Ace-Garageguy Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 (edited) "Greed is good", the mantra from the movie Wall Street, is often mistaken to be the idea behind Atlas Shrugged as well...and it ain't. Edited October 7 by Ace-Garageguy DUMB AUTOCORRECT 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danno Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 Ain't necessarily so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisBcritter Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 "So" - a needle pulling thread... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JollySipper Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 Thread without a needle is kinda 'pointless'.......... 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1972coronet Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 "Pointless" is how Charles Kettering described hand cranks for starting an engine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim W. SoCal Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 (edited) see below Edited October 7 by Tim W. SoCal 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 (edited) Engine design is being increasingly done by people who shouldn't be designing cardboard bird houses, and "wet timing belts" that run in a bath of hot, solvent engine oil that tends to dissolve them, and then clog oil pickups with rubber particles (leading to catastrophic engine failure) are all the proof anyone needs of monkey-see-monkey-do incompetence on a global scale. Edited October 7 by Ace-Garageguy CLARITY 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim W. SoCal Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 (edited) scale of incompetence in engine design coupled with the American consumer being completely ignorant and unwilling to have proper maintenance performed per the maintenance schedule is what led me to have a BUNCH of cars with destroyed interference engines due to timing belt failures abandoned at my shop Edited October 7 by Tim W. SoCal 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 (edited) Shop prices for replacing engine timing belts at the required interval often exceed the value of older vehicles, which is why lowballers drive perfectly good vehicles to engine destruction, and they end up as scrap (at which point the lowballer has to pay way more for another car to destroy than it would have cost to keep the first one running indefinitely); PT Cruisers and Neons are among the kinda cool cars disappearing due to this. Edited October 7 by Ace-Garageguy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim W. SoCal Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 this thread is almost always entertaining, thought provoking, encompassing and educational all at the same time 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted October 7 Share Posted October 7 (edited) "Time and tide wait for no man", nor do hurricanes and tornadoes. Edited October 7 by Ace-Garageguy IDIOT AUTOCORRECT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 Tornados artery scary storms, my son is 20 and calls them monsters.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOBLNG Posted October 8 Author Share Posted October 8 Monsters under the bed are a common childhood nemesis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thatz4u Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 nemesis is another Star Trek movie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim W. SoCal Posted October 8 Share Posted October 8 movie theaters of the Drive-In variety used to be a fun place to see a movie, especially from back row in the back seat of your car with your "significant other", but now are almost as extinct as the dinosaurs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 (edited) Dinosaurs like me will all be extinct in not that much longer, so all the little fellas who can't do anything without an app can fix everything that they perceive to be wrong with civilization soon enough. Edited October 9 by Ace-Garageguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim W. SoCal Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 enough of the funny business, it's time to get to work on the '32 Tudor Sedan build! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slusher Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 Build, I need too get busy on my super Bee ?.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 Bee stings aren't on my list of favorite things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JollySipper Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 'Things' is a song from the 'Too High To Die' album by the Meat Puppets........ (Bill could have a field day with that one....) 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 (edited) Puppets abound, because when one has no use for independent reasoning, dancing to the whims of the string-pullers is the result. Edited October 9 by Ace-Garageguy 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big John Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 Result may vary! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace-Garageguy Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 "Vary" sounds like "very". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JollySipper Posted October 9 Share Posted October 9 Very much so! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A modeler named mike Posted October 10 Share Posted October 10 So much for Susie Sullivan sewing seaweed sashes for the synchronized swimming team since seaweed is scarce in the Sierra desert. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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