Truck Rental

[Clare Snyder]

It's not that they won't pass them - it's that they raise the registration so that it's cheaper to buy a new one than to register the old ones.

[J. Clarke]

That would be a pain for me--I have to go through a card-swipe gate to get into work. But for $1732 it's worth looking for a different clunker with windows that work.

[J. Clarke]

And some are relevant to this discussion. I am still debating whether I want to spring for a Honda Asky. I mainly just need to haul odds and ends from Home Depot 5 miles away, with the occasional 15 or so to a hardwood yard, so it working real hard to go 65 wouldn't be an issue. It's expensive for a 25 year old beater, but there's a certain fun factor to driving something really weird as well.

[J. Clarke]

Really depends on the starter. If it's one like the one in my Jeep that's pretty much guaranteed but if it's a 200 horsepower traction motor not so much.

Could be. One hopes that the systems will self diagnose and disable themselves if they fail.

I don't think that Tesla has gotten quite that sophisticated yet.

The other end of that though is that if the car actually can drive itself I'm mobile a lot later in life than I might otherwise have been.

[DerbyDad03]

I have long been - and as I age, still are - an advocate for age-based road tests.

If we can't pass a road test when we are 16, we can't get a license. We have to prove that we can drive safely. Why do our licenses automatically get renewed at 76, 86, 96 without requiring proof that we can *still* drive safely?

Test me every 5 years from 16 on. I won't mind. Maybe every 2 years once I hit 65 (done). Heck, bump up the difficulty at 65+ and put me in a panic situation. If I can't handle it, don't renew my license.

I don't want to be the elderly guy that went around the cones at our Soap Box Derby race this weekend and stopped on the track as 2 kids were driving down the hill. Luckily the kids had enough room to brake and stop. When I ran to the guy's car to find out WTF he was doing, he said "I just want to get to that road up there."

"Didn't you see the dozens of cones blocking the road or the big orange barrels that you drove around?"

"Yes, but I didn't know what they were for."

It must have taken him 5 minutes to figure out how to get back out the way he came in. Someone finally moved a barrel so he could drive straight out. He eventually drove off down the road at half the legal speed limit, drivers blowing their horns as they stacked up behind him.

Test me so I don't become "that guy".

[pyotr filipivich]

Just don't make the mistake of lowering the window. Because there is nothing like having any / all of the windows open in the rain.

[pyotr filipivich]

Michael Trew [e-mail] on Mon, 21 Jun 2021 23:59:00 -0400 typed in rec.woodworking the following:

If I win the lottery, a newer car for Us, a beater truck for me, and maybe an RV for those road trips.

[pyotr filipivich]

[e-mail] on Mon, 21 Jun 2021 22:09:22 -0400 typed in rec.woodworking the following:

To paraphrase "Drive as what, drive it where?" If I lived in Yakima, I would not have to worry about salt in the winter. (If I lived in Florida, I still wouldn't have to worry about salt "in the winter.") In the Puget Sound, our problem isn't rust so much as moss. OTOH, down here in the lowlands, we get a lot of wearing of the roads due to the snow. That is to say, people get studded tires because a during the winter they go skiing. Up in the mountains they need those studs, but the rest of the week, they're driving on rain.

Yep.

Again, if I could do the work, I'd consider it. Now, I just keep a code reader and a tire gauge handy.

[hubops]

Yep. I would have gotten his information - at least his licence plate # if he refused to cooperate - and reported the incident to police. ... in writing ; requesting a report number / badge number ; Our Provincial Police have a web-based interface for reporting stuff like this - I've sent them dash-cam screenshots of a couple of crazy drivers. Family members <and the public> tend to wait too long - - 1 tragic accident too long - before they finally do what they know should have been done a couple years sooner. John T.

[hubops]

This one has dragged on for several weeks longer than usual - - a new record for Canadian lotteries :

They cap it at $ 70. million and add more $ 1. million prizes. John T.

[Bob La Londe]

Be like the kintergarden poem asshole.

1. Never own a truck because people are always asking you to help them move.
2. Always have a friend with a truck.

Yes I read his book. Most of it was meaningless garbage, but those two things in two different places in the book when taken together summed him up perfectly.

[Clare Snyder]

Or a used door to bolt on with windows that work

[Ed Pawlowski]

There is Short Hills, NJ that has many very wealthy people. Lovely old homes, old money types. You see lots of Chevys, Fords, occasional Oldsmobile. The money is in the bank, not the driveway.

[Ed Pawlowski]

For your sake I hope he waits a while. Used cars and trade ins are crazy right now.

[pyotr filipivich]

"Old money" tends to be that way too.

[dpb]

On 6/22/2021 12:29 PM, pyotr filipivich wrote: ...

Except how are you to know which lowering is going to be the first one that doesn't go back up????

(At the first toll booth in December at about 10 PM...)

[krw]

This isn't new, nor is it universal, of course. My mother had to take a driving test every five years, then every other after 80(?). That was 25 years ago, so it's not new.

OK

Why would seniors be tested to a higher standard than anyone else? They generally don't put themselves in dangerous positions. They don't really need to get anywhere, *now*.

Well, last week we were driving up I75 somewhere around the FL/GA line. My wife was driving (she doesn't let me drive her toy - and I'd rather have her drive anyway ;-) when some moron came whipping around us on the right side, and the car in front of use. He tried to merge between the car in front and a truck in the right lane. The hole he was trying to merge into was smaller than his car. I saw it happening and knew "this wasn't good". The two cars exploded in a cloud of plastic. To her credit, my wife was did very well controlling the car and not panicking. She was through the debris field before the panic hit her.

That's nothing. Today we were out looking for a 'fridge (there is one product that *is* made for shit these days). Coming back, I was stopped in a line, in a left turn lane. I had, maybe, eight or ten cars in front of me and at least as many behind. A muscle car came whipping around the corner coming our way. He was spinning doughnuts down the road, hit the car three in front of me, pulled out of that one, continued on turning doughnuts (front end pointing at me, once), then hit the car three or four behind me. At least that one stopped him. I doubt he was an 80YO.

Mr. Magoo?

[krw]

Some (me) have gotten all that unreliable crap out of our systems and can afford decent wheels. I like nice things and can afford them. I feel the same about tools.

What do you mean by "millionaire"? A $million per year income is a lot. $1M net worth isn't all that much money. You'd better plan to be close to that (in 2021 $$) to retire.

[krw]

What other people have doesn't impress me at all. *I* like nice things and spend money on what pleases *ME*. I could give a crap what my neighbors do or think.

OTOH, I am amazed at one of our neighbors putting (_at_least_) $100K into the back yard (pool, spa, landscaping...). I don't want it, exactly the opposite. There is no way to get that money back out of the house (20-25% of the home's value). To each...

[krw]

Well, it's a Chrysler. 'nuff said.

My pickup is a 5l V8. My wife's Mustang is a turbo-4 and has more guts than her '14 V6. It's a really nice car.