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Dusterbd13-michael (Forum Supporter)
Dusterbd13-michael (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
4/28/21 9:08 a.m.

i have a problem. 

 

And yes, i have all the centercaps. 

KyAllroad (Jeremy) (Forum Supporter)
KyAllroad (Jeremy) (Forum Supporter) UltimaDork
4/28/21 12:49 p.m.

yeah, that's just about perfect.

noddaz
noddaz GRM+ Memberand UberDork
4/28/21 12:58 p.m.
Streetwiseguy said:

In reply to 914Driver :

Why does every E36 M3ty old wing car have snow tires on it when it gets dragged back into polite society?

I was thinking what a blast it would be to drive a car like that in the snow.

Mr_Asa
Mr_Asa UberDork
4/28/21 1:06 p.m.
Dusterbd13-michael (Forum Supporter) said:

i have a problem. 

 

And yes, i have all the centercaps. 

https://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/cto/d/clearwater-93-dodge-viper-wheels-and/7307922191.html

chandler
chandler UltimaDork
4/28/21 2:58 p.m.
Mr_Asa said:
Dusterbd13-michael (Forum Supporter) said:

i have a problem. 

 

And yes, i have all the centercaps. 

https://tampa.craigslist.org/pnl/cto/d/clearwater-93-dodge-viper-wheels-and/7307922191.html

Who has a Dakota needing wheels? 

Streetwiseguy
Streetwiseguy MegaDork
4/28/21 3:03 p.m.
Dusterbd13-michael (Forum Supporter) said:

i have a problem. 

 

And yes, i have all the centercaps. 

I have four more of those Neon wheels if you want them...

Dusterbd13-michael (Forum Supporter)
Dusterbd13-michael (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
4/28/21 3:05 p.m.

In reply to Streetwiseguy :

If you were way closer. Always wanted to try to polish a set. To see what they look like. However being as far north as you are I'm going to have to pass unless you're driving South sometime soon with spare room

914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
4/29/21 6:27 a.m.

914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
4/29/21 7:00 a.m.

This is my 29,236th post.

914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
4/29/21 10:03 a.m.

Am I too old to be adopted?

914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
4/29/21 10:09 a.m.

Next week we set up 18 of his cars for display.  8 different ones are in Long Island now.

Donebrokeit
Donebrokeit UltraDork
4/29/21 10:17 a.m.

 

vwcorvette (Forum Supporter)
vwcorvette (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand UltraDork
4/29/21 8:40 p.m.
914Driver said:

Next week we set up 18 of his cars for display.  8 different ones are in Long Island now.

*on Long Island 

 

 

Wally (Forum Supporter)
Wally (Forum Supporter) GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
4/29/21 9:35 p.m.

In reply to vwcorvette (Forum Supporter) :

Thank you

 

Pete. (l33t FS)
Pete. (l33t FS) GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
4/29/21 10:07 p.m.
Streetwiseguy said:

In reply to 914Driver :

Why does every E36 M3ty old wing car have snow tires on it when it gets dragged back into polite society?

I can think of two reasons, which might be one reason.

The cars were generally hated when new, to the point that some dealers removed the wings and put regular Charger/GTX noses on them, at great expense, just to get them off the lot, after they'd been sitting around for a year or more.

When I was a kid, mid'80s-ish when these were just used cars, there was a house a little ways up the street that had two of them parked on the side of the garage, one orange and one yellow, slowly decaying as they sat up to their hubs in the dirt.

 

My first car (a '72 Thunderbird, because 429-4V) came on rear snow tires.  I bought it from a backyarder/car flipper, and I assume he put the snow tires on it because they were there, and free is a quality overcoming many faults.  (Worry not, it didn't take long for a set of 245/60 Eagle ST tires and dog dish hubcaps to find their way on)

Brett_Murphy
Brett_Murphy GRM+ Memberand MegaDork
4/29/21 11:00 p.m.
vwcorvette (Forum Supporter) said:
914Driver said:

Next week we set up 18 of his cars for display.  8 different ones are in Long Island now.

*on Long Island 

 

They're in the red outlined area, somewhere.

chandler
chandler UltimaDork
4/30/21 5:46 a.m.
Pete. (l33t FS) said:
Streetwiseguy said:

In reply to 914Driver :

Why does every E36 M3ty old wing car have snow tires on it when it gets dragged back into polite society?

I can think of two reasons, which might be one reason.

The cars were generally hated when new, to the point that some dealers removed the wings and put regular Charger/GTX noses on them, at great expense, just to get them off the lot, after they'd been sitting around for a year or more.

When I was a kid, mid'80s-ish when these were just used cars, there was a house a little ways up the street that had two of them parked on the side of the garage, one orange and one yellow, slowly decaying as they sat up to their hubs in the dirt.

 

My first car (a '72 Thunderbird, because 429-4V) came on rear snow tires.  I bought it from a backyarder/car flipper, and I assume he put the snow tires on it because they were there, and free is a quality overcoming many faults.  (Worry not, it didn't take long for a set of 245/60 Eagle ST tires and dog dish hubcaps to find their way on)

Lots of those are recaps as well, my dad always bought recap snow tires for the rear of every car because they were CHEAP. They burn off really well though if I recall correctly.

 

914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
4/30/21 7:15 a.m.

In reply to the Grammar Police :

If an item is located in Atlanta, Tulsa or Orlando, would you say it's IN Atlanta or ON Atlanta?  IN Tulsa or ON it?  Orlando?

Learn me.....

chandler
chandler UltimaDork
4/30/21 8:04 a.m.

Duke
Duke MegaDork
4/30/21 8:19 a.m.

In reply to 914Driver :

No matter what movies would have you believe, architects do NOT typically make that kind of money.

No Joke: 2016 Movie “The Architect” Is a Disaster for the Profession -  Architizer Journal

ultraclyde
ultraclyde UltimaDork
4/30/21 8:26 a.m.
914Driver said:

In reply to the Grammar Police :

If an item is located in Atlanta, Tulsa or Orlando, would you say it's IN Atlanta or ON Atlanta?  IN Tulsa or ON it?  Orlando?

Learn me.....

 

 Interesting. My brain tells me IN Atlanta, or IN Ohio, or IN Germany, but ON Long Island sounds right. I think it's the "Island" that triggers it. I think of things being IN a region, but ON a specific geographic feature.

I would say a cabin is ON Blood Mountain, but IN the mountains. this is getting weird.

N/R

Corvette Buggy Is A C5 Reinvented As A Crazy Sand Dune Racer | Carscoops

 

 

Duke
Duke MegaDork
4/30/21 8:35 a.m.
914Driver said:

In reply to the Grammar Police :

If an item is located in Atlanta, Tulsa or Orlando, would you say it's IN Atlanta or ON Atlanta?  IN Tulsa or ON it?  Orlando?

Learn me.....

Since Atlanta, Tulsa, and Orlando share a land mass and are bounded by administrative borders rather than geographical features, you say the item is IN a given area.

However, Long Island is, in fact, an island with a physical feature defining its perimeter, so you say the item is ON Long Island.  The item would be IN Eastport IN Suffolk County ON Long Island, because those are administratively / socially determined areas, not physically bordered on all sides by water.

Long Island Map | New York, USA | Map of Long Island

It's a similar grammatical point, but I never understood why so many people say things are ON a given video game rather than IN it.  "Are Porsches going to be on the next Gran Turismo?" just doesn't sound right.

 

Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter)
Adrian_Thompson (Forum Supporter) MegaDork
4/30/21 9:07 a.m.

In reply to chandler :

Damn, I recognize that car from an old Retrorides forum build.  I never thought the wheels suited.  Must go back and read up how it's progressed in the last years.

James Hunt's Austin A35 van | Goodwood Festival of Speed 201… | Flickr

Jesse Ransom
Jesse Ransom GRM+ Memberand UltimaDork
4/30/21 9:54 a.m.

I wonder if the "on Video Game Title" rather than "in Video Game Title" is like being "on The Geraldo Rivera Show" rather than "in the Geraldo Rivera Show." I agree, though, for the game "in" seems more sensible.

Pic hopefully unrelated. Just going to find something...

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PmYQK8if9nM/Wn2wJHnoUfI/AAAAAAAC4cU/DpL5lKrJzCgo0S-N_ex2E0pgBtsS3S0OgCLcBGAs/s1600/ying-te-lien-test0201.jpg

914Driver
914Driver MegaDork
4/30/21 1:01 p.m.

I went through the 4th grade, why not Long Peninsula?

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