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1: Inmate Central, It was a windy day... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-05, 04:57:59 (100.6.143.244)
...smoke got in my eyes. I swear. .......
2: Inmate Central, A Ford Galaxie--yeah, one of those big-ass Galaxies--once won the British Saloon Car Championship. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-05, 04:55:12 (100.6.143.244)
In 1963. .......
3: Inmate Central, Whoops! (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-05, 04:41:18 (100.6.143.244)
Sun was in my eyes, or something like that. .......
4: Inmate Central, Gotcha. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-05, 04:40:00 (100.6.143.244)
"That" country tried to torpedo my member of Congress this year, dropped $2 million into a primary challenge via a billionaire with dual citizenship. You probably read about the pressure that was put .......
5: Inmate Central, Slept through local fireworks here. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-05, 04:25:55 (100.6.143.244)
Woke up around 1, and was amazed how quiet it was. Most years, the M-80/fireworks crap starts around June 30th and keeps going until the kids go back to school at the end of August. The older I get, t .......
6: Inmate Central, Or the truck will write the song... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-05, 04:23:40 (100.6.143.244)
...and kick out that loser human singer, dude never checked the oil... .......
7: Inmate Central, CNN screws up news and infotainment. Why not music, too? nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-05, 03:14:32 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
8: Inmate Central, The GS was kind of rare on the '65. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-05, 03:12:49 (100.6.143.244)
I'll wager a lot of them around these days are counterfeit. .......
9: Inmate Central, Didn't get a chance to try them today. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 15:40:38 (100.6.143.244)
Got a lunch date with them tomorrow. .......
10: General Asylum, Yeah, but supposedly that's why Ferry wanted Eno out. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 14:25:23 (100.6.143.244)
He was the guy with the matinee idol looks but it was Eno who got the girls. .......
11: Inmate Central, The Riviera was the best thing about "Roadhouse." (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 13:36:54 (100.6.143.244)
Actually, it was the only good thing about Roadhouse . .......
12: Inmate Central, A fit of madness. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 13:25:47 (100.6.143.244)
Actually, somebody else did that. I bought it as a build up from eBay. Took it apart, stripped the paint (floor stripper is great for removing paint from plastic models), and started the long, slow re .......
13: Inmate Central, You didn't ask, "who displays the flag?" (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 12:58:53 (100.6.143.244)
You asked who displays it properly . I'm not making any excuses. Displays of Chinese-made US flags are so overdone at this point as to be meaningless. So, nope. I'm not going along with the herd. Why- .......
14: Inmate Central, Leonard Cohen was premature. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 12:06:45 (100.6.143.244)
Just gimme my bread and circuses. View YouTube Video .......
15: Inmate Central, All kidding aside... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 11:37:52 (100.6.143.244)
...the proper days to fly the flag are, IMO, Memorial Day, Independence Day, and Veteran's Day. There's a flag mount on our house, but I have to take it down in order to paint some trim and I don't ha .......
16: Inmate Central, It was actually "My World and Welcome To It." (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 11:10:58 (100.6.143.244)
I was a fan of the show and of Thurber. "The Night the Bed Fell In" is still one of my favorite short stories. .......
17: Inmate Central, The Black Beauty was based on a 1965 Imperial. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 11:08:43 (100.6.143.244)
Which was designed by Elwood Engel, same dude who did the 1961 Continental when he worked for Ford. And the clean look of the Continental was the inspiration for the roofline on the Riviera. Which was .......
18: Inmate Central, I'm a lousy photographer. Any cool effects are purely by accident. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 11:06:26 (100.6.143.244)
The color is just cheap Testor's paint from one of those little bottles, cut with lacquer thinner for airbrushing. Too bad about Testors. Swallowed up by Rustoleum, no longer in the model paint busine .......
19: Inmate Central, Whatchoo mean by "properly?" (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 11:04:16 (100.6.143.244)
Scouting/USA teaches the rules (or used to, at any rate. I learned them when I was in scouting). Things like, taking the flag in at night and putting it back up in the morning, never let it touch the .......
20: Inmate Central, There is such a thing... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 09:32:43 (100.6.143.244)
...but the only time I ever entered a kit was waaaaaay back in the Sixties. Local hobby shop. I built the AMT '40 Willys out of the box as a gasser. Decals but no paint (the model was molded in yellow .......
21: Inmate Central, More before and after. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 09:10:46 (100.6.143.244)
AMT 1963 Buick Riviera. I've always liked the rear styling of the 1963/64 Riv and the front styling of the 1965 Riviera with hidden headlights. So I bought a glue bomb AMT Riviera, stripped the paint, .......
22: Inmate Central, Only getting a placeholder. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 08:42:32 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
23: Inmate Central, Or how much hood scoop is needed. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 08:05:15 (100.6.143.244)
An intercooler the size of a billboard. .......
24: Inmate Central, That really blows. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 07:58:35 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
25: Inmate Central, Main thing to remember with these peppers... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 07:33:24 (100.6.143.244)
...be careful how you pronounce the name when you're in polite company. If such a thing as polite company still exists. BTW, and IMO, 5,000 Scoville units is still fairly mild. .......
26: General Asylum, I read somewhere that Bryan Ferry booted Eno out of Roxy Music... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 05:46:30 (100.6.143.244)
...because Eno got all the girls. .......
27: Inmate Central, Yo, records! Found the shishito peppers. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-04, 05:36:25 (100.6.143.244)
Might make some today for lunch. .......
28: Inmate Central, Medication time, gentlemen. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-03, 15:28:24 (100.6.143.244)
Medication time. .......
29: Inmate Central, Is that stuff API certified? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-03, 14:30:54 (100.6.143.244)
Can you believe some of the shit people do to their cars? .......
30: Inmate Central, "My new truck runs rough!" (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-03, 14:16:35 (100.6.143.244)
No shit. View YouTube Video .......
31: Inmate Central, I don't speak the lingo. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-03, 14:08:33 (100.6.143.244)
Story, our own government spies on us. The FBI opens mail, does not need a warrant. Just asks the USPS for permission. Over the last 40 years, the Supreme Court has taken a chainsaw to our 4th and 5th .......
32: Inmate Central, My sentiments exactly. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-03, 13:39:01 (100.6.143.244)
I have little doubt that if the Chinese marched into Washington DC tomorrow and took over that Americans would notice any difference. We aren't nearly as free as we think we are, we certainly aren't a .......
33: Inmate Central, I don't get it either. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-03, 10:28:01 (100.6.143.244)
Though a lot of those guys--Peter Thiel, for example--they're pumping millions into anti-aging research. So maybe they don't plan on ever ending up on a deathbed. Either it's human nature to exploit r .......
34: Inmate Central, You ever visit Pittsburgh... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-03, 07:05:08 (100.6.143.244)
...take note of how many EVs are ploughing along local roads. They're popular here. .......
35: Inmate Central, If it's any consolation... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-03, 06:34:46 (100.6.143.244)
...my wife's old Cobalt, the timing chain started to rattle on start up...in 2010! So IF you hear that noise every once it a while, you probably have a ways to go until you need to address it. Was sti .......
36: Inmate Central, I live in the Pittsburgh area... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-03, 02:39:14 (100.6.143.244)
...where else do you think I got this outrageous accent? OK, you can't hear it but yeah, trust me; it's there. Anyway, EVs are thick on the ground here. Teslas are everywhere and the next most common .......
37: Inmate Central, Yep. It's Tech Feudalism. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-03, 02:00:10 (100.6.143.244)
In fact, I might have an expensive problem soon with the Apple Watch and the iPhone. The watch is an old (refurbed) Series 3, working perfectly right now but should it fail, the iPhone is the first se .......
38: Inmate Central, Oh, yeah? 2012 Impala, eh? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-03, 01:54:41 (100.6.143.244)
Got you beat. I drive a 2006 Chevy Cobalt. There's an old saying that a Chevy will run bad longer than most cars will run. I've always liked them, have tons of experience driving them and working on t .......
39: Inmate Central, My grandson is on a Nike kick. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-02, 17:55:47 (100.6.143.244)
Nike shoes, Nike cap, Nike watch band. I remembered I was wearing Nikes in that picture so I dug it out to show him. .......
40: Inmate Central, I have no idea. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-02, 17:54:06 (100.6.143.244)
I'm only the messenger here, but from what I've read, CU buys cars like any other customer and tests them. Musk is a piece of shit, like every other billionaire sociopath, but if someone thinks they'r .......
41: Inmate Central, My wife runs Windows 11 on her PC. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-02, 17:39:23 (100.6.143.244)
I use a Mac Mini, have been using Apple desktops for about 12 years. I hate working with Windows, not because it sucks but because the big difference between Mac and Windows is that the Mac OS is cons .......
42: Inmate Central, The BMW is so ugly. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-02, 17:30:17 (100.6.143.244)
Looks like it's getting ready to gnaw down trees. And Elon Musk is a giant piece of shit but so is every other billionaire. Toyota got caught faking emissions tests in Japan, GM, Ford and Chrysler Dai .......
43: Inmate Central, This might trigger some folks but here goes.... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-02, 14:16:50 (100.6.143.244)
The best EVs you can buy, according to Consumer Reports . .......
44: Inmate Central, Don't get me wrong. Restoration is out of the question. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-02, 13:06:01 (100.6.143.244)
I don't want to restore anything, but I'd love to have a good clean driver. What would be best would be something unusual, but still easy to get parts for. Thing about a Midget (and I'd prefer the Au .......
45: Inmate Central, I bought a refurb from Apple. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-02, 02:59:38 (100.6.143.244)
It was an iMac, 2011 build. I'd still be using it if Apple still supported it, and in fact it still works. I bought in late 2011, have it sitting on the shelf if needed in a pinch. Plugged it in a cou .......
46: Inmate Central, I'd still do something like that again... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-01, 15:42:13 (100.6.143.244)
...minus the rust and the idea that it was possible to restore a car that you had to daily drive. There's a 1972 MG Midget on local craigslist, if I could meet the WAF, it would be in my garage alread .......
47: General Asylum, Queen?!!! Dude must be joking. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-01, 14:00:46 (100.6.143.244)
I sincerely hope "Bohemian Rhapsody" is consigned to the trash heap of music by the year 2100. Or even by later today. .......
48: Inmate Central, Wasn't that an audio magazine? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-01, 13:04:23 (100.6.143.244)
Ahh, that Buick. Last vestiges of optimism fled. It actually drove pretty good, but there was no chance of the car ever passing Pennsylvania's safety inspection. Drove it into the junkyard on three wh .......
49: Inmate Central, Never buy a car parked over a big mud puddle. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-01, 04:22:29 (100.6.143.244)
How big? Oh, about the size of a 1965 Buick LeSabre. See the young man in the picture? Notice how hard he's working, shaping tht putty, smoothing that bodywork, hoping one day to have his car repainte .......
50: Inmate Central, They don't all have to be like eating napalm. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-07-01, 02:54:13 (100.6.143.244)
I'm also happy sautéing up some good tasting, regular, mild peppers, make a sandwich from them. .......
51: Inmate Central, Never heard of Shishito. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 16:24:11 (100.6.143.244)
But you gotta be careful how you pronounce it in polite company. I think growing my own is fantasy, but I'll look for them next time I'm out at Whole Foods. Never know what you can find there. ::: TOP .......
52: Inmate Central, My kid has a green thumb. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 15:49:05 (100.6.143.244)
Literally. She painted it green. It worked, apparently, she grows everything from bok choi to cherry tomatoes, to arugula. Me? When I was a kid, I had a kick ass garden but now I'm like Bruce Springst .......
53: Inmate Central, You could feed a whole family with that. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 15:05:21 (100.6.143.244)
Around these parts, the deer would get them long before you would. .......
54: Inmate Central, Thanks. I'm kind of on a roll. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 12:54:05 (100.6.143.244)
Got a '65 Pontiac Grand Prix also nearly done. .......
55: Inmate Central, Figger I'll give it one winter. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 11:28:51 (100.6.143.244)
Make it even more authentic because those old Mopars, one winter was all it took. .......
56: Inmate Central, The Lancer is one of those cars, so ugly it's cool. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 10:54:46 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
57: Inmate Central, Guilty as charged! (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 10:30:33 (100.6.143.244)
And I waive my right to a jury trial, heh heh. If I didn't like you, I'd have tuned out of this thread long ago. You just gotta look at the bright side, brah. Nothing in the Constitution says a convic .......
58: Inmate Central, Doesn't matter what he said, and even if it's true... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 10:16:33 (100.6.143.244)
...the DA doesn't have to be impartial. His job is to prosecute. And it still doesn't point to some far flung conspiracy. Nobody knew beforehand that Bragg would win a primary and a general election. .......
59: Inmate Central, Glad you asked about that. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 09:34:32 (100.6.143.244)
What I do is take a sharp No. 11 X-Acto blade and deepen the lines before any paint is applied. Tamiya makes panel line accent, applied with a tiny brush. I put a dab of it in the gap between the pane .......
60: Inmate Central, None of that has anything to do with the criminal fraud case. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 09:32:35 (100.6.143.244)
You're extrapolating from other unrelated issues, and I might point out that a highly partisan impeachment committee has been poring over this stuff for at least a year and come with bupkiss. The Demo .......
61: Inmate Central, That's still your opinion. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 08:10:46 (100.6.143.244)
The judge didn't refuse to allow defense witnesses, the defense only called two, David Sitko and Robert Costello. The defense rested its case in a half an hour, which wasn't the judge's decision. And .......
62: Inmate Central, YES! (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 07:48:57 (100.6.143.244)
The big difference between China and Japan was, Japan's policy was no guns and no christians. A policy we'd be better off living with. .......
63: Inmate Central, Thank you. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 07:09:11 (100.6.143.244)
It's a factory color, by the way. Dodge Light Green. Another one of the problems, too. Normally I work with lacquer but decided to try Scale Finishes enamel. Took months before the paint was dry enoug .......
64: Inmate Central, That's your opinion. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 06:58:10 (100.6.143.244)
Not shared by 12 jurors. It would only have taken 1 person to hang the jury, but all 12 agreed. It doesn't matter what either of us think. He's a convicted felon and might get jail time. Probably not, .......
65: Inmate Central, The model car from hell is nearly done. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 06:55:22 (100.6.143.244)
I started working on this Revell 1962 Dodge Lancer nearly two years ago. It's been one thing after another gone wrong, but it's nearly done. I bought it already built up: Here's what it look .......
66: Inmate Central, Not many years ago... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 06:24:16 (100.6.143.244)
...the Roberts Court dismissed a case filed against NSA domestic spying. Plaintiffs claimed a violation of the 4th Amendment, but since the information was classified and the plaintiffs therefore coul .......
67: Inmate Central, The Peerless GT (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 04:05:08 (100.6.143.244)
I love this car: View YouTube Video .......
68: Inmate Central, That's the best part... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 03:48:06 (100.6.143.244)
The fee was never levied. The entire case was fake, based on a hypothetical. The plaintiffs never suffered any damage and didn't have standing to sue. But with the Roberts court, it doesn't matter. It .......
69: Inmate Central, Did you ever see the documentary about ZZ Top? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-30, 03:37:04 (100.6.143.244)
They were all big fans of Roky Erickson and the 13th Floor Elevators, and started out playing that type of psychedelia. .......
70: Inmate Central, The one that stripped the Executive of most of its regulatory power. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 16:54:56 (100.6.143.244)
Shifted that authority to the courts. Means that any attempt by any administration to change regulations will be met with legal action and the courts no longer have to defer to the regulatory agency. .......
71: Inmate Central, You gotta love it. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 15:15:45 (100.6.143.244)
I see that shit, and think of ZZ Top. "How, how, how, how?" .......
72: Inmate Central, Let's lighten it up, awready. Customer states "my car is hard to shift." (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 13:52:43 (100.6.143.244)
Sportin' some serious wood. View YouTube Video .......
73: Inmate Central, Or much else. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 13:42:58 (100.6.143.244)
Remember when Congress actually did things? My kids have no memory of it, they aren't old enough even though they're both entering middle age. .......
74: Inmate Central, Pretty stale. Figured you'd have come up with something better. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 13:16:51 (100.6.143.244)
By the way, that Relentless decision just handed down, that hamstrings every administration. Not just this one. You get the drift? .......
75: Inmate Central, Should be institutionalized. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 12:43:49 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
76: Inmate Central, Mike, Crow, Gypsy... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 11:58:51 (100.6.143.244)
...the gang. .......
77: Inmate Central, It's only a joke. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 10:55:26 (100.6.143.244)
By the way, heard from Crow lately? .......
78: Inmate Central, I'd say more like entertainment. If it is political, strictly non-partisan. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 10:23:54 (100.6.143.244)
The stupid bloviating is on all sides. I can't help but see the TV ads, they're on during the evening news when old people watch TV. It's like they take us all for idiots. Current local senate race fo .......
79: Inmate Central, Do you really want to hurt him? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 10:16:24 (100.6.143.244)
It was indeed Boy George on lead vocals for the "band" Culture Club. Not sure how much of a band Culture Club actually was. "Karma Chameleon" was one of those songs, I really liked it the first time I .......
80: Inmate Central, Coma do and coma don't. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 09:59:56 (100.6.143.244)
It's not so much a matter of waking up as it is coming to. .......
81: Inmate Central, You and me both. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 09:50:10 (100.6.143.244)
In fact, I slept through the 4th of July fireworks at the nearby shopping center last night. .......
82: Inmate Central, Isn't that how the game is played? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 09:31:52 (100.6.143.244)
Did we care about workers making televisions, textiles, shoes, consumer electronics, kitchen appliances, telephones, machine tools, auto parts, bearings, American flags, clothing, and probably 100 mor .......
83: Inmate Central, You're at the diaper stage already? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 09:21:29 (100.6.143.244)
Ain't it ironic that we start out in diapers and end up in them, too? Your first birthday ain't much different than your 90th. You don't know any of these people, your diaper needs changed, and somebo .......
84: Inmate Central, Preferable to all the meaningless bloviating. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 09:19:04 (100.6.143.244)
And the endless, moronic, political ads. .......
85: Inmate Central, If we had done was so-called conservatives wanted... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 08:47:07 (100.6.143.244)
...we'd still be part of the British Empire. Which might not be a bad thing. Liberals ended slavery, liberals ended Jim Crow, liberals saved the country from the Great Depression. American conservativ .......
86: Inmate Central, They are scalable... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 08:45:59 (100.6.143.244)
GM's Ultium platform is a prime example. So is Volkwagen's MEB platform. People buy used EVs all the time. Guy who used to post here often bought a used Nissan Leaf. ICE vehicles leach oil, plastics, .......
87: Inmate Central, Absolutely no problem (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 08:07:42 (100.6.143.244)
Car makers have closed the US market to affordable cars. They want to charge whatever they want for their products and they don't want to be undercut, or forced to compete with Chinese-built vehicles, .......
88: Inmate Central, Good but I've already decided. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 08:00:59 (100.6.143.244)
.......
89: Inmate Central, Plus 1,000. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 06:54:53 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
90: Inmate Central, Jake Seinfeld? nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 06:49:18 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
91: Inmate Central, I never trusted Bobby Bowden. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 06:48:34 (100.6.143.244)
The sound of his voice made me put my hand over my wallet. I voted for Clinton because I wanted change, but I didn't realize he was gonna change into Milton Friedman. .......
92: Inmate Central, It rhymes. Why not? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 06:26:20 (100.6.143.244)
Modern cars can't run without an operating onboard computer network, and the components are made in Asia, predominantly China. I don't want war with China under any circumstances, even Taiwan. China h .......
93: Inmate Central, Cars can't be built without parts from China. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 03:59:41 (100.6.143.244)
Doesn't matter where the assembly plant is or what logo is on the oversized grille. .......
94: Inmate Central, "I'm a crawlin' king snake..." (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 03:57:06 (100.6.143.244)
"Just like the spider on the wall We gon' crawl." I'm a big reptile fan. Always was. And it's always a thrill to see a snake in the wild. They're pretty shy, and for good reason. Here's an eastern mil .......
95: Inmate Central, Yeah, just imagine what mischief people will get up to.... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 03:08:15 (100.6.143.244)
....when they aren't spending a third of their lives stuck in traffic. .......
96: Inmate Central, I can't even see the eye of a needle anymore. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-29, 03:06:56 (100.6.143.244)
Can't hear a camel either, unless he speaks clearly. Anyway, tariff all you want, the jobs ain't coming back. Robots will build the cheap junk in American factories owned by private equity firms that .......
97: Inmate Central, Nixon cracked the door, Clinton threw it open. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-28, 13:29:22 (100.6.143.244)
MFN for China was the clincher. Signed during his last foul year in office. I was against removing tariffs but IMO the horse is long gone from the barn and it's far too late to close the door. The job .......
98: Inmate Central, My daughter won't take her kids anywhere there are large crowds and alcohol. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-28, 13:17:07 (100.6.143.244)
Because you never know when some drunken asshole is going think he's been disrespected and open fire. .......
99: Inmate Central, We want the mines and factories back... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-28, 13:10:38 (100.6.143.244)
...until higher wages trigger inflation. .......
100: Inmate Central, Two of the best selling cars in the US are EVs. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-28, 13:09:42 (100.6.143.244)
Doesn't look like failure to me. I'm an EV agnostic--just want a decent car , no dumbass SUV, don't care what powers it--and I'm against EV subsidies. We're just handing money to the already affluent .......
101: Inmate Central, It increases blood pressure... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-28, 02:27:25 (100.6.143.244)
...heart rate, puts stress on kidneys, etc. It's actually toxic, regardless of whether the casual drinker turns into an alcoholic and in spite of all those booze-sponsored studies claiming two glasses .......
102: Inmate Central, I haven't watched them since Clinton and Bush. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-28, 02:20:27 (100.6.143.244)
They aren't real debates, just media circuses. The voting public has a shorter memory span than a goldfish. Unless a "debate" is staged in late October, few will remember it anyway. .......
103: Vinyl Asylum, I remember "Rolling Stone" magazine.... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-28, 02:16:53 (100.6.143.244)
...gave one of Mick Jagger's utterly forgettable solo albums 5 stars. Same issue of the magazine also contained a full page color ad for yup, that same Mick Jagger solo album. .......
104: Inmate Central, Neither do I. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-27, 16:55:43 (100.6.143.244)
Alcohol is really, really bad for you. All those research studies claiming that two beers a day will make you live longer? Funded by the alcoholic beverage industry. .......
105: Inmate Central, Really. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-27, 15:26:45 (100.6.143.244)
Guy I used to work for would say, "That truck is as long as a month." Even the "small" Ford Maverick is bigger than a 1995 F-150. Was on my way home from my daughter's tonight, made a left onto a side .......
106: Inmate Central, Used Car of the Day. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-27, 14:03:28 (100.6.143.244)
My turn. Guarantee, you'll be the only guy at Cars 'n' Coffee with one of these. .......
107: Inmate Central, True. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-27, 14:01:40 (100.6.143.244)
But an asshole on foot can't do nearly as much damage as an asshole behind the wheel of a Nimitz -class pickup truck. .......
108: Inmate Central, You can't beat Tupperware. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-27, 14:00:18 (100.6.143.244)
Keeps those brains fresh even if they do die do die do die do. .......
109: Vinyl Asylum, I always loved that song. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-27, 13:26:00 (100.6.143.244)
It could never be released today, at least not the way it was originally arranged. Which is a good thing. .......
110: Vinyl Asylum, You know, Indian Lake is a scene you should make... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-27, 12:54:05 (100.6.143.244)
Just take the bus marked "Lakewood Drive." .......
111: Vinyl Asylum, Bingo. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-27, 04:19:15 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
112: Inmate Central, Normally, I don't like restomods. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-27, 03:05:55 (100.6.143.244)
IMO, the whole point of driving an old car is the experience of driving an old car, you know, different from a modern car. But in the case of the Eagle, I'd be in. The XKE was so beautiful but so noto .......
113: Inmate Central, "...drunk, distracted, mentally deficient, or criminally insane." (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-27, 03:03:39 (100.6.143.244)
That's basic defensive driving, by the way. Drive/ride/walk like everybody driving a car will kill you if you give them the chance. .......
114: Inmate Central, Isn't that a movie car? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-27, 03:02:25 (100.6.143.244)
It is! From Corvette Summer , and yeah... .......
115: Inmate Central, I remember those, and I had a big time crush on the girl in the Dodge ads. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 15:37:19 (100.6.143.244)
Her first name was Joan, don't remember the last name. Might have been "Parker." The Laugh-In style Ford spot is too much. With cars, it's a head vs. heart thing. My heart says, "willya look at THAT!" .......
116: Inmate Central, I love cars but... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 14:42:51 (100.6.143.244)
...they're a scourge. Freedom? You pretty much HAVE to own one. Even in cities with good public transit, you work nights or weekends, you need the car. That isn't freedom. Neither is paying $1,000/mo .......
117: Inmate Central, "...and doesn't care what you think about it." (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 14:37:06 (100.6.143.244)
That much is certain. Me or anybody else for that matter. At least it can be undone. .......
118: Inmate Central, HD mufflers, trailer hitch, and... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 13:48:56 (100.6.143.244)
...part of a pickup truck bed cap. Look at the front fenders, you can see where they were patched in. .......
119: Inmate Central, What kind of a maniac... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 13:20:14 (100.6.143.244)
...does this? .......
120: Inmate Central, Last time I watched a Mecum auction.. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 13:05:50 (100.6.143.244)
restomods bring a much higher buck than original unrestored or restored to original condition. At one point, a fully restored (to stock condition) 1957 Bel Air convertible would bring six figures, but .......
121: Vinyl Asylum, Every once in a while, I'll get a pleasant surprise by the initials in the deadwax. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 12:09:25 (100.6.143.244)
I bought an album by the bubblegum group Ohio Express several years ago, and damn if it wasn't cut by Bob Ludwig. .......
122: Inmate Central, Corporate interests want open borders. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 12:08:01 (100.6.143.244)
Best way to undercut the labor force is flood the market with workers. They don't care where the workers come from. When both Koch brothers were alive, they sunk millions of dollars in contributions t .......
123: Inmate Central, I like the 356 best out of all Porsches. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 12:04:07 (100.6.143.244)
They're the simplest, which I guess is why. The "Polo" engines are cut-down 911 engines. I don't think Rod Emory uses them anymore, instead he put FatMan hopped up VW Bug engines in his cars. ::: TOPI .......
124: Inmate Central, Point is, nobody ever does better. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 10:55:10 (100.6.143.244)
Usually, things get worse. And there's always context. History is a flow, which is why I said below that it doesn't run in cycles. Actions lead to other actions and usually with unintended consequence .......
125: Inmate Central, When I still ate ice cream... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 10:52:46 (100.6.143.244)
...I liked Giant Eagle (it's a grocery store chain) house brand vanilla. Was never much for Breyer's. I don't eat it now because it's fattening. At my age, the metabolism is nearly as slow as the pitc .......
126: Vinyl Asylum, It's the same RVG. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 10:50:40 (100.6.143.244)
I have a couple of Vox recordings mastered by Rudy. .......
127: Inmate Central, Look it up. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 10:43:09 (100.6.143.244)
Washington, Jefferson, most of the others, nearly all of them slave-holders by the way, wanted to take land west of the Allegheny Mountains, land that belonged to Native Americans, and speculate. They .......
128: Inmate Central, Nothing worth seeing is. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 10:01:48 (100.6.143.244)
Dude our own revolution was about freedom for the few to control the many. We weren't living under tyranny, the American colonies had more autonomy and self-rule than any other British subject. Rich g .......
129: Inmate Central, I see zero progress. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 09:41:57 (100.6.143.244)
It's just one group of plutocrats against another group of plutocrats. Nobody's fighting for freedom. They've been fooled into thinking they're fighting for freedom. Just like always. .......
130: Inmate Central, It doesn't bother me... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 09:37:54 (100.6.143.244)
...guy lives across the street is a Vietnam vet, twice wounded. By all means, fly that flag, buddy. But I'm sure (in fact I know) other countries, they don't drape everything they can find in the star .......
131: Inmate Central, "Thank you for losing a leg and coming back from combat damaged." (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 09:35:39 (100.6.143.244)
"But we needed that war because oil company profits were under threat. This flag's for you!" .......
132: Inmate Central, Wait a minute... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 09:34:13 (100.6.143.244)
...a Chinese-made spare tire cover with the American flag is an "expression of joy and gratitude?" Puh-leeze. .......
133: Inmate Central, Might give some folks a woody. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 08:18:05 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
134: Inmate Central, Why the need? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 08:17:16 (100.6.143.244)
If we're really that great, why all the chest pounding? Braggarts are usually insecure babies at heart. .......
135: Inmate Central, Does it matter? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 08:16:16 (100.6.143.244)
The whole point of neoliberalism was to put financial markets beyond the reach of governments, laws, votes, and popular opinion. One world government, or 1,000 different governments, it makes zero dif .......
136: Inmate Central, Or the Ford Maverick (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 08:06:26 (100.6.143.244)
The little truck which is actually bigger than a 1995 F-150. Won't carry or tow nearly as much, but it looks the part. .......
137: Inmate Central, Triggered? Me? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 08:05:09 (100.6.143.244)
I hear a lot of bitching and moaning about inflation. Merely pointing out that ownership of the many by the few is a root cause of inflation. .......
138: Inmate Central, Yup. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 07:56:43 (100.6.143.244)
Dude, this is what I was talking about in the thread below. Nothing Trump or Biden can do or would be willing to do will change this one iota. No other politician has the power. Neither does any popul .......
139: Vinyl Asylum, I'm pretty sure that AT makes this cart for Goldring. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 07:44:48 (100.6.143.244)
In which case, it ain't such a great deal. The AT VM95e, with an elliptical stylus, is the same price as the E2. The VM95c is still $40. .......
140: Inmate Central, The IncEl Camino. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 07:41:23 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
141: Inmate Central, I've often wondered.... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 07:40:49 (100.6.143.244)
...why, if this is the greatest country in the world, there's a need to fly the flag everywhere? T-shirts, cheap Chinese-made flags flying from car antennas, flags on cheap Chinese-made spare tire cov .......
142: Inmate Central, Did you click on the link? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 07:36:54 (100.6.143.244)
One company owns 14 brand names. You think you're buying Hershey's because you don't like Friendly's but in reality you're buying the same ice cream from the same company. Eighty-five percent of the b .......
143: Inmate Central, What's depressing is the number of brand names owned by one company. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 07:11:20 (100.6.143.244)
You shop thinking you're making a choice, but you really aren't. And we wonder why prices keep going up. .......
144: Inmate Central, There are no cycles. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 06:36:48 (100.6.143.244)
History doesn't reveal cycles anymore than celebrity deaths always come in threes. What history does tell us is that there's nothing new under the sun. The human condition hasn't changed since men lea .......
145: Inmate Central, No it isn't. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 06:34:27 (100.6.143.244)
History isn't bullshit, but there's money to be made from people like you who've been manipulated into thinking that history is bullshit. Everything that's happening now, happened before. We weren't a .......
146: Inmate Central, I'm lactose intolerant. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 06:14:15 (100.6.143.244)
I have no tolerance for lactose and I won't stand for it! Anyway, while yer waving the flag, eating grilled meat by-product, and dodging the neighbor's fireworks next week, be careful what ice cream y .......
147: Inmate Central, Bullshit. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 05:52:35 (100.6.143.244)
Pure naiveté. Nothing will change because there's too much money to be made from the status quo. And it's too damned easy to convince half the people that up is down and black is white. Always has bee .......
148: Inmate Central, Awareness? Hah! (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 05:23:47 (100.6.143.244)
The public was "aware" of our 20-year occupation of Afghanistan, and was against it by huge margins, but did it care enough about it to change votes? Nope. All those antiwar protests during the 1960s .......
149: Inmate Central, My ass. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 05:17:02 (100.6.143.244)
I'll be 70 next year, US foreign policy hasn't changed a lick regardless of what party held the White House or what end of the political spectrum that person nominally inhabited. In fact, it's been th .......
150: Inmate Central, Don't you mean "ANOTHER F-150 recall?" (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 04:57:46 (100.6.143.244)
There have been so many, It's hard to keep track. .......
151: Inmate Central, Actually, he didn't change a damned thing. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 04:56:34 (100.6.143.244)
Daniel Ellsberg worried that the news media would pay far less attention to what was in the Pentagon Papers than it did about Nixon's attempts to suppress what was in the Pentagon Papers. Which is exa .......
152: Inmate Central, We all scream for ice cream... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 04:09:25 (100.6.143.244)
Well, I don't. Haven't had any in years. It's fattening. Whatever. Anyway, big ice cream recall. I'm totally cool with it. .......
153: Inmate Central, I've seen a couple of Cybertrucks in the wild. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-26, 04:07:41 (100.6.143.244)
I can't imagine how anybody could hate money that much, they would buy one of those rolling piles. .......
154: Inmate Central, I like to have fun where I can get it. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-25, 15:02:34 (100.6.143.244)
But I don't drive much, maybe 5-6K miles per year. At this point in my life, even cheap tires ozone crack long before the tread wears out. Had 'em actually 3 years now, if I get a couple more years ou .......
155: Inmate Central, Brand new Toyota Camry making weird noises.... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-25, 14:11:37 (100.6.143.244)
View YouTube Video .......
156: Inmate Central, That was only a movie. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-25, 13:32:04 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
157: Inmate Central, What about Ironman? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-25, 13:22:59 (100.6.143.244)
I had a set on one of my Ford Rangers, the truck itself was one step away from the U-Pull-It yard, so why get spendy? ABS would kick on in the wet, all the time, because the traction was so lousy. Got .......
158: Inmate Central, Awful tires, I know them well. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-25, 13:20:44 (100.6.143.244)
I always used to buy the cheapest I could get. Famous name brands, like "Babe Ruth All-Season X," or "Aaron Burr Dualmasters." None of them stuck to the road, they all had the life span of a fruit fly .......
159: Inmate Central, You think that's bad? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-25, 12:48:34 (100.6.143.244)
Wait till it tells you to floss more often. .......
160: Inmate Central, Not only that, but cheap tires don't last long. So they ain't cheap. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-25, 02:43:48 (100.6.143.244)
I used to put cheap off-brand tires on my cars and they were shot after 8,000 miles. Replacing them every year isn't saving money. Good tires, usually they'll ozone crack long before the tread wears o .......
161: Inmate Central, Don't get what that has to do with your car but... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-24, 15:28:10 (100.6.143.244)
...what can I say? .......
162: Inmate Central, With humans, they can just take your house. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-24, 14:02:45 (100.6.143.244)
If they could do the same to cats and dogs, they would. I didn't get a chance to read the article yet, but I can smell private equity involvement from here. .......
163: Inmate Central, Of course. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-24, 13:11:46 (100.6.143.244)
Nothing you and I post to an obscure audio forum has any effect on anything. So...you got the KG back on the road? Pittsburgh Vintage Grand Prix isn't on until late August this year instead of mid-Jul .......
164: Inmate Central, Both terms are mostly just used as pejoratives. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-24, 12:17:39 (100.6.143.244)
Same with fascism. There is no exact textbook definition, and just about every government resorts to fascism, communism, and socialism when necessary. Americans love elements of all three, also, no m .......
165: Inmate Central, There are two of them bedded down in our backyard right now. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-24, 11:08:00 (100.6.143.244)
I've been leaving a section of the back lawn unmowed, and the deer are loving it. .......
166: Inmate Central, Actually, the Germans invaded Eastern Poland on 6/22/41. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-24, 10:45:26 (100.6.143.244)
And the Baltic states, Ukraine, Belarus. Most of the Great Patriotic War was fought there, not Russia. There were some socialist aspects to the Nazi agenda, like Strength Through Joy. The Nazis built .......
167: Inmate Central, Collaboration here in the US also. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-24, 09:21:27 (100.6.143.244)
Henry Ford, for example. Charles Lindbergh. And a huge pro-Nazi rally in Madison Square Garden, 1939. .......
168: Inmate Central, Farm price supports here were only supposed to be temporary. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-24, 09:19:31 (100.6.143.244)
They were part of the effort to combat the Dust Bowl during the Depression. Our farm policy actually hurts subsistence farmers in poor countries, too. Dairy farming is a big deal here in Pennsylvania .......
169: Inmate Central, I didn't want to run the Asylum out of bandwidth. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-24, 09:15:55 (100.6.143.244)
Some things I think I think: Private equity firms are currently and quietly buying up hospitals and nursing homes, raising prices and cutting services so that a few people can profit in the short term .......
170: Inmate Central, Well, I did say "for starters." (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-24, 07:54:50 (100.6.143.244)
Basically, I don't believe in god and I think everybody should live in the same kind of house (in the figurative sense). IMO, it's insane that we have the right to own a gun but not the right to eat. .......
171: Inmate Central, Yellow mellow custard... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-24, 07:52:28 (100.6.143.244)
...in the cooling system. View YouTube Video .......
172: Inmate Central, Its IS the NBA's fault. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-24, 07:17:00 (100.6.143.244)
Damn basketball! How long do the playoffs gotta go on anyway? Don't even get me started on the Olympics! .......
173: Inmate Central, FDR's Second Bill of Rights. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-24, 07:15:51 (100.6.143.244)
For starters. Here: .......
174: Inmate Central, Just like what's happened to human health care. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-24, 02:52:53 (100.6.143.244)
And everything else. The older I get, the more of a socialist I become. .......
175: Inmate Central, A lot of the guards at Auschwitz were Soviet POWs. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-24, 02:48:14 (100.6.143.244)
Germans gave them a choice: Starve, freeze to death, or do this little job over here we need done. .......
176: Inmate Central, I'd have never known if not for Barbara Kingsolver's great "Demon Copperhead." (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-23, 11:23:03 (100.6.143.244)
Kingsolver's novels are the bomb, and she always includes some real history. One of the things the coal industry did to Appalachia was buy up and close other businesses and industries so that people w .......
177: Inmate Central, Well, there's this... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-23, 09:14:16 (100.6.143.244)
...about an hour after I unboxed the thing, my wife ran into a former co-worker while she was out shopping, former co-worker reported that her house burned down and the cause was a lawn mower battery .......
178: Inmate Central, It's like this... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-23, 09:11:24 (100.6.143.244)
...one one hand, you have a couple of former Cabinet members, a chief of staff or two, and a Fox News reporter. On the other hand, a guy who cheated on all of his wives, who's university was shut down .......
179: Inmate Central, It's heresay... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-23, 08:17:40 (100.6.143.244)
...but this isn't a court of law, so heresay counts. And it fits with that person's character or lack thereof. .......
180: Inmate Central, It's sticky here, but there a strong cool breeze out of the west. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-23, 08:00:59 (100.6.143.244)
Approaching cold front. Clouds might be bumping and grinding later. .......
181: Inmate Central, First Ego-trip. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-23, 06:54:07 (100.6.143.244)
Cut my front lawn and the neighbors. Battery only got slightly warmer than the surrounding air. Eighty percent charge remaining. Mongo impressed! .......
182: Inmate Central, Professional athletes are a prime example of our warped priorities. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-23, 06:44:04 (100.6.143.244)
We pay the most money to the least essential people. It's not just athletes, it's corporate yummies that fuck up and get rewarded. Look at Boeing, dude just got a raise to $32.5 million, will get $40 .......
183: Inmate Central, We also built an economic model that requires mom and dad to both work. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-23, 05:57:38 (100.6.143.244)
We pay athletes--who are totally non-essential--multiple millions of dollars while day care workers get minimum wage. Result? No day care workers. People will have more kids when they can afford them. .......
184: Inmate Central, US birthrate is way below replacement. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-23, 03:51:12 (100.6.143.244)
Really dropped after 2008. After the fiascos in Iraq and Afghanistan, the armed services are having problems recruiting. Heh. BTW, the term "redneck" gets used as a pejorative but shouldn't. The term .......
185: Inmate Central, Thanks. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-22, 17:31:55 (100.6.143.244)
Other than safety--like a grandson accidentally discovering the combination of moves necessary to start the thing--I don't see where it would make a difference if it was in the mower or not. ::: TOPIC .......
186: Inmate Central, What happened to the flowing robes... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-22, 12:46:33 (100.6.143.244)
...the majesty.. I caught a glimpse of the real Dalai Lama's right arm once. His limousine was turning a corner in downtown Pittsburgh and his arm was visible through the rear side window. Along with .......
187: Inmate Central, You might have Lite-Brite confused with the Easy Bake Oven. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-22, 12:44:25 (100.6.143.244)
We had them both when we were kids. Lite-Brite was fine, but the bulb in the Easy Bake...well, let's just say Bactine was a key ingredient for any recipe. At any rate, I graduated high school with a g .......
188: Inmate Central, The charger and battery have built in overload protection. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-22, 10:28:12 (100.6.143.244)
Stops charging when the battery is done. The charger got warm but the battery didn't. Not even a little bit. I'm really careful with charging anyway. I'd never leave the battery on charge unless I was .......
189: Inmate Central, Hello, Dali! (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-22, 10:11:47 (100.6.143.244)
Sorry. Couldn't resist. .......
190: Inmate Central, Could be my old eyes also. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-22, 10:11:12 (100.6.143.244)
It's in there but I managed to skim over it. .......
191: Inmate Central, Between cuts. Week, maybe two. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-22, 09:42:01 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
192: Inmate Central, Couldn't find anything specific in the manual. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-22, 09:28:29 (100.6.143.244)
No doubt it's safer out of the mower. .......
193: Inmate Central, Hey, fellow Ego-maniacs... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-22, 09:05:32 (100.6.143.244)
...is it OK to leave the battery in the mower when I'm not cutting grass, or should it be taken out and stored? .......
194: Inmate Central, IMO, and based on a lot of evidence... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-22, 08:19:12 (100.6.143.244)
...95% of car owners have no idea how cars work. At least 95%. Maybe more. Folks like that should open the hood only to check the oil. In fact, maybe they'd be better off finding a gearhead neighbor t .......
195: Inmate Central, Did the dealer lie about changing oil? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-21, 02:24:25 (100.6.143.244)
View YouTube Video .......
196: Inmate Central, Or a station wagon. Or a hatchback sedan or coupe. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 13:52:23 (100.6.143.244)
But see, this exactly why I think SUVs are dumb. Spend another 20% premium over the cost of the sedan the SUV is based on in case I might need to carry a big box someday. Good case in point is the Nis .......
197: Inmate Central, 18 Grand! Holy shit. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 13:45:43 (100.6.143.244)
Pun intended. .......
198: Inmate Central, That's probably it. This part of the country, most of the houses have basements. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 12:11:02 (100.6.143.244)
And most of those basements are wet, but that's another subject. We had to have a new line installed under the garage floor. Plumber told me best rule of thumb is, one flush for solids, one flush for .......
199: Inmate Central, My garage never gets much above 75 or colder than 50. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 10:35:50 (100.6.143.244)
Is that good enough? It's no problem bringing the batteries in during the winter. .......
200: Inmate Central, The problem is more with the houses than the toilets. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 10:34:54 (100.6.143.244)
House built in the Fifties and Sixties don't have enough fall in their mainlines. They were designed for old school toilets. The Feds never took that into account. But I'll keep in mind your faucet re .......
201: Inmate Central, My daughter's next door neighbor just got a Ryobi. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 09:41:31 (100.6.143.244)
But he could have used a weed whacker, his yard is that small. I ordered the Ego, but I'd have been fine with a Ryobi. Hell, they're probably made in the same factory anyway. .......
202: Inmate Central, It's not that they don't work. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 09:34:05 (100.6.143.244)
It's that they often, if not always, need to be flushed more than once which defeats the whole purpose. Same with the safety nozzles on gas cans. You end up spilling more gasoline, which in turn relea .......
203: Inmate Central, It's ordered. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 09:00:14 (100.6.143.244)
Was just waiting on the WAF. .......
204: Inmate Central, Hell, even my old Ford Festiva. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 08:51:28 (100.6.143.244)
Cheap, simple, fun to drive, and useful. And I always got 30 mpg no matter how hard I drove it. The Festiva was a damned good car. A Mazda built by Kia under license, sold as a Ford in the US. The eng .......
205: Inmate Central, Or, if car makers still sold sensible hatchbacks. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 08:17:26 (100.6.143.244)
Or station wagons. Vehicles that were useful AND fun to drive, didn't look like shoebread. .......
206: Inmate Central, Count your blessings. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 08:16:35 (100.6.143.244)
IMO, the safety nozzle is like mandatory traction control on cars. It doesn't work. It was a bad idea, and it needs to go. .......
207: Inmate Central, It would be easier... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 08:00:45 (100.6.143.244)
...and worth my time just to have it delivered to the house. .......
208: Inmate Central, OBD 2 isn't the issue. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 07:44:28 (100.6.143.244)
It's the CANBUS, not OBD2. Functions that used to be controlled by levers, cables, and simple switches are instead run from a data stream operating on the car's data networks (most cars have at least .......
209: Inmate Central, All of my local stores list it as no store pickup. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 07:33:00 (100.6.143.244)
But you're in Colly-phone-ya, here in PA it's still much easier to get a gas mower. They're far more common than battery electric. In fact, my local Lowe's refurbishes gas mowers and sells them used. .......
210: Inmate Central, Yep...was only joking... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 07:27:01 (100.6.143.244)
...there are more places to take it than Whole Foods, also. I'd have to take the mower back to Lowe's, which means probably borrowing a vehicle that'll fit or taking the passenger seat out of the Coba .......
211: Inmate Central, No pickup from Lowe's. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 07:07:12 (100.6.143.244)
Ship to home only. .......
212: Inmate Central, Don't know about returns from Amazon... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 07:06:36 (100.6.143.244)
...but I can do a return to Lowe's and there's a Lowe's close enough that I've walked there and back on occasion. I can just see myself trying to shover a mower in the Amazon return kiosk at Whole Foo .......
213: Inmate Central, Apparently, it's a Federal mandate. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 07:04:19 (100.6.143.244)
The nozzles have a spring loaded flapper valve inside them to keep fumes from escaping. The result is, much more likely to spill gas when filling the mower which of course results in fumes escaping. L .......
214: Inmate Central, The gas mower I have now... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 05:47:14 (100.6.143.244)
...every year, I feed it fresh oil (even bought a vacuum pump to suck all the old oil out), put a new air filter in it. And the mower itself will fit in the trunk, even though I do my own maintenance .......
215: Inmate Central, I looked at the Ryobi but it's got less duration than the Ego. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 05:08:48 (100.6.143.244)
But I'm still considering it. Where did you get yours? Home Depot carries Ryobi, but has no $400 mowers that come with a battery and charger. Also, any mower I get has to be able to mulch. No way will .......
216: Inmate Central, LOL! (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 05:07:55 (100.6.143.244)
As long as the Ego doesn't have Full Self Mowing. The widow next door moved in with her daughter. The house is going on the market, and I won't be cutting both lawns anymore. A battery mower is perfec .......
217: Inmate Central, Lowe's price is $449, but that includes a battery and a charger. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 04:18:49 (100.6.143.244)
I think it's about $100 less without the battery and charger. According to Lowe's website, I couldn't pick this thing up at the store even if I had room in the car, it's only via delivery. ::: TOPIC:: .......
218: Inmate Central, Looking at EGO lawn mowers. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 02:44:23 (100.6.143.244)
I've pretty much settled on Model 2114, which is not self propelled (don't want the added complexity of self propelled and don't need it). It'll have to be delivered, highly unlikely it'll fit in the .......
219: Inmate Central, Would be a great gag for a kid's birthday party. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 02:38:32 (100.6.143.244)
Or for Halloween. Serving food from barf bags. .......
220: Inmate Central, Until mice eat the car's network. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-20, 02:36:50 (100.6.143.244)
If all Jalopnik wants is what cars have timeless styling, there are quite a few current production cars that look great. But none of these cars will run in 20 years time. The controllers won't last th .......
221: Inmate Central, But the software to run them is proprietary. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-19, 15:09:17 (100.6.143.244)
The car makers control access. And the main problem is getting all of the controllers on the bus to shake hands and play nice. If even one of them refuses to communicate with a repaired/rebuilt contro .......
222: Vinyl Asylum, Whatever entity is responsible for the "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" ad... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-19, 13:52:59 (100.6.143.244)
deserves hung, drawn, and quartered. I haven't been able to get that horrible song out of my head for two months. .......
223: Vinyl Asylum, It's an ad man's idea of the "soundtrack of my life." (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-19, 13:43:40 (100.6.143.244)
Which makes it all that much worse. Not only is it music I never need to hear again, but it's used to pander to me. .......
224: Vinyl Asylum, They were half right... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-19, 12:23:37 (100.6.143.244)
...rock n roll can and often is great, but so was Glenn Miller. Take a look at this clip from the movie Sun Valley Serenade : View YouTube Video Sun Valley Serenade is a stupid movie, .......
225: Inmate Central, What you'll end up with... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-19, 12:03:25 (100.6.143.244)
...is a car that might run but doesn't have power steering anymore. Or the windows won't go up and down anymore. Or it won't go into gear. You can pull a pre-computer car out of a barn where it sat .......
226: Vinyl Asylum, Commercials....you know I hate 'em. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-19, 12:00:57 (100.6.143.244)
Can't decide which I hate more, car commercials, booze commercials, or big pharma commercials. Probably all equally. My dad loved classical music, and I mostly listened to classical until I heard "I'm .......
227: Vinyl Asylum, My dad liked George Shearing. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-19, 09:35:16 (100.6.143.244)
But both parents were open to rock n roll. Older uncles and aunts, though...all I heard when I was a kid was, "that rock n' roll is junk. Glenn Miller, now THAT was music!" .......
228: Vinyl Asylum, How does anybody escape that stuff? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-19, 09:33:23 (100.6.143.244)
And I don't "hate the old," since most of what I listen to was recorded 60 years ago. When the same Boomer music is featured in half of the commercials on TV, when it's blaring over dinner at every re .......
229: Inmate Central, Future classic cars (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-19, 07:27:44 (100.6.143.244)
According to the readers of Jalopnik . You ask me, none of these cars are future classics because the electronics needed to make them run will have failed 20 years from now, won't be available anymore .......
230: Vinyl Asylum, To a large extent, blame TV. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-19, 07:05:48 (100.6.143.244)
Or rather marketing. Almost all of that music is used for advertising and it just won't go away. Blame restaurants, too. The music services they use play that stuff to death. My wife and I have a game .......
231: Vinyl Asylum, There was a yacht rock concert here a few weeks ago... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-19, 06:37:04 (100.6.143.244)
...and I had no idea what "yacht rock" was. Thanks for enlightening me. I'll know to avoid it in the future. .......
232: Vinyl Asylum, I'm a dad and a grandfather and I hate most of that stuff. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-19, 05:51:42 (100.6.143.244)
I like CCR, but Genesis, Bad Company, Seger, Steely Dan, the Who, Aerosmith...that stuff is totally unlistenable to my ears. I've been hearing it non-stop for 50 years, feel sorry for kids that are st .......
233: Vinyl Asylum, My favorite version of Tchaikovsky's 4th Symphony is on Angel/Melodiya. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-18, 12:51:21 (100.6.143.244)
The sound ain't horrible but it ain't the greatest either. Kind of compressed. But the performance kicks ass. .......
234: Vinyl Asylum, I picked up a boatload of the Blue Notes back in the mid-00s. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-17, 03:52:14 (100.6.143.244)
Local record store was selling them for ten bucks each. Some of them are pretty good, others are meh. At least one, Wayne Shorter's Adam's Apple , I think was mastered from the RVG CD reissue because .......
235: Inmate Central, You're lucky that was the problem. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-17, 03:41:03 (100.6.143.244)
With modern CANBUS cars (assuming your car has a CANBUS), you can never be sure without testing the switch first. I'm planning to replace the fuel filter on my car Saturday. As far as I know, the OG f .......
236: Vinyl Asylum, Except those records weren't bootlegs. They weren't even pressed by Scorpio. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-16, 14:56:50 (100.6.143.244)
Rainbo did the pressing. Scorpio is just a company that deals with official reproductions and limited editions of old albums. Rhino Records used Scorpio, so did EMI. And BTW...some of those "Scorpio" .......
237: Inmate Central, Explosion behind the instrument panel. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-16, 13:25:11 (100.6.143.244)
View YouTube Video .......
238: Inmate Central, But few people take long road trips. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-16, 12:47:13 (100.6.143.244)
Statistics back it up. Motor vehicles get used to commute to work and back, get groceries on weekends, pick up the kids from soccer, etc. There's no reason why an EV can't serve the average person/fam .......
239: Inmate Central, That happened here in 1979. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-16, 11:12:31 (100.6.143.244)
It was a state by state thing. Dick Thornburg was PA governor then and declared odd/even rationing. The state sold odd/even merch, you could get a T-shirt with the image of a PA license plate with "I' .......
240: Inmate Central, "Brakes? What makes you think I need new brakes?" (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-15, 08:04:08 (100.6.143.244)
View YouTube Video .......
241: Inmate Central, Abe, I'm old enough to remember when President Nixon ordered gas stations closed on weekends. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-15, 03:25:29 (100.6.143.244)
If we wanted to visit our relatives in Indiana, PA, 60 miles away, we had to plan ahead. But...as far as I'm concerned 400 miles one way is 150 miles farther than I'd ever drive in a day. The 250 mile .......
242: Inmate Central, Very cool. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-15, 03:09:12 (100.6.143.244)
Got it bookmarked. Some cigar research coming up. .......
243: Inmate Central, There's definitely some tribal identity shit going on but... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-14, 15:26:32 (100.6.143.244)
The biggest problem is price, second biggest is misperceptions. People don't want to pay a premium for battery power and who can blame them? I think Ford and GM are really screwing the pooch with $100 .......
244: Inmate Central, I've smoked Dominican. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-14, 15:21:06 (100.6.143.244)
Honduran, Mexican...and one genuine Cuban Cohiba that was the best by far. Anyway, thanks for the tip. I'll see what I can dig up. It's still a stoopid embargo. Been in place 65 years, has it done any .......
245: Inmate Central, Lucky bastards get the good cigars. Stoopid embargo! nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-14, 14:18:21 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
246: Inmate Central, Canadian. tn (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-14, 13:58:20 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
247: Inmate Central, Chevy Bolt. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-14, 13:09:50 (100.6.143.244)
Sales were starting to improve just as GM killed the car (where have I heard that before?). Very reasonable used. The Kia EV3 is coming to the US later this year. Posta have 300 miles of range and lis .......
248: Inmate Central, There were several (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-14, 12:36:28 (100.6.143.244)
Here's another. .......
249: Inmate Central, Sweet. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-14, 11:16:12 (100.6.143.244)
When Virgil Exner was working for Chrysler, he commissioned a series of show cars bodied by Ghia. .......
250: Inmate Central, IIRC, the Hyundai Ioniq 6 does even better than that. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-13, 14:53:45 (100.6.143.244)
But even outside the realm of EVs, VW used to sell a three-cylinder turbo diesel outside the US that got 75 mpg. .......
251: Inmate Central, It's a government mandate but... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-13, 14:52:12 (100.6.143.244)
it still lets car companies build huge gas guzzling vehicles, just like the current standards do. Just like CAFE has always done. What they'll do is load the cars up with so many gimmicks designed to .......
252: Inmate Central, The consumers don't decide and neither does the government. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-13, 12:57:42 (100.6.143.244)
The auto makers do. People buy what they're told to buy via marketing. NEVER trust the automakers to do the right thing unless government forces them to. The industry knowingly sold cars that were pur .......
253: Inmate Central, They're covered by CAFE but not the gas guzzler tax. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-13, 02:50:18 (100.6.143.244)
You should check out the list of vehicles subject to the gas guzzler tax. Bugatti Veyron, McClaren, Ferrari, Lamborghini...why even bother having the tax? Pickup trucks should be subject to the tax al .......
254: Inmate Central, 1962 Dodge Lancer, aka "Road Toad" (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-12, 07:26:06 (100.6.143.244)
Old Revell kit I bought as a build-up from eBay about a year ago. Revell issued a series of Mopar kits for '62 including the Lancer GT, a car so ugly it's cool. Not a very good kit, lotta inaccuracie .......
255: General Asylum, But that's OK. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-12, 03:20:20 (100.6.143.244)
The whole point of rock n roll is that you don't have to have a great voice to pull it off. Mick never used Auto Tune. .......
256: Inmate Central, And in my opinion--just as valid as yours---Gates is looking out for himself. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-12, 03:12:06 (100.6.143.244)
Guys like Gates don't get to be guys like Gates without putting themselves first, always. Look, I hope nuclear power succeeds. Hundreds of thousands of coal miners have died mining coal in the US. The .......
257: Inmate Central, Charitable donations are tax deductible. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-11, 15:23:54 (100.6.143.244)
You think they give that money away for free? And oh, yeah--the higher the tax bracket you're in, the more the deduction is worth. .......
258: Inmate Central, The Coventry Climax engine used in the original Lotus Elite... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-11, 14:16:02 (100.6.143.244)
...was designed to be used as water pump for fire engines. It didn't need to warm up, it was lightweight, Colin Chapman put it in race cars. And road cars, too. .......
259: Inmate Central, I don't think Gates is trying to save the planet. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-11, 12:59:22 (100.6.143.244)
Besides, the planet isn't going anywhere. We might kill ourselves off, but Earth will still be around. What Gates probably has in mind is increasing his own fortune, but rationalize it as "doing good .......
260: Inmate Central, Guys like that... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-11, 09:25:41 (100.6.143.244)
the word "altruism" isn't in their vocabularies. .......
261: Inmate Central, It's all about CAFE. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-11, 08:59:30 (100.6.143.244)
Minimal fuel savings to the car owner, but every tenth of a mile per gallon gets GM to the CAFE goal. Of course, if they weren't so intent on selling mammoth gas guzzling vehicles in the first place, .......
262: Inmate Central, Gates was a regular on the Lolita Express. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-11, 08:10:55 (100.6.143.244)
Before we start laying palm leaves at his feet. .......
263: Inmate Central, "My Prius is making a clunking noise." (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-11, 07:45:31 (100.6.143.244)
No shit. View YouTube Video .......
264: Inmate Central, I won't own any car with cylinder deactivation. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-11, 07:44:35 (100.6.143.244)
It's diabolical. Although, I've owned more than a few that deactivated cylinders on their own, without any electronic help. Heh. .......
265: Inmate Central, If you catch the collapsed lifters before they wipe out a cam lobe. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-11, 07:04:12 (100.6.143.244)
By then, it's new engine time. They also burn oil big time. My neighbor's 2014 Sierra has the Gen IV and the problems started with a trickle, turning into a cascade. The Buick 3800, that whole engine .......
266: Inmate Central, Last week, my wife and I were following a '65 Impala SS and it was the same. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-11, 03:57:10 (100.6.143.244)
I was amazed at how small the car looked. I thought car makers had learned their lesson when they downsized in the mid-70s. They need to go back to school. .......
267: Inmate Central, GM's GenIV LS engines with Active Fuel Management...avoid at all costs. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-11, 03:38:45 (100.6.143.244)
They die. If/when an owner needs to replace the engine, if he/she buys a reman from Jegs, he/she gets the choice to have AFM deleted. The newer LT engines with Dynamic Fuel Management might be even w .......
268: Inmate Central, The problem... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 15:23:58 (100.6.143.244)
if SUVs and pickup trucks were a country, they'd be something like the 6th largest producer of greenhouse gasses, either just ahead of or just behind Great Britain. Can't remember which. All the effor .......
269: Inmate Central, Life ain't nothin' but a funny, funny riddle. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 15:14:02 (100.6.143.244)
View YouTube Video .......
270: Inmate Central, From bad guy to comic relief/plot device. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 14:10:18 (100.6.143.244)
For Bob Denver, it was Maynard G. Krebs to Gilligan to Rufus Butterworth. And a pot bust. .......
271: Inmate Central, He wear no shoe shine... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 13:47:49 (100.6.143.244)
He got toe-jam football. .......
272: Inmate Central, Might be... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 13:45:09 (100.6.143.244)
Here's a question for you...considering how many times Gilligan screwed up possible rescue, should the castaways have just done him in? Same deal with Lost In Space . I'd have shoved Dr. Smith out of .......
273: Inmate Central, Even worse... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 13:00:43 (100.6.143.244)
...got marooned on an island with a fat guy, a nerd, a virgin, a non-virgin many times over, an old lady, and a moron. .......
274: Inmate Central, Just misunderstood. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 12:35:24 (100.6.143.244)
Bad upbringing. It's what happens when the car is designed by Jim Stark's dad. .......
275: Inmate Central, I think trucks are great. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 11:47:57 (100.6.143.244)
For farmers and contractors. Problem is when they're used as personal luxury vehicles, like Monte Carlos and T-Birds used to be. Did you know that the gas guzzler tax doesn't apply to pickups? If it d .......
276: Inmate Central, Hey, at least H-K recalls its vehicles. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 11:42:58 (100.6.143.244)
There's a problem on most GM vehicles made from 2000-2020 or so, the fuel lines are plain steel and they rust. Tell me that isn't a fire hazard. No recall. As far as I know, most manufacturers have ch .......
277: Inmate Central, Castles don't rust out. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 10:09:10 (100.6.143.244)
And they don't have to be demolished because a brake control module is unobtanium. .......
278: Inmate Central, Because it's nuts. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 10:06:32 (100.6.143.244)
Spend tens of thousands of dollars more than you need to for something that sits idle 90% of the time? Defies logic. And it does affect me. I pay more for gasoline, more for insurance, and drivers of .......
279: Inmate Central, HOAs get reined in... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 09:42:06 (100.6.143.244)
...Florida, of all places. Who'da thunk it? .......
280: Inmate Central, Family size is shrinking. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 09:38:44 (100.6.143.244)
The US birthrate is way down, has been since at least 2008. But SUVs keep getting bigger and bigger. I've got neighbors my age, kids are grown and living elsewhere, they drive to the grocery store in .......
281: Inmate Central, And if any of you Ford guys are feeling smug... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 07:48:33 (100.6.143.244)
...well... .......
282: Inmate Central, Any of you guys driving a big-ass Kia SUV... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 07:42:03 (100.6.143.244)
Better park it outside. .......
283: Inmate Central, I can just picture it now--deepfake farts. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 07:17:37 (100.6.143.244)
The use of AI to simulate some unsuspecting persons ass gass. Is nothing sacred? .......
284: Inmate Central, You must be thinking of the Alfa Romeo Tonale. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-10, 06:51:03 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
285: General Asylum, Must have sounded good, if you could understand the lyrics. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-09, 13:14:21 (100.6.143.244)
Even in the way back times, Mick annunciate like he had a mouth full of marbles. .......
286: Inmate Central, No bicycle ever gave me shit about what I did all day. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-09, 12:56:58 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
287: Inmate Central, Second? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-09, 11:41:20 (100.6.143.244)
Ever heard the Jimmy Buffett song, "Growing Older But Not Up?" My anthem. Also, I get to collect some of my favorite cars. Don't have to register them, insure them, repair them, put gas in them. I get .......
288: Inmate Central, Working on a 1964 Buick Wildcat convertible. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-09, 07:16:55 (100.6.143.244)
Not the real deal, but the AMT annual kit. Originally issued in 1964, never reissued. Basically a disassembled promo model; metal axles, screw bottom chassis, but still a really good-looking kit if do .......
289: Inmate Central, They were fun to drive, too. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-09, 03:02:25 (100.6.143.244)
But decades of brainwashing has the buying public convinced that bigger is always better. Bigger is better, if you have 6 kids you have to haul around. Otherwise, smaller is always better. ::: TOPIC:: .......
290: Inmate Central, Tire tread looks like dragon scales. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-09, 02:45:14 (100.6.143.244)
View YouTube Video .......
291: Inmate Central, Make my own... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 11:12:08 (100.6.143.244)
...yeah, I've got word working skills that make Homer Simpson look like Bob Vila. Cut that board four times and it was still too short. .......
292: Inmate Central, I had two of them. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 10:58:14 (100.6.143.244)
And a third small truck with a tonneau cover. Oo, la, la. I'd still go with the hatchback. Groceries just didn't work with the pickup truck, the frozen chicken would roll all over the bed on the way h .......
293: Inmate Central, The hatchbacks I've owned were the most useful vehicles. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 10:15:41 (100.6.143.244)
Even more useful than the pickup trucks. Even the little Ford Festiva, which was a much better car than it ever got credit for. I loaded all of my son's stuff for school in the back when fall semeste .......
294: Inmate Central, My buddy's Monza Spyder with the V8... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 09:36:03 (100.6.143.244)
The dealer he bought it from was one of the more disreputable outfits around. I thought there were things wrong with that car right from the start, for example he ordered a car with factory air but th .......
295: Inmate Central, Here in Pittsburgh, it's the opposite. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 09:30:01 (100.6.143.244)
Very few drivers are in any hurry to make it through the next traffic light. Traffic moves slow. It's not congested, it's sluggish. Even traveling on the Turnpike or interstate highways heading east, .......
296: Inmate Central, Thanks for the link. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 09:27:03 (100.6.143.244)
That is what I used to use. It worked great and was very easy to control using the syringe. .......
297: Inmate Central, Ford made a point out of safety in 1956. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 09:21:10 (100.6.143.244)
Dished steering wheel, padded dash, IIRC seat belts for the front passengers. But Ford had a down year in 1956 and that gave the industry all the excuse it needed to disregard safety. .......
298: Inmate Central, According to Wikipedia... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 09:19:27 (100.6.143.244)
...coupe is "a passenger car with a sloping or truncated rear roofline and two doors." I wouldn't have called the original M3 a coupe. My car does have a truncated roofline and two doors. If Honda sti .......
299: Inmate Central, Styrene. The Tamiya cement should work fine. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 09:12:01 (100.6.143.244)
If there's a Hobby Lobby near you, you might be able to find a similar liquid cement under a different brand name. .......
300: Inmate Central, I've always said, if you have to count the number of doors... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 08:21:15 (100.6.143.244)
...you're not a car guy. I'm fine with 4-door vehicles, but they're not coupes. A coupe can only have two doors. I've always liked the stretched out fastback look. The current Hyundai Elantra for exam .......
301: Inmate Central, Distracted driving is a big problem. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 08:18:40 (100.6.143.244)
And it's not just cellphones, it's also infotainment systems, and it's the attempt by car makers to eliminate physical controls for things like air conditioning. .......
302: Inmate Central, Pedestrian fatalities are way up. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 08:04:56 (100.6.143.244)
But only in the US. They're down and falling in the civilized world. The US pedestrian safety standards might as well not exist. They're voluntary, and it's up to each car maker to decide what constit .......
303: Inmate Central, Mostly I use Tamiya liquid cement. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 06:53:22 (100.6.143.244)
I use cyanoacrylate also, but you have to be careful with that stuff. It'll frost glass and paint. But if your Lambo is die cast, you might want to try some 5-minute epoxy to hold the mirror on. I use .......
304: Inmate Central, Hertz is stupid. Nasty, too. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 06:26:19 (100.6.143.244)
The company is still having customers falsely arrested for grand theft auto. But EVs are getting cheaper anyway. Kia is bringing the EV3 to the US later this year. 300 miles of range, $30K before the .......
305: Inmate Central, But remember, the Corvair was unitized. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 06:24:19 (100.6.143.244)
So were the so-called "senior" compact cars from GM that shared the Corvair's basic structure. So were a boatload of other cars, like the Mustang, Falcon, Comet, every Mopar from 1962 on except Imperi .......
306: Inmate Central, I drive a coupe. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 05:21:35 (100.6.143.244)
Of course, it rolled off the assembly line 18 years ago. But I think Honda still makes a hatchback coupe. For some reason, the car makers either don't want to sell cars with two doors or not enough p .......
307: Inmate Central, A nautical term for something useless and/or superfluous. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 03:18:43 (100.6.143.244)
Though a term likely invented for Star Trek . .......
308: Inmate Central, "Cheverolet?" Is that anything like a Foard? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-08, 03:15:29 (100.6.143.244)
I remember the Monza quite well. Friend of mine had two. The first one had the 305 V8, second one was powered by the Buick 231 V6. They were both Monza Spyders, with the decal on the hood. Didn't have .......
309: Inmate Central, Remember the line from "Star Trek?" (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-07, 14:02:25 (100.6.143.244)
Episode "The Ultimate Computer?" Captain Dunsel? .......
310: Inmate Central, Just refresh the screen, it'll be fine. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-07, 10:56:23 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
311: Inmate Central, Really. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-06, 16:07:02 (100.6.143.244)
Weren't they fighting against fascism? Wot went wrong? .......
312: Inmate Central, D-Day (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-06, 11:35:50 (100.6.143.244)
View YouTube Video .......
313: Inmate Central, Oh, fer cryin' aht lahd. tn (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-05, 10:04:19 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
314: Inmate Central, What do you take for a hadduck? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-05, 08:46:48 (100.6.143.244)
It should be easy to remove, if it comes to that. .......
315: Amp/Preamp Asylum, It's gotta be true grit. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-05, 06:22:12 (100.6.143.244)
Or 180 grit. Depending on the project, that is. Styrene model cars, nothing more coarse than 600. .......
316: Amp/Preamp Asylum, 48 volts. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-05, 06:21:08 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
317: Inmate Central, The new Porsche 911... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-05, 05:28:42 (100.6.143.244)
any color other than white or black is extra. On a Porsche!! A car that costs nearly $120,000! I like red cars. Metallic, non-metallic, either way. .......
318: Amp/Preamp Asylum, I went to Sparkos opamps. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-05, 04:45:09 (100.6.143.244)
I think the amp has more punch with the OE opamps, but less grit with the Sparkos. .......
319: Amp/Preamp Asylum, Good components in the case, too. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-05, 03:54:18 (100.6.143.244)
Elna caps. Easy to roll opamps. .......
320: Inmate Central, Sounds like a load of shit to me. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-04, 15:21:10 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
321: Inmate Central, Duct tape will not stop an oil leak. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-04, 14:13:18 (100.6.143.244)
View YouTube Video .......
322: General Asylum, My favorite has always been this one: (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-04, 09:43:37 (100.6.143.244)
I don't even have the album. Never heard anything from it. Don't even like Robert Palmer. .......
323: Inmate Central, Really. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-04, 02:55:08 (100.6.143.244)
She explained the ground rules. Don't look the gorilla in the eye. If the gorilla starts grooming you, ya damned well better groom him back. She started in South Africa, was in Zimbabwe, finishing up .......
324: Inmate Central, The section of bike trail I was on yesterday... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-04, 02:51:32 (100.6.143.244)
...could easily be done on a beach cruiser. In fact, I see folks on those types of bikes all the time. And in fact, I've got one of those types of bikes in the garage right now, though it has a 3-spee .......
325: Inmate Central, It ain't rude. It ain't lewd. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-03, 13:47:08 (100.6.143.244)
But it's something that once barked or once mewed. .......
326: Inmate Central, No, but cheap bikes usually aren't all that light. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-03, 13:25:51 (100.6.143.244)
Remember, the price tag is only $248. Somebody who wants a new bike, doesn't want to spend much, wants something to ride for an hour or so on the weekends, it could be ideal. And BTW, a lot of big nam .......
327: Inmate Central, It's not junk. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-03, 09:08:42 (100.6.143.244)
My sister's old $90 Huffy, disguised to look like a mountain bike, now THAT was junk. I suggest going to your local WalMart and check out the Oregon Trail before you judge. It's a well-built bike. Not .......
328: Inmate Central, Nah, I read the damned article wrong... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-03, 09:01:12 (100.6.143.244)
...the engine blocks weren't properly cleaned of debris from the machining process. Same issue Hyundai/Kia had with the Theta II engine. .......
329: Inmate Central, "I have to rev my car to redline before it'l move" (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-03, 08:26:13 (100.6.143.244)
Uh-oh: View YouTube Video .......
330: Inmate Central, Toyota early engine failures. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-03, 08:16:26 (100.6.143.244)
V6 engines in the Tundra and Lexus LX. Spun bearings. Recall issued for 100,00. .......
331: Inmate Central, Who's your Idi Amin Daddy? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-03, 07:37:30 (100.6.143.244)
Spotted this guy along the bike trail this morning. Guess global warming expanded their range. Nope. Nope. My sister's in Uganda. She sent me the pic this morning. She's on a "Gorilla Experience." .......
332: Inmate Central, I got 36 miles in this morning. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-03, 07:33:38 (100.6.143.244)
Greenock, PA to Smithton, PA. Smithton is the birthplace of Shirley Jones. And stop calling me Shirley. .......
333: Inmate Central, I can get an entire bag of those bearings at my LBS for a few bucks. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-03, 02:53:38 (100.6.143.244)
It's easy to upgrade the ball bearings in a wheel hub, easy to upgrade the cartridge in the bottom bracket, and not expensive at all. Besides, the $248 WalMart Wonder isn't for people like me, who go .......
334: Inmate Central, Cougars, Mustangs, Torinos, Montego, Comets... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-02, 13:28:15 (100.6.143.244)
...Mavericks, Granadas, Monarchs, even the Lincoln Versailles, based on a platform that originated with the Falcon. And they were real rust buckets, even by the standards of the day. The only car I e .......
335: Inmate Central, "My car has no floor..." (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-02, 10:40:56 (100.6.143.244)
Rust never sleeps, my friends. View YouTube Video .......
336: Inmate Central, I have the first two seasons of "UNCLE" on DVD. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-02, 10:38:59 (100.6.143.244)
The first season, all in black and white, is my favorite but the absolute best episode is from season 2, with Vincent Price as one of the guest stars. Your wife undoubtedly like the Audi because it wa .......
337: Inmate Central, And he's driven a lot of those people away. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-02, 10:36:59 (100.6.143.244)
Musk is a 21st Century version of Henry Ford, right down to the very public hatred of Jews. Ford put America on wheels (whether that was a good thing or not is debatable in hindsight), Musk made EVs v .......
338: Inmate Central, One of the rarest Chevys is the '65 Impala SS with a 409. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-02, 09:29:33 (100.6.143.244)
'65 was the first year for the Mark IV engine but about 2,200 Impala Super Sports shipped with the she's real fine. .......
339: Inmate Central, Sweet ride, too. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-02, 09:24:21 (100.6.143.244)
Very businesslike with the minimal Bel Air trim. I've always loved the look of steel wheels with dog dish hubcaps. .......
340: Inmate Central, When I was 9 years old, my favorite TV show was "The Man from UNCLE." (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-02, 09:21:22 (100.6.143.244)
And I can still remember the TV commercials for the 1965 Chevrolets running during the show's first season. I'm not so sure your Mom would like today's Audis. She'd probably shake her head and wonder .......
341: Inmate Central, Can always be replaced with better, when the L-Twoo stuff breaks. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-02, 09:16:56 (100.6.143.244)
FWIW, Shimano Tourney doesn't last very long either. I don't think it can be beat for the price, and I'll wager it'll last a long time if taken care of. .......
342: Inmate Central, Any of you all interested in getting a bicycle... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-02, 08:01:09 (100.6.143.244)
...I checked one of these out at my local WalMart. Well built. View YouTube Video .......
343: Inmate Central, What makes Musk a great man? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-02, 07:37:47 (100.6.143.244)
His money? He's not self-made, he started out wealthy thanks to his parents. And he built his companies with a hell of a lot of taxpayer assistance. In fact, he couldn't have built his wealth without .......
344: Inmate Central, The main reason why Space-X works? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-02, 03:06:16 (100.6.143.244)
Elon Musk owns it, but doesn't run it. If he did, the spacecraft would steer themselves into the paths of oncoming trains, like the cars do. BTW, Space-X is also getting fat on government contracts. : .......
345: Inmate Central, Remember when this stuff seemed routine? tn (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-01, 10:42:33 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
346: Inmate Central, Check the oil and the antifreeze? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-01, 10:22:20 (100.6.143.244)
Trade the human guinea pigs astronauts for something more simian? .......
347: Inmate Central, In '62, the bubbletop was only available on the Bel Air. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-01, 10:20:36 (100.6.143.244)
The Impala had a more formal roofline. The '61 Impala had the bubbletop though, and it's also one of my favorite big Chevys. There's a story about the '61 Super Sport and Dan Gurney. .......
348: Inmate Central, 100% Marxist. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-01, 08:00:54 (100.6.143.244)
.......
349: Inmate Central, AMT just reissued the long-lost 1964 Malibu kit. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-01, 06:55:03 (100.6.143.244)
It's coming out this month. Originally issued as a promo in kit form, screw bottom, hood molded in place. Round 2, which owns AMT, updated the original tooling. The hood now opens, the headlights have .......
350: Inmate Central, And Ocasek was married to Paulina Porizkova. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-01, 06:34:17 (100.6.143.244)
He sure as hell wasn't the greatest looking guy either. Must have been the red and black thing. .......
351: Inmate Central, The '68 looks pretty damned good. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-01, 05:40:23 (100.6.143.244)
GM ditched the semi-fastback rooflines in 1969 and I kind of lost interest at that point. The red Cobalt in the pic? Belongs to some Commie, posts here every so often. .......
352: Inmate Central, I love the round tail lights. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-01, 05:11:46 (100.6.143.244)
GM should have carried them through the Chevrolet line, like the kidney bean grilles on a BMW. Like the round tail lights on this guy's car: When that Revell kit gets here, I'll do my best to build .......
353: Inmate Central, Mechanical fails compilation. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-01, 04:28:04 (100.6.143.244)
This is part 2. No idea what happened to part 1. View YouTube Video .......
354: Inmate Central, Was that before or after he told her not to sit on his Jimmy Shands? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-01, 04:13:59 (100.6.143.244)
Rumour and Sigh , one of the few albums I've kept a CD copy of. Terrific. But I was thinking along the lines of Blue Öyster Cult: Canadian mounties, baby Police force of words. Red and black, it's th .......
355: Inmate Central, Hit by the thunderbolt. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-01, 03:08:22 (100.6.143.244)
Remember the part in The Godfather , Michael Corleone is hiding in Sicily and he spots Appolonia? Falls instantly in love? Yeah, well, yesterday my wife and I ran out for some groceries and pulled int .......
356: Vinyl Asylum, I'm an AT fanboy, none of the boxes have seals on them. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-06-01, 02:57:50 (100.6.143.244)
Two AT540 boxes, an AT VM95 box, AT 610 Mono, none of them were sealed. .......
357: Inmate Central, Over one-third of trade-ins are underwater. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-31, 12:05:19 (100.6.143.244)
Person trades in his/her old car on a new car, still owes more on the old car than it's worth, finances the balance owed on the old car along with the balance owed on the new car. .......
358: Inmate Central, Wasn't there some discussion here last week about the Isle of Man TT? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-31, 10:15:55 (100.6.143.244)
And didn't I misspell "Man" as "Mann?" Anyway, Jalopnik has this item on the race, complete with POV video. .......
359: Inmate Central, SUVs are a marketing gimmick (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-31, 10:07:11 (100.6.143.244)
Started as a way to give buyers less but make them pay more. The original SUVs were built on truck chassis and therefore didn't have to meet the same safety, fuel economy, and (at the time) emissions .......
360: Inmate Central, The cheap plastics on my Chevy are in the interior where you can see them. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-31, 02:53:34 (100.6.143.244)
With BMW, the cheap plastics are under the hood, waiting to destroy the engine. .......
361: Inmate Central, I'm not a Model T fan, but I love me some Model A. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-31, 02:51:41 (100.6.143.244)
Guy named Paul Shinn has a great Model A YouTube channel. .......
362: Inmate Central, Didn't have time to give the wrench a workout today. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 16:28:44 (100.6.143.244)
Maybe not tomorrow either, since the lawn is looking like a hay field. Mebbe Saturday if it's dry enough to work outside. .......
363: Inmate Central, Speaking of oil changes... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 14:58:25 (100.6.143.244)
View YouTube Video .......
364: Inmate Central, Hey, Abe Collins! (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 12:42:16 (100.6.143.244)
Digital torque wrench arrived a few minutes ago. It's 15 inches long, as you can see in the pic. Shorter than my 1/2-inch drive click-stop wrench. It should be perfect for my purposes. .......
365: Inmate Central, Nah, man. The ideal vehicle for living in is a late-1960s full-size American car. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 12:40:10 (100.6.143.244)
Four people could sleep in the trunk of a Chevy Impala. .......
366: Inmate Central, You're right... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 12:08:43 (100.6.143.244)
...but they do anyway. Usually, legislatures are bought off and won't act. Sometimes, the judges/justices in question have an ideological axe to grind. .......
367: Inmate Central, Consumerism is the engine that feeds economic growth. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 11:49:17 (100.6.143.244)
If people don't go into hock in order to have the latest, best, and shiniest, then we'd have to admit to ourselves that growth can't be infinite in a finite world. I don't see any sign of that happeni .......
368: Inmate Central, "Marquette National Bank vs. First of Omaha Corp." (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 11:05:49 (100.6.143.244)
Another gift to the wealthy and powerful from the US SCOTUS. .......
369: Inmate Central, Whatever happened to motorcycle styling? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 10:59:31 (100.6.143.244)
Most of the so-called "standard" bikes look like a mosquito with its feeding tube buried in somebody's arm. Royal Enfield makes some good looking motorcycles, but I'll be damned if I can find one from .......
370: Inmate Central, Betcha I can guess your booze of choice... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 10:24:21 (100.6.143.244)
.......
371: Inmate Central, I have. Several of them. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 10:00:26 (100.6.143.244)
I have a 1219 I use for mono recordings. The stop/start lever doesn't work because I'd have to make an adjustment to minute for me to ever possibly do without hours of trial and error. .......
372: Inmate Central, If I had to replace the car I have now... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 09:58:40 (100.6.143.244)
...I'd probably get either a Hyundai Elantra or Kia Forte. They're mechanically identical, relatively simple--you still move levers attached to cables in order to put them in gear and set the parking .......
373: Inmate Central, Even the first car for a young person, it's an illusion. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 09:19:50 (100.6.143.244)
Created in our minds by decades of marketing. There's a really depressing stretch of PA Rt. 51 a few miles from where I live, both sides of the road are lined with "no credit, no problem" used car dea .......
374: Inmate Central, I've seen a couple other studies, too. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 09:19:05 (100.6.143.244)
Not quite as dire--the rate of claims for hybrids was only slightly higher than ICE, but both were substantially higher than EVs--and if you have a Toyota hybrid, I'd say you don't have much to concer .......
375: Inmate Central, One of my favorite automotive YouTube channels.... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 08:32:50 (100.6.143.244)
...was a repair of an old late-70s/early-80s Mercedes-Benz diesel. One of the smaller diesel sedans. The car was complex, but the engineering was top notch. Very serviceable automobile. From the mid-1 .......
376: Inmate Central, And there are some people who think a car is a symbol of freedom. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 08:28:42 (100.6.143.244)
I wouldn't call $735/month on an 8-year note "freedom." When you roll in the cost of insurance (which is climbing because modern vehicles are so damned expensive to repair), and gasoline, that $50K pi .......
377: Inmate Central, Insurance claims. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 08:25:23 (100.6.143.244)
I've seen several surveys. There's a link to one below. It only figures, Pablo. Hybrids mix gasoline, oil, and high voltage all in one package. .......
378: Inmate Central, But hybrids are a lot more likely to catch fire in the first place. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-30, 07:56:16 (100.6.143.244)
More likely, even, than ICE vehicles. And since hybrids have that big battery, same issues putting the fire out. .......
379: Inmate Central, You have to use extensions. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-29, 12:59:10 (100.6.143.244)
Too many bolts/nuts, there isn't enough clearance for a ratchet head. But thanks for the link. I'll keep in mind next time I got a job to do. In fact, it's bookmarked. .......
380: Inmate Central, The upside is greater than any downside. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-29, 12:57:19 (100.6.143.244)
But the usual suspects would do their best to defeat the whole purpose. Rich kids would get exemptions. The program would have to be paid for, and even assuming some kind of tax could be raised that n .......
381: Inmate Central, I'm not against it, you unnerstand. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-29, 12:09:18 (100.6.143.244)
In fact, I'm not even against a military draft. I think it would force policy makers to reign in our overly-aggressive foreign policy. Also, we need a leveling device. We need to find a way to throw p .......
382: Inmate Central, Right. No universals, not wobbles. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-29, 11:26:54 (100.6.143.244)
Just a straight adapter. You're right about shearing them off, too, because I've done it many times. Not tightening bolts but trying to get frozen bolts to turn. .......
383: Inmate Central, Wife had cervical fusion on the 10th. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-29, 09:36:06 (100.6.143.244)
I've been cooking the meals, feeding the cats, running all the errands since then. Lost five pounds, thanks to my own cooking (that's a good thing). Mrs. Ghost's recovery was much faster than I expect .......
384: Inmate Central, You'd use an extension, right? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-29, 06:13:42 (100.6.143.244)
If you're not going to use extensions, you might as well throw the torque wrenches away and just guess. What's the difference between an adapter and an extension other than length? .......
385: Inmate Central, Mea culpa. Last few weeks have been slightly nuts. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-29, 03:45:38 (100.6.143.244)
At this point, I'd need directions just to find my ass. .......
386: Inmate Central, Not here. It would political suicide. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-28, 13:41:09 (100.6.143.244)
The lesson our best and brightest learned from Vietnam was, never have another draft. People won't care about the wars we wage if they don't have any skin in the game. The Tories are talking about uni .......
387: General Asylum, The chord progressions were nothing out of the ordinary. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-28, 13:38:46 (100.6.143.244)
I can play the chords to every Dylan song I ever cared to play, and I'm not a very good guitar player at all. But Mr. Zimmerman did write some good melodies. "Love Is Just A Four-Letter Word," "Just L .......
388: Inmate Central, Solution to your space issues. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-28, 11:14:38 (100.6.143.244)
3/8ths-to-1/2, for example, lets you use a 1/2 drive socket with the shorter 3/8ths ratchet. .......
389: Inmate Central, When I had my Super Beetle... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-28, 10:48:28 (100.6.143.244)
...I used a breaker bar with a three-foot length of pipe on the end for that rear hub nut. HF's Icon series is supposed to be as good a Snap-On. .......
390: Inmate Central, You have any adapters? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-28, 09:53:34 (100.6.143.244)
1/2-inch to 3/8ths, 3/8th's to 1/2-inch, 3/8ths to 1/4-inch. Indespensible. .......
391: Inmate Central, $130. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-28, 09:41:15 (100.6.143.244)
I thought about the Icon wrench from HF but I just couldn't go $350. Good wrench though, 12-250 ft-pounds. It would have got the job done. I rode motorcycles, built one (basket-case Honda 400F) but po .......
392: Inmate Central, My problem is the number of things that have light torque settings. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-28, 08:45:37 (100.6.143.244)
I have inch-pounds torque wrenches but they don't mix and match well with my sockets. Lotta plastic on newer cars, even my old Chevy, and you don't want to over-torque that stuff. The only way I coul .......
393: Inmate Central, Shtumm! Unless you want MIBs kicking down your door. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-28, 06:37:17 (100.6.143.244)
I don't think it's any kind of conspiracy, it's just stupidity driven by greed. GM made an EV people wanted--the Chevy Bolt--and killed the car just as sales started taking off. The Bolt is supposed t .......
394: Inmate Central, Don't know how long the torque wrench is... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-28, 06:06:42 (100.6.143.244)
...but the package dimension is 19 inches long. I'm concerned primarily with the plastic oil filter covers. Crack one of those, the car is down until a new one arrives. I could probably get one from e .......
395: Inmate Central, Some folks seem to relish the idea of societal collapse. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-28, 04:54:54 (100.6.143.244)
They think it'll give them a chance to say "I told you so" to the rest of us, and a collapse will trigger a reset to a world where we all play by their rules this time. But that ain't how it goes, if .......
396: General Asylum, They do. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-28, 04:36:06 (100.6.143.244)
Back when we were in our teens and twenties, if you couldn't afford to buy the record, you had to commit the music to memory because radio stations didn't play that stuff forever. There were no Classi .......
397: Inmate Central, Good for you, Abe. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-28, 02:56:40 (100.6.143.244)
It's fun, and it's good to poke around under the car every once in a while. Look for anything that seems amiss. I ordered a digital torque wrench, goes down to 5 pounds-feet, didn't break the bank, ge .......
398: Inmate Central, The Cybertruck is bad, but there's worse. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-28, 02:54:16 (100.6.143.244)
The Chevy Silverado EV weighs over 9,000 pounds, goes from 0-60 in a little over 4 seconds. Costs $100K. Why? The market for vehicles of this type is extremely small. Survey after survey, the reason p .......
399: Inmate Central, Did you hear the one about the guy who lost the key cards for his Tesla? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-27, 13:54:44 (100.6.143.244)
Calling Matt Paxton. View YouTube Video .......
400: Inmate Central, Frankenheimer. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-27, 05:34:29 (100.6.143.244)
Always liked his movies. Grand Prix had a bit too much soap opera for my tastes, nevertheless I have a BluRay copy. Real Formula 3 cars were used to film the race scenes. I think the beginning of the .......
401: Inmate Central, This is the best time of the year for getting out on the bike. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-27, 03:08:46 (100.6.143.244)
It gets light right around 6 am. No traffic on the way to the trailheads. Got 41 miles in yesterday morning, it was beautiful if a bit humid. Between the weather and other obligations, I've had to scr .......
402: Inmate Central, The most exciting Monaco GP I've ever seen... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-27, 02:59:28 (100.6.143.244)
...is the opening sequence of the movie Grand Prix . Scott Stoddard's horrible crash, Pete Arons ending up in the drink... .......
403: Inmate Central, Dunlop ended up getting killed at a different race. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-26, 08:14:19 (100.6.143.244)
I think he wrote a book about the Isle of Man TT. Or maybe it was the Isle of Lucy. .......
404: Inmate Central, There was a famous Isle of Mann racer... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-26, 07:29:09 (100.6.143.244)
Joey Dunlop. He shot a POV movie, one lap of the island during the race . View YouTube Video .......
405: Inmate Central, I'm with you, Woj. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-26, 02:56:50 (100.6.143.244)
I've been to Mid-Ohio twice, Summit Point once. All motorcycle racing but is there a difference? Racing is racing. What I remember is seeing a Vincent Black Shadow at Mid-Ohio and getting drenched on .......
406: Inmate Central, I'm sure it was a different scene in 1972 than now. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-26, 02:09:56 (100.6.143.244)
I can't imagine being packed in with a couple hundred thousand sweating beer drinkers, race or no race. Donahue was one of our racing heroes back in the day. .......
407: Inmate Central, And yep, another tornado touched down this afternoon. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-25, 15:53:31 (100.6.143.244)
About 15 air miles away from us. Another round due later tonight then tomorrow is supposed to be OK. Monday, the storms that hit Nebraska yesterday are supposed to roll in here. .......
408: Inmate Central, Yes it is. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-25, 15:40:52 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
409: Inmate Central, Football games are a lot noisier than they seem to be on TV. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-25, 15:40:03 (100.6.143.244)
Non-stop music blaring between plays. You don't hear it on telly, the networks probably have some kind of technology that blocks it so that you hear the talking heads only. Penn State's fight song, Ph .......
410: Inmate Central, But are they mod leeks or rocker leeks? nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-25, 15:00:16 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
411: Inmate Central, Like Buz and Linc.... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-25, 13:20:43 (100.6.143.244)
rolling from town to town, fall in love with a different hot babe every week, solve somebody's problem, then git on down the road. Except no early '60s Corvette. .......
412: Inmate Central, But those things have always been facts of life. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-25, 12:32:11 (100.6.143.244)
Without taxes, there's no cops, no courts, just every man for himself. Now, thanks to Big Tech, you don't own your fridge, TV, washing machine, or dryer. Anything that connects to the Internet, even f .......
413: Inmate Central, Even when I was a Formula 1 fan, I couldn't sit through the race itself. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-25, 12:29:41 (100.6.143.244)
Watching highlights afterwards was...fine... .......
414: Inmate Central, Do any of you all actually watch the Indy 500? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-25, 12:04:45 (100.6.143.244)
I've tried, but damn...cure for insomnia big time. Buddy of mine used to tape it if he couldn't watch it live. But then he was also a big fan of Barnaby Jones . .......
415: Inmate Central, I don't mind... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-25, 12:02:48 (100.6.143.244)
...other guys cookin' with my veggies. .......
416: Inmate Central, My sister and I went to a Penn State football game a few years ago. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-25, 12:02:14 (100.6.143.244)
She has satellite radio, put on a station called Album Oldies. Some live Led Zep song came on, we listened for a few, she changed the channel. Twenty minutes later she switched back, the same damned .......
417: Inmate Central, Same here, in fact, who launched the moon landing project? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-25, 10:42:30 (100.6.143.244)
Biggest waste of money in my lifetime. Billions in handouts to defense and aerospace, all we got was a warm fuzzy feeling out of it. For that matter, who started the buildup in Vietnam? .......
418: Inmate Central, Yeah, you know, actually... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-25, 10:30:30 (100.6.143.244)
...I never listen to music in the car. And I couldn't have used a Spotify Car Thing either. No BlueTooth, GM didn't offer a car stereo with an aux input until 2007. Radio for an '07 Cobalt won't work .......
419: Inmate Central, According to John Fogerty, he played all the instruments on the records. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-25, 08:09:22 (100.6.143.244)
He claimed the rest of the band wanted to fuck off all the time, and none of the records would have got done if he hadn't played everything. Now that's what Fogerty says, but he's always seemed like a .......
420: Inmate Central, Whatever corporate good will ever existed... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-25, 05:37:12 (100.6.143.244)
...is usually only what is required by Federal law. .......
421: Inmate Central, Another episode of "You Bought It. You Paid For It. But You Don't Own It." (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-25, 03:29:42 (100.6.143.244)
Special guest star is Spotify. Producers of this program would like to thank the Digital Millennium Act. .......
422: Inmate Central, Wasn't there a Linnea Quigley movie? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-25, 02:58:23 (100.6.143.244)
Yeah, there was. And I saw it. It was Hollywood Chainsaw Hookers . My niece pretty much kicks ass when it comes to working things. You could give her a Q-Tip, a Bowie knife, and a roll of duct tape, s .......
423: Inmate Central, Nah. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-24, 15:19:06 (100.6.143.244)
This guy. .......
424: Inmate Central, I used to do that. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-24, 15:17:18 (100.6.143.244)
Any job out of the usual, it would take me longer to find the right socket wrench than it did to fix the car. .......
425: Inmate Central, How much of this stuff ever gets used? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-24, 13:49:16 (100.6.143.244)
I guess it's good that it doesn't but still. How many fighters, bombers, ships, etc, we spent trillions building them and they either never worked or are long forgotten. .......
426: Inmate Central, It's great. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-24, 13:26:32 (100.6.143.244)
Having a well organized tool box and the tools to do a job right, makes it all so much easier. I have three impact guns. Pneumatic, corded electric, and cordless. An air ratchet and a cordless ratchet .......
427: Inmate Central, "Lawns are overrated." (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-24, 12:33:56 (100.6.143.244)
AGREED! I cut my grass, also the woman next door (80-year-old widow). The guy across the street is also 80, in bad shape, and I'd cut his grass too except he's a lawn fanatic. He'd never be satisfied .......
428: Inmate Central, Corporate welfare. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-24, 12:21:56 (100.6.143.244)
If it only benefits the public, there's never any money. But when the MIC comes a-callin,' the checkbook is open. .......
429: Inmate Central, Does he who dies with the most tools win? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-24, 12:20:39 (100.6.143.244)
I've got three torque wrenches, the biggun (1/2-inch drive) is pounds-feet, won't go lower than 20. Another is inch-pounds and nm, 3/8ths drive. Number three is also inch-pounds and nm, but 1/4-inch d .......
430: Inmate Central, I watched that clip. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-24, 12:09:12 (100.6.143.244)
At least the perp didn't start demanding to know, "What did I do?" .......
431: Inmate Central, When I cracked the Extreme Regret Reserve open... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-24, 12:05:13 (100.6.143.244)
...put a couple drops on my fingertip and tried it, then later rubbed my eye with the same finger. Mistake. .......
432: Inmate Central, I forgot about Pepper X. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-24, 12:03:57 (100.6.143.244)
There's a guy lives not far from me, calls himself Jimmy Pickles, he grows superhots. His hottest pepper is the JP Piranha. He was featured in the Hulu TV series Superhot . .......
433: Inmate Central, We've had more tornadoes this month than in any other May on record. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-24, 10:39:06 (100.6.143.244)
More possible Monday. .......
434: Inmate Central, I'm not a big fan of live rock n roll. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-24, 08:55:07 (100.6.143.244)
In the 70s, my work schedule interfered with any attempt to see live shows, later I had kids, was flat broke, etc. It's also my opinion that most rock n roll bands can't sing or play and need all the .......
435: Inmate Central, Because it's there! (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-24, 07:02:02 (100.6.143.244)
Don't know about JDK, but I was raised by an Italian mom who loved hot food. I do, too. I love peppers and sauces that make me sweat, make my nose run. .......
436: Inmate Central, It's a Carolina Reaper sauce. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-24, 02:37:37 (100.6.143.244)
The Reaper is the world's hottest pepper according to the Guiness Book of World Records , something like 1.67 million Scoville units (though the 7-Pot Primo is hotter per independent testing). I was s .......
437: Inmate Central, I've got a bottle of Extreme Regret Reserve (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-24, 02:20:13 (100.6.143.244)
900,000 Scoville units. Put some on the sandwich I had for lunch yesterday. Nose running, eyes running, etc. My daughter is growing a 7-pot this year. My son-in-law and I are gonna do a pepper-eating .......
438: Inmate Central, Interesting item from S&P Global Mobility. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 16:23:09 (100.6.143.244)
Average age of an American car is up to 14 years. Trucks, 11.9 (anecdotally, it seems to me that trucks rust out much faster than cars do. Just my observation). There are now more than 3 million EVs i .......
439: Inmate Central, Right on. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 15:54:48 (100.6.143.244)
I love the band Lord Huron, their music can make me weep. They're coming to Pittsburgh in November. But I'm not about to pay $200 for a ticket. I'll just have to miss seeing them live and enjoy the LP .......
440: Inmate Central, How to trash a VW Toureg. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 13:31:50 (100.6.143.244)
Like a Touareg needs any help. View YouTube Video .......
441: Inmate Central, Don't get me wrong... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 13:14:36 (100.6.143.244)
...DoJ should take on Live Nation, but it's small potatoes compared to what's happening with food distribution, health care, and so much else. .......
442: Inmate Central, That's one way to get universal health care. nt (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 10:19:42 (100.6.143.244)
nt .......
443: Inmate Central, Saw that clip. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 10:19:03 (100.6.143.244)
Meanwhile, NHTSA "investigates." It has the power to regulate, resolutely refuses to do it. .......
444: Inmate Central, What do you call an Italian suppository? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 09:45:34 (100.6.143.244)
Innuendo. I am Italian, therefore I'm allowed to make that joke. .......
445: Inmate Central, I doubt it too, but just as reliable? Sure. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 09:43:46 (100.6.143.244)
As long as it isn't made by Jeep, at least. I think the car makers are in love with hybrids because a) they can sell them for more money, and b) even an incremental improvement in EPA mileage rating h .......
446: Inmate Central, Good to see but... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 09:27:30 (100.6.143.244)
...the DoJ could do average people a lot more good by attacking monopolistic business practices that affect the things we need rather than something people want but could easily live without. ::: TOPI .......
447: Inmate Central, Saw a Cybertruck in the wild couple of days ago. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 09:25:14 (100.6.143.244)
Repellent. Looks dirty and used up. Panel gaps are laughable even by the standards of my Chevy Cobalt. Can't imagine what kind of goofball would pony up any money at all for a Cybertruck. .......
448: Inmate Central, Like your neighbor, I set the mower deck high. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 08:09:37 (100.6.143.244)
On the highest setting. I've never used anything but a mulching mower because I don't want to be bothered bagging and/or raking. I have one of the nicest lawns on the street and I don't do a damned th .......
449: Inmate Central, I'm letting a portion of my lawn go un-mowed. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 07:18:56 (100.6.143.244)
It's better for the grass, and the environment in general, to not cut grass at all, and I'd do that except the borough wouldn't be very happy. So I portioned off a section of the back yard not visible .......
450: Inmate Central, Or chopping up migratory birds. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 07:17:16 (100.6.143.244)
There's a control room in those things, up at the bidness end. Always wondered what it was like to visit. .......
451: Vinyl Asylum, It should be just as critical. Don't know why it wouldn't be. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 06:00:30 (100.6.143.244)
I use a mono cartridge in TT2 and aligned it carefully using the correct alignment tool. It only takes a few minutes, so why not do it? .......
452: Inmate Central, She might have a heavier foot. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 04:57:19 (100.6.143.244)
Also, some hybrids don't really get much better real-world mileage but the manufacturers like them because every tenth of a mile per gallon helps with the stupid CAFE standards. My biggest problem wit .......
453: Inmate Central, Some incredible drone footage of the Greenfield tornado. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 04:16:27 (100.6.143.244)
View YouTube Video .......
454: Inmate Central, Love the weight reduction above the wheel. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 04:06:33 (100.6.143.244)
And I hope he used strong bolts for those brackets. Because, you know, a guy slams on the brakes... .......
455: Inmate Central, Wait, wait, wait...it gets even better... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 03:58:22 (100.6.143.244)
If you don't replace that gasket and let the oil leak onto the crank pulley, it'll suck the serpentine belt into the crankcase through the front seal. Don't forget the ridiculously complex EGR system .......
456: Inmate Central, My buddy's Grand Cherokee has left him stranded. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 03:12:36 (100.6.143.244)
Doesn't matter a lick. He's a die hard Chrysler Daimler-Chrysler Cerberus FCA Stellantis fan even though every one of the cars he's owned has broken, early and often. .......
457: Inmate Central, I think my own farts would do just a well. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 03:10:29 (100.6.143.244)
Blow the roof off the sucker. .......
458: Inmate Central, Liberace Heating and Cooling? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-23, 03:09:31 (100.6.143.244)
Bet the plumber digs into a blocked, stinking sewer line and tells the homeowner, "I wish my brother George were here." .......
459: Inmate Central, I'm ready for them all to get Rapture'd up. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 15:41:11 (100.6.143.244)
Those of us in the reality-based world can inherit the you-know-what. .......
460: Inmate Central, They look good, they're supposed to be fun to drive but... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 15:39:44 (100.6.143.244)
...out the door, about $5K more than I'm willing to spend. .......
461: Inmate Central, Toyota? Maybe but they're more than I'd want to pay for a car. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 15:00:46 (100.6.143.244)
I don't think I'd buy a hybrid from any other manufacturer. Too many recalls and lawsuits involving those cars. .......
462: Inmate Central, Even a stripped Versa with a manual transmission is an electronic nightmare. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 11:54:48 (100.6.143.244)
My car is ancient by today standards but it still has a CANBUS. Aftermarket stereo? Be very, very careful. .......
463: Inmate Central, At one point last summer, several local dealers actually had stick shift Versas in stock. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 11:07:55 (100.6.143.244)
But you ask me, the Ghia is a better car. No goddam computers. .......
464: Inmate Central, I guess if they're selling them, they don't feel the need to fix the quality issues. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 11:07:00 (100.6.143.244)
Probably people buy Land Rovers for the status and don't care about the repair costs or don't keep them long enough for it to matter. Jeep devotees, I can't explain that at all. Friend of mine is part .......
465: Inmate Central, My sister had to let her '07 Altima go last year. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 10:52:20 (100.6.143.244)
Still ran great, but rust got it. That car took a tremendous amount of abuse and never missed a beat. These days, though...Nissan is using a 3-cylinder variable compression engine in some of its cars .......
466: Inmate Central, Not only that... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 10:18:45 (100.6.143.244)
...they'll talk up a car like it was the Best Ever, a True Classic. Until the model gets updated, then they'll tell all about the terrible flaws in the old car. I still look at Car & Driver occasional .......
467: Inmate Central, Maybe the base model Nissan Versa. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 10:16:12 (100.6.143.244)
But it's standard equipment even on the cheapest Hyundai (the Venue). My wife's Accent doesn't have any of that useless crap, but Hyundai doesn't sell the Accent here anymore. There might be a way to .......
468: Inmate Central, We have a basement. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 10:00:35 (100.6.143.244)
Most of the homes around here do, primarily to keep the French drain diggers and sump pump installers busy. Ours is dry though, by some fluke. Solidly built. We'd be safe there, as long as we got enou .......
469: Inmate Central, And how about VANOS? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 09:09:28 (100.6.143.244)
Chevy, Ford, Toyota, Honda, H/K, Nissan, all of them, variable valve timing is routine. BMW is up to something like the 7th or 8th version of VANOS and still can't get it to work for long. Most of the .......
470: Inmate Central, Does the X5 still have the plastic water pump? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 08:48:41 (100.6.143.244)
I always joke that the cheap plastics in my Chevy are where go can see them, in the car's interior. On a BMW, the cheap plastics are under the hood, where they can fail catastrophically. .......
471: Inmate Central, Might have been an EF5. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 08:44:19 (100.6.143.244)
It's been an active month here, tornadoes have more touchdowns than Kenny Pickett threw in two season as the Steelers QB, but nothing like this. Still, the same system that generated the Greenfield st .......
472: Inmate Central, Thinking along the same lines. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 07:48:26 (100.6.143.244)
But Fumoto doesn't make a valve for my car anyway. .......
473: Inmate Central, I always use a torque wrench on the drain plug. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 07:46:11 (100.6.143.244)
I'm sure they don't at Jiffy Lube. That's one of the reasons why I don't take the car to Jiffy Lube. .......
474: Inmate Central, Based on surveys. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 07:11:37 (100.6.143.244)
But IMO, you buy something that has the reputation for being unbreakable, you'll tend to consider it unbreakable no matter how many times it needs repaired. Still, Jeeps, Land Rovers, and Volkswagens .......
475: Inmate Central, Consumer Reports' lowest ranked cars. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 06:40:56 (100.6.143.244)
Just about every Land Rover/Range Rover is on the list. No surprise, no surprise about the German cars either. .......
476: Inmate Central, G-L-O-R-I-A! (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 04:03:42 (100.6.143.244)
Heard a great story about Grahame on a podcast. She had surgery to make her lips more plump and the result was nerve damage. As she got older, she had to stuff toilet paper under her lips to get them .......
477: Inmate Central, Good movie. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 03:39:45 (100.6.143.244)
I've only seen it once, figuring why watch it again? I've seen the trick ending. But IMO, it's like a Columbo . Think I'll give it another spin one of these days. .......
478: Inmate Central, Marketing. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-22, 03:35:56 (100.6.143.244)
People buy what they're told to buy. Car companies that market sedans have no problem selling them. I have to share the road with SUVs and pickups. They can't see me. They can't see pedestrians (the n .......
479: Inmate Central, I always use a funnel. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-21, 15:04:45 (100.6.143.244)
Hate slopping oil all over the place, which I always do because I'm clumsy. .......
480: Inmate Central, Thought my brother was smart enough to not get fooled by a marketing gimmick. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-21, 15:03:23 (100.6.143.244)
Which is all an SUV is. .......
481: Inmate Central, That's a lot of extra money to spend. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-21, 09:52:04 (100.6.143.244)
A lot of complexity, a lot of fuel wasted. It's not a logical decision. .......
482: Inmate Central, That's how fortunes are made, pal. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-21, 02:45:00 (100.6.143.244)
Exploitation. Frequently, mass murder. .......
483: Vinyl Asylum, Looks like Matson's recordings are only available via Amazon. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-21, 02:40:27 (100.6.143.244)
I checked import_cds on eBay, even checked Matson's website. In order to purchase the music from the website, you're directed to Amazon. .......
484: Inmate Central, What I don't get... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-21, 02:25:48 (100.6.143.244)
...my brother's kids are grown. One of his daughters has been living with them, she and her two little girls. But my niece is a gearhead. She bought a Civic Si earlier this year because she won't driv .......
485: Inmate Central, Well, hell. The movie's 30 years old. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-21, 02:15:18 (100.6.143.244)
And IIRC, Spacey won an Oscar for his role as Verbal. Figgered everybody knew who Keyser S .......
486: Inmate Central, You also avoided the corner cutting at quick lube. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-20, 16:30:46 (100.6.143.244)
Example: The previous owner of my car must have taken it to a quick change place. There's oil all over the block and bell housing near the oil filter housing. No leaks, it's from the quickie lube guy .......
487: Inmate Central, And you got a good sense of satisfaction, dint ya? (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-20, 16:11:46 (100.6.143.244)
Every car has a system, things to look for, ways to make things like oil changes easier. You'll learn them and it'll take less time, go much smoother. I can do my Cobalt without getting my hands dirty .......
488: Inmate Central, Did see it and figured out within minutes... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-20, 16:10:03 (100.6.143.244)
...that Verbal was Keyser Söze. I can thank (or blame) my Mom for that. She was always intent on figuring out the mystery as close to the beginning of the movie or TV show as possible and I learned a .......
489: Inmate Central, If you, like me, are a film noir fanatic.... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-20, 15:14:17 (100.6.143.244)
...Tubi is your best friend. Free streaming (well...you don't sign up for it but there are a few commercial breaks), the selection of every type from old TV, current TV, movies of all genres, is borde .......
490: Inmate Central, What's most likely is, the typical owner has no idea. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-20, 06:25:44 (100.6.143.244)
Has never read the manual, has no idea how much or how little oil the engine needs. I'm surprised the dude in the video didn't add the old to the washer reservoir or coolant overflow. In my opinion, i .......
491: Inmate Central, Movie franchises. All of them, even the ones I like. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-20, 06:09:40 (100.6.143.244)
There was never any need to make another James Bond movie after Goldfinger, no Star Trek movie after the second, and the world doesn't need Fast and Furious 20: So Old, So Tired . .......
492: Inmate Central, The small block Ford with aluminum heads... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-20, 04:09:35 (100.6.143.244)
...is supposed to be lighter than the Triumph inline 6. And a Buick/Oldsmobile/Rover aluminum V8 is lighter than Triumph's 4-cylinder engine. But here's an interesting swap for you: That's a Genera .......
493: Inmate Central, That used to happen to me all the time... (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-20, 03:37:06 (100.6.143.244)
...but it doesn't anymore. And I do a lot of walking, rarely see hawked-out wads of bubble gum on the ground. I guess them kids today, they just can't see the fun in chewing a sugar-coated chemical b .......
494: Inmate Central, Voice over says, customer went to a parts store and added oil. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-20, 03:19:43 (100.6.143.244)
But it isn't clear who poured 15 quarts of oil into that dumbass SUV engine. So my guess is, the customer bought the oil, took it out to the car, and added it himself. First mistake though, was letti .......
495: Inmate Central, Maybe I'm wrong about checking the oil. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-19, 14:56:08 (100.6.143.244)
After all, look what happened here: View YouTube Video .......
496: Inmate Central, I'm wicha, brah. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-19, 05:55:51 (100.6.143.244)
I live in an urban/suburban area, lotta traffic lights, stop signs, construction, slow moving drivers who would never understand how a car could be fun to drive. Better to drive a slow car fast, IMO. .......
497: Inmate Central, My son has a CF Canyon Endurace. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-19, 03:47:30 (100.6.143.244)
Thing weighs next to nothing. He ended up buying an aluminum Endurace as a second bike when Canyon had one of their bonkers sales and he prefers the aluminum. I'm waiting for the day when he asks his .......
498: Inmate Central, I think what he had was the fear of having to work on it himself. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-19, 03:45:36 (100.6.143.244)
He was always happy to teach me how to fix my cars, but he was getting to the point where he didn't want to work on his own cars anymore and I don't think he was into the joy of synchronizing carburet .......
499: Inmate Central, The coolest teacher I ever had in school drove a baby blue TR-4. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-19, 03:38:59 (100.6.143.244)
My 4th grade teacher. She was young and cute, had a sports car. Sigh. .......
500: Inmate Central, Well, what I ended up with was a '74 Chevy Caprice. (0.00)
Posted by ghost of olddude55 on 2024-05-18, 09:56:58 (100.6.143.244)
It had been tail ended at one point (carefully hidden by the dealer) and the wiring was chopped and diced. The trunk filled with water. Paint on the lower doors spiderwebbed and no body shop would tou .......
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