3000gt's/Stealth very own off topic thread: Part Quatre

American and Russian satellites collided over Siberia and fell over Texas in a fireball and two nuclear submarines collided at sea between England and France, because of today's anti-sonar technology.

Wassup

1st post! woot!

we should have left it as 1 giant 1000-page thread :icon16:

Found this on 3Si. Absolutely stunning pianist- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qvglWAHDak

You're all banned. :p

Well, today I got my SL out of the impound. Maybe I was a bit harsh in my last post. :D

In all honesty, I have no idea how you could work at the impound. Every single person in there absolutely ripped into this lady as they were paying to get their cars out. Lol, to be honest, I was the only person there that didn't freak out on them...didn't have the heart to rip on a middle-aged lady who really didn't have anything to do with taking my car. I just paid and left.

On a brighter note, I did recieve this today. :D


http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t60/SL3000gt/CIMG0695.jpg

WHATTUP??? Gettin' in on thread 4 here! Haha

Any body have Monday off? I did...was at Starbucks the whole day workin' on some internal resume stuff for a promotion...DOH!?! :p

mmm...downpipe sex...

where did you end up getting it from?

Hehe, you'll like this Autostrada. I got it from a guy on 3SI who barely used it (it is like brand new) for $100 plus shipping ($128). It is a Stillen DP that elims the front cat and main cat (so I have to gut the rear precat). It retails for like $380 on 3SX. Steals FTW!

^ you gotta love awesome deals like that...

im little lost without 3si right now haha man I havent posted here in a while

Hehe, you'll like this Autostrada. I got it from a guy on 3SI who barely used it (it is like brand new) for $100 plus shipping ($128). It is a Stillen DP that elims the front cat and main cat (so I have to gut the rear precat). It retails for like $380 on 3SX. Steals FTW!

Wow. fantastic deal.
Yea, thats the exact DP i've got on my wishlist lol...guess i should be paying closer attantion in the for sale threads :rolleyes:

your a bastard btw...:icon16:

let me know how that sounds when you get it on.

Wow.. I new Beggining.. I can't believe how many of these we go through.. lol

Wow. fantastic deal.
Yea, thats the exact DP i've got on my wishlist lol...guess i should be paying closer attantion in the for sale threads :rolleyes:

your a bastard btw...:icon16:

let me know how that sounds when you get it on.

Actually, I didn't even look through the for sale threads. I just posted up, "Looking For an Aftermarket 2nd Gen Downpipe" and had this guy pm me. I will get a video up when I get it installed.


Edit: Did we have rep points before the new "upgrade"? I'm not sure if I just never paid attention or we just now have the ability to rep.

Does anyone have any thoughts on the stimulus bill? Such as how our country is going to fare in not only the next few years but the next few decades as well. I had a really long conversation with my mom yesterday and just want to see what others are thinking...is it "FUCKFUCKFUCK" or "<3 Obama"?

How about fuckfuckfuck Obama.

how about fuckfuckfuck obama.

:1:

:1:

+2

I'm seriously worried here. I had a feeling we were all fucked when he got voted in.

lol, whats wrong? printing more money wont help the economy? :rolleyes:

+2

I'm seriously worried here. I had a feeling we were all fucked when he got voted in.
Oh Polygon... you have not changed.:sly::lol:

lol, whats wrong? printing more money wont help the economy? :rolleyes:


I sure do love illegally printed money...

Oh Polygon... you have not changed.:sly::lol:

Nope, NEVAR! :icon16:

What is Obama's approval rating at now? I rarely even see people try to defend him anymore on political forums. I honestly hope that he in some way can get out of office as soon as possible. And frankly, I believe that if someone voted for him from the beginning they were either greedy or or incredibley gullible.

EDIT: I looked it up and his approval rating has slipped from 68% to 60%. However, when voted into office his approval rating was at 83% and fell to a staggering 68% approval rating after only one week. While that may be, he has over double the average disapproval rate from a president that has taken office after just one month which is 24%. I have a feeling we will see these continue to worsen as time goes on.

^ +1. I hope he gets out of office as soon as possible, one way or the other. If we get a holiday because of it that's a bonus... :icon16:

Unfortunately, i think the damage is already done. In fact, the damage was done back in 2001 when congress didn't listen to Bush's warning about an impending Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac financial crisis....and then again in 2003 when he and McCain more urgently did the same.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMnSp4qEXNM

Anyway, at least it's a good time to buy a house/car :shrug:

I listened to his address to congress tonight and he had a few point I can agree with but the rest is misguided bullshit mixed with absurd claims. How the hell does he think he can cut the deficit in half during his term when he just added close to a trillion on top of it?

Seriously, though I thought about it and I would rather see Pelosi run out of Washington. She is the dumbest pile of shit ever. She's the kind of person I would just like to punch in the face to absolutely no reason.

We sure could use Regan right now. :shakehead

:lol: Pelosi is one of the dumbest people to ever reach upper-level politics I have ever seen. You have to love her, "I just saw a ghost" look. And you're right Polygon, his speech is what it has been from the start...a misguided false hope. Looks like when I get out of college in a year or so I won't have a job market to go into.

As a taxpayer and one of the EVIL rich :screwy: I say piss on all socialists! Get off your lazy ass and quit sucking the life out of my hard work!


Oh, good to see you guys again :icon16:

As a taxpayer and one of the EVIL rich :screwy: I say piss on all socialists! Get off your lazy ass and quit sucking the life out of my hard work!


Oh, good to see you guys again :icon16:

+1,000,000

Nice to see you again man. How are things?

As a taxpayer and one of the EVIL rich :screwy: I say piss on all socialists! Get off your lazy ass and quit sucking the life out of my hard work!


Oh, good to see you guys again :icon16:

Now come on Yogs, remember what Obama said, it's not socialism it is being "neighborly."

The sad thing is, even after how bad he has started off everyone is still on their knees praising him. :banghead:

His approval rating keeps dropping. At this rate his approval rating will be less that Bush's was in 6 months.

Actually it went back to 67 after his speech. I doubt we will see a president worse than Bush in our lifetime (or at least I hope).. HOPE HA! :lol2:

Actually it went back to 67 after his speech. I doubt we will see a president worse than Bush in our lifetime (or at least I hope).. HOPE HA! :lol2:

See, that is the thing. He talks a big game which gets everybody excited. And honestly, he does a very good job at speaking which is why he so convincing to everybody. Unfortunately, that is all he is, is talk. I would be nothing short of surprised if he is very unpopular in the coming years.

Take the teleprompter away and he is a bumbling uhh, umm, idiot. All his smoothness goes away.

Only thing I can say is at least his voice doesn't hurt my ears. I was sitting in my room one night during campaigning and somone had left the TV on in the living room and a Hillary Clinton speech came on.

OMG that women has a voice worse that nails on a chalkboard. I could hear it over my TV. I had to go shut it off before I went into convulsions.

Here's a funny little tidbit. In that speech he said that America invented the automobile.

:lol:

I didn't watch the speech but I heard about that.

Proves his intelligence isn't as great as people think. Unfortunately 80% of American's probably didn't know any better. :rolleyes:

Proves his intelligence isn't as great as people think. Unfortunately 80% of American's probably didn't know any better. :rolleyes:

Yeah, there might be two people that voted for him that said, huh, when he said that. The rest just believe it was the model T. I don't get why people confuse that with the first car simply because it was the first mass produced car since Ford invented the assembly line.

:grinno:

lol, i missed that. Not the first time he's lied though. just search "Obama caught in a lie" on youtube. you'll be entertained for hours, them pissed off that the libral media never covers this kind of thing.
You know if it was Bush if would be the biggest joke on SNL/Daily Show/(insert other uninventive show here) for a month. Fortunately Bush didn't make off the wall fabrications like that. Any of you remember in Obama's campain when he was talking about his uncle who helped "liberate Auschwitz" is WWII? Yea, he never actually had an uncle in WWII, and in fact, the russians liberated Auchwitz, Allied forces never actually went in. Good thing our president knows US history :/

Igor, you cant accurately judge a president until 10 years after they're out of office. Yes, Bush was a horrible public speaker, but at least he was honest (for a politician anyways) and had a clue...I guess people went kind of the other way this time around. I honestly think that history will remember Bush rather fondly...especially after the next 4 years we're going to go through.

Haha, that's Obama's problem...he can't lie as well as Clinton did when he was in office. And he was damn good at it too!

But I do remember that part about Obama telling a story that was 100% false about his uncle autostrada...time to go look for more fun stuff on youtube though!

Actually it went back to 67 after his speech. I doubt we will see a president worse than Bush in our lifetime (or at least I hope).. HOPE HA! :lol2:

Thats right, you're not old enough to remember CARTER!!

But we have Carter part duex right now :headshake



BTW - I've been away to long! Crazy stuff.

wow guys 3 pages of political bashing :headshake lol well i've had probably the most interesting 3 weeks of my life...

I broke off the engagement between me and my ex because i realized i wasn't happy and was tired of being abused... She then breaks into my house sleeps in my bed and leaves me a note :sly: A few days later gets in the crossfire cuts open my brif case and dumps all my papers out .... Well another police officer tells her if he catches her back around she is going to jail...

Well a few days before this during the big windstorm i get blown into a ditch in the..... POLICE CRUISER yeah... you know its hard to climb over all that shit and out the passenger door.. atleast it did NO body damage just busted radiator.. So i get a broke rib,bruised sternum, and bruised lung out of it all... and 3 weeks paid time off :D

During that time i remodeled a room and maybe purchasing a old nascar crafstman truck to make street legal.....

H...O...L...Y... SHIT!

Where to start? I'm sorry about your engagement, but it sounds like it was for the better. Hope you get feeling better too. I'm guessing it's not too bad being you're doing remodeling.

:tongue:

Now, you're saying you got your hands on a retired Craftsman truck series truck? If so, we need some pics!!!

Sorry to hear about the poor luck Dreamspawn.

In another news, a few of you may get a kick out of this.

So my buddy is having a kegger this last Friday night and I call my brother to come over and he says that he will be there in a bit. Well, on his way to the party he is battling a blizzard that we had here.

He then calls me about a block away and the phone conversation went something like this:

Him: "I'm just pulling up to T-Circle" (located on a steep hill)
Me: "Ok, just come inside after you park."
Him: "WTF is this jackass doing?!"
Me: "What?"
Him: Somebody is driving straight at me...fuck!" (drops the phone)

I go outside to see what had happend and it turns out someone at the party had their car slide down the hill after it had been parked there for a 1/2 hour nearly hitting my brother on his way up the hill where it then proceeded to crash at the bottom of the hill into someone's garden. Turns out in order to just miss this runaway car my brother had to throw his car in reverse and stomp on it to get out of the way. :lol: Checked around inside to see who's car it was and sure enough it was one of my friend's cars. A little front end damage on his Toyota and that was it but was funny as shit to see/experience.

Dude, that totally reminds me of something that almost happened to me.

A few years ago I had to take my dad's Grand Cherokee up to his place 3 hours away so I could tow his Toyota truck back to my place. Well, I go to the guy who I was renting the Uhaul tow dolly. He shows up a minute late in a 1 ton Ford dump truck with a plow on it. We are sitting in the office when I look out the window the the truck started sliding, not rolling, backwards on the ice right toward the GC. :eek:

I ran out and jumped in the truck and put the plow down to stop it.

That could have been BAD!

damn i'm glad i dont have to deal with snow/ice anymore

dreamspawn, congrats man. it sounds like if you had waited to break it off it would have cost you alot more money ;)

We all just love icy conditions!

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^^All I am getting are red x's for your pictures Dreamspawn.

Big red x

glad i'm not the only one this time...(having comp. problems)

anyways, which would you rather have. '99 VR4 or Spyder VR4?

99, Spyders are nice, but a 99 is just mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm. :)

how about a spyder w/'99 front end conv.?

actually, the more i see it the more I like the 97/98 front bumpers...almost as much if not more than the 99s.

anyone have experience with stocks? I'm looking to buy some stock in GM...their shares are down to like $1.40. No place to go but up...or bankrupt lol.

So anyways i'm a stock noob. I was looking at a few online trade sites, but they're talking about minimum trades/month, minimum assets, etc. I just want to but a few hundred shared and be done with it. Is it not possible to invest directly, without having to pay commissions and fees and whatnot?

Nah, I don't know enough to be giving advice in this kind of economic situation.

On another note, does anyone other than Stealthee get on AIM in here? I am pretty sure I have a screename on AIM that is like Blink182 but I never see him (Autostrada now) or anyone else get on...just wondering.

my SN in TWLNTURBO3000GT
.................^(that's an "L")

I forgot my password...been meaning to recover it. Now since you've reminded me i think i'll go do that lol

EDIT: :banghead: well, my new AIM is AutostradaVR4...I couldnt recover my password...apparently whatever email i used is one i dont have anymore.

I get confused on AIM more often than not. I tend to not be able to remember which AIM name corresponds with who's board name. Between here and 3si its gets very confusing. :lol3:

I'm on AIM still...at least my computer's on. Haha

Anyone here do indoor rock climbing? I did it for the first time last week and it was fun fun FUN!!!!!! :oD Lookin' to join a gym but $90 a month is rather expensive... :o(

anyone have experience with stocks? I'm looking to buy some stock in GM...their shares are down to like $1.40. No place to go but up...or bankrupt lol.

So anyways i'm a stock noob. I was looking at a few online trade sites, but they're talking about minimum trades/month, minimum assets, etc. I just want to but a few hundred shared and be done with it. Is it not possible to invest directly, without having to pay commissions and fees and whatnot?

I would read Investors Business Daily newspaper regularly.
They teach you how to find good stocks & how to read charts.

I have been trading with "paper money" (which isn't real money) for almost two years, I haven't found ANY automotive stock worth buying.

Auto manufacturing industry is way down (not the lowest) but close, on investing charts.
I would look at the news for GM and see if anything is happening (like a new CEO that as a track record of turning businesses around) Or signs that they're getting tough against government and union regulations:rolleyes:
before I would buy their stock

One stock and industry thats doing great for me ie ESI (ITT institute)
The school industry is doing very well.
IBD also has a web site that is very helpful.

I would read Investors Business Daily newspaper regularly.
They teach you how to find good stocks & how to read charts.

I have been trading with "paper money" (which isn't real money) for almost two years, I haven't found ANY automotive stock worth buying.

Auto manufacturing industry is way down (not the lowest) but close, on investing charts.
I would look at the news for GM and see if anything is happening (like a new CEO that as a track record of turning businesses around) Or signs that they're getting tough against government and union regulations:rolleyes:
before I would buy their stock

One stock and industry thats doing great for me ie ESI (ITT institute)
The school industry is doing very well.
IBD also has a web site that is very helpful.

I'm not looking to get into trading or anything, just buy stock on one company. Buying stock in something that's doing well seems kinda pointless to me. The thing is, the auto industry is in the shitter right now, but it IS undoubtedly going to come back. Now is not the right time to buy becasue thats what the numbers say. It's been on a downward spiral for XX months. But, It doesn't have much further down to go. GM could go bankrupt...in which case i lose my couple hundred bucks...but i dont think that very likely. I plan to hold onto it for a while. Even if it takes 10 years, if it gets back up to where it was, i'll be in good shape.
I have been keeping track of the company somewhat...gov't loans, new vehicles,, parterships, etc. I huge company like GM has a lot of baggage it can lose to keep afloat through rough times. They are selling the Saab and Hummer brands, and getting rid of Saturn and possibly Pontiac. They have the Volt (Ampera in europe) set to come out, as well as a few small and city cars. They also have the new Camaro, which had orders piling up, and the CTS, not to mention the Vette(s).
The Volt i think will be their real turnaround car though. The market is hungry for a real, no quirks electric car thats practical and works, and is not priced out of reach.

Hey blink, do you know anyone around the austin area that knows how to do a fwd clutch swap for cheap?

Some of you may get a real laugh out of this. This guy has a sleeper Volvo turbo and came upon this guy:

http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=5931630#post5931630

Hey blink, do you know anyone around the austin area that knows how to do a fwd clutch swap for cheap?
hmmm...i bet Javier (ATXVR4) could do it. If you could make it down to SA i'd say get in touch with Tyler (jumptman). I believe he has access to a lift at his father's shop (not sure about that though).

wassup guys, havn't been on in forever. Life is constantly busy. The house I bought last year has been nothing buy a fixer-upper. 2 pipes burst in the last few months, I've had to gut an entire room, floor, ceiling, walls, etc. Just feel like I've been working on it every day trying to improve it. My gf got laid off, so at least we both have had the time to do it. I finally decided to pick up another real job and just interviewed for a new sales job today...still playing poker on the side, but the more money coming in, the better. We also adopted 3 pitbulls in the last few month, so now the grand total is 5 dogs, and they do their best to keep us busy. All in all life is good, hope you all can say the same. Sorry I havn't been on here or AIM much, I keep saying I will work on that, but who knows.