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Specifically, the wagon in this picture. The two tone reminds me of a mid-fifties Ford, but they don't match.

I found this in our old Outlook Express account. Funny stuff... Others upon request, should anyone be interested.

It's a pretty odd thing to say at 22 (almost 23), but I've been feeling more and more that way lately. I just found out tonight that one of my good friends from high school is engaged, another friend is getting married in June, two others are engaged, one is now married and having a baby in September, and most of them are starting to graduate from college and get jobs in the real world. I still have a year left due to my five-year program, single currently, and don't have a permanent job yet (although I'm working again this summer at the same arch firm I was at last summer). It's amazing how much has changed from a year ago...and I'll soon be out of college and living …

Over the weekend, I logged into my State Farm account to pay my homeowners insurance...I saw the listing of my policies--my home owners insurance, 4 car policies..then I realized one of the car policies was for a 2005 Hyundai Santa Fe...which I don't own. Clicked on the details, and it's a policy for a guy in another town 50 miles away with the same first and last name, different middle initial. What a screwup. Called up my agent this morning, they were unaware of it but said they'd fix it.. I spent almost the last 5 years building insurance claims and policy software, so I'm amazed at how something like this could happen (if State Farm's data model is anything li…

I just read an article where the PETA freaks and even Senator John Dufus Kerry want the NFL to suspend Michale VIck now. I mean, sure he probably was involved, and its horrific. But, should we at least f*cking wait until the courts determine if he is indeed guilty for sure, first? I'd like to see what kind of illegal $h! these hypocritical folks have in their closets that they want vick gone before its really proven exactly what he did. JOEY HARRINGTON!

Now in the case of some of these cars here that might be putting it a bit too strongly, after all, it was often the person behind the wheel that was to blame for the reputation attached to the car. Nevertheless we have put together a list of 50 cars that have, perhaps, captured the public’s imagination for all the wrong reasons. Whether by accident, design, or even bad design, the cars we have selected will remain in the public eye for years to come. After you click the Link, click on, "Launch our 50 most infamous cars story" Link: http://cars.uk.msn.com/News/Top_ten_articl...umentid=5419390

Wasn't sure where to post this but I figured under BMW wouldn't be quite right. ANyway, I'm sure you've all seen this video but if not it's a fun way to waste some time. http://youtu.be/KoV9uazWGp0 Here is a link to the post with embedded video if the YouTube link doesn't work for you: http://blog.rvinyl.com/2015/04/09/bmw-m3-e92-versus-the-police-guess-who-wins/

Introduction Why do I have to go here...? To vent so listen up... My family (4 of us including me wife and two childern) my younger sister (5 including my sister her hubby, son *son's soon to be wife and there youngest) and my youngest sister all had thankgiving at my middle sisters house in Millwaukee. It was real nice until cars came on the topic. I own my 3 cars in my sig, my Impala, Bonneville and the Grand Prix, my middle sister owns a 2000 Dodge Ram 2500 (5.9 V8) SLT loaded, 2000 Lexus RX300 AWD (loaded) her son a 2001 Nissan Xterra and her son to be wife and he a 2007 Camry LE (4cyl) the last daughter a 2003 Toyota Rav-4 L with all the toys. Then my baby sister o…

For xmas I got a DMH electric cutout. It just got here yesterday and I wired it up that night. Then this morning I went and had the cutout welded in. It sounds like open headers! Definitely the best bang for the buck I have spent on my car! Here is the electric cutout... Here are some pics of the install... Installed and all wired up... Here are some videos of the cutout working and me having some fun... (my camera is really crappy!) http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e145/sch...nt=HPIM0679.flv http://s38.photobucket.com/albums/e145/sch...=HPIM0689-2.flv

I was driving a Tahoe LTZ today and it made me think of something.. I've only been driving for about two years, never been a porter or anything like that, and I've driven a vehicle from every GM brand except Saab, Hummer, and GMC. Buick: '07 Rendezvous Cadillac: two '06 CTS's (Ridden in a new CTS and multiple SRXs) Chevrolet: '07 Tahoe LTZ '06 Cobalt SS/SC (own) '01 Camaro Z28 '98 Camaro (owned) '9x S10 '90 Cavalier Pontiac: '05 Grand Prix '99 Grand Am Saturn: My grandma's 199x ugly, slow gold sedan (I need to test some new Saturns..) At some time or another in the near future I'd like to drive a C5 or C6*, G6 GT coupe, Sky*, Vue (Redli…

http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174904/mic...risis_hits_home The Bad News at the Pump The $100-plus Barrel of Oil and What It Means By Michael T. Klare On Monday March 3, the price of crude oil reached $103.95 per barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange, surpassing the record set nearly 30 years ago during another moment of chaos in the Middle East. Will that new mark prove distinctive in the annals of world history or will it be forgotten as energy prices drop, just as they did following their April 1980 peak? When oil costs are plotted over time, the 1980 oil crisis -- prompted by Ayatollah Khomeini's Iranian revolution -- stands out as a sharp spike on t…

Some of you know i am doing some work on the political campaigns as security and other stuff. If with 3 other guys all in there early 20's. its comical because I'm old enough to be there Dad's. So they call me Pa. Well as a joke at the range today I bet that I could shoot better with my pistol than they can with there scoped rifles at 100 yards. If I won they would have to buy me a S&W 1911 .45 pistol because they complain my 9mm Browning wont cut the job anymore. It was close but a 3rd party counted the points and I came out ahead by 5 points. I said i would take them out to the bar and to forget about the bet. Well to my surprise when we meet up later they got me th…

New technologies and changes in U.S. law are adding to pressures to turn Internet service providers into cops examining all Internet traffic for child pornography. One new tool, being marketed in the U.S. by an Australian company, offers to check every file passing through an Internet provider's network — every image, every movie, every document attached to an e-mail or found in a Web search — to see if it matches a list of illegal images. The company caught the attention of New York's attorney general, who has been pressing Internet companies to block child porn. He forwarded the proposal to one of those companies, AOL, for discussion by an industry task force that i…

20190505_110414-mp4.mp4 Mother’s Day weekend was a busy one. The kids had planned out the whole Sunday for the wife and I had planned the day before to build an area with a raised garden bed for the wife. The raised bed material was bought, the area mapped out and the plan to get up early and rent a truck to pick up cedar chips and black gold compost soil was scheduled. Saturday morning went as I expected, up early, quick breakfast and off to be the first in line at the U-Haul rental place. Figured rather than $75 per delivery, two types of material meant $150, why not spend $19.95 for a single day rental of the truck, pick up the material myself and pocket $1…

So I was looking through some old photos earlier and came across this gem from way back in the Snitz era... good times...

Y'all know what to do.

I hope it's everything you want it to be. Celebrate... appropriately!

The agents give me no lube. Living in Toronto, being 22, and having an accident = about $500/mo.

Do you think this will fit under the hood of a 1959 Buick LeSabre or 1960 Ford Starliner? http://www.bath.ac.uk/~ccsshb/12cyl/

Yeah... I'm so gay. Hot pink and neon yellow for my black light. It's hard to see, but the yellow makes my entire room glow, while the pink... well, it's just awesome. It all compliments my dance light, multi color strobe light, all red traffic light, red string lights, and white christmas lights well. My room is dangerously electrifying, literally.

A friend of mine that I have known for 30 years talked to me on the phone tonight. He and I shoot pool all the time when we get together. Anyway, we tells me he has been going to a new place to shoot pool, which he thoroughly enjoys. Turns out it is a strip joint. He tells me he shoots pool for a while then gets a table dance. He's been going once a week for a while now. He tells me that a stripper pulled him aside, and gave him her number and said she wanted to get with him outside the club. Now thats a first. I need to check this out when I go to visit him next month. There's more to the story, but I will leave that off here in the interest of keeping it clea…

Any of you ever install headers and/or a bigger cam in one of your cars? If so, have you noticed anything weird when you started the car and let it run for a few minutes? And, if you installed headers, were the gaskets like paper or aluminum/copper?

I ain't no admin here (as a matter of fact, anywhere), but I saw this box on Chappelle's Show and made this:

Edit: There is some embedded audio and a bit of NWS material, but just scroll down a bit... http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Wine-me-din...1QQcmdZViewItem

So I was home for graduation parties like a week and a half ago. On Saturday night while I was out at a bonfire in the country, my pager went off. It was a medical call for a man that was choking ( at least that is what the dispatcher picked out of the cell phone call that was broken up) The dipatcher pretty much only knew where it was based off the GPS signal that the cell phone sent. So I hopped in the burban and took off, I was only about 3 miles away (luckily, considering that everyone else on the squad would have been in town which was 7 miles away). So I'm first on the scene. As I get there, I notice that it is not a man choking but rather a 10-11 year old boy…

Copy & paste, replacing the name with your own. A- You like to drink. B- You like people. C- You're wild and crazy. D- You have one of the best personalities ever. E- Damn good kisser. F- People adore you. G- You never let people tell you what to do. H- You have a good personality and looks. I- You have a fine a$$. J- Everyone loves you. K- You are really silly. L- You live to have fun. M- Success comes easily to you. N- You are absolutely beautiful. O- You are one of the best in bed. P- You are popular with all types of people. Q- You are a hypocrite. R- F'ing sexy. S- Easy to fall in love with. T- You're loyal to those you love. U- You really li…

Horrible episode the other night in town. Stopped at a red light, crotch rocket in front of me first in line, cars behind me. Moron on said rocket decides to do a burnout to show off for some chicks on the sidewalk. He proceeds to blast the whole front of my vehicle with bits of burnt rubber and engulfs me in tire smoke. I could hear the crap pelting the car. So when the light turned green I gunned it and followed him, raging. I passed him and cut him off immediately before another red light. He pulled up beside me and starts to get testy, so I let him have a verbal barrage of my own. When the light turned green he kicked the side of my car and took off. Next red…

This is sitting in my driveway tonight. Long story, but it's been a very eventful Monday to say the least. I think I have to take a road trip this weekend.

Look, I know it's uber cool and all, but occasionally I do like to swap out my sig. Ummm, I'm not finding the box that allows that anymore- where is it?

WHO: The Charter Members of T.W.s (68panther, XP715 & SpeedingPenguin) & anyone else from T.W./C&G WHERE: New England Area, start & end points will be T.W. H.Q. in 01824 WHEN: Saturday, February 3rd 2007. The plan is a six hour window: 8:00am to 2:00pm WHY: Why not? Grab a digital camera, top off your gas tank & let's hit the road! THE CHALLENGE: Be the one to score the most points & win the game by photographing as many things on the Scavenger Hunt list as possible. The original list was written up in July of 2006 and has been updated & expanded several times since then. An official, final version will be posted here just before the …

Hey y'all. I just got out of the theater after seeing Ghost Rider. I have to say that the movie was definitely worth the money I laid down for it. Followed the comic series quite well and really was cast pretty well. I can't really go into the whole story of the Ghost Rider without giving away parts of the movie. All I have to say is that its worth it and really good. I enjoyed the world out of it (then again, that might have also been becuase it was just ME that went to the theater, no family attached). There were also the previews for Fantastic 4 II: Rise of the Silver Surfer, and Spidey 3, both of which looked pretty good indeed. Anyway, has anyone else seen it…

Seriously, this is actually pretty cool http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrc64eM_cuI

Did the Astro and Safari vans have a lot of issues with build quality. I was at work at Canadian Tire and in 4 hours, 3 people called to ask if we carried a replacement mirror for an Astro. First one I thought was a coincidence, then the second one was on the phone and it started to get me wondering. I had about 2 cases of that last Tuesday I worked. I asked everybody if they had already been in or sent somebody in looking for that but they said no. This is kind of odd because that was just 5 cases in 2 weeks or technically 2 work days. But we didn't carry them so I told everybody to go to the dealer for the new mirror. Has anyone else heard of this happening? The driver'…

I thought as a point of interest I would post something about the impending subway series in NY. I was born just a bit outside of Queens and have been, for my entire life, a huge Mets fan. Such a huge Mets fan that at the age of 20 I have became a season ticket holder at the begging of this season (with much hard earned cash bartending as my second job.) Even though I've probably been to about 60 Mets games prior to this year I have never been able to get my hands on subway series tickets at a resonable price, or at least not at a price I could afford to pay because I would likely have payed an unresonable price just to go. So as long as it doesn't get rained out…

WASHINGTON - Linguists alarmed at the increasing extinction of many indigenous languages identified five global "hot spots" on Tuesday where the problem is worst, led by northern Australia and a region of South America. The linguists are part of the Enduring Voices project that seeks to document and revitalize languages slipping toward oblivion, often spoken by indigenous peoples like Australia's aborigines whose cultures were trampled by settlers. David Harrison of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, the project's co-director, said there are 6,992 recognized distinct languages worldwide. He said on average one language vanishes every two weeks, often as its last elderl…

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/FL-SUPER-LO...1QQcmdZViewItem Missing a piece of door trim but is looking really nice otherwise. I am not an FWD kind of guy, so I pass...

Hey....guys I searched and searched to see if someone started a thread on this yet....but didn't find one....so if it's a repeat, I apologize..... My friend and I are going to be in Detroit from Friday, 1-18 through Monday 1-21....and I'm wondering who will be in town going to the show on Sat or Sun of that weekend? We are staying at the "Hallowed Grounds".....the RenCen Marriott..... Also....can ANYONE pull strings and get us into the GM Heritage Center?

http://blogs.motortrend.com/6226463/new-ca...uick/index.html 2009 Toyota Venza: It's a Buick! Posted January 14 2008 09:08 AM by Todd Lassa Filed under: New Cars, Motor City Blogman, Toyota, Crossovers, Detroit Auto Show DETROIT - Toyota describes its 2009 Venza as a vehicle for sedan owners who want to move up and SUV owners who want to downsize. It has the comfort of a Camry, the function of a 4Runner and the luxury of an Avalon. And, Toyota neglected to say, the look of a Buick. Why not? Until the American brand's emerging renaissance, pundits called the Avalon "the world's best Buick." For the Venza's premier, Toyota even copied the Buick Enclave's signature…

And he was born the same year as me and he is a politician too! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borger

This is pretty short. As many now know, I just sold my own '95 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham and bought an '08 G6 coupe. This is in addition to mom's '08 Malibu as the 2 new cars of the house. That leaves my brother with his '86 Regal LTD he won't even fathom getting rid of, and dad with both his '92 Roadmaster LTD daily driver and '93 Fleetwood Brougham "spare". As mom went smaller & fuel efficient, and I did the same plus extra cool & fun with the coupe, dad has been searching classifieds DAILY for months trying to find something smaller and more efficient that's also practical to be his beater. Effectively, he thinks, replacing the Fleetwood that just sits …

I don't know if anyone else does this, but I'm pretty observant when watching movies...especially when it comes to filming locations. Tonight I was watching Halloween I. The movie is supposed to take place in a fictional town called Haddonfield, Illinois. Yet two scenes are shot at different schools, both the open-air type you see in places like California where there is a mild climate. That would never fly in Illinois during the middle of the winter. Second, in the scene where the doctor is headed to Haddonfield, you can see these gigantic mountains in the background. News flash: Illinois doesn't have mountains! Same thing with Stephen King's "The Stand." There …

MASSILON, Ohio - Evidence of the slumping economy is stacking up at an Ohio school which has nearly 700 applications for one open janitorial job. Officials at Perry Local Schools near Canton in northeast Ohio say they've extended the deadline until Monday to accommodate the overwhelming response to the week-old posting. The full-time position at Edison Junior High School pays $15 to $16 an hour plus benefits. Superintendent John Richard says many applicants are laid-off workers with heart-wrenching stories about the tough economic times. Donna Croston, 49, said she applied after losing jobs at two nearby factories that closed. Croston said her chances of being h…

Recently, I've had a guy inquire about my front fender. He's all the way over in Washington state. Talks of shipping have been going on and I'm not entirely sure how to do this for a reasonable price. The length, width, and height are very close to putting it over UPS/FedEx's limit for a large package, which adds a $45 upcharge to an already high price due to distance. I'm not entirely sure I can find a box that will be under the said limit and still be able to fit the fender. Weight-wise, it's just under 10 lbs. Is there any way I can ship this without getting him raped on fees and not likely to go through with the purchase?

So my son got this Mothers brand Mag and Aluminum Polish but it says it won't work on coated aluminum surfaces... Anyone know if these wheels are coated? Here is my example to explain it clearly... Any help is most apperciated!

* About a month ago, I finally published a new entry on my OC,SH website for the 1st time in 4 years; I wrote about... ...my 1981 Monte Carlo SC returning home to northern IL, reminding me of a Restless Heart song (5 photos) ...an overdue mile marker celebration for my 2003 Mercury Grand Marquis LS (bought 10.20.2016 with 165,609 miles) ...heart notes (including the retirement of my cardiologist of ~25 years) ...& 2 tidbits. LINK TO READ MORE: https://www.oldcarsstronghearts.com/2025/07/22/of-cars-hearts/ FOOD FOR THOUGHT Memories are complicated: cool, yet stark reminders of people no longer with us, awesome times forgotten, music no…

Story is here. I'm guessing that the intruder, with 29 prior convictions, wasn't the meter-reader. Thoughts?

I posted this in the Fiesta thread but felt it deserves it's own seperate thread, I've watched it a few times and still get a kick out of it. Eat your heart out Blues Brothers

to thank a veteran today. For the Vets on this board i give you my deepest gratitude for your service and sacrifice.

You guys all know by now that I have no sound on this machine, so I need a favor. This is a live version of a song I love, and I'm wondering if the sound is any good. I posted it elsewhwere and I'd hate to be doing the band a disservice.

At Christmas time I saw a young cousin of mine, she recently graduated college and has taken a job as a teacher. We got to talking about vehicles, and she said she wanted to get a new car... a Highlander Hybrid. She has a mid-90's Camry now, handed down to her from her parents. They also have a Sienna and an '05 Camry that we just finished repairing today after my aunt had an accident. I went to pick up her dad, my uncle, so he could take the Camry, and he mentioned that she has factory ordered a 2010 Equinox in Mocha Steel with chrome package and the brown leather interior. I knew she was a smart kid. Now I'd like to see her parents trade up to GM next time around.

1969 ZL-1 Camaro on Ebay Almost $850,000 and teh reserve STILL isn't met :o

http://www.bttf.com/cgi-bin/ImageFolio3/im....jpg&img=16&tt= Because they exist in 2015! :lol:

...I'll be taking my road test. I'm scheduled for a 1:00 appointment at the Strang Avenue (Bronx, NY) testing Site. Any tips?

The date was September 30th, 2005. School ended and everybody went on their way home. Some by bus, some by their parent's, and some by their own vehicle. One person in particular drove his '90s Toyota Tacoma. On his way home, the engine started to stall or something. Pretty soon it stopped and wouldn't start. It caught fire. He called the fire department. As they came the fire had devoured the front half of it. Soon it was out, but too late to save the audio equipment located inside. Anyways, I don't know of the exact details, but this was to a friend of mine. I just had to write it semi-professionally. I guess he didn't pay much for it and in return…

By: Alistair Weaver Date Posted 10-10-2005 BMW and Mercedes-Benz are at war again, and the stakes could not be higher. This is not simply a matter of 7 Series versus S-Class or SLK against Z4. This is a struggle for the future direction of the automobile. Inside Line asked senior figures from Mercedes and BMW to outline their companies' visions of the future, and while they agree on some issues, there are also some startling and fundamental differences of opinion. Munich is represented by Professor Raymond Freymann. As the managing director of BMW's Research and Technology division, he is responsible for "translating crazy ideas into reality." His…

If you like reading road tests from the past, check this site out, many, many road tests of Chevy and GMC trucks, '73-'80.....so much fun. (click bottom right-hand corner of the pages to enlarge) http://www.73-87.com/7387info/Road_Test_7380.htm

Has anyone bought from these guys before? I'm looking at their set of factory G6 floormats. My dealer can't seem to locate them for some reason. http://www.pfyc.com/store/merchant.mv?Scre...gory_Code=G6INT

and NO this has nothing to do with Mercurys. http://gastiresoil.blogsome.com/category/hunting/ Check out the rest of the site, there's some other really neat things on there. Thank XP for showing me this site.

Hmmmm...I wonder where Jag got their inspiration from...

Just curious. List your main nationality..if your a few countries nationality...liek most evryone. Im mainly Finnish, some danish and cornish (Cornwall, England).

I took this pic down in Virginia last fall on my raoadtrip to deliver the 1969 Camaro to No. Carolina.

Due to the rain the New York AutoFest at Castle Gould, Sands Point, NY has been rescheduled to July 10.

Hey everyone! Just wanted to let you know I have been accepted and will attend the College for Creative Studies in Detroit. I will enter into Transportation Design. I guarantee someone will be driving my design(s) one day. I so excited.

This pic is from a '65 Buick Wildcat brochure from Norway. Guns & Buicks! Yaaa!

Gee you'd think my long week would be over... But, Noooooooo..... While sitting pretty while parked last night, someone smashed into her car, and beat it up good. looks to need a new hood and driver's side headlight...jury's out on the bumper.. THEN, while driving to work this morning a moron tosses a bunch of stuff out his driver's side window. And guess who was behind him? You guessed it. My car needs-new bumper, oil pan , fixing of a few loud noises in the back.... I now think I have worst luck than Fly.....two cars in 36 hours... < me All this while setting up the funeral this week..... AHHHH!

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I found a 67 or 68 Eldorado, gold in colour, east of my town and I really want it. It is in need of desperate restoration but the body and paint and still alright. I felt sorry for it because it is buried in a snowbank made by a snow plow in a lot with 2 or 3 Corvettes, 86 and 87 Corvettes. It is right beside a shop and I need to know whether parts for these are hard to come by. I know parts cars probably are. Also, are these reliable enough to make the trip to Woodward. I will update next time I find out some info.

I left my job about 2 weeks ago. I wanted to finish this night time graduate degree this May (2 months from today, more or less), so I overloaded on credits to wrap it up. I worked through the 1st month of the semester, so now I am playing catch up. One chick at work e-mails me quite frequently since I was the project manager on a large project and she worked for me. She just told me that the guy in the outside window office across from her is in the cardiac unit of the hospital. He is only in his late 50s and is health is poor. He buried his wife within the last 5 years and he has not done well since. Compared to most a-hole architects, this is one of the nicest…

So my familt and I went to mass today...I'm not really religious for various reasons, but my mom insisted so we went (this includes my girlfriend). Partway through the mass the priest asked everyone to raise their had and repeat what he said (I forget the words), but this is exactly what it looked like: My girlfriend said that honestly scared her...and when you thin about it it is kinda freaky...it's like a cult...a really big one. Ain't religion great? (not really, but it can be entertaining).

Crossovers, one of the most lucrative and busting new segments ever. Automakers are rushing to fill their lineups with all sorts of them. Size, price, etc. They are starting to establish their own design type. They are replacing fuel sucking BOF SUV's. The big wave is just starting, yet, I am now tired of them all. Is this a fad? Or will most vehicles sold in the future be crossovers? How do you feel? I'm already kinda sick of them.

This is mainly about my car, but also how much my life sucks in general right now. For those who may not remember or care (then don't bother reading the rest of this post), Wednesday was the day I bought my very first car, my Dodge Intrepid (Friday I took delivery of it). To celebrate, I planned to give it a thorough cleaning inside and out, especially since we were going to take it to my cousin's for Thanksgiving. However, since it was cold, raw, and kind of rainy out, I just couldn't get up the energy to go do it. So instead I got up early Thursday morning, and after baking my famous (in the family circle) Pumpkin Pie, I took it to the car wash and cleaned it inside a…

C&D just wrapped up another instrumented test, this time on the A8L. The A8L 4.0T Sport, to be exact. As it mentions in the article, the A8 sits in an interesting spot in the marketplace. AWD only, but still much cheaper than some rivals, it nevertheless has compelling performance and luxury. Here's the test for those interested- http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/2016-audi-a8l-40t-sport-test-review As always, you will have from 10% below base price to 10% over as-tested price to spend on a similar-ish new vehicle. Base price- $91,425. As-tested- $96,175. Rules- 1)Must be a NEW, on-sale production vehicle. 2)Must be a similar vehicle- i…

So, it is with great concern that I must address this issue publicly. An automaker, who should know better, has a vehicle that is beginning to develop rust bubbles at just three years of age. This automaker is Ford and the vehicle in question is Josh's 2013 Escape. Is it just me or is that not a decade too soon for this sort of thing? As for background, the vehicle has obviously lived in the salt-ridden world of Pennsylvania for the majority of its life–as have each and every one of our other vehicles over the years. It should also be stated that, in his ownership, its been washed at least bi-weekly. He takes better care of his vehicles than I do, he's excessively OC…

I was drafted to move a very large item (think boat-sized and boat-shaped) yesterday but didn't do it, so I had to do it this morning. Obviously my Fusion isn't equipped to tow one of these so I had to borrow something. There is at least one Outlook in the fleet, but it was gone today, so I was left with either a Durango (ew!) or one of the dozen or moreTundras sitting there. I'll say this, the Tundra tows easily and rides very well with a trailer in tow.

Normally, I don't do this to my cars.... But this one really pissed me off..... The Cobalt has done the good job pissing me off left and right the last few weeks with all kind of little issues.... - Trans deccided to take its sweet time getting up to speed on I-96...which nearly got me rear ended..twice.... -power locks didn't work..which wouldn't be a big deal if the alarm wouldn't go off-and not turn off. -what radio? I shouldn't pick on her too bad....cars have hit her, as well as people..... That, and this has been some wild weather around here.... Anyways, I went to warm up the Balt outside before I headed off to work, and would not turn over....T…

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I was talking with a guy at work the other day, and it turned into a conversation on places we wouldn't mind living. Some of the highlights: (me) I wouldn't mind living in Delaware, its the state nobody ever thinks about, very incognito (him) Too many gay people for me (Seriously, he said that, he's a good guy otherwise, so I didn't rip him a new one for being homophobic like I normally do) (him) Kentucky wouldn't be that bad (me) Have you ever been to Kentucky? (him) No (me) Its like West Virginia, without the class (him) Ouch, West Virginia is known for being pretty poor (me) I almost moved back to Chicago a few years ago (him) I liked Chicago, but…