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That might be a lot of beers for Larry to buy. Maybe he could just get a keg?

Didn't white letters go out of style in the 80s? Edit: every tire I've ever seen is lettered on both sides.

That beer would only cost me about $22 round trip in an Elio. Not much worse than a football game. I'd like to run the perimeter of the lower 48, but someone will beat me to being the first. Pesky job and stuff like that get in the way.

Nice work! The local Lions club builds and raffles a beautiful wooden canoe every year. I'll get pics for ya when this year's hits the streets.

Good to see the 11 in Victory Lane, first Toyota win since he won Talladega last spring.

Not looking smart right now, the 4 is strong again.

Forgot to go through last week's points. Will catch up 2 weeks tonight. Should take Harvick again, but I'm not feeling it. 24 wins today.

Soot, and the accompanying black color of the oil is only a small factor. If I changed oil on my tractors based on color, I'd have 10 hour change intervals. A friend with much more equipment than me, saves almost $10K a year by oil sampling rather than changing oil based solely on miles or...

Cody, let me explain a little more. The Elio has to compromise. What I need for an optimal gear running highway speeds all the time is different from what someone in the city would find optimal. Someone out in the western states might need a higher ratio than I do even. Problem is, the off the...

Apples and oranges, Cody. Big rigs run a fairly constant speed a high percentage of the time. A car spends it's time at much more varied speeds. Ideally, gearing the E to run in direct at say 50-60, will do better in OD above 60 despite the mechanical losses. Gearing to run direct at 60+ means...

Holy minor details Batman! Just make em steel wheels that don't leak like every !#%? aluminum wheel I have seems to.

Little difference in dune sand like that, it's almost a fluid. Lots of wheelspin creates thrust more like a boat propeller than a standard tire.

The motor comes immediately to mind, although not made of the sheet Al that the $ going to ALCOA is supporting.

I think it will trickle into other models. The F150 was the easy choice to start with due to it's sheer size. 700# of weight saved per truck I think they're claiming. BTW, there are high strength steels out there as well that can get similar weight savings. 2-3x the tensile strenght of mild...

Just rent a boat, or take one of the many resorts' launch trips. It takes a good big deep V to handle the waves out there. Better yet, let me know when you plan to Elio on up, and I'll con my buddy into dragging his 20' walleye sled up for the weekend. I seldom need much of a reason to go...

I support optional SS systems. I will not pay for one, and be miffed if I have to pay for one as a stock item. I drive 42 miles to work, 50 minutes on a bad day. 3 stop signs - if I'm unlucky I will sit at all of them for less than a minute combined. 4 stop lights, the longest cycle (timed)...

Be easy to re engineer to Al down the road. Some tooling mods needed for stamped parts, more complex to weld, but nothing that can't be done fairly easily in the big picture. Carbon fiber as mentioned by BlioKart on the other hand, is a complete process change. An aluminum chassis higher hp...

Guessing turbo grenaded. Probably some intake or exhaust tubing that was sticking out afterward.

I never was any good at pulling that trick. Busted again!

A NASCAR stock car in road race trim. Just a quick trip thru town. I'll be nice, I promise.