Hey my Oppos, sorry I haven't been around. Had Christmas, new years and onto 2021 . I've got a friend building a locost (very lo cost as it's currently an 83 delta 88) so I'll have some updates on that once it's not super lockdown (there not here) We're full steam ahead, I think casinos are closed and that's about it.

No covid in our house but know a few folks who got it. Corvair is still crashed. I'm having some extensive foundation repair done this year so that's likely where the convertible money will go this year, oh well, someday.

I hope this note finds my internet friends all here and keepin' on keepin on.

Love from the wastelands,

• Dash

Thank you for supporting my immaturity.

A big mean one.

) I had a 9 inch diff behind the shed, and a complete 4-speed setup for early Mustang. All sold instantly to the first people who came. Someone's nice California car Mustang is getting a 4 gear box, and somebody else's Torino is getting a limited slip 9 inch. And I've got a few bucks in the project car fund. Good day overall.

I was hanging around a body shop doing what is REALLY important, Futzing around on cars from 65 years ago. It went i for paint on friday night, and that was a good time to slice off one of the quarters and re-do the whole thing. I say that in a hyperbolic way, but it happened. I got pulled out of retirement to slang some mud on it and by 3 in the morning it was all one colour. (usually if I'm going downtown in the middle of the night it's to boost this car).

Hi Everybody!

6 hours ago, Canada announced the end of gas/diesel vehicle sales by 2035

5 hours ago Saskatchewan and Alberta announce they're starting their own country, with blackjack and hookers.

Had a contract this weekend to install 24 assorted telematic devices. This is one of those fancier GPS companies and not say, america's largest telecom company who don't care if you live or die (my biggest customer). The Fancier set often issue demands at the outset. This weekend's terms included nonpayment on any work not conforming to a srtict set of protocols including live check online followed by a live phone call confirming all these details and a live, on phone sounding of an warning alarm. Ok, so they're picky, fine, lets get to work.

45 minutes later...... equipment is wrong(works for big diesels prior to 2016 diagnostics changeup, these are newer trucks) the "not to be deviated from" list is wrong, the website is down aaaand they close for the weekend at 4 pm Eastern time.

"Um I'm'a need your go ahead to just do this, 5 O'clock somewhere this list since the fleet has scattered since you made the list." And given that they had booked a technician when their App was not working and neither was the call centre, (nor was there anybody from less than 4 hours away willing to do it) they went for it. They got 27 long and increasingly sarcastic voicemails featuring me yelling serial numbers and mileages and engine hours and install specs into the phone. A solid 60 minutes of One Foxtrot Tango Watermelon three 9er Juggalo Gigolo Four g Zero Zero Nancy Quaqmire Mancy Zero Four Four One Six Two.....Its a 2017 acme pole hole digger......it has fourteen hundred hours on it.....it is yellow....etc.
Anyway, I guess that works for them because I now get to drive all over Saskatchewan until I get through a fleet of a hundred and some vehicles and implements and generators and trailers and digger and who knows what. But work is work and it's been pretty thin lately, plus I get to go in the truck and listen to my cassettes so Win-Win.

A Mini Traveller. You don't see that everyday.

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as for the dash report: I've been busy with many dashboards, skid steers, 50 ton cranes, side by sides, sea cans, trailers, and those Cameras that make truckers angry. ( I found out that a camera system I install can through A.I. tell if you're holding a cell phone and email your fleet manager without human involvement, and before I left town) I'm only following orders). The divorce level renovations are proceeding, house is now (close to) level, up eight inches in the back, zero in the front. doors open and close now. Margarine coloured house is now about halfway blue. I'm glad we got contractors because this is a real soul-eating gingerbread house. (stuff contractor says will take an hour takes whole day etc).

Being busy all the time is helping pay for the crushing debt that this involves. I also finally got back into The Belvedere and declared that 99.5% steel is good enough (as in fuck it, fibreglass for the last couple door holes)

Also not getting divorced, It's just an expression I use, Mrs D ran a half Marathon and is still a school principal managing covid here in redneck hell, where covid was declared over 2 months ago and is of course raging at the moment.

@cb If not happily, the 3800 will do it. I'm surprised that the transmission is doing it. (and at 25 years old to boot)

@mark-tucker I had a blackfoot and a monster beetle, but this is the king of the Tamiya hill. Always wanted one.

@foghat1981 Agreed an all time great, he will be missed.

@zaphod-s-heart-of-gold

let us celebrate under one symbol (I can barely see the road from all the awesomness)

@awesomeaustinv Also as far as I know, one of the only Scottish cars. Rean engine/rear drive in real world.

@awesomeaustinv In Canada there are more IMPs with roll cages than with licence plates. The engine is a version of the coventry climax, which I beleive won lemans.

@dash-doorhandle-and-bondo said in Who decided that washing machine lids need to lock?:

@rusty-vandura I got fed up with the state of appliances and bought semi-commercial Speed Queens. Like you'd find in an apartment building sans coin-op. We've got 2 boys and I'm just filthy so they run constantly (there's also some neurosis about if it's out and it's not folded, its dirty, which is the opposite of my "many shades of dirty" approach.)

not much more expensive than cheap ones, no electonics all mechanical timers, serviceable mechanisms and complete lack of bullshit you dont need. I'm nothing but happy with them.

@rusty-vandura I got fed up with the state of appliances and bought semi-commercial Speed Queens. Like you'd find in an apartment building sans coin-op. We've got 2 boys and I'm just filthy so they run constantly (there's also some neurosis about if it's out and it's not folded, its dirty, which is the opposite of my "many shades of dirty" approach.)

not much more expensive than cheap ones, no electonics all mechanical timers, serviceable mechanisms and complete lack of bullshit you dont need. I'm nothing but happy with them.

@exage03040 I don't know what that is, but I do know that the arc-y looking holes is where the smoke usually gets out.

@cb I also took your suggestion and went and voted.