Recent content by Uphill_Both_Ways

Thank you, Mrs. Hyundai.

From each according to his ability, to each according to his greed.

Canadian federal law demands daytime running lights. GM aims to prevent me from turning them off in my '08 Impala. During the day the daytime running lights come on as soon as I turn the key to on, prior to turning the key farther to engage the starter. At night it's worse: The full headlights...

When I turned 16 I learned in my parents' 1959 Bel Air four-door hardtop, dark blue roof over sky blue, six-cylinder, two-speed auto with power nothing and a vacuum-tube AM radio, passing the written and driving tests first time. Parallel parking that beast the first time (three chances in the...

rooflessVW said: What? Without a manual spark advance? :)

For what it's worth, my 2008 Impala has it.

Last oil and filter change, the closest NAPA was closed permanently. My backup was another Gold at a backup store.

My '92 Buick Roadmonster, bought in '94 so I can't swear they were stock, had two block heaters, one on each side. It's likely they were stock, though, or an available option.

The above weather link bounces. Here it is again. https://www.currentresults.com/Yearly-Weather/Canada/MB/Winnipeg/extreme-annual-winnipeg-low-temperature.php

In the linked test, Supertech synthetic is not much faster than 100-per-cent dino at –20 C, reckoned extreme in warmer climes. This "cold"-pour test is recent: 2019. Speaking of 2019, It hit –40 in Winnipeg on January 30 — not the wind-chill temperature, the real thing. Other days were nearly...

Originally Posted by ecotourist I think Chrysler was trying something like this with the 1953 model year. The manual for my dad's '53 Plymouth talked about some models with a fluid drive ahead of the transmission. He had the regular manual transmission. Not quite. The fluid-drive semi-automatic...

Originally Posted by bullwinkle They aren't hard to drive, just imagine the floor shift plane turned sideways on the column, but you would never win a drag race with one! As recounted elsewhere, I had a 1956 Austin Westminster — until it was totalled by gravel truck — with four on the...

I suppose if my '80s Motorola bag phone with a lead-acid battery had a SIM, it would have been a 5 1/2-inch floppy.

I wouldn't take any car to a shop where the "mechanics" could drive a floor-shifter but not a column-shifter. Unbelievable.