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Ah! Vancouver! I have MANY friends there. Beautiful city.
OK, here's the IDs
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=3872040
From left to right:
Jim, my friend
Martha, my sister in law
Dave, Sheila's boyfriend
Sheila, my sister in law
Judy, Matt's wife
Matt, my brother in law
Granny Cool (10 kids, nine of which are in this pic)
Mary, my wife
John, my brother in law
Mr. Chicken Brains
Theresa, my sister in law (sorry Phil, she is married)
Kate, my sister in law
Tim, my brother in law
Fran, Tim's wife
Ann, my sister in law
Audrey, Flower Girl
Ted, Ann's husband
That was the best laugh I have had in days.
The "honey" being referred to is my wife's sister (one of 7 sisters) and the arm would be mine.
http://www.investorshub.com/boards/read_msg.asp?message_id=3872040
You may want to cut down on the corned beef there, dood!
That's what my wife said too. <G>
Uh......let me think about that....
Uh.....
No.
It's heartening that my recent marriage is generating so much interest on The Question and Answer Board. <G>
Yes, thanks. Black or white body, still a bottoming or topping tail, I assume. "Traditional" hammers need a next-day comfirmation of the reversal, if memory serves. (Yes, just checked on google.)
I sat next to a dood for about a year who swore by candlesticks. He was good. Made more dough day trading than he did as a doctor! Got wiped out in one single day on a short play that went ultra-sour. He "knew" the stock would eventually tank, but he ran out of money to average up. Back when the SPX would move 30 points every day. <G> Started over and within a year had regained most of his loss.
My analysis of the markets overall is not quite as bearish as yours; I see lots of signs of a longer-term bottom.
I'm in frickin' nothern Michigan.
High of 58 yesterday.
Balmy, eh?
LOL! Sounds like...
...a RACE CAR.
ARGH!
Greetings, Doc.
I've seen you reference "topping tails" on several occasions. I assume from looking at your charts that it's a candlestick pattern, but that's about as far as I can get. Google only gives me some lame site <G>.
What's a "topping tail" exactly?
TIA
TLC
Yipes, I've been reading about your track antics. Glad you're fixing the sitch.
I did actually know what car you were talking about. There were two cars at the time that had the pointy front end add-on and the giant rear wing...the other one is the Dodge Daytona (Charger) which is, if memory serves, the car Richard Petty drove in Nascar before they banned it.
http://www.eastohiocoolcars.com/Road%20Trip/RoadTrip2003/005/1970DaytonaA7.JPG
The differences in the two are subtle. Easiest way to tell the difference on the side of the car is the fake side "air scoops". They point opposite ways on the two cars.
I like the Superbird more, probably because I've owned a lot of Chargers and only two Superbirds, and because my favorite car of all time, the Coronet R/T, is the same exact body as the Superbird.
I remember the first time I ever saw a Charger Daytona. It was driving down the street in my home town in 1970 (I think). I thought it was the stupidest ugliest car I'd ever seen. I wasn't in to new cars at the time, I drove a 1950 Ford Woodie, my best friend drove a 1940 Ford coupe with a hemi in it, and my other best friend had (and still owns) a 1940 Ford convertible. Imagine that, he kept his car from high school in 1966.
Most people made fun of my old Ford because they thought it was so ugly. It had a stock flathead. I redid all the wood and I painted the car myself, "Taxicab Yellow." I still have pictures of it.
Dood, I did not know you have a lift in your dang garage. Impressive.
You have an EXCELLENT mechanic. Good for you.
Car loan: I personally would not jeapordize the equity in my home to get a car...but every circumstance is different, and you may be OK with it. I can't answer your q about tax deductions.
You know...mechanics see cars all the time. It might be a good idea to tell your dood that you are looking for another LeSabre. You could ask him if he wouldn't mind looking at a potential car before you buy it. He's going to be the one that works on the next one, so he would probably say yes. Another thing you could ask him is "What other cars would you suggest I look at besides the LeSabre?" He might have some good ideas.
The Clunk: sounds like a quiz question on Car Talk. We should have a little contest to guess what the Clunk is. My guess is the transmission needs some adjustment/work. It also might be the joints connecting the transmission to the rest of the car. Let us know what it turns out to be!
No, you didn't mention that.
Those are the kinds of garages that are fun to visit...
Wow! That's fantastic! Congratulations!
True. I sold cars for a few years and I learned a lot about buying them.
The single best "trick" I know (new or used cars) is to go to the dealership about 3 hours before it closes on the last day of the month. Find the car you want, subtract 12-15% of the asking price, and offer to buy the car for that price INCLUDING EVERYTHING, tax, license, everything. You have to know what the car is worth, because many dealers bump a used car way above what it is really worth and then let the buyer "grind" down to Actual Retail Value.
About half the time, the dealership will roll the car for a very small profit just to hit their sales number for the month. The secrets to this strategy are to have your financing ready before you go, don't take anyone with you that will stall the deal in any way (read between the lines on that...), have the car you want there on the lot and visible so you can test drive it, don't trade another car, DO NOT go up one single penny once you make your offer, and to walk away if they say no. I've actually seen more than one time where a buyer got to the door of the store and the Sales Manager called him back and made the deal.
Yow. Lots of questions!
My wife is a Michigan native, I'm more of a tropical person. I like places where I can walk outside with the same clothing I had on inside...
The Magnum R/T will/would be mostly a weekends-only thing. I wouldn't buy it to be a normal car. For sure I wouldn't buy one to commute 400 miles a week in.
I miss having a muscle car. I may go for that instead.
50 miles a day isn't bad! At one point some years ago I was driving from Glendale (CA) to Mission Viejo and back *every day*. For that gig I bought...a used Chrysler New Yorker with Mitsubishi 4 cylinder motor. I got it at the big LA car auction for about two grand if memory serves. The car worked great and never gave me any trouble.
This might sound weird, but for what you described, I would consider a mini-truck. What I like to do is find a good used car that needs something fixed, from a 'for sale by owner' ad in a newspaper. Bucket seats for sure.
My criteria for buying a used car are these:
I look at three overall things. Body and paint, mechanicals, and interior. Two out of three have to be OK or I pass on the car. Generally what I find is a car that has a decent body, decent interior, and something wrong with the drive train. For example, I just bought a car for my son about 4 months ago. 1987 Toyota Corolla. Body was just fine, tiny bit of rust around the rear wheelwells, the interior was OK but no headliner, ALL the electric stuff worked fine, motor fine, no coolant leaks, no oil leaks, 4 speed trans was fine, 2 new tires and 2 good used ones, but the car needed a CV joint that the owner didn't know about. The guy was asking $700 for the car. I pointed out to him that the THE AIR CONDITIONING DIDN'T WORK (which I could care less about but was a big deal to him), CV joint was going to cost at least $200, and the headliner was going to cost me $150, and the car would need a paint job for another $250, so I could only offer him $350 for the car...and he took it. I had the CV joint done, skipped the headliner, had my kid buff out the oxidation on the body, then we went to the boneyard and found some "cool rims", and he was stylin' in a car that never breaks. He wanted a new Corvette...but hey, he has wheels. Guess what he spent his money on for the car...a CD player and some big speakers.
Anyway, I would look for a truck or a mini truck. Good used trucks are not real easy to find 'for sale by owner', most of them have been used for work and are kinda thrashed, but you can find good ones. I'd find one that had little or no rust and had never been crashed, and preferably one that the owner had done some mechanical work on already. Smog-exempt is a big plus also.
Once I owned it, I would take it to a competent mechanic and have it brought up to new-car mechanical status (which can cost a lot of money if you get a busted motor or transmission). Then I would take it to an upholstery shop and get the driver's seat rebuilt, about $125.00, then I would find a shell for the back, have the body work done and repaint the whole thing in the same color. The great thing about trucks is that they don't lose much value. You can drive one for ten years and if it's kept in good condition, you can sell it no problem.
No matter WHAT you do, I would for SURE post messages about what you are anticipating buying. There are a bunch of people here that can help you a lot. Find a potential vehicle, check it out, find out what the owner wants for it, and then WALK AWAY and post a message here, and I promise you that you will not be sorry.
Thanks Phil, and yes, she has 6 sisters!
thanks!
amcc cpwr tivo zixi look ready to move up, yes?
It's just a pic of a top fueler off the NHRA site. No big deal.
I believe you are both wise and astute!
I just had a real nice experience. You know that feeling you have when you drive by an auto body shop and you see something cool in the parking lot and you wonder who built it?
Today I was driving down a street in a little tiny town in Wisconsin called Hurley. Out of the corner of my eye, I spotted what looked like a Superbee clone outside an auto body shop. I instantly went down that street to check it out.
I was wrong. It was a real Superbee, totally restored by the owner of the shop. Under the hood was a hemi.
Awesome.
Then I got another Big Treat. Turns out he's a Mopar freak like me and he let me look in the back room, where he restores old muscle cars. He was working on a '70 numbers-matching GTX, and had a '69 Roadrunner all set up to work on this winter.
The best part was this guy is a real pro, he knows how to restore cars correctly, and once he's done with a car, he sells it on EBAY. Except for the Superbee.
His prices are quite fair for the quality of the work he does, so if anyone that reads this sees a Mopar on Ebay and the owner is in Hurley, Wisconsin, it's probably this dood, and the car is most excellent.
any plans for lightening up your position?
Yes, the 'squareback' thingie is the one I plan on getting. "Mineral Gray Metallic" with the light gray interior. To tell you the truth, thirty grand is more than I have ever paid for a new car. In fact I've only bought one new car in my entire life.
I just thought about it... for thirty grand, I could get a '69 Satellite Roadrunner clone (don't need a real one and want the 440 not the 383) AND a '68 Coronet R/T (my favorite muscle car of all time).
...or I could get a 69 Satellite and a good old Dodge truck with a big block and have a party in Boogerville with the leftover money.
Or I could get a MOTORCYCLE.
I wonder what Bob would do.
Thanks very much, quahog! Yes, she is a cutie.
It's not without it's glitches, but it's fast. I checked it compared to a really expensive charting site that a friend of mine used and the speed was identical, less than one second from real-time, even though the "expensive" feed was "direct from Chicago" .
No harm taken, my friend. I am in fact semi-fossilized according to my kids...
If anyone hacks this site and erases everything on it, I won't tell...
http://www.twain-tech.com/index.htm
"Lucky" is right, dood.
"OLDER"??? I resemble that remark!
re: Magnum RT ... I'm getting one soon. I'll let you know how I like it.
I'm getting it for two reasons: I've never owned a hemi car, and I like the styling. I hope the car is not a POS.
I found a pic of a hemi head. You can see the bowl-like configuration. I don't know how much you know about engines...the "head" (cylinder head) is the part of the motor that sits on top of the "block" (where the pistons go up and down). The head contains the valves that let the gas into the combustion chamber (the air space above the piston) and let the spent exhaust gasses out. This picture shows the "underside" of the head, the part you can't see when the head is bolted onto the engine block.
http://prostockhemi.com/engines/bi3.jpg
http://prostockhemi.com/photos/bil50.jpg
"Hemi" motors are really easy to spot because the spark plug sits directly on top of each combustion chamber (rather than off to one side)...thus the top of the head on a hemi motor has a plug sticking up through the valve cover (not above or below the valve cover).
http://prostockhemi.com/engines/bi26.jpg
Here's what a hemi looks like in a car that goes from 0 to 320 in 4.5 seconds.
http://www.nhra.com/2004/gallery/index.html
sweet!
I have some Sept calls on LSI and KLIC that are working too.
Interestingly, it appears that some people who earlier said they were going to sell it today aren't selling it.
I just got a Sept 55 Put on SCSC, I think it will go down to 51 before it does anything else. PHSB is too thin to jack around with.
Yup. I read support and resistance differently depending on the time-frame. I made that trade based on a refinement I discovered in a pattern that most people call a 'descending triangle'.
I'm looking at SCSC and PHSB at the moment.
HEY!! You're making me dizzy with all those squiggly lines!!
DIS: I put an order out to cover at 21.03 "just in case", didn't expect to get hit but I did!
China is buying massive amounts of portland cement and steel mesh for concrete. If you can, find out anything you can about it, eh?
Thanks for the heads-up on IIIN. Are they selling anything to China???
I pretty much stick to my own style so I may pass on the Marketgems. I bot a poot on DIS yesterday anticipating a move down today so today is good. I'll probably hold onto the position for a while.