The F1 race is fer sure on our list.

I have one more test for the Cruise control on the 911. If it acts like I suspect it means pull the control "brain" and ship it off for repair. $88 and it will be fixed. It is easy to pull it out. I really hope it is the main control unit. If it is the switch that is almost impossible to get to without a lot of effort.

Mine tried to kill me a few years back. I was temped to remove the whole thing and put it in a box for later.

I love the CC for long trips. It is of course pointless on regular city streets and commuting.

I don't think I have used it since it tried to run away with the car.

But why do it the easy way?

I just don't have that "Enterprise" mind set.

Nothing big planned. A few hours of trying not to get shot tomorrow morning.

I have been caught in the rain with the Cobra several times but I have only put the top on twice. I have since removed the hardware for the top because it is miserable to see out of. I might do a bikini top when the full width roll bar goes in.

I have actually eaten at Eskimo Joe's.

Did it disable the brakes and hide the ignition key? :eek:

Not exactly. The cable came out of the mount and jammed the throttle full open while getting on the free way during the end of rush hour one morning........

I bet that was exciting.

Not really. Sacred the crap out of me.

When I started college Eskimo Joe's was a beer bar with 2 pool tables upstairs. The interesting this about the place was the upstairs urinal was a bathtub. The Eskimo and sled dog was supposed to stand for ice cold beer. There was also a place called Mexico Joe's with a similar looking character with a donkey that served mexican food. They also had a seafood place, but forgot what it was called, but it wasn't a Joe's.

There were all kinds of beer bars everywhere near the school.

January 1st of my second year the state raised the drinking age to 21.
Almost all the beer bars went away. There were a couple that stayed around though.
Eskimo Joe's was one of them.
They expanded the property and opened a "beer garden" and started having bands play with a cover charge to make up for the "loss of beer sales."
About that time they started selling beer in refillable plastic cups with the Eskimo Joe's logo.
They refilled the cups without carding you making them very popular.
They even had cup nights that you could get them re-filled for 25 cents.
Since the cups with the logos were so popular they started selling t-shirts.
The next year, to stay legal, they started serving mixed drinks and food.
By the time my nephew went to OSU 4 years later they were all restaurant with a clothing store.
Not sure why the cups and t-shirts were so popular after they quit being a beer bar.

When I was 6 my Mom and I went to stay a few weeks with my Brother and Sister when they had their first kid. My brother was in the Marines stationed in Brunswick GA. We went out on the train. My Dad bought a new 1966 Chrysler 300 to drive out and bring us back. It was one of the first cars with cruise control. It was a knob that you dialed in the speed you wanted it to maintain and pushed a button.

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Before he got out of the state the Cruise control messed up and wouldn't let the car go over 25mph. He stopped at almost every Chrysler dealership between OKC and the East coast trying to get it fixed. Finally somewhere in Mississippi a smart mechanic rigged it with 4 sets of vise grips to keep it from coming on and limiting the speed. They weren't able to actually fix it until after we got home.

Don't think my Dad ever really trusted it.

The enterprise mindset is easy. Look at the situation and Rube Goldberg it.

Time seems to be passing excruciatingly slow this afternoon.

Fell asleep, then woke up. Only 4 minutes had passed. aaaaah

Went over to the in -laws and reinstalled all of their light fixtures after ceiling drywall fiasco. I kept all of the hardware in baggies as I removed it, just like when working a car restoration so it was pretty painless. The kids help clean the wood floors and walls.

My FIL goes in on Tuesday for his heart surgery so we were trying to get it all done before he goes. Not sure I'D want to be having major surgery at 6am the day after a 3 day weekend but what do I know. They've already rescheduled it 4 times.


We don't have any major plans for the weekend. Going to see my family on Sunday to celebrate my Mom's birthday and my wife's. Sept. 4 and Sept. 6. I already gave my wife the necklace and we will just get my Mom a gift card for a local restaurant.

Wife will have to go in either Saturday or Monday and do payroll. Kids go back to school Tuesday so we will get everything ready on Monday and probably make a astore run for that one thing we forgot. :rolleyes:

My Sister's burpday is Sept 4th, her oldest daughter's is Sept 7th and mine is the 8th.

Our major highways are already clogged with folks heading north for the weekend. Man, I absolutely hated driving home from work on a holiday weekend Friday. I told my wife to take the back roads home from work because she will leaving right around rush hour.

Her plant is right off of I75 and it usually takes her about 10 minutes to get home on a normal day. If she takes the back way it will increase to 15 but she won't be sitting idly in traffic trying to go 3 miles to our exit.

I have the same problem with traffic over flow from I-5 on weekends like this.