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Sorry to get your hopes up, seems they are out of Countach's right now.  I actually think I will, and by will I mean throw in a paltry bid in case nobody else does. I'll see if I can arrange a quick viewing and make sure there isn't something screamingly obviously wrong with it and throw in a bid not much over starting price and see how it falls out.
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slidebite posted:Sorry to get your hopes up, seems they are out of Countach's right now. It wasn't Lambo's I was thinking of, it was the memory of that time Transport Canada put up their test-bed Tesla Roadster. The preview photos were mostly the usual various-shots-of-vehicle, but the front-page image was a splash photoshop poster with an exploding-blue background and liberal use of comic sans. Apparently, GC-surplus is how Transport Canada unloads their test examples of new cars, after they're done satisfying themselves that the car meets safety and other requirements. I like to idly browse GC-surplus every so often, and look at things like coast-patrol boats and light aircraft various branches of the government are unloading.
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There's also https://www.govdeals.ca/index.cfm They currently have 3 big water bombers in winnipeg, but the minimum bid is 2 million dollars.
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Feb 3, 2016 22:37
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Powershift posted:There's also https://www.govdeals.ca/index.cfm poo poo, with the exchange rate, we could get one for 14" and one for Kastein and have them compete in a junkyard-wars style aerial assault mission!
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Feb 3, 2016 23:15
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ExecuDork posted:This is the best thing, from my point of view, you could do. Give the auction system at GC-surplus a try using a basic but well-thought-out plan, and see what happens.
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Feb 4, 2016 22:50
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I think every retail outlet in alberta got together and decided not to stock #90 or #202 o-rings.
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Feb 5, 2016 07:02
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Can you wait a few days? Give me your address, I'm sure I'll have them at my shop. I'll stick a few in an envelope and mail them to you if you can. Nitrile? What durometer? 70a?
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Not Alberta, but saw this trolling the government auctions. If someone was in the market for a new 4 bolt GM 350, it could be a good deal and worth the trip to pick up. Seem to go for $1800-$2000 US$. https://www.gcsurplus.ca/mn-eng.cfm?snc=wfsav&sc=enc-bid&scn=215427&lcn=361710&lct=L&srchtype=&lci=&str=51<nf=1&frmsr=1&sf=ferm-clos
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slidebite posted:Can you wait a few days? Give me your address, I'm sure I'll have them at my shop. I'll stick a few in an envelope and mail them to you if you can. Nitrile? What durometer? 70a? After about 15 phone calls this morning, i found a hydraulic shop that had them in their shop supplies and they hooked me up. Thanks though. Even places like greggs didn't even have them in their system, couldn't get them in. Even the international dealer couldn't, and they made all the parts that need them. edit: and the the plastic piece of poo poo housing shatters on reassembly  Now i have to choose between $30 and a week+ from rockauto or $140 from the local dealer Powershift fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Feb 6, 2016 |
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Feb 5, 2016 23:05
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Well, that sucks. What are you working on? Also, looks like the wind isn't going to be dying down any appreciable amount for me for the next bit. But, if it does it will be glorious next week. Although I'll be out of town for most of it 
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Feb 6, 2016 19:17
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it's the fuel bowl drain on the powerstroke. it's just a little plastic valve, but now the truck is taking up the whole garage for however long it takes rockauto to get a new one here. I might crawl under there and see what i can do about lowering the rear while it's stuck in there. Gas was 58.9 in edmonton this morning.
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Feb 6, 2016 22:58
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Powershift posted:Gas was 58.9 in edmonton this morning.  It is the end times.
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Feb 7, 2016 07:12
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Slung Blade posted:
Down to 78 cents in Ontario the other day. The highway is full of new Suburbans because the 2000's never happened and no one learned anything
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Slung Blade posted:
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SlimManFat posted:wrong. This is the beginning of the Second Age of the V8. As if the first age ever ended 
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Powershift posted:As if the first age ever ended I dunno dude, the mid 70s through the late 90s was a pretty dire time for our lord and savior.
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Powershift posted:it's the fuel bowl drain on the powerstroke. it's just a little plastic valve, but now the truck is taking up the whole garage for however long it takes rockauto to get a new one here. I might crawl under there and see what i can do about lowering the rear while it's stuck in there. Just think if the dollar were stronger. It would probably be in the .40s range which is something I don't think we've had since the 80s.
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8ender posted:Down to 78 cents in Ontario the other day. The highway is full of new Suburbans because the 2000's never happened and no one learned anything Southern Ontario. I'm still paying 100.9 up here. Yeah. I'm 10 minutes off the #1 as well. I'm getting loving robbed.
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It's 0.859 in beautiful Fort McMurray right now. It's also 0C and sunny, wtf?
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slidebite posted:Just think if the dollar were stronger. It would probably be in the .40s range which is something I don't think we've had since the 80s. I remember in the late 90s, people first started to take notice of gas prices rising because gas climbed all the way to 46 cents. the it hit 70 and people really started bitching about how it's so unbearable.
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Powershift posted:I remember in the late 90s, people first started to take notice of gas prices rising because gas climbed all the way to 46 cents. the it hit 70 and people really started bitching about how it's so unbearable. That was a glorious time to have an economy car. Put a fiver in the Escort and I could go anywhere.
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In case your are curious, statscan lists gasoline prices from 1990-> if you go into edit the data from the default table http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&id=3260009&paSer=&pattern=&stByVal=1&p1=1&p2=31&tabMode=dataTable&csid Often still in the 40s even in the early 90s. Although, adjusted for inflation we're actually cheaper now. http://www.bankofcanada.ca/rates/related/inflation-calculator/
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8ender posted:That was a glorious time to have an economy car. Put a fiver in the Escort and I could go anywhere. I drove a Geo Tracker in the mid-90's. I miss that gas tank. I think it was 35 or 40 litres. When I first got it, $20 was a full tank from coasting in on fumes. I miss those days :P
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There is an rx8 on fire on the highway in airdrie right now. That's not one of your $1000 cars is it? Powershift fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Feb 8, 2016 |
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Feb 8, 2016 23:18
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It's an omen of things to come 
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Feb 8, 2016 23:35
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Powershift posted:There is an rx8 on fire on the highway in airdrie right now. It is now. You see the owner near it?
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Feb 9, 2016 00:01
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Seat Safety Switch posted:It is now. It kinda looked like they were going down with the ship.
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Feb 9, 2016 00:26
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SSS and McTinkerson are currently racing to scavenge the wreckage first
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DrakeriderCa posted:SSS and McTinkerson are currently racing to scavenge the wreckage first I'm negotiating for a sequential twin turbo dorito powered Jaaaaag XJS - SSS can have the '8. Plus I've already rebuilt one scorched RX-7, I would rather not deal with another salvage inspection. SSS - if the suspension on that '8 is salvageable I'll take it though.
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you are a masochist aren't you?
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Burning to the ground probably won't lower the resale value on that 8 much.
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Hell if the engine has decent compression it probably raised it by making the extraction process easier.
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I don't think decent compression was a factory option.
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Pleasure meeting you last night there Slidebite. Thanks for the drinks/snacks and everything. I still owe you one for checking out that Lincoln for me.
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NP at all stud pleasure was all mine. Me and the 2 Jeffs ended up closing the bar down last night. Day was a little long because of it. Didn't help that the seminar was an absolutely inexcusable trainwreck so that didn't exactly help the day pass either. Good seeing 1500q too. E: Also, for those that care that F150 from the government auction site ended up going for something like $1300, so my $525 bid for a cheap basic truck didn't happen. Mrs. Slidebite was a little relieved I think.
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yeah it was a good meet up. Thanks again. Also I've only been to two conferences and both times I drank heavily every night then sat through trainwreck seminars. I'm fairly certain you were doing everything correctly.
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I drank beer out of a coffee cup at the TEDx talk in GP
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jonathan posted:I drank beer out of a coffee cup at the TEDx talk in GP What the gently caress does the TEDx talk in Grande Prairie consist of, a lecture on new scientific developments about avoiding getting your sister pregnant?
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Speaking of Grande Prairie I have a broker sending me about 12 emails a day now and phoning me up every hour because his client found out he was charging 15% commission and rightfully is going to another broker (which he implied he was going to gently caress up physically), normally they'd phone his account manager but the one responsible for GP is AWOL and I suspect currently is in rehab. I suspect that is pretty close to the Grande Prairie slidebite described.
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Seat Safety Switch posted:What the gently caress does the TEDx talk in Grande Prairie consist of, a lecture on new scientific developments about avoiding getting your sister pregnant? LoL actually there was addiction, death, a cultural tolerance one, some lady that gave a presentation on paying attention to your intuition, and a really good talk about things to learn from autistic kids from the viewpoint of a school principal who I had dated a couple years ago and had no idea she would be there.
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