Stream of Consciousness/General Conversation Thread

[TennJeep1618]

What you do is let a friend drive your new truck and have them run over an ice chest or folding chair with it, something that will not make it new anymore!

I volunteer to be that friend for you, Ian!

 

[madeSICC88]

Or be like my sister when they went camping with their brand new outback, backed right into a tree and cracked the bumper and tailight. The new car feeling wore off quick on that one.

I just don't buy nice cars anymore so I don't have to worry about them, I still keep them clean and park as far away from other vehicles as possible but I'm not nearly as bad as I used to be.

When my wife tells me I can finally get a new f150 I'm sure those old habits will be right back though.

 

[ilintner]

I volunteer to be that friend for you, Ian!

I can't imagine the pleasure it would give you to go driving that truck off into the woods beating the hell out of it.

I have a 98 Camaro that I am just as particular about, so I don't need to start a collection of vehicles that I don't drive. From this point forward I am going to be buying higher mileage vehicles on the cheap, which is exactly what I had always done up until my last 2 vehicles. No reason for me to drive myself nuts worrying about dinging or hurting something new.

 

[Dan1612]

Kids will do just the same. Apple juice and chicken nuggets imbedded DEEP into the carpet. Fruit loops and Cheerios in every crevice of the interior, no matter how many times it gets detailed. But at the end of the day, it's just a school bus.

 

[FrankT]

NO eating in my truck, especially KIDS! really NO kids in my Truck...LOL

 

[madeSICC88]

I really like your 4runner. The small lift and tires looks good without going crazy. A nice stock mod look to it. I told myself ill never have another lifted vehicle but I have a really bad itch to buy a FJ cruiser and I know ill end up lifiting when I do

 

[madeSICC88]

NO eating in my truck, especially KIDS! really NO kids in my Truck...LOL

Yea me and my wife have been very good at not letting our kids eat in our vehicles. I dont mind the outside of a car being dirty too much but the interior has to be nice and clean. I hate clutter and unnecessary things on the inside of my vehicles. If we need to stop and eat then we stop and eat at the restaurant or stop at a park.

 

[JWlineman]

I've eased up on my truck policies over the years. I love my current one, not the newest or the nicest but it's paid for.
And I scored a box of 333 win. 22lr at academy earlier. Just sayin

 

[Champ62]

NO eating in my truck, especially KIDS! really NO kids in my Truck...LOL

I'll second that!

 

[Dan1612]

Eh, it's a school bus. Paid for the day we bought it, and I'll drive it till the wheels fall off. By then, I should be able to grab something more like what I drove in my wild days. Clutch. Whoo Hoo!

 

[ilintner]

I really like your 4runner. The small lift and tires looks good without going crazy. A nice stock mod look to it. I told myself ill never have another lifted vehicle but I have a really bad itch to buy a FJ cruiser and I know ill end up lifiting when I do

Thanks, I like it too, enough to sell the garage queen .

FJ's are really nice, but they sure do catch a lot of rocks to that windshield!

 

[madeSICC88]

You get a lot of them over there? I guess they are pretty vertical so not much of a deflection angle. Well if I by it then it will probably stay in the garage too so I think the windshield will be fine haha.

 

[ilintner]

You get a lot of them over there? I guess they are pretty vertical so not much of a deflection angle. Well if I by it then it will probably stay in the garage too so I think the windshield will be fine haha.

For the number of them that are on the road, we see quite a few. Definitely the angle of the windshield... Good plan, keep it in the garage and it'll be safe!

 

[madeSICC88]

Yea I never saw them for a long time but lately I see them everywhere, I fell in love when a customer let me take a look at his cement grey one, been in love ever since. Was going to trade the wife's car for one but not having 4 full doors would be too much of a pain for her with 2 kids.
After I get my work car paid off then I can but my vehicle, torn between the f150 or fj.

 

[Seanpcola]

Someone at the Rio Bravo restaurant on 9 Mile Rd. has the sweetest FJ I've ever seen. Black, sweet wheels and tires. Love to have one. Guess we can keep Ian busy.

 

[DSPLCD1]

I gave away a bunch of drums and totes a few months back and some folks said they were going to make a few cool projects out of them, I am curious how they turned out? Can anyone post a pic or two of what they made or what they did with them. I think that would be cool...

 

[ilintner]

A few of them are at jogan's place being used for idpa cover...

 

[FUPAGUNT]

Whew 4 hours and $180 later, got all the food bagged up for the pups for the next 4 weeks. Ground pork, beef kidney, chicken feet, chicken livers and gizzards, boneless thighs and ground deer meat. I swear these mutts eat better than I do!

 

[HughJoergan]

Whew 4 hours and $180 later, got all the food bagged up for the pups for the next 4 weeks. Ground pork, beef kidney, chicken feet, chicken livers and gizzards, boneless thighs and ground deer meat. I swear these mutts eat better than I do!

$180/mo! How are they doing on the diet?

 

[JWlineman]

I'm a 50cal now on the forum. Isn't there like an elite members benefit social somewhere. Seans house maybe...