BlueSky

Well, it doesn't look like my son is going to buy a Z06. He came home for Christmas with a bag of cash hoping to buy an 07 Z06 located a few miles from me that only had 5k miles on it. But, he didn't want it quite bad enough to pay a grand more than he was hoping to pay. Probably for the best. It's a dangerously fast car.

I think most people will obey the law most of the time whether or not they think they will get caught breaking the law. I like the law about staying out of the passing lane when feasible. Too many people ride the left lane slower than most of the traffic so they won't ever have to worry about passing anybody. I've done a lot of interstate driving over the last 20 years and I'm sorry ladies, the ladies seem to be the worst offenders of driving in the fast lane holding up traffic.

And most of them smell.

Yeah, I know. Just like the Kawa Concours I had. I commented after the post on Yamaha going to V-twins in the "new Venture".

Pennsylvania has the same law. You are supposed to stay in the right lane on a 4 lane highway unless you are passing. I spent a lot of time on the road in PA going to my temporary jobs in PA and in NY. At night the tractor trailers fill the highways and they don't care if they are blocking both lanes. One night I got tired of being blocked and passed the truck in the left lane with my foot on the floor. I just barely had enough room to clear that truck and the one ahead of me in the right lane. I had to turn hard into the left lane and even harder to the right to keep from going off the road resulting in my F150 going up on the left two wheels at 80mph! I then slowly turned to the right and set the truck back down as softly as I could beside the truck in the right lane. It took several seconds and all of my driving skill to regain control of the truck when it touched down. That was one of the stupidest things I've ever done. The truck blocking the left lane saw what happened and moved over to the right lane. Yeah I know, I'm a big dummy!

I recently had my asphalt shingles replaced for about $6200 and I chose the more expensive architectural shingles. My roof isn't that large. The house is a 2 story with 2,145 sq ft living area with a double garage. In Seattle you must be paying really high union wages or something. I would think the cost of shingles are the same across the country.

I used to pay a couple dollars extra for uninsured/underinsured motorists on my car insurance policy. Now it is many times that. It seems to me to be coincidental to the flood of illegal aliens. Just seems to me.

It's normal for gas prices to jump a little just before a holiday when more driving will take place. It's called capitalism.

Yeah, in the USA when you pass, the butthole may pull over into the passing lane and try to kill you.

Unbelievably warm weather here. It's been in the 70's for a while and will continue for another week here in Wilmington, NC.

Yes, we will read anything about sex!

That is one reason I ride old bikes and don't have collision or comprehensive insurance. The liability ins on my Venture is about $200/year.

$1.919/gallon for my fillup yesterday at Sam's Club for 87 octane. It was interesting to say the least when the Arabs boycotted the USA and wouldn't sell us oil in 1973 because of our support for Israel. At that time we were only paying $2 for a barrel of crude. Gas prices doubled overnight. People panicked and started dumping their big gas guzzlers. Gas lines at the stations that had gas to sell. This boycott spurred the guvment to create the Dept. of Energy for the purpose of getting us off foreign oil!! What a success that has been!

These auto parts chains like Autozone and Advance Auto are pretty big too and probably sell as much engine oil as Walmart. Probably their business model probably requires a higher margin.

Looking back on what I observed, diesel fuel was cheaper than gas when it was only available at the truck stops and the large trucks were about the only ones using it. I'm sure that distribution costs went way up when they started distributing diesel to most of the gas stations to accommodate pickups and cars that now have diesel engines. As an afterthought, I never understood why someone would buy a diesel Mercedes car. Spend all that money for a super nice car and select a noisy, smelly, smoky engine just to save a few bucks on fuel.

I much prefer a 4 cylinder bike due to the smoothness of operation and the higher hp per liter. But, I suppose I am part of a dying breed. And the V4 is the most expensive engine design to build and the touring customers have been mostly won over by the big throbbing V twins. Why build expensive fours when the public seems to want a cheap V twin? An FJR with a V twin just wouldn't cut it in my opinion.

Another question is why are the giant auto parts store chains so much higher than Walmart on engine oil? A guy on a truck forum I participate in who works in an oil company lab tells us we are wasting our money buying synthetic oil.

Oops! I had a brain fart I suppose! I meant over $3k, about $3.5k actually. Thanks for catching that. Still ridiculously high. It helps explain why so many New Yorkers are retiring to my area and other areas in the south that have a lesser cost of living. Lots of retired New Yorkers in my subdivision. Back when I was buying and selling lots of used cars, NC did not charge sales tax on used cars with the logic that tax was paid on the car when new. When they fixed that "tax loophole" I slowed down considerably on the buying and selling because I was usually making a few bucks on the sales or at least breaking even. Sales tax on cars was 3% with a $300 limit but now they have eliminated that other tax loophole, the limit.

He just found out that the car sales tax in NYC is 8.8% which means it will be over $8k for the car he wants. Incredible!

A friend had a Dart with the 340 engine and 4 speed. It was a fast car, faster than my 65 Chevelle 327, 300hp, with the 350 hp cam.

Big Foot sounds like a good new handle!

One of the worst things is you can't scratch an itch under all that stuff! Have you ever seen the TV series western movie, "Lonesome Dove" starring Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Robert Urich, Danny Glover, Steve Buscemi, and many others? It is one of the best westerns ever. That will take 6 hours of your time to watch. I showed it to my kids who didn't think they liked westerns and they sat glued to the screen for the whole 6 hours.

That is such Great News!

Thanks for the knowledge on the delamination. We are researching the issue and hope to avoid that problem. If you google C6 problems, there is a lot to read.