[rtfire1]

A great place to give and get great free crap.

[mphenterprises]

[Flashorn]

Hey MPH!!



I wonder what our future generation will be like when they

finally wake-up?

With ought the right amount of guidance, we will end up

a virtual world that is not conductive to the proliferation of

our species.

There should be more of these shown in our schools so as

to kick start a real world understanding of what happens

when you stop relying on real world contacts.



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[KellieCM]

Friendster really does sound like that in my head. Hilarious.

[smax013]

Flashorn said:

Hey MPH!!





I wonder what our future generation will be like when they


finally wake-up?


With ought the right amount of guidance, we will end up


a virtual world that is not conductive to the proliferation of


our species.


There should be more of these shown in our schools so as


to kick start a real world understanding of what happens


when you stop relying on real world contacts.






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How do you KNOW we are in the real world? Maybe we are a bunch of brains sitting in jars just plugged into a virtual world...much like in the Matrix! ;)

[Flashorn]

Like I said "When THEY finally wake up".

And if we ARE in a virtual plugged in world

at least WE can still have fun " PICKING" on each

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[Adama]

Yeah, I've thought about that scenario too.... LOL The Matrix was an amazing eye-opening, wake-you-up-out-of-your-stuppor kind of movie!

[mphenterprises]

I would like to say, WOW to our buddy Flashorn for purchasing such a seriously mean car:

[lilxkid24]

just epic

[rtfire1]

Nice car Flashorn. You might want to look in to a programable cpu that way you can make custom fuel maps that or a stage one flashable chip. We did that to my friends 96 stang and it went very well after that. We would do this for my bros but 67's are all moter so you just got to build it.

[mphenterprises]

Hi Lilxkid. Hilarious. :D

[rgreen4]

Yeh, the Pony cars are back. My favorite current car though is the Dodge Charger SRT-8. Georgia Highway Patrol uses them as does the local sheriff. The sheriff department changed their color when they went to the Chargers, solid black, dark silver lettering (hard to see, but "marked") inside the vehicle strobes for the light bar and bars in the front, max legal tinting on the windows. BAAD! (Oh! they're SRT-8's as well)

A while back Lilxkid asked about how fast we had driven, and the answer for me is I really don't know. We had just come back from a Med Cruise in Dec '67 and I had picked up my new '67 Plymouth Sport Fury 2dr HT, burgundy with a white top and white vinyl interior. A friend in our sister Squadron had relatives he was going to spend Christmas with just outside Houston, Tx, and my parents lived in Houston. We decided we would split the gas. We were going to drive two hours, fill up and swap. Well, we did the swap but didn't need gas, same thing two hours later. We drove over 400 miles before we gassed up. The car had a 25 gallon gas tank and long legs.

We were heading south on I-55 going through Mississippi toward New Orleans, and it was late at night and we were just about the only car on the road. I was driving so I decided to see what it would do. This car had the Chrysler 383 big block V-8. I kept easing it up, and up, and up. I buried the needle in the trough way beyond the 120 MPH on the speedo and still had more throttle to go. I started to think so I eased it back down to 70. The car would do it, but it didn't have high speed tires, and I didn't want to wind up in a hospital after another bad car wreck.

Oh, by the way, the car had a 2 barrel carb. You could out accelerate it, but it had the top end.

Now, the fastest I have ever accelerated was not in a car, but an S-2 Tracker taking a cat shot off the USS Randolph. She still had the hydraulic catapaults (many had gone to steam) and it would accelerate a 28,000 pound fully loaded S-2 from 0 to 110 Knots (121MPH) in 40 feet. Our term for it was "caging your eyeballs". You definitely wanted to be fully back in the seat with your head on the headrest. The cat was about 200' long, but it had a 40' power stroke, coasted for 120' and then 40' of braking at the end. When it started coasting, you were now faster than the cat and the sling would drop off the hook on the bottom of the aircraft.

There was a cartoon in one of the training facilities in Norfolk drawn by the guy who used to do outlandish drag cartoons, and it showed a Jet (RA-5C) on a cat, with the oversized pilot and the slogan "Wildest Ride in the World". It was. I would have liked to get a picture of it, but it was inside a secure area and no cameras allowed.

[coastie65]

Hey Flashorn, That is one nice set of wheels. The insurance on that ride would eat me alive.



Hey rg, The cops here run everything with wheels just about. The County Cops have Mustang 5.0 jobs as well as Camaro IROC Z's. I have also seem one Lexus. I know the State Police run Chargers among some other exotic things. Both the County and State also have their big Harley Hogs. Incidently, I was down visiting my brother when he was at the NAS in Brunswick Ga. I was driving his '69 Chevelle Malibu SS, and made a left turn from the road he lived on, onto Highway 99. Went I shifted into second gear, the rear wheels broke loose a bit and I happened to be in front of the Highway Patrol Station. There was a guy standing out front and he jumped into a car and flagged me. Wrote me a ticket for "spinning tires on pavement not avoiding an accident". First I'd ever heard of that one. The car had Va. tags, so that may have explained a few things. I was taken to the magistrate and had to post a $150 Bond which I forfeited and it went to the fine and court costs. It never appeared on my record, so I was just out $150. coastie

[rtfire1]

sounds like some one got the out of town ticket. In the town I was living in they would hit out of state plates with a nosie or 65 ticket (to fast for the roads curent state ie snow, rain, sunny, two dark and other crap). they wrote a lawyer from ct a ticket and he was the first one to fight the ticket thy dropped the ticket to $10.00 and he was pissed and fought it went to the next level and they hit him with the full fine 150 bucks plus court cost.

[Flashorn]

Hey Everyone!!



Thank You all for your comments on my knew ride. I did not intentionally

post that image. I have been having trouble posting more than one image per post

last week and yesterday so I was trying out a variety of formats to upload. It seems

as though I can now upload again but, I will try it in this post as well.



rtfire1, I don't think I will be fooling around with this one anytime soon, not because it's new

but , I guess you didn't see the side markings on it. I'll try and upload another shot of it"



Now can you see why I will definitely not screw around with this machine.

It is a 2007 Ford Shelby Cobra GT500 and I just got Saturday . Piyush has been wanting

to see pictures of it

for about 3 months. Anyways , once the plates are on it and the car goes through

final inspection, I should be able to have it back here by the end of this week.

Here's another:



OK, now if my problems are gone I should be able to post my answer along with

the images.



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[rtfire1]

I heard about them from my ex wifes stepfather. He went for a ride to a medical call with me once (he had all the certs to ride on the truck). the ride made him think of the old takeoffs.

[coastie65]

Yeah, I expect so. I must have been pulled at least times on the Mid Cape Highway when i was stationed in Mass., but was never written up. Always got a warning from the Mass State Cops and never had a problem from any local cops. I was always in uniform, so I guess that may have helped. I remember one Mass State cop telling me to just slow it down that where ever I going would be there when I got there. I was usually just going down to Hyannis which was about 15 miles away. coastie

[coastie65]

Hi Flashorn, I noticed the decals on the side in the first picture. That thing is a horse. I don't know if the RCMP patrols the roads like the State Police / Highway Patrol down here, but it would beg the question if they had anything that could match it. :D As the old saying goes, you can't outrun the radio. Down here the inspection sticker is already on the car when you buy it, or at least they prep the car and inspect it. It usually means you will pick it up the next day. What they don't do is put gas in them, and if you're lucky, you have enough to get to the nearest station. My 82 year old mother walked by when I was looking at the picture, and asked me about it. I told her and even she liked it. coastie

[rtfire1]

Costie Last time I was driving down there I got yanked and it was a kid i was in 6th grade with I walked a way with a slow down an no $200 speeding ticket. in ct I got a ticket for doing 67 in a 65. They let you send in a letter saying why you should not have gotten the ticket. My letter I got back said they hope I do not have that happen again where ct has a 5 mile and under let it go rule.

[rtfire1]

I know what it was from the first pic. That why you need that extra fuel. My dad is on the fence on what stang to get right now. Where my bros 67 rag top is sitting in my dads bay at the parents house he was thinking of a 69 fast back or getting a older cobbra or a new one he nows a few people that might sell.