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Re: Edmunds Members - Cars and Conversations
@stickguy I don't want to resurrect a speed limit discussion, but you are correct; the 85th percentile rule has been used to set appropriate speed limits for decades. The only groups that don't like it are organizations like Vision Zero and similar, who have the tacit goal of making driving so inconvenient that the masses will abandon personal automobiles.That group’s name should be reversed.
A pox on them.
Re: Edmunds Members - Cars and Conversations
@stickguy I don't want to resurrect a speed limit discussion, but you are correct; the 85th percentile rule has been used to set appropriate speed limits for decades. The only groups that don't like it are organizations like Vision Zero and similar, who have the tacit goal of making driving so inconvenient that the masses will abandon personal automobiles.
A pox on them.
A pox on them.
Re: Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous
The Club Sport is back in my garage after three weeks at my indie shop GermanTech MotorWorks. As expected with a thirty year-old car additional work was required but in the end the car is running very well and it's locked and loaded for the BMW CCCA Anniversary tour.
Re: Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous
@graphicguy,I was a teen at the time. If she asked me to run away with her to live in a trailer park for the rest of our lives, I would have done it.
Don't worry too much, you aren't Joans type.
I would have been any type she would have wanted me to be. May still be willing!
Re: Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous
My Club Sport has been at my indie shop being prepped for a BMW Classic Car Club tour. I was told that the front brakes would need to be replaced in the future but that they should survive the tour nicely. I knew that our tour was stopping at the BMW Performance Center Classic and Motorsport Festival in SC but I've recently learned that our cars -even mine- would be part of the BMW cars on display- and that there would be "exhibition runs" on the track by the display cars. I decided better safe than sorry, so I ordered a front set of Bosch QuietCast front pads and an OEM pad wear sensor from FCP Euro. As I see it, $64.40 is cheap insurance.
Re: Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous
That would torque me badly. That is worse than someone bumping into a car by accident and leaving without providing contact information, but not by much. That was deliberate.Grrrr. The building to our left next door to us at work allows us to park in their lot. They share a courtyard with the building on the other (right) side of my building. The people on the right are literal lunatics. One of them threw a rock over the fence in a drunken rage that hit my Highlander and landed behind my mother’s Lexus.
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Re: Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous
@roadburner ...quick Runaways story. They were the opening act for Brain Auger (jazz). The Runaways were hardcore rockers, so the pairing was pretty dissimilar. Anyway, the Runaways played up their "bad girl" rock ad roll images. The venue was BOGARTS, which is a really sleazy concert venue near the University of Cincinnati campus. Still there...still sleazy.
Back then, you could stand right by the stage. We were standing to the left, where the performers came on and off.
My one claim to a brush with fame came as Joan Jett caught my eye as I was standing at the left edge of the stage, and I was taking a swig from some Jack Daniels I had in a flask. She saw me, came over mid song, asked me for a swig, which I, of course gave her. She smiled and winked, gave me back the flask.
When their set was done, she came off stage right by where we were standing. She grabbed the flask, took another swig, gave me a sweaty kiss on the cheek and said "Thanks, Doll"! Still remember her scent.....sweat, cheap perfume. She left glitter on my cheek, to boot.
I was awe struck, dumb founded, excited, all rolled into one. I tried to follow them into their dressing room but a very large and hairy man shoved me away like I was a twig. LOL!
Remember it like it was yesterday.
Back then, you could stand right by the stage. We were standing to the left, where the performers came on and off.
My one claim to a brush with fame came as Joan Jett caught my eye as I was standing at the left edge of the stage, and I was taking a swig from some Jack Daniels I had in a flask. She saw me, came over mid song, asked me for a swig, which I, of course gave her. She smiled and winked, gave me back the flask.
When their set was done, she came off stage right by where we were standing. She grabbed the flask, took another swig, gave me a sweaty kiss on the cheek and said "Thanks, Doll"! Still remember her scent.....sweat, cheap perfume. She left glitter on my cheek, to boot.
I was awe struck, dumb founded, excited, all rolled into one. I tried to follow them into their dressing room but a very large and hairy man shoved me away like I was a twig. LOL!
Remember it like it was yesterday.
Re: Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous
Every concert I went to (I can remember)….
-Chicago
-James Gang
-Beach Boys
-Eagles
-Neil Diamond
-The Runaways (w/Joan Jett)
-Brian Auger and Oblivion Express
-Maynard Ferguson
-Crosby, Stills, Nash (and Young)
-Santana
-The Band
-Jesse Colin Young
-Fleetwood Mac
-Jimmy Buffet
-Moody Blues
-Roy Buchanan
-John Sebastian
-Chuck Mangione
-Return to Forever
-John Mellencamp
-Elton John
-Modern Jazz Quartet
-Rickie Lee Jones
-Bob Dylan
-Nickelback
-Bread
-Jethro Tull
-Lisa Loeb
-Humble Pie
-Peter Frampton
-Sony Terry and Brownie McGee
-Rare Earth
-Joe Cocker
-David Bromberg
-Three Dog Night
-Dave Mason
-Bruce Springsteen
-Dave Mathews Band
-Ramblin’ Jack Elliott
-Seals and Crofts
-War
-Alexis Kohrner and Snape
Re: Chronic Car Buyers Anonymous
Speaking of holes-in-one, I managed to do that just this past August while in Oregon. I was playing a round of disc golf with my brother, father, wife, and daughter. This was a small nine-hole course in the community park. Last hole, I let 'er rip, the disc flew true and managed to catch some wind just in such a way as to keep on sailing for far longer than it should have, then just gently banked right, around a tree, and *cha-ching!* into the basket.
It was a thing of beauty with lots of high-fives all around. The best part, though, is that I went first on that hole, so talk about a tough act to follow!
It was a thing of beauty with lots of high-fives all around. The best part, though, is that I went first on that hole, so talk about a tough act to follow!
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