New import cars suck-old ones were great/I'm right you are wrong/whatever else.

[Mike]

This thread is starting to get a life of it's own. Think I'm going to spin off a new thread......

[JimmyZ]

This thread is starting to get a life of it's own. Think I'm going to spin off a new thread......

Perhaps the post could be labeled "Evils of capitalism and fiat economies" ?? :) OR the Thread could be "Why I love the federalized mafia so"

Such a thread would make for nice non-Z education.

When I see all of these bailouts and all of the numbers being twisted to somebody's idea of good spin it really makes me dread the future. They stopped publishing "M3" in '05! (Wonder why) Inflation, home sales and any other numbers which guage the economy are unreliable it seems.

I feel like our generation lived at the peak of this nation's existence... just before the fall. It's almost like nothing has changed and we are back in the early 1900's... Like watching the crash all over again except in slow motion.

Like the duesenberg in The Great Gatsby I plan on riding my Z through the good and bad times.

Interesting group here eh? I still want to see the zupercharged Alford creation!

Seriously Jim. Tells us how you really feel.

Edited August 29, 2008 by JimmyZ

[DougN]

Please Mike, get this off-topic crap out of poor Bob's first post about a 240Z! BTW, what's with the big spike in off-topic drama posts these days??

[EScanlon]

... BTW, what's with the big spike in off-topic drama posts these days??

Elections...where everyone tries to persuade everyone else based on their opinion of their candidate, all derived from watered down and filtered versions of semi-truths released as "press releases" that are very carefully edited to appeal to the mass population.

The "fix the world" according to their personal opinion strikes hard at this time. It happened here (to my knowledge) back in 2004, and presume it would have happened in 2000 if the board had been up then. AFAIK that is one of the main reasons politics discussions are actively discouraged.

There were TONS of non-topic rants and raves, in and out of many threads.

FWIW

E

[Twentysixouncer]

Like I said, I didn't mean to offend, especially you Mike, I really enjoy your site. I certainly did NOT mean to come across like I was telling him to away, I wanted to just suggest that he post over there (HBZ) IN ADDITION to here.

From my internet Z car wanderings it seems that this site leans toward purist/restoration while HybridZ was founded for V8 conversions and has expanded to include all sorts of modifications, and the last of the Big 3 (ZC.com) is sort of in the middle with a lean towards the younger set but without everyone saying "yo, yo, wassup dawg" or speaking in Textspeak like the lesser garbage sites out there. I even did a comparison paper on this very subject for a web design class in college.

If I want to read a thread about the proper wingnuts for a 1970 Z432 air cleaner assembly I know to look here, if I want to know how to adapt the T56 tachometer output to work in my LS-1 Z car, I look on HybridZ, and if I just want to interact with a bunch of Z car guys that spend as much time online as I do, I generally go to zcar.com.

Bottom line is that I visit all three on a weekly, if not daily, basis because each one fills a need.

[ConchZ]

ehh, the American worker is more productive per hour than anywhere, its just the wage per hour is high enough that it makes sense to produce things elsewhere. That might change as the cost of transporting those goods rises, while the dollar collapses. We might become the next low wage factory country. We'll be attractive because we have decently educated workers, and our transportation and telecommunications infrastructure is still better than most. We won't be ranked at the top for anything, but the combination of near top rankings will make us attractive for factory work again. The trick is to not overpopulate with imported workers, otherwise our wages will be TOO low.

I wanna drive my Z now. Too much political thinking, have to clear head.

[Arne]

This thread is starting to get a life of it's own. Think I'm going to spin off a new thread......

Done.