East Meets West Logic...

[melanie]

The Irish and the English don't get along very well.

My dad was born and raised in Ireland, then moved to England, met a lady, then i was born, in England, and i like my dad,
we get along just fine.

Austin, will you marry me?

[austintorn@aol.com]

Austin, will you marry me?

Sure, but I'm not a minister, although I've just sent in an application from the back of a comic book.

You (Brawoman) and Brahman will make a perfect couple.

Will I still be able to see you on the side?

(Our sex together is not overrated, for then we are less than a hair apart as two hares. Hey, now; we are spilling our secrets, but I'm writing this so fast that Bogie and all won't be able to read it.)

[Lloyd Gillespie]

I FKing love this truck...



Here's another...



And one more...

[labelwench]

I FKing love this truck...



Here's another...

Nice visuals.....now how about coming across with the spec.s and performance on these beauties?

[Lloyd Gillespie]

Nice visuals.....now how about coming across with the spec.s and performance on these beauties?

Specs and performance = Bad puppies...

[labelwench]

Specs and performance = Bad puppies...

Bad puppies.......and Lloyd can be naughty......tell me something news, lol.....

Lloyd, without pertinent data, specifications, and measurable performance, we have only pretty pictures, or as Mel would say, an illusion.......

OMG, time to scamper.......methinks that'll get your Irish going, and I'll check back later to see just how bad......

Remember, Lloyd, that emulation is the sincerest form of flattery......

[Lloyd Gillespie]

Bad puppies.......and Lloyd can be naughty......tell me something news, lol.....

Lloyd, without pertinent data, specifications, and measurable performance, we have only pretty pictures, or as Mel would say, an illusion.......

OMG, time to scamper.......methinks that'll get your Irish going, and I'll check back later to see just how bad......

Remember, Lloyd, that emulation is the sincerest form of flattery......

Just for you, Lorrina...

1. Peterbilt__C15, CAt, 625HP, 18speed trani... as a best guess... gearable to 112mph... Dragstrip setup = 195mph, til they outlawed em...
Actual description: The 4th Place Challenger was Philip Langevin of Valley Custom Trucks in Ottowa, Ontario, Canada. Philip wanted to build a practical truck that he could actually use after the Build-Off was finished. Many people liked the fact that this truck could (and would) work. The truck started out as a 1997 Pete 379 Extended Hood with a 3406E Cat. The truck was stripped down to the frame and rebuilt. Featuring suicide doors, a chopped cab, polished front fenders, Sable Black paint, a retro-style dash, 7” pipes, modified window glass and much more, this truck looked really clean. This truck was especially appealing to the practical folks out there. Philip and his crew should be commended for their fine work.

2. Hummer HX Concept Vehicle Specs...

3. And, of course, the Champion was Elizabeth Truck Center’s “Beast” from the East (our centerfold feature for this edition). Featuring an exciting Candy Apple Orange and Candy Apple Red paint job and thousands of hours of fabrication, this truck blew everyone’s mind and was the overwhelming winner. Built by Anthony Pesce and his crew (to be named later), this truck featured a 330” wheelbase, totally custom wrap-around fiberglass fenders (front and rear), a chopped top (cab and sleeper), remote-controlled suicide doors, glassless mirrors (they were just pieces of polished stainless), a 10” stretched hood, strapless fuel tanks, a hand-made grille, Harley headlights and a host of other cool things (too much to mention it all). The interior was covered in Red Ultra Suede and featured a 7,000 watt stereo and several flat screen monitors. This truck defines “long and low” and sets a new standard for quality and craftsmanship - it was flawless! All of the work was done in-house at Elizabeth’s sister company Car Craft Truck Works in Staten Island, New York. Anthony wanted to thank some folks so here is a list of all the names: Steve Pesce Sr., Steven Pesce Jr., John Pesce, Angelo Mazzey, George Mazzey, Diego Mena, Gus Mena, Joe Mavica, Billy Kleber, Andrew Feltenstein, Wynton Pelle, Roger Conti, Bill Streeter and Mike Serenchia. Our congratulations go out to all of these guys and to ALL of the builders involved.

[leskey]

Remember, Lloyd, that emulation is the sincerest form of flattery......

It depends...

Your emotions, are still far too obvious...

If you were done, you wouldn't have posted...

"If you can't speak honestly of yourself, you can't speak honestly of others." Virginia Woolf

Your perceptions are incorrect...a relfection of your own paranoia?

You may be alluding to insincerity, Lloyd. Yes, if I was done I wouldn't have posted, but you missed the fact that I was' taking a leaf'...?

Anyhow...courtesy of Uncle Albert...a little additonal food for thought:

If one were to take that goal out of its religious form and look merely at its purely human side, one might state it perhaps thus: free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind.

Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.

Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditons of life for all people are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all people and all countries - not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of humankind as civilized.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a patholigical criminal.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex...It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of
courage to move in the opposite direction.

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. (Especially for you, Lloyd).

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instinct and the resulting actions.

AND, the reason why I persevered with this thread, despite the lack of civility frequently displayed of late:

To raise new questions, new possibilites, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.

Finally:

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

[labelwench]

Just for you, Lorrina...

1. Peterbilt__C15, CAt, 625HP, 18speed trani... as a best guess... gearable to 112mph... Dragstrip setup = 195mph, til they outlawed em...
Actual description: The 4th Place Challenger was Philip Langevin of Valley Custom Trucks in Ottowa, Ontario, Canada. Philip wanted to build a practical truck that he could actually use after the Build-Off was finished. Many people liked the fact that this truck could (and would) work. The truck started out as a 1997 Pete 379 Extended Hood with a 3406E Cat. The truck was stripped down to the frame and rebuilt. Featuring suicide doors, a chopped cab, polished front fenders, Sable Black paint, a retro-style dash, 7” pipes, modified window glass and much more, this truck looked really clean. This truck was especially appealing to the practical folks out there. Philip and his crew should be commended for their fine work.

2. Hummer HX Concept Vehicle Specs...

3. And, of course, the Champion was Elizabeth Truck Center’s “Beast” from the East (our centerfold feature for this edition). Featuring an exciting Candy Apple Orange and Candy Apple Red paint job and thousands of hours of fabrication, this truck blew everyone’s mind and was the overwhelming winner. Built by Anthony Pesce and his crew (to be named later), this truck featured a 330” wheelbase, totally custom wrap-around fiberglass fenders (front and rear), a chopped top (cab and sleeper), remote-controlled suicide doors, glassless mirrors (they were just pieces of polished stainless), a 10” stretched hood, strapless fuel tanks, a hand-made grille, Harley headlights and a host of other cool things (too much to mention it all). The interior was covered in Red Ultra Suede and featured a 7,000 watt stereo and several flat screen monitors. This truck defines “long and low” and sets a new standard for quality and craftsmanship - it was flawless! All of the work was done in-house at Elizabeth’s sister company Car Craft Truck Works in Staten Island, New York. Anthony wanted to thank some folks so here is a list of all the names: Steve Pesce Sr., Steven Pesce Jr., John Pesce, Angelo Mazzey, George Mazzey, Diego Mena, Gus Mena, Joe Mavica, Billy Kleber, Andrew Feltenstein, Wynton Pelle, Roger Conti, Bill Streeter and Mike Serenchia. Our congratulations go out to all of these guys and to ALL of the builders involved.

Thank you, Lloyd.

I have a brother who used to customize his trucks, and keep them clean enough to eat off the hood, and another who is a journeyman mechanic as well as a neighbor who was the Yukon diesel engine trouble shooting specialist, so I have a ton of unrelated vehicle data rattling around in my brain which occasionally enjoys colliding with some details such as you have provided. A Cantonese fellow even was chatting me up about my Tundra yesterday, so it was just a truck day, lol.....

So they used to drag those big rigs? Not up in these parts..... Must have been something to see.....

Exemplary details, you provided.....

[labelwench]

Finally:

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us." - Oliver Wendell Holmes

Originally posted by Leskey

An excellent quote, Leskey, and truly I think we are going to need our collective best, as a species, to resolve some of the challenges that lay before us. I would like to entertain the notion that life is illusionary and avoid the need to take part in the work I sense lays ahead, yet, differences in ideology aside, I have an innate sense of urgency, and that there is something that I should be doing.

May you and yours have a safe and sharing holiday weekend. No rest for the wicked.....my lot works so that young families and others may partake. As a pagan, every day of life holds something worth celebrating.....so it's all good and nothing missed in that regard.