Joe Handley

I know, my sister and I were out and about some today and I actually had the A/C in my 200 on (didn't want to roll down the windows, had loose stuff in the back seat), just tooooooo nice today!

Wow, I'm always all for a good hot rod, but that is odd and rare enough that is should be restored, not gas monkeyed.

My high school American History teacher told us once that her Mom was a nurse in rural Wisconson in the late 60's and early 70's. They started getting couples coming in from some really rural areas to her hospital and as the expecting parents hear the official medical names of different male or female specific reproductive parts, some of the new parents decided to name their children after these organs and such because of how beautiful these new and wonderous names sounded..............She then stated she would hate to have to do the roll call for that class room

My thoughts exactly Danno!

Thanks guys, I was wondering about that. I have heard that the C5's still used balsa, guess it was still the best material available at the time those were designed, even compared to different metals and composites.

Do they still use balsa in the floor?

My folks talked of stuff like that back in the 50's and 60's (early Beetles and post war Jeeps), but that involved putting them in school buildings upright and in one piece.

It is amazing how strong these little things actually are, I've joked how I would hate to drive one in the winter through an icy intersection, mainly because if I were to get hit by a large SUV, pick up, or big truck, it would probably bounce around the intersection like a pin ball

Hopefully Saturday will be this nice, got lexan R/C body to shoot and need decent weather for it...............also need to dig up the paint too come to think of it.........

My Aunt got one of those calls a while back, apparently they hang up pretty quick when you tell them you don't even own a computer.................

Problem is, these guys are probably just as bad as some of the owners of these cars are, in their own douchy way. I doubt we would have much to worry about though, my Jeep my be respected enough for them to leave alone then much like your Buick, my 200 (3600lbs) is low enough and heavy enough that they might hurt themselves trying to roll it.

I don't know Charlie, I would be PISSED if one of those Smarts were mine, espcially the '09 since it has the potential to be a total loss because some group of idiots though tipping was a good idea.

Well, it is Caifornia, doubt they would have been shot...........however, there are plenty of other "self defence mechanisms" available The police are treating these as felony cases at least, and I'll bet at least one of the perps ain't going to be smart enough to keep his mouth shut or was dumb enough to record things on a camera or phone.

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_25512434/san-francisco-vandals-tip-smart-cars-around-city

Should have seen our floor at work Harry, during the winter we had to mop that floor every night so it looked like from c.r.a.p to so-so for when we opened the next morning. Sometimes it took hours to get it to that point!

I'd say good riddence, sick of that white c.r.a.p still even though it's now all gone here!

LOL, Harry

Kinda makes one wonder how we would be as a country if the minimum wage had kept up at that kind of pace.

Some of that can be tied to an increase in material and shipping costs (basically oil related) as well as any increase in doing business including other manufacturing costs, managerial costs, advertising costs, licensing costs, ect.

I hope that means good things for him and his family!

That's good Jim!

With the previous owners of my store, I was lucky to make that per month, and I was a supervisor!

Compared to what I make, that's pretty good, net or gross.

Considering how microscopic modern turbos are, I wonder how well that would actually work.

Probably destroyed and sitting in a junkyard somewhere in Michigan.