First off, thank you to everyone who made suggestions for my outdoor rodent problem. A large driveway rat caused $1,000 in damage to my 2025 Golf R, and $800 in damage to my 2005 Phaeton V8. Both are fixed, and I have them back. They are both in the garage right now, and I haven’t seen any more rodents, but I did put out lots of poison and have routinely sprayed all engine bays and undersides and tires with peppermint oil.
As for the Phaeton, specifically, I am embarrassed to disclose that the intermittent no-start issue was due to a loose battery terminal on the starting battery. It was an issue with unusual behavior because of the Phaeton’s unusual setup: there are two H8 batteries, one on each side of the trunk. The left one is the “comfort” battery and handles all cabin electronics. The right one is just for starting the car, and that’s the one that was loose. So when the terminal wasn’t fully connecting, the cabin electronics would turn on, but when trying to start the engine, it wouldn’t even attempt it and would just act like you were turning it to ON. Yet there wasn’t any kind of struggle with the cabin electronics or error message. You can flick the key the other direction and use the comfort battery to start the engine, but that didn’t work either, probably because the BMS prevented it. Oh, well, it’s solved now. Always check the simple stuff first.
The Phaeton now needs a bit of maintenance. The headliner fabric is beginning to sag, as it does, and I’m going to tackle that myself. I’ll reupholster the headliner, pillars and sunroof cover with a faux suede in a similar color to what the car came with, and then get a professional to sew the new headliner fabric onto the visors. It also needs the timing belt/water pump/thermostat service done, and I’m staring down the barrel of $2,500 minimum to do that, unless I do it myself. I think I will. I’ve never done it before, but if I do, it’s about $400 in parts and $200 in tools. A good learning experience, and it seems dead-simple to get the timing right and test spin the engine before trying to start it. And then spark plugs and coils. I think I’ll have to remove the plugs and coils anyway to do the belt change, so that’s half the labor right there.
The 2020 Range Rover Autobiography LWB was seriously annoying me and wasn’t even all that comfortable, plus it had a pretty bad interior-storage-space-to-footprint ratio. So I sold that for about what I paid and bought a 2026 Land Cruiser Premium, last month. I actually like the hybrid powertrain, which feels a lot like a diesel, and I’ve already taken it camping once. My one issue with it was how loud it was on the highway due to it being extremely boxy and not having laminated (acoustic) front door glass, so I retrofitted the glass from the Lexus GX 550 last week, and that worked a treat. All trims of the GX 550 other than the Premium and Overtrail (non-plus) have laminated glass.
I think I’m the first person in the world to do the glass retrofit and document it online, and a lot of people were saying you couldn’t, but I compared the GX and Land Cruiser parts diagrams and the only differences on the front doors were the glass itself, the retaining clips on the outside, and a forward door jamb seal that I don’t even think is necessary. It is *far* quieter now at ear-level.
Dude, HELL YEAH on your GX glass swap! I don't know many people who would tear into their brand new vehicle in such a fashion, bravo sir!
Also I came across something on IG yesterday that may help prevent future rodent damaged wires. Honda 4019-2317 is a roll of loom tape impregnated with some sort of repellant and decorated with pictograms of dead mice. Might be worth wrapping the Phaeton harnesses while you're in the engine bay. I think you should try the timing job yourself, and I think you'll be successful!
I did see that tape as a suggestion on Reddit, and if I take the entire front end off the car (what VW and Audi call “service mode”) to do the timing job, it’ll be easy to get at all the wires. That’s a fantastic idea!
If they suggest pulling the front off, I'd suggest taking that suggestion. It will grant you full access to the engine and it'll be worth every minute pulling the front end apart. I could get the front of my e36 apart in under an hour, and in just a couple more hours, by myself in the driveway, the engine+trans were out (the hood had a full vertical setting which I'd also suggest using if your car has it).
It doesn’t have a vertical mode on the hood, to my knowledge (the only cars I had that did were Land Rovers), but with the engine so far forward in the engine bay (as is typical of longitude-transaxle VW/Audi products), it’s not as big an issue.
Yeah, you're not pulling the engine so you don't need the clearance for a cherry picker, but the extra headroom is always nice when available. Best of luck, man!
I had two Phaetons when they were new.. and even brand-new, they had issues with their second batteries, which would lead to a confounding array of basically phantom, untraceable problems in the car's one zillion electrical systems.
Jack, wonder why the Germans adopted the British Leyland rule of always buy a car in pairs so you would have one to drive while the other is at the dealer for repairs. I know that GM has adopted a similar concept because several of our club members have had their LYRIQ’s stuck at the dealer for months for warranty repairs. And to bet all one club member had them give him a new Escalade when his was at the dealer for three months of his first four months of ownership (caveat He his a white shoe attorney and he was willing to go to the expense of suing, and they knew it).
Just the front glass, because that's all there was. The GX only has acoustic glass on the front doors, and that's not atypical. Even my prior car, a 2020 Range Rover Autobiography LWB costing $140,000 when new, only had acoustic glass on the front doors.
Apparently you're the all time #1 ACF commenter! Kind of wild you made so many so fast yesterday to be mistaken for a bot lol (I'm assuming that's what happened from some of the context Jack provided)
but yeah based on the email and error messages i got i literally commented so fast i tripped their spam/phishing flags so i had to email substack to get a manual revision to my account. sorted now it looks like
Well given what a disaster my dating life was in college, maybe having an app would have been better. On second thought, likely NOT. I still don't know how we got engineering degrees given all the drinking that we did.
In your opinion, do those who demand that “the cheap labor must flow” not think about what comes with all that cheap labor? Do they not care? Or do they think that they will avoid the consequences?
Oh Caramel...I'm very ambivalent about my experience using them with my BaT purchase. Not horrible, but not great. Made me a little less nervous to wire a lot of money for a n00b at purchasing an old car, across the country, over the Internet. They surprisingly understood how to handle the electronic titling in my state properly. But I think the good experience was really down to the honest sellers and getting what was represented, which I am grateful for. I didn't need Caramel for that. And the resold shipping-broker resold shipping was totally a rip off.
Seems the same here in California, I still don't do facebok and only occasionally buy off craigslist, always at rock bottom prices for random crap I want / need .
antagonize your nearest boomer and tell him the missus wants the corvette gone (a lie) and that barret jackson prices are going to skyrocket on your specific model and that youre selling it to him at a discount becuase hes a good guy
My ex wife never let up in spite of me paying the bills by being a Mechanic and building and selling affordable used cars, my Sweet now never complains and knows she'll ride in comfort and safety if not necessarily style .
Well, I hate to say it, but that’s why no reserve public auctions are amazing. You want it gone, you do the best you can to list it and be honest, it sells usually for a reasonable price and the buyer accepts responsibility for doing (or not doing) DD. I’ve disposed of many decent cars on public auctions and I can’t really imagine doing it any other way at this point.
You don’t have to use Hearst-BaT’s escrow thing as a private party seller. You can refuse (although they probably put the hard sell on you) and the link isn’t on your listing.
I helped my elderly friend deal with her wrecked car today. No more having the insurance adjuster come to the towing yard, it has to be moved to the auto auction site, so the adjuster can look at it there, and who knows how many days before the adjuster comes. It's three days from the wreck, and my friend is in limbo until the adjuster tells her whether her 2025 Kia Soul is totaled. And don't forget the matchmaker networks if you're looking for someone — work, school, church, relatives, etc. My son didn't need a dating service twenty years ago.
I've never used a dating service, been married to the same woman for 62 years, but can think of dozens of ways why one might be helpful. Time comes to mind, immediately. You like baseball, she doesn't. A wasted date avoided, what's wrong with that?
To me the chemistry between to is the critical thing, any woman I've been interested in I offer to take for coffee and a chat, things will go from there or not .
"A friend of mine was approached about selling his very fancy NA Miata"
may i have more info on this miata for my own personal interest
"go back to your dorm room to swipe on the app"
its not perfect but the reason for the app is so that you dont have to wonder if saying hi to some girl is going to come off as creepy (be attractive/dont be unattractive rules aside). at least if theyre on the app theyre open to something. or maybe theyre just fishing for attention until mr perfect comes along
"“Amelia”, a purple-haired bigot fascist Nazi whatever"
they made the manic pixie dream girl but not ran through and incredibly based plus a staunch nationalist. obviously everyone fell for her immediately
the uk govt is full of childish and out of touch retards but maybe thats just what i can discern from the other side of the pond
Dad really wanted a '76 Seville, but in our small town, such ostentatious displays of wealth were seen as unwelcome showmanship.
Instead, he bought a '76 Chevrolet Nova Councours, which was 85% of the way there in actuality, and 99% of the way there for everything that mattered to dad. He ordered it from the factory -- he'd done the plumbing on the dealership principle's house, and got a decent deal. It was the 350 4 bbl version of the General's small-block, and was everything a small-block should have been.
When I bought my first car a couple of years later ('68 Firebird from a police impound yard in STL), we'd already convinced dad to let us put a set of long-tube headers on it, along with some "righteous turbo mufflers".
I had no idea how deeply that car would stick in my psyche. It was comfortable, refined, and loud when you twisted it's tail. I can tell you of 100% certainly it would walk a '68 Firebird with a 326/Powerglide like the Poncho was dead weight... because it did, on the way home from buying said Firebird.
I drove the car into Dad's garage, put it on jackstands, and pulled the motor that night. It wouldn't move again for 18 months, but when it did -- it was my mission to make sure the old man's car never would never beat it again.
In that, I utterly failed. A '68 Firebird with a 400 Holly 4 bbl/TH400 and 3000 stall-speed torque converter was no match for it.
I know a guy who did, and he was quite happy with it.
But he was the guy who built my 71 Dodge pickup, which had the front subframe, drivetrain, gas tank, steering column, and half the instrument panel of a 1974 Custom Newport. It was pretty much a Chrysler that looked like a Dodge pickup.
When I graduated college and got my first real job I went car shopping. I found a beautiful jag xk8 from a lovely guy in the city who had just replaced it with a fresh xk (maybe xkr? It was sweet).
It was perfect. British racing green, tan interior, meticulous service records. My dad drove me down town for the test drive. The guy owned an unbelievable town house in Rittenhouse square and handed my dad and I the keys for a test drive. It all fell apart when I did a full pull getting on to the highway and realized it was slower than my dad's Oldsmobile aurora.
I ended up buying a 2004 Audi a6 with the 2.7. Substantially faster car.
The car I was looking to buy was a x100. Beautiful looking car, genuinely pretty slow. From what I understand the second gen cars are substantially better performers but I've never driven one. I also don't think the x150 is quite as good looking as the x100 or later f type.
My father also special ordered a 1976 Nova, but went the other way. Base model 2 door, only options were automatic and the hatchback. He added a Sparkomatic am/fm radio and speakers. He called it his Seville...we called it "the bomb" back when that was an insult instead of a compliment.
Before that, he had a 1973 Triump Spitfire that he bought new a couple months before finding out their first child was coming (me). I would lie on the parcel shelf behind the seats as it was our only car. When my sister was due two years later mom directed him not to pick her up from the hospital in the Spitfire. So the Nova was ordered. He kept it until trading it in for a new 1983 Honda Prelude which felt like a spaceship in comparison.
Yeah I had forgotten it too until the 1976 Nova was mentioned. It really was a bomb after five or six years of Ohio winters, and suffocatingly hot in the summer. Dad didn't learn his lesson on that front...the dealer wanted some crazy price for adding AC to the Prelude (still no factory AC option in 1983!) so we suffered in that one too.
My Dad brought me home from the hospital in a Chrysler Air Flow. He then lost his business in the Great Depression. After that it was Ford for the duration.
My wife’s first car was a 1979 Nova with a 305 and a slushbox.
Her aunt ordered it new, then she ended up with it when she turned 14.
She flogged the absolute shit out of it driving to and from school (Oklahoma Panhandle, so 22 miles each way mostly on gravel / dirt roads), then kept using it as a daily until 2005 when it got stuck in a barn on the ranch.
We pulled it out in 2020 and had it mechanically refurbished and NOS upholstery (not cheap) put in. It will wears original paint, and she still flogs the absolute shit out of it every chance she gets.
It’ll be the last car she’ll sell. Even the 1991 Miata will go first.
I honestly think I'd find a home for Dad's Nova, if I ever ran across it. IT was absolutely loaded -- crushed velour interior, A/C, POWER WINDOWS!, 8-track tape deck.
Dad was smug as all get-out over that car. Flew directly under the town's "don't get to big fer yer britches" radar, all the while having Caddy-level features and righteous SBC push (for 1976). I never thought he'd sell it, but in the end traded
... for a huge swing-and-a-miss 1985 Chevette diesel (with a slushbox).
I think its easy to not frame cars in the context of their era.
I've driven a Chevette diesel. It's a very slow car that had real usable space and used very little fuel.
Sure, he could have bought any number of Japanese cars in 1985 that were better in every way. I gather that you're from the same middle America that I now live in, and for him to not go with the home team would have raised eyebrows.
That trade probably made good sense at the time and place it went down.
Was this near Hendersonville, NC? Theres a beat up silver Rabbit diesel that smokes its way around my town. I remeber you or someone else here was from the Asheville area.
I'm generally given to hyperbole when speaking --so when I write, I tend to bury the lede in an effort to remain understated.
That car was slower than any vehicle I've ever driven before or since. It was glacial. It was a tinny, uncomfortable, rattly penalty-box. It also got 60+ mpg.
Steve, re read your wording here: “There is an engineer at the office I occasionally go into now.” Steve i do not think. And hope you do not go into an engineer at the office occasionally. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ok there’s a bloody comma missing there or something. I’m an engineer for cripe sakes, not an English major, and yes I have the stupid grammar checker OFF in MSWord. And I’ll probably get banned soon also.
Pipefitter here -- Steamfitters 353 (bows his head, twice smacks his fist on his own chest), baby. Maybe it makes me seem a little girl, but I love my native tongue, and like to write as a way of blowing off steam.
Try: "At the office where I occasionally work, there is an engineer who drives a '78-ish Nova".
I've always been fond of the 9C1 police special Novas that came out in the mid '70s in response to the need for better fuel economy. "Four-door Z28" is how I've heard them described.
There was an occasional ringer built back in the smog days. Your Dad might have gotten one.
I can recall running across smog era cars that were much quicker than they should have been with stock engines and unflipped breather lids. But they were like hens teeth, so my theory is they were factory ringers built with a cherry picked hand assembled engine and turned out into the world.
But the Nova was also light and short wheelbased, and a problem even with a normie engine. What a cool story. I wonder if anyone recognized how special it was and saved it?
No idea, but that car defined all explanations. We desmogged it (of course) when we put the headers on it -- but it was fast before then, and even faster afterward. It absolutely had the flipped air-cleaner. It had a beautiful low rumble at idle, and didn't really drone (at least not to my car-addled ears) too badly on the highway.
It was one of the weirdest things ever -- as you say: faster than it should have been. Dad loved that car, mom tolerated it. I was allowed to take it on a date exactly twice (both proms).
I ran across a mid 70s square body half ton owned by a local apple farmer that was like the Nova. The old guy that owned it had simply gone down to the dealer, as he told it, and ordered a nice going to town rig with a 350 4v but nothing special. It wound up being so fast he put a row of dead farm batteries in the bed (secured with angle and carriage bolts) to keep it from swapping ends. He hadn’t ordered anything extra fast. It just showed up that way. It also had nice seats and power everything, tape stripes, and some optional wheels instead of poverty caps. He desmogged it also and ran true duals, but that was it. He had to put a throttle stop on it when his sons started driving for fear they’d faceplant into a mountain or ditch.
I love that story. Dad absolutely should have put throttle stops on that Nova on the rare occasions when I was allowed to drive it. I guarantee he lost 1/8 of tread on the back tires each of the two times I was allowed behind the wheel.
Yes, especially since it could be delivered with more engine but not with more brakes. 70s brakes were super okay for cars that ran a 15 second quarter mile on a good day. Once you got something that would do 13s or 12s they got easily overwhelmed. Square bodies and Novas both came with the world's okayest brakes. Great way for a teenage boy to get over his head via testosterone encephalopathy.
I’ve legitimately thought it’s Wednesday all day so I thought nothing of this post showing up. Thanks for the reminder that it’s only Tuesday. It’s going to be a long week. Please post the Seville as a much needed distraction!
Maybe I just don't go out to breakfast very often, but where in the US can you get legit fresh-squeezed OJ for $4? I'm not even sure you could get a glassful out of $4 of oranges that you squeeze yourself.
I recently watched a report on just how much less citrus is grown in Florida now as compared to 20-25 years ago, it's staggering. Explains why it's gotten so damn pricey. When I was a kid in the 90s-00s all you saw were nonstop ads for OJ.
In that report I watched it was the explosion in residential building that took over a lot of the groves. But also disease pressure (high humidity environment vs growing out in CA).
The suspected leg-up Mercedes and Red Bull engines have over the rest is interesting. A larger coefficient of thermal expansion in the conrod vs. that of the cylinder increases the compression ratio, BMEP and power without changing displacement when the engine is hot. I don't know how the FIA will address this if true, but they can always invoke the "extra-development" relief to the other engine suppliers. Doesn't sound like and easy thing to verify.
"larger coefficient of thermal expansion in the conrod"
if thats what it was they arent they still limited by quench height?
i know somebody tried to get clever with conrods in the past but that was ti rods requiring a greater clearance becuase theyd stretch at high rpms so some midrange power was lost compared to the heavier steel rods
If the quench height is specified at operating temperature and max RPM, it would simply be bigger when the engine is cold. BTW, I'm not an engine designer, having a degree in another engineering discipline, so I may be all wet.
The first two 6 inline cylinder Diesel engines Mercedes did were rather problematic ~ one liked to bend the connecting rods, the other cracked cylinder heads at a prodigious rate .
My big brother has a '87 (?) 300SDL with the OM603 engine the original # 14 head cracked and I was able to find a nice #18 head in my local Pick-A-Part yard, had it spiffed up a bit and it's still going strong several years later although his cars look like mobile dump annexes .
For humor to be funny, it has to have an element of truth to it, and the right is better versed in the truth about human nature. Think of the many lefties unable to answer “what is a woman?” They can’t say the truth about human nature because it clashes with their identity politics.
Then, the right knows all of the left’s arguments, but the reverse is not true.
Put these two together and the right can mock and joke about ridiculous lefty positions effectively with genuine humor.
The interesting part is that there are a bunch of hypocrites on the right, and hypocrites are easy to mock, but the left is unable to effectively joke about them, whereas the right does a good job mocking their own.
Not being able to use the truth about human nature is what holds the left back and makes them unfunny. They are, however, really good at being scolds, since that is power based and not truth based.
There's a very pretty goth chick who is always at the Tokyo sumo grand tournaments, usually behind the rikishi on the left side of the TV screen. She does not need to dye her hair black, but being Japanese in this case is cheating a little.
Good evening, everyone.
Substack deleted "Speed" for reasons we don't understand. Trust me, he is coming back.
Another reader is taking a break, with no animosity involved.
I haven't banned ANYONE here.
We will get this straightened out.
Lest anyone think I jumped ship this is Amelius. I was just messing around with my substack settings and decided to start using my real name.
(Raises beer): Amen, brother!
Does this mean you're the ACF'er formally known as 'SPEED' ? .
I've been unblocked, let's see how many days I get this time .
I hope all who are in the horrific snow storm are doing okay ! .
-Nate
Me? No. Been Ice Age since the word "Go."
No ;
I meant the other person who replied, I'm not sharp on getting my replies to follow the correct post .
Hopefully SPEED with either re-up under a different name or be reinstated .
? Am I correct in thinking the many deleted posts were from SPEED ? .
That's odd as I keep getting blocked but my posts still seem to be here .
-Nate
What got you blocked if you doing mind me asking? You don't seem controversial.
It's nothing Nate is doing -- I think it's his firewall/internet provider. Substack doesn't like to leave him logged in, or accept more logins.
Sunday evening 2.1.26
_Finally_ able to log in again, I don't understand the problem either .
I tried turning off my VPN, doesn't help .
-Nate
It appears Speed is back…. The Canadian Mounties must have released him from „”banned” prison.
i cant be held down held back or held accountable for anything
😆😆😆
then you have a bright future in politics!
vote for me for literally any position of power
Car updates:
First off, thank you to everyone who made suggestions for my outdoor rodent problem. A large driveway rat caused $1,000 in damage to my 2025 Golf R, and $800 in damage to my 2005 Phaeton V8. Both are fixed, and I have them back. They are both in the garage right now, and I haven’t seen any more rodents, but I did put out lots of poison and have routinely sprayed all engine bays and undersides and tires with peppermint oil.
As for the Phaeton, specifically, I am embarrassed to disclose that the intermittent no-start issue was due to a loose battery terminal on the starting battery. It was an issue with unusual behavior because of the Phaeton’s unusual setup: there are two H8 batteries, one on each side of the trunk. The left one is the “comfort” battery and handles all cabin electronics. The right one is just for starting the car, and that’s the one that was loose. So when the terminal wasn’t fully connecting, the cabin electronics would turn on, but when trying to start the engine, it wouldn’t even attempt it and would just act like you were turning it to ON. Yet there wasn’t any kind of struggle with the cabin electronics or error message. You can flick the key the other direction and use the comfort battery to start the engine, but that didn’t work either, probably because the BMS prevented it. Oh, well, it’s solved now. Always check the simple stuff first.
The Phaeton now needs a bit of maintenance. The headliner fabric is beginning to sag, as it does, and I’m going to tackle that myself. I’ll reupholster the headliner, pillars and sunroof cover with a faux suede in a similar color to what the car came with, and then get a professional to sew the new headliner fabric onto the visors. It also needs the timing belt/water pump/thermostat service done, and I’m staring down the barrel of $2,500 minimum to do that, unless I do it myself. I think I will. I’ve never done it before, but if I do, it’s about $400 in parts and $200 in tools. A good learning experience, and it seems dead-simple to get the timing right and test spin the engine before trying to start it. And then spark plugs and coils. I think I’ll have to remove the plugs and coils anyway to do the belt change, so that’s half the labor right there.
The 2020 Range Rover Autobiography LWB was seriously annoying me and wasn’t even all that comfortable, plus it had a pretty bad interior-storage-space-to-footprint ratio. So I sold that for about what I paid and bought a 2026 Land Cruiser Premium, last month. I actually like the hybrid powertrain, which feels a lot like a diesel, and I’ve already taken it camping once. My one issue with it was how loud it was on the highway due to it being extremely boxy and not having laminated (acoustic) front door glass, so I retrofitted the glass from the Lexus GX 550 last week, and that worked a treat. All trims of the GX 550 other than the Premium and Overtrail (non-plus) have laminated glass.
I think I’m the first person in the world to do the glass retrofit and document it online, and a lot of people were saying you couldn’t, but I compared the GX and Land Cruiser parts diagrams and the only differences on the front doors were the glass itself, the retaining clips on the outside, and a forward door jamb seal that I don’t even think is necessary. It is *far* quieter now at ear-level.
oh my, swapping out the door glass sounds like a real nightmare. glad it apparently went well for you.
Dude, HELL YEAH on your GX glass swap! I don't know many people who would tear into their brand new vehicle in such a fashion, bravo sir!
Also I came across something on IG yesterday that may help prevent future rodent damaged wires. Honda 4019-2317 is a roll of loom tape impregnated with some sort of repellant and decorated with pictograms of dead mice. Might be worth wrapping the Phaeton harnesses while you're in the engine bay. I think you should try the timing job yourself, and I think you'll be successful!
Had to go look for a picture of the tape with dead mice on it.
https://www.hondapartsnow.com/resources/encry/actual-picture/hpn/large/2a736bf8748eae2517f0c83549583429/2906a7091eda392dc2ddd684c49c72ed.jpg
A bit disappointing that they aren’t some sort of anime mice.
I did see that tape as a suggestion on Reddit, and if I take the entire front end off the car (what VW and Audi call “service mode”) to do the timing job, it’ll be easy to get at all the wires. That’s a fantastic idea!
If they suggest pulling the front off, I'd suggest taking that suggestion. It will grant you full access to the engine and it'll be worth every minute pulling the front end apart. I could get the front of my e36 apart in under an hour, and in just a couple more hours, by myself in the driveway, the engine+trans were out (the hood had a full vertical setting which I'd also suggest using if your car has it).
It doesn’t have a vertical mode on the hood, to my knowledge (the only cars I had that did were Land Rovers), but with the engine so far forward in the engine bay (as is typical of longitude-transaxle VW/Audi products), it’s not as big an issue.
Yeah, you're not pulling the engine so you don't need the clearance for a cherry picker, but the extra headroom is always nice when available. Best of luck, man!
Just reading the phrase
COMFORT BATTERY
brought my Phaeton PTSD right back up to the fore.
I only thought Hitachi.
ISWYDT.
That's a 'comfort woman' joke.
TOO SOON.
If only!
I had two Phaetons when they were new.. and even brand-new, they had issues with their second batteries, which would lead to a confounding array of basically phantom, untraceable problems in the car's one zillion electrical systems.
Jack, wonder why the Germans adopted the British Leyland rule of always buy a car in pairs so you would have one to drive while the other is at the dealer for repairs. I know that GM has adopted a similar concept because several of our club members have had their LYRIQ’s stuck at the dealer for months for warranty repairs. And to bet all one club member had them give him a new Escalade when his was at the dealer for three months of his first four months of ownership (caveat He his a white shoe attorney and he was willing to go to the expense of suing, and they knew it).
Thanx for the honest update Sir .
-Nate
Nice work on swapping the OEM glass to acoustic glass. Did you only do the front windows or all four doors?
Just the front glass, because that's all there was. The GX only has acoustic glass on the front doors, and that's not atypical. Even my prior car, a 2020 Range Rover Autobiography LWB costing $140,000 when new, only had acoustic glass on the front doors.
I M A L I V E
terribly sorry for my unplanned departure lads it appears that ive shitposted so hard i tripped a breaker at substack hq
i do appreciate everyones concern for my well being
also i will not be changing my behavior whatsoever cause i dindu nuffin
Apparently you're the all time #1 ACF commenter! Kind of wild you made so many so fast yesterday to be mistaken for a bot lol (I'm assuming that's what happened from some of the context Jack provided)
hell yeah we numbah won baybee
but yeah based on the email and error messages i got i literally commented so fast i tripped their spam/phishing flags so i had to email substack to get a manual revision to my account. sorted now it looks like
Bro is literally a bot haha
On the subject of dating apps though:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DUEXTqnEhYi/?igsh=MWk3d2wxZThzN29lZw==
Speed Bot 3000 made the algorithm start smoking at Substack Central Command and the sprinklers went off.
natural born problem causer
find someone that can match your freak
ACF Legend!
This is how conspiracy theories start.
Welcome back, buddy.
thanks man
glad to be back
Glad it got sorted and you are back on ACF.
fairly easy to get it fixed thankfully
did you have to take a sensitivity training class?
Show me on the doll where the Substack admin touched you.
It's on MY wallet.
no but i would have cheated in that class anyway
Welcome back!
thanks man
Welcome back, sir.
thank you sir
I’d like to apologize…. TO ABSOLUTELY NOBODY!!!
We all missed you dearly. Our favorite cucknuck
its how i roll
also cucknuck? excuse me? the correct term is snow n[USER WAS BANNED AGAIN]
I can think of no worse insult than calling one a Torontonian
two twos see crodie substack be straight gerbers see
that fuckass patois "accent" makes me homicidal
Well given what a disaster my dating life was in college, maybe having an app would have been better. On second thought, likely NOT. I still don't know how we got engineering degrees given all the drinking that we did.
Maybe the institution you attended had a pilot program that allowed you to reverse-engineer your degree with real-world experience.
In your opinion, do those who demand that “the cheap labor must flow” not think about what comes with all that cheap labor? Do they not care? Or do they think that they will avoid the consequences?
no no and yes in that order
they hate you and want you dead (this applies to the invaders and those that invited the invaders in)
They don't care, and are convinced they will avoid the consequences.
Because the guys you're talking about think you're talking about somebody else.
The first thing you gotta do if you wanna Win At Life is jettison any belief that either the odds or the rules apply to YOU.
What Steve & Ice said .
It _IS_ possible to succeed at life once you put your mind to it .
Pretty much I didn't until I was 30, I was having too much fun 'on the loose' but decided I wanted to settle down and buy a house etcetera .
-Nate
It's amazing how many "exceptional" people there are out in the big world.
Oh Caramel...I'm very ambivalent about my experience using them with my BaT purchase. Not horrible, but not great. Made me a little less nervous to wire a lot of money for a n00b at purchasing an old car, across the country, over the Internet. They surprisingly understood how to handle the electronic titling in my state properly. But I think the good experience was really down to the honest sellers and getting what was represented, which I am grateful for. I didn't need Caramel for that. And the resold shipping-broker resold shipping was totally a rip off.
From what I can tell, your 1000+ number of rapes is, literally, at least an order of magnitude too low.
and nobody with any power is doing anything to stop it
surely something must cook off at some point right
I'm surprised the post about Amelia didn't mention Columbia at all.
the university or the outerwear brand
Both suck ass.
I hate that everything involves an internet middleman! Can’t be friends with anyone unless you use a middleman.
I’ve been ordered to sell my corvette and have no idea how to do that now.
I don’t want to deal with Mexican lowballers. That’s how I sold my wife’s Cherokee.
Fortunately the lowball was over what that POS was worth
But low ballers of another distinction would be OK?
white lowballers want to save a few bucks and negotaite fairly with you
indians and others just want it for free and dont care how bad it makes them look
Your view point is puzzling.
never had a white guy pretend to be a girl looking to buy a car for her sick father
Ah, but some people just want the discount. They don't really want the item, they just wanna feel like they beat the system.
I can’t believe you haven’t sold that yet!
Ah, Faceplant Marketplace, how many deals have we done in South Chicago barrio supermercado parking lots?
FWIW, I just bought a race kart from a guy in Kenosha on Marketplace. As represented, smooth transaction. Zero cost to anybody.
I dropped off 3 years ago. I log in to Marketplace, and then log out. It saved me a couple thousand bucks today.
You'd sell your Triumph in 3 days on that site.
I never have and never will.
I'm not selling it as a place to hang out. It IS however, the new ebay.
I gather it’s market by market and item by item, but Craigslist sucks here. Everyone moved to FB marketplace.
Seems the same here in California, I still don't do facebok and only occasionally buy off craigslist, always at rock bottom prices for random crap I want / need .
-Nate
antagonize your nearest boomer and tell him the missus wants the corvette gone (a lie) and that barret jackson prices are going to skyrocket on your specific model and that youre selling it to him at a discount becuase hes a good guy
then profit
That’s how I ended up with it
well shit
do unto others and all that
Before they do it to you!
Corvette Forum or Marketplace/Facebook groups. Everything else is a waste of time or money.
Even then, you have to filter out retards. There is nothing that I hate more than selling a car.
That’s why it’s still in the garage. But she’s putting the screws to me.
Time for a new "she" .
My ex wife never let up in spite of me paying the bills by being a Mechanic and building and selling affordable used cars, my Sweet now never complains and knows she'll ride in comfort and safety if not necessarily style .
-Nate
Which is why I exist at pond-life level; buy cheap, run for two/three years and then send it to the scrapper. No selling involved!
Ends up sold by the pound.
With care one can usually buy by the pound too, I got my 1961 Corvair coupe for .10 cents / pound .
-Nate
for a california car it was probably worth 10 times that too
In the UK, more ways than one!
Well, I hate to say it, but that’s why no reserve public auctions are amazing. You want it gone, you do the best you can to list it and be honest, it sells usually for a reasonable price and the buyer accepts responsibility for doing (or not doing) DD. I’ve disposed of many decent cars on public auctions and I can’t really imagine doing it any other way at this point.
I'll give you a dollar and pick it up at your front door! easy-peasy!
I’m upside down anyway
You don’t have to use Hearst-BaT’s escrow thing as a private party seller. You can refuse (although they probably put the hard sell on you) and the link isn’t on your listing.
I had no idea people even entertained it as an option. Just tell em to get a cashiers check like a normal human being.
Sí, señor Jeff. ¿Qué modelo de Corvette es?
Me gustaría ofrecerle 172.000*
*pesos
Ha
That rich woman has the same mental acuity and awareness of the pomeranian in her purse
There’s always money in the OJ stand
Why is the Pomeranian catching strays? It may have more awareness and acuity!
I’ve never been a fan of purse dogs. And dogs usually take on the characteristics of their owners
theyre basically large rats at that point
not real dogs
Fancy rats are clean, quiet and smart. Yappy toilet brushes on the other hand...
I mean, I'd feel better if they had an actual giant rat on the other end of that leash.
"That's Lou the Giant Rat. He's from Queens."
Traverse City is the perfect place for her. Just so long as she stays below The Bridge.
https://youtu.be/tSEBVUxwB9k?si=UsbHt66vOOjRnpcX
They are a popular band in my office.
Never go out of style =8-) .
-Nate
I helped my elderly friend deal with her wrecked car today. No more having the insurance adjuster come to the towing yard, it has to be moved to the auto auction site, so the adjuster can look at it there, and who knows how many days before the adjuster comes. It's three days from the wreck, and my friend is in limbo until the adjuster tells her whether her 2025 Kia Soul is totaled. And don't forget the matchmaker networks if you're looking for someone — work, school, church, relatives, etc. My son didn't need a dating service twenty years ago.
I've never used a dating service, been married to the same woman for 62 years, but can think of dozens of ways why one might be helpful. Time comes to mind, immediately. You like baseball, she doesn't. A wasted date avoided, what's wrong with that?
This I think .
To me the chemistry between to is the critical thing, any woman I've been interested in I offer to take for coffee and a chat, things will go from there or not .
-Nate
"A friend of mine was approached about selling his very fancy NA Miata"
may i have more info on this miata for my own personal interest
"go back to your dorm room to swipe on the app"
its not perfect but the reason for the app is so that you dont have to wonder if saying hi to some girl is going to come off as creepy (be attractive/dont be unattractive rules aside). at least if theyre on the app theyre open to something. or maybe theyre just fishing for attention until mr perfect comes along
"“Amelia”, a purple-haired bigot fascist Nazi whatever"
they made the manic pixie dream girl but not ran through and incredibly based plus a staunch nationalist. obviously everyone fell for her immediately
the uk govt is full of childish and out of touch retards but maybe thats just what i can discern from the other side of the pond
Re UK govt - too true! Much and widely loathed!
Wait it's Wednesday? Was about to post a Klockau Lust Object '76 Seville in Calumet Cream with tan leather, but I'll hold off a couple days. :)
Dad really wanted a '76 Seville, but in our small town, such ostentatious displays of wealth were seen as unwelcome showmanship.
Instead, he bought a '76 Chevrolet Nova Councours, which was 85% of the way there in actuality, and 99% of the way there for everything that mattered to dad. He ordered it from the factory -- he'd done the plumbing on the dealership principle's house, and got a decent deal. It was the 350 4 bbl version of the General's small-block, and was everything a small-block should have been.
When I bought my first car a couple of years later ('68 Firebird from a police impound yard in STL), we'd already convinced dad to let us put a set of long-tube headers on it, along with some "righteous turbo mufflers".
I had no idea how deeply that car would stick in my psyche. It was comfortable, refined, and loud when you twisted it's tail. I can tell you of 100% certainly it would walk a '68 Firebird with a 326/Powerglide like the Poncho was dead weight... because it did, on the way home from buying said Firebird.
I drove the car into Dad's garage, put it on jackstands, and pulled the motor that night. It wouldn't move again for 18 months, but when it did -- it was my mission to make sure the old man's car never would never beat it again.
In that, I utterly failed. A '68 Firebird with a 400 Holly 4 bbl/TH400 and 3000 stall-speed torque converter was no match for it.
Dad's Nova had it goin' ON.
Don't worry, I'll write it up in a few days. Love the 76-79 Sevilles. Especially the 76 with the eggcrate grille.
Dad did as well. I did not love the Oldsmobile engine in them.
I always felt like Tom Murphy could have fit a righteous 472 Cadillac engine in them, if he'd really wanted to.
That probably would have sucked the doors off a Mercedes 6.9, haha.
I know a guy who did, and he was quite happy with it.
But he was the guy who built my 71 Dodge pickup, which had the front subframe, drivetrain, gas tank, steering column, and half the instrument panel of a 1974 Custom Newport. It was pretty much a Chrysler that looked like a Dodge pickup.
The 751/2-76 eggcrate grill is the best!!!
When I graduated college and got my first real job I went car shopping. I found a beautiful jag xk8 from a lovely guy in the city who had just replaced it with a fresh xk (maybe xkr? It was sweet).
It was perfect. British racing green, tan interior, meticulous service records. My dad drove me down town for the test drive. The guy owned an unbelievable town house in Rittenhouse square and handed my dad and I the keys for a test drive. It all fell apart when I did a full pull getting on to the highway and realized it was slower than my dad's Oldsmobile aurora.
I ended up buying a 2004 Audi a6 with the 2.7. Substantially faster car.
For our info - was this a first gen or second gen (X150) XK?
If the second Gen, i must say I pine for one in the right colors… gorgeous and the backseat might work for under-10s
The car I was looking to buy was a x100. Beautiful looking car, genuinely pretty slow. From what I understand the second gen cars are substantially better performers but I've never driven one. I also don't think the x150 is quite as good looking as the x100 or later f type.
"an unbelievable town house in Rittenhouse square"
damn theyre naming squares after that kid
wild
My father also special ordered a 1976 Nova, but went the other way. Base model 2 door, only options were automatic and the hatchback. He added a Sparkomatic am/fm radio and speakers. He called it his Seville...we called it "the bomb" back when that was an insult instead of a compliment.
Before that, he had a 1973 Triump Spitfire that he bought new a couple months before finding out their first child was coming (me). I would lie on the parcel shelf behind the seats as it was our only car. When my sister was due two years later mom directed him not to pick her up from the hospital in the Spitfire. So the Nova was ordered. He kept it until trading it in for a new 1983 Honda Prelude which felt like a spaceship in comparison.
I forgot we used to call stuff, especially a junky car, a bomb as an insult. Thanks for the reminder.
Yeah I had forgotten it too until the 1976 Nova was mentioned. It really was a bomb after five or six years of Ohio winters, and suffocatingly hot in the summer. Dad didn't learn his lesson on that front...the dealer wanted some crazy price for adding AC to the Prelude (still no factory AC option in 1983!) so we suffered in that one too.
My Dad brought me home from the hospital in a Chrysler Air Flow. He then lost his business in the Great Depression. After that it was Ford for the duration.
My wife’s first car was a 1979 Nova with a 305 and a slushbox.
Her aunt ordered it new, then she ended up with it when she turned 14.
She flogged the absolute shit out of it driving to and from school (Oklahoma Panhandle, so 22 miles each way mostly on gravel / dirt roads), then kept using it as a daily until 2005 when it got stuck in a barn on the ranch.
We pulled it out in 2020 and had it mechanically refurbished and NOS upholstery (not cheap) put in. It will wears original paint, and she still flogs the absolute shit out of it every chance she gets.
It’ll be the last car she’ll sell. Even the 1991 Miata will go first.
I honestly think I'd find a home for Dad's Nova, if I ever ran across it. IT was absolutely loaded -- crushed velour interior, A/C, POWER WINDOWS!, 8-track tape deck.
Dad was smug as all get-out over that car. Flew directly under the town's "don't get to big fer yer britches" radar, all the while having Caddy-level features and righteous SBC push (for 1976). I never thought he'd sell it, but in the end traded
... for a huge swing-and-a-miss 1985 Chevette diesel (with a slushbox).
It was quite a comedown.
They made the 'Vette diesel with a slushbox? A friend had a 5 speed 4door that was glacially slow.
This is even weirder. A 1979 Olds Cutlass Calais diesel with a 5 speed manual! With T-Tops! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rs1NNmV86E
I'll see you one Cutlass and raise you one 1984 Pontiac 6000.
https://barnfinds.com/rare-diesel-1984-pontiac-6000/
I think its easy to not frame cars in the context of their era.
I've driven a Chevette diesel. It's a very slow car that had real usable space and used very little fuel.
Sure, he could have bought any number of Japanese cars in 1985 that were better in every way. I gather that you're from the same middle America that I now live in, and for him to not go with the home team would have raised eyebrows.
That trade probably made good sense at the time and place it went down.
Yep. The ‘vette was everything the Nova was not (economical, “sensible”, frugal). It was American. It was the zeitgeist for the 1985-era Midwest.
I believe a book was written about that car, can't remember the author or title but it was along the lines of UNSAFE AT ANY SPEED.
I was driving behind a VW Rabbit Diesel last week. It smelled like burning wax! How the hell did a Rabbit Diesel survive this long?
Was this near Hendersonville, NC? Theres a beat up silver Rabbit diesel that smokes its way around my town. I remeber you or someone else here was from the Asheville area.
Yes, in Hendersonville. I was on my way to the county dump, and so was the Rabbit. Too funny!
Comedown??? That’s like being kicked out of a perfectly good airplane at 30,000 ft without a chute.
I'm generally given to hyperbole when speaking --so when I write, I tend to bury the lede in an effort to remain understated.
That car was slower than any vehicle I've ever driven before or since. It was glacial. It was a tinny, uncomfortable, rattly penalty-box. It also got 60+ mpg.
For 60MPG I'd give it a go .
-Nate
that almost seems tolerable if you live at the top of a very tall hill and only ever need to go down
Where was the room for 8 tracks in that car? CD's are one thing but 8 tracks?
In 1976, CDs lived in the glove box. We had maybe 4 of them we listened to on closed loop.
Now they're 'obsolete' so fantastic finds of rare and / or obscure music can be found for pennies .
Oops ~ I meant dollars, pennies have gone away .
-Nate
you mean 8-track cassettes. or maybe compact cassette tapes. I don't recall CDs in 1976.
There is an engineer at the office I occasionally go in to now, that daily drives a ‘78 ish Nova.
Steve, re read your wording here: “There is an engineer at the office I occasionally go into now.” Steve i do not think. And hope you do not go into an engineer at the office occasionally. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ok there’s a bloody comma missing there or something. I’m an engineer for cripe sakes, not an English major, and yes I have the stupid grammar checker OFF in MSWord. And I’ll probably get banned soon also.
I certainly hope you don’t get banned. First time I read it I was laughing so hard because I know what you ment but it read completely different.
Pipefitter here -- Steamfitters 353 (bows his head, twice smacks his fist on his own chest), baby. Maybe it makes me seem a little girl, but I love my native tongue, and like to write as a way of blowing off steam.
Try: "At the office where I occasionally work, there is an engineer who drives a '78-ish Nova".
Consider me just like ChatGPT, but more gruff.
I've always been fond of the 9C1 police special Novas that came out in the mid '70s in response to the need for better fuel economy. "Four-door Z28" is how I've heard them described.
There was an occasional ringer built back in the smog days. Your Dad might have gotten one.
I can recall running across smog era cars that were much quicker than they should have been with stock engines and unflipped breather lids. But they were like hens teeth, so my theory is they were factory ringers built with a cherry picked hand assembled engine and turned out into the world.
But the Nova was also light and short wheelbased, and a problem even with a normie engine. What a cool story. I wonder if anyone recognized how special it was and saved it?
No idea, but that car defined all explanations. We desmogged it (of course) when we put the headers on it -- but it was fast before then, and even faster afterward. It absolutely had the flipped air-cleaner. It had a beautiful low rumble at idle, and didn't really drone (at least not to my car-addled ears) too badly on the highway.
It was one of the weirdest things ever -- as you say: faster than it should have been. Dad loved that car, mom tolerated it. I was allowed to take it on a date exactly twice (both proms).
I ran across a mid 70s square body half ton owned by a local apple farmer that was like the Nova. The old guy that owned it had simply gone down to the dealer, as he told it, and ordered a nice going to town rig with a 350 4v but nothing special. It wound up being so fast he put a row of dead farm batteries in the bed (secured with angle and carriage bolts) to keep it from swapping ends. He hadn’t ordered anything extra fast. It just showed up that way. It also had nice seats and power everything, tape stripes, and some optional wheels instead of poverty caps. He desmogged it also and ran true duals, but that was it. He had to put a throttle stop on it when his sons started driving for fear they’d faceplant into a mountain or ditch.
I love that story. Dad absolutely should have put throttle stops on that Nova on the rare occasions when I was allowed to drive it. I guarantee he lost 1/8 of tread on the back tires each of the two times I was allowed behind the wheel.
Yes, especially since it could be delivered with more engine but not with more brakes. 70s brakes were super okay for cars that ran a 15 second quarter mile on a good day. Once you got something that would do 13s or 12s they got easily overwhelmed. Square bodies and Novas both came with the world's okayest brakes. Great way for a teenage boy to get over his head via testosterone encephalopathy.
Stan ;
Drag speeds are nice but knowing how to out drive the Old Man (and most others) is, IMO far better .
-Nate
I’ve legitimately thought it’s Wednesday all day so I thought nothing of this post showing up. Thanks for the reminder that it’s only Tuesday. It’s going to be a long week. Please post the Seville as a much needed distraction!
Maybe I just don't go out to breakfast very often, but where in the US can you get legit fresh-squeezed OJ for $4? I'm not even sure you could get a glassful out of $4 of oranges that you squeeze yourself.
I recently watched a report on just how much less citrus is grown in Florida now as compared to 20-25 years ago, it's staggering. Explains why it's gotten so damn pricey. When I was a kid in the 90s-00s all you saw were nonstop ads for OJ.
When I was a kid in the '40s, all you saw were orange groves, we lived in SoCal. Now they have been replaced by Disneyland and Anaheim.
"Where have all the (oranges) gone....."
Many are laughing but citrus groves and grape vineyards used to be just a few miles outside of Los Angeles, all gone now to housing .
-Nate
In that report I watched it was the explosion in residential building that took over a lot of the groves. But also disease pressure (high humidity environment vs growing out in CA).
Citrus greening disease caused by a bacteria from China.
https://www.sciencealert.com/this-disease-is-wreaking-havoc-on-citrus-fruit-and-its-spreading-worldwide
Yep that's the one
gee thanks china
a country we totally arent in any kind of war with
China, makers of delicious lead paint and factories with suicide nets.
The groves are now in the central valley.
The suspected leg-up Mercedes and Red Bull engines have over the rest is interesting. A larger coefficient of thermal expansion in the conrod vs. that of the cylinder increases the compression ratio, BMEP and power without changing displacement when the engine is hot. I don't know how the FIA will address this if true, but they can always invoke the "extra-development" relief to the other engine suppliers. Doesn't sound like and easy thing to verify.
"larger coefficient of thermal expansion in the conrod"
if thats what it was they arent they still limited by quench height?
i know somebody tried to get clever with conrods in the past but that was ti rods requiring a greater clearance becuase theyd stretch at high rpms so some midrange power was lost compared to the heavier steel rods
If the quench height is specified at operating temperature and max RPM, it would simply be bigger when the engine is cold. BTW, I'm not an engine designer, having a degree in another engineering discipline, so I may be all wet.
Comment removed is downright prolific for a Wednesday OT!
Yes, I count 4 removed comments.
Makes me curious about the content and sorry I didn't get here before removal.
Seems like speeds account got zapped. All of his comments seem to be removed.
WB!
tyty
too many rules comment #600+
Well ;
The first two 6 inline cylinder Diesel engines Mercedes did were rather problematic ~ one liked to bend the connecting rods, the other cracked cylinder heads at a prodigious rate .
My big brother has a '87 (?) 300SDL with the OM603 engine the original # 14 head cracked and I was able to find a nice #18 head in my local Pick-A-Part yard, had it spiffed up a bit and it's still going strong several years later although his cars look like mobile dump annexes .
-Nate
This Amelia video is fantastic. https://x.com/Pirat_Nation/status/2012646114139230254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2012646114139230254%7Ctwgr%5Ee900dcb5618ee090d27fa98df06e1180cdfc1358%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fhotair.com%2Ftree-hugging-sister%2F2026%2F01%2F19%2Ftwo-tier-keri-has-a-problem-called-waifu-amelia-and-it-is-screamingly-funny-n3811000
There’s a German version with “Maria” but it’s not as good.
Isn’t it interesting that our side does a massively better job of jujitsu on these things. I wonder why.
For humor to be funny, it has to have an element of truth to it, and the right is better versed in the truth about human nature. Think of the many lefties unable to answer “what is a woman?” They can’t say the truth about human nature because it clashes with their identity politics.
Then, the right knows all of the left’s arguments, but the reverse is not true.
Put these two together and the right can mock and joke about ridiculous lefty positions effectively with genuine humor.
The interesting part is that there are a bunch of hypocrites on the right, and hypocrites are easy to mock, but the left is unable to effectively joke about them, whereas the right does a good job mocking their own.
Not being able to use the truth about human nature is what holds the left back and makes them unfunny. They are, however, really good at being scolds, since that is power based and not truth based.
I find that offensive.
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That is not a goth chick.
Agreed, but they made her very likeable!
For some reason she looks like the dumbest blonde imaginable.
Yeah, goth chicks always have dyed black hair.
There's a very pretty goth chick who is always at the Tokyo sumo grand tournaments, usually behind the rikishi on the left side of the TV screen. She does not need to dye her hair black, but being Japanese in this case is cheating a little.
How do you get Sumo on TV?
We use youtube. The NHK World channel shows highlights from the six major tournaments.
oh so "welcome to the nhk" was based on a real channel
This is one of the best things I've seen the past two weeks.
Right? It’s perfect.
I was searching for that to post it, so well done for saving me the faff!
I wish it had closed captioning .
-Nate
You guys made me dig out my earbuds and listen, this was funny and very well done .
-Nate
Relevant because they just confirmed a woman as the Archbishop of Canterbury.
it just never stops does it
"This Amelia video is fantastic"
if the guy who made it was in england he probably got arrested for that (becuase the cops are gay)
"There’s a German version with “Maria” but it’s not as good"
i really thought she would be named erika
It was Maria in the Sound of Music.
A French one named 'Joan' is needed.
Oh yeah! In full armor!
An American one named Jenny would be nice as well.