balthazar

Between satellite TV & the 'net, I would think I would've stumbled across something that impressed me by now, but no. My son watches Naruto- it's terrible, artistically.

I have DTV but I sure don't have anything called "OVTV" - will poke around. Most of Roth's stuff is like cotton candy : you have to have it once, but you don't ever crave it again.

>>"I'm a little behind."<< Oh, give yourself more credit; you're a huge ass.

Interestingly enough, listening to my son's band; song Beautiful Disaster. Looking forward to the finished demo by month's end- hoping to take band pics this week or ASAP.

Guess this time it's later..... like infinitely later, eh?

FI cleaner raises combustion temps, so I would run it thru BEFORE inspection, not during. I agree with above: an octane bump is going to do nothing.

Pics would be helpful. Saw something in a now-discarded mag showing previous & subsequent BMW noses... the Z4 or whatever it was: whew ! Let me guess- the Charger/ 300 already meet this standard... In general I agree that relatively, it's 'clodhoppin' up designs, but most designs were too low to begin with anyway.

^ Um-mmmm...... Almost done- have about a half-yr left out of 6 yrs of M/T and C&D. Will finish de-binding tomm- then it's sort, count & file. Have yielded a TON of ads- about a 3-4" stack. As no doubt everyone knows; these are all square-bound, glued issues. When taking them apart, I firmly grab 6 or 8 or 10 (or more) pages together and pull them off the main mag- those then separate easily. The deeper into the issue you tear, the more important it is to remove numerous pages at once, or the glue ridge that stands up will tear that edge if you try to pull 1 page at a time. Plus it's much faster. I pull them when the issue is 180-degrees open. You develop a 'feel' for the tension / effort required (I've been doing this since 1979). The glue ridge in this era, for these titles, does not cleanly slice off with an X-acto- too gummy or something. You can also pull from the back. Only a handful of issues have been anything other than 'easy'.

No; the Turbine DID have twin heat exchanger/regenerators. The regenerator was actually a Chrysler patent for '49. It's how 1850-degree combustion temps were reduced at the tailpipes so a bare hand could be held in the exhaust stream. More Turbine copy : >>"A gas-turbine develops maximum torque at stall. So if you want flashy acceleration from a turbine car, you drive it the way you would an auto-trans dragster. You sit with your left foot on the brake and your right holding the accelerator to the floor. Within a second the tach needls touches 52,000 RPM & you slip your foot off the brake. There is no lag. The rear wheels start squealing, the car flies forward and you're off. 0-60 is about 5.5 sec, 1/4-mile in the 13s."<<

Don't you have a SawZall ?

For verification, I head on over to the plastic utensil shelves, and see how the white & black spoons are priced. -- -- -- -- -- I believe most kids would likely to chose a doll of the same skin color- that's natural/innocent familiarity. Blacks are roughly 15% of the population in the U.S... but I'm more than willing to bet that Walmart, ALREADY being 'sensitive' , made sure to stock a near equal amount of black & white 'Barbies'. Straight math, folks. -- -- -- -- -- Wait- the black & white barbies weren't segregated on different hooks, were they ????

Congrats on coming 'into the light', Cubitar ! And you could not have picked a better time to do so- soak it up!

>>"A turbine is not without it's problems. It takes almost a minute to start up, it takes about as much time to go from idle to full power as a car typically takes to go from 0-60 mph..."<< Perhaps with a stream-turbine, but these were not characteristics of the now 45-yr old Chrysler (gas) Turbine. Assuredly, tech has progressed since then. 1964 Turbine : "No warmup needed; can operate under full power as soon as fuel is burning." "Tach needle requires maybe 3 seconds to swing up to idle (22,000 RPM)." 'Redline' is 44,000- but peak TRQ is available at idle... so that's not quite 'what it takes cars to go 0-60'. Again, a steam turbine would be a different story. Problems w/ the gas turbine even via 1980's standards were cost of manufacturing (much higher cost materials & machining) and an economy about on par with a gas V-8... and at this point ('70-80s), everyone was eyeballing 30-40 MPG. Earlier, there issues with high NOx- but this was later successfully addressed. I still want one.

What's pretty impressive is that you have the thought, motor skilz & time to snap that pic before the light changed.

Cubitar ~ >>"Golf courses. There were a lot of construction jobs over the last 30 years with the infinite suburb growth"<< Interesting how 30-yr ago temporary construction jobs in one city are relevant, yet a nationwide sales outlet & it's employees are a "moot point".

^ Well put. WRT the buggies- a LOT of early car makers had their roots in the buggy industry; that was a transition within the country. Cities did not decay into wastelands related to it. The subsequent auto industry was built in & of this country, and the cities grew related to it. Since, the decline of too many cities just related to the auto industry going offshore / being supplanted by foreigners is direct, obvious & obscene. Look at it this way, hypothetically. The ports are closed automotively-speaking, population, auto demand & volume is the same. It's 2005 and 15M units are sold. That's a given. However & instead, Studebaker, Hudson, Packard, Rambler, and dozens of others are still supplying that demand. Factories & suppliers all over, humming with employment. People working, and the private sector continues to drive 2/3rds of the economy, with ease. How is that worse than today ??

The country is relatively rich, but getting poorer, and this is a big contributor.

^ Maybe not, specifically..., but a great quantity of people think the country is much worse off for these cities having BECOME anachronisms.

^ Maserati's are too pricey for the performance-minded bunch.... so they are not for everyone... nor the Section 8's. Same goes for the CTS-V. The C1 CTS always caught my eye because it was unique. The C2 catches my eye because it's so upscale-looking, yet it's still a CTS. I still find the C2 amazing, and I see plenty of them around.

It's a 'variation' in that it's a 60-degree V-6. Different block, heads, bore centers, etc. It's a variation in the same way the BMW I-6 is a variation of the 1968 M30 I-6, which was an outgrowth of the M10 I4 dating back to 1961. X-car was introduced for MY 1980.

If it's heavier, costs more AND returns less MPG, he can bitch about Cadillac all the more.

And humanity continues to unravel while technology continues 'moving forward'. Yay us !!

Back. $h! mostly everything hurts. Not doped up right now, tho I have a 40-count bottle of Oxycodene. Got comped an overnight due to some monkeyshines I tossed at my doctor on the table. What great, amazing fun.

And 1962 is well before I was born, but as I've stated before; I fail to see how that matters. Things of passion, things of quality, things that stir the soul and go on to become 'classics', these things are worth learning about, embracing, remembering, nurturing. Few manufactured items approach the widespread allure of the automobile, a terrifically difficult & expensive thing to restore and even maintain... yet millions do and get great reward in return (beyond dollars). 1980 is old, I know this. I'm only borderline delusional. I too started driving in the '80s and I remember well the deplorable vehicles that were the norm then. They were -for the most part- so unremarkable & disposable, most are not worth studying. Who cares? Can anyone imagine repro parts for an '81 Citation in 2021 like there are for the '69 Camaro today ??? No; because it will NEVER happen. The Citation is now 30 years old and it is still an unloved baseball, still getting smacked around. In '62 IIRC, Chevy ran a few ads featuring the '57 Chevy (I believe it was for the OK Used Cars ads). They did this because even then, even the corporate ad men caught wind of that car's appeal. And that appeal has never diminished; it has only grown... because (and despite the fact that I am sick-tired of it) it. was. greatness. History has proven that 'wind' correct a billion times over. I do not remember C-57s in use as daily drivers, I'm not old enough. I never saw them outside car shows or junkyards or the backyard garages of lucky owners. But I sure as hell am not going to ignore it because it's outside my sphere of experience. The Citation IS from my sphere... and I have chosen to reject it. That 'wind' may never lose it's stink. Much of what blows since 1980 stinks, too.

>>"Don't let percocets keep you from posting."<< This, is a capital idea. As soon as I can manage it, I will see if anything interesting pours out while under the influence. There's a LOT in the attic.... Thanks for the well-wishes, they are appreciated. Have to be there 7:30 AM, hopefully I'll be home by mid-afternoon. Later...