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I was first introduced to Yuengling when I worked in the Poconos near WilkesBarre and Scranron, PA. Whenever I used to go to the local casino here, that was always available in the green bottle or on tap. A marvelous brew, to be sure!
2021 Genesis G90
We like Yuengling.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
23 Civic Type-R / 22 MDX Type-S / 21 Tesla Y LR / 03 Montero Ltd
My grandfather on my mother's side of the family Bought my brother and me Lionel electric trains. I'm talking about "real" O Gauge original Lionel trains produced in the late 1940's through the late 1950's - the ones that are worth tens of thousands of dollars today. Every Christmas, he would take my brother and me to F. A. O. Schwartz on 5th Avenue in Manhattan to buy additions to our train sets such as electric cattle cars, coal cars, oil tankers, etc., not to mention scenery items for our layout. My Dad made a huge table out of plywood and set up tracks so we could create a miniature railroad with hills, bridges, railroad crossings, towns, trustles and the like.
I bring this up because my Mom was not a fan of taking over the living room for 4 weeks every Christmad with our trains and the huge table along with all the transformers necessary to operate all the functions of the trains and the peripherals. In fact, I kind of knew she hated those trains.
My brother and I would play with those Lionel's for hours at a time - train whistles blowing and when we put "smoke" tablets in the engine smoke stacks, white smoke would pour out.
I remember one time when I flew back home from Chicago to introduce my spouse-to-be to Mom and Dad one Christmas, anxious to set up my Lionel electric trains (we had three full sets - those locomotives must have weighed 5+ pounds each). I went into my old bedroom to take the trains and table into the livingroom along with the peripherals and they had disappeared.
I went into Mom's room and asked her where "MY" trains were. She responded that she donated them to Good Will! I don't ever remember being more angry and upset than I was at that moment! I had murder in my heart - for my mother? Yes! She had gone and destroyed the last vestige of my youth - just gave them away without first informing me so I could have the option of shipping them out to Chicago so one day my kids would be able to enjoy them as I did for many years. But, alas, it was not to be.
If I remember correctly, I did not talk to my mother for three days - silent treatment with sneers and frowns. My Dad finally intervened and I was forced to forgive her - but to this day all is not forgiven, may Mom rest in peace!
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My middle brother (may he rest in peace) and I had a near fortune invested in Lionel trains. My father started us off when we still lived in the Burgh before we became middle class American's and moved to the suburbs in the mid 50's. We got a large paper route of about 120 customers and we seemed to spend almost all of the money we earned tossing papers during the year and then the windfall tips we got at Christmas time buying new Lionel trains and accessories. You name it and I'm willing to bet we had it. Even the large Z style transformer wasn't enough to power everything we had. We had to have at least 6 smaller transformers. My father allowed us to take over the large basement we had with the train set up. IIRC the platform was something like 12 feet by 8 feet. It was too large to put up and down so it just stayed up year round for years.
I liked to do the new set ups, getting everything wired up and several trains running at the same time on one track and one elevated on the trestle set. Had lights all around the set up with lights in all of buildings and houses, these were powered by 120 vac. My middle brother just liked to run the train around the tracks and push the buttons to operated the active cars and the accessories. One time after a few weeks of this elaborate set up I even got bored with it and said we should change it. My brother said, "go up stairs and get bored watching TV because if you get out a screw driver I'm going to stab you with it". I figured he didn't mean it but I didn't want to find out for sure So, I went upstairs and watched TV.
My mother never threw out those trains. I guess the boxes were too heavy. When my sons were at the train age, since my brother did not have any children, he said you ought to set up the trains for the kids. So, I went to my parents house, found the many boxes and schlepped them to my house. Mrs. j didn't want the family room taken over with the trains so I put her car in the driveway and used her half of the garage for the set up. Unfortunately, what I remembered about those old trains was correct. They were on their last leg and I had to repair almost everything since we only got a few laps around the table before another problem surfaced. To repair them in the mid 70's would have cost more than I was willing to put into the effort. I called several collectors and they told me they were worth almost nothing in the condition they were in. All of them told me they buy trains like this for pennies to possibly get a part from one that may be good to rebuild a worn out train/accessory they had. I didn't have the heart to toss them, so back into the box they went.
In the mid to late 80's the development my youngest brother lived in was having a street sale one weekend and he asked me if there was anything I wanted to get rid of. So, I called my middle brother and told him I was willing sell all of the trains/accessories, about a quarter mile of track and a dozen switches (those were the biggest culprits needing repaired. They hummed like you were at a cheap concert) if he was OK with that and we'd split the money. He said he forgot all about those trains and to go ahead and sell them and use the money to buy Son #1 a book or two when he went to Penn State.
I sold everything for about $400.
Mike, since you were in the scholastic biz, how many books should that have bought in the late 80's for a freshman. Driver, you peddled books so maybe you can chime in here too.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
I understand one of those catalogs even in bad shape is worth a good penny today.
Mrs. j knows to stay clear of that catalog when she decides to clean out closets.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
$400 in the 1980's didn't buy much in the way of texts for a freshman in college. IIRC, it used to cost me about $250 for textbooks at the NYU Bookstore for 4-5 college level courses per semester. Texts were about $25.00 used, so I always tried to buy used books rather than new, which were twice the price. If you were to extrapolate using inflation to determine what books would cost in the 1980's, my guess books would cost about $350 per semester. Just a guess JM.
2021 Genesis G90
As for the beer, that's the only beer you'll find in both of my sons homes. Waaay better than the famous national brands.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
2021 Genesis G90
He said he bought used books every chance he got but there were too many times the professors went to new book just printed. Probably due to a friend at another universities that wrote the book. They would be repaid by friends when they wrote a book.
There otta be an investigation about these shenanigans.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
I bring this up because my Mom was not a fan of taking over the living room for 4 weeks every Christmad with our trains and the huge table along with all the transformers necessary to operate all the functions of the trains and the peripherals. In fact, I kind of knew she hated those trains.
My brother and I would play with those Lionel's for hours at a time - train whistles blowing and when we put "smoke" tablets in the engine smoke stacks, white smoke would pour out.
I remember one time when I flew back home from Chicago to introduce my spouse-to-be to Mom and Dad one Christmas, anxious to set up my Lionel electric trains (we had three full sets - those locomotives must have weighed 5+ pounds each). I went into my old bedroom to take the trains and table into the livingroom along with the peripherals and they had disappeared.
I went into Mom's room and asked her where "MY" trains were. She responded that she donated them to Good Will! I don't ever remember being more angry and upset than I was at that moment! I had murder in my heart - for my mother? Yes! She had gone and destroyed the last vestige of my youth - just gave them away without first informing me so I could have the option of shipping them out to Chicago so one day my kids would be able to enjoy them as I did for many years. But, alas, it was not to be.
If I remember correctly, I did not talk to my mother for three days - silent treatment with sneers and frowns. My Dad finally intervened and I was forced to forgive her - but to this day all is not forgiven, may Mom rest in peace!
Reminds me of the anger I felt at my father when he did touch up on my first car with a paint brush. He was a good engineer but a lousy body/paint man.
Still if I could see him one more time I tell him all is forgiven.
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
"...me of the anger I felt at my father when he did touch up on my first car with a paint brush. He was a good engineer but a lousy body/paint man.
Still if I could see him one more time I tell him all is forgiven."
No question about that, OF, if I could be with Mom just one more hour to hug her, kiss her, and totally forgive her - that is my dying wish!
2021 Genesis G90
Btw, my mother gave my collection of model promo cars away to my kid cousins when I was at college. They used them as toys. Hurts to think how much they are worth today, but that's life I guess.
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-2021 Sahara 4xe-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
I never had true Lionel Trains....I got the no name brands, but, they were still fun. I would love to see the largest model train layout in the world in Hamburg Germany one day.
https://youtu.be/ACkmg3Y64_s
https://youtu.be/ACkmg3Y64_s
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
Off to San Jose this weekend to help my sister move. Rented a standard SUV from Avis in advance of the obligatory IKEA trip.
I watch these "Power Block" type shows where they rebuild or mod engines. On most of the builds they slap on a carburetor.
I was wondering that if they put these engines into a street car how would they pass emissions standards? Sometimes the project involves old 60s classics which I assume would be exempt but others are fairly modern vehicles.
Could a carburetor equipped modern car pass?
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
Now, if you want one rebuilt for 60 thru 70's GM jobs, I could be your man.
Something else I don't think you forget.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
1986 CHEVROLET CORVETTE
$9,600
Stock #: N/A
VIN: 1G1YY0781G5107460
Color: Gold
Miles: 46,214
Engine: 8 Cyl
Trans: Automatic
Drive: RWD
Location: Ravena, NY 12143
- See more at: http://www.listingallcars.com/details/1986-Chevrolet-Corvette-Used/2631333148141976786#sthash.vYDwv2cU.dpuf
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
That's the typical age for problems. Hankook has a dry rot warranty, but only for 3 years or something like that. So I put on Michelins, of course. LOL I really hated taking off tires with lots of tread left.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-2021 Sahara 4xe-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-2021 Sahara 4xe-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
2018 430i Gran Coupe
Hankook, as well as other tire manufacturers, warranty tire for dry rot for a much lower time frame since the warranty starts when the tire is attached to your car and the manufacturer has no control on how long they sit in inventory.
2011 Hyundai Sonata, 2014 BMW 428i convertible, 2015 Honda CTX700D
2001 Prelude Type SH, 2022 Highlander XLE AWD, 2022 Wrangler Sahara 4Xe, 2023 Toyota Tacoma SR 4WD
I was just thinking there must be a good story on a car that was only driven 1500 miles a year.
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
burner said:
I still get an occasional request to rebuild a Quadrajet. That is an brilliant design that received a bad rap because most people didn't want to take the time to understand how and why it was designed the way it was. Solex even made a carburetor that was almost a direct copy of the Q-Jet. I even saw a Q-Jet mounted on a BMW prototype V8 at the BMW museum back in 1981.
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burner,
I remember you talking about rebuilding the old Quadrajet carbs way back on a couple of the old Edmund's forums. You and I and Shifty may be the only ones in here that know anything about these old beasts.
A couple months ago I was looking through a drawer at my tool bench for a manual for a facet that was leaking so that I could get the part number for the part that had to be replaced under the lifetime warranty (I keep all manuals and flyer sheets for this very reason). Low and behold I come across an old instruction sheet for rebuilding the Quadrajet. I looked at it for a minute or two just for old time's sake. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I can still do it.
You've probably rebuilt one later than me. If I had to guess I'd say my last one was in the very late 80's.
How's the tracking going? Son #1 hung up his steering wheel about 2 years ago. I think more than anything else he wanted to prove to himself that he could pass the track test and go solo faster than most mortal beings. Plus, once he was told by a couple of experienced guys at the track that had the same body type (Camaro) that he had on his '95 Trans AM that he wasn't going to improve his times until he did some major suspension work, he had to be content with the times he was getting.
He asked them to drive his car to see if they could get better times than he got. Both of them drove his car and beat his times but not by very much. He even drove one of the other guys cars and could tell how well that car was nailed down to the track. He said there was no comparison to his car. So, this confirmed that he had hit the wall with that Trans Am as it sat and that's when he sold it and started to concentrate on tuition for his oldest son who is now 14. He said he even got a little more for it than what he had into it (tires, brakes and stuff like that).
The young guy that bought it was thrilled with his test drive of it.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
Was in Austin this week for work. Little crazy there with South by Southwest going on. Heard some good bands, though. Packed downtown was a pain in the derriere, though. Fortunately, UBER saved me from even messing around trying to get downtown and back to my hotel.
Still, I had a rental to go back and forth from my hotel to our office.
Brand new Jetta with about 1,600 miles on it. Liked the way it drove. Chassis was a good compromise between ride and handling. No "bad road shudder" ever hit the cabin....which is quite good for this class of car. Steering was a bit light, but no over-abundance of understeer was noticeable. Brakes were good. Electronics were wonky, particularly bluetooth. It kept dropping my iPhone connection. Plus, playing music via my iphone was a hit and miss proposition.
Clearly it was a base model. But, even at that, I was shocked at how bad some of the materials were on the inside. Lots and lots of hard plastics....it didn't take much to push and flex hard surfaces, either. They did nothing to even try to disguise the look of the materials on the inside, either.
Compared to a base Accord, Camry, Fusion, Malibu, Sonata, or any other rental I've driven in the same class, I'd rate it's build and materials dead last. Driving it would rank up there with the best of them though.
I was sniffing around C4s last year and drove quite a few of them---but man, these cars are not well screwed together, and every one I tested had problems of one sort or another. Still, they are a great bang for the buck. Be prepared to fix 'em, though, and chances of getting one with a presentable interior aren't so good unless you pony up for a low mileage, late-run C4. The joke is that you measure a C4s interior in "dog years".
2019 Kia Soul+, 2015 Mustang GT, 2013 Ford F-150, 2000 Chrysler Sebring convertible
So I began to think to myself, "...how am I going to get him out of the tub - and if I do get him out of the tub, I am afraid he will fall. What am I getting myself into here?" Unfortunately, I was not able to talk myself out of this mess, so I followed her downstairs. We go into the condo unit and as I approached the guest bathroom with the bathtub, I see the entire floor is completely flooded as was the living room and dining room, not to mention at least an inch of water on the floor near and in the bathroom. I hear splashing and laughter and I begin to wonder what the heck is going on here.
I open the door to the bathroom and low and behold, there's the husband splashing water against the walls and laughing out loud. He is also talking to himself, saying, "...I'll get you back for that; you can't get away with that; here, take this..." as he continues to splash water all over the place while the water faucet is filling the bathtub up as quickly as this guy is splashing the water out of the tub.
I turn to his wife and told her if he is going to keep splashing water all over the place, I am not going to get drenched - besides, with my luck he might pull me into the tub with him - and how am I going to get out of the tub? The wife tells me he has a touch of dementia and thinks he is at his summer camp when he was a boy in the middle of a water fight with the other boys. She yells at him to stop and I started yelling too. He stops his splashing, looks up to me and says, "...is it time to get out of the pool already?" I said yes, most definitely way past that time.
His wife turns off the water faucet and pulls up the drain plug to the bathtub can drain. I asked him to give me both his hands and I pull him up and he finally stands up. I asked his wife for a robe and towel, which she brings me and I escort him into his bedroom and lay him down on the bed. All this time, he is mumbling about how much fun the water fight was with the campers from the next bunk. Good Grief!
Of course, I am soaking wet from this activity and request a towel from the wife so I can dry myself off. She says all the towels are on the floor in the bathroom and she has no more dry towels. Holy mackeral! So I just walk to the front door, open it and walked over to the elevator and got back to my condo unit. I was soaking wet. I took a shower and as I am about to sit down in my recliner, the phone rings. I answer it and it's the wife asking me if I can come downstairs again - her husband had sneaked into the bathroom again and was in the tub splashing water all over the place. I just told her to wait until the swimming activity was over and the counselors blew their whistles to clear everyone out of the pool. I had done what I could but that I was not going to go through another lifesaving attempt this afternoon. She asked me what she should do? I told her to call the paramedics and have them help him out of the tub.
Like I always say, life is just precious down here in God's Little Waiting Room!
2021 Genesis G90
2021 Kia Soul LX 6-speed stick
My son wants to attend the same event if he's not working. We'll see...
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-2021 Sahara 4xe-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
That was one of the funniest stories I have heard in awhile. It was nice of you to help out, but, I guess it is a job best left to the professionals.
Hope the rest of your weekend is a little quieter.
2017 MB E400 , 2015 MB GLK350, 2014 MB C250
As for the dementia, there but by the grace of God go the rest of us eventually. I just imagine how stressful this is for his wife. She definitely needs help in handling this.
At first I thought it was going to be like a friend of my ours who was a teacher friend of my wife. She is larger than I am and has kidney failure. She also has something wrong in her muscle control at times and was falling. Then she couldn't get up. After a time, the muscle control would return. She called one day asking me to come over to help her get up. Couldn't pull her up even with the help of a wooden dining chair. Eventually used the laws of physics and had her crawl to the couch and helped he crawl onto it. Then eventually she was able to sit upright with my help pulling her up. Then her muscle weakness slowly left.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
The sight of you helping that guy would be a real hit on YouTube. Maybe you should go back and help that guy if he is still in the tub. Give the guy's wife your phone to record the next episode of your humanitarian effort and get back to us real soon, OK?
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
2021 Genesis G90
It's a slow day in here today, so we'll settle for just about anything, really.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
We walked into a shop and immediately got thrown out because of some conflict the owner had with the previous dealer. My guy noticed that the owner had a Quadrajet totally torn apart on his workbench. He asked him if he was having difficulty and the angry shop owner told him it was a comeback for the third time and that he was stumped. My guy told him "Go outside and have a smoke...I know everything there is to know about a Quadrajet"..I watched his hands fly through the parts! He bent a couple of pieces in a vise and fifteen minutes later it was ready to back on the car. The shop owner installed it and the car roared to life. My dealer than gave him a few tips and gently informed him of a couple of mistakes he had made. " How do you know so much" the owner asked. " Well, I just sold my shop and we did a lot of those. He then told him the name of his well known shop and the guy about fainted.
He became a great customer who gave us 100% of his business!
Last night there was a single-car accident in St. John's, Newfoundland. Take a look at the Mazda3 that was involved:
The amazing thing is that the driver WALKED AWAY. Literally. When first responders arrived there was no driver to be seen. They searched the area off the highway thinking that he or his remains would have been ejected. Later on he was discovered to be OK and uninjured. Sitting at home, or on a curb or in a bar, I do not know. I can only imagine the speed he was traveling. Not sure what this says about the structure of the 3, but by disintegrating as it did it likely dissipated much of the energy of the crash.
http://www.thetelegram.com/News/Local/2016-03-19/article-4471236/Driver-at-first-missing-after-car-found-split-in-two/1
http://www.vocm.com/newsarticle.asp?mn=2&id=61302#.Vu0kByBsfog.facebook
https://youtu.be/Bo-IGFizPsY
2017 Cadillac ATS Performance Premium 3.6
wow!
@oldfarmer50 I like those Vettes, not the fastest thing but fun. You could do worse for 10K
2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Ram 1500 Bighorn, Built to Serve
That is one lucky person who survived that accident, much less walked away from it without injury.
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl
I'm sorry I forgot about you when I mentioned the guys in here who would know anything about a Quadrajet carb. Now that Rover is back, I'll have to add him to my list too.
Anyone else I owe an apology to ?
The last thing I need is for my dues to go up because of false posting.
jmonroe
'15 Genesis V8 with Ultimate Package and '18 Legacy Limited 6 cyl