Car Thread

[healey36]

I have hundreds of excuses...

[healey36]

Another from the Vanderbilt Cup race, this time 1910...Harry Grant and his #18 Alco:



Alco, as in Schenectady...

Healey

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Healey, I can just about imagine how excited everybody present for such races must have been, knowing full well they were venturing into a whole new world that was bound and determined to change and grow exponentially, and in a very short time period. And so many items associated with the new sport had to be invented and/or modified, such as the goggles the drivers came to wear. I'd imagine some clever guy invented them and made a pot-of-gold in profit. At least, that is my impression, from this vantage point in time.
Murph

[healey36]

...and so the beating begins:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/prince-harry-meghan-markle-take-left-hand-drive-jaguar-reception-193739584.html

[webenda]

Is it OK if I don't care what side of their Jaguar the steering wheel is on?

[rogruth]

Maybe that shows the versatility of the prince.

[webenda]

Shouldn't there be an IQ test as part of the written test to get a drivers license?

I tried something a little different today. I filled up my 2003 BMW 325i wagon with Coca-Cola! It costs less than gasoline.
> https://youtu.be/4h-XOckOwN8

[Roy]

Shouldn't there be an IQ test as part of the written test to get a drivers license?

I tried something a little different today. I filled up my 2003 BMW 325i wagon with Coca-Cola! It costs less than gasoline.
> https://youtu.be/4h-XOckOwN8

Not quite the same as urinating into the water jacket of your Lewis machine gun, is it?

[rogruth]

Shouldn't there be an IQ test as part of the written test to get a drivers license?

I tried something a little different today. I filled up my 2003 BMW 325i wagon with Coca-Cola! It costs less than gasoline.
> https://youtu.be/4h-XOckOwN8

Wayne,
You didn't watch the video before you filled up with Coke? Shame, shame. That is not like you.
Tongue in cheek of course.
What a waste of good Coke. Look how many 2L bottles of Coke could be bought for the repair cost.
Look how many gallons of gas could be bought.

I guess this was done as an experiment.?

[HONDO74]

Shouldn't there be an IQ test as part of the written test to get a drivers license?

I tried something a little different today. I filled up my 2003 BMW 325i wagon with Coca-Cola! It costs less than gasoline.
> https://youtu.be/4h-XOckOwN8

Wayne,
You didn't watch the video before you filled up with Coke? Shame, shame. That is not like you.
Tongue in cheek of course.
What a waste of good Coke. Look how many 2L bottles of Coke could be bought for the repair cost.
Look how many gallons of gas could be bought.

I guess this was done as an experiment.?

Roger, if you read the comment under the video the guy says "Today, I decided to kill a car instead of an iPhone. "

Wayne is just putting us on again.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Shouldn't there be an IQ test as part of the written test to get a drivers license?

Some sort of intelligence test should be required for almost everything, but IQ tests are probably not best for everything.

[Wolf]

There are no reliable tests to determine existence of, nor to quantify the extent of common sense...

[Rufus T. Firefly]

There are no reliable tests to determine existence of, nor to quantify the extent of common sense...

Indeed, and why I did not use the phrase "common sense", for it does seem to be truly uncommon in its distribution.

[webenda]

There are no reliable tests to determine existence of, nor to quantify the extent of common sense...

Sure there are. Just google, "common sense test." I got about 760,000,000 results.
I decide to take this one:> http://brainfall.com/quizzes/do-you-hav ... #Sk8ACNQgm

[robert.]

There are no reliable tests to determine existence of, nor to quantify the extent of common sense...

Sure there are. Just google, "common sense test." I got about 760,000,000 results.
I decide to take this one:> http://brainfall.com/quizzes/do-you-hav ... #Sk8ACNQgm

I only got about 693,000 results. Did you take one of the tests?