nurkvinny

Book teasers... assigning the newest guy to fill up the water drinking fountain - by pouring buckets of water down the fountain's drain. sending the new guys to NAPA for synthetic flasher fluid. asking them to pick up that innocent looking ignition system part off the workbench... OH SHIT, IT WAS ENERGIZED??? watching people's faces as we grab both posts of a battery and jerking around yelling "buzzbuzzbuzz". the always amusing sounds during Summer time of people blowing up innertubes or rafts at the air hose. "IT'S NOT A ROD! IT'S NOT A ROD! IT'S NOT A ROD!". Long story. Thanks guys for the comments. It's easier to take than I thought it would be because most all of the great memories from there were made years ago, so they are already memories. It hasn't been very good watching the business go down hill the past few years. So, I'd rather see it end before he loses even more.

Thanks. Yep, I Googled and the suggestions I found were to go to Intel's site and run their tool that checks for driver updates, but I had already done all of that and drivers were good.

He has a couple years until retirement. Mainly lack of money. For lots of reasons, but the main ones are: first, as mentioned, 30 years ago people went to local gas stations for service, tires, belts/hoses, tune ups, batteries, etc; people think of beer sales and buying lottery tickets when they see gas stations now. Secondly, he has been getting slowly screwed harder and harder each year by company "X". I might go into this one more once he is officially out.

Is the cash-only price the same?

I know rules say to post prices for everything being sold. This is a different situation I think. I'd like to ask if there is anything shop-related that people need? I doubt I will ever go through and make a complete list of the 1000's of tools and shop equipment pieces. In a nutshell, an old service station is closing, the owner will keep some stuff he doesn't have doubles of at his house, I will get some things, and we'll sell off other stuff. So, if you can think of a tool, specialty tool, general repair stuff you need, let me know. I should have a list of the major items in a day or two. Everything is located in Zanesville for now. 95% of smaller stuff is NAPA lifetime stuff.

Ha. No shit. I was thinking the other day that I only knew like 2 people's name that night. Small world.

I should have added the positive points... He has a good part time job lined up where he gets to travel around the country some. He will be be able to work on his 67 Corvette restoration that has sat for a couple years now. He won't be working 71 hours a week anymore to break even. He's been working 6a-5p M-F and 6a-10p Saturday for years now. I hated knowing he was working 16 hour Saturdays by himself, so I usually headed down there to help pass the time. That schedule left damn near no time for house projects, or grand kids, or just downtime to relax. He gets to do something different after 43 years and not have to worry about shit that owners worry about.

Thought I would share since this is a car forum with car guys that may have grown up with car dads or in garages. My old man has owned service stations since the late 60's in Zanesville. A Texaco to begin with, then a Redhat, and a SOHIO turned BP for the past 25-30 years or so. These have been real service stations with fuel, 2 garage bays, Full Service where your windows are washed, oil checked, tires checked, etc. There are many of his customers who haven't let another mechanic touch any of their cars for 40 years. Not much of that loyalty anymore. For several years now, he has been the last Full Service station in the area. That's cool because he is the last of a breed, but it's been sad to have watched more and more people take their cars to Walmart, malls, and Jiffy Lubes to get tires, brakes, and the like, where I can 125% guarantee their cars were not handled with as much care as they would have been at an "old fashioned" shop like Dad's. I started turning wrenches there when I was 14 (legal since I was family) and stayed there through high school and college. It was awesome for many reasons, including having the racks for washing my cars, and obviously for fixing them or modding them. It was cool to make my own money all those years and pay for my cars. While other high school kids were going to the mall or movies on their folk's tab, I was working 40 hour weeks during h.s. and 55-60 hour weeks during college. It is also located on the only road in Zanesville where any real cruising **used to** happen. So, dad's shop was always the weekend hangout for 10-30+ cars. Watching burnouts, races, cruising, getting titty flashed, hanging out with a bunch of car guys and just shooting the breeze was my weekend every weekend for many years. I can't begin to count how many hours and days of my life were spent there in the garage learning from, or fighting with, Dad. And well, it is just starting to sink in that Dad won't have his "station" anymore. It will be weird to say the least to drive by it after he is out of there. Man, the commandments that were broken on those car lifts. Sorry, I could write a book about that place, but in summary, a really good car guy that helped untold numbers of people over the years, without ever screwing anyone out of money is closing up shop because of high-up people at bigger companies not giving a shit about this old time repair shop in a little town. Maybe I'll organize a Memorial Day weekend cruise and hangout as one last hoorah.

My dad brought me his laptop tonight b/c it wouldn't connect to his wireless network. Assuming a virus or simple setting, I did all the normal updates, scans, etc. Found that his Intel Pro 2200bg wireless card was getting an error code 10. This is even after downloading a driver update from Intel. I am leaning towards the card itself being bad. Can I find one of these dirt cheap, or, even if I can, should I just get him a USB wireless setup? Thoughts? Opinions.

I guess I didn't make my vote very clear. Black looks dumb on that color. My suggestion was take the cash you'd waste on coating and buy nicer stock wheels and leave them alone.

Right choice. One more hint... the headers don't go on this end of the car: http://www.nurkvinny.com/images/Vehicles/Cars/2001_Z06/DSCN3955_Med.jpg

Some related reading. http://www.lgmotorsports.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10001/LG%20Pro%20Long%20Tube%20C5%20Header%20Install.pdf http://www.bbexhaust.com/car/corvette/c6/install/headers/ http://www.planetlsx.com/vehicles/Installation_Tech__Longtube_Headers_on_C6_Corvette/86

See you after your ban. Welcome, fellow Pataskalian.

A very fast search: http://columbus.craigslist.org/pts/1695539851.html http://columbus.craigslist.org/pts/1734635423.html http://columbus.craigslist.org/pts/1736266924.html http://columbus.craigslist.org/pts/1739088701.html http://columbus.craigslist.org/pts/1741492396.html

You don't have family in Muskingum County, do you?

Don't care for either. Invest that time, money, and effort into finding one of the other 14 styles of Mustang wheels that look way better.

http://www.hooterspromotions.com/rmd/2010/rmd271/default.htm http://www.hooterspromotions.com/rmd/2010/rmd271/rmd271.jpg

Not sure I ever posted this in this section, so... http://www.columbusracing.com/forums/showthread.php?t=64889 More and more motivated to sell.

Nothing but tire kickers from Craigslist. Make me an offer guys. Needs nothing but someone to ride it. It's seen 100 miles in months. Would still work on trades for something fun on 4 wheels.

He's hiding his rear-mount turbo.

I see.

Well, he's down to 3000 from 4000 and took 90% of the bullshit out of his ad. Guess he didn't find his 17 year old sucker this time. http://columbus.craigslist.org/cto/1741911847.html

"Some people should not be alive."

Like when someone breaks into their house or car, when they report a disruptive neighbor, when one of their ex's threatens them, when they are in a bad wreck, and 100 other times when law-abiding people need help from the police? I guess the point was, if you are one of the people that feel the need to publicly talk shit about how bad you think cops are, then you shouldn't be allowed to call them when you yourself need help.

In this case... last, I suspect.