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2wd blazers, esp blazer extremes are actually decent handlers. There are a few people building handling cars out of them. The budget setup is: - 245 front 275 rear staggered tire combo on 18" wheel - larger sway bars (stock is 33mm F, 23mm rear), - G body, Camaro, or C5 corvette brake upgrade (as budget allows - 98+ blazers came with 2 piston calipers that clear 17" wheels if you want to be really cheap but you need the knuckle) - Stiffer lowering springs - new bushings in the suspension - Battery relocation The "I have money to spend" setup is: - aftermarket sway bars from belltech - 255 front 295 rear on custom offset rims - wilwood brake kit with rear disc conversion (if your blazer doesn't have it already) - Coil-overs with 4 link conversion (Thorbros, Johnny law, Code 504, etc...) - LSD in the rear end - Poly bushings - corner balance the truck (S10's understeer because of nose heavy weight dist- the closer you get to 50/50 the better they handle) On power tour this year I saw quite a few LS swapped pro-touring S10s, even a 95+ 4 door with a T56 that looked completely stock from the outside, and a really clean S10 extreme pickup that could handle a curve. FWIW people have been using the s10 chassis under street rods and older pickups for years. people have even built things like cobras and other kit cars on top of the chassis because it is really good and cheap.

I am curious what you mean by this one? can you elaborate?

Been looking at SN95 Mustangs lately. Can still get V8 stick cars, even verts, for under $6K for a GT. Anything past that is tater money though. as far as as classics: - 80's G-Bodies are something I have been watching. Anything with a performance badge (Monte SS, 442, etc...) is tater priced, but there are plenty of grandma grand prix's for around $4000-$5000 with nice bodies and interiors. There are stick conversion kits for them and a hughe aftermarket. Malibu wagons, and even some El Camino's are reasonably priced (although nice Elky's go for about $10K). I keep thinking about this dream project of an early 80's grand prix with the 2+2 nose, a 3800 and 5 speed out of a 4th gen camaro, and the whole top end from a 3800SC with supercharger bolted on top. There is a guy on the g-body forum who built one like that in a monte chassis and he runs 11's, the whole thing was mostly bolt in except for headers and modifying the v6 motor mounts. - Corvairs. I feel like if you can't find a running driving stick 65-69 corvair coupe for $4500, you aren't trying. The design team that designed the 1967-69 camaro also designed the 1965-69 corvair. Decent aftermarket support. Not really "fast" but handle well for an old car, there are decent upgrades for the suspension for not a lot of money, but you have to fall down the club racing rabbit hole. - AMC anything. One of the really interesting quirks about AMC is they re-used a lot of parts. on Power tour I ran into a guy with a hornet that had a full Jeep 4.0L I6 swap with fuel injection and a 2wd AX15 trans out of a 1990's XJ Cherokee. Apparently the I6 motor mounts are the same on the block from the early 3.6 I6's of the 60's all the way to the last 4.0L I6's in 2006. It bolts right in (you do need to have the driveshaft lengthened/shortened based on chassis though). With an AMC buy the best body rolling chassis you can afford and then get a rotted to the gills XJ off CL for $800 and swap everything drivetrain over. 2 Door clean ramblers with engine issues are about $5K right now, some of the later 70's obscure AMC stuff like hornets and Spirits are about half that. Heck, I even saw a clean $6K Jeep Commando (think Jeepster but 4wd) in Dayton on FB marketplace which is a good value for an open top 70's 4wd SUV. - Old weirdo european cars. E21 bmws are still cheap, but I doubt you want to touch a 4cyl beemer ever again - even one where the upgrade is to put the m42 you hate into it. Some of the older Volvos aren't doing too bad price wise. I saw a 1972 142 volvo coupe for $3800 on FB marketplace this AM in ohio. body was clean but the engine was roached - great candidate for an LS swap. 70's mercedes SL roadsters are still cheap, most of them are automatics though. E34 bmw 5-series are cheap, and they came with stick. If you buy a 1992-1995 e34 manual trans car, the engine from an e36 M3 drops right into the chassis and plugs into the body harness (you have to use the 5 series manual trans though since it clocks different from a 3 series one). - Old 1960's-1980's jaguar XJ6s are never a bad choice, esp if they have been chevy swapped. Still plenty under $6K but they all need some work. never manual here in the states, but the parts for manual conversions are available through jag parts sellers. If it's chevy swapped, stick is a T5 and a pedal assembly away. - 2 door S-series blazers. Came stick, tons of support for a v8 swap (or find a v8 swapped one).

Bill Thomas Cheetah. 11 originals built between 1963 and 1966. Thomas was a subcontractor to GM on the Chevy II as well as a known corvette tuner, so GM backdoored his original design with factory support in order to beat the 289 cobras. 2 of the 11 cars were aluminum, the rest were fiberglass, and one was converted to a roadster much later in life. The Cheeta is well known for 215mph speeds on daytona's banked course, and the gullwing doors blowing off the car at that speed. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a19736681/cobra-killer-time-capsule-bill-thomas-cheetah-headed-to-auction/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Thomas_Cheetah After the original production run (Chevrolet pulled out in 64 for the 65 season), There was a lot of kit car drama with the cheetah - companies formed, cars made, companies sold, the molds were stolen at one point, nobody knew who had the licenses for it...it was a mess. Fiberglass trends and BTM were the two companies most known for cranking out Cheetah Kits (FT 1966-1989, BTM 1983-2015). RER here in Ohio makes a modern version which is the most current well known kit, as does known cobra kit mfg Shell Valley. Stacey David built an RER Cheetah on his show Gears: That CL ad looks like an RER Evolution Kit, judging by the wheels probably built in the 90's or early 2000's and completed (it has a title) before someone made it a project again. (do they ever really stop being projects?) Some fun facts about the cheetah: 1) There is no driveshaft - the tail shaft of the trans connects to the rear with a giant u-joint coupler 2) RER's Cheetah operation has been up for sale since march of 2020 3) nothing is adjustable in the interior. You build the car to fit the driver. the seats are bolted to the floor. The foot well is next to the engine block and the headers go over the top of the foot well and out to the side pipes. 4) the original cheetah's didn't have A pillars for the roof - the door would just butt up against the lexan windshield. Repop street cars use a glass windshield out of an MG. 5) The wet weight of a cheetah is approx 1600lbs. By comparison a kit built t-bucket usually weighs about 1800lbs.

You know this is more akin to the fugitive slave act in this country than it is to the Nazi's (who actually subcontracted bounty hunters) but I don't see anybody rushing to make that comparison. I wonder why. In some ways they did and in some ways they didn't. As someone who had holocaust survivors in their family, I've had this discussion many times growing up and the reality is yes they saw it coming. Poverty is a motherfucker though and the majority of people didn't have the ability to move because moving cost money. Those who did have the money began to leave but the German government didn't want them taking their wealth with them so it was taxed and confiscated as part of a brutal emigration/deportation scheme. in 1933 alone 38,000 Jews left Germany for France, Belgium, etc... (many to be recaptured during the 1940's as Germany invaded those countries). What they didn't see coming was the mass executions which didn't actually begin until late 1938. Between '33 and '38 Germany was deporting people out of country, so most assumed the roundup after 1938 were deportation patrols. The thing about genocide is nobody really sees it coming, it's too horrible an act to really think would ever happen to you. In addition the German government was really good at keeping it a secret. Majority of Free Germans didn't know that's what happened in the concentration camps, Russia found out in 1941 and the US didn't find out until 1942 - a full 4 years after it began, and only because of the vast network of spies those forces were running against the German war machine. For a long time in the greatest generation, there was this mantra that if you were a German Civilian living in that time you are considered a Nazi - because what was going on was so open and obvious to the majority of the population as wrong, even if they didn't know about the actual genocide. The excuse by those on trial of "I was just following orders" became a joke in its own right because it was used so frequently AND because nobody believed it. This is why the comparison is moot, and frankly insulting. The breadth and scope of the actions of the NAZI's are so far beyond what you can comprehend as a denial of liberty, and the word NAZI has become a stand-in for the word "evil" that it has lost its context. Most of the "Liberties" I hear people moaning about losing in this pandemic weren't their liberties to begin with. Your rights end when another's begin, your rights aren't superior to any body else's - you can't force the shop keeper to be open because you want to shop. The majority of mandates are health and safety - which are long established within the power of state and local governments to regulate (going back to before the founding of this country). I have yet to see where anybody has permanently lost any "rights".

It's what passes for intellectualism among conservative pundits these days. Not interested in any actual information - if they can cast doubt and make something seem suspicious that's as far as they take it, then the unwashed masses pickup the doubt and run crazy with it, and the next thing you know people are taking livestock doses of a dewormer thinking it treats viruses.

This brings up an interesting point about how most people, even those in front line roles, don't fully understand how risk stacking works. to go back to the car safety analogy: your car has seatbelts, airbags, mandatory insurance, crumple zones, etc....each one of these things reduces risk of injiry or death in an accident, but no one thing prevents it 100% and most are more effective when used in conjunction with other measures. Driving a newer car with crumple zones reduces your risk of injury because the shock no longer gets passed to the passengers in the car, so the risk of injury in a low speed accident is much lower, however it does not decrease in a higher speed accident. A seatbelt on its own lowers your risk of injury or death in both types, but when you stack it on top of each other seat belts and crumple zones reduce low, moderate and some high speed injuries. Add in airbags which don't mitigate low speed all that much, but are more effective in high speed - in aggregate the risk of injury with all three in the car is much much lower. Now add in insurance which means a person has broader access to care and is much less likely to die as a result of their injuries - that further lowers the risk of a bad outcome. that is how we decrease traffic deaths by 2/3rs between 1960 and 2018 - we stack our risk mitigation measures and we create a safer environment. Same thing with masks and vaccines and social distancing. No one thing is a "cure", but all there lessens the risk by a considerable amount than any one thing on it's own. But there are lots of people who like to say "masks don't work" because on it's own it isn't mitigating enough risk and it requires the other two items to really bring the risk into tolerable levels. Very few people are doing all three so our current risk level is sub-optimal.

not a 1:1 comparison - talking about the model of career funded insurance is its own discussion and one that would rival war and peace if done on the forum. That said - your premium will never get cheaper, it only gets cheaper for the company. that's how the model works so being an asshole and blaming other's health problems on raising your cost is bullshit, the company will still take out the same amount, they just want to pay less. Also, this statement kinda ignores literally all the other programs companies, people, the government, etc are trying to do combat heart disease, obesity, smoking, etc. you automatically assume people aren't doing anything but it's not that simple. You think people don't care about their health when there are other outside factors you just refuse to consider. But I forget, you are a forklift driver in a warehouse so you know more about people than all the doctors, more about laws than the lawyers, and more about companies than the CEOs - you must live at the holiday inn express.

Why is it you guys always focus on the death number and ignore the fact that that many who have covid have lingering injuries and side effects? Is it because it doesn't have a tidy number? It's looking like it's significantly larger than the death toll. in 2020, roughly 378,000 people died from covid. This made it the 3rd most common cause of health related death behind heart disease and cancer. By contrast, preventable deaths in the US usually rank 3rd at 179,000. yeah it's a lot of people, even though the percentages don't seem to indicate it, doesn't mean people shouldn't do anything. in 1967, the year before seat belts were required by federal law, the death rate for an automobile accident was 25.53 per 100,000 people in 2018 it was 11.18 per 100,000 people. That's a huge decrease. We went from roughly 50K deaths per year to 30K deaths per year because of seat belts, airbags, advancements in engineering, etc.. and that's not taking into account the population grew by 200% between 1960 and 2018. doing stuff decreases the death toll, but you need to get people on board instead of having them acting like a bunch of selfish assholes.

yes the Vaccination rate has gone up drastically, but that's because prior to this pandemic the vaccination rate for covid was 0 and now it's 63% national average. still 63% is an average and there are a lot of areas that have very low vaccination rates across all counties. Ohio has 53% vaccination but the majority of counties are in the 30-40% range with a few larger counties reporting in high 50-low 60% vaccination. That's just not enough. You look at a state like California where you have counties with near 70% vaccination rate and their spread is very low. you are trying to say that vaccination isn't solving the problem because we have vaccination and the problem is persisting - but the signs are pretty clear not enough people are vaxxed. In areas where you have close to 70% or more there is low spread, in areas below that spread is high. very few counties have near 70% vaccination (none in ohio). The more variants that come to light the less effective it becomes. People only think there are 1 or 2 variants of covid-19 but there are almost a dozen, only 1 or 2 pose a serious risk to people by being vaccine resistant. And here you are saying people shouldn't take a vaccine because people not taking a vaccine have made things worse and why do anything to make it better. It's flawed logic, and proof that cynicism is just intellectual laziness ("we are all fucked so why should I give up my freedom?")

With your fantastic (/sarcasm) grasp of probability and statistics it's a good thing you aren't a professional gambler. Nothing is certain, yes precautions don't stop 100%, but they do have an effect on the likelihood and probability of transmission and outcome. That's how probability works. Yes there are still going to be people who "win" the worlds shittiest lottery and contract it, but in aggregate as the number of "winners" gets smaller then the risk gets less for all of us. The more people who contract it the worse it gets for us overall. If you were in a casino playing blackjack, and the dealer leaned in and said "If you wear a blue tie you'll get blackjack 70% of the time (up from 4.8%)" and you look around and see it working for the other players in the casino, are you really going to tell me you would turn that down? Are you really going to say "no thanks" to what is essentially free money 70% of the time are you really going to say no to that? you'd have to be an idiot right? So why are you content to be an idiot about masks and vaccines in a similar situation?

I don't wish death on anyone, but as greg pointed out, everyone has some form of empathy fatigue at this point and I don't really want to try stop the stupid from being stupid anymore, if it was just them that it killed off. But it isn't and so I guess reading comprehension isn't your strong suit because you missed that "but" that came after "I'd be all for it". yes, due to some of the medications I take I can be considered high risk for a poor outcome if contracted and I mismanage my meds. However, I am relatively low risk for transmission or contracting due to being vaccinated, plus having my booster before going out on the HRPT, and taking covid tests prior to and after the tour. yeah we didn't talk about it in the videos because it just invites dipshits like you to go "how ironic" (when you clearly don't know how irony works either) in the comments. Wanna know a real example of Irony? It's an unvaccinated person giving any vaccinated person any shit for being reckless about transmission risk.

my current health and what little you know about it doesn't fuck over literally thousands of people. You can't catch "fat" from me sneezing near you you fuck wad. Comparing being vaccinated is more akin to not wearing gloves or masks when performing surgery as a risk factor than it is to someone being overweight. Taking every precaution to prevent the spread of an infectious disease that you are in the middle of a pandemic for is the standard of care. other risk factors like overweight are outcome risk factors not transmission risk factors. do you understand the difference? no you probably don't because no matter what you are going to make up some excuse about how you with your high school education who "knows" someone in the field is smarter than people that have been studying this their whole lives.

At this point if you are a healthcare worker and you aren't vaccinated I would consider that a form of malpractice and it's probably good those individuals aren't further exercising their poor judgement on treating patients.

greg, I agree with 100% of everything you said, But just for fun and to bring this back to car related...have you ever looked at the backlash and reaction towards seatbelts? The first seat belt law was enacted January 1st 1968, and was a Federal requirement that all passenger cars be equipped. Following the federal law there was a huge backlash against wearing seatbelts, and most of Americans didn't wear them. It wasn't until the 1980's that the backlash died down enough for the states to begin making seatbelt use mandatory through the passing of traffic laws, and even then the government had to trick the automakers into lobbying for state seat belt laws by telling them they would get an exemption from installing airbags if 2/3 the states had seat belt laws in place (they didn't make it and that is how we got airbags in the 1990's). Even now there are still seat belt protesters. It took 53 years for seatbelts to become widely accepted as a safety measure and even still there are idiots arguing against their use, it's just a smaller pool. Masks are heading down much the same path. There are just too many morons who are more married to their own misunderstood concept of liberty than their actual safety or the safety of others. You see them here - they make all sorts of political based excuses because they are incapable of evaluating the information objectively and with deference to the experience and conclusions of actual experts. In other words too many people think they are smarter than doctors and researchers (you know people who go to school for 20 years plus heavy training on top), But that doesn't come as a surprise really - look at how many on this forum argue with mechanics and some of y'all shouldn't be touching wrenches. Honestly, natural selection would probably take care of a large number of the mask and vaccine deniers, and I would be all for it if it didn't absolutely fuck over literally everyone else from those dipshits acting like naturally occurring petri dishes where new variants develop. https://www.businessinsider.com/when-americans-went-to-war-against-seat-belts-2020-5 https://www.history.com/news/seat-belt-laws-resistance https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674423473 https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/07/25/seat-belts-masks-fights-coronavirus/ https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/05/us/seat-belts-masks-coronavirus-wellness-trnd/index.html

Not 93, but the Circle K on Georgesville road down by the casino that sells ethanol free gas if you are looking for a base to make you own mix.

yo momma so stupid she thinks Johnny Cash is a pay toilet. Yo mama's so fat, her car has stretch marks.

What are we talking about here? 88 octane regular gas? or the E15 in the blue hose that Sheetz is also selling? because those two things are not the same. 87-88 octane gas? yeah I'd put that in any low compression engine. E15 or as sheetz calls it "unleaded 15", yeah I wouldn't put that crap in anything older than 5 years. Ethanol fuels are trash (unless you have a fun car tuned for E85), and having more trash in your gas isn't helpful. It doesn't improve fuel mileage, it doesn't improve emissions, it just keeps corn prices stable so your corn farming neighbors keep growing it.

First of all I applaud your use of “Trumpish” for anything that seems like a President is making a bad decision. It kinda drives home the point that he really owns the brand of poor leadership. What’s the fight really about, that the drug isn’t ready? No. This is an interagency fight between the CDC and The FDA because the president took the advice of one over the other. That’s it, and it happens a lot more often with presidents than you would think. Wanna know what the difference is with trump? He wouldn’t take the advice of either agency but instead would lean to the media and non experts who could have drawn their conclusions from any number of unverified sources including those from foreign actors. And that’s not speculation, that is exactly what happened with hydroxichloroquine. The FDA and CDC were issuing warnings not to take it as early as March 2020 and the President was on TV saying you can take it. Do you see the difference? It is one thing to evaluate the plans proposed by two experts in their fields and pick one over the other, it’s another to piss on both experts legs and then ask Bob the janitor what he thinks and run with that.

well when you make statements like this: You can't say you are impartial or informed. yeah you havea team, it has an elephant for a mascot. Generally speaking the GOP propaganda machine has been working overtime and from personal experience the only people thinking Biden hasn't done ANYTHING right since taking the office in January are not impartial or well informed but extremely right wing GOP supporters or suckers who buy into the propaganda (not sure if there is a difference there).

cross party appointments are real, and they do have value. They actually have been gaining traction since the 1960's esp in times where congress is pretty evenly split. Looking back across the past 4 presidents (excluding Biden), Trump had the fewest bipartisan appointments in modern times. Obama had the most followed closely by Geroge W. Bush, then Clinton. I am not saying they don't have a preference for appointments in their own political party, they do, but competency of the job in agency roles is a huge factor in appointments made in previous administrations. Simply put, presidents like to look good and having competent people under them make them look good. I am also not saying political appointments aren't done on a favor basis, but often those are the "inconsequential roles" like ambassadorships to friendly countries. consequential appointments are often based on political strategy for managing an issue. If you want to push consumer advocacy, then you want a consumer advocate to head the CFPB and the odds are greater that that person is a democrat. It's exceedingly rare that someone gets appointed to be the head of the CFPB, Secretary of Energy, or the department of the interior because of how loyal they are to the political party while ignoring whether they are competent, but that is EXACTLY how it played out in the Trump Administration - all of those people, Mulvaney, Perry, and Zinkie, were incredibly incompetent in their roles and people who got their job because of their loyalty to Trump. Perry even admitted he was out of his depth and managed to fail upwards into a larger budget and growth in his department.

I am not selling anything, that's their job. I am speaking to my experience as someone whose job is directly affected by political policy and law making. Yes my job is now easier and provides more value because there aren't inexperienced and incompetent people in key roles. Even the interim people handling some of the agencies are experienced people and I value experience. The question wasn't to sell Biden either, it was, was "anybody happy with anything he did" and yes I was happy with a few things. I am unhappy with other things but that's the nature of any administration. Twitter was embarrassing but in the political sphere ultimately it had very little sway. It's not something I pay attention to professionally. I agree both are going to be good and bad at a lot of things, but the one thing that sets trump apart more than any other politician that held that office is that he was really bad at the administrative part of the job and putting people in roles they had no business holding. Plenty of republicans pointed out during his administration that he had no real strategy for policymaking, his literal goal was just to shove any warm GOP body into any open role that he could. From a practical standpoint, Trump was bad at a lot more things than any preceding president, don't do that cynical thing where you say they are all the same because they all suck because it isn't true. Nuclear waste and household garbage are both things I wouldn't want to be covered in, but that doesn't mean nuclear waste is only as harmful as what's in your kitchen garbage pail Biden could be worse in the end but we aren't even past the first year right now so not going to call it, but from what I have seen he's made my job easier. I didn't think you were, I just not sure what you found funny? It's pretty well publicized that the last election was an anybody but Trump election.

The police are the first to arrive. A young officer in a Tahoe, followed by another in a separate car. They saunter up, inspect the scene, and go "yep, looks like another overdose". Turns out the cops in springfield don't carry narcan and wouldn't be allowed to administer it if they did. Well, shit. A few seconds after they arrive, I stand up and take a step back and I can see the ambulance entering the parking lot. I look at the woman, bend down and say "come on give me one more breath" and she does. No CPR, no risk of delta variant. I step back from the scene as they roll up just to avoid being in the way. In the light the woman's face is pale white. Remember that Scene in pulp fiction with the needle of adrenalin? remember how fun that was because of how cartoonish and ridiculous it was? That bit of doubt that in the real world it would ever really act that way? ok so there was no big needle and big thump, and she didn't shoot bolt upright, but I was jump back shocked with how quick she started responding after the Narcan was deployed. Like from ghost face dead to being able to talk to us in the span of a minute. And then the adrenalin dump stopped and I almost passed out from relief. The rest of the evening was spend chatting with the cops, calling my wife and giving her a status update, and trying to fix the car enough to get home. Also I took a walk through walmart and bought a 12 pack of Gatorade and took a whore's bath in hand sanitizer in the front entrance of the walmart. Thank the universe for 24 hour walmarts. The electrical issue turned out to be a worn out AMC voltage regulator, which in turn took out the alternator. We ended up swapping it with a 1 wire GM alternator at the venue 3 days and many other adventures later, but that's another story (in the day 5 video).

So here is the story on day 2 and the springfield parking lot (warning Wall o'text): Background: we suspected the Spirit had some sort of electrical problem, because every once in a while it wouldn't start - just click. At first I thought this was a battery ground issue because moving the battery ground strap caused the car to fire up. Austin had the battery go flat on him on a trip to Athens and back the week before, and the suggestion was the battery was shorting out - He gave me the old battery from that trip and it wouldn't charge past 12.1 on my charger and the acid looked low. Still the battery he had put in the car had gotten us up and back to norwalk and over to dayton no problem and the car was charging at about 12.8 at idle and 13.0 when reved up so we just assumed it was a defective battery and the charging issue was a non-issue.... until in dayton the car wouldn't start again and had to be bump started. The Springfield Walmart: After bump starting the car, we were cruising back to Cbus no issue - until it started to get dark. With Austin driving we waited as long as we could to turn on the headlights. When he did, Austin could feel the car start to lose power and when he did a brights check, the car literally backfired through the carb. I opened google maps and found that we were 3 miles from the walmart at east side square in springfield (tuttle road). We got off the highway and made our way down some really sketchy backroads with no lights and in pitch darkness, only for the car to die at the intersection right before the walmart. So I got out and pushed the car about 100 yards through the light and into the walmart parking lot. At this point, I had been in the hot car for several hours, in the hot sun in the parking lot of the veterans center in Dayton, and just pushed the car plus driver out of the way. I was spent. Austin figured since a battery swap worked last time we should be able to make it the 30 min back to columbus by grabbing another battery and then deal with it in the AM. So he went inside to buy a battery. While he was inside, I grabbed the multimeter and started looking for a short or some kind of drain that would explain eating batteries. At this point, I am digging around the car with a multimeter when a young woman (I would later find out she was 35) walked past the car from the walmart entrance. She seemed to be typing into the phone fast like she was arguing with someone, and not really looking where she was going. because she would look up, walk one direction, look around, walk another direction on her phone, look up again. She walks past me with the hood up on the car, stops, looks up from her phone, and goes "can I just vent to you for a minute"? I gave her a long look, she was about 5'8", white (with a pretty good natural tan), brown hair, baseball cap, athletic wear (Tank top and spandex shorts). She looked fairly clean, good skin, somewhat skinny, a little bony, but not unhealthy. She had a new-ish smart phone and a large key chain with a set of car keys on it. I was bored and used to random people unraveling their life stories to me (because I have a friendly face) and so I said" sure". She walks around to the drivers side of the car and leans up against the quarter panel and starts telling me about how she's pissed about how Walmart won't take clothes back because she took the tags off even though it's a Walmart brand and how her friend was supposed to meet her, I wasn't really paying attention because the battery would read 12.3v key off, but 0.0V with key on. It took me a minute to realize I didn't hear her talking anymore, so I peaked my head around the hood and she was crouched into a squatting upright fetal position. I walked over and asked "miss are you alright?". She mumbled something to me and then faceplanted forward into the asphalt. While I was checking that she was still breathing, a woman in an older tacoma with two teenage kids pulled up and asked "is that woman alright?". I told he that I didn't think so and she calls 911 immediately. Up until this moment I hadn't thought "drugs" in reference to her - she just didn't look like the strung out junkies I had seen growing up. Austin was still in the store and I texted him to alert the walmart employees that there was a woman in distress in the parking lot. The Taco Woman turned out to have a broken leg in a cast and so she yelled instructions to me from the 911 operator. I laid the woman on to her back and began talking to her to keep he conscious and breathing. I was also roughly timing her breathing which was getting more labored and with greater spaces between breath. Austin shows up tot he car to this scene with a shopping cart with two car batteries in it, not having got my text and having no idea what is going on. I'm fairly certain his first thought was "what the fuck did kerry do now?" In the pre-covid world, I don't know that I would have ever given a second thought to giving a person CPR who was in distress. But now with this woman whose breaths were getting to be 20 seconds apart and more like gasps - It occurred to me that I might have to give her CPR if she stops breathing. I haven't been CPR certified since 2003, but it is surprising how much comes back to you when you need it. Mentally though, my exhausted self is just saying "come on, one more breath till the bus comes, just keep pulling in that air". I look up and I see disco lights.

Talk to Austin, it's his car. I can tell you that it is an original 1979 AMC Spirt AMX, one of approx 800 made in 1979 with a 304ci v8 and a 4 speed manual (most were 258 ci I6s). he poured buckets of money into the car with new mechanical everything, including a rebuild that made the 304 decently strong.