[Grandpa#3]

This may or may not be political, depends on how one looks at it. I hope everyone has a Happier and Healthy New Year ahead. May all your troubles be small ones and not so expensive.

Cheers,
Larry

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[Rap]

If this topic is political we are all done! Happy New Year.

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[ds968]

Oh I'm sure somebody somewhere can find a way to turn this into a political interpretation and maybe even get offended , LMAO. Wait, it's not the Chinese New Year yet , I think that's next month sometime..but since we embrace diversity we'll include their billion + folks in our wishes :-) :-). Wishes for good health first and foremost , and then prosperity, happiness , and of course small car repair expenses !

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[wildcat]

Same to you old man... and when Dubai celebrates New Years as they do, one wonders at the politics at all... if ya know what I mean.  B)

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[Grandpa#3]

You are right about my being an old man. I'll be 76 in March, so I might be the oldest one on here.

Cheers,
Larry

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[968Syncro]

Oh I'm sure somebody somewhere can find a way to turn this into a political interpretation and maybe even get offended......

About "....hope everyone has a Happier and Healthy New Year ahead."

 

Hey, maybe some people don't want a happier new year, maybe this past year was happy enough for them, and perhaps this past year was their happiest ever, and they would feel guilty about having an even happier year in 2016, when other people may not have a happier new year.  I am afraid that this message does not show sensitivity towards being all inclusive of all people everywhere all the time, and certainly exhibits indications of microagressions toward people who may not even have the opportunity to access this forum to read the best wishes in the first place, which is incredibly inconsiderate.   I mean, did anyone ever consider how these people might be feeling?   :whine:

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[968Syncro]

Ok, probably better to just be productive.......

 

   

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[wildcat]

You are right about my being an old man. I'll be 76 in March, so I might be the oldest one on here.


Cheers,

Larry. 

 

See you can be an old man and still get the adrenaline up in a Porsche! (Gee what an ad that would make!)

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[Grandpa#3]

Wildcat, "See you can be an old man and still get the adrenaline up in a Porsche" AND you will not even need viagra! It is a little harder now to get down into and out of the car than it used to do. My daughter said I need to get a piece of carpet to lay down outside the door to kneel on. I've been thinking about removing the driver side "A" pillar to see if a drop down hand hold can be installed to aid in getting in and out of the car instead of breaking the cheap plastic hinge of the cassette holder. The junk yard wasps and hornets should not be too active now that it is colder.

Cheers,
Larry

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[wildcat]

Or you could get a Cabriolet, install a remote control for the "roof", and then when you get up to the car, the top is down and you just slide in... (something like that anyway...)

 

Cheers, I admire your spunk!

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[Grandpa#3]

I have a Cabriolet, but keep the top in the safe manual position. There is no one around here that I would trust to hook the top back up without breaking a Main Bow, as you know they are as scarce as hens teeth. I guess I could unlatch both sides, push the top back a little, get in and pull the top back to the lock position. I like the carpet idea better. I made the mistake of having lower back surgery in 85 and been in pain ever since.

Cheers,
Larry

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[wildcat]

I understand about the top, and actually it wouldn't work without modifying the latches... but it was an entertaining thought;  having a remote control top. When I bought mine both "bows" were broken and I had to have them welded.  And on the back surgery I can definitely relate as my father had a herniated disk and other complications.  He had spinal meningitis as boy which caught up with him in later life. He's gone now. Buried in Arlington.  My grandfather on my mother's side took a trip around the world at 78. Started in D.C. flew out to S.F. where I met him. When Nixon opened the door to China, he lived across the street from the Consulate in D.C., he applied and got one. From S.F. he went to Japan where he taught school when he was younger, and then on to China where he picked up the Trans-Siberian railroad and went all the way to St. Petersburg.  From there to London where he met my parents and then back to D.C.  And you know, in all those years of travel, and he traveled a lot, he never learned to drive... my grandmother did the driving.   B)

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