Tony D

Don't get me started, I've been drinking...

My comments on the matter should be available via the search function...

Bo, Bo, Bo, Don't hate me...man! The station now has E85 as well. A whole 5km from my house. How terrible is that. heck, the boy has pushed the VW up from the depths of the back with the intention of using it to commute to school (UCR) this semester. I should be annoyed, especially of all the money spent on the 501 wagon to this point...but hey, it's the VW... Two generations on the same vehicle. It's what I learned in. I have to smile (but not show it).

My first inclination is to say 'both' but what the heck... Buy the 240Z, and spend the money on a new AC kit and install it. You will be within 300$ of the cost of the 280, with AC that works passably.

Someone who keeps their mouth shut and never turns you in... "One thing I miss is Cold Ethyl and her skeleton kiss We met last night making love under the refrigerator light Ethyl Ethyl let me squeeze you in my arms Ethyl Ethyl come and freeze me with your charms One thing No lie Ethyl's frigid as an eskimo pie She's cool in bed Well she oughta be 'cuz Ethyl's dead"

Wow, that was diametrically opposite of the first thought I had...I thought they would be my cheering section, kinda like "MST3K Goes to 'What Gets Me Hot'..." The soundtrack reverberates in my head now, over and over: wika wika boom boom wikka wikka wow... wika wika boom boom wikka wikka wow... wika wika boom boom wikka wikka wow... wika wika boom boom wikka wikka wow... wika wika boom boom wikka wikka wow...

Oxford... The McD's and Jollibee at the corner was where the deed went down.

Curiously my Remington is also parkerized, with "HBPD" on the stock. Looks like the ramp was loaded and unloaded every shift for years, but the hammer had not a single mark from peening against the firing pin. Probably never fired. Gave my son GREAT confidence shooting trap at Boy Scouts Never had an issue with either of my SKS's here in CA, nor elsewhere. Pretty reliable, I don't know how you would get the pin in wrong to induce slam-firing. More likely on the Bushmaster back in Michigan. Don't worry Geezer, they got to get through my pass first, before they get to Palm Springs. Thing is, I saw 'they' during the 93 Riots, I had to go into the restricted area to pick up our compressor housings from a company that was going bankrupt and move them to another shop off SantaFe and 47th street. We could smell the smoke. I had an M1 Carbine, loaded with 90 rounds jungle-clipped together in banana clips, with another three identical mag sets on my front seat. I dallied too long in the area, and the onramp checkpoints were erected. There I was with 270 rounds 'loaded,' round in the chamber, safety off carbine rolling to the LASD uniformed Deputy. Kept both hands on the wheel, and watched his eyes get BIG. He calmly asked me what 'that on the front seat was for' and I said "If I don't get on the freeway right now, and that ramp closes, it's how I plan to get back to O.C. by surface streets. After a pause he asked "The bolt is closed, is there a round in the chamber?" Yep. "Safety on?" Nope. Petty tense, and he just had me eject the clip, rack the round out of the chamber and leaned forward as he instructed me to "Place that behind the seat, you won't need that on the freeway." All I could say was 'I sure hope not, sir!' "They" aren't as far away as you think. The only saving grace is like New Orleans, likely there won't be busses running to get them to us! Having to go into the lions den was not a fun time. I felt more secure in Nigeria...

I saw no "T" just "A" so I left it out...

MS3K?

What does 'choked out' mean? What does 'vooowala' mean? Did something blow up making that noise? Sparks at the ground wire mean it's charging a dead battery or at least one with voltage potential difference from the jumper battery. No 'spark' may or may not mean anything. Buy a multimeter, take some readings, and tell us where you are finding power...

Argh...

Suuuuuuuure...

At the factory, in the day, they used Oxy-Acetelyene and it seemed to work fine...

I defer only to Apollo 11 first-footers. After that, 'its been done'! And hell, I can even say to them "I know who welded your seats!" 7 Stages from Kevin Bacon, you know? Mmmmmm, bacon....

Oh man, you obviously haven't watched Phils Epic Videos, that grass stays green from Phil's unending stream of B.S.! My grass, too, is verdant here in the California Desert Valley!

Oh, and the SKS is not a 'stamped import' of recent vintage. It's a 'never fired only dropped once' Viet-Nam era war souvineer, complete with DOD paperwork. I bought it off the 'repatriator' I got some photos buried somewhere on my Cardomain Page of the Chinese one my kid shoots. It for all intents and purposes looks the same. I think they are both Chicom Type 56's (?) All I know is I lament burning through all that LAPD Academy Chinese Copper-Jacketed Steel Core ammo when it was available. I should have saved a case. Or two.

Actually, when I get talking about him, I SOUND (as well as resemble) Sam Kinnison. And no, I DID NOT get my records back, there are still 10,476 of them floating somewhere in some lawyers pocket that make me PO&B about this whole thing. If you have money, and are willing to lie (salesman) you can cost people you want to hurt a lot of money. I would have MUCH rather spent that money on something else. Sure, because I was 'victorious' (i.e. adjudicated the winning party to the lawsuit HE brought) I got my court costs back, but LAWYERS FEES? Not a chance in hell if they're willing to lie (and they are)... So what's your option, spend $50K to get $10K? I wonder who 'negative checked' my post. Perhaps Joe has been here reading... But yeah, "sliding under a gas truck and tasting his own blood" is a Sam Kinnison line, and only partially conveys my feeling for him. Like I said, that would make me smile. What would PLEASE ME MOST is that he is dry impaled after going off-course on a ski run, dry impaled on a jaggy old pine tree limb right near his solar plexus so he can't cry out in pain, but remains concious. That way he can hear the searchers for him, but can't direct them to where he's suspended, just off the ground. And then, frustrated that they searchers have moved away and stopped looking in that area, full of dispair and loosing hope, he sees this thick, furry tail of a cougar in his perpiheral vision and starts feeling a tugging at his leg which of course gives him a searing, tearing feeling from the impalement... And then he realizes that a mountian lion is slowly eating him alive, he's concious and can't cry out for help. And then, I want him to think about all the times he did wrong to others... I don't want him found until springtime, when his stink draws kids to the edge of the slope and they find his half-eaten desiccated carcass still stuck high up in a tree, even more pecked over by carrion-loving small birds than what the cougar ate. And like someone recently replied when they heard this, 'The cougar would probably get sick from bad meat!' and I heartily concur: The cougar that eats his legs in a gorging meal then walks a few paces and regirguitates everything so that Joe can see it, and realize all that pain and suffering he went through didn't even give nourishment to his unseen tormentor, that his pain was all for naught. Pain with no good cause whatsoever. My only regret is that he can't undergo that for 3 years running. Then he would know what it is like to work for him. Like I said, I was willing to leave it at 'slide under a gas truck and taste his own blood' but since you asked...That's how I really feel. He is a bad man. I wish him ill.

Lechon in Cebu the first week I was there. All was good until that Makati City incident. Overall it was a good trip, but I would have liked to keep my $400... That hindsight thing is a real pain, because I know now (as opposed to suspect) that they weren't real cops, or at least on-duty cops. They had bad, sloppy tactical interaction, and I could have gotten out of it without loosing my money. But the uniform gave that moment of pause just long enough until I was in an untennable position and could not really take action. Then again, throwing even a semi-uniformed looks-like-a-cop through the second floor windows of McD's might draw some 'splainin' I wasn't wanting to do anwyay. "Pinoy Tossing" is probably not well-looked upon by the local REAL constabulary. There was a nice Car-Jacking Ring broken up while I was there, got the guy with the hand grenade and submachine gun and everything. I would suggest against Makati City and Burgos Road area in particular. Why I couldn't be lodged in the Crown Plaza or Intercontinental by one of the SM centers is beyond me... Oh, and I grew an affinity for sisig, even more than the Lechon. I subsisted on Lechon, sisig, manok / bak bak.

Phil, Do you really want ME to answer that question honestly? "Mr. 6 Turbo Engines on stands in the Container, and two more in cars out back"? Hell, one was GIVEN to me when I drove out to Fabens TX because the guy liked the Black 510 Coupe I drove there to pick up (For $250)... I'm was like Neumann on Seinfeld: free unquestioned use of a big truck, and all I needed was time to go get 'em! And since I made my own schedule at that time, time was something I could arrange---if not outright schedule a customer visit closer and closer to my prey. Personal best? Bought an 83 ZXT 2+2 for $250 (ran fine), an 80 ZX 2+2 for $125, and then after the lein sale, was approached by the yard to get a THIRD car (1982 N/A Coupe) for $75 if I could clear it out of the yard first! Usually, one turbo and one or two N/A's was my normal Friday Purchase for quite a while there when I could religiously attend the auctions. Craigslist makes it even more of a feeding freny!

You mean I drove one of 7 of something? Holy shites! As for Tube Amps, I know this guy in Australia with a Tube Amp Business...(Who has an S130) And another guy here in Riverside who is all up on reproducing old Japanese "Elk" amplifiers supposedly a copy of Fenders from the 50's... "Elk" was "Fender Japan" But I digress, holy shikes, I drove 1 of 7...

"There's no need to argue whether the head/engine is any good or whether its worth the money. It's obviously not about performance value for those that would be interested. It's really about exclusivity. " Like Spinners and 22" rims, right? It's not about the performance, it's about the look and style of the appliance. I really got to spend some time scanning my 80's photos from Japan.

" I don't recall in any of the previous threads any mention that they were available to "those that have the money and desire", or that they were sold as a complete engine unit, so that's news to me." You obviously missed John C's post from SEMA this year then...

AMEN BROTHER!