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what is that guy doing in the 5th and 6th picture of that auction? looks like he is relieving himself...

in the 9th grade a had a saturday morning job where from 9 am to 2 pm i would wash cars at Arnett BPG. they offered free car washes for the owners of the cars. there was an older gentleman that was a real PITA about his car. grumpy and gruff you could just smell scrutiny on him. anyhoo he had a gas wagon along those lines but i think his was new prolly 87 or 86. course when there were no customer cars we washed lot cars... having the honor of driving new 95/96 firebirds and trans ams at the fresh age of 14/15 was nice.

eh, we dont have near the emission restrictions we used to. the only times cars are inspected in SC as far as i know are when there is no title and the state hwy department has to issue one. but my post was about the car only needing to go through a burnout box and around 1/3 of a mile at a time. well... now that i think about it, it would have to go through tech inspection...

check out the google bot! edit... never mind, it changed. it was saying something about obama in spanish hehe. anyway in my mind if a person cannot speak english, how can they read it? most signs are symbols and whatnot but there are some that say merge left, men working, yada yada.

Dallas police ticketed 39 drivers in 3 years for not speaking English By SCOTT GOLDSTEIN / The Dallas Morning News [email protected] Dallas police wrongly ticketed at least 39 drivers for not speaking English over the last three years, Police Chief David Kunkle announced Friday while promising to investigate all officers involved in the cases for dereliction of duty. Pending cases will be dismissed, and those who paid the $204 fine for the charge, which does not exist in the city, will be reimbursed, Kunkle said. "I was surprised and stunned that that would happen, particularly in the city of Dallas," Kunkle said. "In my world, you would never tell someone not to speak Spanish." The citations were issued in several different patrol divisions by at least six different officers. One of those officers was responsible for five of the citations, Kunkle said. The case that led to the discovery of all the others occurred Oct. 2, when Ernestina Mondragon was stopped for making an illegal U-turn in the White Rock area. Rookie Officer Gary Bromley cited Mondragon for three violations: disregarding a traffic control device, failure to present a driver's license and "non-English speaking driver." In that case and perhaps the others, officials said, the officer was confused by a pull-down menu on his in-car computer that listed the charge as an option. But the law the computer referred to is a federal statute regarding commercial drivers that Kunkle said his department does not enforce. Bromley, 33, is a trainee officer in the northeast patrol division, meaning he still works with a training officer during every shift. His training officer on that day was Senior Cpl. Daniel Larkin, 53. According to department policy, a sergeant must also sign off on all citations. The supervisor who signed off on the Mondragon ticket was Sgt. David Burroughs, 50. "In this case, the field training officer was aware of ultimately what the recruit officer had done," Kunkle said. "The field training officer is going to bear more responsibility than the recruit officer." Mondragon, a native Spanish speaker, challenged the charge in court and it was dropped, her daughter said. Dallas police said they will drop all charges against Mondragon, who speaks limited English and does have a Texas driver's license. Police officials did not release the names of the officers and supervisors involved in the other cases. Kunkle said he expected the investigation to last at least a few weeks and could reach back several years. "An officer has to know the elements of an offense or what's necessary to constitute a crime," Kunkle said. "In this case it appears that officers did not understand." It is unclear whether the erroneous tickets were reported by the courts. Administrative Judge C. Victor Lander said Friday afternoon that he would be surprised if such charges got past a judge. He said he would conduct a review. "If there are any outstanding warrants as a result of these kinds of cases that have been inadvertently written, I'm going to direct that they be immediately held," Lander said. "If there are any cases in the prosecutorial pipeline, I'm going to request the city attorney to hold the case." The citations amount to a small percentage of the roughly 400,000 tickets issued by Dallas police each year. But the total is large enough to have possible legal ramifications, said George A. Martinez, a professor at the Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law. "It sounds like a policy," Martinez said. "Discrimination on the basis of language ability, and that's targeting Latinos, and so that sounds pretty serious to me." Attorney Domingo Garcia said he has been hired to represent the Mondragon family. "The issue has nothing to do with whether people should learn English or not. I believe they should," Garcia said. "It's about not following the law and issuing citations against a law that doesn't exist, against a fairly voiceless and helpless population." Beyond potential legal problems, some said the tickets send a troubling message to Hispanics. "It's the principle of the matter that there are police officers out there representing our city who actually think that it's a crime not to speak English," said Brenda Reyes, a political consultant and member of the League of United Latin American Citizens. Kunkle, who apologized repeatedly, said he recognized the incidents probably would damage the department's relationship with the Hispanic community. "When we deal with crime victims ... our interest is not their immigration status," Kunkle said. "It's not something that we concern ourselves about. We want to serve all people." Original Post

i havent been able to properly build a GM vehicle in over 3 months. it goes so far and then just hangs up.

ive seen a girl do it once in high school. mostly now they throw down like hockey players and just start going for the hair hehehe

its like youre inside my brain, get OUTTA MY HEAD!!

pull the 307 and trans and sell. gut from behind the front seats to the gate and then sprinkle with love. Long Roof's = sleeper win.

is it a survivability/durability review...?

yeah, im going to try and horde some extra cash back but that'll be a tall order what with insurance for both the colorado and the impala as well as taxes on both due in the next 3 months. not to mention Christmas coming up. LCD LED is def on the radar. if by quiet you mean sounds like a dremel tool in the next room cutting through class 3 body armor then yes... heheh not really sure to be honest. it had a 400 lumen setting and a 700 lumen setting. was hoping that would keep the high temps at bay and save the filament in the process. there is actually a class action lawsuit against toshiba for this exact reason. they had people to believe that the lamps were good for 8000 hours when in fact they were barely making it to 4000. thats my fault for not doing adequate homework before buying. i found this info out after my purchase and the first bulb going. it was clearance at sears and my sister got me her discount on top of the clearance price. tv + stand was around 1000 where the tv itself had been 1500 on its own. the noise from the fan never really changed, however there would be times that i would turn the tv on and there would be a loud squealing noise from the speakers i assume and then it would go away. the tv would turn on sometimes and there would be sound but no picture, the tv would reboot and then the picture would come up. i knew it was coming though when at times there would be a flicker of bright here and there at random. i have it in the corner so that it wouldnt be flat against the wall. i would wear gloves to keep the prints out of the equation, but a bonus is that the design of the housing you slide the whole shebang in like it has a handle. yeah cause there was a mitsu projection at HH Gregg for $900 3 months ago. its a 73" hehehe. its just a matter of waiting, just like with computers.

so about 3 1/2 years ago i moved into my grandpa's house. everything is cool cept there was a 20" tv where i was used to a 50" at the parents'. saved up some money and went to sears ( to score a siblings discount ) and brought home a toshiba 52" DLP. well for every year i have owned it now i have replaced a bulb... which is costly... Toshiba asks $250 for theirs while i found a different manufacturer for $130. well the first was replaced for free under a recall notice, the next one i bought out of pocket for the $130. the toshiba replacement lasted nearly a year and a half, the $130 for maybe 8 months... you get what you pay for i guess. i kept the bulb off the bright setting to try and lengthen its life and it failed in a shorter amount of time than the one it replaced... Pissed is an understatement to say the least. I dont have the money at the moment to throw down on a tv. its gonna be a few paychecks before that can happen. so a 20" tv will reside on the 52" stand... how ironic. the toshiba was a DLP projection which are dirt cheap now, i have people telling me LCD, i dont care for plasma myself, but i have been looking at the LED tv's. what might be some recommendations?

wonder what lengths a t6060 swap would take...

has a bit of an f430 vibe to me. could be the rake i guess. definately a sweet ride

NB ftw. i used to truck around in vans all the time. wore them from 7th all the way into sophmore college, then i started wearing wolverine casual boots. being on my feet at the hospital for hours at a time the NB are the way to go. i have a $75 pair of nike's i am suffering through cause i wanted to try something different but the $40 NB 608's i normally where have em beat hands down. though i wish i could sport some chuck's, unfortunately we have to have leather shoes, no canvas material...

soooo people have somewhat a hand in this global warming crap to me but not sole responsibility by any means. it has a lot to do with the jet streams and ocean currents and all that jive too. but here we have examples of conditions devoid of man's assistance causing the same outcome.

recently there was a show on the national geographic or animal planet cant remember which, about massive animal extinction. it was about how a "super volcano" on pangea in the area of siberia errupted for like 250-500,000 years or something. anyway. it was talking about how at first it was no big deal, then life got worse for the animals on land. the water dwelling creatures didnt have any problems until the "global warming" from the volcanic gasses and trapping of the suns rays started kicking in. the water temps started rising and water has a lower oxygen content the warmer it gets. the water creatures began to die and so anaerobic bacteria started taking over in the water making it concentrated with amonia or cyonide or something, which in turn affected the animals left on land even more. thats just a tie in to what i orignally was going to post about the findings here at clemson university about the effects of algae on the ecosystems and the die offs of the dino's Clemson scientists say algae, too, caused dinosaurs' extinction CLEMSON — Algae could have had a lot to do with the extinction of dinosaurs and other species, two Clemson University scientists report. And that could bode ill for present species if the Earth’s temperatures are rising, as many scientists have reported. The two Clemson professors studied the rise of algae blooms and the decline of dinosaurs and other species and found a possible link. They presented their findings in a scientific journal in March, and it is the feature presentation at a meeting of the Geological Society of America in Portland, Ore., this week. The two-year study was done by James Castle, professor in the Department of Engineering Services and Earth Sciences, and John Rodgers Jr., a professor in the Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Rodgers said Monday. A prominent theory on the fate of dinosaurs is that asteroids crashed into Earth, causing massive species deaths. The algae idea can be included in that theory, too, Rodgers said. Their research shows the extinctions were gradual, not immediate, as the former theory claims. He said a study of fossilized rock, Earth temperatures and other data showed a correlation between the extinction of species and an increase in temperatures, leading to the algae blooms. “We came across the original hypothesis about two years ago,” Rodgers said. Rodgers, an environmental toxicologist, said the pair was able to determine algae blooms through fossils known as stromatolite structures, which are algae deposits. “We went back (through) millions of years and watched that through the rock record,” he said. “As warming occurs it favors the growth of algae.” Algae is toxic in some forms, such as a neurotoxin, or through massive algae blooms that remove oxygen, Rodgers said. “We have those blooms going on today,” he said. One is currently causing havoc to marine life near Corpus Christi, Texas; the worst algae bloom in West Virginia history was recently reported; and there are others going on in New Mexico and Arizona, Rodgers said. “As warming occurs, that favors (algae) growth,” he said. “It is sort of a message to folks: Be on the lookout.” The scientists’ work has drawn reaction worldwide from other scientists, Rodgers said. “We’ve gotten communications from all over the world,” he said. “This kind of pulls their research together. The Discovery Channel was in Portland to feature the paper, Rodgers said. The paper was originally published in the journal Environmental Geosciences. http://www.independentmail.com/news/2009/o...sed-dinosaurs-/

yeah i couldnt believe it either when i saw the 74 goat. had florida antique automobile tags. definately a driver heheh

then these were in the old "waynes world" section of carowinds the carowinds parking lot the japanese and sushi place we ate at and at worst buy yesterday

in my mind... a most terrible color combo. and now for the most expensive used car lot i have ever set foot on. it was outside of charlotte when i went to carowinds this past weekend.

watched a show on history international about a gentleman that photographed steam locomotives. O Winston Link. it was a very interesting story. of which my fav would be the one of this hot shot eastbound

what you got against them? they're iconic

well the comp usa in greenville went bust so i had to truck it to worst buy. i was amazed. they had an 800 on the counter for $180 i think. Allied is on the sticker, manufactured may 2005 its good to be back, even missing 4 days i feel completely disconnected from the world, and the forum. gots a lot to post on the car spotters thread for sure.

the power supply gave out on my computer this weekend so its been dead since thursday. It was interesting to see just how much time i use the computer when i didnt have one at my disposal. so now $64 lighter i am back. i couldnt believe there was only a 350 watt supply in this thing. pushing a 450 now and i suppose soon i shall break down and build a new one come spring. well, at least the power supply is one less thing on the parts list....