The "Must Post" Thread

[Rich]

You'll have a better idea anyway after "the Glacier Ride."

[Ultra]

You'll have a better idea anyway after "the Glacier Ride."

According to the thread I started over at the Honda Shadow site, My bike should be capable of about 120?   

It will be interesting to see what the shop says when they get it this spring.  If it has a bunch of top end to exploit, I will eternally pleased with the decision to buy this bike.

[Rich]

You'll have a better idea anyway after "the Glacier Ride."

According to the thread I started over at the Honda Shadow site, My bike should be capable of about 120?   

It will be interesting to see what the shop says when they get it this spring.  If it has a bunch of top end to exploit, I will eternally pleased with the decision to buy this bike.

Yeah, that sounds about right according to my buddy.  Something must be up; hope it$ not to $eriou$.

[Ultra]

You'll have a better idea anyway after "the Glacier Ride."

According to the thread I started over at the Honda Shadow site, My bike should be capable of about 120?   

It will be interesting to see what the shop says when they get it this spring.  If it has a bunch of top end to exploit, I will eternally pleased with the decision to buy this bike.

Yeah, that sounds about right according to my buddy.  Something must be up; hope it$ not to $eriou$.

I wa$ thinking the $ame.

[Rich]

Did the guys (gals) at the Shadow site have any insight?

[Ultra]

Did the guys (gals) at the Shadow site have any insight?

Nothing I want to hear.

[Rich]

That doesn't sound good.  Sorry man.....

FWIW, the Audi still awaits a $1500 green light......probably will get it next week.....$hee$h

[Ultra]

Expen$ive, maybe.

[Tifosi]

I kinda dig the covered lights more than the exposed;

FWIW, I also kinda dug the Studebaker truck they had on last night...

WTF is wrong w/ me?

Probably nothing...that same Stude truck went for under 35 grand at Silver's in Reno last August...went for over 70 grand at BJ on Thursday.  Saw it in the December issue of Sports Car Market.


Dan

[Ultra]

Any Studebaker is cool. But a truck is that cat's ass.

[Tifosi]

My dad had a '55 Stude truck, with a 352 Packard V8 and a glasspack muffler.  It was hot!  My sister fell out of it into the snow when the passenger side doorlatch broke as he rounded a very slow corner.  The Stude left us not long after that, replaced by a 1962 Chevy half ton with a Stovebolt and a broken speedo, not that it really needed one...



Dan

[Ultra]

not that it really needed one...

You really aren't going to going anywhere that speed would be the issue.

[Rich]

I noticed last night what seems to be a cooling trend (if you want to call 80-90K "cooling") in the acquisition of anything and everything "muscle."  There's hope for some of us yet!

[Ultra]

I noticed last night what seems to be a cooling trend (if you want to call 80-90K "cooling") in the acquisition of anything and everything "muscle."  There's hope for some of us yet!

If that is a cooling trend, hope for me would mean a temperature of absolute zero.

[Rich]

I noticed it particularly in the 'Vette/Camaro/Chevelle category...seems that anything "Hemi" is still going strong and that the real money is going for the early/late 50's luxobarges which, to me, are really pretty cooooool daddy-o.

Thought one of the most hilarious events of the evening was the undersale of Von Dutch's studio/home/bus.  All the while it was languishing, Craig Jackson kept barking over his mike that it was easily worth a couple hundred thousand..............

[Ultra]

Mr. Jackson was incorrect, eh? 

[Rich]

Also watched, just prior to yesterday's broadcast (whilst waiting for the furnace repairman to show), the "Life on the Block" episode wherein Mr. Jackson pissed off a relatively well-to do bidder (Ralph Whitworth) re- suspicions that Mr. Whitworth was welching on a bid.  Interesting that said bidder didn' tknow at first who Jackson was and when Jackson introduced himself, said bidder noted that "you're the guy who wouldn't meet me this morning!"  FYI, this particular bidder had already purchased several million dollars worth of cars at the auction and was immediately the object of scorn by Jackson when Jackson's staff screwed up the sale of the Futureliner.  I'm not a businessman, but I don't think it good practice to infer that a million-dollar customer is a crook.

[Ultra]

I'm not a businessman, but I don't think it good practice to infer that a million-dollar customer is a crook.

Au contraire, I believe you are a businessman.

[MG]

Oh, I quite agree, rich. Better to wait until a significant portion of that wealth has been irrevocably transferred to your possession and control before insulting the customer!   

[Ultra]

 

[Tifosi]

Also watched, just prior to yesterday's broadcast (whilst waiting for the furnace repairman to show), the "Life on the Block" episode wherein Mr. Jackson pissed off a relatively well-to do bidder (Ralph Whitworth) re- suspicions that Mr. Whitworth was welching on a bid.  Interesting that said bidder didn' tknow at first who Jackson was and when Jackson introduced himself, said bidder noted that "you're the guy who wouldn't meet me this morning!"  FYI, this particular bidder had already purchased several million dollars worth of cars at the auction and was immediately the object of scorn by Jackson when Jackson's staff screwed up the sale of the Futureliner.  I'm not a businessman, but I don't think it good practice to infer that a million-dollar customer is a crook.

Not only that, but they lost track of one of their high-profile guests...I wish I'd been able to stay glued to the action enough to play the fantasy bid game, because all I would have had to do would have been to enter about 85K  and leave it there...I was right on for several cars.  That DeSoto kinda surprised me, and so did the Stude truck, but I was right -on for the 32 Deuce and a couple of other cars.

I think Hemis will always be sought after, because of the mystique, and also because the unibodies wouldn't hold up to the torque...there just aren't that many left that aren't twisted, especially the convertibles.

And, maybe one of the reasons that the musclecars aren't bringing so much anymore is because a lot of the Boomers are getting close to retirement age.  I'm 52, and just barely got my feet wet into the era, learning to drive in 1970.  There were Superbirds to lust after, but they were few and far between...the guys who could afford them then, if they could find one, were about 10-15 years older than me.  Do the math, and it's time for condos in Malibu...

I think that cars like the DeSoto are finally being appreciated as works of art...the '57 Chevy was the first to be recognized as such; but there were others just as tasteful, and the rarity of surviving Mopars will only fuel their prices.  Fins are in!

I wonder just what the GenX car guys will collect, because there isn't a whole lot from the '70's through the mid-80's to stir anyone's blood.  Chevette diesels, maybe?


Dan

[Ultra]

Chevette diesels, maybe?


Dan

There is probably somebody out there.

[Tifosi]

Come to think of it, I haven't seen a Chevette in somebody's back yard in ages, not to mention on the street...


Dan

[Ultra]

Come to think of it, I haven't seen a Chevette in somebody's back yard in ages, not to mention on the street...


Dan

There is still a ratty one that drives around here.

[Rich]

I remain confident that Gremlin "X"'s will be the Gullwings of their era.