balthazar
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Don’t remember if I put a pic of this guy up here. Found him stuck in a bucket, kept him around for 8-9 days while he worked on flight (and grew). Fed him, then weened him off to finding/feeding himself. Near the end, I could call him and he’d bop 30 feet across the ground to me to eat a worm I found. He’d fly to your arm and all. A neat experience.
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That guarantees you have at least a quarter ounce of taste. ? Tesla 'truck' is miles below an Aztek or Axiom in the beauty department.
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^ Screams at inside of closet door, emerges smiling (with just a subtle tic at one eye). We've all been there. There's always High Art for solace :
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Porsche Panamera :
Daimler really raped Chrysler over. Eagle tho: just rebadges.I miss Plymouth quite a lot. '57-58 may have been their peak, stylistically- the Division punched way above their price class with that generation. And this one doesn't even have the optional bumper wings.
Olds would compete against Chevy... and Dodge, and Plymouth, and Buick, and Ford, and Mercury, and AMC, etc.Bigger bore, longer stroke, bigger crank, taller deck are the main in-concert ingredients forcing a big block. Pontiac had slightly bore differences, and 2 main journal sizes but the same deck heights, all in one block ‘size’.Nope: Olds also did the big/small block thing. In the ‘60s the 330 and 425 were totally different.60-80% of just about everyone's sales are CUVs / SUVs. But since the vast majority of SUVs are 4WD, are german ones 'fun' and American ones 'not fun' even tho they have the same number of drive wheels? Does anyone who buys a mobile consumer appliance (CUV) drive them in any way aggressively? What percent of drivers? I watched a Porsche 911-esque car today, turn right onto the highway at a red light. Road ahead was empty... and it just leisurely oozed forward like a kia forte on a donut spare. I thought 'Idiot."Mr Felt- question. What's the purpose of the vertical 4x6s? I see you have D-rings on them. Curious, because they're obviously not for structural reasons.Went to the junkyard this morning. Small yard, they used to keep a small section of really old (60s) stuff off to the side, but I was disheartened to see it all gone and a crusher in the rear of the yard. Oh well, almost nothing left of the oldies there anyway. Had a '60 Olds coupe, was going to scour it for some hardware for my B-59. This was the oldest thing I saw there; '76 Laguna by the writing on the C-Pillar :
^ Should last as long as any other general turbo'd vehicle. Again I point to the random guy who promised me my turbo would "explode" at 75K miles; I just turned 199K yesterday.Used to see saabs in the ‘90s and into the ‘00s, but they all-llll gone now.It's not been 'upkept' as much as it's been restored. Wheel & shifter definitely aren't factory, but they blend in perfectly well. Also looks like 18s on all 4 corners. Bet it has way more than 350 or 375 HP gross now.Now everything is :
^ I believe that's a Dethtrapp 2000.Lamoille Iowa 1939 :
Here’s my trusty ‘64 Sprunger drill press, made in Topeka IN. Works great, use it all the time. Switch went bad so it got a new switch, new grounded cord, and cleaned up/waxed the vertical post & table. Maybe I’ll restore it when I no longer need to put holes in things.
The fuel injection was problematic, requiring dedicated mechanics to keep it operational. But Daimler -as usual- wanted sales volume first & foremost, and they quickly sullied the SL nameplate with the 89-HP 4-cylinder 190SL, killing off the 300 coupe early in the '57 MY, then killing off the cheaper-to-build convertible after '62. For a 4-banger with 89 HP. That's closer to HALF the horsepower the Corvette had 10 years earlier! Daimler basically did the opposite trajectory that the Corvette did. With the tri-carb inline 6, the Corvette in '54 alone outsold the entire run of daimler 300s, coupe & convertible combined, from '54-63. The early SLs sold terribly; most years were around 200 units.Sometime about 6 years ago, I passed a still-operating stand-along GMC dealer in northern NJ. Looked like it was the same since 1960 or so. Don't remember the name. This ISN'T it, but here's another stand-alone GMC dealer in Jersey : https://www.franksgmc.net/AboutUs#close
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