oldshurst442

Mug Shot Moe:  6'3"  215 lbs

Oldshurst:  " 215???!!!   Yeah!  In your bra!"   

Mug Shot Moe:  "I OBJECT!"

Oldshurst:  "You would!  BASTARD!!!  HAG!!!  AND....LIAR!!!"

41 minutes ago, Robert Hall said:

Old house went on the market this past Tuesday (22nd) and by Thursday the 24th  had 3 offers, incl. one for $30k over listing.  It's sold.  Closing will be in mid September.   Happy happy joy joy...

Oldshurst: saying this under my breath in hush hush style in amazement, shock and with a twinkle in my eye     "30 thousand big ones???!!!" 

Oldshurst to Robert:  "Hey...come here!!!"  

Robert:  Looking at my direction with a hand gesture of the index finger pointing at himself

Oldshurst:   "Yeah you!  COME HERE!!!!   

"You look like an intelligent young man!!!    I've got a proposition for you.  A once in a lifetime business offer!!!"

21 minutes ago, Drew Dowdell said:

Eh, mostly down low, and it is still faster than an Escalade V, which is faster than the G-Wagon AMG and in more than a 1/4 mile an F-150 Raptor.

Also eh... our infrastructure is built for 80,000 lb tractor trailers, and lots of them. It won't notice something 1/10th of that.

Fast has nothing to do with it.   EVs are fast.  That is great. 

And...  80 000 lbs trailers do enough damage to Quebec streets and hiughways.  

But remember,  Tesla Model X and Cadillac Lyriq both weigh  just under 6000 lbs.   Mustang Mach-E and Blazer EV weigh around 5000 lbs.  All four combined weigh about a quarter of that 80 000 lbs trailer.    But there are going to be many many many more of those EV SUVs on our roads than any 18 wheeler.  And...  18 wheelers dont park  in indoor parking lots or high rise ones.   Those poor entry and exit ways...   And I feel sorry for anybody that will be near those when they eventually fail.   Or the cost to rebuild those.  Before and/or ESPECIALLY AFTER failure. You know, downtown underground parking buidling lots or hospital parking lots, airports.  Let us not forget the little bridges in and out of big cities, small towns, rural areas...    Small streets....

Weight is one of the problems for potholes. In the snowbelt states and provinces at least.  Now that everyday vehicles will be at LEAST 50% heavier than their ICE counterparts, we should expect 50% faster timeline wear and tear on our roads.  

Lets go to the  fast argument again though.  

What carnage will it be when two 5000-6000 lbs SUVs are going to collide?  Let alone a Cadillac Escalade @ 8500 lbs.  UNLIKE the Hummer, the Escalade WILL be in abundance on our roads.   Plus batteries have a slightly edge as a fire hazard than gasoline does in an accident...   And not that easy to put out.    Let us not NOT calculate the fire damage on the roads and surroundings when  battery fire starts...    Its not FUD what Im saying. Its a legit concern. 

But why the fast argument angle.

Most folk cant control a measly 180HP 4 cylinder that accelerates to 60 in and around 8 seconds.   In ANY EV, 0-60 is done at sports car levels.  They attain illegal speed limits in a blink of an eye.  And controlling said speed with all that heft is challenging with the pros let alone moronic first worlders...

On 8/16/2023 at 6:38 AM, Robert Hall said:

Presumably similar to the Hummer EV, like 9000+ lbs... mega bloated. 

 Mega bloated is such an understatement.

You were not wrong.  8500 lbs.  A shame.   Its nice as a Cadillac and an Escalade.   Worthy of both titles as the interior looks to be as rich and tight with quality worthy of a REAL Cadillac when America was great...   (sarcastic jab on that wonderful The Good, the Bad and the Ugly mug shot and the EV haterz) 

A shame that automakers are not innovating fast enough, (not battery tech), lighter cheaper materials to counter the heavy battery weight.  

@smk4565

You are absolutley right 

On 8/9/2023 at 10:23 PM, smk4565 said:

I wonder if there will be a smaller battery, I think most people really don't need 450 mile range, so you are just paying for battery you don't need.   

 When talking about this...

But...  

Its a Cadillac in a realm of high end cars.  Battery range HAS to be on the upper side of the echelon for bragging rights.   More battery than necessary but that means weight and lots of it. What would be MOST imppressive and compelling IF General Motors or Mercedes or  Rolls Royce or Bentley actually boast about how NOT heavy their luxo barges are.     

ALL like to keep the EV weight numbers on the hush hush...   

What a shame that we all know, politicians know, automotive execs know, engineers know, that EVs are super heavy but NOBODY wants to do ANYTHING about that.  Including anti-EV folk.   

Anti-EV folk still banter on stupid range anxiety fears and false emissions claims that EV are somehow dirtier than ICE.

What they SHOULD be bitchin' about is the weight problem.   And how our existing infrastructure will be decimated very quickly if the weight problem is not addressed. 

PS:  Lee Van Cleef. ole Angel eyes,  dies in the movie...   Keep our fingers crossed that the same fate might happen to the fat dude on trial. 

@ccap41

ABSOLUTELY about everything you said with your last post! 

And how could I forget about Tag???!!!   Hey!!!  We could discuss Tag anytime we want, right???!!!

That is a very nice Seiko you got.  (Please dont hate me for saying this though)   That is the type of strap that I (personally) do not like.  I would prefer a metal band for it.  I am NOT a watch snob so I do not say that with malice or ill intentions.  Watch wearing is such a personal thing and if that is what you like...GREAT!!!   

I just felt the need to say that a strap like that does not work for me.   And I only recently got into leather straps.  In fact, when my wife bough me the black faced Bulova 3-4 years ago, I soooooo wanted to change the strap. (to a metal one).   I still do because its a very cheap Bulova strap.  But now Im thinking I want a nicer, better looking black leather strap for it.  

My dad's Waltham was an old fashioned band like this

Very similar.  But not as gold-y and matched the colour of the case itself.    I dont have it anymore.  I lost it with time.  Probably in a box somewhere in the house.  But when I fixed it, I wanted a metal band but the love of a leather strap had already begun and went with that instead.  

Ill say it again.  Between all the watches that @Drew Dowdell, @David you and I posted of our personal watches, I like YOURS the best!!!   Including those of MY collection! 

1 minute ago, ccap41 said:

I have to disagree here. Omega is muuuuch more of a Rolex/Tudor/Breitling/Cartier competitor here 

 

Yeah!!!   You are right about that.   

I dont know why I put Omega in the mid tier.     I guess I was thinking Seiko when I wrote it and ommitted Omega with the high end.   But yeah.   Guilty as charged and correction accepted. 

I also wanted to include Tudor and Breitling with the high end stuff but I guess when all those brands were swirling in my mind, I got mixed up with all that info because I had a LOT more to say.   Tongue tied and brain fart we will chalk that up to.

I like all kinds of watches.  

Pedigree is somewhat important, but not a factor.   I DO want a watch from a legit watchmaker, not from these so called fashion watch corps such as Armani, Diesel, Guess, Hugo Boss, Gucci, Michael Kors...    GaaAWD DO I HATE MICHAEL KOR WATCHES!!!

I like simplistic watches.  I like complicated watches with all kinds of complications on the dial.  I wouldnt wear a too busy one, but I like 'em none the less.

I like cheap legit watches like a Casio or Timex or even Swatch but nothing that you buy from a Walmart/Target/Dollar Store  turn-a-rack display and the watch is made in China/Taiwan.   

I prefer the mid-level watches like an Omega, Seiko, Bulova, Citizen, Longines, Tissot... 

I like the horology engineering in the very high end watches like a Rolex, Piguet, IWC, A. Lange and Sohne, Jaeger-LeCoultre, Panerai, etc  

Noting that several brands have been bought by other brands and are part of a bigger umbrella now-a-days. 

I like military face style watches like a Hamilton.  I like the naked face look.  I like the really wierd styled high end stuff too.  

I like automatics and I like quartzes.  I like digital.  I even like smart watches although Id NEVER consider buying one.  

I like round and I like square and rectangle.   Leather straps or metal.  Gold too.  But not plastic nor tissue. 

I like classic styled watches like the Longines watches classic original and reissue I posted in the car thread.

I like a gaudy diamond encrusted  18k Gold  Rolex Presidential. Id wear one too if I was a Russian Oligarch kissin' Putin's ass...   Or a Wallstreet weenie boy bilking billions from like minded @$$h8le$...   Or If I was a New York Yankee or Dallas Cowboys owner.   Same style of shytty arrogance.   Did I just paint the Steinbrenners and the Joneses like murderous, cantakerous theives?    I guess I did...   

These are my personal watches.   The far right one was my dad's.  Its a Waltham.  I have no information on it.   I tried fixing it last year.  Cost me 200 CDN bucks.  Stopped working again 3 months later.  I guess its too old.  But I LOVE it.    Its a 21 jewel self winding automatic.    

The other 2 are Bulova Quartzes.     The one of the left is solar.  Its titanium and its a 36mm I think.  Cost me around 500 CDN at the time.  The one in the middle is 40mm but not that expensive.  My wife bought for me as a XMAs gift and it was on sale for 160 CDN.   

I would want to upgrade to the reissue of a Bulova Jetstar.  I really really like Bulova's Precisionist mouvement.  Its a less expensive Grand Seiko style quartz movement and even more precise.   I like an automatic for its horology engineering, and I LOVE the sweeping second hand.  But I love a battery powered watch in that I dont have to wind it up...   I had LOTS of hand wounding watches as a kid.   When I got my hands on a quartz watch in the 80s, and I had several digital ones at that as well, I never looked back.  Kinda like a manual transmission versus an automatic one.   I dont like a manual transmission either...

Roughly $500 versus $5000.  But yeah...the Grand Seiko is classy and awesome non-the less.

This GS is simply gorgeous!

1 hour ago, David said:

stay safe.

Its Dee-troy-it afterall.  

From their famous potholes

 and the crimes

It takes two to tango in the sense that automakers should also put effort in making autoshows work again.  Maybe not in the same way that GM's Motorama once was and autoshows took that formula for the next 50/60 or so years.  

The pandemic accelerated the direction of car reveals, as how you stated in your timeline, in that internet reveals became that biiiiig event.     The reveal of the Corvette C8 countdown comes to mind.   And if my memory serves me right, Dodge revealed the Hellcats streaming it on the webs and it wasnt the traditional autoshow reveal.

Another nail in that autoshow coffin,  was how Acura was strongly awaiting for its NSX reveal and Ford comes along and literally blowing Acura and everybody away with their GT reveal negating any attention to Acura and the NSX.   Sure it was great for Ford, but because there was another media way to showcase a surprise or long awaited reveal, automakers now had a very safe a nd legit way to monopolize ALL the attention:  Live streamed internet reveals.  

I agree, journalists and fans MUST attend big car shows like Detroit, LA, Geneva etc. in order for them to continue, but the Genie has been let out of the internet streaming bottle.  

I am looking forward to your findings and journalism surrounding the show, I have to admit.   

This one belongs in here...

On 7/14/2023 at 10:26 AM, A Horse With No Name said:

Good Boeing Stratocruiser video

 

 

On 7/12/2023 at 3:14 PM, A Horse With No Name said:

Why I will probably never own a Tesla. 

 

 

You and I both!!!

Oh...BTW

On 7/14/2023 at 10:10 AM, A Horse With No Name said:

The new GMC Canyon looks great. I may well think of buying one. Ranger is getting much closer to paid off...

Oldshurst, CCAP, others seem to have left the chat. 

On 8/23/2023 at 11:56 PM, David said:

Ahh, Olds is a Petite man!  

Yes I am.

But... although not as huge muscled as you, I did do weights back in the day.   I still got my chest and leg muscles in full force.  My calves are still well defined.   Ive lost my quads definition but all the leg muscles are still rock hard. 

My biceps and triceps need work.  I barely got my V around the shoulders where the biceps and tricpes begin. If I flex, the V and triceps are visible. Barely.  But they are there.   

*SIGH*        the bicep and tricep muscles are pathetically dormant though. 

Never had abs.  I had a flat stomach then, not so much now, but at least Ive lost weight and the stomach is kinda flat again.

Too much work to have abs so I never concentrated on them.  Playing sports I figured, abs are not important.  I trained for strength and speed.  Not for bulk and definition.   But I have small wrists.  I have a small to medium body frame.  Im only 5 foot 6 and a half to 3 quarters tall after all.   (to be exact...LOL)   Not quite 5'7'' but definetaly taller than shorty 5.6''  

I dont want to pretend that Im a horology expert.  I am not.  I dibble dabble in information and history here and there.  

But Im passionate enough to at least talk about watches.  

I posted this watch.  

I know nothing about it.   I came across it and was inspired  when I was googling what kind of watch The Bandit was wearing.

Its a personalized Timex.  The band is an indigenous motif band.   Love the band.  

And I had seen the movie American Made with Tom Cruise and remembered a thick leather band watch he wore in the movie.

Its a Nemesis.  And I know nothing about it either.

 So I continued googling to find other watches with thick and big bands similar to either .  I didnt want to post the Timex Bandit watch because I had already posted tons of Trans Ams ad nauseum so I wanted to do something different.  Although I LOVE that band and I might just post it in homage to Burt Reynolds anyway. 

 I didnt like the Nemesis watch.  

I eventually came across that Citizen.   LOVED it IMMEDIATELY.   I thought it was the best looking of all of them. 

Ah yes.  The good ole days of car shows.  Especially the ones from Deee-troy-it.  

The car of tomorrow today when the future was full of hope.   

Ahhhhh....  the irony.   The parallels of living life then and living life today almost mirror each other.  Threat of ww3 and nuclear fallout.  The West against the East is in full swing.

But.  We actually HAVE the cars of tomorrow...today.   

A little glimpse of how fun cars used to be.

But none of that humour is tolerated today.   Agree with it or not, find it funny or offensive,  ya'll got to agree, the mother-n-law ALWAYS needs to get the shaft...  

Watches in terms of telling time is dead.

Watches in terms of fashion is heading in an upwards direction.  

Smart watches actually started this trend.  Because it made fashionable people aware that a watch, a real watch, could be a nice thing to wear to showcase.  

Timex reissued their iconic Marlin...

Casio reissued ALL their classic stuff from the 70s and 80s. 

Casio even went the route of product placement in movies.

not as work watches as how the G-Shock originally was, but as a cool accessory that could take a beating while you save the world. 

The Apple watch and watches of that kind replaced the work watch. The Timex if you will.  But Casio and Timex countered with their cheap offerings and made them fashionable...

And this is where the high end watches also got a second boost in sales.  As an accesory.

And this is where I can explain the next watch I posted in the beautiful car appreciation thread. 

I had a similar watch as a teenager.  I cant remember if it was a Casio or a Timex.  I paired that Casio up with a Delorean.    

Apparently it was also in a movie...

I just posted it because of memory of me having a similar watch as a teen.   Timex or Casio...no difference. 

@ccap41

 That Rolex is a very rare piece.  Only a handful were made.  It was made in the '40s.  If my memory serves me right.  

I like Rolex and Breitling.  But all their models are too big for my wrist too.  I like Rolex not because they are expensive high end pieces.  I like Rolex because originally they were sturdy everyday work watches.  And the older ones were elegant.  I got to say, today's Rolex is gaudi.  A gold Presidential Rolex and Rolexes of that style worked well in the 1980s.  Not so much now.  At least not in my eyes.  

I said I like Breitling.  But I, of my 50 year old self mindset, find that Breitling is too busy.  

The busiest I want my watch to get would be that Omega Speedmaster.   

The biggest I would want my watch to be would be 40mm.   I do have smallish wrists.  

Just now, David said:

@oldshurst442 Funny part is the Gold Bulova watch was when I was in Sales and the Gun Metal Grey watch was when I transitioned to Engineering. Proper representation of my two career paths. LOL

Awesome personal history and tie-in with your watches!!!

The Accutron (let alobe Bulova itself) has some serious history behind it.     Bulova is a SERIOUSLY UNDERATED watchmaker.  Bulovas are the world's most accurate time pieces and watch snobs usually dont acknowledge that. 

    Bulova would be my favorite watchmaker.    

The first watch to go to the moon.  

And the second

And the reissues in the 2020s

Need I say more? 

You beat me to it!!!   

I would have dunnit If it werent for me looking for dumb ass Mustang logos on google...

Ill start reposting the watches I done with an explanation of why I like the watch or how it caught my eye and the reason why I posted it with that particular car.

On 5/8/2021 at 12:28 AM, oldshurst442 said:

 

I wanted to do classic high end watches in that post with pics of what it was like to be rich in the 1980s.  Old money. Not 1980s boorish nouveau riche.  Although I did post a Callaway Vette and Countache.  I didnt want an 80s gold Rolex Presidential.  I did want that classic Rolex chronograph and the iconic Cartier Tank.     

With all those decades, I do not think Ford has ever changed the Mustang logo.

and I personally think its the nicest rendered horse logo of all of them.   Yes. For me,  I prefer the Mustang horse over the Ferrari and Porsche ones.  

I do not know how I feel about the Mach-E traced outlined horse.  It would be the same as the coupe, but its a boring outline of it...   (I guess there is my answer...)

Maybe we DO need a watch appreciation thread.

I sometimes get visions in my head that I like to tie in with cars in this thread.  Ive done watches before.  I usually do music.  

I came across the Bulova Jetstar commercial a few weeks back and it marinated in my mind.  About the same time, I saw the Porsche 911 S/T.   Coming back to post again, I had this (great?) idea to meld them together in an apprecition post.   The Omega and yet another Bulova watch was stirring in my mind and so I got the inspiration to do a 1970s car thing since the Bulova Jetstar ad and the Porsche ad heavily influenced by that decade.   The Omega and Bulova were the actual first watches to be worn by astronauts that landed on the moon.   And since NASA astronauts were gifted or bought Corvettes...  And you see how my choices were made.

Just like really expensive cars, I appreciate really really expensive watches, but I would rather not indulge with really high end watches.  That Omega is a beaut and just about the most expensive watch I would buy.  Or any of the other watches I just posted.   The Bulova Lunar re-issue is just to darned big for my wrists.  The original is just about the biggest Id wear.   The Jetsar re-issue is about $500 US or $700 CDN.   I also love that one too.  The precisionist mouvement is a great innovation.  And the Jetsar is the right size for me as well.    The Seiko Grand would be another watch Id love to own.  But alas, Ive got 2 Bulovas myslef  @David,  Quartz mouvements,  (No...I aint a watch snob that my watches need to be wound up)     I dont need that many watches to live my life.   The less junk I own, the better...   

Jaguar with their Jaguar hood ornament is a great choice. 

With that said, my favorite would be

and all the other various colour combos and styles over the different model years and generations of Trans Am and Firebird. 

Second place for me belongs to Abarth

 It has a very musclecar look to it

And then there is the last Viper logo in 3rd place