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Post by acptulsa on Aug 27, 2016 11:00:49 GMT -8
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Post by The Rebel Poet on Aug 27, 2016 20:16:24 GMT -8
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Post by JK/SEA on Aug 29, 2016 18:31:50 GMT -8
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Post by Origanalist on Sept 2, 2016 5:26:44 GMT -8
Do you take it down to the Greenwood car show?
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Post by JK/SEA on Sept 7, 2016 8:30:45 GMT -8
i did for a few years. Also the Colby Everett Show, but these shows are too damn big. Too many people getting too close to the car with kids i don't trust. Had an incident at the Everett show back in 2005. Someone i didn't see took a black sharpie pen and ran it the full length of the car. It came off with some car wax, but that was the last big car show i took her to. Took the car to the Shriners Car Show in Shoreline a few weeks ago..had a great time meeting old friends in the collector car circle..good people.... I try and go to 1 or 2 shows a year now. I want to go to the Edmonds show on 9-11, but we have friends coming over for the Seahawks game....weather is a big factor as well in deciding a show. Sorry again for missing your reply, and thanks for posting the pic...
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Post by JK/SEA on Sept 7, 2016 8:41:09 GMT -8
made a mistake on the pic description. The 3rd car in line behind the 1969 BOSS 429 is a black 1965 Shelby GT350, and the owner is the guy standing in the pic by the BOSS 429...
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Post by Origanalist on Sept 7, 2016 14:32:09 GMT -8
i did for a few years. Also the Colby Everett Show, but these shows are too damn big. Too many people getting too close to the car with kids i don't trust. Had an incident at the Everett show back in 2005. Someone i didn't see took a black sharpie pen and ran it the full length of the car. It came off with some car wax, but that was the last big car show i took her to. Took the car to the Shriners Car Show in Shoreline a few weeks ago..had a great time meeting old friends in the collector car circle..good people.... I try and go to 1 or 2 shows a year now. I want to go to the Edmonds show on 9-11, but we have friends coming over for the Seahawks game....weather is a big factor as well in deciding a show. Sorry again for missing your reply, and thanks for posting the pic... I can totally see your point, and the Greenwood show is ridiculously big.
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Post by Origanalist on Oct 15, 2016 22:01:38 GMT -8
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Post by acptulsa on Jan 20, 2017 15:22:16 GMT -8
Cracks me up to hear the press pretend that the presidential limousine isn't an SUV. It is, of course, more of a truck than the biggest SUV. The 2004 generation were carefully disguised to resemble Cadillac sedans, but rode the GMC 3500 chassis. This generation is rumored to ride the Chevy/GMC medium duty truck chassis. It's carefully disguised in a manner intended to fool people into thinking it's based on a car, not a truck. I guess the government doesn't want us to realize its CAFE and other bizarre regulations have driven everyone who needs a vehicle with some ability and capacity out of cars and into clumsy, top heavy, overweight light trucks. The Secret Service has to have spent millions in development costs to maintain this fiction, when these things could as easily wear the skin of a similarly-sized Escalade (and would be much cheaper if they did). It's also amusing to hear the press refer to these things as 'The Beast' when anyone with eyes can watch the inaugural procession and clearly see there are at least seven of the behemoths. When the president goes somewhere in one of them, they tie up traffic throughout the center of the capital and send these things out all four White House gates. It's a shell game. They want possible assassins to have to guess which one has the P in it. They are rumored to send them out even when the president goes nowhere, just to keep the enemies he makes guessing. The previous generation were known to be powered by 454 c.I. (7 1/2 liter) gasoline truck engines, so it's not too hard to see what causes climate change. In any case, they are a clear indication just how many sacrifices the government itself is willing to make to curtail its own carbon emissions. It's interesting to note that forty years ago, Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev rode in a ZIL which no other Soviet citizen was allowed to own, while Jimmy Carter rode in a Lincoln Continental which, while stretched, armored and specially equipped, was not so far removed from cars any Americans of some means (or with overly good credit) could buy at any of thousands of dealerships across the country. Now Putin rides in a modification of a production vehicle, and the American president rolls in a vehicle which, if it were produced for a civilian American citizen, would result in the manufacturer paying tens of millions of dollars in fines. This grand populist and great conservative that was just inaugurated surely has enough experience with late-model Cadillac sedans to notice the subterfuge. Yet I don't see him tweeting nasty things about the insane regulations that make these abominations so unique. Indeed, with this generation even the mundane details about which decidedly non-top-secret GMC truck chassis is used is top secret. And all to keep us from realizing that they've outlawed cars of capacity, and are forcing us into light trucks. Why? As Hillary would say, what difference does it make? Simple. The incredible shrinking car has, thanks to the federal government, forced us into light trucks. And light trucks are not only clumsy enough to make it more difficult to avoid an accident, they're more than twice as likely to roll over in an accident. And rollover accidents are more than three times as likely to kill someone. Need any more proof the government loves you and wants you to be happy?
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Post by TRP on Jan 20, 2017 16:12:03 GMT -8
They don't make 'em like they used to.
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Post by Origanalist on Jan 20, 2017 19:58:07 GMT -8
They don't make 'em like they used to. Women or cars?
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Post by TRP on Jan 20, 2017 20:21:46 GMT -8
They don't make 'em like they used to. Women or cars? The women, of course.
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Post by Origanalist on Jan 21, 2017 6:18:23 GMT -8
To be fair, the old models had their problems too..
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Post by TRP on Jan 21, 2017 19:00:17 GMT -8
Well, I won't experience those problems.
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Post by Origanalist on Jan 22, 2017 15:43:34 GMT -8
Hmmm
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