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12/23/12, 12:40 PM
#301
people see me walking / running /jogging up and down the road all the time .. they wave or honk and drive rite on by .. took my pinto out for a cruise yesterday and bout 2 miles from home the timing belt breaks .. so its` a brisk 27 degree walk back home .. some of these same people whisk by me and blow their horn or wave ..
12/23/12, 01:56 PM
#302
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.. i would be ashamed to ask that for my car .. yet dont offer it cause mine aint for sale ....
1/4/13, 10:18 AM
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1/5/13, 01:11 PM
#308
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why were most of the slowest cars ever built made in 1953 ?
Acceleration 0 - 60 mph
1953 Corvette: 11.5 seconds
1951 DeSoto Custom: 17.6 seconds
1952 Pontiac Chieftain: 14.9 seconds
1953 Cadillac Eldorado: 14.4 seconds
1953 Packard Caribbean: 17.0 seconds
1953 ****** Aero Eagle: 19.7 seconds
1953 Lincoln Cosmopolitan: 12.6 seconds
1953 Dodge Coronet Diplomat: 15.1 seconds
1953 Plymouth Cranbrook: 19.5 seconds
1954 Chrysler Imperial: 12.6 seconds
1954 Kaiser Darrin: 15.1 seconds
Acceleration 0 - 60 mph
1953 Corvette: 11.5 seconds
1951 DeSoto Custom: 17.6 seconds
1952 Pontiac Chieftain: 14.9 seconds
1953 Cadillac Eldorado: 14.4 seconds
1953 Packard Caribbean: 17.0 seconds
1953 ****** Aero Eagle: 19.7 seconds
1953 Lincoln Cosmopolitan: 12.6 seconds
1953 Dodge Coronet Diplomat: 15.1 seconds
1953 Plymouth Cranbrook: 19.5 seconds
1954 Chrysler Imperial: 12.6 seconds
1954 Kaiser Darrin: 15.1 seconds
1/5/13, 07:42 PM
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<DIR><DIR>History of the car radio
<DIR>This is a little long but I hope you find it interesting and entertaining.
HISTORY OF THE CAR RADIO
Seems like cars have always had radios, but they didn't, and here's the true story:
One evening, in 1929, two young men named William Lear and Elmer Wavering drove their girlfriends to a lookout point high above the Mississippi River town of Quincy, Illinois, to watch the sunset.
It was a romantic night to be sure, but one of the women observed that it would be even nicer if they could listen to music in the car.
Lear and Wavering liked the idea. Both men had tinkered with radios (Lear had served as a radio operator in the U.S. Navy during World War I and it wasn't long before they were taking apart a home radio and trying to get it to work in a car.
But it wasn't as easy as it sounds: automobiles have ignition switches, generators, spark plugs, and other electrical equipment that generate noisy static interference, making it nearly impossible to listen to the radio when the engine was running..
SIGNING ON
One by one, Lear and Wavering identified and eliminated each source of electrical interference. When they finally got their radio to work, they took it to a radio convention in Chicago.
There they met Paul Galvin, owner of Galvin Manufacturing Corporation. He made a product called a "battery eliminator" a device that allowed battery-powered radios to run on household AC current. But as more homes were wired for electricity, more radio manufacturers made AC-powered radios.
Galvin needed a new product to manufacture. When he met Lear and Wavering at the radio convention, he found it.
He believed that mass-produced, affordable car radios had the potential to become a huge business. Lear and Wavering set up shop in Galvin's factory, and when they perfected their first radio, they installed it in his Studebaker.
Then Galvin went to a local banker to apply for a loan. Thinking it might sweeten the deal, he had his men install a radio in the banker's Packard. Good idea, but it didn't work -- Half an hour after the installation, the banker's Packard caught on fire. (They didn't get the loan.)
Galvin didn't give up. He drove his Studebaker nearly 800 miles to Atlantic City to show off the radio at the 1930 Radio Manufacturers Association convention.
Too broke to afford a booth, he parked the car outside the convention hall and cranked up the radio so that passing conventioneers could hear it. That idea worked -- He got enough orders to put the radio into production.
WHAT'S IN A NAME
The first production model was called the 5T71. Galvin decided he needed to come up with something a little catchier. In those days many companies in the phonograph and radio businesses used the suffix "ola" for their names - Radiola, Columbiola, and Victrola were three of the biggest. Galvin decided to do the same thing, and since his radio was intended for use in a motor vehicle, he decided to call it the Motorola.
But even with the name change, the radio still had problems: When Motorola went on sale in 1930, it cost about $110 uninstalled, at a time when you could buy a brand-new car for $650, and the country was sliding into the Great Depression. (By that measure, a radio for a new car would cost about $3,000 today.)
In 1930 it took two men several days to put in a car radio -- The dashboard had to be taken apart so that the receiver and a single speaker could be installed, and the ceiling had to be cut open to install the antenna.
These early radios ran on their own batteries, not on the car battery, so holes had to be cut into the floorboard to accommodate them. The installation manual had eight complete diagrams and 28 pages of instructions.
HIT THE ROAD
Selling complicated car radios that cost 20 percent of the price of a brand-new car wouldn't have been easy in the best of times, let alone during the Great Depression -- Galvin lost money in 1930 and struggled for a couple of years after that. But things picked up in 1933 when Ford began offering Motorola's pre-installed at the factory. In 1934 they got another boost when Galvin struck a deal with B.F. Goodrich tire company to sell and install them in its chain of tire stores.
By then the price of the radio, installation included, had dropped to $55. The Motorola car radio was off and running. (The name of the company would be officially changed from Galvin Manufacturing to "Motorola" in 1947.)
In the meantime, Galvin continued to develop new uses for car radios. In
1936, the same year that it introduced push-button tuning, it also introduced the Motorola Police Cruiser, a standard car radio that was factory preset to a single frequency to pick up police broadcasts.
In 1940 he developed with the first handheld two-way radio -- The Handie-Talkie -- for the U. S. Army.
A lot of the communications technologies that we take for granted today were born in Motorola labs in the years that followed World War II.
In 1947 they came out with the first television to sell under $200. In 1956 the company introduced the world's first pager; in 1969 it supplied the radio and television equipment that was used to televise Neil Armstrong's first steps on the Moon. In 1973 it invented the world's first handheld cellular phone.
Motorola became one of the largest cell phone manufacturer in the world -- And it all started with the car radio.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO
The two men who installed the first radio in Paul Galvin's car? Elmer Wavering and William Lear, ended up taking very different paths in life.
Wavering stayed with Motorola. In the 1950's he helped change the automobile experience again when he developed the first automotive alternator, replacing inefficient and unreliable generators. The invention lead to such luxuries as power windows, power seats and air-conditioning.
Lear also continued inventing. He holds more than 150 patents. Remember eight-track tape players? Lear invented that. But what he's really famous for are his contributions to the field of aviation.. He invented radio direction finders for planes, aided in the invention of the autopilot, designed the first fully automatic aircraft landing system, and in 1963 introduced his most famous invention of all, the Lear Jet, the world's first mass-produced, affordable business jet.
(Not bad for a guy who dropped out of school after the eighth grade.)
Sometimes it is fun to find out how some of the many things that we take for granted actually came into being, and it all started with a woman's suggestion!
</DIR></DIR></DIR>
<DIR>This is a little long but I hope you find it interesting and entertaining.
HISTORY OF THE CAR RADIO
Seems like cars have always had radios, but they didn't, and here's the true story:
One evening, in 1929, two young men named William Lear and Elmer Wavering drove their girlfriends to a lookout point high above the Mississippi River town of Quincy, Illinois, to watch the sunset.
It was a romantic night to be sure, but one of the women observed that it would be even nicer if they could listen to music in the car.
Lear and Wavering liked the idea. Both men had tinkered with radios (Lear had served as a radio operator in the U.S. Navy during World War I and it wasn't long before they were taking apart a home radio and trying to get it to work in a car.
But it wasn't as easy as it sounds: automobiles have ignition switches, generators, spark plugs, and other electrical equipment that generate noisy static interference, making it nearly impossible to listen to the radio when the engine was running..
SIGNING ON
One by one, Lear and Wavering identified and eliminated each source of electrical interference. When they finally got their radio to work, they took it to a radio convention in Chicago.
There they met Paul Galvin, owner of Galvin Manufacturing Corporation. He made a product called a "battery eliminator" a device that allowed battery-powered radios to run on household AC current. But as more homes were wired for electricity, more radio manufacturers made AC-powered radios.
Galvin needed a new product to manufacture. When he met Lear and Wavering at the radio convention, he found it.
He believed that mass-produced, affordable car radios had the potential to become a huge business. Lear and Wavering set up shop in Galvin's factory, and when they perfected their first radio, they installed it in his Studebaker.
Then Galvin went to a local banker to apply for a loan. Thinking it might sweeten the deal, he had his men install a radio in the banker's Packard. Good idea, but it didn't work -- Half an hour after the installation, the banker's Packard caught on fire. (They didn't get the loan.)
Galvin didn't give up. He drove his Studebaker nearly 800 miles to Atlantic City to show off the radio at the 1930 Radio Manufacturers Association convention.
Too broke to afford a booth, he parked the car outside the convention hall and cranked up the radio so that passing conventioneers could hear it. That idea worked -- He got enough orders to put the radio into production.
WHAT'S IN A NAME
The first production model was called the 5T71. Galvin decided he needed to come up with something a little catchier. In those days many companies in the phonograph and radio businesses used the suffix "ola" for their names - Radiola, Columbiola, and Victrola were three of the biggest. Galvin decided to do the same thing, and since his radio was intended for use in a motor vehicle, he decided to call it the Motorola.
But even with the name change, the radio still had problems: When Motorola went on sale in 1930, it cost about $110 uninstalled, at a time when you could buy a brand-new car for $650, and the country was sliding into the Great Depression. (By that measure, a radio for a new car would cost about $3,000 today.)
In 1930 it took two men several days to put in a car radio -- The dashboard had to be taken apart so that the receiver and a single speaker could be installed, and the ceiling had to be cut open to install the antenna.
These early radios ran on their own batteries, not on the car battery, so holes had to be cut into the floorboard to accommodate them. The installation manual had eight complete diagrams and 28 pages of instructions.
HIT THE ROAD
Selling complicated car radios that cost 20 percent of the price of a brand-new car wouldn't have been easy in the best of times, let alone during the Great Depression -- Galvin lost money in 1930 and struggled for a couple of years after that. But things picked up in 1933 when Ford began offering Motorola's pre-installed at the factory. In 1934 they got another boost when Galvin struck a deal with B.F. Goodrich tire company to sell and install them in its chain of tire stores.
By then the price of the radio, installation included, had dropped to $55. The Motorola car radio was off and running. (The name of the company would be officially changed from Galvin Manufacturing to "Motorola" in 1947.)
In the meantime, Galvin continued to develop new uses for car radios. In
1936, the same year that it introduced push-button tuning, it also introduced the Motorola Police Cruiser, a standard car radio that was factory preset to a single frequency to pick up police broadcasts.
In 1940 he developed with the first handheld two-way radio -- The Handie-Talkie -- for the U. S. Army.
A lot of the communications technologies that we take for granted today were born in Motorola labs in the years that followed World War II.
In 1947 they came out with the first television to sell under $200. In 1956 the company introduced the world's first pager; in 1969 it supplied the radio and television equipment that was used to televise Neil Armstrong's first steps on the Moon. In 1973 it invented the world's first handheld cellular phone.
Motorola became one of the largest cell phone manufacturer in the world -- And it all started with the car radio.
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO
The two men who installed the first radio in Paul Galvin's car? Elmer Wavering and William Lear, ended up taking very different paths in life.
Wavering stayed with Motorola. In the 1950's he helped change the automobile experience again when he developed the first automotive alternator, replacing inefficient and unreliable generators. The invention lead to such luxuries as power windows, power seats and air-conditioning.
Lear also continued inventing. He holds more than 150 patents. Remember eight-track tape players? Lear invented that. But what he's really famous for are his contributions to the field of aviation.. He invented radio direction finders for planes, aided in the invention of the autopilot, designed the first fully automatic aircraft landing system, and in 1963 introduced his most famous invention of all, the Lear Jet, the world's first mass-produced, affordable business jet.
(Not bad for a guy who dropped out of school after the eighth grade.)
Sometimes it is fun to find out how some of the many things that we take for granted actually came into being, and it all started with a woman's suggestion!
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1/8/13, 01:23 PM
#310
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i was in ecstasy, with a huge smile on my face, as my girlfriend moved forwards, then backwards, forward, then backwards again ....... back and forth ..... back and forth ..... in and out ..... in and out.
She could feel the sweat on her forehead and between her breasts, and trickling down the small of her back, she was getting near to the end.
Her heart was pounding ... her face was flushed ... then she moaned, softly at first, then began to groan louder.
Finally, totally exhausted, she let out an almighty scream and shouted, "OK, OK! I can't park the &^#%$# car! You do it, you SMUG b*****d!
She could feel the sweat on her forehead and between her breasts, and trickling down the small of her back, she was getting near to the end.
Her heart was pounding ... her face was flushed ... then she moaned, softly at first, then began to groan louder.
Finally, totally exhausted, she let out an almighty scream and shouted, "OK, OK! I can't park the &^#%$# car! You do it, you SMUG b*****d!
1/13/13, 01:55 PM
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I recently spent $2500 on a young Black Angus bull. I put him out with the herd but he just ate grass and wouldn't even look at a cow. I was beginning to suspect he was gay, if that's possible with a bull. Anyhow, I had the Vet come have a look at him. He said the bull was very healthy, but possible a little young, so he gave me some pills to feed him once per day which I did. Holy cow! Within two days, the bull started to service the cows...all of my cows! He even broke through the fence and bred all my neighbor's cows! He's been breeding just about everything in sight. He's like a machine!" I don't know what is in the pills the Vet gave him, but they kinda taste like peppermint
1/15/13, 05:12 AM
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shopping with the girlfriend at Wal-Mart this weekend .
i pick up a case of Budweiser and put it in our cart.
'What do you think you're doing?' she says !
'They're on sale, only $10 for 24 cans,' i say.
'Put them back, we can't afford them,' she demands , and so we carry on shopping.
A few aisles further on along the she picks up a $20 jar of face cream and puts it in the cart
'What do you think you're doing?' i ask !
'It's my face cream. It makes me look sexy and beautiful for you when we're making love,' she says with a smile .
: 'So does 24 cans of Budweiser ...and at half the price." says i !!!!!
i pick up a case of Budweiser and put it in our cart.
'What do you think you're doing?' she says !
'They're on sale, only $10 for 24 cans,' i say.
'Put them back, we can't afford them,' she demands , and so we carry on shopping.
A few aisles further on along the she picks up a $20 jar of face cream and puts it in the cart
'What do you think you're doing?' i ask !
'It's my face cream. It makes me look sexy and beautiful for you when we're making love,' she says with a smile .
: 'So does 24 cans of Budweiser ...and at half the price." says i !!!!!
1/19/13, 10:17 AM
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I was at wallyworld the other day and I saw a bumper sticker on a parked car that read, "I miss New York."
So I broke out a window, stole the radio, shot out two of the tires and left a note that read, "I hope this helps!"
So I broke out a window, stole the radio, shot out two of the tires and left a note that read, "I hope this helps!"
1/21/13, 04:47 PM
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I woke up this morning at 7, and could smell something was wrong. I got up and ran to the kitchen and found my girlfriend facedown on the floor, not breathing! I panicked. I didn’t know what to do. Then I remembered McDonald’s serves breakfast until 11:30..
The other night, she asked me how many women I'd slept with. I told her, "Only you. All the others kept me awake all night!"
The other night, she asked me how many women I'd slept with. I told her, "Only you. All the others kept me awake all night!"
1/21/13, 05:24 PM
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You guys know there is a joke thread right?
1/22/13, 08:20 AM
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this is true 
. i have added a bit of humor to it a time or two but i feel more comfortable and at home here in the RCMC forum .. i know several members here personally and feel like we are talking to each other more than when i post outside my threads and am talking to strangers and cant be sure how they will respond .. i`m old and getting older and getting much easier to be pissed off by others comments and because of that i rarely post outside my own threads ...and yeah !!! you got me 
i really dint buy that bull in post # 312
. i have added a bit of humor to it a time or two but i feel more comfortable and at home here in the RCMC forum .. i know several members here personally and feel like we are talking to each other more than when i post outside my threads and am talking to strangers and cant be sure how they will respond .. i`m old and getting older and getting much easier to be pissed off by others comments and because of that i rarely post outside my own threads ...and yeah !!! you got me i really dint buy that bull in post # 312
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