I need to see one come back from the dead...Quote:
Originally Posted by rleng1
Watched the Belgian Grand Prix and figured that Button's in-car was just like riding with Allford... no wasted hand movement, car perfectly on line...
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I need to see one come back from the dead...Quote:
Originally Posted by rleng1
Watched the Belgian Grand Prix and figured that Button's in-car was just like riding with Allford... no wasted hand movement, car perfectly on line...
R
Guess this needs to go back on the car. Maybe with a subscript M since, apparently, I have greatly dimished mechanical skills.
Unlike any of you guys, I managed to button up a 2nd gen opti wrong on the front of the motor. So I missed Hallet by not being able to put pin A into hole B.
Car started after about two revolutions and oil pressure came right up. I'll get it buttoned up next week and get some heat cycles on it in the garage. ECR will be like driving a new car - new engine, new clutch, new transmission, new radiator... I'm thinking about gluing down some floormats and getting a Chrismtas tree for the mirror.
Missed a race due to opti issues? Dan had opti issues at Nationals? Clearly the 4th gen is superior in every way!
Well, mine worked fine once it was installed right. I'm sure Dan's issue was due in part to the diplacement of the supporting EM field from the collaps of the space time continuim which was exacerbated by being in close proximity to extra large amounts of talent and prep.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wade
Third gens still rock!:cool:
Fuzy dice are a must;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Fbody383
Don't forget the Obama bumper sticker.
That reminds me of an idea I had today. For you guys in the printing business. I would like to order 100 bumper stickers shaped like a cows utter, white with blue border and red letters that state " I love to suck on the public tit". They must have extremely sticky glue backing, the kind that is very difficult to get off of a cars finish. Please PM me with the cost estimate. Thanks. Frank
Sure... let me give you guys my PayPal account so you can pay for everything too...Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennCMC70
"O"Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennCMC70
i'd buy that!Quote:
Originally Posted by cobra132
I'd be interested in a batch as well. Don't forget to copyright it. I wonder if we could get the Secret Service to install it on O's limo?Quote:
Originally Posted by Storm Trooper
How about "You didn't pass that car, someone else made that happen."
roflQuote:
Originally Posted by smitty328
Gov is my co-pilot.
Congrats to Michael and Raegan! They are officially hitched and tomorrow will be headed to Costa Rica for a week and a half. Michael and Raegan showed their true CMC pride by using Michael's CMC car as the "get away car" from the reception.
I assume there is a vid so it can be used in the 2012 Year In Review vid?
I was running lead car, so couldn't take any video, but will see if anyone did... would be really cool!!
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Originally Posted by GlennCMC70
Oh yes, Sam and I have video that you will all love.
JJ
Were only the Ford guys invited?
Yes...unless you forgot to give Michael back his ballast plates... :(Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennCMC70
;)
All,
Please keep my wife's family in your prayers. Trina's brother's wife (Pat Ortega) lost her 9 year battle with Stage IV colon cancer early this morning. Their daughter, Olivia, will be celebrating her 15th birthday next week, so I'm sure it's going to be a hard time for them... It's tough to lose someone when they were only 45...
That is terrible. I lost a very close friend last month to liver cancer.... has spread from her gall bladder. She was also just 45 with two sons ages 9 & 12. We spent a weekend in Galveston with them and then she died 10 days later.
Sorry to hear that Marshall...they are in my thoughts and prayers
Amen, brother. Let us know if there's anything we can do.Quote:
Originally Posted by BlueFirePony
So sorry Marshall
dudeQuote:
Originally Posted by storm trooper
Looks like it...Quote:
Originally Posted by GlennCMC70
Marshall:
Please excuse my light hearted posts... I hadn't made it down to the news of your family's loss... prayers for you all
Yeah, since I'm moving to a SN97 next year I got a look...Quote:
Originally Posted by David Love AI27
What exactly is a SN97?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fbody383
JJ
I watched a 480ft cell tower crash to the ground. Good times. Vid to follow (I hope - damn .mov files!)
Its an SN95 with a Camaro guy driving it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ShadowBolt
Link to vid of tower demolition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8Pfo...ature=youtu.be
425ft or so guy tower. Tower repairs need and not worth the cost of those repairs when we have a 1700ft tower 1 mile away. Moved remaining customer to other tower and dropped this one.
There are 2 anchor points in each of the 3 guy paths (inner and outter - total of 6). Inners are bottom to mid tower and outters are mid tower to top. About 4 guy wires on each anchor (total of 8 in each guy path). To drop these, you crank up the tension on the outters of one guy path, and cut one of the others. Vid starts w/ one opposite outter anchor cut off at ground level. Tower should have fallen then. It didn't and was just hanging there swaying in the wind. This not the way it is suposed to go. Some poor low man on the pole got to go to the inner anchor and cut the wire that connects to the mid point. You will see the tower unflex some as that wire gets cut. Then it goes. The pop you hear is a 3" diameter .125" wall tube leg fail in tension and the other two legs fold in half. The next sound is the wind whistling as the top swings to the ground. I was about 200ft or so from the base of the tower (just outside the outter anchor). Background noise is my work truck as I'm filing this over the hood of the truck.
Tower landed on some live utility lines. We had to assume for almost 2 hrs that the tower was hot. There was a 1ft deep by 5ft wide crater where the top hit. First time I got to see one fall. It was pretty cool.
Tower landed on some live utility lines?
Yep. Power was suposed to be turned off the day before. After 2 hour of trying to get them back out that morning, we said F it, they should have done thier job. This was trip two for the crew to drop this tower and trip one was a bust for the same reason. We figured the transformer fuse would blow. It didn't, and we had to assume it was hot.Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Fernandez
Saw the only flight worthy surviving DeHavalland Mosquito in the world today at the Air New Zealand Technical base in Auckland. The plane was restored in Ardmore, NZ at a cost of 15 Million dollars and took 8 years to complete. This was it's first landing since it was restored. Really cool stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeHavilland_Mosquito
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"Saw the only flight worthy surviving DeHavalland Mosquito in the world today at the Air New Zealand Technical base in Auckland. The plane was restored in Ardmore, NZ at a cost of 15 Million dollars and took 8 years to complete. This was it's first landing since it was restored. Really cool stuff."
That is so cool!
Orange moved under its own power... and didn't hit anything.
you didn't finish your postQuote:
Originally Posted by Fbody383