Squibbly's M1009 and other Questionable Projects

[ssdvc]

I am due for a new set of tires at the end of the year (funds permitting). I have run 32's in the past and I think they are a good fit for the truck. I liked the look and the MPG did increase slightly. I do have a set of those cheaper black steel wheels in 16", but I am not sure I want to put them on my truck, even though there are more tire choices in 16" (15" has a limited choice of tires).

That said, I think sticking with 15" with a 32X11.50 BFG AT is a good choice.

 

[Squibbly]

Got some nice dully dully’s to replace my non stock shiny shiny’s. Just the way God intended.

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[Squibbly]

Oops. 5MPH sideways slide down hill and into an Oak tree during our last snow.
All I felt was a bump, drove my truck back onto the road and kept going to Lowes.

This is what I saw when I got out. Lol.



This is what the tree looked like. The bark was a little discolored, but it didn't even take off the bark.



Unlike winters in the north where plow trucks and slag trucks take care of the roads, in the south, people just drive on top of it until it turns into a sheet of ice, How embarrassing to be from the north and slide off the road in 1 inch of snow.

Went to the salvage yard, and got two doors ($140), and ordered a new rocker ($45).

This Liberty is a diesel, so I'm not getting rid of it. It's about to get blue doors on one side and be a Franken Jeep.

I pull them off in the spring and paint them.

 

[Squibbly]

I went to a collision repair shop to see what the going rate was (I always like to calculate if it's worth my time to do it myself).
They quoted me...wait for it... 8-9 THOUSAND dollars. ROFL.
The guy said "That rocker is spot welded...that's money..", and he said this to me with a straight face.

I'm in the wrong business. People actually just say "Ok" to this stuff.

Oh, and he told me I couldn't supply my own doors, because they mark that up 25% or they won't make any money. Ha Ha Ha.

 

[SomeNewGuy]

I went to a collision repair shop to see what the going rate was (I always like to calculate if it's worth my time to do it myself).
They quoted me...wait for it... 8-9 THOUSAND dollars. ROFL.
The guy said "That rocker is spot welded...that's money..", and he said this to me with a straight face.

I'm in the wrong business. People actually just say "Ok" to this stuff.

Oh, and he told me I couldn't supply my own doors, because they mark that up 25% or they won't make any money. Ha Ha Ha.

Honestly those are inflated prices because insurance companies will pay it typically.
When something gets mandated it becimes more expensive, along with everything its involved it, and the quality goes down.

I digress...

I had a Hyundai Tiburon a while back with bad window regulators, I remember it was cheaper to get 2 doors at $10 a pop from pick an pull than to buy the parts. So what if its red doors o a black car... kinda ended up liking it after a few weeks of getting used to it lol

 

[ssdvc]

Glad no one got hurt !

 

[Squibbly]

I realized today, I’ve been a computer nerd for a really long time.

Usually when a package comes in the mail, I tell my wife “I need it for the truck”.

When this showed up and I opened it, I tried the same line only to realize she actually pays attention.

She wasn’t buying it.


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[ssdvc]

Damn Squibbly, I had one of those when I was a kid !! Can't afford them now !!

 

[Squibbly]

Damn Squibbly, I had one of those when I was a kid !! Can't afford them now !!

It's a clone.
Amazon.com: The C64 : Video Games

 

[M35fan]

I realized today, I’ve been a computer nerd for a really long time.

Usually when a package comes in the mail, I tell my wife “I need it for the truck”.

When this showed up and I opened it, I tried the same line only to realize she actually pays attention.

She wasn’t buying it.


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Wow, a Commodore 64! I miss those old games. I sold my Atari 2600 in 1989 for $75. who knew?

 

[Squibbly]

Wow, a Commodore 64! I miss those old games. I sold my Atari 2600 in 1989 for $75. who knew?

Yeah, I missed to old text based games like Pirate Adventure. Graph Paper to draw out your maps and your imagination for graphics.
Then Sierra came out with the awesome 'Quest' titles.

 

[Squibbly]

Just fixed this thing that’s been sitting in my attic for forever. The first “portable” computer ever made. The Osborne 1. 1982. Looks very military.

This might look nice mounted in the rear of the 09.
I can play some Thermonuclear War Simulator...or Zork.


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[ssdvc]

Just fixed this thing that’s been sitting in my attic for forever. The first “portable” computer ever made. The Osborne 1. 1982. Looks very military.

This might look nice mounted in the rear of the 09.
I can play some Thermonuclear War Simulator...or Zork.


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Ah, the early days of floppy drives and DOS. I think we used one of those back in the day, to keep track of some things that went boom.

 

[Mullaney]

Ah, the early days of floppy drives and DOS. I think we used one of those back in the day, to keep track of some things that went boom.

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Those portables were really useful.

In later life, when the 286 motherboard had rolled over and died I did upgrades to several. I remember when the 486 and following that the Pentium (woooo!) boards and IDE hard drives made them into little screamers - that were "luggable lunchboxes" that were really lighter than when they were new!

 

[Squibbly]

These use an OS called CP/M. DOS wasn’t around yet, or was so new it wasn’t main stream yet.

Most things were written in assembly language, but you could use MBasic to write programs in basic.


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[SomeNewGuy]

These use an OS called CP/M. DOS wasn’t around yet, or was so new it wasn’t main stream yet.

Most things were written in assembly language, but you could use MBasic to write programs in basic.


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Oh the stories of my father...

"You dont know programming unless you've written one with punch cards"

 

[Mullaney]

Oh the stories of my father...

"You dont know programming unless you've written one with punch cards"

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Yes! And working for a company with a blue logo and three letters in the name - it was incredibly cool to have the printer room deliver a skid of punch cards to your office. That same amount of information would be stored today on a small USB drive. I also remember when we got dot matrix printouts on green-bar paper. Delivered from the s390 printers on skids

 

[SCSG-G4]

Just fixed this thing that’s been sitting in my attic for forever. The first “portable” computer ever made. The Osborne 1. 1982. Looks very military.

This might look nice mounted in the rear of the 09.
I can play some Thermonuclear War Simulator...or Zork.


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I almost bought an Osborn, waited about a year and got a Compaq with two full height floppies, replaced them with two half height ones and put in a hard disk from Qubie Distributors that cost me $1000 then. It held a whopping 10 megabytes. I have 256 Gigabyte USB drives now and a two terabyte external solid state drive.

 

[SCSG-G4]

Oh the stories of my father...

"You dont know programming unless you've written one with punch cards"

Wait a minute there sonny! I've written programs on punch cards and paper tape!

 

[Squibbly]

Wow. Hillbilly surprise from my wife today.

I have been busy with work and not doing much on the truck, besides weld in the new rocker and give it some temp paint to keep it from rusting.

Just need to put some new tires on and she’s pretty much road ready. The rest is door and window seals and minor cosmetics.

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