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LOL You forgot to mention Roman Pulanski's house on Cielo Drive.....

I dunno..... Barstow, perhaps. or Needles? In all fairness to the rental industry, I might just be trying to rent during a peak season.

I see the plates in the front window often among the "fast and furious" crowd. Maybe it's because a flat plate creates wind resistance? Every little advantage helps in a 90-HP Civic. I also see a lot of people who use custom mounts that attach the plate to the front bumper tow-hook...

Same here.... I've never understood the appeal. Las Vegas keeps drawing 'em in, apparently. I've seen the traffic jams coming up for the weekends from L.A. The entertainment options might be a big part of it, I suppose. It'll be interesting to see if that proposed high-speed rail from LA to...

I change the oil in my WRX once a year despite driving it barely 6000 miles in four years. I have used the old oil from it to top off my Impala a few times. Heck I should probably do the entire fill on the Impala using the stuff.

I doubt the oil degrades in a couple years or in three years but I would consider whether moisture gets into it. Is the garage heated, or does it get cold in there in the winter? I've pulled cars out of a cold garage on the first warm day of Spring and before long various large iron parts like...

My friends used to like to go there, but eventually we all tired of the long waits, cold food and their inability to make change for those of us who were paying cash.

+2 Or, they'll make that old claim that "it was broken already when it came in".

Some years ago, I was working at a construction site and watched a guy change the oil on his pickup inside the building, dumping the oil right there on the dirt (this was before the floor was fine graded and poured with concrete). Plumbers, electricians, laborers, concrete finishers etc were...

Exactly. No amount of tinkering with the clock will change that. The difference in daylight between June 21 and December 21 is significant and it can't be "fixed" with the clock, at least not in a way that satisfies everyone. Don't forget the differences between the east and west ends of each...

+2 I've told the story here before, about the time I needed to buy an iron (the kind you use to iron clothes with). I don't know anything about ironing, so I just wandered into Walmart and checked out the appliance section and saw about a half-dozen different models. I was amazed prices...

I came real close to over-tightening one once, and in fact I probably did to some extent. You know how it goes. lying down under the car in tight quarters, looking up sort of backwards to the bolt. Maybe using the left hand... Somehow the selector on my angle-head ratchet got switched from...

Worse than those JIS set screws they put on the rotors, that always strip out perhaps.

I watch that livestream sometimes when I am not busy at work (because I'm a regular Southwest and MDW flyer). I bet the chat was going through the roof when that happened!

I've purchased headliner material from them, for a couple of cars. Other than that, I've never been in one.

2002 Impala, 178K miles. Out: Factory fill, six quarts using the Mity-Vac. In: Valvoline ATF from the parts store. This was my parent's car; I am sure this was the factory-fill fluid because my dad was never one to spend money on maintenance. To him, that was "nickel-and-diming", so he just...

I'm unfamiliar with Honda rotors. Are they square or something?

"Two of these are not like the others".

+2 That's just like the former site of the Ontario Motor Speedway in Ontario, California.... It's now a huge shopping and entertainment complex but the streets there are named Ferrari, Porsche, Mercedes, Dusenberg, etc. Better than giving them names which are totally unrelated to the area.

Did he live in Hinsdale, by any chance? "The Lane" is well-travelled as part of the corridor down York Road and then it uses The Lane to jog over one block to get to Garfield if you're trying to go downtown. Where I live, there is a short little street called "North Driveway". It's a real...