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by andys120 on Sun Apr 19 19:50:20 PDT 2009

An extended 3-day Road Trip from Tucson to he old mining town of Bisbee and back netted numerous old car sightings: -Beetlles, Beetles and more Beetles. Old VWs abound in Bisbee which is kind of odd since it's very hilly, not exactly the ideal environment for old Beetles w 40HP or less. Most are in good shape and more or less stock. Some Type 2 Microbuses were seen as well. Old non-VW cars and trucks were about including a nice '57 Chevy wagon (not a Nomad). Also seen: a couple of '65-'66 Mustang notchbacks which had obviously been nicely restored, one in Pale Yellow, the other in Twilight Turquoise. The most unusual sighting was a 1950's era Datsun sedan similar to this Datsun 211, they are very rare and it's hard to even come up with a picture of one.>

Re: Probably the gas cap

by stevensoriano on Sun Jan 27 17:53:12 PST 2008

The gas cap has been checked and checked again. Not the problem. The car drives/sounds/runs great. I am in Chandler, where the land speculators roamed. I like the Wilcox/Bisbee/Douglas area. More Jeep territory than GSR X, but still.....

As far as insurance companies and flood zones...

by iluvmysephia1 on Sun Aug 26 15:28:06 PDT 2007

I must say this: I live in the SE Arizona desert and I live in a 100-year flood plain. I had to purchase flood insurance in order to get the loan for my wife and I's house. Had to. It was not expensive. Will it flood here? Shoosh...there are huge puddles that pool up when the monsoons run through in July, August and September. But actual flooding and devastation and loss of housing? Could but I really doubt it would happen. And we had to purchase flood insurance. Question: why were not those people living in NO proper in obvious flood zones required by law to get flood insurance. If insurance companies won't pay out for floods, why am I required to buy it in order to get my loan. Required by law. I am not complaining, but, if my house were destroyed by flood I'd want sound reimbursement to repair my house. Somethings rotten in NO. And I would love to hear the easy to understand explanation for those people in NO so readily reamed as they were. To me, it's just to edumacate myself further. To Bubba the sheriff who lost his house in the NO Katrina disaster it's a lot more of a personal aggravating thing. Ya know, disassembling the UAW and their throngs sounds like it is just what the Big 3(hey, we can say the Big Three once again, whoo-hoo!!)need to do to restore some sanity and fluidity to their R & D departments. And their general accounts receivable/accounts payable department. Their hands are tied by the greed of the UAW and their members. Eh? Bankruptcy and then start over afresh. I work at a hospital about 75 miles north of the USA-Mexico border in SE Arizona. Some of our "business" is illegals that have the U.S. taxpayers foot their bills for births and emergency care. A Bisbee, AZ, hospital is close to closing down because of this practice and having trouble collecting on Medicare and state-sponsored claims. This medical insurance coverage issue needs to be tackled. What's Hillary claiming to want to do about this after attempting in 1993? No real details to report on after debates. It's a huge item to solve but it needs solving. Forcing everyone to have medical insurance is an interesting angle to take on it. Need more info. It's reminding me of that Dylan song "Everything is Broken." Funny, this silly picture has a red cross for medical care hanging outside the driver's side door. :)

Why are we so afraid of the Chinese

by iluvmysephia1 on Sat Sep 16 17:28:55 PDT 2006

cars coming over here? Rocky, rocky, rocky. I know that industrial decisons can have bad impacts on people's lives. I was laid off from The Boeing Company. Boeing is on a big roll now. What should that tell me? No, seriously, we started doing some of the work to pave the way for our replacements at Boeing. The new engineering system there was started by us. Boeing didn't want to pay us our good wages any more so our work was off-loaded to a group outside the Company and they got half our pay. Sad, but remember Bambi? When I was about 4 I watched it and it was tough to see that part. Tough nuts. I've gotten over it and re-trained. I thank Uncle Sam every few weeks for the Trade Act program. It was started in the Carter Administration in 1974, IIRC. I think a lot of these Ford, GM and DCX workers should ask about this because they are losing their jobs because of foreign competition. My foreign competitor was Airbus. The horrible tragedy of 5 years ago in NYC also helped doom us Boeing workers as well. Higher jet fuel prices, the 45 day SPEEA strike we participated in in 2000, etc, all played a part. That was, incidentally, the biggest white-collar strike in US history. We won. Trouble is, we didn't gain a thing. What a waste of time! Boeing was already paying us fair wages and benefits, generally. Stupid move to strike like that. There's always exceptions, union leads could only do so much at a time. Something else could always get in the way of helping Joe Six Pack and his particular complaint. Unions are not a bad thing, overall. Just a pain in the butt at the same time. Compromise or be cast out. Incidentally, I'm watching an 8-part series on Cochise County here in SE Arizona. There is an old mining town here named Bisbee in which the IWW (International Workers of the World)struck in 1917. The result was that the local sheriff and posse loaded them into boxcars in the sweltering Arizona desert heat and sent them to an oakie town in the middle of nowhere in New Mexico. The author and speaker of the DVD series points out that you can still get into a fist-fight over the 1917 Bisbee Deportation today in modern-day Bisbee, population 7,000. Bisbee was once deemed the "nicest town between L.A. and St.Louis." It's high population mark was around 25,000 people. I tend to enjoy driving over there because it's climate is mild for SE Arizona(70 degrees when it's 95 degrees in Tucson)and it's architecture is interesting to look at. They have most of the old pool halls and houses of ill-repute(often the same places)still standing and touched up, being used as bars and pool halls today. Brewery Gulch still rocks on Saturday night with live music/entertainment. Point is, this bickering and fighting over worker's rights has gone on for decades, for centuries. The right decisions are not always made in labor disputes. Go get training and leave the field you're in if you're getting laid off. I would recommend the healthcare field. Just be sure and have a strong stomach for body part ailments and smells and...umm...problems. Be careful, carry a big torch and listen for Sasquatch hoots and yelps as often as you can. No, retrain in another field, I'm serious. Be changeable and adaptable and follow up on your paperwork. Be willing to work hard for your own future in getting the bureaucratic "red tape" sorted out as you fight to get your schooling funded by the Feds. Sitting around and drinking beer and compaining about the current Adminstration makes about as much sense as praising Big Ben and Coach Cowher and the rest of the Steelers for the joke that was called last year's Super Bowl. Yeah, right ref from Pittsburgh, you'll just throw in a few crappy, dishonest calls. Just a few here and there so they won't stand out as being immoral and dishonest. You and the NFL front office are a disgrace to the fans of NFL football and to your own sport. May the bird of paradise poop on your Honda Accord's windshield while Alexander and Hasselback prepare to blow the Arizona Cardinals away tomorrow afternoon. How do we know that modern-day China is that debauched for workers still? I'll tell you one thing. I won't just buy a Chinese car verbatim. I'll want to know it'll hold up. Bricklin now says late 2008 or early 2009 for American entry. So be it. Also, Japanese and South Korean cars are now getting so good that it's hard to just pick one car you might want. And $15,000 can buy you a good South Korean/Japanese car. They're virtually the same car nowadays. Japanese quality is no better than South Korea's Hyundai or my favorite, Kia. Suzuki's new SX-4 is now the car I have my eye on. Where else can I get a car that I can drive in 2WD(FWD), AWD lock for icy condtions and AWD standard for rainy conditions, have them available at the touch of a button, and spend $14,999 for a new car with a 7-year, 100,000 mile Warranty? Yes, I'd trade my 2001 Kia Sportage in for one of those. Thing is, why should I? My Sportage is about to turn over to 120,000 miles and I will be taking it in for it's timing belt replacement appointment next week sometime. The little SUV is built so tight and so well and it performs so well, still accelerates like it did when I bought it 5 years ago, etc., why would I trade it in? I have yet to need a single replacement light bulb for it. It still has it's original battery. And this is my favorite value stat for it. It's original Hankook tires went 102,000 trouble free miles without even as much as needing a puncture wound fixed on any of the 4 OEM tires! There was still some (about 1/8 of an inch) tread on the tires, too, the distribution spread evenly about the surface of the Hankook Wilderness SUV tire. No alignment was ever or has ever been done and I can still pick my nose freely(with the new Toyo Wilderness tires installed on my Sportage 4x4) with no hands on the wheel for longer than my wife would care to tell you about. What a rig. Look Ma! No hands! :) If I get a 2007 Suzuki SX-4 and hell still has burning embers down there I'll come back and tell you about my new rig. My excitement over the SX-4 is practically eclipsed by my amazement over my own little South Korean Sportage 4x4. No issues to complain about with this little SUV. If you're still with me let me explain my stance on why I feel that the Chinese cars are going to have to be good. Real good. Competition, my car-luny friends! Competition is hot and juicy and good! Good competition, delicious and tender, dripping off the bone with good beefy American steer taste. No, I'm serious. I can buy a cute little new 2006 Kia Rio LX sedan now for only $9,000. That's at a local Tucson dealer, they're taking $2,000 off for their year-end clearance sale. I don't know if that is Kia's manufacturing rebate or the local Tucson dealer's concoction. But the fact is is that I can buy a great little car that gets 32 mpg city and 35 mpg highway for only $9,000.

nippon...

by iluvmysephia1 on Tue Aug 15 21:16:31 PDT 2006

we were in Douglas, Arizona, yesterday. It's right on the border and I think I saw a VW Polo. I thought it was a Jetta, then realized it wasn't and we just drove on by. I think I read 'Polo' on it's rear end. My wife and son are not any where near the car nut I am so I just muttered to them real quickly "what kind of car is that...", then I saw the Polo name on the back of it. Not a bad looking car! We have discovered the old mining town of Bisbee, Arizona and it has us captivated. Lots of really cool old buildings built into the weirdest places on the sides of reddish-colored hills. A town that puts you back in time with it's amazing historicity-I can't get enough of it. It is about 85 miles from Willcox, though. I guess I'll just have to trade the Sportsman in on a 2006 Scion xA with a 5-speed right quick and start getting that 36 mpg! :D Another valid reason to take the plunge!

OTOH America is all about

by iluvmysephia1 on Tue Aug 15 10:02:24 PDT 2006

credit, my car-loving friends. If you can buy on credit you will. Life is short, if you can make your payments then I say, go ahead, buy that new car. If you aren't going to be able to keep up with your payments, don't plunge yourself into that morass of bad credit worries. But if it's strictly a question of "Should I buy or pass" and you love the car, I say life is way too short, get that car. I remember the first car I bought on a bank note, it was in the fall of 1989. It was a 1986 Mercury Lynx wagon selling for $4995. The car was a Budget Rent-A-Car car for sale. It was in great shape and had only 10,000 miles on it. Anyhow, I was gnashing my teeth in his office, wondering what to do. I was getting cold feet. He stared at me and growled "What do you want me to do, pu the sale sign back on your car?" I looked at him, paused for just a brief moment, and said "No." He smiled broadly. We had our deal and I drove home that little compact wagon that night. It ended up working out fine. The fact is is that, if you want a rig, you'll work to keep it. It's an honesty issue. I say get the rig you want on credit. Enjoy it, but don't forget to make your payments, or you'll feist yourself into a downward spiral that could blast you into bankruptcy. But I say buy your new car on credit. Gas was $2.95/gal. at the Standard Chevron in south Bisbee, Arizona, yesterday. Bisbee is an old wild west mining town about 40 miles north of the USA-Mexico border and is an absolute blast to visit. It is built onto/into the mountain sides. It's at 5300 feet so Arizona's 100 degree days up north in Tucson translate to about 80 degrees in Bisbee. Lots of runoff rainwater rushing down the hill. I saw Toyota pickups navigate it but would've passed on that venture myself. It's chock full of artist's stores, jeans and belts stores, galleries, healthfood stores, nick-nack souvenir shops, old hotel/restaurant/bar combo's that just plain represent old mining-town history by their very bold presence still standing there. It's an absolute delight to visit. Oh, a parting thought. The Border Patrol is very busy in southern Arizona. They move their roadblocks to keep illegal aliens guessing as to their whereabouts. An SUV with illegals rolled over about 10 days ago, killing 9 illegals and badly injuring 12 more. Yikes. The chase goes on, in many, many different applications. Ci?