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Well. Years since my initial visit, it'll be the end of February when I've officially livedhere 3 years. I never really left when I took my month vacation before moving up here.
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drat, I've been reading your threads for a long time.
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Nov 16, 2013 14:04
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Makes me feel old.
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Nov 17, 2013 04:08
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13 INCH DICK posted:Ran into something neat while getting lunch, this guy looked at my car on Craigslist before I swooped it up. Lunch at Norm's?
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Nov 18, 2013 09:07
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Roxy's, love their pastrami burger. Makes me feel ashamed for myself every time I eat it.
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Nov 18, 2013 09:24
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Ah, haven't been there yet.
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Nov 19, 2013 02:13
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CharlesM posted:Ah, haven't been there yet. Hey I was thinking of you the other day, I was cleaning out my dresser and found my protegeclub.com (or was it clubprotege?) t-shirt
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Nov 19, 2013 15:26
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Great car! If there are any 13" copycats in the upper midwest: http://milwaukee.craigslist.org/cto/4203676939.html (77 Civic for $700, not running)
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Nov 21, 2013 01:37
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dreesemonkey posted:Hey I was thinking of you the other day, I was cleaning out my dresser and found my protegeclub.com (or was it clubprotege?) t-shirt Aww thanks. I don't have any Protegé stuff left. No place to store it.  More on-topic: I'm only in Fremont every once in a while, but I'll keep an eye out for your Civic :P
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Nov 21, 2013 02:52
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who is spain posted:Great car! It's probably a good thing I'm broke, that's less then an hour away.
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Nov 21, 2013 21:23
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Someone was selling an 82 near me for 825. But it had a dented hood and LF fender and had a misfire.
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Nov 21, 2013 22:25
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Misfire on an '82 is probably just the CVCC aux valve o-ring failure and oil soaked the plug. its really common and an easy fix.
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Nov 22, 2013 00:25
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yeah the guy took it off craigslist so im assuming its sold. or he just parked it somewhere for a Chicago winter or two to finish the job on the floorboards.
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Nov 22, 2013 02:40
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Progress:  
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Nov 23, 2013 17:39
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13 INCH DICK posted:Washington for the past 3 years now, and oddly enough there's still a (relative) ton of mk1 and 2 Hondas around here. Old hondas survived very well up there for some reason. My '83 accord was a washington car. The guy I bought it from had driven it from WA to FL.
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Nov 23, 2013 20:15
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Leroy Diplowski posted:Old hondas survived very well up there for some reason. My '83 accord was a washington car. The guy I bought it from had driven it from WA to FL. That sounds extremely terrifying. What if you blow some stupid part in the middle of loving nowhere? I have a 6th gen Accord and would be nervous attempting that trip. Lifes Rich Pageant? I guess I'm not adventurous enough.
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Nov 24, 2013 07:08
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two forty posted:That sounds extremely terrifying. What if you blow some stupid part in the middle of loving nowhere? I have a 6th gen Accord and would be nervous attempting that trip. You call a tow truck. It's not the African Serengeti out there. It's weird, you see it in the BFC-meets-AI thread a lot, people who are terrified of the prospect of breaking down somewhere. We've got near-ubiquitous cell phone coverage in this country, especially along the major interstate corridors, so yeah you'll have a bad afternoon but it's not the end of the world.
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Nov 24, 2013 07:12
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I'm not afraid of the breaking down part, more afraid of the finding rare/discontinued parts in an unfamiliar backwater. I prefer finding rare/discontinued parts in a familiar backwater, one where I know all the junkyards, know what they generally have on hand, and am on a first name basis with their forklift operators. This is why being on a make/model specific quality forum can be great, if you're going off on a trip in something that has unobtainium parts, you can post up and first of all, plan to meet up with people along the way, and second, make a HELP HELP OH gently caress MY CAR BROKE SOMEONE NEAR EAST BUMFUCKISTAN SELL ME PARTS thread if anything goes wrong.
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kastein posted:I'm not afraid of the breaking down part, more afraid of the finding rare/discontinued parts in an unfamiliar backwater. I prefer finding rare/discontinued parts in a familiar backwater, one where I know all the junkyards, know what they generally have on hand, and am on a first name basis with their forklift operators. I guess that's what I'm getting at- you break down in Middle of Nowhere, Utah and need some strange part for an '83 Accord (with, say, high altitude but not california emissions and an automatic, old Hondas are super picky like that) which hasn't been readily available since the Clinton administration, you have real trouble. Parts for my newer accord are dirt cheap and available anywhere, but still.
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Nov 24, 2013 08:34
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If you think practicality has any place in this thread I suggest you mosey on out mister 
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13 INCH DICK posted:If you think practicality has any place in this thread I suggest you mosey on out mister I didn't jump on the chance to take the Cursed Skull because I wanted to help make variable-length-variable-medical-education-Shlong's life less disastrous, I wanted to harness that (glow-in-the) Dark Power to my own ends. That's why I attached it to my GPS (named Serena), I wanted the greatest chance of Cursed Skull-induced crisis.  "TURN RIGHT ON UNPAVED ROAD" "Oh, this road looks great! Thanks Serena!" ... "Uh, poo poo."  SD 087 Snowy Roads and Not-Roads 15 by Execudork, on Flickr You can see the Cursed Skull near the middle-bottom of the windshield. Laughing at me.
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Nov 24, 2013 23:16
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Hey, 13"...if you do go with the 4x100 conversion, I've got a set of 13" Mahle BBSes I'm trying to get rid of, up in Vancouver B.C. Just sayin'.
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Nov 25, 2013 07:24
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ExecuDork posted:Cursed Skull I think the Cursed Skull will actually improve my luck. Looking to get rid of it?
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Nov 25, 2013 15:03
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got a box in the mail today.
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Nov 26, 2013 05:23
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13 INCH DICK posted:got a box in the mail today. Any company that uses Rat Fink-esque artwork on their official packaging is OK by me.
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Nov 26, 2013 05:49
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awww yeah 
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Nov 26, 2013 05:50
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13 INCH DICK posted:got a box in the mail today. Where did you manage to find a NOS Weber?
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Nov 26, 2013 16:14
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That's actually their current packaging. It's the carb we bought for the froot truck  waiting on the base plate adapter and cable adapter kit.
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Nov 26, 2013 16:28
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13 INCH DICK posted:That's actually their current packaging. It's the carb we bought for the froot truck Ugh, so it's actually a product of lovely Chinese origin now?
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Nov 26, 2013 16:52
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Eh, quality seems decent on it. I read the empi clones to avoid but the weber branded ones are still okay. Besides, my options are kind of narrow in the $free.99 range.
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Adiabatic posted:I think the Cursed Skull will actually improve my luck. Looking to get rid of it? What say you, AI goons? Shall I pass the Cursed Skull on to its next victim, or hold on to it for a while longer (my studded winter tires have just arrived, so I can get good and proper hosed!)
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Nov 27, 2013 06:22
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13 INCH DICK posted:got a box in the mail today. 32/36? Those are pretty common swaps on small jap cars here in straya.
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Nov 27, 2013 06:42
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ExecuDork posted:I'm fond of it, but I'll toss this one to the crowd: Yuck, studded? I went with unstudded Conti Winter Extremes, these tires are the loving bomb.
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Nov 27, 2013 15:40
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Here in the Great Northern Wasteland we get lots of ice but not a whole lot of snow. Also, gently caress UPS. They've got my tires but are too loving incompetent to let me pick them up.
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Nov 28, 2013 05:20
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Size check on isle 13  
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Nov 29, 2013 19:22
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What's the push bar looking thing on the front end? I don't think I have seen another civic of that vintage with one.
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Nov 29, 2013 19:42
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SouthsideSaint posted:What's the push bar looking thing on the front end? I don't think I have seen another civic of that vintage with one. These were originally sold as machines for cattle farmers, so often came stock with the cattle pushing bars.
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Nov 29, 2013 19:58
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Tiny, tiny little cattle Up until this thread every mk1 I'd seen in person had it so I assumed it was a factory guard for the bumper mounted turn signals, but once I made the thread and everyone asked I just assume it might be a dealer optional extra. I like it personally.
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Nov 29, 2013 20:04
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Just as I had hoped for. Though with this thread it would have been more fitting if it herded spiders.
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13 INCH DICK posted:Size check on isle 13 Man. Did Hondas of that vintage have anything even resembling a crumple zone or a passenger cage? Or was it all down to bumpers and seat belts? Either way that poor car wouldn't fare well in an accident with a more modern "small" car, much less a large one. Not trying to be a bummer but that's just where my brain went 
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