Seeing those old Hobies brings back memories. I can say with absolute certainty that our sail number was 56563 with the sail color “Cat Fever”. Among the other owners “Tequila Sunrise” was the most common sail color. My parents sold the thing in ‘94 yet I still remember that number 25 years later. What else I remember …

Head over to Sailinganarchy… you’ll get some real salty commentary, but that is the best sailing community on the internet. Pretty much the internet’s hub all sailing.

Orange crush sails were always great. I have Tequila Sunrise.

There is also a yellow laser being towed in the picture.

Rectix could help with that.

I’ve never grown one like that over my forehead, but back when I had long hair I got similar ringlets in the back.  My wife really dug them (and was a little jealous because her own hair is thin and perfectly straight).

The government there has some really simple ways to encourage people to buy an EV instead of an ICE ;

1. In most cities you cannot drive on one or more days with your car to avoid YUGE traffic jams. With an EV you can drive on more or even all days of the week

2. subsidies ; cars are crazy expensive in China compared…

Makes sense, at least for Shenzen ten years ago. Not sure about today but vehicle exhaust created a noxious pall hovering everywhere, sort of like 1950's-60’s US cities. At dusk, when the always humid air cooled a bit, the pall descended into something like in The Fog; made one realize how much cleaner US cities are…

Living in Beijing I see more and more electric cars every day. More Tesla’s are in my neighborhood than I’ve ever seen in one place anywhere else and even the mail vans and small transport trucks are electric. Not to mention I see more busses are also running on batteries. There are microcars and electric bikes slowly…

I was gonna go see him local, end of May, because I wanted to see one of the old guard before he died too.

The correct answer is to forget pedestrian safety and give us back the aerodynamic kneecapping wedge shapes which we deserve.

In high school (mid 2000s) I put a set of purple Street Glow neons under my ‘99 Sonoma. Front, rear, and both sides...I did the whole kit. Purple. Neons.

Not enough Jeep angry eyes in this thread. Oh yeah, people still think that’s a good idea.

I’m with you.

Damn if that 1st silver car is your Camaro, I love it! It is absolutely gorgeous! 😍🤩

Man those Citroens... I NEVER see nice examples of them here in Shenzhen. Always rusted to fuck, flat tires and grimy as hell.

And yet, they are the only Citroens I ever see. Nice car you ended up getting and glad you enjoy it.

The license plate lottery here is such BS.

I have an experience from a few months ago.

yes. driver controls. controls are more fun. that’s why people go sailing, and why old manuals and old cars in general are more fun.

Whoa, in which part of Beijing are you talking about? The most common Hongqi I’ve seen on the street are those crappy rebadged Audi 100s.