Good morning!!!!

[daugen]

Toppop, what motor did that 442 have in it?
Sure was the last gasp for the brand. My memory is that was the pits of emission control detuning.
A 350? I'm guessing no more than 300hp.

A looker, not a performer. The styling was great for the period.
I would have said that was pretty snazzy.
How's that for dating oneself...

But no one races this stuff, you drive
around and have fun making nice noises.
I'd love to have something with a stick shift, big V8 and nice mufflers.
Brings out the inner kid in you.
A dying art in a world headed for rheostats attached to electric motors.

time to stop lollygagging and get a move on.

 

[Buppies]

Wngsprd a lot of cowboy competition shooters use these guns very dependable and high usage does not affect them. There is an importer in Virginia by the way

 

[Buppies]

Both the GTO and the 442 were favorites of mine in looks and sounds

 

[txdon]

67 now

Almost stepped on this little guy while hiking at the battlefield park...well camouflaged.

Good morning! 59˚ heading to 79˚. First snake encounter yesterday in the yard. The snake was a rat snake just a bit larger than Wngsprd's. So in Texas we are colder this morning and have bigger snakes.:laughing:

I could paint today, you know the project that has been rained out or put off for two weeks or, since this is the first cold day, check out the neighborhood trail system or even go to the downtown library and take the bike trail along the river to the lake.

Mom's back door needs replacing and I handled that on the phone with a guy I worked with on a remodeling church project. Door is ordered.

 

[ronjhall]

A dying art in a world headed for rheostats attached to electric motors.

That comment hits home. I was watching a youtube video yesterday of a HF chainsaw. After a couple of minutes my wife writes a message. What is making that terrible noise? :confused2:

 

[ronjhall]

I took a couple of short videos of 2 miles of the road I live on. Second try since posting Whippers snake bark from a few years ago. I need to get a Gopro like RNG has. Much better quality than my Cobra dash cam.
First video is of the section that my house is located on. Pole on left is warning siren at manufactured housing complex. My place is on right at bottom of first hill. It was garbage pickup day .
Second video is of the road I need to travel to get to downtown of our little town. At end of video is the main north/south road that is traveled into downtown. Right turn then 4 miles in to town. Local Vegetable Market is at end of video.
East end of road.
West end of road.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

Mostly, we got all our iPhones unlocked from ATT. Then found out that the iPhone 7 plus we had gotten from ATT could not work on Verizon/Xfinity. Traded it in on a 8 plus.

Buckeye, no updates to my TBN APP. Still working OK. I checked back to 9/13.

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AT&T is changing from HSPA to LTE. So if you had an older phone it might not have supported LTE.

I checked, my TBN did not update recently, yet I'm seeing different behavior. When i go the GM thread, it takes me to the last page, instead of the last page i read. So now i have to manually go back and find where i left off. I didnt change any settings.

 

[RedNeckGeek]

Good Morning!!!! 73F @ 5:00AM. Sunny to partly cloudy. High 93F. Winds light and variable.

Good you're still watching where you step, Don. Especially since you mentioned rattlers are more common around your new digs.

Rheostats? Hardly. Those charge/power management systems on the electric cars are part of why they actually cost more than the old oil burners. But yeah, the days of lumpy, rumbling V8s are quickly drawing to a close, and I'll miss that music. A buddy's older brother had a 442 in high school, and maybe once a week he was able to wheedle a ride home in it for all of us. The older brother knew how to use his lead foot, too. Fond memories of a bygone time...

Finally managed to get the Vanagon home yesterday. Rode the little Yamaha dual sport down there, climbed into the van, but didn't get far because 1st and 2nd gear were missing. Couldn't believe it, as the mechanic had just driven it back from the alignment shop, and I knew he would have noticed. Turns out a new helper had "had trouble finding reverse" when he moved it inside to charge the A/C system, and that caused a problem in the shift linkage. The fix still isn't right, as 1st is there now but difficult to engage.:confused2: Then on the freeway, it lost power at 3900 RPM in 4th, but pulled strong past that RPM in 3rd. Fortunately the problem is repeatable, but there are more teething problems to resolve. The fun part is that on the way home I had two people flash headlights at me and wave, and at the gas station another guy came up to ask if those were four wheel disc brakes. And I really, really like the short turning radius of this thing, especially after so many years of longbed supercab F250 schlepping. The mechanic still has about four or five items left on his punch list, and wants to get them cleared as soon as his parts order comes in, but in the mean time at least I can get a few things sorted out and start prepping for the little decorative paint job that's left. And give the thing a bath; spider webs and dust and dirty fingerprints everywhere!

 

[txdon]

Where's the welcome home Vanagon pic?:confused3:




Ahh, a use for my bucket of golf balls.
Cheap and easy ball catch latches! - YouTube

 

[RedNeckGeek]

I need to get a Gopro like RNG has.

I was leery of the whole GoPro thing, Ron, but when I saw the Session model on sale back in July I picked one up to play with. It's a pretty Spartan version of their bigger camera, but it's also very small which makes for easy mounting. The user interface consists of two buttons, and it's not at all intuitive what they do, so I end up reading, and re-reading, the instructions a lot. It does take pretty good video, though I haven't figured out yet how to get YouTube from wrecking the image quality during the upload process. Right off the GoPro, the videos are sharp and smooth, but when I try to view them on YouTube, besides the usual buffering stops, they're all blurry. The GoPro breaks the video into about ten minute segments, and at over a Gb (that's Giga byte!) each, there's no way I could upload them to YouTube, and probably won't even keep them around on the hard disc.

BTW, your dirt roads are smoother than the pavement that dead ends at my place!