balthazar

Property manager called: the numerous tight, dead-end-terminating loops are 'slippery', so I'm going back out to do basically nothing, but the clock will twirl and I have nothing else going on. Lovely street design in Florida, perhaps; hell on earth to plow tho.

>>"I bet Balthazar is having fun."<< Oy. Started out from my house at 4PM. For the third time in a row, I drive the 30-some minutes to the plow job, make one pass on the main drag to the end, and the blade isn't lifting. Top off the fluid, bang on the connections, get the blade up, drive from 20 minutes to the 'plow shop' and wait around to get the pump replaced. Back out to the job, plow for a while and the front brakes go (ruptured line). Limp it back to the shop on RR brakes only. NO ONE on the road- very few plows (circa 11PM) Wait, replace 2 brake lines, back to the job. A few hours later I tag a raised manhole cover hard enough to lose both headlights. Plow for another hour on hazard lights, then limp it back to the shop on parking lights & hazards. Wait, headlights are a lost cause, but the hidden toggle switch that operates the (presumed dead) plow lights is found. At this point it is now 4AM & I am frazzled to the core. The job is in passable condition, so I go home, sleep about 3 hours, then go back around 10AM and tidy up for about 4 hours. At first I was frustrated, but I rolled with it. The upside is I get paid from leaving my driveway to returning home. 17.5 hours, plus a rouge $20 for backdragging a driveway for 5 minutes.

'round 1.5" so far in central NJ. Can still see tips of the grass (it was mowed in late Nov (mulching leaves). Fired up the blower, running fine. Pulled the plow truck up by the house & locked in 4WD. Found my mittens & loaded up the CD changer...

Latest sez 3-5 today, 6-10 tonite, so 9-15" total. Right now (2PM) there's about a half-inch down. We'll see if the '90 GMC has 1 more season in her...

I'm seeing 2-4 tomm night, plus 5-8 Monday in my plow zone (Princeton). Gotta get the snowblower out tomm and blow out the cobwebs, too. Not looking forward to this other than the money...

We all get that TGUS is "entertainment", so are just about all (non-documentary) movies in national release... that doesn't mean it's necessarily GOOD entertainment. -- -- -- -- -- Just going by this guy's on-screen persona, I don't hate it. Beyond that will take more input.

I've 'done time' in a CRX; for one person, traveling locally, with a small quantity of items, it could have a 'perfect' amount of utility, I suppose, tho it's no more than any other car (besides a smart & a Viper). Curious that you bothered to mention it, is all.

Curious: how, exactly, do you measure 'utility' ??

98- didn't that '77 Toronado XSR go production, minus the t-tops? Back window slightly different, I believe, but it's pretty much 99% production, no?

"General dissatisfaction" ?? Approval rating has been below 20% what has to be at least 5 years and the Gallup approval number released this week stands at 13%. That' goes beyond "huge" to 'cataclysmically bad'. -- -- -- -- -- Frankly, anyone who somehow still believes the Gov is out for the interests of the people and the nation are delusional, IMO. In other words, assume some degree of corruption (or at the very least ineptitude), and be proven (with verification) otherwise. The more people think in this manner, the cleaner things will run.

Want to possibly get my attention? Fill an S600 with water and drive it around, then launch a RPG thru it and watch it explode like a hollow-point thru a melon. That might be amusing. Guess it depends on which side of the fence you stand on.

Not so sure really bad bodywork guarantees a good "great" sports car (let's ignore the GT-R for the moment)...

YEAH, that Gladiator, with all the (polished aluminum?) bits AND a TD would be a killer truck. The most appealing Jeep I've ever seen, concept or production. NICE. I missed it the first time around.

^ Fastenal (not auto, but hand tools & hardware) by me has 3 Rams. How is a RC, short- or long-bed truck not "maneuverable" ?? I can put my CC/SB truck anywhere- I back it into a single-wide driveway on a one-way, 2-side parking street with no problems- it's not that hard.

RAMONES ~ Motorhead

Are those... beer cans??

I'm going to pretend I didn't see that.

Hallelujah! I'm a Bum - Harry McClintock

Pretty cool they way they hands-on tortured cars back then. Of course, ChryCo didn't bother to mention that Torsion-Aire --while indeed good-- was only on the front end; the rear was old-timey leaf springs. All the damage mentioned/shown via GM cars was in the rear, not the front. Not good of course, but the answer there would not be torsion rods.

>>"Maybe for the die hard collector."<< Who else pays over used car values for ANY older car?? Collectors. What a bizarre statement. And to compare it to "later performance cars" is MORE bizarre- moderate performance cars can out-perform a stock vintage GTO- are they worth $500 because of it? You cannot make legitimate judgements of decades-old cars versus much newer cars and try to couple it to value. Car collecting just does NOT work that way. You may not care for the GNX, but you cannot explain away it's appeal to others NOR it's place in performance history.

Camino LS6 ~ >>"OK, analagous then."<< I get your meaning: unique alternate fuel vehicle dangled in front of public, mildly endearing, then yanked away. And I used the same reasoning I don't subscribe to WRT the Tucker, against the EV1.

Buying complete engines from your competition is admitting engineering defeat.

EV1 was built for 3 years & 1117 units tho.

You could. You could make the same argument WRT the G8ST since it's in production in a few markets. ChryCo built 55 Turbines, but they were never sold (only lent out); maybe they could squeak in on a technicality? I consider the Tucker production, tho only 37 were built in factory and there were constant running changes, 13 more were built after the factory closed. Many others do not consider it production (assumedly on volume & length of time). Not sure how many were delivered retail via dealers- I believe none. '55 EB looked very different than the '57 out back, but like I said, I'm just gooshy over the one-off fiberglas '55 XP-38. '55 shares no panels with the production '57-58 cars. -- -- -- -- -- I've always liked the offbeat proportions & simplicity of the '50 Martin Stationette, tho I'm not generally a fan of wood siding. The big disk rims make it the most substantial-looking of this era's 3-wheelers/microcars :