Tim W. SoCal

ATM would be fantastic to retrieve money from if it didn't deduct it from my banking account and just spit it out

skin from a steer, alligator, lizard, caiman or ostrich, once preserved and dyed, can make some awfully pretty cowboy boots

Bitchen' Nomad, Chuck! Where did your sparkly teal blue paint come from?

and snicker doodles

effects of ironing your birthday suit may not only be painful and leave terrible scars, it will probably also ruin your iron

Bitchen' Charger, Anthony! Did you build the Cragar S/Ss or have them made for you, and if you ordered them, which vendor did they come from?

Bitchen' Trans Am, Anthony! You'd better add a set of subframe connectors before the torque from that blown Big Block Chevy folds the T-Top body up like a taco!

Back in the mid-60s, my brother and I each had a toy rifle and 2 toy 6-guns that shot spring-loaded plastic bullets. We're lucky we each have both of our eyes!...

I ordered decals from Keith on Feb. 14. Sorry to see that he is hanging it up...

Took my Sweetie out to one of our favorite breakfast spots this morning. When our server took our order, he didn't use the electronic Point Of Sale tablet like the other servers were using, and like has always ensued at this establishment in the past, but instead committed our order to memory. This restaurant invites us to tweek their menu items to accentuate personal tastes, and we take advantage of that. Anyway, after our order was taken and our server walked away, I commented to my wife "I wonder how much of our breakfast is going to come out wrong". When our food arrived, our order was PERFECT, and we enjoyed a GREAT breakfast.

lemmings baked in a pie may be gastronomically creative, but I don't think it would taste very good

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...and I followed you like a lemming! SO, back to the course of this thread... Posterior is what I feel like with ample embarrassment for going off track in this thread, but we're back in line now

Powered by the lightnin' wires...

New car dealers are just as bad. I have a 2010 Toyota RAV4 with 340K miles on the clock and a '99 RAV4 with 470K miles on it. I took them both to the local Toyota dealer to have recalls completed (because Commiefornicatia will not renew your registration if you have open recalls). Since then, I am bombarded with snail-mail, email, texts and phone calls informing me that my 2010 RAV4 is due for its 60,000 mile service. Either car has never been to this dealer for anything other than 1 recall on each car. Funny thing is, they haven't ONCE solicited me for service on my '99 RAV4.

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Training young newly hired techs is part of my job that I find especially challenging because they have very little to NO formal training and very little experience, and as LennyB posted above, they just want to access YouTube videos on their phones to teach them everything

A customer of our shop bought his daughter a beautiful gold '79 Fiat X1/9 when she went away to college in the mid-80s. When she would come home for Christmas break, and then again at the end of her summer break, he would call and make an appointment to bring it in for service. They were lucky as X1/9s go, she got a good one... Other than the common electrical problems, all it ever needed was routine maintenance. Anyway, before she was headed home for Christmas or almost ready to head back to school at the end of summer, her Dad would call and make an appointment, stating "She's comin' home and we'd like to bring her Fiat in so you can Fix It Again, Tim", and the day before her appointment she would call and remind us "I'm bringing my X1/9 in so you can Fix It Again Tomorrow!" They were GREAT customers...

You raise a REAL interesting point, Bill, and it makes me wish I thought in the 80s like I think now... Back then a (good) reman GM 10SI alternator was about 60 bucks. My memory is kinda foggy, but I think my shop's labor rate was about $36.00 per hour at the time. (I also currently have NO recollection of what the Yugo looked like under the hood) To modify the Yugo to accept a GM alternator, I'm thinking the first go-at-it would take possibly 12-16 hours labor time. After the first one, the labor time would decrease considerably. So, for less than $500.00, we could have created a permanent solution to the Yugo charging system debacle, and, considering the popularity of the Yugo in my neck of SoCal at the time, if I advertised this alternative to scrapping your Yugo, I could have made enough from the number of these repairs to afford the blown BBChevy Ski-Boat I always dreamed of...

presume minus the "p" is resume, which can be pronounced "reezoom" and mean to start again or "rezoomay", which is part of an application process when seeking employment

wearing animal skins

Back in the late 80s we sent quite a few Yugos to the crusher because the $5800 car had a $1200 alternator that tended to fail soon after the car's warranty expired and the owners refused (wisely) to authorize the repair and asked us to dispose of the car. We also sent a bunch o0f Renault Alliances to the crusher because the transmission control module would fail and the new replacement cost more than the value of the car.

by Mrs. Howell

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