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Postby dodint » Tue May 07, 2019 9:39 pm

I was looking at the repro's on here: https://inspectionsticker.net/index.php ... x&cPath=38

My car was built in Dec '81 as an '82 model. Not sure it's worth grabbing any of the '82s and I wouldn't want to constantly tell people "No, it's actually an '82 but I liked the 81 sticker more."

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Postby dodint » Tue May 07, 2019 9:42 pm

Just noticed the '81 sticker I liked is actually a registration sticker. Oh well. :lol:

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Postby offsides » Tue May 07, 2019 9:43 pm

Thanks guys for looking that up. If anyone asks me about the number, I'll seem to know what I'm talking about for a change. BTW, the guy I bought it from sent some info about the sticker windshield placement in PA. It was on the lower passenger side through 1958. After that it went on the lower drivers side.

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Postby Willie Kool » Tue May 07, 2019 9:55 pm

Just noticed the '81 sticker I liked is actually a registration sticker. Oh well. :lol:
Yeah, I was like wtf? The 82 being green is a deal-breaker?

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Postby Willie Kool » Tue May 07, 2019 9:56 pm

Thanks guys for looking that up.
Technically, I guessed...

;)

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Postby dodint » Tue May 07, 2019 9:58 pm

The green is fine. It's just if you scroll through the 70s they all have cool keystones or graphics, like the '77 which has what appears to be people fighting at the Constitutional Convention or something. :lol:

The '82 could be mistaken for an old hunting license or something.

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Postby dodint » Tue May 07, 2019 10:02 pm

offsides, do you ever take anything from your fleet up to Cars and Coffee in Wexford? All kinds of stuff shows up there. Some guy with a really clean Pantera shows up pretty often. Everything from hypercars to old muscle.

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Postby Willie Kool » Tue May 07, 2019 10:05 pm

The green is fine. It's just if you scroll through the 70s they all have cool keystones or graphics, like the '77 which has what appears to be people fighting at the Constitutional Convention or something. :lol:

The '82 could be mistaken for an old hunting license or something.
:lol: Agree 100%

I remember the bicentennial ones.

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Postby offsides » Tue May 07, 2019 10:17 pm

offsides, do you ever take anything from your fleet up to Cars and Coffee in Wexford? All kinds of stuff shows up there. Some guy with a really clean Pantera shows up pretty often. Everything from hypercars to old muscle.
I've heard of it, but never been there. Most of my shows and cruises are south of Pittsburgh. Mostly around Washington, Greene and Fayette county. I am going to Bridgeville tomorrow for a cruise st the old K-Mart.

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Postby dodint » Tue May 07, 2019 10:22 pm

Ah, it's pretty chill. It's free, no registration or anything. You just show up on Saturday morning, come and go as you want. Sometimes they have themes but everything is always welcome. 9AM until 12PM on every-other Saturday through October at Generosta Coffee in Warrendale. Next one is May 18th, so every other Saturday from then.

I'll ping you next time I'm going, would love to see the '61.

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Postby mac5155 » Tue May 07, 2019 10:33 pm

offsides, do you ever take anything from your fleet up to Cars and Coffee in Wexford? All kinds of stuff shows up there. Some guy with a really clean Pantera shows up pretty often. Everything from hypercars to old muscle.
I've heard of it, but never been there. Most of my shows and cruises are south of Pittsburgh. Mostly around Washington, Greene and Fayette county. I am going to Bridgeville tomorrow for a cruise st the old K-Mart.
Post up when you're in fayettenam... I'll come say hello!

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Postby Factorial » Tue May 07, 2019 10:33 pm

Ah, it's pretty chill. It's free, no registration or anything. You just show up on Saturday morning, come and go as you want. Sometimes they have themes but everything is always welcome. 9AM until 12PM on every-other Saturday through October at Generosta Coffee in Warrendale. Next one is May 18th, so every other Saturday from then.

I'll ping you next time I'm going, would love to see the '61.
How far east in PA do you go for car shows?

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Postby mac5155 » Tue May 07, 2019 10:34 pm

Probably mustang weekend at carlisle...

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Postby dodint » Tue May 07, 2019 10:39 pm

I've only entered one formal car show and it was at PittRace Carfest last Labor Day. I won an award which was cool. My car is kind of in a weird place historically; muscle car groups don't care about it and import guys don't either. I basically have to find a British car show and then be parked on the edge of that.

I've been to the Mopar show in Carlisle but it was a long time ago, like, early 2000s.

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Postby NTP66 » Sun May 12, 2019 2:01 pm

This is why I love /r/IdiotsInCars. :lol:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IdiotsInCars/c ... eveled_up/

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Postby tifosi77 » Sun May 12, 2019 6:32 pm

Ha, I've actually been on that stretch of road many times. It's just like two miles or so from Disneyland.

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Postby Tomas » Wed May 15, 2019 11:34 am

This happened in my (old Czech) hometown!! :)

https://translate.google.com/translate? ... zpravy_mvo

7-year old driver, (most likely) manual transmission car, 3 km (i.e. almost 2 miles) in the afternoon traffic (definitely not many wide streets in that town) - and just one car lightly hit!

Long life Skoda Fabia!! :lol:

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Postby NTP66 » Thu May 16, 2019 11:01 am

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Postby NTP66 » Thu May 16, 2019 11:02 am

The squeal from my front brakes is driving me insane. I went ahead and bought a set of Wagner ThermoQuiet's to see if they're any better. I figure a $21 gamble is worth it at this point.

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Postby offsides » Fri May 17, 2019 3:56 pm

How about a brand new car for $9,999.00. I can't believe they could sell any of these things.

https://www.autoblog.com/2019/05/17/usa ... c-vehicle/

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Postby NTP66 » Sat May 18, 2019 11:28 am

The squeal from my front brakes is driving me insane. I went ahead and bought a set of Wagner ThermoQuiet's to see if they're any better. I figure a $21 gamble is worth it at this point.
The $21 gamble paid off. Brakes are dead silent again. The only issue was that the wear indicators on these are incredibly long, and hit the hub if I put them on the inside of the rotor. So, the pads with the indicators are on the outside of the rotors.

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Postby Willie Kool » Thu May 30, 2019 11:36 pm

The CX-7 made it almost a month before the engine light came back on. Mrs K threw a P303 less than a mile from home. Did the ol switcheroo on the plugs and coils (not really expecting it to help - but you gotta try), to no avail. Not looking forward to the $700+ bill to change the 3 remaining injectors, I was ready to try some snake oil.

I ran up to the parts store to a steady stream of misses (CEL barely stopped flashing), grabbed a bottle of Techron concentrate, and added it to a half tank. Went through that half tank and am now halfway through a tank of straight gas. Was still missing pretty bad until yesterday morning. I had to stop for someone making a left. When I accelerated, it hesitated pretty bad and belched a cloud of black smoke. Ran much better since. Today was down to 2 separate quick flashes on the way to work and 1 single flash on the way home. I'll finish this tank and if it's still missing, run one more Techron spiked half tank...

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Postby NTP66 » Fri May 31, 2019 6:34 am

I can't imagine that will be anything but a temporary fix, WK.

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Postby Willie Kool » Fri May 31, 2019 8:50 am

I can't imagine that will be anything but a temporary fix, WK.
Yeah, I really didn't expect it to do anything at all - thus my reference to snake oil, but have been pleasantly surprised. Researching it, I've found several people who say it fixed an injector misfire thousands of miles ago, so fingers crossed.

No CEL this morning...

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