Murgatroy

Can you jack it up this weekend, just to make my inflammatory statement valid?   What if I said please?

That's funny, I feel the same way about useless jacked up diesels trucks...

Not going to happen. She won't even learn to change a tire. Drive a manual? Ha, no.   My daughter knows how to change oil, spark plugs, and tires. Not to mention she has helped me throughout the decades long build of Chaos, my project car. Last year I made her remove and replace the fenders with only lifting help. I am not worried about her and vehicle maintenance in the future. As a matter of fact, the only thing I am worried about with my heathen in the future is that she thinks that Chaos will be her first car. She won't. She get's Harmony, the `13 Mustang. And she is unhappy about that, she wants the turbocharged firebreathing Celica that is slammed to the ground.   The heathen will be nine in a couple of months. And she knows how to shift, if not work the clutch. I make driving interactive.

I was complaining about the situation at work, and a coworker said he would buy it.   While the cost of the vehicle is a sore point in my home*, it is not going away and leaving me empty pockets.               * I spent all of my life <30 paying cash for everything. My wife is higher maintenance than I am, and after several years of driving the gamut of <$3k cars, she demanded something that wasn't a 'schmuck car.' Her exact words. So I went to a car lot and paid too much money to buy her a pretty blue Explorer, because that was the one she wanted. Nay, HAD to have. Married men know exactly what I am talking about.   Fast forward several years and my dear wife, whom I love very much, calls me at work panicking about the 'magic genie lamp light' on the dashboard. Again, her words. Turns out that for the last year, maybe two, I had been giving her the oil change discount cards that our local tire slinger mailed me, she hadn't been taking them up on the regular $15 oil change. As she just assumed that I changed her oil when I changed mine. As we work separate shifts so our daughter is never left alone, I never drive her truck, thus I never heard the loud ticking of the time chain that had been under oiled for ~50k.    So once again, I did the only thing a logical married man can do.   Legally.   I bought her a brand new car. Unfortunately it is a rarity in this world to find a car with 'manual windows, no radio and no A/C!' and the salescritter misunderstood 'cheapest no option grocery getter on the lot' to mean the highest optioned Sport package... Oh, and the wife even got to pick her color... But they priced it at a bare bones, and threw in a service package. Which means that now, I get a nice phone call from our local service manager when my wife brings her car in for service.

I put a $20 Amazon rear sight on it and a $10 aluminum magazine. Which means that as pictured, I am into the whole thing for $480.

If it was anything other than a spare, I might. I rarely shoot steel, but I was comparing the PSA premium I built a month before to the PTAC budget that I was taking out for the first time. I had a box of steel case that had somehow made it into my range bag, so I thought I would try it out. The gun shot brass very well, and grouped great from the first shot, if to the right. I blame the inferior sight, which is now adjusted all the way to the left to shoot straight.   It would chamber and fire off the charging handle, but it would fail to feed the next round. It did this three or four times in a row, requiring removal of the mag, removing the half stripped round, and charging a fresh round, only to jam again. I took the mag and ran the remainder through my other AR and it ate them all. I then ran another magazine of brass through the budget rifle and it ate them all up like nothing.   I honestly don't know why I built this one other than the fact that the price was right and I didn't want to say in a year or two's time that I missed out on the days that ARs were so cheap.

I put a $20 Amazon rear sight on it and a $10 aluminum magazine. Which means that as pictured, I am into the whole thing for $480.

For the money, I am not sure there is a better kit.   The quality is acceptable. The build is solid, and as long as it is eating brass, it makes little groups of a lot of holes.

I built a midlength with all PTAC stuff on an Anderson lower a little while back during their Easter sale. I was into it for $450 after shipping and tax. It groups great with brass, but won't eat steel case for anything.

I have a guy coming to pick it up on Sunday.   Thanks for everyone's help.

Wow, I saw them on their 30th anniversary tour. It was awesome.   Something like 5 hours of unadultrated Rush. No opening act, no intermission, just Rush. They played just about anything you wanted to hear. It was the same time they had just released their cover album, so that was their encore.   Rush is one of the greatest acts out there, and they have been at it a long time.

I have been using CL for years. Bought dozens of cars from there. Sold a dozen too.   The point is, we are in the middle of closing on a house, I work two jobs, seven days a week. I don't have time to deal with Craigslist. I am not out to make a lot of money off of the truck. I would honestly like to keep it and put an engine in it, since the body is in nearly perfect shape, which is why I still have it.   If our landlord had waited two weeks, I wouldn't care and I would wait it out. But as it sits, I don't relish the idea of paying to tow the truck somewhere, to pay to store it for a few weeks, to pay to tow it to my new house. There is nothing in the lease stating how many vehicles we can have, but as I will be breaking the lease in less than thirty days, I don't want to start a major hassle today.   My thought was that a charity could come pick it up, and do some good with it, and I could write it off on my taxes. I thought that might be better than getting paid $200 by a scrapper to come haul it off. For the love of god it has $800 in barely used tires on it.   And no, I don't have time to part it out either.

Anyone ever donate a vehicle to a charity?   I have an older Explorer that blew a timing chain and has just been sitting for about a year. We stopped driving it a while before it blew and just used it for random trips with the dog.   We are in the process of closing on a house now, and our apartment complex is deciding to be a pain as they know we will be breaking our lease in a few weeks. As such they have demanded that we get our 'extra' vehicles off the lot as they have recieved complaints. My 'extra' vehicles are both parked in the back 40 where no one else parks and there are a dozen empty spots. But like I said, they want to be a pain.   I will move one car to work, but as the truck doesn't run, I don't want to pay to have it towed. To pay to have it towed again to the house when we close in a few weeks.   I could sell it, but with the engine effectively dead, everyone would offer scrap value. To avoid all of that hassle, I am thinking of donating it to charity.   Anyone have any experience with this, or have a good charity to recommend?   The title is clear (once I find it) and the body is in great rust free shape.   My other option is to throw it on Craigslist and wait for the vultures to swarm, and that is what I don't want ot deal with.

I have spent a lot of money with PSA over the last several years. Two rifle builds in just the last four months. Lately everything has been shipped to me in under a week, or a week at most.

My rates have already gone up 150% in the last three years. They told us just last month that if we (and covered spouses) don't get an 'annual wellness checkup' by the end of the year we are going up another $1500.   There are three of us in the family, and my daughter sees the doctor about once a year, that is it for all of us, but I will be damned if I am not paying ~$500 a month for coverage. And I will be damned if I am caught without it.   It is an effing racket and it really burns me up even thinking about it, especially when certain portions of the population can just keep spitting out children to keep insurance.

Yeah, without serial numbers there isn't much of anything that can be done.   Which is a great reminder for anyone that doesn't keep a list of serial numbers to start one. I keep it saved in three separate emails and a hard copy.

Norris.

I guess I will be the downer in the thread.   I am satisfied with where I am. I know how I got here, and I know the ins and outs of why.   So, yeah, any changes in my life that I desire I am the one acting on them to make them happen, instead of fantasizing about them just happening.

I am so sad that this didn't contain "...a baller."

Valid complaint.   But we all know that real men don't complain about getting wet in the rain doing manly things. Like backing up with a trailer.

I have spent many years holding a steering wheel. I roll the windows down and use the side mirrors. Like they were intended for. Boat, car dolly, 28ft pup, 48ft dry van, 53ft dry van, it is all the same, bumper or fifth wheel.

I like the pin idea, you could do cosmetic pins all across the top, wiht only one being the key. Pull it, the door drops and all the goodies are exposed.

I agree. If the firearms were mounted on the door itself, and they dropped down, it might be easier. Except for hitting whoever is asleep in the bed in the head thing.

Nearly any tint shop will tint what you want, regardless of legality.   I have all my vehicles tinted at 20% all the way around because I find that the happy place between visibility and nonvisibility.   I just pay cash when I get it done. Been doing this for twenty years and (*knock on wood*) it has never been an issue an any of the times I have been stopped.

I am curious as well.   What I am reading is that you would be best to till the soil, level it, then come back with builder's sand to fully level the yard.    This is probably the route I will be taking through the course of this summer. Part of the thoroughness on my part is the requirement to properly grade the yard to keep the water away from the foundation of the house.   I would be interested to hear from professionals, or at least those with more experience than myself.