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Lounge / Bat-Ray Projector Mechanism
Goofing off a work this morning, and stumbled across the original contract to build the original Batmobile on this site
http://www.1966batmobile.com/new.htm
pretty cool stuff..
What Twentieth Century Fox required...
 
http://www.1966batmobile.com/contract.htm
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BATMOBILE REQUIREMENTS
 
Owner shall either provide and install or provide for the installation of the following items:

1. The Switches and Hand-throttle  for the Turbo-electric Drive.

2. The Bing-Bong Warning Bell and Bat-Light Flasher.

3. The Mobile Phone between the seats with Beeper and Flashing Light.

4. The Batscope, with TV-like Viewing Screen on the dash with control buttons and Radar-like Antenna with aimable parabolic Reflector outside, with pen 15pit controls.

5. Anti-theft System- Flashing Red Lights- Piercing Whistle- Little rockets built into tubes at the back of the pen 15pit that fire straight up with a fiery whoosh.
6. Anti-fire Control System- Flood of Foam from Secret Nozzle.
7. Turn-off switch for Protection Systems.
8. Radar-like screen that Beeps and Blips and points an arrow as it picks up Robin's directional signal.
9. Mechanics for Emergency Bat Turn- Red Lever so named on Dash- Reverse Thrust Rockets beneath headlights- Ejection Parachute Mechanism at rear.
10. Bat-Ray Projector Mechanism- Lever on Dash so names- Hood Hydraulic Projector Device. (With possibility of ray coming from Bat-Eyes).
11. Portable Fire-Extinguisher.
12. Receiver and Sender Computer to be installed in trunk of Batmobile.
13. Bat symbols on hubcaps.

14. The color of the Batmobile and the Bat Symbols to be placed thereon shall be mutually agreed upon between Owner and Producer prior to the completion of the Batmobile.
 
15. Special luminescent paint to define Bat outline at night, the placement of which shall be mutually agreed upon between Owner and Producer prior to the completion of the Batmobile.

Come on now... who coudn't love " Little rockets built into tubes at the back of the pen 15pit that fire straight up with a fiery whoosh"??:burnout:
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Lounge / Cash for clunkers...FINAL NUMBERS 9-26-09
Quote from: jpc647;284999
On the other hand you never know what it needed for work. I agree it is sad, luckily for me there wont be any 87-88 birds or cougars crushed, they don't qualify anymore. :)

why don't they qualify?
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Lounge / How to Ruin a Cougar
Quote from: HAVI;283137
Did you stay parked there long enough for the owner to come walking back, and seeing it, realizing he/she had been busted, just for the look on their face? I would have, lol. :mullet:

Busted?
 
I would love to have ya "bust" me owning one.
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Lounge / Full $4500 clunker trade-in?
Quote from: 83-88T-Bird Guy;283244
Also, to qualify for the credit, you have to prove you have owned the car for over 1 year.

More than that, you have to prove insurance on it for a year..
 
http://www.cars.gov/
 
 
Important Things to Know

  • Your vehicle must be less than 25 years old on the trade-in date
  • Only purchase or lease of new vehicles qualify
  • Generally, trade-in vehicles must get 18 or less MPG (some very large pick-up trucks and cargo vans have different requirements)
  • Trade-in vehicles must be registered and insured continuously for the full year preceding the trade-in
  • You don't need a voucher, dealers will apply a credit at purchase
  • Program runs through Nov 1, 2009 or when the funds are exhausted, whichever comes first.
  • The program requires the sping of your eligible trade-in vehicle, and that the dealer disclose to you an estimate of the s value of your trade-in. The s value, however minimal, will be in addition to the rebate, and not in place of the rebate.
Check this site frequently for the most recent updates from the government.
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Lounge / To all those quacks who think the moon landing was fake
Quote from: 20th anny 5.o;282653
You know what they will say that was all faked in a lot on some Hollywood set just like the original moon landing. A good question to ask those quacks is how , If we never landed on the moon or entered into outer space we now have satellites.

Quote from: 20th anny 5.o;282664
(sighs) im not getting into this retarded debate so i will respectfully bow out of this one. Believe what you want.


 :rollin:a bit late for that isn't it?
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Lounge / please help me with the search tool
well no better memory.. but I gave it a shot. "search" didnt help any.
first had to go on an assumption I knew what thread you were looking for...
Couldn't remember the name of the game exactly, but remembered it started with a F.. tried 2-3 versions of Forenza Ferenza.. no luck..
Remebered it had a "Dial Up Warning"
Searched for 
Dial Up Warning
Dial-Up-Warning
Dial Warning
still nothing...
Pretty sure it was in the "Lounge" so just started listing messages from the Lounge and on page 3

Forza 2 ***(56k Warning)***
http://www.foxtbirdcougarforums.com/showthread.php?t=14159

this MAY be what your looking for
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Lounge / New Cars
My son bought one about just over a year ago. I don't know the call letters but it's second from the top.. (Hemi, but not the SRT or whatever the top model was that the dealership wanted an additional 10K for). Last time I talked to him (2 weeks ago) he has had no problems, just loves it, loves the power, But being 25, loaded with cash, living in Calfornia working at a collage campus, it still wasent enough.. he had a super charger installed that he says (I'm assuming he is exagerating a bit) is +150hp @ 5000rpm.. still loves it, still no problems, and is suppose to be coming home next weekend for 4 days... I'll know more then and see if any of the problems described above have cropped up for him.


last time he was up (pre supercharger) it snowed, he has Track Control... he said it's a death trap in the snow, But then again he's military, been all over the world.. not sure how much snow driving he has done.

I, on the other hand have lived here my whole life (about 30 years driving in the snow about every year) and I bought a Supercharged 04 Monte Carlo SS last fall, with traction control..(FWD) this thing went everywhere except about 10 feet of the steepest part of my driveway I couldent get up... I live on top of a mountan and that Monte would climb right up the hill compleatly covered in snow.
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Lounge / Bird or 'mont?
Quote from: bhazard;281360
Its not my only car, I have two other running driving cars, in fact I am not even driving the bird right now, Im driving a capri xr2.

I miss understood, that changes everything. I think in that case  salvaging what you could off the "soggy metal" car and getting that mont on the road would be a good plan.
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Lounge / Bird or 'mont?
I would do little, or nothing if I was in your shoes.
 Drive the bird, wait it out for better $ times, then make the decision. To take my only running car apart to do any kind of project to it, when I was short on $ sounds like something I would have done 30 years ago, time has taught me to be patient.
THEN ya never know, another good part's car could come along for the faimont, you could work on it while still having the bird to make part's runs for whatever needed.
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Lounge / Transformers 2
seen it this weekend, well worth the $5.
I would like to see them slow down the cg action scenes a bit though. I know, I know, "action scenes are suppose to be fast", well then pan out a bit or something.. they just turned into a blur of a robotic kaleidoscope flashing across the screen that I couldn't see what bot was fighting what.
I wouldn't let that stop anybody from going to see it. Movie was good, plot was good, soundtrack was good, lot's of good shot's of the bots... and well Megan Fox!!
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Lounge / Jon and Kate plus eight
wow, I think your a little strong on that aren't you TC? Yes what your describe does happen.. but I'm not sure about the "more often than not".. my first thought there is like everything else when it DOES happen, it get's the media spotlight... when it doesn't it's ignored, is well known that dirty laundry sells.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_actor <- yes I'm lazy and let somebody else do the research for me!

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  Jerry Mathers graduated from Notre Dame High School, in Sherman Oaks, California, in 1967. He went to college at the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with a BA degree in philosophy in 1973.
Jerry Mathers was The Beaver on "Leave it to beaver" Also from the same page....

 
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 Many actors' careers are short-lived, and this is also true of child actors. Peter Ostrum, for example, is now a successful large-animal veterinarian after a starring role in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. Most notably, Shirley Temple became a successful public figure and diplomat, eventually becoming U.S. Ambassador to Ghana, then United States Department of State Chief of Protocol under the Nixon Administration, and then in the late 1980s U.S. Ambassador to Czechoslovakia. Brandon Cruz is a successful punk rocker, after a co-starring role in The Courtship of Eddie's Father, Jenny Lewis, formerly of Troop Beverly Hills, is a well-known indie rock musician, and Kirk Cameron is a successful minister, after a co-starring role in Growing Pains.
 Tragic and well publicized examples exist in which a child actor falls into self-destructive behavior. However, it has not been demonstrated that this hazard occurs more frequently in child actors than in the general population. One study by Lisa Rapport, Ph.D. concluded that[INDENT] "the present findings also indicate that the environment of the entertainment industry is not necessarily toxic to normal development. Instead, the results support the well-established theory that good parenting serves as a buffer for life stress."[1][/INDENT]
I think that's the bottom line..."well-established theory that good parenting serves as a buffer for life stress."
with bad parenting even kids that aren't actors could go the way you talk of... happens quite often actually.
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Lounge / Anyone ever experienced someone going postal?
Quote from: LittleAngel1198;276037
I LOVE that movie!!!

"Is it dead" ? lmao

Ok now THAT'S funny... I don't care who ya are!

For those that haven't seen the movie.. here is the scene she's talking about on YouTube...

PROFANITY WARNING
The Boondock Saints - Cat Scene
PROFANITY WARNING

Angel, Have you seen the Scene they cut but left on the xtras that are on the DVD... the one with there drunk Mom calling from Ireland? That's just too funny.

Also FYI

Boondock II: All Saints Day is an upcoming sequel to the 1999 film The Boondock Saints. The director of the original film, Troy Duffy, returned to film the sequel, which sees the return of Sean Patrick Flanery and Norman Reedus as Irish brothers who act as vigilantes. The film is antited to be released in 2009.