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I believe it was around C$130. We'll be eating stale crusts of bread and drinking brackish water for a few weeks. 😉

Unfortunately not - but it was surprising how real it felt when the horizon tilted as we banked into a turn.

With the exception of Nissan's very innovative variable-compression engines. 😳 Full marks for innovation, but I suspect they'll be problematic.

Nah, that only works on a Boeing. J/K!!! Agreed, it was a very thoughtful gift. She is a really good person.

I think Ford trucks of that era used a Mazda MT. We likely had the same in our late, great 1990 MPV van. Very nice shifting. Too bad about the 2.73; whatever rear end the MPV had, it buzzed along quite happily at 2500 RPM in 5th at 100 kph (62 mph).

This was a delightful gift from my wife. We took off from YYJ (Victoria BC, on Vancouver Island), and did a short hop over to YVR (Vancouver BC). Then we attempted several landings here (YWG - Winnipeg Richardson International). We may have been able to walk away from one or two landings. I...

Case in point - this depiction of the next-gen Hyundai Palisade:

And I remember when 5-speeds were a big deal ... :sneaky: The first one I remember is the '75 Toyota Corolla SR5. My '71 Corolla 1600 with the 4-speed didn't have a tach. I bet it was revving pretty high at 60 MPH. We have one remaining MT vehicle in the extended family - a 2009 Mazda5 with...

4th and 5th on the column sounds weird to us here (in North America), but during our year in NZ I did drive two vans (Mitsu Delica and Toyota HiAce) with column-mounted 5-speed shifters. I liked them. But apparently 6-speed MTs have around for a while now. I haven't driven one yet.

If they were trying to replicate the old 3-on-the-tree (though they didn't get the shift pattern quite right) as found in my '63 Biscayne, there must be no synchro into 1st! 😉

Of course I wanted oil pressure and a voltmeter as well. 😁

Here's a dash-mounted 3-speed manual, alive and well at a local playground.

I'm also an INFJ - but have not knowingly been compared to Mother Teresa. 😁

The Nissans I really liked were are sold here as Datsuns - the 1000, the 510, the B210, and the 240Z, and the 620 Sport Truck. I guess I'm showing my age.

I've heard people say that GM's high-water mark was 1965 - hard to believe that's now 60 years ago.

That's the same cover as the edition I read c. 1975. The C$ and USD were near parity back then, so they may have listed only the one price. I think $2.25 would have been fairly expensive for a paperback back then - IIRC, a lot of the old SF I used to enjoy had a cover price of 95¢ - $1.25.

Sr citizens - a 1987 Bianchi Grizzly, and a 2002 Rocky Mountain Fusion. What's that in bike years? This was early morning in front of the Y. I liked the way the low sun was reflecting off the bikes. The phone camera did not do it justice. ******* Waiting for a slow train to pass, while out...

I'm reminded of reading Wilson Bryan Key's "Subliminal Seduction" many years ago, about hidden messages in advertising, etc. I think a lot of it has since been debunked. Even so, perhaps Wendy is promoting a subconscious vision of cold winters, deep snow, howling winds, etc., in hopes of...

Relatives in a really nice area in another city experience car break-ins regularly, as do others in their upscale neighbourhood. Many there have taken to leaving their cars unlocked, and removing all valuables at night instead. It's preferable to broken windows, jimmied doors, scratched paint...

I suspect the minor leak in the rad, and the seeping IM gaskets, were not allowing the cooling system to reach its rated pressure, besides which the system was probably consistently slightly low on coolant. No problems since those repairs.