$58.00

[mbailey]

Very nice mbailey ! I had a black one just like that to out run me in my 72 firebird and I had a 455 in it at the time and he still blue my door's off .

Ty sir, Yea shes my pride and joy. Ask Stampf im sure he understands LOL. His is a beauty for sure!! Guys that love Mopar Muscle are a breed apart. I have a friend that has a 72 firebird, beautiful cars  

Funny story from this summer along the lines of what you wrote. Had some kid come up to me at a stop light and rev his engine in his wantabe nissan drift car. (you know the type that sound like a chainsaw with a cold) I looked over at him and  im sure the look on my face said something like "Really?" Soooo i figured why not, I pulled forward a bit  and dropped the clutch ,  lit the rear tires for about 7 to 10 seconds. I bet his car still smells like rubber to this day . I then drove off normally laughing like a school boy. Normally i wont do that, but the devil on my shoulder got the better of me. Apparantly the angel on my other shoulder was out to lunch    

[Spikes]

140 to fill my 2500HD.

6-8MPG.

[gpwurzel]

He he he, nice Bailey - had a similiar one once on my way back from a fishing match. My friend and I were sat at lights, just talking while waiting for em to change. 2am in the morning. Got some numpty pull up next to me in a cheap, small engined car, with lots of body panels and a noise making exhaust. Looked over at me and rev'd his engine. I looked back and rev'd my engine. Lights change, I slipped it into reverse and went backwards - my friend was wetting himself laughing, the guy in the other car almost crashed looking around for me, and I had to pull over cos I coudnt drive I was laughing so hard. Once we got back moving, decided to drop the hammer a little, caught him before the motorway and left him for dead.

Mind you, my car at the time was a 4 wheel drive calibra, with a much bigger engine, with a twin turbo, uprated gearbox, drive train, brakes etc etc - fast as anything.

Much too old to do that sort of thing now, driving around in a 1991 ford escort pony, 1.9. Been sat in the desert for 7 years, we changed the oil, changed the battery, did a couple of other things, and the damn thing started right up.

Wurzel

[Maverick]

Cry me a river over your little gas bills. I topped off my tank last week. It was less than a third of a tank and it cost $269.00 for only 69 gallons and that was the discounted price. Now if I had been empty it would have been almost 300 gallons. How would you like a fillup that costs about $1000.00 or more?

[321BAR]

you would think the petroleum companies would get the idea they are causing their own problems...increased fuel costs equal increased transportation costs which in turn increases production costs and joe consumer has to pay the price for it...but then how do you bill yourself for a business expense that you control the costs on?


   i should have worded that differently...no reason besides greed to justify the outrageous costs.

Because so much "refined" gasoline comes from a barrel for crude that all this negates itself. gasoline is not just oil. its a mixture of other products that you start with a barrel of crude, and end with say, 10 barrels of gas

[CAP1]

3.379?  Bout right, been going up about a quarter a week since the latest and greatest mideast crisis.  I really never knew that Libya supplied about a third of the world's gas-producing oil  .

well...i think it's from the stock market....those schmucks panic if you drip oil out of your engine.........then the price goes up. take it off the market, and the price will mysteriously become normal and realistic again.....or we could start drilling here in the good ole usa again.....but i probably shouldn't go there for fear of getting my own thread locked......

[AAJagerX]

Agreed, but one of the reasons I have my wife in such a big vech is because of the clueless, cell phone talkin,makeup doing soccer moms in their big SUVs.Living in suburbia, these types of vechs  is what we mostly see on the roads. I bet 75% of my kids friends moms drive them. Then theres  the newspaper reading, shaving men in there little wanna be 4dr sports sedans that always seem to be perpetually late for something, and dont care who they cut off, or race by to get where their going. God forbid my wife was in an accident, she would fare much better in her truck, than in a small car. SUV vs small car bad. SUV vs Her truck (not good) but at least she has a fighting chance.

Just curious, Id like to see the data on the PU roll over rate. With the weight of the truck, and the wide wheel base id bet its low.
 I believe the SUV rate is high, every time i drive my mother in laws Toyota Pathfinder, I feel like Fred Flintstone when he pulls up to the drive in and they put the giant rack of ribs on the platter. When i go around a corner in that thing, i feel like its gonna go over.

 obliviot: Thats a great word Jager  

By the estimates, pickup rollovers are 4x more likely then passenger cars.  Like I said earlier, if you're in a large vehicle while hitting a smaller vehicle, you're more likely to survive.  Unfortunately, large vehicles (even ones with a wide wheel base) tend to roll.  It's a toss up.  It depends alot on what type of driving you're doing.  

[CAP1]

Ty sir, Yea shes my pride and joy. Ask Stampf im sure he understands LOL. His is a beauty for sure!! Guys that love Mopar Muscle are a breed apart. I have a friend that has a 72 firebird, beautiful cars  

Funny story from this summer along the lines of what you wrote. Had some kid come up to me at a stop light and rev his engine in his wantabe nissan drift car. (you know the type that sound like a chainsaw with a cold) I looked over at him and  im sure the look on my face said something like "Really?" Soooo i figured why not, I pulled forward a bit  and dropped the clutch ,  lit the rear tires for about 7 to 10 seconds. I bet his car still smells like rubber to this day . I then drove off normally laughing like a school boy. Normally i wont do that, but the devil on my shoulder got the better of me. Apparantly the angel on my other shoulder was out to lunch    

what's actually REALLY fun........

when someone pulls up next to you at a light.....they think they wanna race ya.......when the cross light goes yellow, bring your rpms up to whatever you like to launch at...just make sure the dood hears it. green light....hammer it as if you're gonna launch....just enough to lift your front end, then let off and clutch it right away. don't smoke or chirp the tires. chances are good he'll take off full bore. it's the most fun if one of our men in blue happen to be nearby.
 they can't touch you, since ya did nothing, and the schmuckster gets nailed. mean? yes. fun? hell yea!


 now all htat being said......years ago in a buddy's 58 fairlane. 352..i think it was a police interceptor engine......dude in some kinda toyota pulls up, and tries to run him. he paces the guy. just stays exactly next to him.
 next light, i ran the window down, and in our best japanese accents, we both said "toYOta!! GOOOOOOD CARRR!!  then we left him sitting there in a cloud of smoke.

 man the stupid crap we did when we were young.........

[CAP1]

Cry me a river over your little gas bills. I topped off my tank last week. It was less than a third of a tank and it cost $269.00 for only 69 gallons and that was the discounted price. Now if I had been empty it would have been almost 300 gallons. How would you like a fillup that costs about $1000.00 or more?

got a friend that used to drive for werner....he used to tell me of those fill ups every so often.

[CAP1]

By the estimates, pickup rollovers are 4x more likely then passenger cars.  Like I said earlier, if you're in a large vehicle while hitting a smaller vehicle, you're more likely to survive.  Unfortunately, large vehicles (even ones with a wide wheel base) tend to roll.  It's a toss up.  It depends alot on what type of driving you're doing.  

cg. it's all about the cg.

did you know that in a ford 15pax van the cg is all the way up at the height of the steering wheel?

[Ardy123]

cg. it's all about the cg.

did you know that in a ford 15pax van the cg is all the way up at the height of the steering wheel?

eek.... thats asking for a roll over, esp on a t-bone.

[CAP1]

eek.... thats asking for a roll over, esp on a t-bone.

yep.

i actually test our drivers within cap specifically for these things.

 not in cap, but there was problems with them going over if they hit uneven pavement, such as drifting off onto the shoulder of the road.....instinct is to yank the wheel the other way to get back on the road. instead, it tosses them over rather nicely.

[DrDea]

The U.S. is lucky with the gas prices that we already have. We have one of the lowest in prices per barrel. Much of that is owed to U.S. holding world currency holder status. But because the value of the American Dollar is declining, we might lose that luxury.

Thats a given.Its just a matter of time.

[DrDea]

If demand goes WAY down in the U.S. the prices will drop...  For the U.S.  The oil companies would try to cut their losses by driving the prices up elsewhere, increasing international shipping prices for imports and exports.  

  The oil companies would just cut back on production,and keep the prices the same. Supply and demand.

[Ardy123]

  The oil companies would just cut back on production,and keep the prices the same. Supply and demand.

Then blame it on red tape as the reasons for the cut back in production....lol