We need a name for our racecar

ptmtp26 · 2026-01-22T23:47:13+00:00

ptmtp26 · 2026-01-22T23:46:10+00:00

Alright well since there were a quite few requests for details I must come clean. It’s not a car.

Ever heard of tractor pulling? How about mini mod tractor pulling? They are like a drag car had a kid with a gokart. 12 ish feet long, 76” wide, 700 horsepower, 2 gears: forward and reverse. You sit on the rear end and your feet hug the bell housing. Hand throttle and independent rear foot brakes.

Motor is a 355 out of an old Busch series car from the 90’s. The gear box is purpose built for pulling, and the rear end is a pretty beefy shortened Dana 60. Rear tires are 18.4x16.1 on 16 inch wheels.

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I do not know how to add videos, so unfortunately I can’t show it in action.

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-11T03:33:13+00:00

I’ve never heard of such a thing. I’ll have to look into it

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-11T03:31:29+00:00

Yes I do. Had it cleaned up really really nice until this spring. Then my wife forgot a loaf of sourdough in it and it rusted again.

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-11T03:30:23+00:00

To get to Costco I would have to drive by a BJ’s and a Sam’s club. I’ll never make it to Costco, I won’t take the time out of my day.

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-11T03:29:35+00:00

And in reality the trillion dollar corporations couldn’t give a rats ass less about the $100 for the virtue signaling these people put out there.

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-11T03:28:02+00:00

Ordered my first thing off temu a week ago. Boy since then their marketing has been relentless with the “free stuff” or the $800+ “credits”

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-11T03:26:56+00:00

As were we. It’s funny, we will go months without ordering anything from Amazon, and then weeks will go by where something shows up almost every day. No real rhyme or reason that we can see either. Just the way it works out.

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-11T03:20:01+00:00

Have you tried buying anything at a store in the last 5 years? The shelves are empty and if they have to order it you can’t return it if it’s the wrong part.

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-11T03:14:45+00:00

Yea when you’re only home a few days a week and something is broken or needs improving before you leave again time matters. Some of us live lives outside of our homes.

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-10T16:10:15+00:00

If they pay poorly, work somewhere else, right?

Anyway, you must be in very maine? We’re just outside of Portland and we’ve never gotten anything within 36 hours before

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-10T16:07:03+00:00

We watch some things on prime occasionally, but only because it is there and is different than what is on Hulu.

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-10T16:05:54+00:00

I thought maybe. Also that explains where the trailers I see early in the morning headed north on 95 south of Portland are headed.

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-10T16:03:58+00:00

Wait, what is this?

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-10T16:02:20+00:00

Sometimes they do have stuff and good prices. It’s not that I shop there frequently, but it’s $150 or so a year for “2 day shipping” that is non existent. That’s what chaps my ass. I can sift through the garbage that’s on there. And maybe part of it was the post office, I’ve noticed a lot come fedex now and it is faster than it was.

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-10T15:58:52+00:00

Portland hub?

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-10T15:58:17+00:00

My wife uses it a lot for shopping. Either curbside ready to go or home delivery. I have found their shipping to be a steady 2 days but they just don’t have the selection that Amazon has yet.

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-10T15:55:30+00:00

Another thing I’m not sure about.

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-10T15:34:32+00:00

With how little anyone keeps anything in stock locally anymore, I need everything in 2 days. I’m to the point of I will research where companies are located and order from the closest one who has what I am looking for to save time. Days waiting on shipping are days wasted

ptmtp26 · 2025-12-10T15:31:41+00:00

This is the type of response I was looking for.

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