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snakeweasel

roadburner said:

imidazol97 said:

Bet you can't do this with your Mustang!

I'd love to know the story. Pic was on a page of a local car club. People were making up cut captions:
"Honey, I'm home." for example.

My favorite shots of "incidents" involving cars I've owned- same colors and everything.

Everything? That would include the damage.

explorerx4

I have no idea what a ZR-0 is. Kind of thinking a base Vette with a lot of dealer add ons.
My ex neighbor has a Z06 Z07.

oldfarmer50

explorerx4 said:

I have no idea what a ZR-0 is. Kind of thinking a base Vette with a lot of dealer add ons.
My ex neighbor has a Z06 Z07.

Here’s what Cars.com says are the available trims.

https://www.cars.com/research/chevrolet-corvette-2019/trims/

One thing that confuses me is that they list the lowest Stingray trim at about $56k but when you click on details they say it has a $70k sticker.

The only trim that comes close to $155k is the ZR1 but you’d have to have a hefty ADM to get it there.

imidazol97

The ZR-0 is the chrome outline of the "1" looking like a stylized "0." I had to laugh that I saw the
outline rather than the "1" that many Vette fans would have seen probably.

When I looked at the sticker and my shock wore off at te price, I realized it was a ZR-1 package.
There's also a carbon package, an orange package, and track package and 3ZR premium package.
My pict also includes the $10,000 markup.

I took the picture in case I got home and decided to call back to have them hold the car for me... LOL

explorerx4

You're starting throw 'facts' around here like driver011.

driver100

It does look like a zero (0).

snakeweasel

driver100 said:

Mr_Shiftright said:

Every group needs an agenda. If they didn't have one, they'd be called "your local bar".

You mean PBS doesn't have these wonderful programs to make us more cultured and educated?

Well it did have Monty Pythons Flying Circus and The Red Green Show so they have that.

imidazol97

driver100 said:

It does look like a zero (0).

Of course it does. I wouldn't have said that to lie. I told the owner that it looks like a ZR-0
and she went out to look at the trunk to see what I was seeing.

I think fans of Vettes know it's a "1" and they see a "1." I am not up on VetteSpeak,
so I saw a "0."

driver100

imidazol97 said:

driver100 said:

It does look like a zero (0).

Of course it does. I wouldn't have said that to lie. I told the owner that it looks like a ZR-0
and she went out to look at the trunk to see what I was seeing.

I think fans of Vettes know it's a "1" and they see a "1." I am not up on VetteSpeak,
so I saw a "0."

Maybe the Corvette engineers don't know a 0 from a 1! -just joking, really

jmonroe1

snakeweasel said:

jmonroe1 said:

abacomike said:

jmonroe1 said:

driver100 said:

abacomike said:

isellhondas said:

driver100 said:

jmonroe1 said:

driver100 said:

jmonroe1 said:

venture said:

stickguy said:

my local Volvo dealer of all places has a used G wagon (they very rarely have non-Volvo used cars). If this price is reasonable, people who buy these are nuts!

https://www.cherryhillvolvocars.com/used/Mercedes-Benz/2014-Mercedes-Benz-G-Class-cherry-hill-nj-0573e12d0a0e0adf62aba4d9ab640888.htm

It seems expensive to you because you probably aren't after that rare butterfly.

Hell, he can't even afford a door for his laundry room.

jmonroe

At least his washer and dryer are the same color.

@isellhondas doesn't think it is important.

BTW, did he get lost again or did he ignore his last dues statement?

jmonroe

You value isells judgement over mine?
We don't even know where his is!

I'm sitting right here! Edmunds once again, decided my password was no good so this time I finally gave up with a lot of sorrow on my part. Suddenly one day, out of boredom I tried one last time and it actually let me in. For a minute I thought I had been banned.

Isell, I am so very excited to see you posting again!  That’s dangerous to my health, by the way - getting very excited about anything at my age with all my medical problems can be fatal!  

If anything happens to you Mike, we will direct your lawyer to who they should sue!

Well, if you're going to handle this, just let his lawyer know where to send the money found in the envelope in the upper left side of his dresser marked, "Airfare Money for jmonroe".

jmonroe

I never leave money in my dresser or my home and I certainly would not put money in an envelope marked for air-fare for anyone named Monroe.  I would leave a note stating that my ash remains be sent to jmonroe in a cardboard box for distribution.  Air-fare?  You must be dreaming! 

Does anyone know how much I can get for a half pound of ashes from a passed Edmunds star member?

jmonroe



Are you sure it will only be a half pound?

I didn't want all 300 pounds of him, just a representative sample. Plus, I thought I'd be nice and save some of him for the rest of you guys.

jmonroe

imidazol97

driver100 said:

imidazol97 said:

@driver100
Also they are planting ideas in your mind of why you should be donating. Pushing a guilt trip that you have not donated a million or so already. 

Imid, that is probably true. One of the questions later was....would you consider leaving a donation in your will?

Now that I think, my alma maters used to send me all kinds of solicitations to donate to them because it was tax deductible from my Indiana income tax (I don't live in Indiana where BSU is) or I should donate just to feel good to the others. They also mentioned I could transfer stocks and bonds to them at a tax benefit and that I could leave my estate to them. Last thing I want is some university using my money for a sports program.

imidazol97

jmonroe1 said:

I didn't want all 300 pounds of him, just a representative sample. Plus, I thought I'd be nice and save some of him for the rest of you guys. jmonroe

We all know things on the internet are always true, but I found that a man weights 6 pounds and a woman weighs 4 pounds appoximately after cremation.

I would have though it would be a lot less than that.

Documentation, since nobody will believe me now.
https://www.cremationsolutions.com/information/scattering-ashes/all-about-cremation-ashes

Mr_Shiftright

I don't recommend any of those fad diets.

oldfarmer50

Well, I’ve decided to follow the New Orleans Super Bowl boycott and instead watch a rerun of the 2010 game. That should prove some point....just not sure which one.

ab348

Gang, can we move on to subjects other than death, cremation, etc. I have my reasons.

explorerx4

I had never heard of a ZR0 and it does look like a zero in the pictures posted.
Don't seem to be any locally that would have on the lot pictures(more likely in the showroom).
I finally found a good shot of the back of ZR1. It looks like a zero because the '1' is traced inside the blue surround.

qbrozen

oldfarmer50 said:

Well, I’ve decided to follow the New Orleans Super Bowl boycott and instead watch a rerun of the 2010 game. That should prove some point....just not sure which one.

Wait. So...what? NO fans are boycotting the SB because of a bad non-call? Talk about snowflakes. Wow.

Mr_Shiftright

And here I thought football was just a GAME?

driver100

and it isn't whether you win or lose....it is how you play the game! :@

Mr_Shiftright

Life isn't fair...why should football be?

driver100

You are right Mr S, actually not making a call on what should have been an obvious penalty is actually a good lesson for everyone especially the youth of the nation........life isn't always fair and sometimes you're going to lose even when you shoulda won!

snakeweasel

oldfarmer50 said:

Well, I’ve decided to follow the New Orleans Super Bowl boycott and instead watch a rerun of the 2010 game. That should prove some point....just not sure which one.

Oh you Johnny come lately's, evidently I have been boycotting the superbowl for over 50 years.

abacomike

snakeweasel said:

oldfarmer50 said:

Well, I’ve decided to follow the New Orleans Super Bowl boycott and instead watch a rerun of the 2010 game. That should prove some point....just not sure which one.

Oh you Johnny come lately's, evidently I have been boycotting the superbowl for over 50 years.

I, too, have decided to "boycott" today's Super Bowl. I guess I'll watch reruns of "The Incredible Dr. Pol" and will enjoy watching the great vet save even more lives.

One would think that a semi-final NFL game would have had the very best refs in the league officiating. I watched that game and it was poorly officiated considering the importance of the result. New Orleans, IMHO, would have defeated the New England Patriots in that game several weeks ago had such an obvioius "pass interference" penalty been called.

Shifty is correct - life isn't fair and neither is the officiating of the NFL at times. Human beings make mistakes, but this was such an obvious mistake that even if New England wins the Super Bowl, there should be a "star asterisk" (*) next to the winning team indicating that due to poor officiating, chances are that New England would never have been competing in the Super Bowl. There, I've said what I really feel about this.

Dr. Pol, here I come!

carnaught

abacomike said:

snakeweasel said:

oldfarmer50 said:

Well, I’ve decided to follow the New Orleans Super Bowl boycott and instead watch a rerun of the 2010 game. That should prove some point....just not sure which one.

Oh you Johnny come lately's, evidently I have been boycotting the superbowl for over 50 years.

I, too, have decided to "boycott" today's Super Bowl. I guess I'll watch reruns of "The Incredible Dr. Pol" and will enjoy watching the great vet save even more lives.

One would think that a semi-final NFL game would have had the very best refs in the league officiating. I watched that game and it was poorly officiated considering the importance of the result. New Orleans, IMHO, would have defeated the New England Patriots in that game several weeks ago had such an obvioius "pass interference" penalty been called.

Shifty is correct - life isn't fair and neither is the officiating of the NFL at times. Human beings make mistakes, but this was such an obvious mistake that even if New England wins the Super Bowl, there should be a "star asterisk" (*) next to the winning team indicating that due to poor officiating, chances are that New England would never have been competing in the Super Bowl. There, I've said what I really feel about this.

Dr. Pol, here I come!

LOL, there's also old MASH reruns...

abacomike

Spoke with my grandson on the phone last night. He said he's broke so I'll deposit a couple of hundred bucks into his checking account so he'll have something to fall back on.

He told me he developed strep throat and "mononucleosis" 3 weeks ago and was in the hospital for a couple of days. He was given injections of "immune globulin" to help fight the infections as well as IV fluids to keep him hydrated. Poor kid - and because of an enlarged liver and spleen, he is going to miss the first two weeks of the baseball season out in Nebraska. They play indoors for the first two months of the season which is a great way to get all the games in before the tournaments. His doctors and coaches won't clear him to play baseball until February 25th. Once he gets medical clearance and coaching clearance, he'll be a starting pitcher. They also moved him to first base when he's not pitching.

I remember way back in the 1950's and 1960's that "mono" was called the "kissing disease" because lots of guys and gals in middle school and high school would come down with it after heated kissing and other contact sports with their girlfriends. I asked him about that and he said that he did not participate in "that" sport weeks prior to his getting sick. He said he awakened one morning with a sore throat. So he went to the infirmary where the nurse and doctor had him taken to the hospital due to his high fever. The blood test a week or two later confirmed the mononucleosis. But at least he did great on his finals from what he told me.

Just because young people are off at college doesn't mean they are safe and sound. I hope his recovery is swift and uneventful.

abacomike

carnaught said:

abacomike said:

snakeweasel said:

oldfarmer50 said:

Well, I’ve decided to follow the New Orleans Super Bowl boycott and instead watch a rerun of the 2010 game. That should prove some point....just not sure which one.

Oh you Johnny come lately's, evidently I have been boycotting the superbowl for over 50 years.

I, too, have decided to "boycott" today's Super Bowl. I guess I'll watch reruns of "The Incredible Dr. Pol" and will enjoy watching the great vet save even more lives.

One would think that a semi-final NFL game would have had the very best refs in the league officiating. I watched that game and it was poorly officiated considering the importance of the result. New Orleans, IMHO, would have defeated the New England Patriots in that game several weeks ago had such an obvioius "pass interference" penalty been called.

Shifty is correct - life isn't fair and neither is the officiating of the NFL at times. Human beings make mistakes, but this was such an obvious mistake that even if New England wins the Super Bowl, there should be a "star asterisk" (*) next to the winning team indicating that due to poor officiating, chances are that New England would never have been competing in the Super Bowl. There, I've said what I really feel about this.

Dr. Pol, here I come!

LOL, there's also old MASH reruns...

I've seen so many M.A.S.H. reruns in the past 15-20 years that I know the dialogue by heart for each episode. Haven't gotten that far with Dr. Pol. But I don't watch "Two and a Half Men" any more because I know the dialogue by heart for the Charlie Sheen episodes.

abacomike

ab348 said:

Gang, can we move on to subjects other than death, cremation, etc. I have my reasons.

Sorry, ab, some of us do tend to over-dissect a topic. Refrigerators, Washers/Dryers, Sirius/XM, Dishwashers, Microwave Ovens, to name a few. But that topic you are referring to might be my fault - my apologies.

imidazol97

ab348 said:

Gang, can we move on to subjects other than death, cremation, etc. I have my reasons.

Good 'nough!

imidazol97

I'm off to Menards to do some big box store shopping.
Trying to get a replacement dog bed for the grandpuppy that's on clearance
and only available at a few other stores.

There was one year when there was some football game on this time of year and I
went to Lowes. The place was empty. I was the ONLY customer. And there were
very few employees visible. Maybe they were all in the break room, but I think they
planned for a low customer count because of some football game being on.

Mr_Shiftright

your puppy is on clearance?!

imidazol97

Mr_Shiftright said:

your puppy is on clearance?!

The bed. Not the puppy!
We'd just like to replace it with the same. We have one at our house and one at the son and DIL's home.

imidazol97

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imidazol97

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imidazol97

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driver100

I think that's a record.....3 posts with no words. Just the way we like them....short and to the point.
Take a lesson jmonroes

imidazol97

My computer froze.  But it was actually sending. 
Sorry. 

stickguy

glad the polar vortex apparently went back to where it came from. Got 2 increadibly dirty cars washed this afternoon (daughter's Jetta was the dirtiest car I think I ever had the privilege of washing). that and the RDX and shiny now. TLX needs a bath too, but that will get done tomorrow.

explorerx4

Wife took hers' to the car wash. I'm taking the truck tomorrow. Still light when I get out of work, so I'll have time wipe down the door jambs and tailgate before it gets too cold.

oldfarmer50

imidazol97 said:

I'm off to Menards to do some big box store shopping.
Trying to get a replacement dog bed for the grandpuppy that's on clearance
and only available at a few other stores.

There was one year when there was some football game on this time of year and I
went to Lowes. The place was empty. I was the ONLY customer. And there were
very few employees visible. Maybe they were all in the break room, but I think they
planned for a low customer count because of some football game being on.

Yesterday in contrast was bedlam. All the men must have sent their wives and girlfriends out to buy snacks because everywhere I went I had a woman driver tailgating me. I don’t understand why women like to ride your bumper instead of roaring past you at high speed like a guy would.

oldfarmer50

stickguy said:

glad the polar vortex apparently went back to where it came from. Got 2 increadibly dirty cars washed this afternoon (daughter's Jetta was the dirtiest car I think I ever had the privilege of washing). that and the RDX and shiny now. TLX needs a bath too, but that will get done tomorrow.

I took the two summer cars out into the driveway to charge the batteries but I wouldn’t dare take them into the salt. Sat in the Ford and revved the motor so I wouldn’t forget what the Borla sounded like.

I have to take the wife’s car to get washed soon, it looks like a block of salt.

snakeweasel

stickguy said:

glad the polar vortex apparently went back to where it came from. Got 2 increadibly dirty cars washed this afternoon (daughter's Jetta was the dirtiest car I think I ever had the privilege of washing). that and the RDX and shiny now. TLX needs a bath too, but that will get done tomorrow.

I saw several car washes with long lines and pushing out nice shiny clean cars onto roads that are still nice and wet from melting snow only to be dirty again a block down the road.

stickguy

snake, it is still an improvement. And I guess people don't feel like doing it during the week. The car washes by me had crazy long lines too. No line in my driveway however!

always odd to be out washing the car standing next to the remains of a snow pile.

explorerx4

If there is a lot of water on the road due to the snow melting, I'll wash the car or the truck and leave it home after that for a few days. You have to get the stuff off the underneath.

driver100

oldfarmer50 said:

imidazol97 said:

I'm off to Menards to do some big box store shopping.
Trying to get a replacement dog bed for the grandpuppy that's on clearance
and only available at a few other stores.

There was one year when there was some football game on this time of year and I
went to Lowes. The place was empty. I was the ONLY customer. And there were
very few employees visible. Maybe they were all in the break room, but I think they
planned for a low customer count because of some football game being on.

Yesterday in contrast was bedlam. All the men must have sent their wives and girlfriends out to buy snacks because everywhere I went I had a woman driver tailgating me. I don’t understand why women like to ride your bumper instead of roaring past you at high speed like a guy would.

I noticed women can be worse then men...or almost as bad when it comes to tailgating, but, I think it is for different reasons. Overly aggressive males do it to try and push the car in front to go faster or move aside. Some women do it because they don't have any idea of space and stopping distance....they are in a hurry and don't realize how long it takes to stop if the car in front stops or slows down suddenly.
Might be PI but that is my theory.

sda

oldfarmer50 said:

stickguy said:

glad the polar vortex apparently went back to where it came from. Got 2 increadibly dirty cars washed this afternoon (daughter's Jetta was the dirtiest car I think I ever had the privilege of washing). that and the RDX and shiny now. TLX needs a bath too, but that will get done tomorrow.

I took the two summer cars out into the driveway to charge the batteries but I wouldn’t dare take them into the salt. Sat in the Ford and revved the motor so I wouldn’t forget what the Borla sounded like.

I have to take the wife’s car to get washed soon, it looks like a block of salt.

Did you have the PT repaired after the bump up?

bwia

Whoopi...another parade for our beloved Patriots on Tuesday. Although this is beginning to cost real money for police detail and street cleaning. It is but a small price to pay for bragging rights.

qbrozen

That was the worst I’ve seen the Rams play all season. Tragic.

jmonroe1

qbrozen said:

That was the worst I’ve seen the Rams play all season. Tragic.

Yeah, but look who made them look like that.

jmonroe

Michaell

For all the talk about this being the year of the offense in the NFL, that was the lowest scoring game in SB history.

venture

abacomike said:

Spoke with my grandson on the phone last night. He said he's broke so I'll deposit a couple of hundred bucks into his checking account so he'll have something to fall back on.

He told me he developed strep throat and "mononucleosis" 3 weeks ago and was in the hospital for a couple of days. He was given injections of "immune globulin" to help fight the infections as well as IV fluids to keep him hydrated. Poor kid - and because of an enlarged liver and spleen, he is going to miss the first two weeks of the baseball season out in Nebraska. They play indoors for the first two months of the season which is a great way to get all the games in before the tournaments. His doctors and coaches won't clear him to play baseball until February 25th. Once he gets medical clearance and coaching clearance, he'll be a starting pitcher. They also moved him to first base when he's not pitching.

I remember way back in the 1950's and 1960's that "mono" was called the "kissing disease" because lots of guys and gals in middle school and high school would come down with it after heated kissing and other contact sports with their girlfriends. I asked him about that and he said that he did not participate in "that" sport weeks prior to his getting sick. He said he awakened one morning with a sore throat. So he went to the infirmary where the nurse and doctor had him taken to the hospital due to his high fever. The blood test a week or two later confirmed the mononucleosis. But at least he did great on his finals from what he told me.

Just because young people are off at college doesn't mean they are safe and sound. I hope his recovery is swift and uneventful.

How is he dealing with the Nebraska winter?