balthazar

I heard that the only way Costco can afford to sell 40 16-oz bottles of water for $3 is that they simply collect rainwater from the gutters on their buildings & put it into the used water bottles raided from local bins on recycling day.

Poking around online shows 'Top Tier' is a specification entity developed by OEMs & fuel retailers, that determines if a given gasoline meets the criteria and can be so advertised. toptiergas.com, the entity in question, has no mention of "different levels" of Top Tier. It either meets the criteria, or it does not. Perhaps your trusted retailer friend is simply erroneous here, despite his conviction. It's happened.

Let me ask you this - what technology do the 'good mechanics' utilize to determine what brand of gas is in the tanks of the vehicles they work on (were they to remotely care)? Is it by chance a Hewlett-Packard 5710A dual-column gas chromatigraph with flame analyzation detectors?

They’re also cutting costs for the sake of the balance sheet.

You're still kidding, right? Nevermind; I don't want to know.

Who nurses a drink for 24 hours??? Besides, one has plenty of opportunity when they're pulled over for a half hour every 150 miles to "stretch their legs, eat another sandwich, pee (and get more ice)" while their electric vehicle takes on more kilowatts.

Here's your personal 'good lord!'.

Sure you have; that 'good lord' covered all of page 105 AND 104.

Good Lord.

^ Car full, indeed.

Yuma AZ 1937 :

Took the steering wheel, column, speedometer/gauge unit out, then took the dash substructure out. Going to clean/sand and 'jamb' spray around the ashtray & glovebox, so when those are opened, it's finished. Also going to brush-paint the firewall behind it, so I can permanently bolt the dash structure back in. Down the road the dash tops and a few other like pieces will get professionally painted. Interior is going to black. Paint tomm. EDIT :: prepped , primed & sprayed 1st coat this morning. Unfortunately, I noticed soon after that it was speckled with pollen. Have to wait 48 hrs, then do a quick 600-grit light sand & spray a 2nd coat inside. EDIT 2 :: resprayed, looks good. Worked on cleaning the ashtray & it's slide, did some more sound deadening, (searched for my radio/ashtray bracket to no avail), brush painted the upper inside firewall. Had to trim the corners of a fiberglass glovebox from my parts car- for some reason it would not seat all the way in the dash opening. Weird, but it fits now.

Why would want a mercedes engine in a classic Mercury? ?

Finally found my damned ashtray after looking for like 45 mins. Was on the roof of the '64 under some stuff. That was the last piece in the dash so I can be sure what area I need to prep/paint so's I can bolt the dash structure in permanently; a contained area around the ashtray & glovebox; the dash top & other exposed bits will get professionally painted down the road. With a front bench seat hip room measurement of 66.1", the B-59 provides a very comfy nap spot (I'm only 68" tall), either laying down or just leaning back. One of the reasons I didn't go bucket/console like everyone else building a period resto-mod car always does.

Maybe there’s not much of a story there to be ‘interesting’.

^ yeah- its a hilarious proposition. Take a $5K car, pay $175K and make it slower with a fraction of the range. Meanwhile you still (assumedly) have the same vinyl sticker ‘wood’ and shoddy, cheap engineering. would anyone do this to a Pinto?

I question whether many people would be happy dumping major coin into a car as crappily built as a 70s-80s mercedes.

Huge difference between ‘scrapes’ and ‘scraps’. ?

Jackson MS 1939 :

My father had one; '77-95. Not quick, fairly marshmellowy, but a workhorse that ate up highway. It's tempting from a sentimental standpoint.

'78 Catalina Safari with 28K miles : https://maine.craigslist.org/cto/d/waldoboro-1978-pontiac-catalina-safari/7129317445.html

Saw a steel-bodied Jeep 2-dr wagon, probably the 50s. Parked up to highway advertising business. Pic off Google streetview : '69 Catalina 4-dr hardtop, red, very clean original, in driveway with historic plates.

hour-long documentary on the Batmobile :