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Grex Cars Item 45: Let's get some interest here!
Entered by mcpoz on Sat Mar 25 17:54:11 UTC 1995:

Hey!  What can we do to liven up this conference? 
Is there any way we can open up the subject matter to get the interest
going so "car stuff" is flooding in faster than we can read it?
How about:
 - Car repair tips?
 - New car impressions by readers?
 - Repair shops to go to (and stay away from)
 - Car Trivia
 - Technical information
 - etc, etc, etc . . .

43 responses total.

#1 of 43 by n8nxf on Mon Mar 27 01:10:28 1995:

How about keeping rust at bay?  What have others tried that works?  (Besides
not driving it during the salt season?)

#2 of 43 by mcpoz on Mon Mar 27 03:14:42 1995:

A guy at work who drove outstanding condition cars drilled holes in the door
inside panels, trunk reinforcements, and other blind panels and sprayed in
high grade motor oil thinned 50:50 in kerosene two times per year.  His 
cars were like new when they were 12 years old.  Seemed to work ? ? ? 

We've had ours ziebarted and have slight rust on an '87, no rust on two '89's
In fact I was recently under one 89 because of a muffler problem and I saw no
signs of body rust.

#3 of 43 by ima on Mon Mar 27 19:29:52 1995:

  How about old cars?  Is anybody interested in them out there?  I'm into
  Mustangs (64 1/2-73) and other Ford muscle cars.  I just got an account here
  and I'm just trying to help stir some interest up.

#4 of 43 by mcpoz on Tue Mar 28 02:35:34 1995:

I am into old cars!  I also am into mustangs, having had two really nice ones
(when they were new).  I had a 67 red convertable 289 4V, Stick. WOW!
and I had a 70 351 auto.  
I really like the cars from '47 to 64.  
Do you own muscle cars?

#5 of 43 by brenner on Thu Mar 30 13:35:28 1995:


 Does it come with an accordion?

#6 of 43 by vsclyne on Thu Mar 30 13:48:22 1995:

Should we start a referral service to the few honest
and competent accordion mechanics in the country?

#7 of 43 by humdog on Thu Mar 30 16:58:31 1995:



no.

mail ALL of them to James Donnelly
in care of the Whole Earth Review...

/

#8 of 43 by brenner on Thu Mar 30 20:54:23 1995:

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#9 of 43 by vsclyne on Thu Mar 30 22:07:33 1995:

Characteristically articulate, that.

#10 of 43 by thanne on Fri Mar 31 03:29:20 1995:

I was perversely proud of our '79 HOnda Civic wagon with 180,000
miles on it, and then it developed a myriad of increasingly difficult problems,
 so we finally traded it in for $200 ( only 75 under blue book) and got an
Acura Integra.  And now my soul is sold.  It is a marvelous vehicle.  And can
still accelerate at 105 mph...

#11 of 43 by mcpoz on Fri Mar 31 11:13:15 1995:

accordian?  I missed something!

#12 of 43 by sdober on Sat Apr 1 02:42:10 1995:

Hurr hurr hurr

#13 of 43 by thanne on Sat Apr 1 04:26:46 1995:

I'll say.

#14 of 43 by brenner on Sat Apr 1 05:15:19 1995:


Maybe raemo is spelling it wrong and he can't find us?

#15 of 43 by juls on Sat Apr 1 17:01:35 1995:

Poor bastard stepped in the middle of the pink things and lost his traction.

#16 of 43 by humdog on Sat Apr 1 17:24:57 1995:



no.
mr. rats barbequed them.

#17 of 43 by brenner on Sat Apr 1 18:27:25 1995:


Whither goest my fair loutbane this
bright day?

And shall the cave rise up in the Poet's Night?


\.

#18 of 43 by humdog on Sat Apr 1 19:51:31 1995:


he doth curdle up the souls of tender women
wandering like methane in the night.

#19 of 43 by brenner on Sun Apr 2 00:17:09 1995:


yea, though he lie down in greener pastures, 
he lacketh courage to toil in the ether of the Grex,
Steve! Bring him To US. NOW.

#20 of 43 by humdog on Sun Apr 2 19:16:31 1995:



or we will make him perform  (never mind) on catherine mackinnon

#21 of 43 by nephi on Mon Apr 3 07:31:17 1995:

None of your comments seem to be oriented towards getting interest
in the transportation conference.  

I just thought I'd mention it.

#22 of 43 by humdog on Mon Apr 3 09:39:40 1995:


transportation does not interest us,
unless it is silver and Evil.

#23 of 43 by sdober on Mon Apr 3 16:24:19 1995:

As cavelings and devotees of the rodent, we have little need for 
transportation.  Time and space have no meaning for us.

#24 of 43 by humdog on Mon Apr 3 17:20:52 1995:




stevie dear you weren't supposed to TELL about that....

#25 of 43 by sdober on Mon Apr 3 23:53:34 1995:

Ah, oh, um...  yeah.  I was just kidding about that. Honest.

Uhm...  pay no attention to the man behind the curtain...

#26 of 43 by nephi on Tue Apr 4 01:37:32 1995:

It's hard not to--what with the man behind him making so much noise.

#27 of 43 by humdog on Tue Apr 4 12:17:44 1995:



nephi, you really must stop eating all those strange mushrooms.

#28 of 43 by nephi on Wed Apr 5 04:56:55 1995:

"Why these mushrooms aren't strange at all!" exclamied the 
soon-to-be angel.

#29 of 43 by bunn on Fri Apr 7 14:10:39 1995:

nephi, i surely do like you!!

#30 of 43 by nephi on Sat Apr 8 13:44:03 1995:

Golly shucks, Mary.  I think you're swell, too.

#31 of 43 by cloud on Mon Apr 6 01:32:28 1998:

<laughs his head off>

#32 of 43 by font on Mon Apr 6 05:59:44 1998:

It's 1998, do you know where your conference is?

#33 of 43 by orinoco on Mon Apr 6 16:34:35 1998:

At home, asleep.

#34 of 43 by font on Tue Apr 7 08:58:43 1998:

Really?

#35 of 43 by snowth on Tue Apr 7 18:32:49 1998:

<snowth *likes* her conference... We should all flirt with Tricia more often!

#36 of 43 by cloud on Tue Apr 7 22:42:34 1998:

Stop teasing me!  You know I'm no good at it!  <Cricket stalks off to play
with his barbee doll collection.  Realizing he doesn't have one, he decides
that life really isn't worth it at the moment and builds himself a little
house to sit in, mumbling strange incantations.>

#37 of 43 by snowth on Wed Apr 8 00:30:25 1998:

<poor tef... :( If I sat around and flirted with you, would that make you feel
better?>

#38 of 43 by font on Wed Apr 8 01:56:46 1998:

whining hath no place here.

#39 of 43 by orinoco on Wed Apr 8 03:24:55 1998:

we should all flirt in archaic english from now on