Thoughts On A Cold Day

[Edward]

I hope so, although ours will be kept in the garage. Thats of course if I get the left side cleaned out so I can get mine in there!

I'm the same way. We had better get started. We may have only 10 months or so before the garage needs to be cleaned out. And if you're anything like me... well...we had better get started...o_O

You betcha but first I have to build a shed, so I have someplace to put all the stuff that's in the garage!

Is it just me or does "two car garage" these days really seem to mean, "if there is absolutely nothing else inside, you can just, just, just barely fit two mid-size cars inside."
We used to rent a room to a guy with a Firebird. The garage door wouldn't close with the car inside because even touching the rear wall, the other end was triggering the door sensor.

 

[Norahsbed]

Edward, yes garages are getting smaller. My last house (built in 1990) you could barely get two cars in, without almost hitting the door on the other car. Where I live now (built in 1979) I can get both car and truck in and have plenty of room to open doors. However the truck (Nissan crew cab, long bed) barely fits front to back. It would not have fit into the garage of the other house.

 

[NSTG8R]

I'm the same way. We had better get started. We may have only 10 months or so before the garage needs to be cleaned out. And if you're anything like me... well...we had better get started...o_O

Me? I've just been waiting for the weather to break. It's either too cold, too hot, or too rainy to mess with. All the descent days seem to get filled up with fun stuff.

Action pays off in the future. Procrastination pays off now!

 

[Ty]

The Ram Cummins Turbo would be dragging that F350 around the yard backwards, not sitting next to it.
865lbf of torque & 30K towing cap, beats that Blue Oval @860lbf and 19K towing cap, hell, it might drag 2 of 'em.
Compliments of the internet.

Charlie Kemp's '65 Shelby 350R was the winning-est Mustang ever, montereycarweek.net/vintage-sports-cars/1965-shelby-mustang-gt350r-winningest-ever. A great car thanks to Carroll Shelby. Paul Newman, Tommy Kedall, Parnelli Jones, Paul Gentilozzi and Dorsey Schrader, also helped in winning an impressive number of races and titles here is the US with a shove by Lee Iacocca, yes, the same Lee Iacocca who would later head Chrysler Corp. The Mustang, as such, was never a real player on the world racing stage, due in part to Ford's on again, off again, support of the racing Pony. Dirty shame really, Iacocca gave Ford the perfect opportunity.
Shelby Cobra was the real Ford/Shelby racer....I always wanted one.... Ford failed to support it too!
Mazda's RX7, did win a lot with help from Tommy Kendall, Roger Mandeville, Jack Baldwin and Pete Halsmer, but were specially prepared
GTO, GTU and GTP cars, many with tube frames and several versions of non production motors including a 3 rotor version.
Porche 911.....Ahhh they were wonderful, again..... there has been many different versions, from the early S and T models to the
SC, E and G types along with three different basic platforms. If you were to pick one only as the basis for comparison probably the RSR's
were the racing benchmark in GT racing, they also included different cars for the Group 4 (934 turbo) and Group5 (935 Turbo).
So the 911in all of it's different forms is legendary, but then we said "Sports Car" not Sports Cars
Viper. Using the same basic platform thru out it's racing history, the GTS-R, RT-10 and SRT10 ACR amassed victories in three straight LeMans races, finishing 1/2 all three years. The Overall win at the 24 Hours of Daytona, a first for a production based American car. 4 FIA Championships, 5 International GT Championships. The American LeMans Championship and 10 races that year (2000) and a record, Class-Manufacturers- Drivers Championships all in in one year. The SCCA Speed World Challenge GT title and two championships in the Formula D Drifting Series. Then to put the icing on the cake Viper holds, to this day, the lap record at Nürburgring for production based vehicles, over the likes of Ferrari, Maserati, Mercedes, Lambourghini and yes....Porche.

Just saying....

LOL... I didn't expect you to acgtually research all that. I like my F-350. I can remote start it when it's cold out and it'll automatically defrost the windshield and back window, heat the mirrors, steering wheel, all 4 seats, and the supplimental cab heater (like a hair dryer element in the ducts) gets it warm immediately. I wouldn't take a different truck if it were given to me. Sure, Ram makes good trucks. So does GM. There is nothing that either offer that make me envious. 860 vs. 865? It's funny how they keep upping each other. I'd go back to 500lbf if they'd just up the daily mileage by 10 or 15... It's not like I use that capability regularly.

 

[Ekh]

ain't it the truth .... I well remember the days when a car reached 80,000 miles the motor was gone .... the body was usually still good but motor was used up .... now its hard to find a used car for sale with less than a 100,000 miles on it

I once had a Renault R-10. It was a piece of crap, and we named it "gypsy" because it kept throwing bits of itself off, like the stripper. But it DID have a block heater, and in the 25-below freeze accompanying the Blizzard of 77, I was the ONLY car to start and get to work -- where nobody else was.

Proved the value of an engine heater to me. And BTW, in Calgary, Alberta, all the parking meters have electrical connections to plug in your block heater ...

 

[Ekh]

back then, Dad drove Fords .... I've made it a practice to never making that mistake

Found On the Road Dead = FORD

 

[Ekh]

"Gone" out isn't exactly correct, shoved might be closer to the truth, or "squeezed" out.
Tucker, Studebaker, Nash, Packard and Hudson are a few of the most recognizable victims.
Even Tesla has incurred the wrath of Big Detroit and is feeling the "squeeze". Letters to governors suggesting
that they require Tesla to conform to the "Dealer Network" model for selling in their state. Quoting workforce
numbers that might suffer as a result of direct to consumer sales is a thinly veiled threat.
Anybody that dares to challenge GM & Ford with a superior product gets the "treatment".
Chrysler has just been lucky enough to bounce back with the finding of deep European pockets when at the precipice.

In Ohio, Tesla got an exemption from the law, authorizing them to maintain three (and only three) sales locations (show-rooms) in the state -- and that same law change barred ANY other manufacturers from establishing manufacturer-owned outlets in the state after that date. So Elio cannot be directly sold by the manufacturer in Ohio. Yes, of course, it's an attempt to stifle a supposedly free-market economy.

 

[JEBar]

I once had a Renault R-10. It was a piece of crap, and we named it "gypsy" because it kept throwing bits of itself off, like the stripper. But it DID have a block heater, and in the 25-below freeze accompanying the Blizzard of 77, I was the ONLY car to start and get to work -- where nobody else was.

Proved the value of an engine heater to me. And BTW, in Calgary, Alberta, all the parking meters have electrical connections to plug in your block heater ...

my wife is from South Dakota .... on my first trip out there I well remember being confused by seeing the electric plugs sticking out of the car/truck grills .... we don't see much of that in NC .... last week I had a first here at home .... went out to start our John Deere tractor and it wouldn't crank .... that is something that has never happened .... in the end it turned out that the recent blast of subfreezing temps caused the fuel in the tractor to gel .... the fuel was put in last fall and is summer, not winter diesel .... I've spent parts of the last two days getting it straightened out .... my trucks and cars are parked outside, my tractor is parked inside the garage ..

 

[Edward]

Found On the Road Dead = FORD

Fix Or Repair Daily

 

[Ekh]

my wife is from South Dakota .... on my first trip out there I well remember being confused by seeing the electric plugs sticking out of the car/truck grills .... we don't see much of that in NC .... last week I had a first here at home .... went out to start our John Deere tractor and it wouldn't crank .... that is something that has never happened .... in the end it turned out that the recent blast of subfreezing temps caused the fuel in the tractor to gel .... the fuel was put in last fall and is summer, not winter diesel .... I've spent parts of the last two days getting it straightened out .... my trucks and cars are parked outside, my tractor is parked inside the garage ..

Will gelled diesel liquify again if it warms up? I didn't know there were two grades of diesel -- just knew that in cold weather you were supposed to switch on a glow-plug to get the fuel warm enough to do its thing.