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The fringe groups this year are giving a new extreme definition to the word "crazy." It strains credulity to believe that anyone can be stupid or deluded enough (or both) to believe this crap.

Go, Pack Go! Next stop, NFC Championship game!

I was at A&M from 1985-1998, and it was at least 2-3 years years before I left. Could have been mid-90's. Funny how dates blur more than 20 years later.... When the Harvard server was going to shut down, Carl let me know. I worked with Ag Extension at TAMU, and went to a gent in the IT section named Paul and asked him if there was any way to help. He was kind of a delightful maverick (big guy about 6'4" and 260 pounds) and said, "well, Extension is here to inform and educate people, and this listserv does that, so I'll find a way to host it." I know he took it under his wing and basically managed it himself. Unfortunately he passed away a few years after I left A&M in 1998. On behalf of Zcar.com, I find a pretty good group of people there. I admit that I get tired of people asking a question that ahs been asked 100 times when they haven't bothered to do a search, so there may be a mea culpa due there. I am also fond of referring people with basic questions to Nicolub.com for service manuals. I really appreciate having all those service manuals there. My1983 280ZX service manual was three-hole punched and put in a binder years ago.

I can assure you that at present, A-hole behavior of any type on Zcar.com is stepped on immediately. I have no patience with it. I delete it if appropriate, and the Ban button works just fine. One of the distressing parts of online behavior is that when someone isn't face to face with you, too many people let their keyboard override their common sense. I don't put up with that well. When the IZCC list lost its original server home at Harvard, I worked with Carl Beck and found a new home for it at Texas A&M. (Maybe around 1988 or so?) I've been involved in the online presence of Z-cars for a while. I agree, IZCC was a very nice group that played well together.

He's also free to join and use Zcar.com. I'm the mod there. It helps if he will read the sticky about cars for sale and follow the directions. As far as I'm concerned, all the Z-car sites need to play nicely together. BTW - I moved from Washington state to Texas, and from there to Colorado. Definitely different subcultures, although WA and CO are very similar. TX is a different culture - from the South, modified to the Southwest, and the customs and politics are quite different. I lived in College Station, TX (university town, home of Texas A&M, which is a quasi-military college) and when people moved into town, especially from northern states, I used to ask them "how far back in history have you just moved?" The average answer was they felt like they had moved back 20 years. I met a lot of super people in TX, and built some great friendships. It's a fascinating state with stories and history around every turn. But in the 13 years I lived there, I never felt like I was really "in place" culturally. I am much more comfortable in CO.

Still a day before the auction closes. Probably will go up before it closes.

That thought had occurred to me, but if the ignition has been there for some time but the change occurred recently, it seems less likely. I'm thinking OEM cap replacement and coil wire replacement would be a good idea. Look for tracks inside the cap indicating arcing or heat.

Attempting logic: What causes melting? Heat. What causes heat in electrical systems? Resistance. Why is there too much resistance at that particular point in the system? My guess is that electricity cannot flow as designed past that point, so the point of resistance is the cap. Possible causes...? Bad cap causing resistance. Spark plug wires causing resistance. Something inside the distributor causing resistance. Too much voltage or current coming down the wire to the cap, so the system can't pass it along. That's all I have.

Patriots don't storm the Capitol trying to violate the Constitution by changing the result of a presidential election.

Trump finally Made America Great Again...by exposing himself and his lies as the problem. His disgrace is now complete enough to turn red states blue and change the balance of power in DC. Methinks that will go a long way to restoring the greatness that the US lost in the last four years.

Vicarious? "I do not think that means what you think it means." Decorum forbids sharing my opinion relative to the idea.

I thought you meant Professor Irwin Corey...

Nice article! I had a 1970 240, white with blue interior, which was fairly unusual color combo. My 1983 280ZX Turbo is my 4th Z-car. (The others were a '76 280 and an '82 280ZX NA.) And I have Coco mats in mine identical to the ones shown in that article. They go nicely with the tan/brown exterior.

In the threads I've been reading, it's hard to find replacement fenders. I would think repair is a more practical approach, but it may depend on how bad the rust is.

We'll be back into the 50's by Monday. Colorado at 5K feet is like that - winter alternates with moderate temps. I got a compact sub to add low end to my stereo, but it has to fit under the driver's seat. I'll run the car to my garage and loosen the seat to see if it will fit. Got my fingers crossed, there's not a lot of room under the 280ZX seats.

Some people actually do want to help steer the ship in a positive manner.

I have the Daytona 3 ton, long reach. It's the one with the foot pedal on the back. It's a really good floor jack, and the foot pump makes it easy to get the saddle positioned by using your hand on the foot pedal to get the lift started.

AAGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!! The horror!!!

Boy Scout prank, 1965.

It's always time for one of my favorite Christmas numbers!!! 12 glorious minutes, multiple versions, including even Muppets! Watch it all and you'll feel more cheerful!

I am under no constraints as to commentary or opinion; keep in mind that my comments are worth what they cost you. I felt a lot better about Boeing management before they decided that they needed to be in Chicago. I am thoroughly tired of companies abandoning their heritage and the cities that nurtured and built them. I suspect this is a common source of some frustration in many people around the Pacific NW. From the news and articles I read, it sounded like a critical component of the failure was a single attitude sensor which fed data to the plane. Why there would be only one sensor has never been clear to me and sounded like a single point of failure, which is unthinkable on a passenger aircraft. I also haven't heard that they have added additional sensors to provide backup and avoid the potential single point of failure. This makes no sense to me. I may have misunderstood this, but it is pretty clear in my memory. I buy the argument that US pilots are better trained than those of many other countries, especially such countries as Ethiopia, which have a reputation for being lax in all kinds of oversight. I also buy the argument that the first thing a smart pilot will do is turn off the automatics and fly it manually. (I've heard this can't be done in new fighter jets, but we're not talking fighter jets.) A good driver or pilot has to have great hands and great feel for the machine and what it's doing. It's pretty clear that the crashes by foreign airlines involved pilots without the sense to turn off the automatic systems and fly the damn plane. So I'm willing to assume that Boeing has fixed their software and changed or updated hardware if needed, but I assume this only because they got an internationally publicized proctological exam over this aircraft, leading to possibly their biggest financial setback in history - which is probably the only thing that the Chicago brass hats care about. My faith in any company's willingness to do "the right thing" if it costs them more money is very limited. But it's pretty clear that Boeing is in deep trouble if this aircraft isn't totally right. Therefore I'm willing to bet they got it right. Would I be comfortable flying in one of them? Maybe a year or two from now.

Good for you. As an eastern WA guy, I always feel better when flying on a Boeing aircraft.

This guarantees that the idiot speaking has no concept of how herd immunity works - or rather, the conditions required for it to provide any benefit.

Always look for the simplest thing that can cause the problem. Problems like this are very seldom due to complex factors. Ballast resistor? Good idea. Dirty contacts? You bet. And so on.

If this were 100 years ago (like the flu pandemic) it would be much more of a field exercise in Darwin's theory. Snark aside, we are fortunate that it is not 1918 or we would literally have bodies stacked in refrigerator trucks in every city in the country.