Author Topic: The "Must Post" Thread (Read 598450 times)

Tifosi · « **Reply #800 on:** December 08, 2006, 02:11:26 PM »

I'm giving gift certificates this year for Christmas..

Dan

Boxer2500 · « **Reply #801 on:** December 08, 2006, 04:53:35 PM »

Yesterday, I had the envious job of trying to explain the concept of a gift card to a very senile 80-something gentleman.

"This seems way too complicated, can't you just print me one on paper?"

Rich · « **Reply #802 on:** December 08, 2006, 09:48:40 PM »

Quote from: Boxer2500 on December 08, 2006, 04:53:35 PM

Yesterday, I had the envious job of trying to explain the concept of a gift card to a very senile 80-something gentleman.

"This seems way too complicated, can't you just print me one on paper?"

Methinks karma will have its comeback in about sixty more years, Vdub......

Arthur Dent · « **Reply #803 on:** December 08, 2006, 10:45:41 PM »

I picked up some goodies from Montana today. 2500+ kms on the Mazda now.

Rich · « **Reply #804 on:** December 08, 2006, 11:03:22 PM »

Good motor, AD....should be fun....

Arthur Dent · « **Reply #805 on:** December 08, 2006, 11:18:31 PM »

I think so - swapping transmissions tommorow. I got 22mpg in the B2000 - very windy though $:-\$

Tifosi · « **Reply #806 on:** December 09, 2006, 06:25:04 AM »

I get that way, too...

Dan

Rich · « **Reply #807 on:** December 09, 2006, 08:53:47 AM »

Quote from: Arthur Dent on December 08, 2006, 11:18:31 PM

I think so - swapping transmissions tommorow. I got 22mpg in the B2000 - very windy though $:-\$

I've a friend who owns a long-bed Toyota truck (I don't even think it has a model name), but it's old-school, has a zillion miles on it, is rusted and dented, and I think he'd trade his Merc before he'd trade that truck.....

Arthur Dent · « **Reply #808 on:** December 09, 2006, 12:16:26 PM »

Quote from: Rich on December 09, 2006, 08:53:47 AM

Quote from: Arthur Dent on December 08, 2006, 11:18:31 PM
I think so - swapping transmissions tommorow. I got 22mpg in the B2000 - very windy though $:-\$

I've a friend who owns a long-bed Toyota truck (I don't even think it has a model name), but it's old-school, has a zillion miles on it, is rusted and dented, and I think he'd trade his Merc before he'd trade that truck.....

I think this one would go forever too - don't have too much use for it now though.

Rich · « **Reply #809 on:** December 09, 2006, 01:00:32 PM »

My buddy's is one of (might even be the actual) the first cars he ever owned. Only in the most humid, hot summer weather will he surrender to the Merc (that he calls his wife's car) for the air conditioning. He's a successful attorney and some days it's amusing to see him driving to court wearing a suit that's worth about three times more than his truck. He regularly hoses it out in the summer to clean the mud and whatever out and its engine bay is usually pretty spotless. Kind of funny how we attribute value to things.....

Tifosi · « **Reply #810 on:** December 09, 2006, 02:20:12 PM »

I wish I still had my first car...a 1964 Plymouth Sport Fury with a 361 and a Hurst 4-speed...it'd look like swiss cheese by now, but I'd still love it.

Dan

Rich · « **Reply #811 on:** December 09, 2006, 02:36:04 PM »

I wish I still had your first car!

r

Tifosi · « **Reply #812 on:** December 09, 2006, 07:53:11 PM »

It was quite a car...120,000 miles, 2 bad cylinders and wouldn't start when it got below freezing. It had been my grandfather's car{honest}, and it's best years were long gone when I got it in the summer of '73. By 1973, it was almost impossible to find carb rebuild kits for 361s, or so the mechanic told me.

I loved the full-time power steering...you could parallel park with your little finger. Once the exhaust system rusted through on my way to Indy for a date. We took her dad's car on the town that night...first time I ever drove a Datsun 510. Wish I had one of those, too...

Dan

Rich · « **Reply #813 on:** December 09, 2006, 11:23:43 PM »

Kinda funny how our lives are marked by certain cars too....

great stories....

r

Boxer2500 · « **Reply #814 on:** December 09, 2006, 11:39:27 PM »

For no apparent reason, here's a photo my parents dredged up this weekend. Here's a young Boxer2500, age 2. Guess I was doomed to be a car guy from the very beginning.

Tifosi · « **Reply #815 on:** December 10, 2006, 08:20:32 AM »

Hadda save that one...should be an advert for Volvo. Reminds me of the Jaguar ad I saw in CAR once, where a little boy was standing in front of the showroom window with his bicycle, and the caption read,"Someday, someday..."

Dan

Tifosi · « **Reply #816 on:** December 10, 2006, 10:28:52 AM »

Aren't the weekends boring without racing to watch?

C'mon, February!

Dan

Arthur Dent · « **Reply #817 on:** December 10, 2006, 11:20:53 AM »

haha - that is a great photo!

Rich · « **Reply #818 on:** December 10, 2006, 11:31:38 AM »

Great pic....

porridgehead · « **Reply #819 on:** December 10, 2006, 01:47:15 PM »

Porsche had a great commercial along those same lines.

Rich · « **Reply #820 on:** December 10, 2006, 04:07:16 PM »

Hey...anyone seen Ultra?

Boxer2500 · « **Reply #821 on:** December 11, 2006, 12:11:35 AM »

Quote from: Tifosi on December 10, 2006, 08:20:32 AM

Hadda save that one...should be an advert for Volvo. Reminds me of the Jaguar ad I saw in CAR once, where a little boy was standing in front of the showroom window with his bicycle, and the caption read,"Someday, someday..."

It also explains my strange attraction to old 240-series Volvos.

Tifosi · « **Reply #822 on:** December 11, 2006, 08:14:53 AM »

Needs a caption, like...

"WONDER WHAT I'D GET FOR MY BIG WHEEL?"

Dan

Ultra · « **Reply #823 on:** December 11, 2006, 10:07:37 AM »

Quote from: Rich on December 10, 2006, 04:07:16 PM

Hey...anyone seen Ultra?

Not me.

Rich · « **Reply #824 on:** December 11, 2006, 10:42:00 AM »

Jes' wondrin'.....

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