October 8, 200817 yr I made $75 when I referred my cousin to buy a used car (a PT Cruiser she really likes) from us when her '95 Tracker died. YAY! And thanks, 66. Yay for the $75 Yay for your cousin liking the PT (I didn't like the one I drove, the glovebox door falling off didn't help, but I can see the appeal of them) Boo for the dead Tracker, I have an awkward soft spot for them.
October 8, 200817 yr Yeah it was a light green 2 door convertible. The rocker panels were shot (rust), but that was minor compared to the front hubs falling apart inside. The cost to repair would have been prohibitive, so she junked it.
October 8, 200817 yr Well, in its defense, it was pretty high mileage, I think it was like 140-150k miles.
October 8, 200817 yr They will run forever, I'm not denying that. The mechanicals seem solid. Its the body/suspension that always seemed weak. Not weak like "Its going to break if I hit a curb" more like "how many salty winter will it take?" weak.
October 10, 200817 yr Author Yeah.... the Tracker is not a good case for BOF. more + news: I'm currently watching "For a few Dollars More" (Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef) One of the best (Spaghetti) Westerns of all time.
October 11, 200817 yr Author Wow, that's gotta be C&G all time record! A thread on C&G got locked after only ONE post by me and three posts total. http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums/index...showtopic=25912
October 11, 200817 yr Wow, that's gotta be C&G all time record! A thread on C&G got locked after only ONE post by me and three posts total. http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums/index...showtopic=25912 Cool..
October 11, 200817 yr Wow, that's gotta be C&G all time record! A thread on C&G got locked after only ONE post by me and three posts total. http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums/index...showtopic=25912 But you didn't post the idiotic post that got it closed. Chris
October 11, 200817 yr Author But you didn't post the idiotic post that got it closed. Chris Please elaborate...? Balthazar's joke did not offend me, and it would have not even if he had said the joke the other way around, or if he or some other member had said something that pissed me off, it might have actually been pissed me off that the thread was locked because that takes away my ability to respond or retort. But whatever....
October 11, 200817 yr hehe i think thats where another certain emoticon comes into play, you know the one with the 'stache and a sign
October 11, 200817 yr It didn't offend me either...I know all of you guys really care about what happens to our country. I was just amused that someone else "got in trouble" for a change. Chris
October 12, 200817 yr Politics should stay in the threads labeled "politics" and since that was a political comments (that broke one of the rules put forth by the admins) I see no reason it shouldn't have been closed. And also,
October 12, 200817 yr Oh, and quit it with the F body's in the emoticons, I'm trying (without success) to fend oiff the idea of building a 3rd or 4th gen F body car... Joel and I are going to go look at a couple of project candidates. Chris
October 12, 200817 yr Author I forgot to mention earlier: :smilies-38096: :useless: Edited October 12, 200817 yr by Sixty8panther
October 12, 200817 yr The wagon is a real trooper. Some dumbass (me) didn't tighten the plug on the oil pan enough, so there was a slight drip and a little puddle in the driveway this morning. And I was just using some of the less-used emoticons.
October 12, 200817 yr Author WMJ: The fact that and the :rwd: with so that Your need to and or else without the
October 12, 200817 yr WMJ: The fact that and the :rwd: with so that Your need to and or else without the I can say this, having started autocrossing I really like how RWD cars feel at the limit, and I don't like the understeer of FWD cars. I just wish there were more sub-30k RWD cars than Mustang, Miata, Camaro, S2000, Solstice, Sky. etc. But sliding around in a late model GTO has really made me like the whole RWD thing...plus if you live up North like we do they are lots O fun in the snow! Chris
October 12, 200817 yr The wagon is a real trooper. Some dumbass (me) didn't tighten the plug on the oil pan enough, so there was a slight drip and a little puddle in the driveway this morning. And I was just using some of the less-used emoticons. Kinda cool working on yhour own car, isn't it? This is another advantage to me in having a teenaged son, someone I love to do it with. I can guarantee that you and Sixty-Eight and Dave87RS, etc with young children will find out one thing-no matter how much you think you love them now, that love will grow one hundred fold by the time they turn 15- As will their ability to break your heart when they do something stupid. Chris
October 12, 200817 yr Author 66S: yup! As far as RWD, it makes the BEST winter beaters in climates where you get tons of snow/ice.
October 12, 200817 yr Kinda cool working on yhour own car, isn't it? This is another advantage to me in having a teenaged son, someone I love to do it with. I can guarantee that you and Sixty-Eight and Dave87RS, etc with young children will find out one thing-no matter how much you think you love them now, that love will grow one hundred fold by the time they turn 15- As will their ability to break your heart when they do something stupid. Chris Yep! Of course, my dad laughed at me today when we changed the oil in the Cavalier- I was rotating the tires when I dropped one...only to watch it roll down the driveway and down the street.... At least I got it back. Edited October 12, 200817 yr by daves87rs
October 12, 200817 yr Well heck I haven't posted some solid news about what's been going on with me in my life, but it's all positive. Have a good paying STEADY job now and will be moving to PA to be with Kelsey in December. Congrats to you 68!
October 12, 200817 yr The weather here is fantastic this weekend. Mid-70's, sunny... ahhhhh... I need to enjoy it while it lasts, winter's coming.
October 12, 200817 yr Looks I'll be going from almost no snow to alot of, but probably not as much as when I lived in Wisconsin.
October 12, 200817 yr Well heck I haven't posted some solid news about what's been going on with me in my life, but it's all positive. Have a good paying STEADY job now and will be moving to PA to be with Kelsey in December. Congrats to you 68! Congradualations and good luck! Chris
October 12, 200817 yr Today's good news: I found an 1864 Indian head penny in a roll at work today. It's my oldest penny by far and my second oldest coin overall (I'm a closet coin collector of sorts), so that was cool and unexpected.
October 12, 200817 yr Any indian head penny with a readable date is worth at least two bucks. Not that it matters because I keep all my coins in a box and hang onto them. Let my grandkids sell 'em.
October 12, 200817 yr I got my 20 roll of 1oz silver dollars just recently, they pretty. lol anyone have any safe recommendations? I found this Honeywell safe. the only fire resistant "thing" in this house i know of is a 1/2 hour "chest" for important documents and such. Edited October 12, 200817 yr by loki
October 12, 200817 yr Any indian head penny with a readable date is worth at least two bucks. Not that it matters because I keep all my coins in a box and hang onto them. Let my grandkids sell 'em. how far off are these grandkids? If i have my way right now, i'll have grandkids someday.
October 13, 200817 yr I have a... sort of... Pontiac shrine on my bureau: the glass-faced dash emblem from a '46-47 with an Art Deco Indian Head inside it (about 5" in dia), a stainless 3-D Indian Head off the flanks of a '52-54, a 1903 Indian Head penny and a '23 Indian Head nickel.
October 13, 200817 yr when i worked at office depot i had an asian chick pay for a 20 oz coke with a 1924 jackson. she didnt bat and eye when she handed it over either only had one crease on it othere wise mint. its amazing how people dont pay attention to that stuff. we even had silver certificates come through once.
October 13, 200817 yr As a coin collector I am jealous! I have a lot of old Indian head penny's, one from at least every year they were made IIRC. Chris
October 14, 200817 yr when i worked at office depot i had an asian chick pay for a 20 oz coke with a 1924 jackson. she didnt bat and eye when she handed it over either only had one crease on it othere wise mint. its amazing how people dont pay attention to that stuff. we even had silver certificates come through once. damn.. that's at least worth 10x what was on it (silver certificate)
October 14, 200817 yr dont remember, my assistant manager was closing down the registers that night and as soon as he saw them he swapped them all out. he just mentioned it as we were walking out that night to our cars that he found em greedy bung hole
October 15, 200817 yr Author The thread about GM coming to their senses about their brands is the silver lining I was waiting for. I hope to see a brand NEW Pontiac or Buick in my driveway someday, it's nice to see that it's not a false hope. ----- More Good News: PCS is full of fertilizer.
November 1, 200817 yr Author Things I am thankful for. My recent raise at UPS. Been there 14 months now. It's like a part of who I am now. I love rewarding work, when my 5+ hour shift is over & those four trucks (that I loaded) pull out of the building at 9:00 am I can honestly say I have positively contributed to society. With the right amount of caffeine, and a good work ethic it can be one of the best jobs you'll ever have. Back-breaking? Yes. Frustrating? Yes. Stressful? Yes. But there's something awesome about work like that... you'll never have more respect for a co-worker than when they work side by side with you, putting every single ounce of energy into their job... loading boxes onto the big brown trucks as if they were they were bombs going being loaded into the belly of a B-17 in 1943. I've made some amazing friends at UPS, the quality of the average UPS pre-loader tends to be very high in terms of character & work ethic, & the friendships you establish there are rooted in something the average outsider will never understand. I may not know everything there is to know about a few of the guys (and women, to be fair) who I work with, but our friendship & the level of respect we have for each other is MUCH stronger than at a typical white-collar job where you never really get to truly KNOW most of the people you work side by side with. ---- Also, I m thankful for my families' health, being able to drive a V8 and have my wife drive a V8, go out to eat from time to time, Lindt Milk Chocolate, Hazelnuts; esp. as combined with Lindt Chocolate & gourmet coffee, Raspberries; esp. as combined with Snapple Iced Tea & Lindt Chocolate, Dr.Pepper, Rob Zombie's kick ass music, and... oh-yeah! Sour Skittles. More later.
November 1, 200817 yr One thing I'm happy about is I found out Friday my contract had been extended to the end of March, was originally 'till the end of the year. Was concerned they were going to cut contractors, given the city's budget shortfall. After 6 weeks there, it's fine... probably the most stress-free, low key corporate cubicle job I've had over the years. Easy commute, easy money. Edited November 1, 200817 yr by moltar
November 1, 200817 yr It was like 73 degrees here today. I drove around a good part of the day, confident in knowing I was using half the gas I used to.
November 2, 200817 yr Author It was like 73 degrees here today. I drove around a good part of the day, confident in knowing I was using half the gas I used to. Don't worry, soon B.H. Obama will take away all of our internal combustion cars, charge US the cost of the crushing/disposal & you'll be issued a solar powered Camry and we'll all live in a perfect utopia where we'll fart rainbows and incinerator smoke stacks ill spew only butterflies & bubbles. Edited November 2, 200817 yr by Sixty8panther
November 2, 200817 yr Visited my parents before work today and got my first (albeit short) ride in my father's freshly restored 1937 Packard Super Eight, and my mom gave me a 1926 buffalo nickel she got back in change from a vending machine at her work.
November 2, 200817 yr I ran out of diapers and my kid just pooped. Not sure what that has to do with anything (other than pointing out that I'm a pretty awful parent) but I put in in here anyways, because now I have a negative number of diapers (0 clean-1 dirty=-1) and this thread is about negativity perhaps?
November 2, 200817 yr Don't worry, soon B.H. Obama will take away all of our internal combustion cars, charge US the cost of the crushing/disposal & you'll be issued a solar powered Camry and we'll all live in a perfect utopia where we'll fart rainbows and incinerator smoke stacks ill spew only butterflies & bubbles. I thought your little thread here was not supposed to be negative. I know English is not your 1st language, perhaps you should look up the meaning of negative in an English dictionary.
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