[pplassm]

Even Kevin Cameron has come around:

http://blog.cycleworld.com/2011/04/four-stroke-dirtbikes-the-new-reality-by-kevin-cameron/

 

[Buzglyd]

Don't forget, we got the "green" agenda rammed down our throats too. CA was hands out stickers telling you when you can or cannot ride your bike.

I have a friend nearby who's kid is trying to break in. Dad hates the thumpers and he's broke now.

The Environmental Industrial Complex wins again.

Suckers.

 

[mscuddy]

Did you see that one post in Cameron's blog thanking Superhunky?

 

[Morbo the Destroyer]

Did you see that one post in Cameron's blog thanking Superhunky?

That was me....

 

[mscuddy]

Thanks Morb...might be moving to Ft. Lauderdale in a year or so. Change the bong water....

 

[12er]

Thanks Morb...might be moving to Ft. Lauderdale in a year or so. Change the bong water....

Cuddy, at least in south florida if your hair is dyed a nice blue gray you can weave all over the road with impunity.

 

[Morbo the Destroyer]

Cuddy, at least in south florida if your hair is dyed a nice blue gray you can weave all over the road with impunity.

And our world-famous "Pain-Clinics" provide all the meds he needs at low, low, everyday discount prices!

 

[12er]

Just cant get a decent burrito...

 

[Buzglyd]

Just cant get a decent burrito...

No Shyt. I was having a glass of vino with the GF at a local joint last week. I was talking to this obnoxious broad and her husband from West Palm who just moved to San Diego.

She was bytching about everything from the weather to the shopping malls and then said, "We can't find any good Mexican food!"

I had finally had enough and said, "Lady, that's because you've been eating shyt. You have no idea what good Mexican food is if you've been living in Florida all these years."

Oi vey! The nerve!

 

[Morbo the Destroyer]

Say what you will about our Mexicans, but remember this:

WE are the Motherland of Pollo Tropical, freshly charred hormone-laden chicken, cleavered into submission before your very eyes by a sweating man of colour, and served with Arrows, Pan, and Fryjoles *******.

 

[12er]

and there it is, always with the black beans... Are Pinto's illegal in South Florida?

 

[Morbo the Destroyer]

and there it is, always with the black beans... Are Pinto's illegal in South Florida?

Not if they've had the gas tank recall performed.

 

[12er]

I knew when I posted a ford ref was coming. Ironically I believe the pinto was going to be the first production car with a tank liner, but that was axed right before production. Ooops...

 

[Morbo the Destroyer]

I knew when I posted a ford ref was coming. Ironically I believe the pinto was going to be the first production car with a tank liner, but that was axed right before production. Ooops...

I was heavily influenced by the Pinto fiasco. I was a Junior in High School when a friend was badly burned in his Pinto.

Ford's own testing showed that if you hit a Pinto from behind, the doors would jam shut. The differential bolts would penetrate the gas tank, rupturing it and sparking an explosion. At the same time, the rear floor would open up, making a duct for the flaming gasoline to blow forward into the passenger compartment. Basically the car became a self-sealing Toast -R- Oven for its passengers.

About a year later, I read a news expose about how Ford had made a deliberate decision to remove a $13 part from production Pintos. Their actuarials had calculated the cost of the lawsuits they knew would come from the families people who were burned to death in the cars, and compared it to the cost of the $13 part installed in the several million Pintos they planned to sell. The cost of the part was more than the cost of the lawsuits, so they decided to leave it out.

Making an error in design, even a grossly stupid one, is understandable. But knowing full well that your product had an easily correctable, deadly flaw, and choosing to sell it anyway, is beyond comprehension.

 

[Buzglyd]

I was heavily influenced by the Pinto fiasco. I was a Junior in High School when a friend was badly burned in his Pinto.

Ford's own testing showed that if you hit a Pinto from behind, the doors would jam shut. The differential bolts would penetrate the gas tank, rupturing it and sparking an explosion. At the same time, the rear floor would open up, making a duct for the flaming gasoline to blow forward into the passenger compartment. Basically the car became a self-sealing Toast -R- Oven for its passengers.

About a year later, I read a news expose about how Ford had made a deliberate decision to remove a $13 part from production Pintos. Their actuarials had calculated the cost of the lawsuits they knew would come from the families people who were burned to death in the cars, and compared it to the cost of the $13 part installed in the several million Pintos they planned to sell. The cost of the part was more than the cost of the lawsuits, so they decided to leave it out.

Making an error in design, even a grossly stupid one, is understandable. But knowing full well that your product had an easily correctable, deadly flaw, and choosing to sell it anyway, is beyond comprehension.

Rolling Stone magazine was pretty cool back then. Or were you reading High Times?

 

[mscuddy]

My 1976 Pinto Pony MPG was one of THE BEST cars I ever owned. Of ourse having a 220 hp motor helped some, you should have seen the faces of Porsche drivers when I'g go flying by them on the freeway....C6 transmission in a economy car...those crazy Ford guys...five main bearings and a crankshaft that weighed 75 lbs. Indestructable.

 

[Morbo the Destroyer]

Rolling Stone magazine was pretty cool back then. Or were you reading High Times?

Close, but no banana. It was "Mother Earth News," aka: Mother Jones. Written by Mark Dowie; the internal Ford memos on the testing and actuarial studies that Dowie obtained from disgusted Ford executives were admitted as evidence in the highly successful class action lawsuit that nearly put Ford out of business.

I read High Times too. Rolling Stone...not so much. National Lampoon was my clear favorite though.

You were reading what, "Instinct?"

 

[pplassm]

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http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/files/2011/01/national-lampoon-73.jpg

For some reason, that never works for me. What am i screwing up, HTML-wise?

 

[Morbo the Destroyer]

<img> src="http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/files/2011/01/national-lampoon-73.jpg" </img>

http://pajamasmedia.com/eddriscoll/files/2011/01/national-lampoon-73.jpg

For some reason, that never works for me. What am i screwing up, HTML-wise?

OMG...I'd forgotten that one. In it's heyday, that mag had some of the funniest stuff I've ever read, then, now, or in-between.

We used to pass them around (there were expensive). One of the editions had a centerfold photo of a girl's bicycle. On the seat was a "Scratch 'N Sniff" box. Somebody had actually scratched almost through the page!

 

[Buzglyd]

Close, but no banana. It was "Mother Earth News," aka: Mother Jones. Written by Mark Dowie; the internal Ford memos on the testing and actuarial studies that Dowie obtained from disgusted Ford executives were admitted as evidence in the highly successful class action lawsuit that nearly put Ford out of business.

I read High Times too. Rolling Stone...not so much. National Lampoon was my clear favorite though.

You were reading what, "Instinct?"

Heady days for a young misanthrope to be sure. Those were the days of the next ice age, global starvation and the population bomb. Dire issues to be solved by enslaving the taxpayer and expnding the role of government. Food rationing anyone?

How did all those predictions turn out?