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Site Suggestions / New Member Forum?
I was just wondering what you all would think of adding a new member forum. It seems we are attracting many new members and it might be nice to have a place for them to introduce themselves.

Feel free to shoot me down on this if you think it is a stupid idea.
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Lounge / Snow!!
Well, it's finally happend. We have our first snowstorm of the season.
Unfortunately, this is my weekend to work but there is an upside.

My boss put me up in a hotel that's in the same complex as our building with dinner and what not at no cost to me. Have any of you stayed in a Residence in Marriott? The room was like a small apartment. A separate bedroom, living area, kitchen with a refrigerator, stove, dishwasher and all the plates glasses utensils and so on. Two tvs okay, two.

He also gave me access to the company 4wd van. It's a '97 Ford Aerostar that looks new and has just over 30,000 on the ticker. While it may not seem like much of a company vehicle, it gets the job done. It did suck digging it out from the 2 foot snowdrift blocking me in though.

Now I just hope that I don't have school tomorrow or atleast have a long delay. I talked to my parents at home and my Tib is buried in a snow drift along with most of my driveway. And they plowed the street so there is a nice wall there. And as luck would have it, our snow blower isn't working. Both my mom and dad have 4x4's so they'll have no problems. So it looks like I'll be shoveling when I get home around 9 tonight to get up at 5am for class. That's a big disadvantage to working 12 hour shifts. Oh well.

So how is your winter storm situation?
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T-Bird/Cougar Parts & Cars WANTED / doors/fenders wanted
I'm looking to replacing some stuff so here's my list.

Drivers side
fender with cornering light
door with keyless entry

Passenger side
fender with cornering light
door

My main concerns are the drivers door and fender since they are much worse than the pass side.

I'm looking for rust free parts with no dings or wrinkles.

I haven't started looking in yards yet but thought I'd put a post up for the parts.
Let me know if you have anything.
Thanks,
Fred
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Lounge / Hey, DerikWayne...
*[SIZE="5"]Happy Birthday!![/SIZE]*

Happy Birthday to the guy with one of the coolest paint jobs around here.
Hope it's a good one for you.
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Engine Tech / Starting Woes
I can't get the car to start. It's getting fuel fine. I turn the key and it cranks but it's not getting enough spark to fire up.
It will crank and give one puff like it quasi started and die or it will crank and then stop cranking on its own.
The usual, coil, plugs, wires, cap and rotor are all good.
Ignition switch? TFI?

I'll do a KOEO test to see if I get anything in codes.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

5.0HO, MAF
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Lounge / I can't believe the t-bird I just saw
I just saw on the news a "Pimp my Sleigh Christmas Mustang" as stated by the news reporter. It was a white MN12 T-Bird. This car was covered in candy and lights. I mean COVERED! Inside where the dome light is was a tube that was a fish tank hanging from the ceiling. It had fish in it. Has anybody seen this? It's out in California. I'm trying to find a picture because I can't believe what I just saw.
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Lounge / Hit at work.... again
Well some of you may remember the thread I had a while back where my bosshiznit my car. All went well and he took care of everything. Guess what... I got hit again.
This time it's much worse so needless to say, I'm not happy. Bright and early tomorrow morning, I'm going hunting for a white Buick Century.
It may not look like much in the pic, but this thing is big and it just so happens to be along one of the sharp body lines. What fun. I think I'll start making my own spot up on the grass.
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Lounge / Coca-Cola=No Santa
I noticed about a week or two ago that the holiday pen 15e cans started coming into the stores. But Santa was missing. The Polar Bears are on the cans now. Now while I like the pen 15e Polar Bears, they don't deserve Santa's spot. Please tell me I'm not the only one traumatized by this. :(
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,175562,00.html
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Events & Shows / UPS show updates/ pictures
5th Annual UPS Car Classic - A Car, Truck, and Motorcycle Show to Benefit the United Way
Oct 15th, 2005, UPS facility: 14841 Sweitzer Lane, Laurel, MD 10am-4pm, (Rain Date Oct 16th)
INFO 
Jim Lanham at (301) 604-4652 or (301) 390-9085 or Alan Lanham at (240) 832-8868

My cousin mentioned this one to me. He said they had something like 1000 cars last year with classes covering everything and anything. They are also supposed to have a dyno and burnout competition.

I'll probably head down there as long as the cars running decent Saturday morning.

Any other takers?
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User Rides / The Braless Cat...
I've had the bra off for a couple months now. Now you can see why I chose to put a bra on it. Now it's been off so I'm kind of used to it being gone and not sure if I want to put it back.
Now looking at it compared to the pic in my sig, I like it better with the bra.:dunno:

Looking for opinions.
Should it stay or should it go?
Yeah, I know the car's dirty, weather's been py here.

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Lounge / Bosshiznit my car...
Not the Cougar but my new "I'm paying out my @$$" Tiburon.

Okay, so they aren't that expensive but I only work part time and my payments are high because of the whole first time buyer  and that I qualified for the car own my own, with no co-signer and little established credit. Since I'm 20 and starting out with basically nothing, I'm paying out the wazoo for this thing.

So I go outside today and look at my car. (Always helps reduce the stress of a work day.) I notice that there is a se where my blue paint came off along with a nice sharp ding about the size of a finger tip on my driver's side fender. I know this wasn't there last night because I was admiring my new drivers front wheel center cap(a story all in it's own) and I dusted the car with my California duster. I would have seen it.

This morning I backed into my usual reserved spot next to the company van which never moves. I walked outside after lunch to look over the car( which has had valve stem caps stolen off of so I always keep an eye out) and noticed the damage. I look at the van and it's pulled in where it was backed in this morning. They took thae van out to lunch today.

 Angry to see my car damaged, I walked around to the passenger side of the van and sure enough on the edge of the door is blue paint.(The van is white). I measured the height of the paint on the van's door and compared it to the height of the ding on my car and it was a direct match. Whoever was in the passenger seat of the van hit my car when they left. I know the guy who was driving the van so I asked him who was in the passenger seat and told him that my car washiznit. As it turns out it was my boss.

I can't believe that he would hit my car. He's so picky and careful with his Lexus that I can't believe he would be that careless and not even tell me. You can't tell me he didn't know he did it.
Anyway, he is gone for the day so I sent him an email. I won't be in again until Friday, so I'll find out what is going to happen then.

It's frustrating because I am picky about my car and where I park and I take my personal spot at work and get hit by my boss. Now by no means is my Hyundai a Lexus but for a college kid who needed something new, pulled it off, and is paying for it, I'm  proud of myself. It  me off that other people have to damage what I work so hard for.

Well I feel a little better now. Sorry for the long post and rant.