting to go faster.

@The magic 🅱oi
no like, i want to pass at like 120, but impatient cucks in bmws or audis behind me wanna do it at 180

I didn’t know Bugatti was created by Germany… All I know so far for the past 15 years is France contributed to the lots of it’s technology.

@Speedwings
well that’s too bad for them, just pass and then move back over after you’re done passing.

Alaska Airlines no longer has its “proudly all Boeing” fleet after got a bunch of A320 from Virgin America.

Now the “all Boeing fleet” status belongs to XiamenAir.

@RD4590
This is the automotive chat

@RD4590
land your plane and get in the car, smh

It only took me just now to realize how beautiful were the cars from the 1950s.

@Khauntzat Adramélekhizarovich Searmaev
any specific ones?

@Speedwings
Chevy Bel Air, Cadillac Eldorado, Ford Thunderbird, and Porsche 550 Spyder.

@Khauntzat Adramélekhizarovich Searmaev
besides 550, any specific year or just 50s in general? because early 50s bel air looks way different than late 50s, so does eldorado

also look up 1958 buick limited, kaiser darrin, bmw 507, Alfa Romeo BAT 5/7/9 concept cars, Ferrari 410 Superamerica, Maserati A6GCS, etc etc. i could go on, but look these up seriously, so many great masterpieces that time may have forgotten.

@Speedwings
50s.

@Khauntzat Adramélekhizarovich Searmaev
ok

still tho, look up those i mentioned

I’m almost starting to regret not buying a wheel loader of sorts since more snow is coming down in my area tomorrow and I don’t have a plow attachment for any of my trucks

Finally got my hands on the new Tundra. We had another one before but I didn’t get to do the predelivery inspection on that one. I drove it as well, it feels bigger than the older tundra but it’s a whole lot faster.

Pretty conventional set up with the turbos. They aren’t sequential, so each turbo has an airbox.

@Khauntzat Adramélekhizarovich Searmaev
All Cadillacs from that era are just wonderful.

@ToyotaLC80
Oh so fancy. You get the fun job seeing the truck fresh off the factory floor. Great color. It’s a pretty quiet truck. I wish they made a tuned exhaust like the raptor has. The grille isn’t bad if you avoid the platinum and limited trim lol

@ToyotaLC80
Never driven a Tundra, but I’ve been in one and the thing that stood out to me was how huge the cabin is. It’s like Toyota thinks the average American is over 6 feet tall and morbidly obese. I can’t imagine the new Tundra feeling bigger.

@RainbowDash69
Yeah its pretty fun. The inspections pay well and it’s easy to do.

@kleptomage
I’m 5’11 and it was still about a foot taller than me. Though this particular truck has bigger wheels and tires than the cheaper models. Also, this one’s sticker price was $45,000. Not bad really, I’ve seen the older tundras go for $50,000.