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Detroit, 12:09 PM
Fri Dec 11
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If I had his money, I'd start out just the way he did — build a huge pro-level workshop. I'd make sure mine had a Bridgeport mill and a massive lathe (each with about a zillion different indexing accessories), a big honkin' inverter TIG, a jig table, a big hydraulic press, a tubing bender with every available die set, a blasting cabinet, full-size paint booth, and a couple of car and bike lifts. Oh, and just park that Snap-On truck in one corner for me to use as my tool chest.
But then, unlike Jay, I would NOT hook up with MB and make this car. Or with GM and make the Eco-Jet. Or even with Bernard to restore the old stuff.
I would go out there every day by myself, and...
- break end mills,
- make crappy, weak welds,
- drill to one side of the punch mark,
- rebore cylinders out of alignment
- crack irreplaceable head castings trying to press out valve guides, and,
- eventually ruin all that expensive machinery.
I'd repeat that for about the next four decades, and upon my death have not one damn thing to show for my efforts.
But I'd die one happy man.
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There's a handful of you that act like bigger drama queens than the lot over at Jezebel. It's just the Internet folks. Relax.
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/I better go call my friend in San Diego to make sure she survived that storm that blanketed Chicago.
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So why this time, why now? It really seems that you are making it all that more difficult for some of the new comers to earn their stars, and using the threat of removing stars from long time Jalops if they don't behave.
Tell me I'm wrong....
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eh?
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My wife and I moved to the Colorado front-range, SW of Evergreen, @ 9K feet of elevation, in January 1998.
We're both D/FW natives. This was going to be adventurous on a grand scale, but we both embrace adventure.
October of '97 had a truly nasty storm in which people died on the road to/from the airport because they got buried, and nobody could get to them.
Our first really heavy snowfall experience was about 44". This is after we'd been prepped by a couple of 15"-20" storms.
On my way home from work, in downtown Denver, 'bout three hours after people started urgently telling me to leave...there's a storm coming...I came across a couple of guys who'd abandoned their CRX w/Florida plates, roadside.
I stopped and asked what was up. They said they tried to get to their folks' house, but couldn't make it up any of the hills.
I said, "hop in, I'm going mostly that way, anyway." It was all of ten minutes out-of-the-way, if that, and I hadn't seen any other vehicles in a good while.
I'm driving a '94 Grand Cherokee Ltd., V-8 w/QuadraTrac and new BFG A/T tires...I'm unstoppable.
I take 'em home, and wish them well.
Two days later, when we could actually get out of the "neighborhood", we were going down the sole paved in/out road, and I said to my wife, "hey, those guys I gave a ride to the other day...they're walking back to their car..."
She suggested we stop and give them a ride back. I said, "nah, it's only about a 1/2 mile more, and you'll see why we don't want to get involved in a minute."
When we reached the wide spot in the road where the CRX was abandoned, she said, "did their car get towed?!"
I said, "oh, it's there...you see that three inches of radio antenna sticking out of the snow? That's it. Now you understand why I wasn't going to give them a ride back...they've got a solid two hours of digging to get it out, and I didn't see shovels in-hand."
Snowplows + Mother Nature = pain
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Also, all that snow in the interior will only be a problem if it ever gets warm enough in Canada to melt it.
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But the snow, the snow is awesome. Six feet in a weekend. Great! I love when the state shuts down the roads. Doesn't happen often in CT though.
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The streets were like canyons, and violating the driving ban was awesome. Lose it in a corner? That's ok, the banks are soft, and no one else is out!
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A licky boom boom down.
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Also, if only we could demote them...
Also, your personal hate page is rather empty at the moment, but we could help!
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