Setting: Modern day, England ( Read more... )

Location: Toronto, Canada ( Read more... )

I'm writing a story in which a character owns a 1977 Elandan II D27D Winnebago motorhome. From what I've managed to gather, this type has a trunk with a lock and two side storage compartments, but while I've managed to find information about these storage compartments in more modern models, I can't seem to find what I'm looking for in regards to ( Read more... )

Genre: Dieselpunk-espionage-military-thriller
Setting: New York
Time: 1938-1941 ( Read more... )

How well can someone in the trunk of a car hear what the people in the front seats are saying if those people are talking at normal speaking volume ( Read more... )

Hey all, my story involves a stalker who wants to manufacture a meeting with the object of his obsession. Their paths don't really cross, at least not anywhere that would be more private, so the most efficient way would be for the stalker to "break" the stalkee's car, then swoop in to save the day. A flat tire would probably make sense, and I could ( Read more... )

Google's giving me conflicting information on this, so I'm asking here in hopes it can be clarified a little ( Read more... )

My setting is 'generic US high school' rather than specific for time and place, although it'll be roughly contemporary. (Might, possibly, go as far back as the late 1990s ( Read more... )

I don't know the first thing about cars since I can't drive, so the corollary of that is that I know nothing about petrol/gas stations. I didn't know where to begin with these questions, but I did manage to find out those containers that store fuel are called jerrycans. I googled terms like 'makeshift jerrycans' and 'homemade jerrycans' but just ( Read more... )

So I have a female character driving a borrowed expensive car. I'm thinking along the lines of a Mercedes CLS (it's supposed to be stupidly expensive). I want something on it to break that would prevent the car from being drivable that a part would need to be ordered for. I don't really want something like her transmission to go out, I'm thinking ( Read more... )