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NavyVette said:
I had it at the local repair shop once for a battery charge / test and someone with a new 300ZX pulled up next to it. As he was walking past he was saying "What a piece of shit"
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Who says something like that? Other than a real asshole.

NavyVette said:
On the paperwork for suggested maintenance they wrote "Pull engine, replace car"
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LOL!
 
NavyVette said:
LOL, that made me think of my first Datsun 240Z
I bought it from a friend who bought it from a friend who... Well, let's not turn this into a song.

The body was beat to shit. I mean multiple dents on every panel, rust was the main color.

Under the hood was an engine out of a 380ZX, bored, hot cam, triple two barrel mikuni carbs.

There was a sticker referencing a north-south Florida interstate on it. so all I could think was it was a drug runner, or used for other illicit purposes.

I had it at the local repair shop once for a battery charge / test and someone with a new 300ZX pulled up next to it. As he was walking past he was saying "What a piece of shit" - then he saw the engine and stopped and said WOW.

Another time I took it to a speed shop that had extensive experience tuning multiple carb setups as my friend and I had been told that the second barrel of carb two had a bad needle. They found no problem with the carbs, and did the curtesy check that mechanics do.

On the paperwork for suggested maintenance they wrote "Pull engine, replace car"

Thanks for the flashback, Bongo
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Love that 240Z. A high school buddy of mine had a Fairlady Z. The right hand drive version of the 240Z. No idea where that gay name came from but it was cool.
 
Bongo Lewi said:
No idea where that gay name came from but it was cool.
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In Japan... they give gay model names to cars. Different marketing sensibilities in Japan.

So, for example... the Infiniti M45 (here in the US) is a Nissan Gloria (over in Japan). Nobody here is going to buy a car model called a "Gloria," eh?
 
Racer88 said:
In Japan... they give gay model names to cars. Different marketing sensibilities in Japan.

So, for example... the Infiniti M45 (here in the US) is a Nissan Gloria (over in Japan). Nobody here is going to buy a car model called a "Gloria," eh?
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I might. An older woman who was a cashier at the grocery store I worked at in high school ... her name was Gloria. She taught me some things I didn't know when I was 16. Gloria was an old lady. She was 30. In car parlance, she was a classic. A real cream puff. :)
 
Bongo Lewi said:
I might. An older woman who was a cashier at the grocery store I worked at in high school ... her name was Gloria. She taught me some things I didn't know when I was 16. Gloria was an old lady. She was 30. In car parlance, she was a classic. A real cream puff. :)
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Cougar!
Sexy Season 3 GIF by The Simpsons
 
Alex said:
0% of cars driving in outer space are ICE powered.
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This got me thinking about IF the electric motor battery pack was still installed and the info I found was inconclusive. :unsure: There WAS some kind of battery installed to power the lights and radio but that would be some kind of "house" battery specifically designed to survive in space. Wiki LINK

Personally, I do NOT think the battery pack was installed NOR any accessories related to it (ie: cooling system and cables). The drive motor was probably removed, as well. Why? (1) for weight savings and (2) because the propulsion batteries may not have survived in space.

So I'm going to add that I BELIEVE that 0% of cars "driving" (traveling) in outer space are battery powered... ;)

PS: my belief does not include terra-based vehicles such as the lunar or Mars rovers... :)
 
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NavyVette said:
Define "soon"

I've been waiting more than 50 years for anything the green new scam people have claimed was going to happen to actually happen, starting with the coming ice age in 1974 :)
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I don’t think being green is going to be the primary motivation. Although some people will accept that zero tailpipe emissions is a good thing. It’s going to be mainly about cost to purchase and cost of ownership.

Battery technology is advancing. The cost of manufacturing and weight reduction is going to be a factor.

Timeline? Ten years the number of EV passenger and small fleet vehicles sold will be around 60%. Some countries more. China, Europe… some say 80%

The average Jane and Joe don’t give a rats ass about what’s under the hood or what the fuel is. They want cheap and trouble free. ICE cars are not going to suddenly get cheaper. The technology is maxed out. EVs technology is where the investor money is going. That’s not going to change.

Another driver is gas prices increasing during that same period. Which is likely.
 
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Bobster said:
This got me thinking about IF the electric motor battery pack was still installed and the info I found was inconclusive. :unsure: There WAS some kind of battery installed to power the lights and radio but that would be some kind of "house" battery specifically designed to survive in space. Wiki LINK

Personally, I do NOT think the battery pack was installed NOR any accessories related to it (ie: cooling system and cables). The drive motor was probably removed, as well. Why? (1) for weight savings and (2) because the propulsion batteries may not have survived in space.

So I'm going to add that I BELIEVE that 0% of cars "driving" (traveling) in outer space are battery powered... ;)

PS: my belief does not include terra-based vehicles such as the lunar or Mars rovers... :)
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Yea but… It orbits the Earth at 17000 mph. :) Try that with a ‘78 Trans Am.
 
Bongo Lewi said:
I don’t think being green is going to be the primary motivation. Although some people will accept that zero tailpipe emissions is a good thing. It’s going to be mainly about cost to purchase and cost of ownership.

Battery technology is advancing. The cost of manufacturing and weight reduction is going to be a factor.

Timeline? Ten years the number of EV passenger and small fleet vehicles sold will be around 60%. Some countries more. China, Europe… some say 80%

The average Jane and Joe don’t give a rats ass about what’s under the hood or what the fuel is. They want cheap and trouble free. ICE cars are not going to suddenly get cheaper. The technology is maxed out. EVs technology is where the investor money is going. That’s not going to change.

Another driver is gas prices increasing during that same period. Which is likely.
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To be fair, being green was not ANY motivation for any of the green new scam. It's all about giving the taxpayers money to cronies of the politicians, and for other counties taking the US down a notch or two.

I could see China being 100% in a few years. They'd just weld people in their apartments if the don't agree with the EV mandate.

Gas prices going up? There's an easy cure for that and it's a refrain you may have heard "Drill, Baby, Drill"

Plus, don't vote for crooked politicians who only claim to be "green" for the money while they are flying private jets all over the world to co cry about oceans rising while they are sitting in their ocean front property which have not lost 1/100th of an inch of beach in 200 years :)
 
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All that being said, I DO have an battery powered push mower for the small yard that is the dogs area and I would get an battery powered riding mower if they were not so expensive as it would be nice to 1) not have to wear ear protection and 2) be nice to not worry about disturbing the neighbors if I mow early or late.

My string trimmer is battery powered as are most of my power tools, but it's a real pain when I need to charge batteries in the middle of doing something.
 
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NavyVette said:
... ocean front property which have not lost 1/100th of an inch of beach in 200 years :)
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Not exactly :)

Most of the populated beach areas of the east coast have been spending millions every season replenishing beaches. To no avail. You cannot stop mother nature. My family property in the Outer Banks has lost 100 yards of beach in the past century. There are dead live oak and cypress stumps 300 feet out into the ocean. You can see them at low tide. Literally hundreds of homes have been lost to the ocean in the past 30 years. And it's not improving. Quite a few houses have been moved back. But that's expensive.

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For those interested, the Cape Hatteras lighthouse, which is a historical structure, was moved to preserve it. The tallest brick structure in the USA. Imagine moving that. A true feat of engineering.

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The ice melts, the oceans rise. The water freezes, the oceans retreat. This has been going on for millions of years. It's a slow process.

Since there's a high number of navy vets here... You all know that Norfolk VA is a huge naval base. Norfolk, the Feds and state of VA released a press statement about the building of a 2.6 billion dollar seawall to protect the city and surrounding military facilities. That will take years to complete. Two and a half billion is a lot of cabbage. If it were inundated, which it eventually would, where would the Atlantic fleet move to? There's nowhere to go.

Long term, longer than any of us will be around, beach communities that are not near big cities will be abandoned. It's not worth the cost of protecting them.
 
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Not trying to be a wet blanket here.
The Cape Hatteras Light Station was moved to protect it from "the threat of shoreline erosion, a natural process"
www.nps.gov

Moving the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse - Cape Hatteras National Seashore (U.S. National Park Service)

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IE, "over a century of tides washing over the island, moving sand from oceanside to soundside, there was just 120 feet separating the lighthouse from the ocean."

Read more at Coastal Review, coastalreview.org.

The Norfolk Sea Wall is to protect from storms, not rising oceans
www.whro.org

Norfolk cleared to start construction on first phase of floodwall

The first piece of the wall, which includes the shoreline by Harbor Park, will range in height from about 6 1/2 feet to about 16 1/2 feet.
www.whro.org www.whro.org

Like you said any changes in ocean levels are natural and cyclic. Weather in naturally cyclic.
In the mid 1980's we were riding motorcycles in Montana all winter as there was no snow and it was close to spring temperatures.
As the 80's were coming to a close we had 40 below weather for 2 weeks in a row.

In the mid 2000's we were again in a warm spell which swung to cold at the end of the decade.
 

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