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Well, how many sqft is your garage. Mine is 1,200 sqft and it was $4500. after t a 10% discount for being retired military. Is that Canadian $$ you’re quoted. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I put the Liftmaster 8500W in my new garage. They’re great. I love the motion sensor on the wall mount openers that turns on the overhead lights when you walk by them and the garage locking mechanism. I had my floor professionally coated. It was a 4 day process. I had done the DYI floor on my last house (rust oleum) from Lowe’s, had failure spots within a year. This is 10x better. Guy gave me a 25 yr warranty. Cost me $4.25 a sqft. Everyone compliments it. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

This year is a big ball of crap that is falling. I never understood it either Cliff. I did the Times Square Ball drop when I was 17. Then had to act like I was in a scene from the movie Escape from NY to get back to Queens. Living in NYC was to worst 2 yrs of my life. Not sure if I told you that I lived there for 2 hrs total, once when I was 11 and again at 17. I was kidnapped in 1981 walking home from school in Queens. Dragged into a car by a man and about 5 mins later I jumped out of the car doing about 35 mph in the on ramp for the Long Island Expressway. I would have probably been rapped, chopped up and left in a dumpster had not I jumped out. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Cliff, if I had my own private investigation business, consider yourself hired. I would have never picked up on that. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Cliff..... you gotta keep an eye on him.

Not sure if I shared this one. This is a beauty, I love the color but $43k is too much. Maybe a 280z will demand those prices one day but I don’t think today. http://www.280zforsale.com/1976-full-restoration-in-munich-by/?utm_source=Datsun+280Z+For+Sale&utm_campaign=20da994cf0-Ad+Updates+for+December+30th+2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e7b9317f29-20da994cf0-37577797#google_vignette Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Here’s a guy asking a lot of $$ for modified 280z. It’s Canadian dollars but still too much money. I don’t like the seats and I’m not a fan of Z’s with LS swaps, somehow the character disappears when you do that. It’s a good looking car otherwise. Just because to put 240z badges, lights and bumpers doesn’t mean you can charge 240z prices. http://www.280zforsale.com/1978-nut-bolt-240z-resto-in-breslau-on/?utm_source=240ZForSale.com&utm_campaign=a43bddeb0e-Ad+Updates+for+December+29th+2020&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_77be7cc975-a43bddeb0e-202452969

Most people don’t understand money, inflation and how debt ties it to the whole system. Inflation is an expansion of the money supply. When you have more of a currency chasing the same amount of goods and services prices go up. Inflation is expanding the money the consequence is a rise in prices. When you take a loan you essentially “create” money and when you pay off a loan money is destroyed. This is because we have a debt based economy. Our dollar isn’t backed by gold anymore, that ended in 1971 under Nixon when Europe was repatriating its gold it gave to US during WW2. Our dollar is back by 3 things. The military, oil and debt. We export most of our inflation by purchasing foreign goods from a dollar we print at will. The US and Saudi Arabia made a deal to tie the dollar to oil and thus created the petrodollar. Oil is benchmarked against the dollar. We provide military hardware and defense to Saudi as part of the deal. When Ghadaffi tried to create a gold back currency in 2010 with other African oil producers ....we destroyed him. That was a direct threat to the dollar. When you borrow money and have to repay with interest that money (interest) has to come from somewhere. It doesn’t magically appear in a system with a finite currency. Think of it this way. If you have 3 people on an island and $1,000 total dollars for loan at one bank and the bank changes 10% interested and each person borrows $333.33 and the end of the term each person owes the bank $33 in interest....so where does that come from if there is only $1000 on the island? It’s created by inflating the money. The fed is the real bad guy in all this. They get rich at the expense of the country and the people . The fed is a private institution run by the worlds biggest banks. JP Morgan etc.. “He who controls the money supply of a Nation controls the Nation” ; James Garfield . Andrew Jackson had an assignation attempt again him for opposing a federal reserve and many speculate the JFK was assassinated because he wanted to abolish the Fed. Our central bank (the Fed) was signed into law while most of congress was away from DC on the Christmas break (23 Dec 1913). This was intentional. This changed America forever. Two month later the US federal government began taxing citizens income . These are tied together. The fed gets rich by stealing the value of your labor by constantly inflating the money you work for. This drives up prices and and forces people into lower living standards. The bottom line is we are approached the end game. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I agree but I also think we’re starting to see inflation hit all sectors of our economy and I don’t see it slowing anytime soon. Think about the cost of everything from milk to lumber it’s on this rise. This is one of the consequences of expanding the money supply (QE, quantitative easing) and low interest rates. We are on a dangerous path with 27 Trillion debt, and a contracting economy under Covid. We cannot stay on this trajectory for too long before we break the system. New car prices are insane (I just bought one so I can speak from experience), classic cars are places people see where that can possibly protect your $$. Putting it in the bank is stupid because interest rates are less than inflation so you lose money putting in a savings account, precious metals are through the roof, stocks really high and real estate approaching and surpassing in some markets 2008 over valuations. So it makes sense that classic cars will see a commensurate increase. Things are not getting more expensive, your dollar is worth much less today than even a year ago. Hold on for the wild ride....I see white water ahead. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

That can be problematic. My state requires you to title a car within 90 days of purchase. I bought my Z with a open title and it was a small nightmare getting an NC title. All I had a was a open California title that was over 15 yrs old. I had to purchase an indemnity bond and then have the vehicle inspected by a local police detective. They wouldn’t inspect it unless it ran so I was under the gun to get it running. Hadn’t run since 1998. Made it happen because of help from the wizards on this forum. She’s finally mine, much to my wife’s disappointment. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I would suck because I can’t lie so easily and then shake your hand. I’ll stick to what I’m good at for now. Merry Christmas to you all. I got work to do!!! Kids happiness at stake! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So, I went to buy rear rubber rear mats for the new family car we recently bought and they were $56. When I went to check out the shipping was $236 for normal UPS shipping. Everyone is backed up and not they’re raising rates to ludicrous amounts to curb demand, Needless to say I didn’t buy the floor mats , so their tactic worked, Hope you all get your gifts on time this year. I still have stuff waiting for delivery and I’m getting nervous.

Good points Bruce and no I didn’t read all 5000+ pages and I doubt most of our congressional leader have either. But you make a valid argument and you’re right about how information is funneled as “news” to people is their respective stove pipes This is the way our government works I guess. We’ve been on continuing resolutions and bandaids approach to budgets in government since 1996. We now do this appropriations thing. I got that from a friend from work as I’ve mostly detached from the news. I still don’t like the way we do business. Why can’t we pass a clean relief bill to help struggling Americans right now, this all or nothing approach doesn’t allow members of congress to vote against things they disagree with. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Here is a perfect example of how bad our leaders in Congress are and why they all need to fired. We have families suffering, business closing in record numbers (110,000) family owned restaurants in the US . There are people about to lose their homes and jobs because of this pandemic. So what do the American citizens get, so they can feed their family and pay their bills....$600. All while the bill sends hundreds of millions of $$ to foreign countries for things nothing related to the pandemic. Look at a short list below. We’re sending $10 million for gender studies in Pakistan but if your an American family about to lose your house you get $600. Funding for these other initiatives should voted on independently not by stuffing them in the Covid relief bill, this a form a blackmail and business as usual in the swamp. We are pathetic.

Well the system is designed to reward the dishonest. There are things we could do to change it but since the people in there make the rules they’d never vote to implement the things to change the system. 1. 2 term limits for Senate and 4 term limits for congressmen, that makes 12 yrs for Senate and 8 for the house. 2. campaign donation limits to $1000 from an person, pac or company. 3, Any corruption charges met with 30 year sentences..... unconditional. People in these positions have to be held to incredibly high ethical standards. The only other option is torches and pitch forks from the people and demand change.

I’ve tried calling them about 5 times. They never answer the phone or return my messages. Not sure if they’re on reduced hours with COVID. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

All these are made overseas. When I spoke to a rep on the phone who has sold over 500 of these, said the one I was looking at was made in the same factory as the Bend Pak just painted differently and cost more because Bend Pak got the ones they sell ALI certified for insurance reason for people putting them in a auto repair shop. Not sure if he’s telling me the truth but the Bend Pak is $900 more and come with aluminum ramps vs steels. I just looked online and it appears that BendPak 4 posts lifts are made in China (like all the others) and have been for at least 12 years. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

With work being so busy my pursuit of getting the Z finally home has taken a back seat. I no longer can drop trips when I want like I could let-COVID. It’s all hands on deck in the shipping industry. Like everyone else I’m blaming COVID. Has anyone noticed how difficult is it to get things in the marketplace right now. Furniture, appliances etc....I paid for my new furniture 4 months ago and then last week the store closed it’s doors and took all our money. They have a sign “closed permanently due to COVID-19”. Now we are disputing the charges with the credit card company. We also had a difficult time getting out new family car as inventories are low so dealers aren’t “dealing” they’re gouging. Sorry for the tangent. My garage is almost ready to invite the Z in (more shelving to build today) but my wife doesn’t want it sitting outside (she’s embarrassed to see a beater in our driveway). I keep telling her it’s going to be beautiful some day. At which point I get the “are you kidding me look”! So I am planning on putting in a 4 post lift so I can stack my Z and keep my wife happy. I’m sure we have people on here that have one so I thought I’d show the one I’m looking at on the forum. It’s the Atlas Pro 8000. https://racetoolsdirect.com/product/8000-lb-capacity-4-post-lift/?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIi4WG-tHh7QIVBaiGCh2i3AeaEAQYByABEgLRKPD_BwE My garage is just tall enough for the Z and my other car at 117” I don’t have much experience with these lifts, but reviews look good. Edit: Not sure how this got in the Engine & Drivetrain section...can’t seem to move it now to Open Discussions

It’s mostly filled with immoral people but that’s not a reason to give up on our system. We can get positive outcomes out of Washington but the people need to hold them accountable. The media isn’t helping on that front. I’d only go because I’d rather be part of a broken system than sit on the sidelines and complain how the sausage is made. I’d wait until the kids are out of the house and I have nothing else better to do. I’ll work in some capacity until the day I die because the alternative will kill you faster. When I see these clowns we have in Congress I say to myself “wow, we can’t do better than this moron”. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

It’s ugly for sure, pathetically ugly. I don’t know what the solution is. We have corruption everywhere in government and on both sides and since the government leaders are their own watchdogs in many cases all their actions are driven by either self/party interest or by the desire to destroy to other side. I sleep better at night pretending it doesn’t exist Maybe I’ll make a run in a few years and dip my feet into the swamp. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

We are the leader in the aviation industry on crew rest and we didn’t want the imposed FAA rules on rest because It would have made things worse because of when and how we operate. It’s complicated but the devil is in the details. The UPS crash in Birmingham was purely human error and complacency on the crew. I’ve listened to the cockpit voice recorder in that mishap and we did a case study on it at work last month. On ZHs point. The FAA doesn’t have the depth of professionals to be able to get in the weeds on all new processes and equipment. This sort of stuff has been happening in aviation since its dawn. Regulation is a double edge sword. Not all regulations make us safer, some do the opposite. Most are well intended but fail to see second and third order effects. We get better every year, and we have to have some faith in manufactures. Just like the FDA, it’s not a perfect system. Boeing screwed this one up and they have paid dearly with their reputation and financially. Could have killed the company. Aviation safety is written and progressed in blood. Your greatest risk of dying in a plane is toxic smoke inhalation and manufactures still haven’t changed materials and made it a priority. They’ve already made the cost analysis and it’s cheaper to keep the current materials the standard when they look at the financial risk. I think one the biggest threats to safety and quality in many industries is Wall Street. People only care about quarterly profits. This ultimately hurts the American consumer in so many ways. Companies make poor decisions to meet quarterly profit goals. I don’t know what the financial or engineering reason Boeing chose to not support MCAS with a redundant indicting system. It was probably due to cost but it’s a guess and maybe the FAA was too much imbed with the company. We need to get lobbyist out of Washington...they are the greatest threat to Americans in so many ways, especially in Pharma and medical devices but also in many other critical industries and environmental areas. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

No offense taken but this story has nothing to do with the quality of the US pilot population and the failure of 737 max. This is an area I do consider myself an expert unlike how to fix my Z. I have an aerospace degree from the nation’s leading aviation university, I have a another degree in aviation safety. I have so many hours that I don’t ever keep a logbook anymore. I have been the lead investigator on numerous aviation mishaps sorting through wreckage to determine causal factors and writing the final mishap report. I’ve watched my friends be placed in coffins with loved ones in tears. The failures in aviation that lead to crashes are predicable, have common causes and preventable. It’s a wholistic approach..a man, machine, system integration. All have to be right for the relationship to work. Good pilot, flying a bad airline or poorly designed system is a accident waiting to happen. Bad pilot flying a good airplane has it dangers too. I flew the Harrier for 20 years....it’s a death trap. Trying to kill you every time you start the engine. It requires unbelievable training and proficiency to be safe and fly it effectively. It took 30 years to get this plane to any semblance of “safe”. I lost 2 jets when I was a squadron commander. We had no automation in those planes. We have killed 65 pilots in the plane since it came to our flight lines. Automation has made commercial aviation much safer but it has it dangers too. You can’t blindly trust it, you have to be ready and trained to be in 100% control. Airbus and Boeing have completely different approaches to automation. On an Airbus you are a voting member, you cannot completely override the airplane, it won’t let you do many things. The design philosophy is “we engineers won’t let you get in a dangerous place and the jet will stop you if you try”. This led to many early airbus accidents, like the stall on takeoff of an airbus in Paris leading to a terrible crash. When you have a system, sensor failure feeding bad info to a computer that is the final decider you are in trouble. Not the case in a Boeing product. In the end you can disconnect all the computers and automation and fly with old school stick and rudder skills. Yes, you can stall it, over speed or over G it. You might have to to save the plane. Automation is great, it reduces fatigue so when you come to land the pilot is not exhausted from 5 hour of hand flying. But most of you don’t know, all the landings are being flown by hand. Only in rare cases do we let the jet land and those are Cat3 approaches that the weather is so poor that a pilot cannot see the runway to land at 50’. I’ve done 3 of these and they scare the crap out of me . Trusting the jet to land. We use what’s called the “Swiss Cheese” model to reduce accidents, impeded the error chain of event and improve safety. Look it up and you can see what layers we use to stop a single event to lead to a crash. Here is a fantastic article I think you should read. It is tantalizing for me as a pilot. The airbus has no AOA “angle of attack” indicator which is so crazy it boggles my mind. It is the most important instrument in an airplane and tells you if the how close the wing is to stall. The airbus doest provide this information to pilots and all these people on this Air France jet died because of it, but the first officer also had very low flight hours which was causal. He wouldn’t have been allowed to sit in a jet like this in the US. They stalled the plane from 38,000’ until it impacted the water after a momentary induction glitch due to icing. The Challenger crash was caused my a systematic leadership failure at Morton Thyicol and NASA. Pressure to to fly when they knew the o-rings were susceptible to failure at low temperatures and pressure from leadership to fly regardless of the risk. We can discuss the FAA issue as well. It’s complicated. My neighbor is a high ranking FAA employee and I hear about all the challenges that are facing. Read this article: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vanityfair.com/news/business/2014/10/air-france-flight-447-crash/amp Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

There is a lot to discuss on this topic. I’ll try and distill it down as briefly as possible. 1. The 737 Max was crashed by two foreign airlines. This is an important data point. I’ll start by saying if you board an Ethiopian airline and don’t have your life insurance policy up to date then you are foolish. The US has the highest standards for airline pilots in the world. If you are flying on a large carrier like AA or Delta or SWA then I can assure you the pilots are highly trained, experienced and proficient. The FAA has placed such stringent standards on US pilots that I can promise you that your are in good hands. We go through psychology exams, personality tests, cognitive tests and difficult aviation knowledge tests. You can’t fly for a large US carrier unless you have extensive experience with 1000’s of hours in command in a airplane. Not the case overseas. There is a major pilot shortage in the world. I cannot say that you are safe when you fly a low budget foreign airline. My buddy flew the 737 at SWA and said he loved it. 2. When the jet does something unexpected or you that you don’t like the first thing you do is turn off the automation. You cannot wait until you are in a 40 deg dive to make that decision, it has to be made right away. These crashes the pilots waited to long to intervene. Where I work we hand fly all takeoffs and landings. We don’t hand it over to the auto pilot anywhere near the ground. I typically put the autopilot on at 18,000’. I disarm it about 12 miles prior to landing. 3. Boeing didn’t fully explain the MCAS system they put in the jet. It was installed to counter the pitch up on takeoff because of powerful under slung engines. They also didn’t have redundancy in the AOA probe. A single failure on this probe and you get bad outcomes from MCAS. They have dual and triple redundancy in all about systems but didn’t here. I’m confident this wouldn’t have happened on a US carrier. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I concur with ZH, but in the end make the car what makes you happy not others. What I meant about changes is things like cutting the wheels wells to put fender flares on and such. That is better done on a car that needs lots of love and has rust there already. Not saying the bumpers are an afternoon job. Front is pretty easy, back requires removal of the drip edge by drilling out spot welds and then filling holes where bumper shocks came out, followed by paint I’ve seen many that leave the holes but it’s much better looking when they’re filled. In the end it could be reversed if a later owner liked the rail road ties. The big bumpers grow on you so as ZH said have the vision of what you want before stepping off. My first order of business would be mechanical. Go through it, and make sure all your hoses are good, look for leaks, give it a tune up, change fluids and then drive it to find any bugs or quirks. Don’t throw away anything as you make the changes you want. Congrats Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Very cool what you do. Airplanes have been part of my life since I was a young kid. Like you, having a passion for what you do makes it almost not feel like work. I’m currently flying the 757 but I am type rated in both the 757 and 767. I almost moved to the 767 last month because there is a really nice pay bump but I’d lose seniority and control of my schedule. Quality of life over money, it’s a value decision that many don’t understand. Most guys chase the $$. I commute on our 767 and everyone loves them, minus the bathroom in the cockpit. That was a UPS build spec that we didn’t want to pay to change but that’s the only complaint. The rest of our aircraft have the bathroom behind the cockpit door. We did have an accident in LAX in a brand new 767 about 8 weeks ago. One of the main landing gear failed to extend and the emergency system failed also. Really a 1.000,000 to 1 odds. Pilot climbing out of the window of the cockpit had a minor injury. These plans are a joy to fly and so reliable it amazes me. In the four years I’ve been with them, I’ve never had a flight cancelled due to a maintenance related issue, only declared an emergency once when a throttle cable got water in it and froze one the throttle levers. When I flew fighters in the USMC the jets broke about 30% of the time you tried to fly and I declared an emergency about 3 times a month. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk