Thunderbird Club

[Miles_ONeal]

I avoid Starbucks like the plauge or any other dailey grab money from your wallet establishment. How do you think I can afford all these basses?

The coffee I make at home is better and less expensive.

 

[Stealth57]

The coffee I make at home is better and less expensive.

Smell-o-vision

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Applesauce?

Applesauce and Hoople. Hooplesauce!

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

Ma province du Québec is usually quite permissive on those matters and I don't recall seeing of hearing about one of those in our neck of the woods. Topless restaurants yes (awful), but donuts. I guess we drew the line at pastries ?




I'm going for the 5th on that one...

Québéc rules…..pretty much anything goes…kinda like Bruxelles…

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

hmmm…..surplus thunderbucker?..…

 

[MCF]

hmmm…..surplus thunderbucker?..…
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I'll take it off your hands…..

 

[Nocturnal]

I go because my daughters like it and it's where we hang out sometimes. They get milkshakes branded as coffees. I get plain old coffee with cream. Mine costs about half as much as theirs, but it's still a cheap date!

Since we started working from home, I rarely hit a coffee drive-thru anymore. Used to do it daily and Starbucks was the only convenient one to stop at. Since I was picking it up for a few people, I got mine for free sometimes so that was nice. The coffee at the office was much worse than anything Starbucks has ever given me, believe it or not. I think the water at our office was really bad and as a result the coffee was really bad.

Between not buying coffee much and not driving to the office, it was like getting a decent raise!

 

[MCF]

I bought the Focus III vinyl long ago in a cutout bin, still in its initial shrink-wrap. Both discs were the same (I think sides 1/2).

That's too bad. It's a great album.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

The ci vs L thing is hard to pin down sometimes, the manufacturers play kinda fast & loose with the liter designations, depending on what works for the marketing department. The old 340 was, allegedly, a 5.6L, and the 350 is called a 5.7L, but a 345/5.656L isn't quite as awesome for trying to sell engines.
The metric engine manufacturers do it too, rounding up cc measurements to closest liter, sometimes with a pretty large gap.


Technically, ~61 c.i. = 1L, so a 5.6 should be 341.6 ci., and a 5.7 would be 347.7 ci, so your engine is actually closer to a 5.7L.

funny, and when my kids talk motors it's always in metric…..in their yes CID is relegated to old school "old fast" V8s..

 

[MCF]

I go because my daughters like it and it's where we hang out sometimes. They get milkshakes branded as coffees. I get plain old coffee with cream. Mine costs about half as much as theirs, but it's still a cheap date!

When I was on the road all the time for work, they supplied a reliable internet connection, a clean restroom, and a generally pleasant atmosphere.

 

[GonePlaid]

funny, and when my kids talk motors it's always in metric…..in their yes CID is relegated to old school "old fast" V8s..

And when I hear liters, I automatically multiply by 60(close enuff).

 

[RedVee]

…and full circle, that 5.7L (barely, I think technically 345ci is 5.6L), is what I've got in my '11 AWD R/T Charger.

I'd love to have a 1969 R/T with a 440. A 426 Hemi would be super cool as well, but a modernized efficient 440, with maybe the engine management, injection and all the rest that pulls as much horsepower out of each c.i. all while running clean on pump gas would be great! Oh, and 4 wheel disc brakes and modern (?) steering.

I guess a stealth resto-mod 1969 Charger is what I'd love. Vintage looks on the outside but modern mechanicals on the inside.

I love the way this one looks:

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Except I would have to have the old '70's aluminum slotted dish wheels. Think "Dirty Mary, Crazy Larry"


…and the meme says it all, but at least I have a black Charger, albeit 22 model years later.

The white Charger to avoid

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

And when I hear liters, I automatically multiply by 60(close enuff).

never did it that way! definitely works…

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

The white Charger to avoid


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Sweet…..340?

 

[RedVee]

The ci vs L thing is hard to pin down sometimes, the manufacturers play kinda fast & loose with the liter designations, depending on what works for the marketing department. The old 340 was, allegedly, a 5.6L, and the 350 is called a 5.7L, but a 345/5.656L isn't quite as awesome for trying to sell engines.
The metric engine manufacturers do it too, rounding up cc measurements to closest liter, sometimes with a pretty large gap.


Technically, ~61 c.i. = 1L, so a 5.6 should be 341.6 ci., and a 5.7 would be 347.7 ci, so your engine is actually closer to a 5.7L.

I think? Chrysler Aust called the 360 a 5.9 here. The GM 350 got called 5.7, so Ford called the 351 a 5.8 as oneupmanship I guess, Chrysler slipped in above (and below)

 

[Bassmike62]

Québéc rules…..pretty much anything goes…kinda like Bruxelles…

Yeaaaaaah...
Not always in a good direction. But it's home !

 

[JJR58]

Outside of Chucks gig that Sunday.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

The white Charger to avoid


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Chief Inspector Clouseau of the Highway Patrol!

 

[BklynKen]

The coffee I make at home is better and less expensive.

Exactly.

 

[Miles_ONeal]

Outside of Chucks gig that Sunday.
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Yow! With A/C, no less!