Random thoughts thread

Desertnate said:
I`m in my mid 40`s, so I`m a child of the 70`s/80`s. When I was in highschool, guys were tuning 60`s and early 70`s American iron because that was all they could afford. A guy I played soccer with on the school team had a beautiful Pontiac Catalina which sounded exactly as you describe. It was perfect.

When I was stationed in the UK, I was fortunate to work a couple times as a flagger/corner worker at a local road course for a few low-level club races. I clearly remember working on turn 2 for an event attended by all sorts of vintage cars. There were several AC Cobra`s and Mustang`s on the grid that day. Turn 1 was not visible due to a hill but you could hear the American V8`s roar as they came out of that turn and headed our direction long before you could see them. We were again serenaded as they tore through our corner and shot off into the distance. Even the Brit I was working with would pause and get this huge smile each time they passed. None of Jags, Astons, Mercs or other vintage European cars that day could come close. Sadly, there were no Ferrari`s in attendance.
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DesertNate ---

Yes !!! Pretty much all Pontiacs of that era came with very nicely made tuned exhaust pipes that sounded better "stock" than all other similarly sized engines from other marques..

Even as a little kid at my Dad`s Humble Oil/Enco,Exxon gas station, I could hear the differences of sound from Pontiacs compared to all other marques..

And as they came into their being with the first GTO, the GTO powered Tempest, the Catalina, the Bonneville, and then the Trans Ams, wow, those cars really sounded great and ran great..

I remember them all because I saw them all, worked on most of them, and put gas into all of them.. :)

The first Non Pontiac cars that started sounding better "stock" were the bigger engine Corvettes, the Chevelle Malibu, the Novas the Impalas, all loaded with Big Block 396 - 427 bigger cam solid lifter nasty engines...

The best sounding small block I ever had the pleasure of being close to was the 1967-68-69 Camaro Z28`s; these came with special chambered exhaust pipes that sounded really nice with that little 302cid solid lifter, twin holley carbs factory header combo.. 290hp - yeah, just keep thinking that - please - mr insurance company... :)

I agree with you completely - that Pontiac you heard, and for me ALL Pontiacs with V8`s sounded great right out of the box, no mods even...

What a treat to do what you did in the UK !!!! I would have loved to do that but all the dang USAF airplanes I was in flew over Europe to places that were NOTHING like that heaven you were in.. :)

Closest I ever got to hearing more european sounding ultimate racing cars was at the Next-to-Last Formula-1 race at Indy -- Unbelievable !!!!

These were coming close to the last of the V8 (from V10) ultimate racing engines that put out close to 900 hp or more at 19,000rpm and the sound was definitely going to hurt your ears without good earplugs... Oh wow !! I will never forget that Friday, Sat, and Sunday!!!

The Red Bull F1 Team stayed in the same hotel - there was never a quiet moment - and they were all the nicest bunch of Aussies !!!
Dan F
 
Ronkh said:
Sad but true

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Mi Hermano El Wax-Waster --

Also agree completely..

Have NEVER liked Yelp and hate their intrusion that always acts up on my laptop whenever I click it..
No surprises they are a bunch of idiots that have gone past just being kind geeks with computer brainiacs built in to their heads...
Never depend on their crapola to be accurate and even more so after reading your link..
Thanks for this !
Dan F
 
Pretty good advice for a young Nelson Mandela. Not so great advice for a young John Wayne Gacy.
Which is why shallow little motivational platitudes mean nothing.
 

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Though I can knee-jerk cynical about most supposedly inspirational one-liners, I do like various aphorisms from [certain people].

That "don`t stop when your tired.." though...well, if you don`t curtail certain activities when fatigued you`ll be done all right..permanently. Context matters ;)

Desertnate- Now you`ve gone and piqued my curiosity! Wonder which TR quote...maybe "Black care seldom sits behind a rider who is fast enough"? I always liked that one, but then I`m not clinically depressed so I guess it`s easy for me to talk.
 
Accumulator said:
Though I can knee-jerk cynical about most supposedly inspirational one-liners, I do like various aphorisms from [certain people].

That "don`t stop when your tired.." though...well, if you don`t curtail certain activities when fatigued you`ll be done all right..permanently. Context matters ;)

Desertnate- Now you`ve gone and piqued my curiosity! Wonder which TR quote...maybe "Black care seldom sits behind a rider who is fast enough"? I always liked that one, but then I`m not clinically depressed so I guess it`s easy for me to talk.
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Actually my favorite TR quote is not cynical at all. "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat"
 
Desertnate said:
Actually my favorite TR quote is not cynical at all. "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in that grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat"
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Loved that Teddy Roosevelt quote, DesertNate, thanks for posting it !

Work ------No one who doesn`t try to move forward whatever is being moved, will ever become stronger ...

Dan F
 
Desertnate- Ah, OK...yeah that`s another good one.

I miss that old thread started by (the now MIA) TOGWT, even though his worldview and mine were pretty far apart...I sometimes felt like my posts to that one were almost counterpoints to some of his :o
 
GearHead_1- Heh heh, yeah....

But OTOH, I`m genuinely lucky, like VERY lucky, that I survived my younger years, starting back around kindergarten. One of my very earliest memories is almost suffering an accident that would`ve undoubtedly been fatal. I got injured but good many times and still have some distinquishing scars from the `60s (somehow avoided any broken bones though). "Live to tell!" and it`s all cool, and I do despise the whole "life in a protective bubble" approach to childhood, but still....
 
Accumulator said:
Kinda serious for a moment- you guys with loud exhausts have no compunctions about disturbing your neighbors? Not just waking people up (who might not be able to fall back asleep), but I have neighbors with *serious* health issues and those folks simply don`t need any disturbances during the time they have left.
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Do I want to wake the neighbors, nah. I have a couple neighbors who are just snobby who like to complain about every little thing. The one guy that complains that my exhaust/turbo is too loud has a Harley and likes to randomly start it up in the garage, far louder then my Kraut-mobile. The neighbor across the street has a Cuda and the Harley guy (who lives beside him) complains about it as well. Other neighbors grandson has a lifted Chevy 2500 with an exhaust and everybody is all over him about it. Nobody around my neighborhood has anything else to do besides complain. Doesn`t help I`m the youngest guy on the street.

Truth be told the old firehouse siren (think 1940`s air-raid type) that goes off for every emergency is more annoying than anything. I understand in the old days before scanners you needed it to get everybody to the firehouse. But, nowadays I don`t think it`s needed.
 
Nizmo said:
Truth be told the old firehouse siren (think 1940`s air-raid type) that goes off for every emergency is more annoying than anything. I understand in the old days before scanners you needed it to get everybody to the firehouse. But, nowadays I don`t think it`s needed.
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The siren is also meant to warn other drivers there are hose guys flying around......... On way to station or fire.
 
Nizmo- Yeah, we`ve had Chronic Complainers for neighbors before, big incentive to get the kind of property we have now. All-in-all hearing loud exhausts is better than dealing with that so I probably oughta count my blessings.

That lifted 2500 might give a physics lesson some day ;)
 
Accumulator said:
Nizmo- Yeah, we`ve had Chronic Complainers for neighbors before, big incentive to get the kind of property we have now. All-in-all hearing loud exhausts is better than dealing with that so I probably oughta count my blessings.
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Living in the country in this county is totally out of the question; main reason is no cable, which means no high speed internet. Only DSL is available and it`s capped to 25 gigs a month, I used almost 100 last month. Sounds really stupid, I know. County over has cable out in the country, but the property tax rate is nearly double! I make decent money, but I like more bang for my buck. Not to mention the convenience is nice; there`s a Sheetz and McDonald`s less than 5 minutes from the house. The owners want to sell me this place, so we`ll see come springtime. I really want to build me a double car pole barn out back...
 
Nizmo said:
Living in the country in this county is totally out of the question; main reason is no cable, which means no high speed internet. Only DSL is available and it`s capped to 25 gigs a month, I used almost 100 last month. Sounds really stupid, I know. County over has cable out in the country, but the property tax rate is nearly double! I make decent money, but I like more bang for my buck. Not to mention the convenience is nice; there`s a Sheetz and McDonald`s less than 5 minutes from the house. The owners want to sell me this place, so we`ll see come springtime. I really want to build me a double car pole barn out back...
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I see some ad on TV for Hughes Net, a satellite provider that claims they can get you Internet, have you thought about them ?
Hopefully some day there may be real fiber out there and your worries about bandwidth will be so over.. :)

When I think of all the huge Fiber pipes I provided thousands of AirTouch Cellular and (later) Verizon employees, I wish I could even have a tiny bit of it where I live today..

Good luck, Nizmo !
Dan F
 
Stokdgs said:
I see some ad on TV for Hughes Net, a satellite provider that claims they can get you Internet, have you thought about them ?
Hopefully some day there may be real fiber out there and your worries about bandwidth will be so over.. :)

When I think of all the huge Fiber pipes I provided thousands of AirTouch Cellular and (later) Verizon employees, I wish I could even have a tiny bit of it where I live today..

Good luck, Nizmo !
Dan F
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Hughes is NO fly by night co. It`s was started by Howard Hughes. It`s probably one of th elargest, if not largest in world.
 
Nizmo- Good on you for considering all that stuff. Heh heh, we didn`t consider all that we should have when we got this place by a long shot.
 
Went to Walyworld today. Haven`t been in there in a while and now they offer handheld scanners for your basket.

I got to chatting with a manager, as I opted for no scanner and accidentally went to the (scanner people only) checkout line and managed to scan my stuff there with the scanner on that station and pay for it.

So I was completed with my transaction and bagging up my stuff when she came to customer service me and proceed to make me feel like a Wal-Mart noob.

I noted how that must be quite the large capital investment and asked her how many scanners they have lost.

She said their largest complaint was the long likes. To which I replied, that would not even make my top 5. :)

She then left.
Fun times.


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