Subject: Unemployed engineer
An engineer who has been unemployed for a long time decides to open an urgent care clinic. He puts a sign outside the clinic: "A cure for your ailment guaranteed for $500; we'll pay you $1,000 if we fail."
A Doctor thinks this is a good opportunity to earn $1,000 and goes to his clinic.
Doctor: "I have completely lost my sense of taste."
Engineer: "Nurse, please bring the medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the patient's mouth."
Doctor: "This is Gasoline!"
Engineer: "Congratulations! You've got your taste back. That will be $500."
The Doctor gets annoyed and goes back after a couple of days later to recover his money.
Doctor: "I have lost my memory, I cannot remember anything."
Engineer: "Nurse, please bring the medicine from box 22 and put 3 drops in the patient's mouth."
Doctor: "But that is Gasoline!"
Engineer: "Congratulations! You've got your memory back. That will be $500."
The Doctor leaves angrily and comes back after several days, more determined than ever to make his money back.
Doctor: "My eyesight has become weak."
Engineer: "Well, I don't have any medicine for this. Here's your $1,000," passing the doctor a $10 bill.
Doctor: "But this is a $10 bill ..."
Engineer: "Congratulations! You've got your vision restored! That will be $500."

1. An efficient engine.
   

2. Comfortable seating for a variety of body shapes and sizes.
   

3. Compact size for easy parking.

4. Plenty of space to get groceries on your way home from work.
   

I like Datsun's. I probably always will. A Datsun was my first car, a Datsun is currently the most valuable car in my fleet. A Datsun is my favorite car to drive in my fleet. The white car is a 1971 model year (10/70) build date Series One car (it's a datsun thing okay). Very very cool and rare car. We found it in the spring of 2005 in Napa California and purchased for $2,000. The seller would have taken less but my dad felt bad. By 2010 the car was running well and my dad drove it to California to visit us! It was gifted to me in the spring of 2019 as my dad really didn't drive it much. I have put several thousand dollars into it since to get it to it's current condition of daily driver status.

This is my first Datsun, photo probably from the summer of 1992. I purchased this car in the fall of 1991 for $900. You know what they say about a $1,000 car right? It's all true. When the red car ran it was great, but it had so many problems that I dared not drive it too far as a recovery would be logically difficult. This car really taught me how to work on cars, by the time I was done with it I had replaced the cylinder head and most of the cooling system and suspension. Rust eventually made it unsafe to drive and we traded it for some car parts.

The red car inspired my dad to buy this car, a 1971 240Z that was originally safari gold. It is now mostly a race car with 5 pt harness, roll cage, etc... It's fucking insane to drive, it has a very well built 3.1L stroker motor, that is in the neighborhood of 300+ HP, in a 2,300 lb car. I guess it makes sense that I am usually disappointed when I drive other sports cars and feel they are just slow. This car will scare you every time.

Follow these simple steps and you too can get great performance reviews:

• Spend lots of time on oppo shit posting

• Spend lots of time on various web sites looking at old shitty cars

• Increase your use of expletives

• Always tell your coworkers that you “have a lot on my plate”

• Start off conference calls with the latest picture of my my Dog
  

• go skiing on Wednesday mornings

• Go skiing or mountain biking every Friday

• Don’t answer any emails on the weekends or after regular work hours

• Be supportive of your coworkers and make sure they are the ones doing your peer reviews

We are going to change the oil now.

Thanks for all the support and replies yesterday when I posted about my dad. He had the angiogram and they didn’t find anything wrong with him. He is home and doing well.

@manwich

It has taken me a few years to accept that my car is not perfect and will never be a show car. I like driving it much more than cleaning it.

Here is the car as it sits now. The only exterior visual modifications I have done to it is remove the bumperets and install some 16" Konig Rewinds. Since I drive it a lot in the not-snowing season I want to get it up to a more modern standard because if you haven't noticed cars go pretty darn fast these days.

Mod 1: BRE front air dam. This air dam was developed by BRE the first year they started racing 240Z's in the US. It is a common addition to this model car and dramatically improves aerodynamics at speed by reducing front aerodynamic lift. At 90+ the car is noticeably light in the front, I am hoping that will go away.

Mod 2: Eibach progressive lowering springs. Stock ride height is just really tall. The springs will bring it down about 1 to 2 inches. This should also increase roll stiffness and improve stability at speed while hustling corners, because that is my favorite thing to do!

Mod 3: yes I will get the muffler relocated so it doesn’t hang down like that.

My kid was in a store today and bought me this.

Then he sent me this photo. I probably would have preferred the 300ZX.

Then he sent me this photo of his chicken parm. One of us?

@PowderHound WAT.gif
I would drive this to the sip and dip. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sip_'n_Dip_Lounge

@VincentMalamute I’ve nearly ridden over a rattle snake before but it was 5’ long and the same diameter as my arm. Nearly shat myself.

@tophercrowder he rides bikes

@MUSASHI66 dry aging appears to be a controlled rotting process.

@Noodles That's pretty rad. Mahi, mahi is freaking delicious, especially fresh.

@MUSASHI66 dry aged should not mean rancid, more like just aged.

@CB

@CarsOfFortLangley Costco is pretty good, they have good quality food and goods and pay decent wages. 10/10 I costco hotdog whenever I can.

@ZHP-Sparky-the-5th I think you might be right. These cars are so rare, there aren't even very many photos of them.

@Long_Voyager94 I don't really understand the appeal of toyota trucks, the new tacoma has an objectively terrible engine and when I drove on about 500 miles I was not impressed at all. The tundra is due to a huge update with a more modern turbo V6 that should help fuel economy a bunch.