Actually, I enjoyed my experiences there immensely. The air pollution was a problem several years ago, but they are shutting down more of their coal power plants. They invested heavily in solar and other energy sources. The people are awesome and I am always treated well. I went on 6 trips in the previous year and the air pollution was not a problem.
He didn't piss me off yesterday. I fully admit to being condescending after he was a condescending towards me. It has to be one or the other as Cippy isn't generally a dumb poster. I even said this in a post yesterday. Therefore him acting like a certain old guy on this forum is silly. I wasn't paying much attention to the people ganging up on him. I've said multiple times on this forum, if you've made a fool of yourself I generally skim your posts. Most of the people 'ganging up on him' or 'cult mentality' as he put it. Are posters I skim if I read their posts at all. I thought it was over, then he goes the next day and says I was being rude to him. Therefore I gave an example of WHY, my posts lead to me calling him illogical. Now he's playing dumb, as well as continuing to play the victim. Outside of his first post towards me, he's been in his own feelings this whole time. IMO. He wouldn't have been condescending/trolling towards me if he wasn't in his feelings with 'the people ganging up on him'. Spoiler I'm not going to read pages 17-23 Also, I don't care if you agree or disagree with him. My very first post was non-confrontational, and that's how I've stayed until people started being condescending, or trying to say I'm being rude to them.
I can't follow this. It's gone back and forth so many times that I need a detailed report just to catch up.
Wow, what an interesting twist to a thread. Seems like someone hijacked it for his personal agenda, lol. Good entertainment, but the game last night was great entertainment. Go Blazers!!!
No one other than Chrysler trademarked the name - the design has been made by many for many years. My very old Alfas have hemispherical combustion chambers. The first ones probably appeared before the Chrysler car company was even formed.
You ever read about the Coates rotary valve design? Read about it 25 years ago and it was awesome when it worked. Must not have been reliable? Don't know
A long time ago. Do not really remember it - will try to read again later. I have been on the EV band-wagon recently - with my wife's first EV lease ending and needing a replacement. I am getting old enough that I enjoy the lower maintenance of these things for utility cars. I did get my old '69 Alfa out this Saturday and was reminded why I love it...
I'd have to look it up too. Remember a 302 Ford test mule going from something like 225 hp to 4 or 500. Something like that.
Well, compare to what? I moved to an Alfa from a Lotus. By this comparison - the Alfa is a paragon of reliability. I bought it in Seattle. It moved to Portland with me. When we moved to the bay area I drove it from Portland to the Bay area in one day and it did just fine. When we moved to San Diego I drove it from there here and it did fine. I also have an older Alfa that I drove from the Bay to San Diego with my daughter and as much stuff as we could fit in it - it drove down the I5 at 105 degree weather and did fine. I did need to rebuild the engine in my '69 a bit more than a year ago - but that is an old race car with a lot of hours on that engine. FWIW - I owned old BMWs as well from the same era - and the Alfas have not been any worse than the BMWs of that era. Like all old cars, they need maintenance. Cars got a lot better in the mid-80s early 90s and we have to thank the Japanese for that - but for the era - these old Alfas are not any worse, in my opinion, than any other old car. It is harder to find parts compared to American cars, for example, but overall - You keep up on basic maintenance and treat old cars like old cars - they will be fine.
My dad was always picking up cars to fix and resell and befoire I was able to drive he had a couple old TR3's as well as a 53 Cadillac that was like a tank. There were many more cars than that, but those we re a few of the more interesting odd ball type cars. Wish I had them today. I would have loved to have one of these today. The car would be pretty cool as well.
Cool! I had to look the word up but I like the concept. I have been trying to think of a ways to describe pleasing artful structure arrived at mathematically. Such as creating symmetry from proportional asymmetry, and proportional convergences, divergence, and parallel lines.
