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Interesting article from Hot Rod magazine in 2017. Nutshelled : drilled/slotted rotors are akin to fake hood scoops.

You can't stretch a fanboi fantasy any farther than that! The sad/lame GLB :

Euro- I don't know it. Thought maybe Autobianchi, but no. EDIT :: It's a nissan figaro, and it came out in 1991.

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American Supercar ~

This '66 GS is in Hemmings, billed as being meticulously correctly restored to factory spec. Asking price is $110K ~

People are free to waste as much of their OWN money as they want. But when you waste OTHER’S money, that’s theft in my book.

You'd think I'd have a greater interest in aircraft; my father is a retired mechanical/aerospace engineer for the Department of the Navy / Jet Propulsion Lab. Last engine project he worked on was the F35's engines.

^ it’s possible but not common WRT the late 1800s- early 1900s.

American owned. God forbid Gov’t run!! Trying is good but Implementation is the only measure by which we move forward.

Only if national defense is socialist

It should not simply be about dollar amount but efficient, cost-effective use of precious dollars.

That totally misses the point. National energy production should be nationalized as much as is prudent/ possible.

One house I’ve researched for one reason or another was about 1675 SF but had 6 exterior doors (built in 1889). It may have to do with a combo of things: security was a minor concern way back and hallways seemed to be considered wasted space. One family member had a house built at least as early as 1812 and it had bedrooms that opened into other bedrooms rather than any hall (which there wasn’t any).

Relative to dfelt’s post: where are solar panels almost all made? This was supposed to be national level priority but politicians did nothing to make it that way.

Wait- I thought tariffs never worked?

Ask yourselves this: how did infrastructure do under balanced budget Clinton? Everything glass smooth & crack free? Of course not! And your answer as to why is simple: Gov’t was involved. The ‘answer’ is NOT what percentage of the budget goes where. Again; big picture. People talk about the fiscal future of federal healthcare but you never hear a whisper about Medicare fraud running 100 billion annually in fraud. I’ve paid attention to some local infrastructure projects, the costs are always astronomical. Why? Again it’s simple; the people approving these projects are Gov’t pencil pushers who do not care how much of your money gets spent. In fact, many of them wear huge project price tags as a BADGE OF HONOR. How do you get local, state & fed spending & budgets under control? Fire everyone & start over. Take the last budgets approved & cut them by 2% on every renewal. Strike down the entire system that encourages municipalities to spend every dime they have to avoid a budget cut next year & instead incentivize cost cutting/ savings measures. Theres a ton of incremental, healing methods that would strength future fiscal health, but almost no one is willing to enact them because the atmosphere is so toxified.

If taxes (which a tariff is on imported, non-jurisdictional commerce) "cost" American jobs, why not reduce ALL U.S .taxes across the board by a tangible amount? Make unemployment 0% and pull more workers in from those who dropped out of looking for work (some 60 million). So protectionism simply does not work for China? How the hell else has that country risen so far so fast? These 'blinders-on' "comprehensive analysis's" seemingly always fail to look at the broader picture, and commonly invoke singular examples especially suited to support a POV (the steel industry- one whose health began to be chipped away at by China (chiefly) DECADES before 2002. 'Didn't save the industry' = too little too late).

At times it feels like the US is chained to China’s radiator & getting beaten regularly & for years. We’ve had numerous ‘adult’ negotiations, but we’re still in economic shackles.

3 front doors ~

Swell lookin' joint [Fort Dodge, Iowa] ~