I’ll tell you, the list of things I wish I’d thought of only gets longer. If you want to wow them at the Halloween dinner party, serve them a hand: I love the attention to detail—the fingernails, the bone stump, and so forth. You can get the recipe/assembly instructions, for this and other variations, here. … Read more
OK, this is an obnoxious vehicle: Meet the 2010 Ford F-150 SVT Raptor. It’s almost a foot wider than the rest of the F-150 family. It’s a 4×4, of course, with a custom heavy-duty high-travel suspension, and I’ve read more than one giddy review describing dune-hopping at obscene speed in it. It’s a truck for … Read more
As a demonstration of how much vehicle crash safety has improved over the past 50 years, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety recently pitted a 1959 Chevrolet Bel Air and a 2009 Chevrolet Malibu against one another in the standard 40-mph frontal offset crash test (hat tip, Dad). Wow. There is a lot to be … Read more