I came upon this tune and it brought back that feeling I had when I first took a draw on a ProVari. Smooth rich power that made me smile.
Steve Stevens is my favorite living guitarist.
Steve Stevens is my favorite living guitarist.
My vehicle is a 2011 Chevy HHR, (last year they made them) I hope to have this for a few more years. It just turned over 100,000 miles, it has power windows, door locks, and cruse control, it also has that serious radio and on star, but I never paid for those features. I don't really mind extra features, as long as it costs me nothing, I understand the usefulness of them, but I have too many other thing to pay for.
KAS
Mine was a 2011 also. That is why I am surprised. I am not getting a fancy car, it just seems to be the norm. It makes me think of the GMC truck that lets you see through your towed trailer to what is tailgating behind it.
My new one just has the one back-up camera.
I think all new cars just have a lot of wazoo stuff. For an older guy like me, wazoo can be wa-wazoo pretty quickly.
My company has some of the new trucks that have some of the fancy things, I kind of like the back up view. I have not been in one long enough to know all the features, I just kind of think it is just more things to break. I have no idea what I would get next.
KAS
My first car was one of those boxy 80s Volvo slanting back things. It was rust red. It was an automatic. The speedometer.... when you like, would go from 59 k to 60 k it would jump up to 98 even though you weren't going that fast.
But if felt like it. Also, the underside WAS rusted out and actually you could completely see being decapated on the freeway as your seat fell through. I did not find that out until late though.
Also emitted oily,, nasty smoke for some reason every now and then.
I did my first inadvertent 360 spin in that car in the snow.
Good times.
Ana
But if felt like it. Also, the underside WAS rusted out and actually you could completely see being decapated on the freeway as your seat fell through. I did not find that out until late though.
Also emitted oily,, nasty smoke for some reason every now and then.
I did my first inadvertent 360 spin in that car in the snow.
Good times.
Ana
Concerning new cars, everything is computerized. It is cheap for the manufacturer to do and and adds many features that help to sell the product. My car comes in four trimlines. I got the 2nd to bottom since I did not want the base model. I understand the idea that it means many things can go wrong, but I do have some faith in Honda. The SUV is constantly at the top of the list for reviews and longevity.
Anyway, even base model trimlines will get all the safety features. The insurance companies give better rates, concerning cars and SUVs, anyway.
I have noticed that if I stray from my lane to often a coffee cup appears on the main screen and beeps. (sigh)
Anyway, even base model trimlines will get all the safety features. The insurance companies give better rates, concerning cars and SUVs, anyway.
I have noticed that if I stray from my lane to often a coffee cup appears on the main screen and beeps. (sigh)
More observation than suggestion, I have discovered that if you keep your turn signals flashing, you can stray over as many lanes as you want. My Corolla beeps if you don't, but she is a whiny little witch.
Cars are not what they used to be.
I still appreciate a bench seat. Nice to have a pretty woman sitting close. (sigh)
I still appreciate a bench seat. Nice to have a pretty woman sitting close. (sigh)
So by the link were you talking about this one I posted a while back?
Search Results for “provari” – Central Iowa Vapor
Your welcome, they still have stock, I wonder if we will still be able to order some tomorrow.
KAS
as my wife says...
"whats mine is mine, and whats yours is mine"
happy wife, happy life?!?
LOLz
WOW.
Governor of Florida Ron DeSantis issued a VETO of Senate Bill 810 flavor ban.
That's great. I live in Massachusetts, and I'm really fed up with it here. I tried ordering some stuff to take advantage of Labor Day sales, and one online vendor hit me with a 75% state excise tax on some coils and a mod. 75% just about doubled the cost!!! Cancelled that order.
The state and my local governments are also all gung-ho on lockdowns and masks. I bike a lot to try and keep healthy and keep my mind off this crap. But all over the bike trails and in my town are big old signs advising me that masks are mandated here all the time. I'm ignoring that, but how long before they go after folks?
So, FL is increasingly appealing thanks to vaping, and soon winter weather.
My son tells me that FL is not a biking friendly state. My niece tells me that it's really conservative.
Anybody on this thread live down there and would help enlighten me?
Peeps not producing Halloween, Christmas Peeps.
They are great for target practice.
They are great for target practice.
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2 words for old car. BASE MODEL STICK shift. You don't get cruise control. You don't get a car alarm you have to lock each door seperate. You just.;.. You feel the road, you shift, there are computers but they are low rent and don't bug you much I mean heck there are cars that will pull over and wait until you PUT on your seatbelt. Mine dings for 25 seconds and then is like, "I am too cheap to care if you die, man,, so there was your warning. Be a smart human I am not a smart car."
I don't advocate for no seatbelts it can just sometimes take me a bit of a rush when I am running late or whatnot.
Mazda 3 for the win ZOOM ZOOM.; Except the skinny tires. ;I am going to trade it in for the cheapest model of SUV they have and will be saddened by no shifting but man I don't think they do that in SUV any more. Sigh.
Best day yet! Supervisor who is organized and cool was like "You are not your trainer you can work a reasonable schedule." I was like "Oh thank god." He wants to help me with my organization skills. Heh. Poor dude does not know what he is in for. We'll see. LOL. Anything could happen. I like um got everything done without panic today for the first time though.
Yoga time!
I don't advocate for no seatbelts it can just sometimes take me a bit of a rush when I am running late or whatnot.
Mazda 3 for the win ZOOM ZOOM.; Except the skinny tires. ;I am going to trade it in for the cheapest model of SUV they have and will be saddened by no shifting but man I don't think they do that in SUV any more. Sigh.
Best day yet! Supervisor who is organized and cool was like "You are not your trainer you can work a reasonable schedule." I was like "Oh thank god." He wants to help me with my organization skills. Heh. Poor dude does not know what he is in for. We'll see. LOL. Anything could happen. I like um got everything done without panic today for the first time though.
Yoga time!
I can't buy a Jeep, AS I was leaving the emissions place the proud new owner of my very own Saab (the model they used to make all the time in the 90s and I LOVED it and we went all the way to the Grand Canyon and back in it over 10 days Spring Break and there was not a lot of Canyon time (we left from MD) and lots of car time. The car broke down in Amarillo Texas I think it was and there was NOTHING. A truck stop and repair guy and a very, very cheap motel. We had to wait for the part to arrive the next day. There was snow. I got my first "You are at fault Policeman ticket" for SOMEONE REAR ENDING ME which I felt was unfair but I bet cop saw my Maryland plate and he was like, "This chick is not gonna come back with a lawyer to fight it." He was correct.
I kinda strong armed my parents into letting me take it they did not WISH for me to go but I was like, "Okay then we will go in the fiancé's car which was some sort of Toyotaish (cheaper) tin can and my parents were torn between my safety and their desire for the car they had purchased "to be okay."
Well I felt it was JUST FINE and I loved it even more, only like my parents declared it "Never drove the SAME." I was like, "Oh GOSH you never even spent any long stretches of time DRIVING it. Not like *I* have. It is better. It is now a seasoned car. You (or I anyway) KNOW its capabilities." So in the Ultimate parent fashion they gifted it to me, and they were like, "You busted it. It is yours."
I was filled with joy and transferring the title and some dude in a Jeep (it was an odd snow then too, COLLIDED with a family in a sedan it was the Jeep's fault and it flipped and the guy totally DIED right in front of me and I was like OMG and then the mom like saw all her kids were bleeding and stuff and well, I did not have a cellphone but someone did and the mom was screaming "Oh GOD somebody help me!!!: And I was like, "THIS IS AWFUL."
I was also like, "If my Saab is totaled I am going to be SO MAD." I'm not necessarily proud of that thought, but I have never claimed to be mother Theresa. Anyway so I sat numbly by the side of the road while they hauled everyone off for treatment/morgue whatever and I got to give my statement which I believe included the statement "I wasn't even MOVING. I am the unluckiest driver ever, besides maybe dead guy and terrorized mom and bleeding kids. I hate everything."
So they had me call my dad to come get me and haul off the Undrivable Saab. My favorite car of all time and I begged parents/insurance people to just let me have it and fix it but NO.
Instead, I was gifted some Toyota Tercel (maybe? A two seater. It was awful.)
To add insult to injury my dad got one of them Saabs all black and Turbo and it went FAST. I begged him to gift me it when he moved to Australia and he was like, "HELL no that thing was expensive!" Later, (many years) I called him on it. ;And he was like, "No Anna you were such a bad driver like, I was afraid you would die." I was like, "Uh huh you were awful convincing about like the money bit." He was like "I didn't want to hurt your feelings." I was like, "The truth is always helpful." Then I was like, "Let it go Anna he gave you his second car the green Volvo that died all the time."
TL DID NOT READ: NO JEEP.
Anna
I kinda strong armed my parents into letting me take it they did not WISH for me to go but I was like, "Okay then we will go in the fiancé's car which was some sort of Toyotaish (cheaper) tin can and my parents were torn between my safety and their desire for the car they had purchased "to be okay."
Well I felt it was JUST FINE and I loved it even more, only like my parents declared it "Never drove the SAME." I was like, "Oh GOSH you never even spent any long stretches of time DRIVING it. Not like *I* have. It is better. It is now a seasoned car. You (or I anyway) KNOW its capabilities." So in the Ultimate parent fashion they gifted it to me, and they were like, "You busted it. It is yours."
I was filled with joy and transferring the title and some dude in a Jeep (it was an odd snow then too, COLLIDED with a family in a sedan it was the Jeep's fault and it flipped and the guy totally DIED right in front of me and I was like OMG and then the mom like saw all her kids were bleeding and stuff and well, I did not have a cellphone but someone did and the mom was screaming "Oh GOD somebody help me!!!: And I was like, "THIS IS AWFUL."
I was also like, "If my Saab is totaled I am going to be SO MAD." I'm not necessarily proud of that thought, but I have never claimed to be mother Theresa. Anyway so I sat numbly by the side of the road while they hauled everyone off for treatment/morgue whatever and I got to give my statement which I believe included the statement "I wasn't even MOVING. I am the unluckiest driver ever, besides maybe dead guy and terrorized mom and bleeding kids. I hate everything."
So they had me call my dad to come get me and haul off the Undrivable Saab. My favorite car of all time and I begged parents/insurance people to just let me have it and fix it but NO.
Instead, I was gifted some Toyota Tercel (maybe? A two seater. It was awful.)
To add insult to injury my dad got one of them Saabs all black and Turbo and it went FAST. I begged him to gift me it when he moved to Australia and he was like, "HELL no that thing was expensive!" Later, (many years) I called him on it. ;And he was like, "No Anna you were such a bad driver like, I was afraid you would die." I was like, "Uh huh you were awful convincing about like the money bit." He was like "I didn't want to hurt your feelings." I was like, "The truth is always helpful." Then I was like, "Let it go Anna he gave you his second car the green Volvo that died all the time."
TL DID NOT READ: NO JEEP.
Anna
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