--------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: FA400054 Date: 05/31/98 From: CHRIS DAVIS Time: 07:13pm \/To: JOEL HECKMAN (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Corvettes JH> Sorry to burst your bubble, but just because a car is considered a JH> classic doesn't mean that it looks good. The 70's Stingyrays are big JH> pieces of junk. Unless of course you like driving around in a fake JH> Batmobile. I haven't heard anything about the 70s. I'm still learning more about each year vette as I pick up bits and pieces of info. It's funny you mention the Batmobile cuz when I got my vette and drove it to work, my co-workers started calling me batman. It's kinda stuck. :) But the original Batmobile wasn't a corvette, I believe it was a mopar based product. I forget exactly which one. Now, when the 89 Batman movie came out, that Batmobile was based on a Corvette. --- Join League 94 * Origin: Rangers of Midnight BBS 770-944-8870 Mableton, GA. (1:133/8870) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: FA400055 Date: 06/01/98 From: ROY WITT Time: 09:09am \/To: JACK YATES (Read 0 times) Subj: Corvettes RW>> All that proves is the car made it past it's expected life span. JY> JY> Ol' Fearless, our Ford F-100 will be eligible for that honor next JY> year; There isn't a body panel on it that hasn't been damaged..it's JY> hardly an "antique or collectible". Old Faithfull, my Cheyenne C10, has been elegible. Turned 26 this year. A little rust under one door and a dinger on the right front fender, otherwise, straight as an arrow. CD>> In 50 years the current restrictions here in GA will drop CD>> the temperature 1/5th of 1 degree. Yeah, that's doing a lot, CD>> buddy. JY> RW>> And you and I won't give a damn. I know I won't. JY> JY> I doubt I'll be here, either. Can you imagine being 107 years old and listening to this? One good thing about being 107. One can turn down the volume on the hearing aid. ... DO NOT BEND, FOLD, STAPLE, OR IN ANY WAY MUTILATE THIS TAGLINE --- T(W)itt Filter Tossed v1.13 * Origin: Bow Tie Racers, Been There, WON That! (1:202/909.13) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: FA400056 Date: 06/01/98 From: ROY WITT Time: 10:10am \/To: JACK YATES (Read 0 times) Subj: Corvettes 31 May 98 15:33, Jack Yates said this about Re: Corvettes to Chris Davis. CD>> I guess you don't live here in GA, do ya? So how would you know CD>> anything about that then? JY> JY> I live in Georgia and I would wager that Roy pays not less that JY> twenty cents a gallon more for gas (85.9 for regular here yesterday, JY> Roy) . $1.24 at the local Arco station, not the cheapest in town, but right down there. California has a lot of roadways to maintain and CalTrans workers to pay. Plus the costs of an OBD III gasoline formulation required by the California Air Resources Board. More oxygenators than the Federal regulations require... San Diego County Supervisors have been having a battle with the oil refineries who charge 10 to 15 cents more per gallon here than they do in Los Angeles, 100 miles away. And, no it isn't because it's trucked in, there's a pipeline direct to a San Diego central storage facility and trucked from there... ... Veni, Vidi, Visa... I came, I saw, I shopped. --- T(W)itt Filter Tossed v1.13 * Origin: Bow Tie Racers, Been There, WON That! (1:202/909.13) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: FA400057 Date: 06/01/98 From: RAYMOND COOL Time: 10:14am \/To: JEAN MORISSETTE (Read 0 times) Subj: Vacuum + Packard JM> I think you'll need check valves, and a Y connection like this: JM> _______ JM> | | JM> | i v | JM> | n a | JM> | t c | JM> | a u |\ check valve, that way: air always IN manifold JM> | k u | \__O>__ never FROM manifold to pump. JM> | e m | \ JM> | | \_______ wipers / \ or / / 8-) JM> ~~~~~~~ / JM> __O>__/ JM> _______ / JM> | v p | / check valve, that way: air always IN pump. JM> | a u |/ JM> | c m | JM> | p | JM> ~~~~~~~ Cool diagram. I have always been one of those fellows who needed a picture to understand. :) -Ray --- Maximus/2 3.01 * Origin: Cool Family BBS (1:138/228) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: FA400058 Date: 06/01/98 From: ROY J. TELLASON Time: 04:00pm \/To: JEAN MORISSETTE (Read 0 times) Subj: Packard & other big... JEAN MORISSETTE wrote in a message to JACK YATES: JM> I got old enough to drive the '56... What a pleasure, with JM> the torsion bars on all 4 wheels, self adjusting. When you put JM> heavy stuff in the trunk... it would re-raise back to the good JM> height ! Wow. How did that work? Sounds really nifty... <...> JM> It's 4 speed trans, and the reactions of the rear suspension, JM> at the starts made the rear tires STICK the asphalt, not JM> spin... That part sounds pretty good, too. JM> ..and the double exhaust was a big gas saving aid, and a good JM> power booster for the engine... I mean, the engine did not JM> loose part of it's power only "forcing" the exhaust air true a JM> single pipe... JM> When I had a '72 Cuttlass, I MADE IT double exhausts, and the JM> result was: JM> Before doubling, from Montreal to Quebec, at 70 mph, 3/4 JM> tank. After doubling, from Montreal to Quebec, at 70 mph, 1/2 JM> tank !! Wow, that's a heck of an improvement. JM> With 350-400 CI engines, you MUST have double exhausts ! JM> They pay themselves back pretty fast... I've heard it said more than once that the best thing you can do to improve _both_ your gas mileage and your horsepower is to install a set of headers on a vehicle... email: roy.j.tellason%tanstaaf@frackit.com --- * Origin: TANSTAAFL BBS 717-432-0764 (1:270/615) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 155 OLD CARS Ref: FA400059 Date: 06/01/98 From: JOEL HECKMAN Time: 04:06pm \/To: CHRIS DAVIS (Read 0 times) Subj: Re: Corvettes -> JH> Sorry to burst your bubble, but just because a car is considered -> a JH> classic doesn't mean that it looks good. The 70's Stingyrays -> are big JH> pieces of junk. Unless of course you like driving around -> in a fake JH> Batmobile. -> -> I haven't heard anything about the 70s. I'm still learning more about -> each year vette as I pick up bits and pieces of info. It's funny you -> mention the Batmobile cuz when I got my vette and drove it to work, -> my co-workers started calling me batman. It's kinda stuck. :) But the -> original Batmobile wasn't a corvette, I believe it was a mopar based -> product. I forget exactly which one. Now, when the 89 Batman movie -> came out, that Batmobile was based on a Corvette. The "70's" that I mentioned was rferring to the entire decade/bodystyle. Which includes 68-82. Joel --- QScan/PCB v1.19b / 01-0154 * Origin: MicroLink BBS * Dinuba, CA 209-591-8753 (1:214/80) --------------- Next conference: FIDO Message Area Next topic: 156 MS Word FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: D5K00000 Date: 05/09/96 From: MIKE MAY Time: 06:07am \/To: RASMUS BECK (Read 15 times) Subj: SCROLLBAR MISSING -> I have somehow lost my scrollbar (the one in the right of the screen, when -> one is editing text). -> -> I do not know how or when it happened, all I know is that I miss it very -> much. -> How can I get it back? Well if this is WORD 6 then it is under "Tools", "Options" and then on the "View" tab. Click the box that says "Vertical scroll bar" --- PCBoard (R) v15.21/2 * Origin: Mike's Maze - Webster, NY 716.872.0128 (1:2613/128) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: D5K00001 Date: 05/13/96 From: RAYMON PRINCE Time: 11:18pm \/To: ALL (Read 11 times) Subj: Internet Assistant/word Is there a internet assistant for word 6.0, I could only find one for win 95 and word 7.0?? I use win3.11 and word 6.0 Thanks for any help! Raymon... --- SLMR 2.1a --- GAPNet Enhanced * Origin: The Prince's Palace (713)474-3339 (1:106/3339.0) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: D5K00002 Date: 05/14/96 From: LAWRENCE KELLIE Time: 04:29am \/To: BETH FRIEDMAN (Read 11 times) Subj: Searches and dialog box > LK> This is no problem, except when in a Macro. In > LK> WordPerfect 5.1, it was quite easy to circumvent that > LK> "question." Can the same thing be done in WORD, > LK> circumventing the dialog box in a macro? > Yep, and it's easy, too. If there's a selection and you only want > the > selection replaced, in your EditReplace section, change .Wrap to 0; > if you want > the entire document replaced without a prompt, set .ReplaceAll to 1 > and .Wrap to > 1. Thanks. I finally got around to trying it. It works. I have incorporated it into the macro and will not release it to my coworkers. Lawrence ... Oxymoron: lead crystal --- FMail 1.0g * Origin: Cala Creek Resort (in winter seclusion) (1:343/70.164) --------------- FIDO MESSAGE AREA==> TOPIC: 156 MS WORD Ref: D5K00003 Date: 05/13/96 From: LAWRENCE KELLIE Time: 03:46am \/To: CHRIS WAWRZYNIAK (Read 11 times) Subj: Watermarked text > Im having trouble in creating watermarked text in Word 6 for Windows > 3.1 > I've followed the online help for creating graphics but have found no > help whatsoever for creating watermarked text. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. In Help, search for "Watermark" Lawrence ... Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers. --- FMail 1.0g * Origin: Cala Creek Resort (in winter seclusion) (1:343/70.164)