speedingpenguin

Just got the picture message! She's out (Kicking and screaming) and everythings good with Amelia and Julie! I'll let Silvester have the honor of posting the first pics :-)

Julie and Silvester have been in the hospital since this A.M., Julie is doing fine as is Silvester, he wanted me to post in here for him when I got home from work. Most recent update from Sly about half an hour ago was "F$#% Amelia is stuck after Julie did a lot of pushing, her heartrate was going crazy, from 74-205bpm. @ 6:49pm she was rushed into the O.R. for C-section" I'm sure by now Silvester is the proud parent of not just one girl, but two! I'll keep you guys updated as soon as I hear any info! Congrats Sly!!! :AH-HA_wink:

As Sly mentioned earlier on in the thread, my solution to the rising gas prices was to buy a bike. Okay, so maybe thats not really why I got the Harley, but if I take the bike out on the nice days this summer, I'm sure it will save me a little money (on gas, that is...) The L98 in my GTA seized up last week, so I'm currently car-less (feels weird) and trying to find something in the ~$600 price range that gets somewhat decent fuel economy. Anything over 15mpg is acceptable to me. While I'd love to find a clone of my old Comanche (2wd 2.8 5 speed), it seems like that's gonna be pretty hard to do. I thought about a neon, but would prefer a 2wd 4 cyl 5 speed S10, a 4 cyl 5 speed Cherokee, or something along those lines. Sly, I say sell the banana and the B59.... the Caddy is deteriorating cosmetically and while its a cool ride, its not anything too special. The 59 is just taking up space and not doing you or Julie any good, and while you'll miss it i'm sure, again, its not anything too special as far as its not like your 'dream' 59 Buick. I would clean them both up and sell them, take the money and get you and Julie some reliable and economical transportation, and save the money you're left with until Julie is feeling better, back at work, and things settle down a little bit as far as jobs/the apartment/the kid on the way. Then go out and buy whatever pre-war car you want, or find the 59 of your dreams. To me, that just sounds like a more practical and efficient way to go about the whole car situation right now. Take it for what it is though... I dont have a car, or a motorcycle license, and I have to go 20 miles each way to get to/from work every day... so I guess I'm not one to talk about practicality or efficiency, haha

Call me queer, but I love the 80's turbocharged 4 banger dodges..... i.e. my 88 Shelby Z Daytona :-) What about the Starion/Conquest?

Haha! oh man, thats cool! To add a little fun to the whole story, here are some of the text messages I received from Silvester on our drive down to PA. You can use your imagination to figure out what I sent Sly, based on his replies: Nobodys holding a gun 2 your head pussy. Do 55, you'll catch up 2 me when the cop is cuffing me (July 31, 2:56 am) I recomend we stop on the g.w. Bridge 2 take a pic... In the fast lane! (July 31, 2:59 am) Jesus ****. Old man hubbard must be out 4 a drive! (July 31, 3:08 am) Thats how u get bagged n tagged by the po-po! (July 31, 3:56 am) Five-oh always be watchin the passin lane! no one expects a speedin hoopty in the granny lane! (July 31, 4:00am) Das only in de mo-nin u be cookin your breakfast n bacon n $h!... Woot! (July 31, 4:03am) Wow. Now I can erase these txt's from my inbox and not feel bad about it, LOL

I know I dont post here much or anything, but I was the other douchebag who drove down with Sly (And drove his ass back up to MA! though we took turns driving), and I have no doubts that the Lesabre would make it down to Florida. On the ride down (We left Lowell at 11:03pm last night), I often found myself struggling to keep up with Silvester, even though I drive an 88 Dodge Daytona Shelby Z Turbo. Mostly because, well, Silvester must have some sort of death wish, and driving 85+ MPH between Jersey barriers and 18 wheelers with ~5 inches on either side through some of the worst roads in the area just isnt quite my thing, but the Buick never gave us a single problem, and actually wasn't THAT bad on gas! I'm sure Silvester will post pics once he gets around to it, but I think his stuff is still in my car so it might be a while. I say drive the damn thing! and Camino, was nice meeting you, you have one hell of a garage!

just got a text from Silvester.... hahahahaha

I feel sorry for Dodgefans girlfriend! haha

oh jesus....lol Sly, give me a call when you get this...

a little past 135mph in my 96 Cobra

you won 20 bucks? thats awesome! i musta read them wrong! Sorry man! sucks you hacked up your hand while taking the wheel skirts off! but in a way, its almost funny.

When your CEL comes on, you dont have to like shut the car off imediatly or anything, its usually nothing major.... In fact, most Puerto Ricans (Remember, i'm 50%) drive with their check engine light on for YEARS before going to AutoZone to get it scanned to see what it is..... Usually takes another few years before they go about fixing the problem, and rarely does it negativly affect the car..... lol yeah....

Another truck that was going through had nearly flat tires so the rollers went under the tires like halfway through (when it was by the blue brush things). The person behind him luckily was paying attention and realized what was going on and had to slam on his brakes to avoid being pushed into this other truck, i thought that was pretty funny. I'm not working till saturday, but i'm sure i'll come home with pleanty of good storys then!

Friday was my first day working at the Simoniz (Wash Depot inc.) car wash and detail center in Nashua NH, and boy, I've never seen so many dumb people in my life. For you to understand these first few stories, you have to be able to visualize how the car wash, or at least the track system, works. fairly self explanitory, the person drives their car up (with us guiding them) so the drivers side wheel is in the track between the guard rail, then when we hit the "program" button on the computer, one of the orange roller things pops up and pushes the car through the carwash. First, I cannot believe how many people wind up driving ON or OVER the guardrail thing. Not like they start off driving on it just cause they werent lined up good, but they'll get halfway up the little ramp thing, TURN THE WHEEL for whatever reason, and then put themselves up and over the friggin thing! From my observations, its about 70% Toyota/Lexus/Scion's that do this, 10% other cars, and 20% yoohoo's in smaller pickup trucks and SUV's (Honda CRV's, Mazda pickups, Ford Rangers, etc.) Now for some good stories. Once the person is in position and we program the computer, they're supposed to have their hands off the wheel, the car in neutral, and NO FOOT ON THE BRAKE. theres a big freakin sign above that says this (See pic), but still people put their cars in PARK or REVERSE or hold down the brake so when the roller comes up behind the rear wheel and tries to push the car, the car goes up and over the roller, usually resulting in the driver of the vehicle having a panic attack and franticly either trying to roll down the window or jamming the brake even harder. This happens once or twice an hour on the weekends it seems (Fri,Sat, and Sun. I think we averaged about 800 cars a day from 8am to 6pm, you can do the math). Anyway, usually after shouting for them to take their foot off the brake and to put it in neutral, and pointing at the sign in case they dont get it the first time, usually they're able to figure it out and we can send another roller to push their car along. Anyhow, Saturday I witnessed something so horribly funny that I couldn't even laugh it was so hard to believe it was actually happening. I had pointed out Silvesters Theory to the people I work with (That 99% of all dumb drivers are in Toyotas) and we all were noticing that in fact it was VERY true, that most of the cars that were going over the rollers or over the rails or were trying to DRIVE through the car wash WERE IN FACT IN TOYOTA MADE PRODUCTS (Including Lexus and Scion). Anyhow, a beige Corolla (The older generation with the jellybean tail lights) with this tiny little Asian woman driving pulls up. First set of rollers, she goes up and over. Brake lights were on, told her to take her foot off the brake, and we sent another set of rollers. Up and over again. We shut the car wash off and go up to her window, AND SHE STARTS DRIVING FORWARD! Finally we get her attention and she stops, we turn the wash back on and the second set of rollers that is moving forward between the rear wheel and the front wheel gets to the front wheel and starts to push the car, once again, brake lights go on and she goes up and over. We got her to back up to the beginning again, pointed at the sign for her and told her once again, "Neutral, NO BRAKE.", and send another roller.... AND SHE STARTS DRIVING FORWARD AGAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! After pounding on her window and shouting for her to LEAVE IT IN NEUTRAL, she finally understood and went through the wash. I thought this was a pretty good example of exactly how horrible Toyota drivers can be. I can say this because honestly, and i swear to god, when any other sort of car screws up and goes on the railing or over a roller, the people are able to fix their mistakes pretty quickly and dont have any problems, but I've also seen a Tacoma pickup decide to DRIVE FORWARD when he was halfway through the carwash, and actually drove in to the truck in front of it, and I've almost been run over by a Scion that went over the railing AND KEPT DRIVING, LOL It really is unbelievable, I think I'm gonna try to get pictures of these dumbasses next time its quiet enough to have a few seconds to whip out the cell phone camera. I'll post more stories as they happen

This was the interior of a car involved in a MVC in Yarmouth, Massachusaetts. The driver stated she was backing out of a parking space when "something" jammed the accelerator. She hit two parked cars, went across the road and into a planter...