Black Friday?

[dw1]

With so many people shopping online I was really surprised today at the number of people clogging the roads around shopping areas.

I deliver supplies to hospitals and I had a mid-day run today (Black Friday) to Garnet Medical Center in Middletown, NY. My normal route takes me past Woodbury Common in/near Harriman. HOLY *****!!! Traffic was REALLY bad. Stop & go for miles on the NY State Thruway and on rt. 6/17. Because the shopping center parking lot was full, exit 131 on rt. 17 was CLOSED, meaning traffic had to go to the next exit, about 5 miles up the highway, and backtrack (to get to alternate parking areas or just go home?).

I used to commute on the highways of northern NJ and this was equal to as bad as I've ever seen.

The other end of my trip (after exiting Orange County NY largely via back roads) took me near Willowbrook Mall in NJ and the main highways in that immediate area were also a mess, but nothing like what I saw in NY state.

[Tobra]

I bought some stuff from our host

There are a couple different power antennae(antennas?) listed for a 1984 Carerra Cabrio. Which is the one?

[Bob Kontak]

Posting because these rarely get discounted.

Harbor Freight has their higher end base coat and clear coat guns on sale for $130 down from $180 if you buy the VIP thing. - $30

I bought the HTE gun Wednesday that has a smaller orifice (1.3 - mm I suppose)) and is better for clear coat.

https://www.harborfreight.com/professional-hte-gravity-feed-spray-gun-with-side-fan-control-13-mm-nozzle-56153.html

I am digging through the couch for quarters to buy the HVLP one for base coat that has 1.7 orifice. I'm up to about $60 but the quarters and dimes are running out.

If you scroll down you can see the HVLP gun.

The are on sale until the 4th of December.

[Steve Carlton]

Pay $30 to save $50? That sounds more like a Beige Tuesday than Black Friday.

[Jeff Higgins]

Black Friday? Avoided at all costs. No way on Earth.

Instead, a now 25 year tradition of the Pac West chapter of R Gruppe, our annual "Turkey Hangover" drive. Rather than laying lethargically on the couch watching football games or fighting the mall crowds, we head for the lonely back roads. "Black Friday" to us is generous black clouds of MFI inducted engines' exhaust, accompanied by the glorious sound of hot rodded flat sixes at full song through sport mufflers. We lucked out and got a sunny day this year.

I'm still not able to drive because of my hip surgery, so I rode shotgun in my younger son's '68 912/911 hot rod that we built together as his senior year high school project. He bought it at 15 years old as a rust bucket with a blown 912 motor, so we spent his senior year replacing the front gas tank support, pans, etc. while removing the 912 motor mounts and installing 911 mounts. He learned to weld, he rebuilt the 2.4 MFI motor, and most of the rest of the work himself, under my supervision. He stands as the youngest R Gruppe member ever that actually has his own car. It's the blue car with the steelies and hub caps. Almost 20 years later, it's still running strong, and I got to spend Black Friday in it with him. Just doesn't get any better.