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  1. 4 hours ago, Carl Spackler said:

    People who say there's "no score" when the score is 0-0 in a sports game.  Not sure why this mildly annoys me, but it does.    No, there *is* a score -- the score just happens to be 0-0.  Yeah, I understand that "no score" is considered shorthand for "there has been no scoring yet," but I still grit my teeth a little when I hear it.  Don't ask me why, because it truly is "trivial."  

    Yea you probably want to let that one go 

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  2. 9 hours ago, Pescado_Rojo said:

    I bet it's tough to find a real body guy (not just a fender swapper) under 50 years old these days. 

    Guy at my old shop was telling me how hard it was to find labor that can work on old cars now. Said all the new ase guys all they could do was just read the code and do what the book said. He said old cars are like sick kids before they can talk - you gotta figure out what’s wrong yourself. He also said a big part of his business was redoing whatever some dumbass had done through the years on these cars before someone realized they were valuable. Said young guys really struggled with that. He moved into an air conditioned shop just for the recurrent advantages. He did a lot of Barrett Jackson cars  His shop rate was up to like like $135/hr I think when I sold my Firebird.

     

    Had the chance to meet Gary Meadors, founder of Good Guys, a few times a while back. He was telling us the worst thing that ever happened for car restoration costs was that Lexus commercial where the rolled the ball bearing down the gap between the hood and fender. Now everyone wanted their 69 cuda to fit like that. And they absolutely were not built or engineered to anything resembling that kind of tolerance. 

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  3. 20 hours ago, squib said:

    I was too. We were too busy jumping our bikes off this rad hill of dirt behind the Baptist church to do some dorky ass dancing crap. 

    Go karts for us but yea 

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