What Makes You :) Today

[Ned]

100% agreed Sarg. Proper sense of achievement and the reward of driving it too. Don't know about leaks tough:

a) With the Landrover, you can practically walk underneath it anyway.
b) With the Landrover, leaks just mean there's still some oil in there!

 

[JarHed]

I wonder what they'll be calling 'classic' in 40 years. Hmm?? a Yugo maybe. :ROFLMAO:

I've always loved Brit cars and bikes; beautiful design, well built, last and always with a sense of style.

 

[Sarg]

Me too, Jar. Owned a showroom full of both bikes and cars. Their's is an entirely different engineering than we are used to. There's an art and a beauty about them. Even down to the exhaust note that is entirely British. The wife and I used to watch a PBS program about a Vetrnarian that drove what appears to be a MG TF or TC, can't tell which.

The exhaust note was exactly like my Healey's. Spokes!!! On the way home from the tire store, I hear a familiar "squeek, squeek, squeek". Yep, loose spoke, left rear. Break out the tuning fork. Just kidding.

I have taken "liberties" with certain systems on the car that my Brit friends might cringe at but it's a good marriage of redneck shade tree and and British engineering that enhance each other.

And the beast sits over in the corner of the garage and plays solitare. Keep playing, beast, keep playing.

Sarg

 

[JarHed]

One of the first bikes I ever rode was a Triumph 650. It was compact but comfortable. Great handling and acceleration off the dial. Just looked cool sitting there. I'm glad you're having a good time with it. Keeping busy is something the beast hates.

 

[Spock]

I wonder what they'll be calling 'classic' in 40 years. Hmm?? a Yugo maybe. :ROFLMAO:...beautiful design, well built, last and always with a sense of style.

I hope it includes the Fiat Abarth from the description you've provided JarHed, but I may be confused or just distracted by the model, Catrinel Menghia.

 

[JarHed]

Ahh! being quoted out of context; I like that. :D

It's just that so much today is about 'super' this and that and 'ultra' this and that. The yugo came to mind as it wasn't the most beautiful, well designed or well made car. Just cheap. I'd say the list of cars that should never have been made is long and ugly. Please, please don't start one. :ROFLMAO:

All in fun.

The Triumph was a gem, never a single problem in all the time I had it.

 

[Ned]

I'd say the list of cars that should never have been made is long and ugly. Please, please don't start one. :ROFLMAO:

Oh now you know what reaction that was going to get.

Austin Allegro. Just google it.

 

[JarHed]

Oh now you know what reaction that was going to get.

You know that monogrammed paddle that I got when I joined can be used to stir the pot as well. :ROFLMAO:

I'm allowed to have some fun, my doctor said so. :rolleyes:

 

[Sarg]

And I shall take the opposite tact and propose that there are cars that should NOT go to the crusher. I have, in this old lifetime, seen, on two separate occasion, what appeared to be British cars, crushed to about one foot high, making one last drive to the furnace.

But then we'd have to send all the junk yard owners to vehicle identification school to tell the difference between a 240Z and a Triumph Spitfire. Hee.

God, if my blood turns any bluer, I'm gonna need kidney dialisis!!!

Sarg

 

[combatgoldfish]

(Warning, I'm rambling it'll make sense... eventually)

My ex of ten years avoided any type of conflict, not the best for dealing with a partner with PTSD and Major Depressive Disorder. After 2.5 years back from Iraq, we finally crumbled. The monster grabbed her and added to her avoidance issues. Her only escape was some of the same medications many of us are on, then added alcohol, and adderall on top of it. Not a great combination. Took me three months to completely walk out on a 10+ year relationship.

My next relationship landed me with a young woman that was inspired to be a therapist. I thought "Hey, free mental health care and sex, sign me up!" However, she has more problems than I have and could NEVER help fix anyone, even herself. Her way to deal with people is to lash out at them verbal and sometimes physically. I couldn't run away fast enough.

The last couple of months I've been working full time for a company doing eCommerce work. I've had more good days than bad. Mainly a positive environment. Work hard play hard, that's for sure. And to my surprise I'm working right next to a guy that just started last month, who is also a Veteran. Hopefully we don't have a Veteran's day on the same day (A Veteran's day is what I call it when I have a bad PTSD day.)

I mentioned last time I came here I met a woman that was amazing. She's continued to amaze me and for the first time in a LONG time I've felt happy. I've felt like I really had someone supportive in my life. I honestly feel in love like I did when I met my last long term ex. Long before I was in the military or thought of war as a conflict that would last more than a few months. I would have never thought I would meet a woman like this or one that's so dedicated to support me physically and mentally. It's refreshing. And that concludes my happy ramble.

The End?

 

[Spock]

[quote="combatgoldfish, post: 29848, member: 603...Hopefully we don't have a Veteran's day on the same day (A Veteran's day is what I call it when I have a bad PTSD day.)...[/quote]
I like that, Veteran's Day. That will be borrowed, shared. Thanks

 

[Need an Oasis]

Eating grapefruit from my garden made me smile this morning! We've moved into the new house and are somewhat settled in. The dogs have never had so much space in their lives, I'm almost happier for them than I am for myself! Although they are doing their best to destroy the garden in record time... we will need to fence off whatever we don't want to have ripped to shreds by our Jack Russell hunting rodents or trampled flat by our mastiff/shepherd cross puppy

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