By accessing this website, you acknowledge that Edmunds and its third party business partners may use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies to collect information about you and your interactions with the website as described in our
Privacy Statement, and you agree that your use of the website is subject to our
Visitor Agreement.
Comments
I'm coming into this late so will offer 29 July (like our son) and 8 pounds.
Best of luck
Cheers
Graham
Bob
July 29? I don't think she'll wait that long. Had some Braxton Hicks contractions on Sat night, that was fun.
Michael: yes, please tell them I sent you (AJ Teixeira). I may ask for a steering wheel cover or something like that in return for the reference.
Steve: Sweet! Congrats! You da man, even put a K in her name (Volk). Plus shes cuddling that WRBlue shirt!
Mark: I think I'll do the leather steering wheels cover, and then maybe tint, but that's about it. By then I'll turn my obsession to praying for a 2004 Forester Turbo, and make it a manual tranny please!
-juice
Congrats on the new addition. A real beauty. I'll add that my daughter, now 12 years old, was 9 lbs 13 oz. Yes, everyone says OUCH!
Juice,
Wednesday. Wednesday. Wednesday. I think I had selected July 17 and 7 lbs 8 oz? 8~)
doop-doop-te-dooo....
Boy when Juice and Paisan actually have work to do it gets purty quiet in these here parts....
;')
Sound of a needle dropping. ;-)
Jim, Dennis, and Frank all picked July 17. That would be fine, I think we're as prepared as we'll ever be.
The room has a WRBlue ceiling with clouds sponge painted on. The wife, for whatever reason, did not allow me to paint splashes of mud and a rally car. Go figure.
Michael: did you call Adler & Mandell? They hadn't heard from you. E-mail me if you don't mind, ateixeira@ifc.org.
-juice
1987 Ford Tempo.
Oh...my....god what a piece of crap.
U R A BUS. Must be Outbacks referring to SUVs. 8~)
Concerning other cars, I've got a rental "Optima". Thankfully, it goes back Wednesday.
Jim
1981 Ford Mustang Ghia - nicknamed the "volc" for all the coolant that spewed out of it regularly
1980 Datsun 210 - actually not bad, and RWD! Exhaust leak made it sound like a V8, and the clutch slipped like buttah.
1986 Chevy Sprint - 46 horses. 6 valves. Feel my wrath. 0-60 in 4.5 ... Minutes!
Worst rental? Chevy Cavalier convertible. The window didn't line up with the top so wind leak was rather severe.
-juice
17 mile drive was great, but I was crying for a better handling car. All I could do was drive slow to avoid the barf bag.
Route 1 south was a great drive, a must-see for newlyweds. In fact the whole Bay Area was fantastic.
-juice
-Colin
Re: lucien2 Jul 16, 2002 5:56pm
lucien2> Mike Smith admitted owning a 1982 Stanza, which actually was a good car.
Not so fast! In spite (or perhaps because) of Ziebart rust proofing, the rocker panels rusted. To fix a rough idle, a mechanic attempted an adjustment sans the proper tool (meaning he used a drill.. oh, it's too painful to recount the rest). I replaced (!) the carburetor for a cool $1,000 (different mechanic). The clutch made it to 100,000 miles, which still impresses me. I kept it 11 years.
But I like the 82 Nissan Stanza's ergonomics: 4 door hatchback, storage compartments beneath the arm rests (a la Forester but sadly, not Legacy), puddle lights on all four doors, map lights (missing from my 93 Civic LX). A lot of bang for the buck.
IMO any marketeer that disallows a map light option (italics for paisan) to encourage moving up to the next model (where it's bundled) is Satan incarnate (but is just doing his job).
..Mike
..Mike
Yup, I needed a clutch repaired on a Memorial Day weekend far from home (cash only) that was fun, scrounging among friends for the money.
The most interesting problem was when the clutch pedal linkage, where it went through the firewall to the clutch cylinder, broke the firewall sheet metal. That was an interesting Rube Goldberg repair that I had to do.
-Frank P.
And even though the '84 Voyager was a decent driver, the monthly ritual of replacing the distributor cap and rotor was tiring. Apparently, the heat of the engine was too much for the plastic. And for those wondering, a cracked cap makes starting/running in the rain almost impossible.
-Brian
-mike
1st car- 1974 Chevy Nova-4 door, no A/C, baby poop brown. People feared that 350 when it finally warmed up. Total Tank.
2nd Car-1989 Mercury Sable-Replaced A/C, heater cores (2), water pump (2), Power steering pump, Transmission rebuild. This was the crappiest piece of crap I ever owned.
Most of the cars since were pretty good.
1) Late 70's Fiat 128 - Holy Cow, this beast wouldn't start if it rained or temp dropped below 30 degrees.
2) 95 Chevy Blazer - I'll never buy the "General" again after this experience.
3) 86 Olds Calais - would die in traffic at the most inopportune times, like making a left turn.
Steve (still hanging on these boards, but after what the stock market has done to me I am farther from a Subie than ever)
Cheers,
..Mike
..Mike
(All in fun from a former 'Vair owner too. Mine also caught fire, but only in a small way.)
Steve
H6 engines rule! I think I prefer the Subaru version now.
Just a reminder that every Thursday you can join the Subaru Crew for a chat session from 6-7pm PT/9-10pm ET. Stop in to talk about Subaru or just to say hello!... random auto9motive trivia has beenknown to happen as well!! Hope to see you there!
/direct/view/.eea5f48
PF Flyer
Host
Pickups & News & Views Message Boards
http://cp.carlc.com/cars/stlouisdick.jpg
sounds pretty neat, stops and turns like mad.
-Colin
I've been quiet over the last week because I was in Italy for a last-minute business trip that came up. One of my appointments were in Sicily so my wife and I decided to take a couple extra days and live a little.
We spent most of our time in Sicily. We hit quite a few places including Palermo, Mondello, Monreale, Catania, Taormina, Mt. Etna and Siracusa.
We've been to mainland Italy before, but Sicily was quite different. For one, the weather is A LOT warmer. Day time highs were in the 100's with incredible amounts of humidity. It's no wonder why Italians come here to lounge by the pool/beach by day before venturing around once it cools off at night.
The roads/logistics there are a lot more chaotic. Sicilian cities make Rome look like a utopia of orderliness. The food, while a lot simpler, showcases the excellent local seafood. Also, Sicily is known for excellent wood fired oven pizza which was available everywhere.
Finally, there's plenty of beaches and beautiful vistas. In a way, it reminded me of a much larger version of Rhodes Island in Greece where we visted several years ago.
While we were in Sicily, I rented a cool little Alfa Romeo 147 turbodiesel: http://www.alfa147.it/
It was a metallic beige colored 5-door hatchback, brand new. The 1.9L turbodisel had plenty of zip to it and kept us up with the German makes on the autostrada. Our 147 came with all the bells and whistles including ASR, ABS, side air-bags, A/C (we needed that badly) and a decent sound system. The 147 turned on a dime, which was great for weaving through traffic. Although the trunk was relatively small, the rear seats on the 147 were suprisingly roomy.
Driving in Sicily was a little challenging. Stopping at red lights is optional there, but other than that, it was nothing any native New Yorker couldn't handle. Actually, it was following the tiny little roadsigns in cities and towns that was the hard part.
After four days of vacationing in Sicily, I had one day of business there and then another in Milan on the way back home.
Ken
Bob
And - the best part of waiting to put in your guess:
Juice's son will be born on 7/21, he'll weight 7lbs., 14 ozs and be 21 inches long!
Whew - got it in there!
Patti
..Mike
Juice, you just messing with us or should Patti have picked July 18th?
--Jay
(2 kids and one on the way in Dec.)
Nice trip, Ken. I'll go to Europe one of these days. OK, decades.
Sorry I've been so swamped at work. Nice to see Mike step in and pinch-hit. Good team work, bud.
See you folks at the chat? I'll try to make it, unless a certain "large and in charge" person tells me she's ready to deliver.
-juice
-Brett
Brother keeps asking when...
Juice, maybe one day we can hook-up a trip to Italy and take over my brother's house.
Speaking of trip(s), Serge, my September trip to Fort Lauderdale is off. I got pulled out of it
-Dave
-mike
You'll just have to remind me which Dave you are, since there are approximately, oh, 2.3 million Daves. On this board. ;-)
All this talk of Italy - I just had to have pasta for dinner. Yum.
-juice
I initially thought that the chat with the Subaru Quest folks bogged me down, but I had the same problem last week and this week.
I'm aching to know what is going on!! FYI - the first Baja rolled off the production line today!
Patti
-Brian
Thanks for the suggestion!
Patti
Slow start, but it was hard to keep up towards the end. For those that missed it we had more trivia, some involving Elvis!
Bajas off the production line, eh? So they'll take, what, 4-6 more weeks to hit dealers? I'm curious to check one out to see how they sort out the license plate/hitch/tail gate.
-juice
Wow, Patti posted! You must be busy or restrained in the dungeon (or both). :-)
Anxious to see the Baja.
-Dennis
-mike
Ken, sounds nice...never been south other than passing through on the way back to Bologna where I used to live...ferry from Istanbul to Bari, then train to Bologna (the city not the basic food group!) What a trip. We're hoping to go next year after Michael's Bar-Mitzvah (if I ever get another job, that is!) The usual places for us (north central region...Bologna, Imola where my friend lives, Toscana, and maybe Sardinia where my friends gf lives.
-mike
Thanks
-mike
-juice
PS 80% effaced, should be any day now...