Recent content by XS22J8R

He had a distinguished Naval career for sure.

Last time I got one, it was for only $25 or $30, and my post office couldn’t cash it. I then deposited it at the bank no problem.

Even merchants are required to report cash payments over $10,000. Pay cash for your new or used car and the dealer will be telling the feds. They’re making it harder and harder for an honest man to spend his hard earned cash. Only crooks know how to manage large amounts of cash without drawing...

another possible problem is depositing smaller amounts in a short time period, which the bank might report as "suspicious activity". In some cases banks have even closed customers accounts because the banks have systems to flag customers financial activities that might be illegal. And they'll...

Last car I bought the guy only would take cash. It was sort of a pain seeing how he was out of state. And when I went to the bank to withdraw the money they didn’t have that much on hand and had to order it, and me come back a different day to pick it up. It wasn’t a huge dollar car purchase, I...

This relates in a way as to why I don't enjoy my "garage queen" more. It took me a 4 years or so until after it was finished to recover enough financially to think about getting a trailer, and a truck to tow the trailer, so I could drag the car around to national shows. Not just the resto...

The only life insurance I have is through my work. I have no family so if I croak before I get off my butt and retire, I'm not sure where my insurance benefit gets paid to!

I am conflicted on the subject, because I did a ground up OE restoration on my high school ride, a T/A Challenger, that got completed after a 16+ year cluster including years in restoration shop jail in another state, and a less than satisfactory experience after I moved the project to a shop...

I’m sure he’s referring to this turn of events. MSN I can’t get into the politics of the situation, as I don’t even understand all that’s going on with it enough to have a firm opinion. I would think though, that after some negotiations and clashing between the various parties, something will be...

As I previously mentioned, I’ve been to a lot of Mecum auctions over the years. There’s a bit of a casino atmosphere at them with lots of bright flashing lights and the sounds etc. I’m sure there’s the some of the same psychology involved, to aid in separating people from their money! Dealers...

I was trying to figure out exactly what transpired here. Guys car sold, at least the auctioneer put the hammer down and appeared to say sold. Yet they took more bids afterwards? If it was his car, then he got more or what, I’m missing some context here. Mecum is in my area, and I’ve been to...

I think it was back in high school drivers ed I first heard the phrase "be a loner". That has served me well over the years, trying to position myself while driving to stay as far away as I can from other vehicles. Getting caught up in groups of cars can make it difficult or impossible to find...

I posted a few weeks ago about a local guy who bought a Satellite convertible and a week after getting it, some idiot woman blew a red light and hit his quarter panel and spun him around trashing the car pretty good. When he showed up at a local cruise a few days later as a spectator he was...

I’ve had several issues over the years where I’d have dash lights etc, but just a solenoid click no crank when I’d turn the key. I’d look at the battery, and the posts and terminals would look clean. I’d give a quick scrub with my battery terminal scrubber, and then the car would start fine...

This is what I was referring to where they would tape over an access hatch to something on planes on display at airshows. There is a "rescue" label pointing toward it. I assume it is for rescue crews to do something like jettison the canopy to get access to pilots when an accident happened?