Breathing and health are what matters, everything else is luxury
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2003 525iT TiSilver
2002 M5 TiSilver
1998 528i KASCHMIRBEIGE METALLIC (301) (Goldie)
Former Garage Highlights
2005 X5 4.8is
2004 325iTs (2x)
1973 Pantera L
1971 Dodge Dart Swinger "Lite Package"
1970 Dodge Challenger T/A 340 Six Pack Alpine White
1970 Dodge Challenger T/A 340 Six Pack GoManGo Green
1969 Road Runner 383
1968 Barracuda Formula S 340 Sea Foam Green
We all should check in and see how this pecking order is doing. Lose anyone yet so we survivors get to move up the list? This is like royalty, maybe we need to knock a few to make the line shorter.... Just asking
Wait! What the hell am I saying, I am not even on the list yet.....
Meanwhile out in the woods, I hear bears chewing on a fresh carcass. Crunch, crunch, "hmmm, Human Tasty"
Current Garage Highlights
2003 525iT TiSilver
2002 M5 TiSilver
1998 528i KASCHMIRBEIGE METALLIC (301) (Goldie)
Former Garage Highlights
2005 X5 4.8is
2004 325iTs (2x)
1973 Pantera L
1971 Dodge Dart Swinger "Lite Package"
1970 Dodge Challenger T/A 340 Six Pack Alpine White
1970 Dodge Challenger T/A 340 Six Pack GoManGo Green
1969 Road Runner 383
1968 Barracuda Formula S 340 Sea Foam Green
From the world is ending dept
Current Garage Highlights
2003 525iT TiSilver
2002 M5 TiSilver
1998 528i KASCHMIRBEIGE METALLIC (301) (Goldie)
Former Garage Highlights
2005 X5 4.8is
2004 325iTs (2x)
1973 Pantera L
1971 Dodge Dart Swinger "Lite Package"
1970 Dodge Challenger T/A 340 Six Pack Alpine White
1970 Dodge Challenger T/A 340 Six Pack GoManGo Green
1969 Road Runner 383
1968 Barracuda Formula S 340 Sea Foam Green
Ummm no responses from the "Woods". The list is getting restless....
Current Garage Highlights
2003 525iT TiSilver
2002 M5 TiSilver
1998 528i KASCHMIRBEIGE METALLIC (301) (Goldie)
Former Garage Highlights
2005 X5 4.8is
2004 325iTs (2x)
1973 Pantera L
1971 Dodge Dart Swinger "Lite Package"
1970 Dodge Challenger T/A 340 Six Pack Alpine White
1970 Dodge Challenger T/A 340 Six Pack GoManGo Green
1969 Road Runner 383
1968 Barracuda Formula S 340 Sea Foam Green
quarantined? LOL! Hugging the bears and humping your pillow will give you something but I am not sure what. The movie "The Road" was interesting but poorly produced and a low budget production. I think we will go down the path of "Panic in the Year Zero" myself.
Current Garage Highlights
2003 525iT TiSilver
2002 M5 TiSilver
1998 528i KASCHMIRBEIGE METALLIC (301) (Goldie)
Former Garage Highlights
2005 X5 4.8is
2004 325iTs (2x)
1973 Pantera L
1971 Dodge Dart Swinger "Lite Package"
1970 Dodge Challenger T/A 340 Six Pack Alpine White
1970 Dodge Challenger T/A 340 Six Pack GoManGo Green
1969 Road Runner 383
1968 Barracuda Formula S 340 Sea Foam Green
Snotty, sorry to hear you lost your job.
I've been watching lots of car movies at night on Netflix and Prime, working on the '33 during the day.
Going out for 300 mile drives at least once a week, gas is $1.26 a gal.
Spotting lots of 50's cars and trucks in people's back yards.
Yep, we went through a couple rounds of layoffs since COViD19 started, the shop dwindled down to 5 techs, including me, I knew it was gonna happen, got the axe this Wednesday. I think the whole place is gonna end up shutting down. I'll be ok, I'm gonna end up back at the engineering place I was working at a few years ago, they implemented a hiring freeze, shut the place down two weeks ago, one of the guys contracted the virus, they crank up the engines again in a couple days, Monday. They are busy, main customer is the US Government, nowhere to go but up over there, they had been trying to get me to come back, the commute was holding me at bay working at the shop, home being only ten minutes away. Already spoke to the guy in charge, one of my very close friends, he's gonna shut down the freeze, get me in and go from there. In the meantime, for the first time in my life, I signed up for unemployment. Strange times.
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The company finally sold, they immediately fired the idiot director of engineering that screwed with me. The company that bought the place is another investment company, they want to grow the company like the last group did, but kept the CEO and most of the top key personn. Imagine, the company started in Dale's garage with a $10,000 loan, he grew it and sold it for $32 million, investment group that bought it, this was when I was there, held it for four years, groomed it, turned it around for $65 million, and now, the new owners based out of PA, want to grow it some more, but kept the same key people running it. That companies gonna go over a hundred million, time to get stock.
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Essplosions??? Cool, I'm awesome at essplosing things!!! Did a lot o dat in my youth. Sure, we can do that.
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The unibomber had a cabin up in the woods that is vacant. You could start there. Got any openings? I use to blow up 6 gal jugs of hydrogen using Estes rocket engine igniters.
Hahaha! A high tech anarchist! Awesome stuff, back when it was legit to own it, I had a copy of the Anarchists Cookbook. Shoot, just mentioning that now probably has some investigative computers checking me out right now. It's ok, got nothing to hide, this was back in a time when it was perfectly ok to make things go KaBOOM!!! I used to love setting off firecrackers that sent empty gallon paint cans a hundred feet up in the air, trailing blue smoke. Christ, we blew everything up.
Last time I played with stuff like that, we were launching rockets off of the wings of my RC airplanes, a big no no by the way, same thing, electronic matches from Estes rockets, flipping switches to activate a small servo to make contact from a 9volt battery, on another model, I had a third scale 100cc Super Cub that had a candy drop box in the belly, I used to load it up with candy for the kids at RC fun flys, hit a switch, a bay door opened up and dropped all the candy out on the runway, well, at other times, with a small group of buddies at a private field, I would make pillbox bombs, that box would hold about 15 of them, basically, a six or seven inch square piece of aluminum foil, a small round flat stone placed over gun powder, wrap the foil tight sandwiching the gun powder against the rock, twist the excess foil and leave a tail, top side of the rock. Come in over the runway, hit a switch, the bay door opens, bombs away! The tails ensure that the gunpowder side hits the ground, and they all go boom! Super loud with bass!!! Haha! It was a blast, and it would turn me and all that were present into little kids again for that split moment. After 911, common sense prevailed, and none of that kind of fun is enjoyed anymore.
Funny you mention Kacynski, you guys remember when the FBI was hunting him down up in the hills in Montana? Those days, CNN was still reporting actual news, remember they would show the hills with white communication trailers here and there? I did a ton of electrical work on those special FBI trailers which were listening posts with built in pneumatic telescoping masts and satellite dishes, that had the best camera systems that could zoom in on a gnats a$$ from a half a mile away, available back in those times. At the time, I was working for an outfit called Bickford Broadcast Vehicles. Did a ton of satellite communication vehicle work for the FBI, CIA, police and fire departments, field research vehicles, the buses for FEMA, the satellite news vans for all the local Washington DC news agencies, and around the country, cool stuff. So I had something to do with the Unabomber's apprehension!
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By the way, Kacynzki's cabin and a bunch of his belongings are no longer on that piece of property in Montana. They took it to D.C. And is now on display the the Smithsonians Newseum in the Today's FBI exhibits. Interesting museum.
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