Recent content by Benzadmiral

How many dinosaurs died to produce our oil? All of them, of course!

Is this the later, good-looking model, or the earlier 200 with the chopped-off trunk?

A handsome beast. I passed on its big brother, the 2017-18 LaCrosse, because of the Auto Stop Start routine. Later I found there is a $150 device you can plug into your OBDII port that will cancel the feature.

Whenever I hear "Eye of the Tiger," I picture a rocky, sandswept desert fastness; a great fortress in the middle of it; the gates slowly creak open, and a gigantic blue lizard slides out, its forked tongue flicking out, tasting the air. And in the saddle on its back is an armed Imperial...

Which planet are you currently driving on? I want to move there! Even the $73/month would be great. Here, lesser insurance companies who tout their low rates immediately say, "We don't operate in that state."

Lately I've been a little worried that my OLM is dropping faster than usual. However, I see that the 1600 miles/34% used figure I mentioned above in March of 2020, 1% used in 47 miles, matches exactly what I'm seeing now 1 year later. Same driving conditions, same foul weather. I plan to change...

That was in Dec. 2020. I've been putting ~4-6 oz. into my 18 gal. tank depending on how full it is from time to time. Recently I've had a bump in gas mileage, but that's been because of the E0 I've been running and the warmer weather. No reason I can see to buy it again when the bottle is empty.

I checked, and Exxon does give me the .06 off. 2.43/gallon instead of this station's 2.49 posted price . . . which today was .05 less than their E10 87. Last Sunday when I gassed up, I did put 4 oz. of the Lucas Upper Cylinder Treatment into the gas. This is the $10 bottle I bought some months...

Buick LaCrosse, 2016, with the 3.6L engine. Seeing a little over 23 mpg with 70% city driving, using E0 87 octane.

MeTV runs a large block of the old cartoons on Saturday mornings, from 6 to 9 Central. I need to sit down and watch a few.

Originally when I formed the idea of buying a BMW, I was thinking white over tan. I like those caramel-colored seats!

My driving conditions in the '16 LaCrosse must be less than ideal (as if I needed an OLM to tell me that). I'm seeing about 1% every 48 miles.

People who know Buicks know they are a fantastic value.

Born in 1930, I think. The same year, oddly enough, as his brief co-star Grace Lee Whitney ("Yeoman Janice Rand").

The story I've read is that he developed the tinnitus problem when filming the episode with the Gorn, "Arena." The explosive effects we see in the first act damaged his hearing. (The late Robert Vaughn had the same problem with the noise from the prop guns on Man From U.N.C.L.E.) People make...