From the <acronym title="Virgin Express (Belgium)">TV</acronym> blip I saw, I was under the impression that these vehicles were (are) the actual #1 and #2 production Firebirds. One note, however, is that I seem to remember one was a coupe and one was a convertible. .I'm not entirely sure the line wo...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/fr8mech" class="quote" target="_blank">fr8mech</a> (<a href="#61" class="quote">Reply 61</a>):<br/><i>Quoting Mir (Reply 60):how do you know it'...
Jump to postRef: cjjg225; although a bit off initial thread, I'll jump in: I understand your concern. Do you realize that when the Great Recession, began, Warren Buffet went all out and started investing in railroads. When queried about it, his answer was somewhat ambiguous; loosely translated, he said that whe...
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Jump to post[quote=Pyrex,reply=19]Quoting cptkrell (Reply 4):2CV Don't compare the two - the 2CV was a revolutionary car in its day that still looks every bit as charming driving down a country road as it did the day it was launched. I wasn't really comparing with the 2CV except that the Citroen was a small car...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/KiwiRob" class="quote" target="_blank">KiwiRob</a> (<a href="#19" class="quote">Reply 19</a>):<br/><i>Quoting cptkrell (Reply 2):I suppose my re...
Jump to post[quote=rfields5421,reply=14]One reason trailers are slower to adopt fuel savings ideas is that most are owned by companies which do not pull the trailers - just lease them.[/quote That does make sense. I had not thought of that part of the financial equation. And, come to think of it, a lot of the u...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/KiwiRob" class="quote" target="_blank">KiwiRob</a> (<a href="#9" class="quote">Reply 9</a>):<br/><i>Quoting cptkrell (Reply 4):Renault 2CV Citro...
Jump to postReminds me of my junior year in college when we grabbed a girl classmate's Renault 2CV one midnight and gently installed it up on her rooming house porch. We had to fess up the next morning; (it took all of us to re-gently carry it back down the some 5 or 6 porch steps to the front yard/driveway. No...
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Jump to postI kinda thought that this thread might eventually deteriorate into a pissing contest about guns vs.no guns and pro and anti <acronym title="Narrandera (NRA / YNAR), Australia - New South Wales">NRA</acronym> positions. I already made an opinion in my Rep 39 and I'm sticking with it, although I'll en...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/francoflier" class="quote" target="_blank">francoflier</a> (<a href="#6" class="quote">Reply 6</a>):<br/><i>I'm curious myself. A turbine geared...
Jump to postHmmm...kinda looks like someone lifted a few pages out of one of Luigi Colani's drawing tablets, circa 1980's. That's not meant to be totally badmouthing, btw, but it really seems like I've seen this sketch many times before. I suppose my real critique, though, would be apparent driver vulnerability...
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Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/DocLightning" class="quote" target="_blank">DocLightning</a> (<a href="#32" class="quote">Reply 32</a>):<br/><i>Few thoughts: #1) Almost all sch...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/fr8mech" class="quote" target="_blank">fr8mech</a> (<a href="#2" class="quote">Reply 2</a>):<br/><i>I hope the only person killed is the shooter...
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Jump to postAfter a li'l over 70 years of listening to predictions, I can only remember the Packard Predictor...
and THAT wasn't even right !
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/blrsea" class="quote" target="_blank">blrsea</a> (<a href="#73" class="quote">Reply 73</a>):<br/><i> Quoting cptkrell (Reply 73):I'll only comme...
Jump to postI'll summarize the main points and my take on them. Quote:1. Search and Discovery Dealers are not needed to help find a car. The wealth of information available online makes a boots on the ground search redundant. The article points out that Tesla galleries can facilitate test drives without large a...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/BMI727" class="quote" target="_blank">BMI727</a> (<a href="#16" class="quote">Reply 16</a>):<br/><i>Quoting cptkrell (Reply 14):On the surface, ...
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Jump to postWell, I hope people keep buying Chevrolets and Cadillacs and such (guess that tells you where I retired from), but one must remember that retirements plans, however rosey an incentive they may be, are pretty much what the term says: " a plan". And plans can go astray for a myriad of reasons. Even be...
Jump to postWhat's the old saying ..."Trust nothing that you hear and only half of what you see". ?. Locally, the various <acronym title="Virgin Express (Belgium)">TV</acronym> morning news stations are pretty reliable and up-to-the-minute when giving out traffic reports. But often (too often) with other local ...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Dreadnought" class="quote" target="_blank">Dreadnought</a> (<a href="#34" class="quote">Reply 34</a>):<br/><i>Quoting cptkrell (Reply 32):Just o...
Jump to post<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/Dreadnought" class="quote" target="_blank">Dreadnought</a> (<a href="#31" class="quote">Reply 31</a>):<br/><i>Curious...a quick Google sez that ...
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Jump to postI think it's cute that a Jimmy John's advertising placard just popped up on my screen next to this thread when I accessed it.
Ain't technology great ! ? !
<table border="0" align="CENTER" width="95%" class="quote"><tr><td><font size="2" face="ARIAL, Helvetica, Geneva" color="#9A9DA0">Quoting <a href="/profile/PPVRA" class="quote" target="_blank">PPVRA</a> (<a href="#5" class="quote">Reply 5</a>):<br/><i> But I rather buy an expensive item directly fro...
Jump to postFirstly, I agree that the government(s) should keep their snouts out of the marketplace in this context. However, if I where in the market for a Tesla, I would probably feel more comfortable purchasing from a brick and mortar franchise (even knowing the store is making some money on price markup) wh...
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Jump to postSo...THAT's why this guy is so disliked. I avoid all religious oriented programming in any media so do not follow what's going on with any of them. therefore, unless something gets special attention in other venues (such as this forum or a snake worshipper getting killed by a rattlesnake in 'church'...
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Jump to postLike a lot of li'l kiddies back "when", I was a cowboys and Indians geek and couldn't get enough of the western <acronym title="Virgin Express (Belgium)">TV</acronym> shows. I can remember being really excited about when The Lone Ranger came out in color. 1956 as I recall; my Dad went big-time and b...
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Jump to postI guess I've been living on a different planet. With about four and a half decades in Detroit, I never even considered asking for a raise from either Ford Motor Co. (my first salaried design job) or <acronym title="Air Slovakia">GM</acronym> (my retirement design job). I didn't have to. I was treate...
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Jump to postCBS This Morning <acronym title="Virgin Express (Belgium)">TV</acronym> news show will be interviewing <acronym title="Cape Town - International (D.F. Malan) (CPT / FACT), South Africa">CPT</acronym> Sully Sullinberger shortly. They have announced that he will be discussing missing 777. If USAers ar...
Jump to postSomewhat related to strangers at your home topic, whilst waiting for the Sully Sullenberger interview on CBS This Morning <acronym title="Aer Arann Express (Ireland)">RE</acronym>: Malaysian 777 loss, I just saw a Safelite Auto Glass ad that offers vehicle repair at your home. They Email you a photo...
Jump to postI have three electric meters, house, barn and pond fountain down in the field. All three are externally mounted, readable by some sort of device that the once-a-month reader simply points at the meter(s) for info. All of these folks who do the reading are not employees of the power company, but inde...
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