There are still a couple in this general area. Not bad a-tall.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Took the scooter for state inspection today. Have to get a rear tire. It wasn't quite to the wear indicator but gone enough to not pass. Front tire is not far behind so replacing that, too. It's about 2.5 rear tires to one front on mileage.
The HD dealer offered to replace them both for the mere sum of 635 + tax. No, but thanks for asking. I order tires/tubes from Dennis Kirk, take the wheels off myself, and have the Honda dealer change tires/balance for 100+ less than HD. Yeah, my labor is worthless.
I'd like to do business with them but there are less expensive alternatives. Their parts dept has been excellent. I've only used the service dept once for the very first tire change. About 450 for a rear tire and brake shoes and that was 13 yrs ago. Started doing my own after that.
The HD dealer offered to replace them both for the mere sum of 635 + tax. No, but thanks for asking. I order tires/tubes from Dennis Kirk, take the wheels off myself, and have the Honda dealer change tires/balance for 100+ less than HD. Yeah, my labor is worthless.
I'd like to do business with them but there are less expensive alternatives. Their parts dept has been excellent. I've only used the service dept once for the very first tire change. About 450 for a rear tire and brake shoes and that was 13 yrs ago. Started doing my own after that.
Thousand Island dressing?
Ha, wish it was but it's not even close...
I had a '94 Oldsmobile Cutlass, I took the bench seat out of the back and used to fit an SVT cab in it and used to fit an upright in the front at the same time, took some juggling though. Head on the floor. Electric in trunk (I think)
Hey! We're lucky to remember we had 'em, never mind the numbers.
Ain't that the truth!
Most of my vehicles in my life were bought with moving musical stuff in mind...
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Yup, I've been buying Roadmaster Estate wagons now for about 20 years, you can fit anything into those things. I have a 94 right now, they're like driving Cadillac station wagons too. The 94-96's have Corvette motors and move, not that bad on gas either for what they are.
I know it makes me an exception to the rule, but I never liked SVT's.
I respect them. They were loud and reliable, and there was a long period where I couldn't seem to find anything else that didn't suck in one way or another.
Still, they always sounded a bit congested to me- especially the cab.
The cabs are not strong on the lower fundamentals, I had to get used to that. I use the heads through a variety of cabs, with ported cabs they open right up.
Although, the last time I played in a band I had this car. I found a way to take my stuff.
Here's my SVT hauler, well exactly the same, color and everything, the body was nice when I got it, had spent most of its life in Florida so I had it mechanically restored, it was basically good, motor, tranny etc, but it needed a lot of assorted stuff, luckily I know a drummer who was a good mechanic and he did lots of stuff for me cheap, I get lots of thumbs up and stares from kids. People think it's like from the 60's :
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Old-school full sized station wagons were a great invention. Room for all the gear, more comfortable and economical than a van or a truck. And the old ones were built to last. I put about 30,000 miles on a '64 Plymouth Fury wagon that had already gone 140K when I bought it. Similar deal with a '67 Rambler Ambassador wagon, and a '77 Buick.
It got harder and harder to find a good one as the years passed, though.
My other problem, was that I wanted to be a bassist and a roadracer at the same time. Bassist me was always happiest floating home from a successful gig in a station wagon. Ricky Racer me was always trying to figure out how I could stuff a cab or two into (or on top of) some rusty old roadster. Between the two of them, all the fixing and buying and selling kept me poor for years...
Yes, V6. Maintaining was expensive. Insurance was high. It had to go...medical bills. And it would have eventually got me in trouble... I had it going way too fast to mention here...
You guys and your big fancy cars...This was like my first, only chocolate brown with our band sign on it. $150 was all I could afford back then 
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Dark Star with Bruce Dern is the first space bin engineer movie I can recall. There's also Space Janitors.
I sometimes see the ghosts of Blockbuster at midnight in the Halloween store that's open for a month.
I'm kind of the same, one of the reasons I like the Buick is it has a detuned LT- Corvette V8 in it, 4 speed tranny and limited slip with towing gears in the rear end, it's a hot rod station wagon, I've surprised a few kids here and there at stop lights.
My other car is an '09 G8 GT I bought new in '08, that thing flies, I've had a few things done to it, it's also rear wheel drive and has a 364 L78 V8 in it, 6 speed auto, puts out about 400 HP. It will chirp third gear at about 100 mph, I've only done that a few times out in the middle of nowhere in Vermont though. I got 4 tickets the first two years I owned it so I had to slow down. I caught myself doing 120 mph twice on the way to work. I can also fit an SVT cab in the back seat of this. It cuts down to four cylinders on the highway when you're cruising and can get 27 mph if you take it real easy and stick to the speed limit. I can only do that with the cruise control on which a cop told me I should do once as he was writing me a ticket.
What is it?You guys and your big fancy cars...This was like my first, only chocolate brown with our band sign on it. $150 was all I could afford back then
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