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Re: Edmunds Members - Cars and Conversations
I know some of the people who work there. They bought some of their "wares" to a car show yesterday in Glendale, OH. Small show (relatively) but all high quality iron. They keep wanting me to jump back into the BMW waters. I get tempted........OFTEN!@roadburner ...actually saw this car this weekend at a car show near me. The dealer handles only BMWs. Thought of you when I saw it......nice car!EAG has some very nice cars, but you definitely pay for your thrills.
https://www.enthusiastauto.com/inventory/1998-bmw-e36-m3-ey79920
Re: Edmunds Members - Cars and Conversations
I had the "man" trim the shrubs and refresh the pine needles. Looks better, wallet lighter.
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Re: Edmunds Members - Cars and Conversations
@roadburner ...actually saw this car this weekend at a car show near me. The dealer handles only BMWs. Thought of you when I saw it......nice car!EAG has some very nice cars, but you definitely pay for your thrills.
https://www.enthusiastauto.com/inventory/1998-bmw-e36-m3-ey79920
Re: Edmunds Members - Cars and Conversations
About 10 minutes long. Very eye opening.Frankly, just judging from the titles in his video library, he appears to be a clickbait artist. He starts from a faulty premise, namely that automakers should produce everything themselves. I guess he is too young to remember how GM got started, when Billy Durant bought up companies making parts for everyone. As GM volumes declined in the '80s and '90s they no longer had the volume to invest in those enterprises and shed them. He seems to love Toyotas, but I guess he has never looked under the hoods of them to see where their parts are sourced.
This is part of a longer interview broken into multiple segments.
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Re: I spotted an (insert obscure car name here) classic car today!
Thanks. My brain is full of minutiae like that. I didn't play sports, and didn't have a girlfriend, so absorbed brochure info, at least on cars I liked, like a sponge.
On a different subject, on FB someone posted a lime green '76 Vega Kammback that looked new in every respect. I still like the looks, and the reliability was WAY improved by that time. Someone posted under it, flatly, "Not a Kammback. Those were the panel trucks. This is a station wagon".
I replied, "Wrong. Kammback is the wagon. The panel was the 'Panel Express'. Easily verifiable by the brochures online".
His response: "Nope".
A few people 'liked' my comment.
I wished to reply to his "nope", "Dope", but I didn't.
Man, car stupidity on Facebook is rampant.
On a different subject, on FB someone posted a lime green '76 Vega Kammback that looked new in every respect. I still like the looks, and the reliability was WAY improved by that time. Someone posted under it, flatly, "Not a Kammback. Those were the panel trucks. This is a station wagon".
I replied, "Wrong. Kammback is the wagon. The panel was the 'Panel Express'. Easily verifiable by the brochures online".
His response: "Nope".
A few people 'liked' my comment.
I wished to reply to his "nope", "Dope", but I didn't.
Man, car stupidity on Facebook is rampant.
Re: I spotted an (insert obscure car name here) classic car today!
Mark II, absolutely my favorite Continental.
Re: Edmunds Members - Cars and Conversations
@roadburner ...actually saw this car this weekend at a car show near me. The dealer handles only BMWs. Thought of you when I saw it......nice car!
https://www.enthusiastauto.com/inventory/1998-bmw-e36-m3-ey79920
https://www.enthusiastauto.com/inventory/1998-bmw-e36-m3-ey79920
Re: Edmunds Members - Cars and Conversations
————————————————Well craptastic, main floor ac crapped out. I changed the capacitor but the contactor was stuck (thankfully on) and fan motor seized. A little Liquid wrench and we are back in business until it can be repaired.
It’s nice to be able to do repairs yourself when it’s as hot as it is now and it’s the weekend.
I’m sure I told about my compressor cooling fan that stopped working a few years ago because the starter winding burnt out. The thermostat turned on the compressor but it didn’t cool like it should have. I went outside and noticed the compressor unit cooling fan wasn’t on, thereby the cooling coils were pretty warm but I could hear the compressor running. Easy temporary fix was to get a long knife and insert it into the grill on the top of the compressor unit until it reached the fan blade. All I had to do was spin the fan blade with the knife to get it to turn (doing what the starter winding does). The trick was which way to spin the fan. When the starter winding fails, you can start the fan motor either way by mechanically spinning it. I got lucky and got it right the first time I gave it a spin. The air is supposed to move out the top.
Went on line, spent around 150 bucks and I was back in business in 2 days. But until I got the new fan I had to go outside and give the fan a spin every time the thermostat called for cooling.
I was lucky at night because I could turn the thermostat off and open the bedroom window and leave the whole house fan running all night. If that happened the last couple days, I’d be out of luck because it’s been still pretty warm outside during sleeping hours. It never hurts to get lucky.
jmonroe
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