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| Saw something scary on the road this morning | 26 Oct 2007 19:26 GMT | 16 |
Driving to work I saw a dolly (two wheeled push cart thing) fly off the back of a Pepsi delivery truck, lucky for us we were a couple of lanes over and didn't hit it but it could have went right
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| Most fuel efficient RPM? | 26 Oct 2007 18:34 GMT | 14 |
What's a reasonable way to determine at what RPM your vehicle gets the most mileage per gallon of gas? When driving a stick, I tend to drive by feel. I had an old VW that was content cruising @ 1500rpm or so all day (assuming no noteworthy hills) while my current pickup seems
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| More Road Karma in Action | 26 Oct 2007 15:11 GMT | 6 |
Heading SE on Irvine Blvd. Posted speed limit: 65 MPH. A Carl Taylor type in a White Excursion is blocking the left lane doing 55 MPH; a conga line of three Sloths are doing ~60 MPH in the right lane. I join the conga line and we are slowly passing the LLB, when up ahead I
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| Woman charged for letting her 15 y.o. daughter lean out of a school van on highway to get beer from an SUV | 26 Oct 2007 13:09 GMT | 3 |
http://wcco.com/watercooler/Odd.News.Beer.2.412480.html * Oct 24, 2007 6:08 pm US/Central Mom Helps Cheerleaders Grab Boys' Beer OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- A woman has been charged with letting her 15-year-old
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| How To Get Accurate GPS | 26 Oct 2007 12:54 GMT | 1 |
If you want to have better accuracy of GPS, you can even plan the time to do GPS data gathering... http://personaltechinfo.googlepages.com/how_to_get_accurate_gps
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| wow... just wow... | 26 Oct 2007 03:38 GMT | 3 |
I remember thinking, and probably posting, when I got my '05 Impala that it was going to be a brake eater... well guess what, I just got it safetied for this year and apparently I need front and rear pads, and new front rotors, at only 54K miles!
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| The a.s Family | 26 Oct 2007 03:29 GMT | 23 |
In case anyone doesn't already know this, a recent trend here in SoCal is to put stickers in the back window of your SUV with stick-figure representations of your family members. There will be a Daddy stick figure, a Mommy stick figure, one stick figure for each of the kids,
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| Toyota Prius 2008 | 26 Oct 2007 01:57 GMT | 1 |
<a href="http://www.woodstockfilmfestival.com/fundraising/ wffprius.php">Win a 2008 Toyota Prius from the Woodstock FIlm Festival</a><p> A maximum of 500 tickets will be sold. Great odds!
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| Info on EDRs | 25 Oct 2007 18:19 GMT | 2 |
Better buy your new cars now while you can still get one without a standardized event data port... http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/staticfiles/DOT/NHTSA/Rulemaking/Rules/Associated%20Fil es/EDRFRIA.pdf
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| Road Closed due to Fire | 25 Oct 2007 15:29 GMT | 4 |
Usually when we hear that a road in Southern California is closed due to fire, we expect it to re-open in relatively short order when the fire danger has passed. One obvious exception is the I-5 Truck Bypass that will be closed for months until the the roadway through the
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| Better Stock Up on Tinfoil | 25 Oct 2007 15:18 GMT | 16 |
Be sure to clink on the link to read the full article. http://autoweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20041108/FREE/411080714 Someday itll happen, probably when you least expect it. Just as you countersteer while drifting out of a tight corner, or after you punch
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| Here's one for Hector.... | 25 Oct 2007 12:27 GMT | 12 |
http://www.pabstpartypics.com/pabstcar.html Don't know if you like PBR, but the car looks nice anyways....
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| Stalling Cars Via OnStar: A Hacker's Dream Come True? | 25 Oct 2007 04:30 GMT | 173 |
http://lauren.vortex.com/archive/000313.html October 09, 2007 Stalling Cars Via OnStar: A Hacker's Dream Come True? Greetings. Ready to turn over the keys of your vehicle to the cops, or
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| 56 Corvette | 25 Oct 2007 01:44 GMT | 1 |
Found a sweet framed print of a 56 Crovette for really really cheap at www.bluebroom.com, thought I'd share...
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| Psycho DUI Kills Daughter By Dragging Her Behind His Pickup | 25 Oct 2007 01:05 GMT | 16 |
And his super-corrupt lawyer says the killer is completely innocent because he didn't DELIBERATELY try to kill her!!!! http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21386988/ Dad charged in 9-year-old girl's sledding death
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