PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

Ethanol can cause issues with gaskets and seals. It causes plastic and nitrile to expand. The upside is it's made of a renewable resource corn and grain, so better for the environment. Well, sort of. If the truck can handle up to 15% it's better for the world to use it.

 

Thank you for the invention of modern air-conditioning, Willis Carrier!

 

Here too, highs are supposed to be 94 and humid most of the week.

 

Ehhh, ethanol is a taxpayer funded farce. 40? years and it still needs to be supported by subsidies? Ethanol production wouldn't exist without the subsidies; that's why E15 88 is less expensive than E10 87. I remember seeing this same thing years ago when E10 was being phased in at some areas- 93 octane E10 was cheaper than 87 octane 100% gasoline. Now I pay ~$3 a gallon for 90 octane 100% gas for my lawnmower when E10 93 is $2.30.
But, that's interesting as I've never seen E15. Blue handle is pure gasoline where I'm at- as someone else said.
And for a trip down memory lane, the lowest gasoline prices I remember were about a dollar a gallon for regular- in the early 1990s in TN/GA. Does anyone remember the mechanical pumps that Sunoco had where you could basically select from 87-94 at one point increments?

 

Casey's stations here have it.

https://unl88.com/

 

This is a Bolt Rollet F-Mill in Car Mechanic Simulator for the PS4, clearly based on a roughly 1970-1973 Chevy Camaro. What “F-Mill” means is that the car has a factory inline-6 that cannot be swapped with any other engine; V8 versions of F-Mill cars can be swapped for at least four other different V8s, including supercharged versions. This car was damn near mint when I bought it at auction, but the engine only made 145 HP; I gave it every possible mod, but it ended up producing only 180hp. By comparison, My other Rollet F-Mill produces a respectable 236 horsepower; Either I forgot to add a mod or too, or each car has variances in horsepower despite having the same engine...? Needless to say, I sold the silver Rollet and kept the black one...

 

The Salem Spectre is clearly based on a roughly 2005-2014 Ford Mustang GT; The stock non-supercharged V8 (which this car originally had) cranks out like 372hp, while the supercharged version makes over 700 horsepower...

All I’ve gotta say about the fully modded supercharged V8 is HOLY SHIT!

 

yes i rember the Sunoco pumps
not sure that superficialy it was all merchandising

unfortunately we are at the mercy of the metro industry & the govt

weeks ago gas was approx 1.65/gal at rhe pump on an artificial ' floor ' of $20 a barrel

then it tanked !!!!!!

went to a -40 $$$ / barrel............................o shit cant let that happen
they should have been giving it away at the pumps

work their under the table magic
behind the closed door gansta signs

we are now at a fraudulent $30+ /barrel

a $70$$+ swing to john q public yet NO RELIEF at the pumps

 

Regardless of price I have to pay .59 per gallon tax. With gas under $2 that is 30% tax.

 

I've said it before and I will say it again; Disney movies never get old! I bought a subscription to Disney+ maybe 8 months ago and it's one of the best purchases (more like an impulse buy when The Mandalorian came out) I've ever made! The other day, I watched Tarzan for the first time in probably 20 years (my parents took me to see it in the theater in the summer of 1999, and I probably rented it on VHS in 2000); Yesterday, I watched Hercules and James and the Giant Peach, back to back, and both for the first time in two decades. Aside from seeing Hercules in theaters in 1997, I may have rented it at some point, but I never owned it on VHS or DVD and know I haven't seen it since at least 1999. I never saw James and the Giant Peach in the theaters, but my cousin gave me the tape in the summer of 1997 and I watched it numerous times in 1997-1998; I may have watched it once on the video player in our conversion van in 2000 or so...

NOTE: Unlike the in-vehicle entertainment systems of today which can play DVDs and Blu-Ray discs, and have HDMI or RCA inputs for game systems but cannot function as a traditional television set, our conversion van had a legit TV that could actually pick up TV channels; However, you had to be parked in an area that got really good reception and since I rarely used the TV when the van was stationary it never picked up channels for very long...

 

One thing everybody knows about me is that I am stickler for details when it comes to cars in movies and TV shows; James and the Giant Peach is set in the 1930s or 1940s, beginning in the England and ending in New York City. James' aunts, Sponge and Spiker, have a car that is identified on IMCDB as a 1947 Jaguar 3½ Litre [Mk.IV]; If the movie was set in the late 1930s like I still think it is, I would say this was highly inaccurate (However, despite being late 1940s, the car could easily pass for 1930s to the untrained eye). The car itself is very period correct, but there's one little detail...

James' aunts' house is somewhere in the United Kingdom, where all cars are RHD, but the Jag is clearly LHD. Unless the car was originally purchased in France or Germany (or pretty much any other country in Western Europe), this makes absolutely no sense!

On the IMCDB page for this movie, the newest vehicle listed after the 1947 Jaguar is a 1942 Mack firetruck, the oldest is a 1921 Relay flatbed truck, and the rest are all late 1930s Chrysler products (a 1936 Chrysler airstream done up as an NYPD police cruiser, a red 1937 Plymouth De Luxe, a 1938 De Soto, and an unknown model 1939 Chrysler). There is also a one-off custom truck described as "the biggest crane in New York", and a purpose-built wreck that represents Sponge and Spiker's Jag after being crushed by the peach (but looks almost nothing like the Jag if you look closely enough)…

If the movie took place during WWII, I have a feeling that the cops and civilians alike wouldn't have responded as nicely as they did to an unidentified object crash-landing on the spire of the Empire State Building. I believe that the movie is supposed to be set after the beginning of the Great Depression but a couple years prior to the US entering WWII (i.e. 1939-1940) and I believe, like I said above, that the Jaguar was used because it easily passes for a 1930s car despite being a late 1940s model; The same is likely true for the Mack fire engine...

 

For a point of reference, the Empire State Building was completed in May 1931, so 1939-1940 does seem highly plausible!

 

In the summer of 1997, I remember seeing more movies than I'd ever seen in the last year of my life at that point in time (I was just shy of 8½ years old). We were living in California at the time, and mom borrowed Grammy's 1987 Mercedes 300E to save on the cost of renting a car (I remember being particularly excited because the Benz didn't have a passenger airbag; This was right after all these horror stories came out about kids being killed by deploying airbags and my parents stopped letting me ride shotgun in vehicles with dual airbags in late 1996 or so; A rental car from a major agency like Hertz or Enterprise would have been a 1996 or 1997 model, and would have had dual airbags). We did go up to my Grandma's lakehouse in Maine at some point that summer, but I can't remember if we picked up the Benz in Maine or at Grammy's primary residence in Pennsylvania. I remember that we did stop at my maternal Grandma's house in Connecticut, so I'm pretty sure we drove down from Maine. My cousin Thomas rode with my mom and me in the Benz, I believe my aunt and uncle drove their brand new 1997 Plymouth Voyager with my older cousin, and I'm pretty sure my Grandma followed in her 1988 Buick LeSabre; I'm also pretty sure that my other family members (aunt, uncle, and two more cousins from California) were with us in a rented car.

 

Before we even left my Grandma's driveway in Connecticut, my cousin managed to lock himself in the Mercedes. The lock thingies in the door were hard to pull simply using one's fingers, and neither of us had a key; After five or ten minutes of getting nowhere, I finally got my mom and she unlocked the car...

 

On the way out of Greenwich, we all stopped to get gas, and the station had a full-service garage; I can remember sitting in the Benz with Thomas and both of us watching in amazement as a mechanic walked over to a 1992-1994ish Ford Tempo (still a fairly new car in 1997) with its hood open, and then drove the car up to the garage without shutting the hood. To a couple of 8-year old boys, one of whom had not yet gotten to sit on his dad's lap and steer (HINT: It was NOT me) this was one of the most amazing things we'd every seen someone do behind the wheel of a motor vehicle outside of a movie or TV show!