FYI, there’s more than one Portland in the US that has an international airport. There’s PDX (referenced in the article) and PMW which is on the other side of the country from PDX. Portland International Jetport in Maine a great airport, I prefer flying out of it over Logan, Bangor, or MHT.

6-packs. 12-packs would require them to be able to count with more than the fingers on their hands, not sure they can do that.

God no. I’ve been waiting for years to get rid of GastricBypassPaul and the last thing this state needs is another one of him. I’m not in love with Mills, but I’ll take her over Moody. Paliquin needs to go, too. After that, in two years we can get rid of PenisEnvyCollins. Angus can stay.

Back in the early 90s I worked recon for a Cadillac dealer. One of the top customers was one of the founders of a large computer networking company. Besides having his own Sherman tank that he bombed around his property in, he bought his much younger-rotated-quarterly-girlfriends new cars (usually at breakup, you…

If you read many of these lending applications, they require the mileage be no higher than XXXXX - typically 60 or 80k - which means that in order to get a car with that low mileage that isn’t way out of your budget, your pickings are slim. Most of these will go to older vehicles with moderate mileage, so a $5000…

Back in the early 90s I worked recon for a Cadillac dealer. One of the top customers was one of the founders of a large computer networking company , he bought his girlfriends new cars, usually at breakup, and his brother would get a new black Seville every year. At the 6th month point he would bring it in to be…

Nailed it.

The government isn’t neutered, it’s dipping its dick in the prostitutes instead of taking care of business at home.

Last sentence. Agreed.

After my dad passed, my mom decided to trade in the trusty 1997 Jimmy on a new (without the emotional attachment of my dad) vehicle to face the winters in the Great North Woods. Many, many emails, phone calls, and face-to-face conversations were had, the fall of 2007 she went off on her own to visit dealers and do…

You saw the rotted Toyota post too, huh?
:D

We keep a lot of things in our refrigerators that don’t really need to be there. Jam, for example, keeps longer in the fridge, but it won’t kill you at room temperature. Some things you can rescue from the fridge even if the power has been out a while:

Come up to Maine. We use RAM trucks. With light bars. Do you have any idea how many white Dodge RAMs with either light bars or ladder racks (that look JUST like a light bar in the rear view...) there are in rural Maine?
Too.
FUCKING.
Many.

We just completed a 6-month study to decide what unified chat app to use across all departments to replace Hipchat. Slack came up short for functionality, same reason we dropped Hipchat and went with Teams. Jabber we still have but only because it is integrated with our phone system (Cisco).

Unless you have an auditory disorder, then email is a lifesaver, chat systems are a poor replacement, and phone calls suck.

Chat timely? Possibly, unless you miss or ignore the flashing icon on the taskbar of one of the 4 monitors in front of you, then chat is no more timely than email. And, unlike email, it is less…

Exactly. Though, we are talking about David Tracy so anything emotionally attached to a vehicle is a complete crapshoot. On the plus side, his unhealthy attraction to all things Jeep could have been all things Tatra and these articles could have been about rear-mounted, air cooled, hemi V8s from behind the Iron Curtain…

Numbers-matching isn’t a thing with AMC. They didn’t serialize the engines with the VIN. They are cast with the displacement on the side of the block, and a metal tag attached to the valve cover with the date code and configuration (2bbl, 4bbl, 304\360\390\etc).

Plus, it’s an AMC so that means “numbers-matching” isn’t thing. Start hunting a 401 for the beast :). If you want to be picky, grab the ID tag off the valve cover (if it is even still there) and move to the new motor if it makes you feel good. 

Rural northern Maine, between the n’easters, lake effects across the Great Lakes, and Mt Washington 60 miles to the west, we get worse weather than many parts of your country and my country.

Last year by Dec 15th

Point taken. Unfortunately, lovely Kinja didn’t show other responses at that time (or could be the horrible latency of the only ISP in the area but it only happens here so I blame Kinja) I didn’t get a chance to see your retraction\backtrack, even though many had happened in the two hours between posts.