changing horses

I'm out of breath from exasperation, just reading it!

We bought our house on a transferred 'Rent-to-own' contract from folks who were leaving for the mother's lung problems. The lady didn't like it because she thought she could get more, so I paid it off in 10 months (triple payments) - Software salaries were very good.

No credit, here. I used to have a pack of them from the late sixties, before they made it illegal to send you pre-approved ones. Heck, I even had a $100,000 Carte Blanche card, and Platinum Amex. That's like opening a pack of smokes in a prison, for a 22 year old! I was too scared to use them, so I just kept them for bragging rights for a few years, unitl they started wanting to add 'member fees' so I cut them up and sent them back.

Like an old Danish boss said when he bought his lakefront mansion "I like the One-Payment plan - cash!"

That's sad that they can do that so repeatedly. Here, they build their legacy projects and wait to see if enough people are complaining or killed in road accidents. Now, we ride them with media whips to give them a shake back to reality.

 

Seems like things are pretty much the same all over, In n out of the US

 

dGas, sorry I highjacked the thread, man! Anyway, I posted a new toy that I just got from a great company I subscribe to. I've used their Architectural software for my home renos, and they just launched their own generic CAD program for anything. I'm thinking of building my own REAL WOODIE, and I was looking for a good program to draw it up, and maybe get stuff machined.

Here's my threads on the idea:

http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1353

http://www.stationwagonforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1364

Anyway, they're offering a free (14 day) trial download. I may just download it for now, and try doing a concept car, before I buy it.

Forgot to add the links:

Home and landscaping:
http://www.punchsoftware.com/index.htm

Pure CAD:
http://www.punchcad.com/products/viacad2d3d.htm

 

get catalitic converters on the rear ends of all those methane and CO2 emmiting animals!

Hahahhaa, some scientist measured the ammount of gas, that was passed by a cow.
Turned out to quite an amount, so cows with a cathalyc converter in the butt.
hahaha, what a sight.

 

[quote So what does the State or County do with its revenues. How come they aren't using them to build infrastructure like highways?[/quote]

They have to pay for your health care!

 

Clark, you're probably right. Here, they give us tax credits, then add user-fees to what used to be free services. Or they contract out entire Government Departments to private companies and side-step any responsibility, thereby using Public Inquiries to 'get to the bottom of it'.

We keep seeing the ideal of a working democracy being corroded away by slick maneuvers that avoid any repercussions for the elected reps' poor leadership.

 

sounds like a good solid project!!
tons of stuff still available for them

and that was almost a 'intro'...sooo...

 

Sorry, I thought I did an intro , I joined something like 16 sites in two days ,probably got lost in the shuffle.
I'll fill in the blanks -
I am a 53 Year old fart, built cars since I was a pup at 13 to LONG after everyone else quit, started family's and bought minivans, I drove muscle cars as FAMILY cars,(1983 my wife took her Lic. test in a 1958 348 tripower Belair 2dr sedan) disabled Vet ,divorced (but reuntied),30 YO daughter w 3 Gkids, I retired at 50 from a Fab/welder career. I dirt stock car and drag raced for many years and made the switch to street rods in the 80's when stupidty began to rule the sport instead of sportsmanship. I Rode Harleys and vintage Trumps most of my adult life as well,tho now have quit.
I beat cancer once about 5 years ago. It has now returned and I WILL beat it again.

 

Oh and I live in COLD A S MN. ,but traveled and lived elsewhere extensively. I had itchy feet for quite a number of years.

 

dGas, none of these guys will admit their age, but you can tell that we're all in the same ball-park, because we're civilized, through the school of hard knocks, we got our come-uppins and know what really counts, and the newer younger members that come on, are getting the picture too!

Speaking of Muscle Cars, I graduated in 1975, and bought a Stock 1969 Caprice Convertible 396 CID, after building and driving Funny Cars and Fuellers at the Drags, here in Canada, in the late 60's, early 70's. My dad and I owned a scrapyard and built most of them together. The last one we built was disqualified because the NHRA changed the rules about funny-car Vans. We'd built up a 1964 Bread-delivery van (Aluminum body) with a 950 HP 392 Hemi. Dad said, " , we'll get another car for the Street!" We went 50/50 on this motor and goodies, back in 1971 - for a total of $15,000 on the motor and tranny. So dad told me he'd pay his part some other way, to buy me out. I wasn't in a rush, so I let that sit.

Went to college, and convinced my dad to come too! They had a few bucks, and my mother was running a ladies gown business very successfully, so they gave him credits for his years as a med-student before WWII and plunked him in my SAME classes. He was a handsome giant (6 ft, 250 lbs of muscle), I'm a 5'8" - 165 lb. shrimp. I was the Student Union President by then, and I made the rounds to the Dean, Admin offices, and the secretaries asked me if he was my older brother! I wilted, man. My old man beamed and razzed my a$$ for years over that.

Well, his ego got the best of him, he'd run rings alongside the college kids with their souped up Novas and Mustangs. Even though he knew EVERY cop in town, he forgot that they were training rookies with radar traps. I didn't know, until I'd moved away, got married (Wife One) and drove my 396 like a regular car. The old boy calls me up and says he wants me to buy his half of the car, for his speeding tickets! He'd never paid them and the rules changed that you pay or no license! He couldn't tell mom or take it out of the family account - it was too much!

We built it together, but he wouldn't let me drive it, ever! So I got it, forked over the $7,500 and told him that he could drive it, ONLY, with his plates on it!

We got a Mopar Racing Speedo in it, to 200 MPH, with the Nitro off, you could make it tick, tick, tick the far end!

I got stopped once on a two-lane hwy, passing a small Piper plane that was going up off a farmer's runway. They need 80 MPH to get off the ground, as I found out. The Provincial cops were setting up a check stop beyond the curve. By the time I got there, they blocked off the road.

The Sargeant was polite. He asked me for my License (right next to my NHRA card) and Insurance, and started with the standard drill, until he looked at the hood. We had dual exhaust but with a stock muffler, and two resonators on each side. The car was idling, but no noise, just "rumble, rumble, rumble" He saw the lock pins and the hood scoop and asked what I had in there. I said, "A nice Dodge engine." Then he noticed the racing belts and the rollbar (the white top was up). He wanted to see the engine. I wanted to get my ticket, if any, and go. Not to be. So I asked him why he stopped me? "You were speeding!" How fast? "We don't know for sure!" Is that what you'll put on the ticket? You don't know? Then he saw my name and asked if I was my dad's son. Turns out he was one of the old town cops when we had the scrapyard. Yeah, I'm Bill's son, and I bought this from him. Check your office, I've never had a ticket, but dad did.

OK, he said, no ticket, but you can't go until you show me the mill. I'd never seen one of our Highway Patrol Fords, but heard they were HOT!!, So I asked my wife to get out of the car, put the top down (it can blow off at high-speed), gave him the keys, minus the hood locks, and told him he could take her for a spin. First time I ever told a Cop to "Drive Safe, now!" He came back WHITE as a sheet! Holy !!!!

He shook! Told his constables to pop the hoods on their rigs, and I gave him the keys. My wife was laughing so hard at all these grown men going gaga!

So I asked him if he'd found the Nitro buttons? The Sargeant laughed so hard that he sat on the ground. When I left, I said to the four of them, "Now, drive safe guys, there's some real maniacs on the road!" The other 3 busted up too!

Get a hold of Norman Rockwell's story of overcoming cancer (leukemia). He was the editor and cover artist for the Saturday Evening Post. Reader's Digest made it a column "Laughter Is the Best Medicine" and I think there's a book or two on it, as well as a documentary/flick.

We're gonna have a good time. Let 'er rip!:2_thumbs_up_-_anima

 

I use to have a lot of Fun with my GTO Judge in my teenage years as well. Luckily most of my family was in Law Enforcement but that never stopped the lectures I use to get.

Dgas I'm disabled as well and a cancer survivor myself.You beat it once and you can do it again. Glad to have You here.

 

You will notice many spelling + grammar mistakes in my posts , mostly due to my fat drugged fingers ,poor eyesight and not illiteracy, hope you all can deal w that. ;D I've spent my entire life as a wrench and not a typist. One finger typing is my forte,
Many of you older guys seem to have very simular past experiances ,Kool!

 

Not a problem for me at all. I wouldn't worry too much about spelling the only thing that saves my butt is spell check LOL.

 

with me, its the EDIT button ,I keep going back and finding stupid mistakes, hehheh, Lol

 

dgas I like your avatar. a 57 Chev 2 dr. wagon is my favorite. Or is that a 56?