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Comments
-mike
I agree that most bakeries make "rolls with a hole" as you called 'em.
-juice
Jim
That was a great story. Congratulations to you, your wife, and all 4 kids. As hard as I work, and as tired and frustrated with life as I sometimes get, I just cannot imagine doing what you and your peers do on a regular basis. We are all grateful!
Steve
That section of the Taconic Parkway is quite beautiful, and an enjoyable drive. It has very few of the narrow, guardrail hugging sections like the lower stretch. Instead, you get to enjoy wide sweeping curves thru dense forest, and high vista views in which you can see out over 20+ miles of sparsely populated valleys. I have lived along it for nearly 25 years, and still like to drive it. Business takes me to the Albany Nanotec Center occasionally. Waive 'hi' as you pass Beekman Rd (just north of I-84).
You might make a little better time on the Thruway as the speed limit is higher, but it is booooring. But stay alert for deer and State Troopers. I suspect that some small towns around Claverack help to balance their budget from traffic court fees.
If I am going up to Burlington, VT, I will take the Taconic up to I-90, and switch over to Rt 22 to continue North. Again, very scenic, but sometimes a little slow thru some of the towns.
Steve
I'll be doing mucho back road / scenic traveling on the trip.
Route 209 thru Delaware Wap Gap, Taconic Parkway, Rte 22 / 43 to Hancock, MA
Rte 7 / 4 to Woodstock, VT
Rte 2 across MA to drop my daughter off at camp in ME (not looking forward to the drive on 495 / 95 though)
DaveM
I jump on 495 outside of Lawrence, and off 95 at the Hampton Tolls. If you are passed by a silver GT in excess of 80mph, that would be me. I will beep at all out-of-state Outbacks. LOL!
On another note, I just got back from 5 days in Springfield, MO. I rented a Pacifica, and ended up with a Dodge Magnum station wagon. Was a total hoot to drive, but I won't be trading the dw's Outback for one in the near future. Rob M.
-mike
I guess you'll have to write up how the 4x4 system works on the Nissan.
-Brian
Bob
I'll miss seeing the SVX around. When you traded it in, I hope you forgot to mention some of the drving "demonstrations" performed in it
So what will lead the 48hrs run now?
Congrats on the Armada.
Mark
Tempting .....
Alan
98 OBW Ltd
Oh well, I hope she finds a nice new home.
Sniff.
Whenever I drive up north I'll be on the lookout for an Armada pulling a trailer with Franken L on it.
-juice
Hey Alan, where is this dealer?
Alan
98 OBW Ltd
I thought Patti had her eyes on it?
DaveM
I think the trans was begining to go on the SVX, so rather than sell it I felt better trading it in. They are going to wholesale it anyway, so keep your eyes out on Ebay for it.
The Armada is a new 04 LE leftover. Got it with 100 miles on it. I decided to forgo the DVD and Navigation to bring down the payments and fnanced it at 1% for 60 months. I'll probably add in an aftermarket DVD/Navi at some point.
$7800 is a bit high for an SVX these days. If I were in the market for one, I'd look to pay no more than $4-5K even for a relatively newer one.
Bat: I will have the Legacy turbo for the 48hrs
-mike
-juice
It is 20ft. by ten ft. 8ft. high at the front 12 ft. high at the back. will post pics when I get some down time. It has a back wall with door and window.
Cheers Pat.
Craig
Pat - car ports are great. Yours is about the size of ours, minus the back wall. We have a fence there instead.
-juice
Some vandals threw a rock right through the back windows of the Miata (and the top is new). The glass shattered so badly there were shards on the top of the dash. The rock was thrown so hard that it proceeded inside and smashed the cup holder on the center console into 7 peices.
Fortunately, only the window was damaged, not the top itself. I can replace just the window portion for about $150 plus labor.
Also, the cup holder gave its life to protect the dash and center console, which were unharmed. The console looks OK even without the cup holder so that's no big deal.
Took about 2 hours of sweeping and vacuuming to get all the glass out.
I filed a police report but with no leads they only took information over the phone.
Called insurance but I have a $250 comprehensive deductible, so I doubt it would even kick in to help much if at all, plus would a claim like that put the dreaded "C" on my insurance record?
No idea who did it, probably teenage vandals with nothing better to do. Kinda happened out of the blue.
-juice
Bob
maybe it was someone in a STi doing a 5k dump clutch that threw the rock?
maybe it was a rock coming off of Bobs vehicle after a tree dump run?
speaking of 5k clutch drops, I can honestly say that I did my first high RPM launch in the Evo this weekend. I was working 1 day in Dallas and then visiting friends the rest of the time, and with 2 friends in the car I thought it was a good idea to just rev it up and dump the clutch... somewhere around 5500-6000 rpm LOL.
I kind of thought the clutch force limiter would intervene and nothing much would happen as it slipped a bit and we went on our way. but the result was somewhat surprising as it grabbed hard and we did a wicked 4 wheel burnout for about 5-8 feet.
friends were suitably impressed and a few hours later, I returned to being 29 from my temporary age of 17.
I can't wait to actually do a burnout for the first time in years with the armada! I'll then return to my 31 year old age as well!
-mike
Cheers!
Paul
Swampy - maybe I grunted so loudly that it shook the earth? It's possible.
Colin: my new window will cost less than your new clutch. :P
Calling Performance Buyers Club right now for an estimate on the new window...
-juice
tom
Looks like I'll have to make an insurance claim after all.
-juice
Putting it politely, that stinks! I guess you should be grateful they threw it while the car was parked, rather than when you were driving down the block.
Mark
~c
"Lance Armstrong says he will retire. He'll call it a career after this year's Tour de France"
~Colin
We've done em in about 5 hrs on our backs. Just a trans lift is needed.
They did mine in the legacy on a lift in about 3.5-4
-mike
Cheers Pat.
Craig
So, yeah, it could be worse.
Sorry,
-wdb
It could be worse: A driver in in South Woodham Ferrers, Essex in south-east England, was driving his car when a frozen sausage came through his open window and hit him on the nose, He managed to stop his car without hitting anyone else at which point passers-by came to his aid. The driver lost a lot of blood from his broken nose but opted against going to hospital, the spokesman said. "I feel very sorry for him - it must have been an incredibly lucky or unlucky shot to get the sausage through a moving car window - I have never seen or heard of anything like this before," the ambulance spokesman said. "
Are you sure it was a rock, Juice
Cheers
Graham
Bob
Juice - sorry to hear about the car. Maybe a strike by one of those "income tax" terrorist groups? j/k
Steve
Noone wants to do just the window, so it looks like a new top, $900-1000. Plus the broken cup holder, maybe $40, and a tear in the shift boot, maybe another $30 or so. Call it a grand. $250 deductible if I make a claim.
Here's the question - will I get the dreaded "C" on my insurance record? I ask because last time we made a claim, our rates went up by $300 for the next 3 years, so it "cost" us $900. It would not be worth making a small claim if that's the case.
I'm not sure because there was no driver error, but does this affect your rates?
-juice
In NY, this would be a claim under the 'comprehensive' category (fire/theft/vandalism), which normally does not merit a rate increase, but your State and policy clauses (along with your gas mileage) may vary...
Steve
Ken