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Okay, full disclosure: When faced with lifting a 100-lb. or so tire and steel wheel assembly some 6 feet up, I also cheat. Using a home built "sky hook" and the tractor was much easier than wrestling this trailer's spare into place by hand. But if it was an aluminum wheel, I'd probably given it...

Okay, okay, I'll stop doing it then. Jeez, what is it with you young people these days?

That reminds me of a somewhat similar scenario. Started changing the diff and gears in my Jeep's Dana 44 after work, which was 5 PM. By about 2 AM I finally realized that the book I was using as a guide for contact patterns was wrong. Luckily I had taken notes of the shims used for the first...

Oh, the list is long, but what comes to mind now isn't all bad. I'd bought an engine that was supposedly rebuilt. Yeah, right. So I took it apart, checked bearing clearances and such...sure enough, it was perfect. Now I had to get all new gaskets, which I really couldn't afford.

Maybe I'm not supposed to handle tire and wheel combinations, but am too stupid to know it? With arthritis in my knees since two years old, a bad back since 18, and a hernia from some 15 years ago, I technically shouldn't lift more than a tire iron if the doctors had their way. But I generally...

It's engineered to do that, yes, but consider that those forces are entirely different from a vertical force applied to the center. Actually, a piece of 1/8-inch cable would probably do the job, but wouldn't help any with chassis rigidity.

You believe, or they believe?

That cross member isn't very sturdy. Ask me how I know. No, I didn't try lifting from it, but when our Redeye 1.0 arrived at the dealer, that cross member was crunched. Not that I saw it in person, but what the photos showed wasn't very inspiring from a strength standpoint.

So you're saying the we need to buy an automatic (if we have a stick), and vice versa, to then race ourselves? That sounds like an expensive way to prove the obvious. Okay, so the above was supposed to be in response to Motorhead's challenge in the "We love slow stick shifts" thread. No idea...

They'd be good for transporting batteries, right? Until it was time to fly back.

Apparently it's a type of venomous snake, in the Nile region.

My current girlfriend is fast enough for me. And she likes banging, gears. Ironically, her only manual car is also her slowest. Yet she claims that it's her favorite. There's obviously a correlation here, somehow, between stick shifts and enjoying slowness..

Seems to work with wimmin.

People pay for stick shift Hellcats?!? I thought you got one free when buying an automatic SXT.

Umm, you have probably never handled 16" wide, 36-inch trail tires on steel wheels, let alone 24.5s (as on tractor trailers). In comparison, the dainty tires and wheels on a Challenger are a joy to place on the tire machine and balancer.

Well, a stick does give you time to find the correct gear while they sing "Last car to pass, here I go". Meanwhile, the A8 just went.

Uh, huh...suuure. Jealousy will get you nowhere.

I'm getting used to that, unfortunately. Ram duallys, for example, came with (optional) Alcoa wheels until '16, then Ram switched to Chinese copies. And yes, there is a difference, at least visually. How they differ in strength, I don't know.

Yeah, the after-the-fact thought entered my mind, too. Let's just hope they weren't on the car when they got bent.

Buy it, put an automatic in it, and enjoy the profit when you sell it.