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I have to agree , it did belittle the clowns that were used........................jmho

Yep, I will not argue that cars maybe somewhat safer but when it comes to some of the repairs it is totally ridiculous and it is really not your neighborhood mechanics fault. I owned a family operated Auto Repair center for almost 20 years before turning it over to my son and grandsons when I went disabled and I saw coming what they have been going through since I got out coming. Just about 2 years ago they had to purchase their 4 generation computer Scanner/ Programmer to be able to continue working on cars and light trucks. It cost them right at $3,200.00 because they needed it to  begin programing the transmissions in the newer cars after rebuilding them to make the compatible with the On Board computers in the cars. My Grandson was having an issue with his 2000 Dodge Intrepid shutting off on him while do 70 mph on interstate. Check engine light came on so he ran by Auto Zone to have them scan it and tell him what the problem was since they do it for free. Thing is those computer scanner they use that might cost $129.00 told him it had an intermittent miss code. Well lets see............ :ugh: :ugh: that really narrowed it down. It continued to cut off on him at all speeds so he took it up to his uncle and my son put his $3,000.00 computer on it and it showed that the Crankshaft Sensor was intermittently dropping out causing the on board computer to shut the car off. It would start back but for how long was the question.  My son ordered a Crankshaft Sensor and installed it and the sensor was $44.97 and took 20 minutes to put on. I called the Dodge Dealer here locally to get and estimate on how much it would cost to get a crankshaft sensor installed on a 2000 Intrepid and the part was $89.97, Computer scam to confirm it needed the Sensor. I told them it had already been scanned and we knew what the problem was and I was told that they didn't take another companies word for a problem so they would charge $55.00 to scan it and labor to install the Sensor  $109.00. I ask them what their labor rate was in the shop and I was told $70.00 per book hour. According to the All Data online labor manual the repair called for .57 hrs which is not quite 1 hour. At $70 and hour the labor should have been $59.80 and not $109.00  So all I can say is welcome to the world of Technology. You have honest mechanics and garages and then you have the rest of them such as the dealer I called. Now My son said if his Nephew would have been a customer off the street the repair costs to do the repair would have been about  $128.00 + tax.   At the dealer the same repair would have been 253.97 + tax. They are working very hard at putting auto repair centers like my sons out of business forcing people to depend on dealers for all their car repairs. About 7 years ago the manufacturers made it a rule that the only people that wold have access to the on board Computer codes for repairing automobiles in a major move to put independent garages out of business and a bunch of them filed a class action suit against the manufacturers and the garages won the case because the Supreme court said that for the manufacturers to not share their information would be creating a monopoly and found in favor of the garages so the manufacturers were forced to sell the information to the manufacturers of the testing and repair equipment companies like Snap-on and All data and other companies the repair codes. That is when the Scanners went from about $300.00 to $3,000.00 for independent garages. That is why I drive a 1997 Jeep. Something an average Joe can work on. If I was to buy a new vehicle it would be one with a 100% Bumper to Bumper Warranty for 100,000 miles. I would pay to have oil changes and tires and the rest would be up to them to fix...............jmho  

I think Bars would be cheaper than that type of glass your talking about TDR and if I was protecting an inventory of fire arms Bars on the windows and doors painted a nice shinny black would not stop me from going into a gun store to shop if I were a customer looking for a gun or accessories...............jmho

Well being old and stupid I would not know how to do it anyway and I have Comcast and not Xfinity................... :shrug: :shrug:

Of course he is removing as many high ranking military personnel as he can as fast as he can because he is scared to death of our military and any possible plans he has for our country in his last 2 + years in Office. He knows for a fact that most of or about 95%+ will not follow any orders he may give against the Civilian Americans that goes against any part of our Constitution or their moral aspects so he must find younger and more manipulative lower ranking officers that he can still brainwash into doing his deeds. All in all I think he is going to be hard pressed to find very many real men at all that will follow him when push comes to shove...........jmho 

I had to laugh about my older brother. He is 68 years old and has been haing his toys all his life. He is at age 68 still a Street outlaw and still shows up for outlaw street drags and he has a small FWD Dodge Daytona but only the body is Dodge. The rest is a frame and suspension designed and built by Hoger Engineering and it is a rear wheel drive car sporting big rear tires inside the fenders on a narrowed rear end  and sporting a 568 cubic inch Rodak power plant putting out about 1000 HP on Dyno machine. He is going to send me pictures of it to post when he gets time. He has not lost a race in over a year.............. :up: :up:

I saw that same you tube Video of the 59 Chevy and the 2009 Malibu. I would like to note that there was a period of time that General Motors did have cars with the X frames that where very dangerous and almost considered death traps. I am guessing they use a 59 Chevy because it had one of those frames. They were only use for 4 years before they began using twin rail frames. If they would have performed that test with a 65 Chevrolet Impala or Bel Air the Malibu would have been completely destroyed................jmho

You can bet before it's over one of those scientists will probably do something to piss it off and the human opps factor will come into play making one hell of a mess..............jmho

Yep, they are leaps and bounds ahead of the 60 and 70's with 302  5.0 engines producing all that horsepower and foot pounds of torque and it is impressive but back in the 60's and 70's all the horsepower being made by those cars, 90% of it was getting to the rear tires to make the cars fast. Today a little less than 60% of all that horse power is getting to the rear tires to get that great fuel mileage all the real horse power is being sucked up by the computer programs, Rear gears and transmissions of today's cars before any gets to the rear tires. Not saying they don't have some serious top end speeds in some of the new cars but You have to make sacrifices in one place to get something someplace else and they have sacrificed raw horse power at the rear tires for fuel mileage on the highways. I hear all these advertisements about 0 to 60 in 7 seconds these days.  How about 0 to 130 in 7 seconds. That was the cars of the 60's and 70's. If you want to see some serious street races like took place back in the 60's and 70's tune in to Street Outlaws on the Discovery Channel Monday night around 7 or 8 PM. They are some serious dudes racing there.........................jmho 

Being it was in L.A. and was on Martin Luther King Blvd the cop probably sold it and broke the locking mechanism to make them think he lost it................jmho    Why in the world do they think they need a shotgun on a police bike to begin with? Oh yea wait. I remember now. The police officers out there are only allow to have what is it? 7 or 8 rounds in the hand gun magazines. That would be a good reason to need a shot gun back up.........how stupid of me to forget that.................... :shrug: :shrug: 

Well, as far as I'm concerned we know very well how our Government works. That is why we still have stored some of all the most dangerous diseases known to man in laboratories in freezers. We studied them, created a vaccine for them that worked very well and made people well and protected millions of others. With that said what is the reason our Federal scientists have kept viles of the disease instead of destroying it. Chemical weapons of course. All they are wanting to do with the Ebola is create a vaccine for it and then store it along with all the other viles for a possible future weapon................jmho

I don't know how much the guy would charge but let me ask you this. Would it have the same meaning if you were able to buy it as it would if you were able to build it? Some things are just not the same...............jmho

Well, I guess my old mind may not be as good as I thought. I just know I had a Plum Purple Dodge Coronet because my brother painted it in his body shop and turned it from white to purple and a buddy of his got the paint for him from a company he worked for called Electromotive and they built train locomotives  and that was one of the colors of  their locomotives they built. It did not match Chrysler's exactly when they put theirs out. They had a little more gold metallic dust in theirs than mine did and i liked theirs better but was not going to repaint again........... :shrug:

GTO's came out in 1963 with the 389 six pack. Buddy of mine had one and it was fast. At the same time Pontiac had the Pontiac Tempest with the OHC 6 cylinders or the 326 V-8's.  When I moved down to Tennessee I was driving my 1966 Dodge Coronet that I traded my 65 Cuda on so I could go big block. When I finally got settled in down here I realized I had been moved into the heart of Chevy land by my parents. My Coronet stood out like a sore thumb in high school parking lot of hot rod Chevy PUT's or Chevy cars but then a purple car pretty much stands out any place. It was wearing that Chrysler Plum Crazy that the Road Runners and GTX's had that same year. The same color of Jugheads Avatar picture. Most of the guy in high school were sporting small blocks in 55's 56's and 57 Chevy's. There were a couple 65 Impala's sporting 396's and a few guys got brave and called me out to see if they could beat the ugly purple car. All got their feelings hurt. Has a concrete bridge they raced on that was exactly 1/8th mile and only thing they had that got close was a 67 396 Chevelle but I had a 100 Hp on him from the factory before my add-on's which was Tunnel ram twin 650 dual pumpers and Isky Cam and lifters. Man I can remember those days like they were yesterday but have trouble remembering what I had for supper last night now also..................... :rock: :rofl:

i figured it might bring back a few fond memories. I know it did for me even though I was not a real Chevy guy. I was a Mopar freak and began my life of driving at age 16 with a 32 Ford 3 window suicide door Ford coupe w/ 392 Hemi power plant with 2 AFB carbs and a 456 9inch Ford hog head rear gear and Hurst 4 speed with monkey shifter. Second car was a  65 Hurst Cuda Fish. Was a Mopar guy for life............ :up:  :up:  

I'm sure one or two of these sweet rides will bring back a few fond memories..They did for me!!! :up: :up:       http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=ZpmZtSIkfTk&feature=player_embedded

Am I missing something here? She wants you to fight for her by getting a job when the guy in Michigan is also unemployed according to your original post. So she will dump a guy she as been with and talking marriage to but wants him to get a job to keep her or she will drop him for another guy with out a job that is 800+ miles away. I say buy her a 1 way ticket to where ever the guy in Michigan lives and let her tell him to fight for her by getting a job.................JMHO

That is a great tribute to our country for sure................ :up: :up:

Man eating Blue Gills!!!!!!

Yep, The FEDs have not had a lot of things going their way in the courts here recently and this is just another case of taking a little more of their bullying away. In all honesty I think the Federal Courts are finally getting tired of having all these cases in front of them that go against the very Constitution they swore to uphold when elected............jmho

Here is a picture of my Marlin 25MN with a Tasco 3 x 12 x 40 on it and it's a tack driver at 50 yards and would probably be at longer distances but that is what it is sighted for at present. Great shooting gun for sure. [URL=http://s218.photobucket.com/user/softbaitmaker/media/Expendable%20projectiles%20machines/firearms006_zpsa029d225.jpg.html][/URL]

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Don't feel bad about it. Yea It hurt but I have had to put down a few over my lifetime and I won't allow them to suffer and think of myself instead of what is best for them. I am always in the room with them and letting them know I am there as they go to sleep. I always bring them home and bury them in air tight vacuum sealed plastic container with their favorite blanket. I have laid 3 to rest with him being the last but they all lived long lives and all were spoiled rotten with love........................... :up: :up:

Ok my mistake..........lol  the state judges was what I meant. It was the first time I had ever seen judges on a ballot anyway. Are those the judges that were picked by Bredesen or before him? My memory sucks but I bet you already figured that out huh? I keep posti-note in business. I still voted no to changing them............Don't see any since in breaking what ain't broke.............. :hiding: :hiding: :hiding:

Gosh was glad to see this thread cause I was getting ready to start one about it. The only Judges ads I have seen are the three Federal Judges and even though they are Democrats they have pretty much maintained a stable judicial system at the Federal level and this is the first time judges have ever been on a ballot I do believe. I also voted to keep them as I have found no fault in anything they have done to date. We don't really have many Federal issues that I hear about that are negative and they don't seem to be all that far left but are more middle of the road types I think. Hope I did right but voted the way I felt they have done their jobs. Maybe now that they know they could be placed on a ballot and removed and are Blue bloods in a Red Blood state it may just get them thinking if they don't get on the ballot that they need to stay on the road they have been on cause it kept them off the ballot screen............jmho