How old is everyone?
#61
Ahhh....when i was 16 (circa '86) my mother worked for 1st Nationwide, which was owned by Ford Motor Company. Our parents bought the new Mustang 5.0 LX for my sister, while I got the crappy Escort GT (wanna be racer) under the AA employee discount.
I hated that car, it would die on my when I hit hard G corners......after returning it 4x to the dealer, my dad eventually got me a reliable new '88 Honda CRX Si....I think I have a picture of it when I mod'ed the max.
EDIT: I found it!!! (circa '89 days before the big earthquake)
I hated that car, it would die on my when I hit hard G corners......after returning it 4x to the dealer, my dad eventually got me a reliable new '88 Honda CRX Si....I think I have a picture of it when I mod'ed the max.
EDIT: I found it!!! (circa '89 days before the big earthquake)
Last edited by wheelgarage; 12-09-2011 at 11:32 AM.
#62
Ahhh....when i was 16 (circa '86) my mother worked for 1st Nationwide, which was owned by Ford Motor Company. Our parents bought the new Mustang 5.0 LX for my sister, while I got the crappy Escort GT (wanna be racer) under the AA employee discount.
I hated that car, it would die on my when I hit hard G corners......after returning it 4x to the dealer, my dad eventually got me a reliable new '88 Honda CRX Si....I think I have a picture of it when I mod'ed the max.
EDIT: I found it!!! (circa '89 days before the big earthquake)
I hated that car, it would die on my when I hit hard G corners......after returning it 4x to the dealer, my dad eventually got me a reliable new '88 Honda CRX Si....I think I have a picture of it when I mod'ed the max.
EDIT: I found it!!! (circa '89 days before the big earthquake)
#63
When I lived in the city 1999-2003 we had a few minor rumblers, but nothing like the '89 shaker.
One positive thing about that quake is the removal of the Embarcadero freeway; always thought that was an ugly structure. Seattle is finally starting work to remove the Viaduct, a similarly hideous double-decker freeway. Hopefully the end result will be as nice as the transformation that made the current Embarcadero area so nice.
#64
We lived in Milwaukee for a few months earlier this year, and I was always amazed by the 3-layered network for freeways on the west and sou-west corners of the city. Ugly- absolutely not beautiful, but the function of the system impressed me.
(That isn't to say traffic wouldn't regularly stack up, but still- the network itself was impressive).
I will be living in Grand Rapids MI next. It's a small town, but the highway system was very well planned, even with a river to contend with. Beauty, indeed.
Pat
(That isn't to say traffic wouldn't regularly stack up, but still- the network itself was impressive).
I will be living in Grand Rapids MI next. It's a small town, but the highway system was very well planned, even with a river to contend with. Beauty, indeed.
Pat
#65
One positive thing about that quake is the removal of the Embarcadero freeway; always thought that was an ugly structure. Seattle is finally starting work to remove the Viaduct, a similarly hideous double-decker freeway. Hopefully the end result will be as nice as the transformation that made the current Embarcadero area so nice.
#66