First, an old joke: The Canadian Census folks were really concerned about the rapid baby-boom in this one tiny town, way up in North Eastern Quebec, so they sent one of their top auditors to go and find out. It only had a population of 300, 4 years before, and grew by 150 babies! They really wanted to figure this one out. I mean here's Canada, with 5% of the planet and only .005% of the population, generating 2% of the World's CO2! So, Jacques the Auditor figures he'll stop off at the Barbershop, after he get's off the Train, and ask the barber. There's no airport, and no roads connecting to any major highways. The barber says "It's Mad Pierre!, It's his fault we have all deese bebes!" So Jacques asks where he can find this Mad Pierre, and the barber tells him to ask the Mayor. He goes to the Mayor, who confirms, "Oui! It's that maudit Mad Pierre! I have to use money for de new pavement on Main Street, to build a daycare, sacre bleu!" Jacques tells him he'd like to meet this Mad Pierre and the Mayor tells him to go see the Fire Chief. He's the only one that's up that early to go to the Fireman's Mass (Messe des bombiers). So he meets the Fire Chief at the 5:30 AM mass, and the Chief, looking a bit tired but smiling tells him that Mad Pierre is the Train Engineer that runs the Train through town at 4:30 AM, every morning. Then he says to Jacques, "Look at 4:30 AM, He comes through here with the Train Horns just blasting! He's only supposed to give 3 short blasts at the cross streets, We only have one cross street. So he drags the horns out through the whole town! It's too early to get up, and too late to go back to sleep, so we have more bebes! Damn that Mad Pierre!" Great Links: Most of you know, we've had some big Tornadoes and rain storms over the last week, so I figured I'd chase down the few parts I can't seem to find. I've got one or two alternatives for the Glass run liners in my rear door Division bars - The Ford F-series 4 door trucks (railway/utility crew cabs) or maybe the big LTD Wagons from 1968 to 1988. BUT I came onto some of the Mother Lode of good parts links for any brand of car, from almost every year since cars were made. Mad Pierre was the bug that kept me digging and finding stuff I didn't know existed! For the Connoisseurs of Vintage Car Collections, we have: http://www.concoursparts.com/ I didn't know how big a hobby this is in my Province of 1.1 million souls! This is the links page covering everything, everywhere! http://www.mcaac.mb.ca/link.htm I like this Main page layout: http://www.mcaac.mb.ca/ Then this takes you through more afFORDable stuff and history (well organized, with lots of Canadian sources too!) http://www3.sympatico.ca/bkeevil/mercurymonarch/links.html And this just screams of a great resource: http://www.hotrodscustomstuff.com/ But what really got my eye was their "In The News" section on the Tech Articles. * Canada is worse on Pollution than the US! * Hybrid Cars are worse than Hummers! and lots of tips on making a FlexFuel car. Its the first Car-Buff site I find that carries any side of the GHG arguments! http://www.hotrodscustomstuff.com/Tech Articles.html But they've got a lot of great restoration articles in that list! AND The Links Page! http://www.hotrodscustomstuff.com/links.html AND The Future that the GOVERNATOR is spreading in Europe and Canada and even the US: These laws are draconian! We're lucky so far, but it's coming to a scrapyard near you! http://www.hotrodscustomstuff.com/legislation.html That stuff sends shivers up my spine! Fortunately in Manitoba, our Premier and many MLAs (Legislative Members) are members of the Manitoba Car clubs, and they were just re-elected, so we're good for a while. This Site shows this legislation by car-buff hobby interest and by State. I wonder if our Canadian legislators look here, when they need a hot vote-getting issue?: http://www.semasan.com/main/main.aspx?id=60855 And that site is a sub-site of the Specialty Equipment Manufacturers Association (Car parts) and publishes a link list at the bottom of the page of new manufacturers: http://www.sema.org/Main/StartPage.aspx
Parts Searching without fear! Man! I can't believe this exists! The SEMA site has a search system on their site that lets you search any of 4 ways! They only list Members, so the smaller companies may not be listed, but at least we'd find some information that might help daisy-chain to the right source (price, quality, location).:2_thumbs_up_-_anima http://www.sema.org/MemberDirectory/frmDirectorySearch.aspx?tabtype=P
Wagon Sites! After this, we don't need more! Holy old wagons, Batman!:icon_drive: http://www.automotive-links.com/ent/wag/wag.htm
