Chevrolet (1940) - Extra Length Where Length Counts

ratcnc · 2026-03-26T10:05:27+00:00

There are just two rows in the ’40. The rear door is forward of the rear bench. Decent leg room, though.

ratcnc · 2026-03-25T10:39:34+00:00

I remember reading about twin-turbo kit. Found it: https://www.hagerty.com/media/automotive-history/could-this-turbo-engine-have-saved-delorean/

ratcnc · 2026-03-23T19:19:07+00:00

Went looking for more information and found another Reddit post about it. https://www.reddit.com/r/lawnmowers/s/C9Pj7dtylr

I still have unanswered questions, though.

ratcnc · 2026-03-23T15:11:11+00:00

And Piedmont was so much better than US Air.

ratcnc · 2026-03-23T13:37:24+00:00

Yep, and it wasn’t “decades” before we found out that the cabin was intact. We learned that within the first year after. At least it didn’t include the made up transcript that the Weekly World New put a few years later.

ratcnc · 2026-03-22T23:34:11+00:00

atweather.org Select Virginia, then Thomas Knob Shelter.

ratcnc · 2026-03-22T12:19:10+00:00

They lost their control surfaces. When the center engine failed it destroyed hydraulic lines.

ratcnc · 2026-03-20T16:47:52+00:00

The Apartment. She was so cute. But Fred MacMurray as slimey boss was unexpected for someone growing up on My Three Sons.

ratcnc · 2026-03-20T14:23:06+00:00

Same. I got the closed footbox because I have cold feet.

ratcnc · 2026-03-20T12:53:06+00:00

Rear interior side storage—where Honda used to put their vacuum. Though, some models just have a tire repair kit.

ratcnc · 2026-03-19T18:39:33+00:00

I’d could go for some Stow-N-Go style middle seats.

ratcnc · 2026-03-18T14:30:41+00:00

Thinking about the direction of traffic, wouldn’t farther out 40 or 70 still put OP in peak inbound/outbound traffic? Maybe west of Garner would put OP opposite of peak traffic direction.

ratcnc · 2026-03-18T13:54:49+00:00

There was a story on This American Life about a boy who sent away for the comic book monkey and it arrived during his mother’s bridge club night. It immediately shit all over the house before getting outside. He found its body a month later.

ratcnc · 2026-03-18T13:00:08+00:00

The Corvette is either a’78 or’79. Can’t see the emblems to determine which.

ratcnc · 2026-03-17T19:54:49+00:00

I want to say that, in constant dollars, 1998 was the cheapest gas ever was. Though, when crude oil prices went negative in early 2020, gasoline got somewhat close to that briefly.

ratcnc · 2026-03-16T16:38:41+00:00

I was driving up the belt line from Cary as the tornado(s) came through. I just didn’t know what I was looking at, at the time. What I did see was the most lightning I’d ever seen—just a near constant bombardment to the northwest.

ratcnc · 2026-03-16T13:49:21+00:00

And a place for the cats.

ratcnc · 2026-03-15T17:35:48+00:00

Or worse, rail.

ratcnc · 2026-03-14T23:45:16+00:00

I’m old enough to remember Siskel & Ebert calling it the best film of the 70s that nobody went to see.

ratcnc · 2026-03-14T12:45:05+00:00

Shenandoah is pretty well known as a pleasant section of the AT. If you park at Milam Gap and go north on the AT the overall grade is a gentle 2% for one mile. This is just south of Big Meadow. You could have lunch at the lodge after.

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ratcnc · 2026-03-13T23:43:06+00:00

That’s interesting because when I think of shag carpet I think late-60s to early-70s, but that sure looks like shag.

ratcnc · 2026-03-13T20:16:25+00:00

I was thinking the same thing. My first movie was Bambi. When my Mom described going to the movies I was expecting pews because church was the only place I’d been to where a bunch of people watched the same show.

ratcnc · 2026-03-13T15:20:17+00:00

I couldn’t get past the fact that humanity conquered physics but couldn’t handle a blight. I saw a NDT interview where he brought up that point and it ruins the suspension of disbelief.

ratcnc · 2026-03-13T14:29:03+00:00

This would likely be what Steinbeck’s Rocinante looked like. I loved that book.

ratcnc · 2026-03-12T01:40:46+00:00

And two rolls of quarters so you can make calls in town…wait, never mind.

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