neckbeard posted:

Powershift posted:

North of provost:

neckbeard posted:

Did anyone check out Rock'n August in St Albert this weekend? I skipped on Friday because of the weather, went to the show & shine on Saturday, but I had to work til 4, so the majority of vehicles had already left.


Was wondering if anyone knew anything about this beast:

Chevrolet Chevy II SS by tylerhuestis, on Flickr

slidebite posted:

Shockingly relevant study for Calgary on CBC

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-eats-big-data-meets-big-donair-1.2970610

jamal posted:

A donair and a gyro are the same thing, right? In Missoula we have a ton of greek gyro places, and I get one on pretty much a weekly basis. I always think about trying that donair place in Lethbridge but it doesn't look very good.

jonathan posted:

The life of a Newfie: Can't hold job as Walmart greeter in a province that has no work. Books flight with Capital One mastercard to Alberta, gets hired on, skips from job to job making $10,000 per month, rents a single bedroom, somehow is broke at the end of each month. Shops for things by the bi-weekly payments. Has a sled, an ATV, A lifted diesel truck fitted out with every cheesy accessory from Newfie Speed & Sport (Canadian Tire). Don't forget the "East Coast Lifestyle" sticker.

Then the price of oil tanks, and the Newfie is now making $2500 a month and has $8500 in payments, a cocaine habit and a child with a Welfare queen. Time to head back to Newfoundland claiming he "misses the sea" and ignore debt collectors for the next 6 years.

Rinse repeat.

HookShot posted:

The BC government is going to pass a law allowing cops to ticket people going slow in the fast lane on highways.

Amos Moses posted:

While driving to Edmonton I got waved into an RCMP traffic stop blitz thing.

Nothing wrong except my passenger wasn't wearing a seat belt as we'd just left a parking lot.

The RCMP ticketed my passenger who is over 18 for $115. Said passenger has no drivers license, is not registered to the vehicle..

I'm having trouble finding anything that says they should actually ticket the passenger let alone how enforceable a fine issued to a passenger would be.

Amos Moses posted:

I'm not a clever man. The passenger does not fall in the criteria of a or b, they're 27.

Be patient with me I'll get it eventually. If I'm reading that correctly I understand I didn't get the ticket because the person did not meet those criteria but why did that person get the ticket? How are they even going to enforce paying it if there person (for medical reasons) will never have a drivers license or own a vehicle. Hell it took them forever to actually verify who the passenger was as the only form of ID is a birth certificate. There were alot of trips back and forth from the officers car for further identifying questions.

I've got no experience with tickets myself but the folks we were talking to in the city about the trip up were telling us if you don't pay it usually they make you if you try to get a license or register a vehicle.

I'm in the boat of just pay it it's only $115 but the passenger is physically disabled and that's 1/4 of their monthly income they were saying.

quote:

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(1) Section 82 does not apply to a person if a duly qualified medical practitioner has signed a letter certifying that the person,
(a) for the period stated in the certificate, is unable for medical reasons to be secured in a child seating assembly or seat belt assembly, or
(b) because of size, build or other physical characteristics, cannot be secured in a child seating assembly or seat belt assembly.
(2) A letter referred to in subsection (1) must
(a) be written on the letterhead of the medical practitioner,
(b) include the name and address of the person exempted and the reasons for the exemption, and
(c) state the dates on which the exemption begins and ends.
(3) An exemption under subsection (1) must be for a period of not more than one year.
(4) The driver of a motor vehicle carrying a person who is exempted under subsection (1) must have a copy of the letter referred to in subsection (1).

blk posted:

Slung Blade posted:

I just got elected mayor of my small town.

loving kill me now.

Powershift posted:

Yeah, we know your're cunts, don't have to remind us.

I've never seen the costco gas station without a line, let alone unused pumps, and they're 10 cents a liter cheaper than everywhere else. They jumped 13 cents overnight too.



I measured out the powerstroke and lincoln a little more carefully an it looks like it would all fit perfect. from turbo to fan, the powerstroke is shorter than the 460. valvecover to valve cover it's about 4" wider, and would almost be touching the a/c evaporator and brake master cylinder. At he front of the engine, the power steering pump would sit where the 460s huge a/c unit is. I'm just not sure if it would sit low enough in the car for the turbo to tuck in under the cowl.

ExecuDork posted:

I drove from Saskatoon to Ft. McMurray today, and I have to say I'm surprised by how normal Ft. Mac. appears. I'm far enough north that sunset is happening now (almost 11pm) but other than that, it's a fairly normal western Canadian mid-sized city. I was honestly expecting to see Ferraris and Lambos and other exotics, but all I saw on highway 63 was a Mercedes wagon-thing that probably costs as much as a house in Edmonton, and a riced-up Mitsubishi with a stupid spoiler. Obviously, the oil-price fall and associated economic downturn are the driving factors, but I kind of regret not seeing as many ludicrous Italian cars as a typical Top Gear episode. And highway 63 was nowhere near as intimidating as I had been led to believe. For one thing, the twinning is happening at a cracking pace, and the construction zones - which are frequent but mostly short - are fairly well-behaved.

jonathan posted:

Browning sticker is the male version of the roxy sticker.

1500quidporsche posted:

That particular McDonalds location is just magical and if its anything like the one and only time I've been in there its a place everyone should go to once in their life.

DrakeriderCa posted:

Yeah. Some dealership in Lacombe is trying to flog new Ford's for cheap.

Powershift posted:

I'm running to the pick-n-pull today, anybody want me to look out for anything?