trinacriabob

deranged

That is SO cool. I find it really hard to believe you are so damn smart and only that age! I'm sure your parents are real proud of you!There are a lot of likeable people on this board; however, CHEERS to those of you who are mature beyond your years...the teens, HS and college students who make good points and write well. It's funny because when I was a "kid," I always liked hanging around people older than myself and when I graduated with my B.S. from college at 21.5 +/-, I liked being around people in their 30s and 40s. Whatever. It was either that I was brainier than most of my peers or that I felt I had something to gain from people with more years under their belt! They didn't seem to mind having me tag along, either.

frog legs

Is DB wealthy? I know it's nice, but I don't remember it having top billing or anything. It's someplace you drive through on 60 on the way inland or to P.S. Imports are EVERYWHERE in the Southland. DB? Isn't that douche bag?

That is very cool. I have never been there and will have to go!Air India. I would have to be offered a serious discount to travel on something that smells like a flying Indian restaurant...if it does. I take it you are picking it up at JFK because I doubt they come into PHL. And if it's a jumbo, it will be more fun. Report back!

Thanks. Didn't realize there were still modulators. I'll look for the vacuum hose and then the modulator to see if I can plop one on. I did look into this topic via search engine and also found that there is such a thing as torque converter shudder. It is so intermittent that it's freaky. The fluid was just changed for the 11th time....at about 220,000 miles and it is a beautifully transparent light pink, as it has always been. I will look into your suggestions as we are working from cheaper options first. Thanks again.

You have a point. I might add any Olds Rocket V8 backed up by that same TH400 RWD 3 speed. No personal experience. My Dad did at one time have this combo and it was bullet proof: 250 inline six in a Pontiac LeMans with a TH350 behind it. My theory is that the straight 6 did not produce the torque to upset the TH350 which have failed when mated to "torquier" engines. My Dad heard one person he knew curse a Pontiac lemon he owned so he swore he'd never have one. Then he got this car and it was probably the most hassle free car he owned...probably more so than several Oldsmobiles that were in the family at one time or another.

Ok...thank you for sharing

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Chevy 350 because...well...this is a GM site and we are GM fans. This was a great engine...however, if I recall, there was a window of time in which both the 305 and 350 Chevy small blocks had weird premature camshaft failures. I think they resolved it but I think I have harbored that. As far as small block GM V-8s, our family has really only owned Oldsmobile Rocket V8s (350 and also the 260). I grew up thinking that the Olds 350 was even more bullet-proof than the Chevy 350. Am I right? Am I Wrong? How do these two differ? (And then, to top it off, Pontiac and Buick had their own renditions of the 350? What was up with that?)

fat farm

Cool. I would like to go to the Grand Bahama Island. Easy to do from MIA/FLL. I'll do that sometime.

Vacation = Good food

case

Chargerino, I just stay away from the casino floor! It feels very wide open to me...and those BOOOFFETs...and it sure beats being at work. I guess if you have to live there, it could be stressful. But, for me, it's a treat to go there.

Don't tell me, empowah, 760 in Math, right?

OK, Dad. Oh, let him have fun!

I work a ridiculous amount of hours, but I also squeeze in 2 grad courses at night during the semester. Yeah, nuts is the word. Next week, on the semester system, is Spring Break so I ONLY have to go to my full-time day job. Each "book-end" weekend to the break is therefore "free." I'm going hot springing this weekend and to Las Vegas next Friday / Saturday / Sunday (I am itching for some sun and warm temperatures). Las Vegas is so relaxing ... and you can have the best time without even putting a quarter in a slot machine (poolside, Lake Mead, cheap abundant food, entertainment). What are any of you doing/where are any of you going?

Adam (Carolla)

Correctly spelled by BV. Extra scoop of ice cream to you.

I don't know. Statesman or Roadmaster are too "baroque." Electra or Invicta, both past names, are better and easier for the consuming public to grasp. Actually, because there is no Ebonicized "deuce and a quarter" connection to the Electra, I prefer Invicta. It may not sell in Europe, though...Invicta is to knapsacks what Eastpak and Janssport are over here. Just a thought.

falls

From you sig, it looks like you are in the SGV part of So Cal. Did you grow up there, too?Don't know anybody that went to public school in that area, but I know people who went to Bishop Amat. Is/was that your stomping ground? The last time I was there and went around with my friend who lives in Hacienda Heights off of Colima Rd., it seems that there is NO one who could be in "The Brady Bunch" in "those parts" any more. You have to cross over to Brea and Fullerton or go toward Claremont to get that "effect."

All this $h! makes me shudder. Babies = $ and if a divorce comes down the pike, then more $$. Not that having kids is a bad thing. It can be a good thing...when done right. What's done right? Everyone's definition is different. To me, it means finishing up whatever schooling or training you want to go through, making sure your job is in place and then doing it. Nowadays, that would mean anywhere from age 28 to 32. It seems like so many young girls look at the whole baby thing as a crutch for their self-esteem. They don't have bigger goals in life so that's the pinnacle for them. It's a person and you can't send him/her back. The sad thing about our society is that those who can afford to have kids and might even be good parents aren't doing it (like a lot of my friends) and those who shouldn't be having kids are doing it (and I know people like that too). It's not necessarily a tragedy (BV's cool) but it is definitely an uphill climb. No thanks.

Foreign professors made for great "impersonation" material. For teaching purposes, I didn't find them too effective. Since I went to a small university, I did not get TAs. We got the real deal. We had a business calculus teacher...she was Chinese. Her thoughts about calculus were like what you would find in fortune cookies. "Integrar is rike engine" "Differentiar is rike transmission" And on and on. Took my grade.....and RAN.