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Alrighty then. Can you get us a photo of the Mercedes???

Happy Birthday!!!.. Someone said you are now officially an "old fart." That may be, however, please be advised that you DO NOT qualify for geezerhood. To be a geezer you have to sell the Mack and buy either a 8 year old Crown Vic or a Prius...

Not bad but I am surprised the edges aren't cleaner. They should try jacking up the pressure or use a different cutting abrasive. Or maybe they scanned the sample and the resolution isn't that good when converted to the machine software. I've seen 1 in. thick steel water-jet cut with the cut edges super smooth, much better than these. Also 1/8 in. titanium. Of course if the price is right one could always take a die grinder to it, do your own bevel and polish. Maybe have some made in plain steel for chrome plating after the bevel and polish job. My 2 cents.

If anyone knows who owns that gray one, I'd really appreciate if you'd let me know. I'd be interested in buying it if it came up for sale. At the rate I'm going with my rust-bucket B20 I'll be 90 years old before it's drivable. After sitting untouched in my shop for 2 years, I finally started work on it. Took me all day to get one fender off that thing. What a PIA. That many stubborn, rusty bolts and nuts are a humbling experience. Makes me appreciate what some of you guys are able to do and have done with your trucks.

Wow, talk about leaving yourself wide open for a lawsuit. I can imagine the prosecution's line of questioning... "So if we understand you correctly sir, it was important to have these safety rods on this 150 truck model. They were important right??" But then, somehow, you concluded those same safety rods weren't necessary on the less expensive sister models of the same vehicle. Is that correct sir? And so sir, can you please explain to this court how exactly your company decided the safety rods weren't needed on your less expensive models of the same vehicle family? And so, of course, you instructed your global sales team that they were to advise potential customers that some models had important safety features and others did not? Is that correct sir? Like the blue truck over there (gestures) is safer than the red one over there (points)? Right? OBJECTION your honor.

Here's my favorite. Not sure who it belongs to and not sure what's up with the red fender. But I like that it has Mack spokes, presume its all Mack except for the pickup bed.

Supreme Court ruled "no duty to protect or serve." and on another occasion, "the truth is not a defense." It's about the $, and tough poop if you were treated unfairly. Here in the good ol' USA we are circling the drain.

Unfortunately you have to sue the cop personally for violating your civil rights. If the judge dismisses your case out of hand then you need to sue him personally for perpetuating a fraud. That is, a willing participant in a criminal enterprise that has nothing to do with safety but rather is designed to separate you from your money. Likewise the county lawyer. It ain't easy but it can be done.

So that little plane you see flying parallel to the highway is actually an EPA plane receiving and analyzing the fault codes being transmitted by your truck. Uh oh, your not getting the minimum mandated mpg, so a citation is emailed to you on the fly.

I'd say do it as described above. That is, purchase a new cigarette lighter socket. Mount the socket so it is completely electrically isolated from any of the truck metal or dashboard metal using plastic bracket or plastic washers, or whatever, but be sure it is isolated. Then,. a) Purchase an inline fuseholder. (about $3.00) b - Connect one of the fuseholder's wires to your trucks hot (negative battery) power somewhere convenient.. c) Connect the fuseholder's other wire to the ground tab of the lighter socket. d) Use a piece of wire to connect the center post terminal of the lighter socket to your truck's ground (battery positive) somewhere convenient. e) Don't skip the fuseholder. Install, say, a 15 amp fuse. Don't want any melting wires or fire from a short somewhere.

And here's a really trick modern-day hot rod hemi item. Besides their original cast aluminum hemi block, Donovan also makes a "billet" hemi block, ncc machined from one solid piece of high grade aluminum. Their website says 5 million lines of code to machine this thing. Never priced one but I imagine it ain't cheap.

41 Chevy... When you said Smothers brothers, I thought at first you really meant Summers brothers. I didn't know the Smothers brothers (Tom and Dick) had any interest in racing. The Summers brothers Bob and Bill, made history in 1965 with four hemis in their streamliner. Incredibly engineered, home built machine that set a Bonneville record of 409 mph, a record that that stood for 41 years. .

Yow, that hurts. Big horsepower, wet road, heavy foot... Same thing happened to me in my buddies father's 289 Hi-Po Falcon. Lost it, over the curb, and took out a concrete bus bench. Fortunately nobody on the bench and no one hurt. His Dad was none too pleased.

Nice story EZrider and nice Jag video too! I remember being scared when the front end of my Healy got so light I thought if I twitched I'd glide right off the road. Too much air trapped underneath at crazy speed. Come to think of it, I did lose my NY license with that car. I was drag racing a guy in downtown Buffalo. Cop going the other way saw me and did a U-turn and came after me. I made a series of left and right turns into an old neighborhood and when I had enough lead on him, I turned into a strangers driveway that had an open garage door. I drove right into the garage and pulled the door down and waited inside that strangers garage for an hour and a half until all the cops cruising the neighborhood looking for me finally gave up. The cops spotted me the next day on my way to work. I was driving very slowly figuring the cop(s) would be looking for that gray-primered Healy. Three different cops pulled me over all within a few blocks of each other and each of the three gave me a speeding ticket for going 40 in a 30 mph zone. I was only going 30 but it didn't matter - they got even with me. 3 tickets = 9 points and that was it. No more NY license, had to go to NJ to get another license. As I said before, I was pretty young and most definitely stupid. I was destined to learn many things... most of them the hard way. C'mon guys, I'm sure some of you did some nutzo stuff and the statue of limitations is long past - so please share! Maybe a new Odds and Ends thread - "Stupid Stuff I Did When Young"

Nice that you were able to open up the Jag a bit where the speed limits are higher. Reminiscing,,, Back in the late 60's the traffic was so much lighter, particularly at night. When I-95 was new and sparsely traveled (if you can imagine that) I made it from Ft. Lauderdale to Buffalo in my '66 'Vette, rarely dropped below 100 mph except for fuel, About 20 hours I think. Was going 115 on the NE Extension and a trooper passed me! Made 143 mph between Syracuse and Rochester one night in my 289 powered Austin Healy. No tickets, no problem, just young and stupid on bias ply tires. Amazing I made it OK to old age. Best argument for governors/speed limiters is teenage boys. Anyone care to share a story about stupid stuff you did in your youth? Love to hear it.

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Agree with KSC 100%. Sadly, the problem is rooted in our Congress. U.S. House and U.S. Senate positions should be volunteer positions filled by patriots who want to serve their country. There should be NO salary, NO pension, NO exemption from Obummer care, NO exemption from insider trading rules. The founding fathers warned us the country would be in peril when elites could vote themselves privileges. They also fretted the country would fail if it ever happened there were only two political parties of consequence. And here we are.

Don't know if someone already said so... But you can buy R134A with UV leak detector. Some companies also sell R134A with leak detector and leak sealer combined. Googled it and I see lots of auto parts places sell it. I have no idea if it is any good or not. Maybe somebody here has experience with it?

Yep, lots of traffic. Maybe we could reduce congestion if we sent 30 million illegals back to their homeland. Imagine... Less police cars needed, less prison buses on the road, fewer unskilled, uninsured, illegal drivers... Well, say 20% of the illegals are females of childbearing age, and, say they each have 3 children over the next 10 years. Then those children and their children will all want cars. Uh oh, highway construction won't be able to keep up with the population explosion. Maybe I-95 will be 25 lanes in each direction?

And don't forget the huge amount of money the airlines spend these days to maximize revenue per mile. Tons of historic data on cancellations, standbys, ratios, 1st class seat sales when coach is full, business travelers vs. tourists. Hell, they can accurately forecast how many people will fly from Philly to Vegas on the 2nd Sunday before Father's Day. And how many passengers won't show. Massive data bases, behavioral scientists, statisticians. The result of this is that there can be several hundred different fares on any given flight. And even so, despite their efforts, dozens of airlines have gone bankrupt over the last 30 years. Capitalism at its best I suppose...

Yeah but one seems to me one big difference, the number of competitors. If you want to fly from DFW to LAX nonstop you have your choice of about 4 airlines, all of whom closely monitor each others fares and who have shareholders to satisfy by making a profit. If you want to ship something by motor freight from TX to CA you have your choice of literally hundreds of carriers. Isn't pricing at the mercy of your cheapest or most desperate competitor? Not in the industry, just an outsider's impression of the situation.

Agree with 41chevy. That burnt patina is cool as hell. Maybe drive it a year or two before you paint it.

Assuming connected correctly, clean tight terminals, and all that has been said above, either the batteries are not really charged or a bad cell in one or more of them. One other thought... You said you take the batteries inside to charge them. If you disconnect the charger but leave the batteries sitting on a concrete floor they will slowly discharge. Something about concrete floors and batteries. Nobody has ever been able to explain it to me but it seems to be fact. Better not to let them sit on concrete. Sit them em on a board or work bench or something. Good luck with it.

It's early in the year. Maybe he has a deductible to be met. His company HR manager should be able to quickly tell him what's up.

I like the diner scene. On YouTube, search Clint Eastwood Sudden Impact Coffee, Smith and Wesson and Me. Sorry I can't post the link.