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Spike

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  1. On 5/17/2025 at 7:24 PM, RogerDuke said:

    Sounds like a fun ride. I just looked it up. Looks like a plane from Indiana Jones. Did the pilot have a whip and a cool hat and a fear of snakes?

    No lol. Been a busy few weeks. Entered my Pontiac G8 into the local British car show :lol:. Got a lot of questions on that lol. Phrase I used most was it's originally an Australian car. 

    Been getting that patio pots and planting boxes ready since we had a dry weekend. Then got the usual less than 48hr notice that the patio fences will be painted this weekend so no have to move everything to the center of the patio. So after an 11hour workday I get to go home and do more work moving everything. 

  2. Last Saturday I took a ride in a 97 year old Ford Tri Motor plane at the Toledo air show. My brother in law has never flown before so we seen that plane was offering rides and signed up. Was an interesting experience, I should have worn earplugs though as it was extremely loud. The airshow was pretty cool aside from the owner of the only P51 Mustang that showed up didn't put it on display after it flew. I really wanted to get close to it to check it out as it's my favorite plane. I got a bad sunburn unfortunately, been dealing with that the past week. 

    Yesterday we hit the annual neighborhood sale. I scored a mechanic/detailer seat for $5, just needs new wheels and I'm going to put a new seat on it. Scored some star trek books and other things too. 

  3. 14 hours ago, HossC said:

    Neither. The early models especially suffered from poor build quality, and there were four recalls to fix issues. Additionally, the US spec of the 2.85l (174ci) PRV engine only produced 130hp, with the claimed 0-60 time of 8.8 seconds being more like 10.5 seconds in reality. Allowing for inflation, these cars cost around $90-110k in today's money.

    There's a company, I think in Texas, that has restarted production of the Delorean DMC1 after a stash of parts were found. I read about it in car and driver or motor trend and I remember the price of the new ones was a bit much :lol:. Another company is retrofitting electric motors into old Deloreans. At a local Cars and Coffee show last October a trio of Deloreans showed up, one had over 300,000 miles. The owner daily drives it. 

     

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