Ok, so I had to buy a new Van....

[Spinning Hat]

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Now, that that's out of the way....

The Transmission went out in my wifes' Van almost 2 months ago, and I found a guy willing to sell me a transmission and remove and replace the old one for $600. (I have a '90 Plymouth Grand Voyager.) However, the transmission happened to be connected to a model identical to mine, but looked 10 times better, and rode a hell of a lot nicer.

So he offered me a deal: trade my van and give him $1000 because he needed a motor for a caravan, and because this other van was worth driving down the road still. Finally, I came up with $900 cash, and he took it, and I got the van. :D (Actually, it was $700 cash, and $200 worth of Tech Support on his PC 2 weeks ago.) You can see some pics here. (http://www.thzclan.com/hosted/spinninghat/van/index.html) I disabled the scrolling on the frames pages, and if you have trouble seeing the whole image, let me know, and I will edit the pages and reenable scrolling.

[Joe Shmoe]

Who's the midget?

Cute kid...

[Gryphon]

http://www.thzclan.com/hosted/spinninghat/van/images/van2.jpg

Looks nice :D

The Van too.

[Grunt]

Now don't take this the wrong way but.......

:idhitit:

BTW, looks like you got a good deal on the van.

[Spinning Hat]

:D I DO hit it. :D

And we'll see about the deal on the van. Don't know how reliable it is yet... :)

[the46]

Looks like that Van is parked next to a military base of some sort..

[Spinning Hat]

Nah, it's a self-serv storage place. They've got a lot of room there not being utilized yet. The closest base to me is Camp Ripley, which is about an hour away.

[Nosferatu]

Speaking of hitting it, here's some pics from my wreck last week when I totalled my truck. I had to hound the other driver's insurance company for a solid week (while i was racking up rental costs, storage costs, etc) before they finally claimed liability. Hopefully my fat settlement check will be arriving any day now and I'll go get something new.

Sorry for the high-rez, big-ass pictures:

http://www.hunterltg.com/temp/truck_wreck_1.jpg


http://www.hunterltg.com/temp/truck_wreck_2.jpg


http://www.hunterltg.com/temp/truck_wreck_3.jpg


http://www.hunterltg.com/temp/truck_wreck_4.jpg


http://www.hunterltg.com/temp/truck_wreck_5.jpg


No one was hurt in the accident. I was the only one who sustained anything, and all that was was a cut on my left arm from the airbag going off.

[Gryphon]

Ouch :eek:

[Spinning Hat]

Poor little Ranger... :( Glad nobody was seriously hurt. I suppose it bent the frame pretty good eh?

[Nosferatu]

The frame is slightly bent on that side. Actually, according to the insurance company, the main factor that made it totalled is that the airbag deployed. (!?!?!?)

I'm glad no one was hurt too.... I could have easily t-boned the girl that pulled out in front of me, so it could have been A LOT worse.

I was just glad that I didn't break anything that would have prevented me from playing Planetside!! :D

[Spinning Hat]

Yeah, an airbag deployment can run around 10-15,000 smakeroos to fix, so Insurance companies just total the car out.. It's cheaper to do it that way.

[Malthus]

What year is that Nos? No passenger side airbag, and drivers sidein the steering wheel is typically cheaper. Is there more mechanical damage then the pics show?

I spent 12 years working in the parts dept of car dealerships, mostly as the wholesale guy to body and repair shops. Whenever I see accident pics all that runs through my head is the list of what needs to be changed. Kinda scary actually, since I've been out of the business for 3 years :)

[Nosferatu]

Whoa...that's exactly what i used to do before I got into computers. Some of that knowledge actually came in very useful when I was dealing with the insurance company.

It's a 96 Ford Ranger XLT. There are (were?) passenger side airbags, but they didn't go off.

[Malthus]

Heh, I got into computers too...actually my last job was in a real small dealer building their website and selling old parts on ebay and I parlayed that into an entry level web development job. 3 years later I'm making more then if I had spent 20 years in parts. I still get nostalgic when I walk into a repair shop or parts store and smell the oil/chemicals smell though.

Which companies did ya work for? I did the majority of my time at Chrysler/Dodge dealers, but spent some time with Volvo, Porsche, Audi and VW. About the only thing I miss is the guys I worked with/managed, offices are so quiet. :)

[Nosferatu]

Well, the "family business" was a wholesale parts warehouse/distributor (this was before there were such places as Pep Boys and Auto Zone). I worked there all through high school and into college. After that I worked for a Pontiac/Porsche dealer in the parts department where I worked with and ordered all the parts for the body shop. After that I went to a GMC, Nissan, Cadillac dealership where i pretty much did the same thing.

It was while I was at the Pontiac dealership that I met one of the bodyshop guys who was really into computers. I bought a PC (packard bell 486 dx2 33 baby!!) and he got me into the tinkering side of things. (he was a DOS wizard)

After that I actually went to work for a resort hotel for about 5 years but I had starting doing light computer repair and upgrades on the side. It wasn't til after I moved to Florida that I started working with computers professionally.

Now, all these years later, I'm a network/systems admin. Definitely bigger paychecks than when I worked with cars!!! :D

P.S. I noticed that all the Porsche techs that I've EVER worked with were all crazy mad scientist types. Did you notice that too?

[Malthus]

ROFLMAO..Yes I did. I think they had to be, some kind of rule in the franchise agreement. :)

[Stang]

Looks nice :D The Van too.

Watch it boy! ;)

Ive been trying "Id hit that" to Gryphon but he just doesnt get the signals or the straight out "Me, You, Sex Right NOW!"

Asha your time is a comin :D.

[PsychomanX]

BUY A VW..

The R32 is comming out in August.. Its a 240hp AWD golf setting on nice 18" wheels.

[SmackDab]

Originally posted by Stang
Watch it boy! ;)

Ive been trying "Id hit that" to Gryphon but he just doesnt get the signals or the straight out "Me, You, Sex Right NOW!"

Asha your time is a comin :D.

No shit, I am in the dog house for playing Saturday night, my wife was like WTF I waited up till 2:00AM for you. You said you were just going to install a few things (VOMP's computer HD died so I was doing a O/S install in his computer) and then when she heard Planetside start up she went to bed mad at me. That and I walked into the room at 6:15AM in the morning for sleep time.

WTF, if you want sex just tell your man, gimme some, the girl game hiding feelings is just crap for men. We're too stupid to pick up on hints, we need direct wording.

I was like I didn't hear you say you wanted to be with me, she was like do I have to, I was like WTF just tell me what you want.

LOL....

Oh yea, nice van....

[Spinning Hat]

ROFL! My wife does that shit too... Doesn't say a damn word... Grrr... Why can't women just say what they want? Smack's got it right- guys are too stupid to pick up on the girl game hiding feelings thing.

But yeah, I drove the van all weekend, super smooth, not a single problem or hiccup. :D

[Gryphon]

:lol:

[Grunt]

Well stang has just told gryph... so how about it dude?

:cool:

[Stang]

Uh yeah I looked straight at him and he still didnt get the clue. Talk about us woman not speaking up? LISTEN UP THEN!!! Dont go blaming all of it on us you guys are just as bad. The problem you men have (one of many :p) is you dont listen, you think you do but you dont or you only hear certain or things you want to hear.

If you know we play this game, and I admit we do dont know why its like bred into us :), then you should know now the signals and the looks we give you guys :p

He finally got the clue Saturday when we were in our backyard :D . I LOVE HAVING A BACKYARD!!! :lol:

[SmackDab]

Originally posted by Stang
you only hear certain or things you want to hear


./me is guilty of said crime

[SirDiesalot]

heheh..... *snicker*

*pleads the 5th*

[Stang]

:lol:

[AvengerX]

Damn, glad I'm not married, it's just easier to go down to the local bar and go "wanna fuck?" :D :D :D

[Stang]

That actually works? Wow what a class of women you have there at that bar :).

[PsychomanX]

Thank god Psychochick isnt reading this thread.. LOL

[AvengerX]

Originally posted by Stang
That actually works? Wow what a class of women you have there at that bar :).

Only if they've had about 10 beers :)

[Freebird]

Don't get avenger wrong. That fails 9 out of 10 times. But that tenth time is special!!!!! :lol:

[AvengerX]

Hell yeah!

[Stang]

:lol:

[Ashaman]

ROFL @ Stang.


I've been learning those "hints" and stuff. There are a few looks that seem to be universal to all women.

I'll admit to selective listening too. :(

Oh and can't forget the selective memory, selective thinking-before-speaking, and my ability to open-mouth-insert-foot-till-you-gag. :(


Glad I'm not married!


You have to admit that other than the whole homo-sex thing (which I'm not into), being gay would not be bad:

*Two guys watching a game...*

"Hey, it's half-time. Wanna have sex?"
"Yep."

*Five minutes later...*
"That was good. I'm getting a beer. Want one?"
"Sure."

[Stang]

You see by the time you get married you have forumulated a plan of how to get them to listen SOME of the times.

You know the smack up side the head, grabbin the jewels, flashing, etc. :)

[Nosferatu]

Stang you sound so much like Octavya it's scary...

Look out Gryph, if those two ever get together and compare notes we could be in trouble!! :D

[PsychomanX]

ditto with Pchick please delete this thread before she happens to see it..

[Gryphon]

:lol:

[Stang]

No bring them here I need more girl help around here for you guys :) . We cant let your heads get too big now :p .

Ooooo comparing notes :D .

[Spinning Hat]

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