Hello Everybody!
 

In the strange cosmos of the universe I have been sucked back into the PPOT forum via a random IM from someone who bought my neighbor’s Lotus Evora S. Which has sadly been crashed at some point after his ownership. Anyway I decided to see what’s going on since I checked out in 2021 and am happy to see generally the same group of a-holes posting about a littany of random crap and I realized in a sad sadistic way, I miss this place. Not that I was missed but I figured what the hell, I need something to burn some spare time in my life. For those following along at home my car collection is sadly dwindled due to kids that for some reason need cars to drive. My 20 year old A&P mechanic son has a C6 Corvette so I guess I can live vicariously through him. I have a 2007 Mazda RX8 with about 29k that I picked up earlier this year and am working through a variety of PM tasks, it’s RX8 #3 and rotary #4 counting the RX7 that I bought from Seahawk and restored. Sadly Porsche-less for now, though my car guy 14 year old has aspirations so we’ll see what happens. Otherwise I sold my Gladiator for a Ram Limited and sold my wife’s E63 this summer, so things are pretty dull in the car department. Good to see some familiar names and I look forward to reconnecting with some old friends!

"Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in."

Welcome back.

I'm in.... glad you're back!

Sweet! Welcome back!

You were missed and mentioned plenty of times in the past 3 years.

"Why do you hate America so much?"

Are you old enough to remember that one?

Woohoo! Good to see you again!

Nope! Sounds like something I would have said during the Covid times.

Hey Matt!

Here are my only two toys that turn gasoline into noise.

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Hello, pleased you are fit and well and buying toys.

PARF is waiting for your return!

Welcome back stranger ... I recall getting a PM from you years ago after I had been AWOL for some time .... it happens ;)

Glad you are well and remembered us .....

Are you a bot now :)?

You let the secret out one day one!:D

Awesome!!!Welcome back!

Instead of buying that Shelby from you I bought a GT3RS which has ended up being a solid purchase.

Glad you are doing well.

You can check out any time you like .... :)

Good to see you back Matt and glad you are doing well!

Matt, if you enjoy pain inflicted upon yourself, that is masochism.

Just saying.
Welcome back.

Best
Les

Welcome back to the asylum Matt !

Good to hear from you Matt.... Still working in the aviation world?

All in all a better choice, though I suspect also a more expensive one. Congrats!

Hey Tim, yes still kicking around. Just finished an 2+ year stint in N. Texas running an ISR business jet program. Actually in my last week then I’m transitioning to a new remote military aerospace role that should be dramatically better from a family perspective.

Thanks all for the kind words, glad to see many of the same names. I’m looking forward to some crazy Tim projects and seeing Shaun make old obsolete Porsche parts look like brand new:). Over the last few years I’ve often had the thought that “I should ask Pelican”, so I look forward to taking advantage of the braintrust.

I think we have an AI Bot impersonating onewhippedpuppy...because no one buys three (3) RX8s!

Just kidding welcome back stranger.

Yasin

Nice boat

Welcome back.

You just can't kick a habit cold turkey forever. The lure of Pelican is strong!

Ha! Well played. I’ll definitely shill for these things as unappreciated cars, especially for the money.

Welcome back!

Great to hear your children are well.

Best!

Hey Paul, yes all good with the family. Oldest is getting ready to start real life as an A&P, daughter is a senior and headed to University of Oklahoma next year to study Aerospace Engineering, 8th grade son is doing well at school and shaping up to be a pretty damn solid football and baseball player. No complaints!

Seems like only yesterday we were saying, "Poor Matt, we hardly knew ye." And now you're back.
From one A-hole to another, good to see you back.

Hey, welcome back!! I was surprised to see you pop up on a recent thread ! Glad to see you back . I miss the pelican days of old
Now that I have that out of the way .
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Good to see the old guys coming back.

Welcome back! I thought you were gone for good, it's been a while.

Matt, how did you like the Jeep Gladiator?

I will be moving South in a year or so and want to get out of the 1/2 ton truck world.

I have looked at and driven a number of older convertible cars that would be for fun and nothing, especially the a/c side of the ledger, really jumps out.

My thought is to get a convertible Gladiator for chores and trips to lakes and the beach.

For around town, trips to the beach, putting around, etc a Gladiator would be fantastic! Honestly when I bought mine that was much more its purpose. My work was about 2 miles from home, and we frequently pulled the doors and tops on nice days just to drive around town. Then I took a job that had me mostly in Texas and everything changed. As good as the JT is around town it’s that bad on the highway, especially the Mad Max Thunderdrome of DFW. Around town it’s nicely equipped, has good features, well laid out, has adequate space for four adults, and fun to drive. On the highway it’s slow, gets terrible MPG, loud as hell, and gets slapped around by every semi truck. I always loved the truck, but my opportunity to do “Jeep stuff” ended up being about 1% of how I was actually using it. I traded it in on a Ram Limited and have been much happier.

What up?

Been some time :)

rjp

VVV As always, thanks. My goal is to continue to DD the Land Cruiser and use a small truck for around town, the Lake, beach, etc. I just want some open air basics combined with not being worried about a soon to be 30 year old pristine interior on the LC!

I have errands to run this afternoon so I'll go do a "fit check" at the Jeep dealer.

Thanks!

Welcome back Matt! I was reading a different thread and came across your recent post which prompted me to check the date on my phone haha.

LOL, it has definitely been a minute!