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by lemko on Mon Jun 01 11:49:00 PDT 2009

Well, my 1989 Cadillac Brougham has also decided to become a "project car." I just took it out Saturday afternoon to limber it up for the run to GM-Carlisle at the end of the month. Well, I should've suspected something was up when the turn signal was interminably slow when I pulled out of the driveway onto Tabor Avenue. I'm about six blocks away from home and the LED display on the HVAC panel goes dark. Then, the car just dies. I turn the key....click...absolutely dead. Not even turning over. Oh, great! I'm in the middle of the street and traffic is backing up behind me! I put the very dim blinkers on, stand by the left rear of the car waving traffic past me and hearing a lot of comments directed at me that can't be repeated in polite company. I foolishly left my cell phone at home, so I can't even call for help. Where's a cop when I need one? Well, after about 15 minutes a Philadelphia Police Crown Vic appears about a block away and I'm signalling to the officer for help. Instead of getting help, the crotchety old geezer starts lecturing me about leaving a disabled car in the middle of the street and telling me I should've pushed it off the street. RIIIIIGHT! I'm going to push a 2 ton car by myself with nobody at the wheel allowing it to collide with whatever is in its way. I'm doing my best "yes sir, yes sir" with this knucklehead when I really would like to hold up a single finger indicating this Keystone Kop's IQ. Of course I don't do this because I don't feel like reinacting the Rodney King incident. Eventually, I convince the unaffable officer to help me get the car off the road onto the sidewalk next to a tavern. The tavern's patrons see my distress and come to my rescue. One guy gets his car and tries to jump start my Brougham. I do get my car started, but the car died again after a few minutes left with that sickening dead....click! Well, I'm running out of ideas until I remember I have a spare battery back at my place. I walk back, get the battery and my tool kit, jump in my other car and put it in my Brougham. I figure this battery has enough juice in it to get my car back in the garage. I am successful. I put the Brougham away and walk back to the tavern to fetch my other car. I plan on taking the Brougham to my friend's place which is only about a block away and have him look at it. I'm suspecting a bad alternator though I didn't see a NO CHARGE light. What else could it be? When it comes to electrics, I'm clueless. In a sense, I guess it's better the Brougham pulled this stunt near my place rather than out in the middle of the PA Turnpike!

Norway don't pay very much [fintail]

by gagrice on Sun Apr 19 18:46:25 PDT 2009

I don't know if Norway has NA style unions though...so he might not like it. I would imagine they are all government controlled. You say anything bad about the King and you are demoted to picking after the horses in the parades. Or sent out to spend the winter on a drill rig in the North Sea. I think Rocky would have a REAL eye opener if he were to venture back to the homeland.. Norway unions, employers reach wage deal 03.31.09, 05:31 PM EDT OSLO, March 31 (Reuters) - Norwegian labour unions and employers reached a pay deal on Tuesday, agreeing a general increase and extra for low-income workers and boosting wage costs by 3.6 percent, officials said. The agreement provides a general one-crown-per-hour raise and extra for employees who earn less than 90 percent of the average industrial wage, the LO trade unions federation and NHO employers' group said in separate statements. LO and NHO both said they were pleased with the agreement, which cut wage growth from 5.6 percent in last year's settlement and came before a midnight deadline for the talks. 'The result is in line with LO's demands and ensures that all members to get good wage growth and that extra pay above all benefits low-paid employees and many women,' LO's chief Roar Flaathen said in a statement. The one-crown general rise would mean about 2,000 Norwegian crowns ($297.9) per year per wage-earner, LO said. NHO's chief Finn Bergesen said the 3.6 percent wage growth was 'defensible' and would contribute to securing jobs. http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2009/03/31/afx6237310.html So the average Norwegian union Skilled worker makes less than $9000 US per year. They pay $8 per gallon for gas. I hope they don't have a long drive to work. I guess that leaves Rocky out. He would not be able to afford a plane ticket.

Re: Did Anyone Consider Consumer Incentives? [ruking1]

by chikoo on Mon Apr 06 11:31:00 PDT 2009

>Waggoneer is the sacrificial lamb, no matter how deserving or not he is/was. If he made profit for GM, he would have been crowned the King of the Auto World. I am sure nobody would have said then that Mr. Wagoner did not deserve it, even if the profits were purely due to luck. For his failure as CEO this is the least that can be done.

Re: so... [dallasdude1]

by gagrice on Fri Jan 23 06:29:04 PST 2009

Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act, at once doing away with Glass-Steagall and the 1956 BHC Act, and crowning Citigroup Inc.as the new “King of the Hill.” Again not sure what this has to do with the domestic auto industry failure, and the part the UAW has played in bringing down the domestics. This decline has been over 40 years since VW first set foot on our soil. The domestic did not just start losing to the imports. As far as your logic that Gramm was the bad guy in this financial crisis. Your beloved Clinton disagrees with your conclusions. Economists Robert Ekelund and Mark Thornton have criticized the Act as contributing to the 2007 subprime mortgage financial crisis. In response to criticism, President Clinton himself stated: "I don't see that signing that bill had anything to do with the current crisis. Indeed, one of the things that has helped stabilize the current situation as much as it has is the purchase of Merrill Lynch by Bank of America, which was much smoother than it would have been if I hadn't signed that bill ... On the Glass-Steagall thing, like I said, if you could demonstrate to me that it was a mistake, I'd be glad to look at the evidence." All you ever do is try to push the blame for the domestic auto industry failure on anyone or anything, other than one of the MAJOR contributors to the D3 downfall. That would be the UAW and their goon tactics to get repressive contracts over the years.

Re: Spotted: Cayenne GTS 6 speed manual [cdnpinhead]

by p0926 on Sun Jun 08 09:14:10 PDT 2008

back road to Crown King Hmm... sounds like a fellow resident of the Valley of the Sun ;) -Frank

Re: Spotted: Cayenne GTS 6 speed manual [british_rover]

by cdnpinhead on Fri Jun 06 12:20:22 PDT 2008

Somehow I missed this when you first posted it. I'm a hard-core manual transmission person for my road car, but having an automatic in the Pathfinder (with a real low-range transfer case) has proven itself to be very capable. It walked us up a trail known as the "back road to Crown King" within a few months of its delivery, and did a fine job. Autos are great for serious (or even semi-serious, which is me) off-road rock crawling.