Re: [Amc-list] TOTO?...and a tirade against 'Old Cars' (*which 'noone should have'*)

[Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx]

All of that sucks!
I, so far, have been left alone.
IIRC, law around here is one derelict allowed.
Counting the flood car and the vert I've got two outside.
I can beat them here if needed though, for a while...
WV, Antique plates are sodl bases solely on year. No pics, no inspection, no annual inspection.
I can literaly buy plates for my junkers and call them cars again. 
I don't figure it would take them long to fix these laws if it ever comes to that.
I wanted to finish parting out that flood car this weekend, but the doc says, "no doing anything you haven't been doing if you feel better", SAY WHAT?, " you'll hurt yourself, you need to take it easy and slowly get back to things, You dive in and you'll hurt yourself".... Well, horse.....

  Anyway, I would very dearly love to lay claim on that 65 American conv. IIRC you had one on your list.
An American conv is what I truly wanted when I bought the Ambo, If, I'm going to try"one more build" of any sort, that is the car I would choose to do!

Details? And can we get it here?

--
Mark Price
Morgantown, WV
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
" I was different before people dared to be different" 

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Jerijan" <jerijan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Well, Lad,
> I can make another suggestion for 'respite'...
> Starting Monday AM (actually Sunday, PM) I got the 'thing thats going 
> around' (whatever that is...)
> Seems it's a virus.
> Seems I've met that critter before (because now that I'm thru the third 
> day--it lasts at its worst for three days--I recognize the fact this I've 
> done before.
> Point?
> The Virus made me feel SOOOOOOO bad I forgot all about all my other troubles 
> (almost anyway)...The 'fluey' achey so pervasive that, well, I could not 
> tell the old from the new!
> You know the old story, 'shoot yourself in the foot...it will make your 
> headache go away'.
> I DO NOT reccommend this virus as a 'cure all' for backache (it only lasts 3 
> days??), but one thing IS for sure...I'm happy to have 'only' my 'regular' 
> problems back and get out of woods with this evil 'whatever it is thats 
> going around'...
> Sheeeeesh!
> 
> Anyone interested in the fleet offerings??
> I'm being run out of town on a rail (Bennington, Vermont, home of Hemmings 
> and THE Bennington Car Show and they (CERTAIN, not all) officials think 
> 'noone should have old cars' (DUH!  What anii (is that the pleural of anus?) 
> they are...When I said to the town's building inspector 'what would Terry 
> Erich (an A+ Citizen in all respects) say about that?', his reply, short but 
> not sweet, 'He is dead...it does not matter'.  That gives rise to making me 
> think of another description for him, the last syllable is 'koff'...
> Thus, with much chagrin, I'm leaving Bennington for more friendly environs 
> for myself and the remainder of my 'fleet' (which shall be seriously 
> diminished to a manageable 'able to count on one hand')...
> I Love this town, this part of NewEngland which is land of my birth and 
> 'home' in both reality and my heart...but the 'zonies' (those who can 
> declare land use at their own discretion) have given me sufficient pause to 
> decide I don't need this garbage...
> Example: They have declared as 'junk' "any vehicle which is disabled, 
> unregistered or uninspected (and thus insured)" regardless of the reason why 
> (say you hve a '55 Packard and need a part you cannot locate within the 30 
> days they give you. You thus violate their zoning regulations such that you 
> can be fined $100 per diem.  You must either garage that vehicle (what if 
> you've no garage?) or get rid of it.  (rid of it?  Hello!  Indeed.)  This 
> car, with 69,000 miles, a hugely expensive paint job, new tires and brakes, 
> etc, etc is JUNK??  Whereever do they get off with that?
> Here is my reccomendation (and I shall follow this with MUCH regret: Boycott 
> ANY and ALL antique/classic Automobile functions which associate with 
> Bennington...PERIOD.  That is Hemmings 'cruise in's, the Bennington Car 
> Show, and any other.  And spread the word, but above all, make it clearly 
> know why you are so doing.  (Bennington is UNFRIENDLY to old cars...PERIOD. 
> Bring your money, leave your 'junker' at home (because, as Mr Monk advised 
> me, NOONE NEEDS AN OLD CAR))).
> I shall be out of Bennington by the second week following the show, but 
> shall return to 'clean up' in a number of trips.
> Bennington being 'old car friendly' (as claimed by whomever) is patently a 
> fraud.  The 'law' that a vehicle must be inspected is a malicious endeavor 
> by the town specifically aimed at Jerijan personally (true, this isn't a 
> paranoid delusion; the building inspector's assistant told me that that 
> regulation is called the 'Jerijan Law'.  I can't begin to guess why (NOT!). 
> It has to do with what is known as NIMBY effect...Old Cars are fine...but 
> the process which restores them is 'not for us'.
> If anyone wishes, I'll provide full details of these troubles with details, 
> names, and dates because I know full well that other little burgs out there 
> in NeverNeverland do the very same thing.  I know what a junkyard is.  I 
> know what junk cars are.  A car with a cracked windshield or bad trunnion or 
> broken taillight lens (far fetched??) which cannot pass inspection within 30 
> days is Junk.  I'd say "I'm sorry, but I cannot believe that", but truth be 
> told, I am NOT sorry.  What is sorry is the state of the hobby when this 
> crap...whether these officials are well intentioned or malicious 
> notwithstanding...is allowed to stand.  What becomes of all the restorable 
> cars out there when towns like this one disallow parts cars (remember their 
> presense is prohibited unless in a garage...you cannot cover them (also a 
> Jerijan Rule), you cannot put them into temporary shelter, etc..)  No parts 
> cars, no parts.  That makes the restorable car A PARTS CAR as well (since it 
> cannot be repaired).  Since parts cars are disallowed, POOF...that one is 
> gone too.  Soon...NO restorable cars left, and attrition makes a car show 
> just photos in a history book.
> Who out there in AMC-Land is ready for that?
> Keep this in mind:
> United we Stand.  Divided We Fall.
> 
> And on that  note, Folks.  Have a real good night and a better tomorrow.
> 
> Oh, yeah.  Keep smiling, but keep the Keys to those junkers locked up.  Your 
> town wants you to 'clean up' (*is that sponsored by your Chevy or Toyota or 
> Subooboo or Bimmer dealer..or whatever??)
> 
> Jerijan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: "AMC/Rambler owners, drivers and fans." <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 6:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [Amc-list] TOTO?
> 
> 
> > Oh, the respite lasted all of two hours this morning!
> > I got up and actualy felt decent!
> > I even went to work early my back was only mildly sore and my shoulder 
> > so-so.
> > Great I thought it's all doing better for a bit, but short lived it was as 
> > all day long my shoulder pain has increased, burning, numbness etc; till 
> > all I wanted to do was get home and take something. Then my wife told me 
> > we had open house at the kids school, which I blew off, now I'm dead meat! 
> > She'll hold that against me for days/weeks, etc;
> >
> > Joy!
> >
> > At least I've got Thursday to look forward too!
> >
> > Please let this work!
> >
> > --
> > Mark Price
> > Morgantown, WV
> > 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
> > " I was different before people dared to be different"
> >
> > -------------- Original message ----------------------
> > From: "Jerijan" <jerijan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> I, too, got an appointment for another 'facet injection'; however, 
> >> because
> >> they'd find out the truth anyway, I had to call and cancel it..
> >> (they called me this AM, and in the 'fog of virus', I took a cancellation
> >> for tomorrow at 13:00 (1PM).  Then I went to my regular Doc's (because I
> >> woke up swimming in sweat, last night had near 103 temp and feel way 
> >> beyond
> >> 'like crap' (word changed to clean this up)....they explained that the 3
> >> hour ride to Burlington (and 3 hours home) would be wasted since they 
> >> will
> >> NOT inject if you are sick...
> >> Oh, Well...
> >> But!~
> >> I called 'em back and got 'squeezed in' for Friday the 14th (Bennington 
> >> Car
> >> Show Start Day...Oh, Well, we all have to make choices, I guess)..
> >> So by Saturday I should be ready to kick some Gas (ok, I changed that 
> >> word
> >> too)..Yea Team!!
> >> I will be abandoning Vermont following the Bennington Car Show...
> >> Until further notice I'll be a Virginian (in Palmyra, perhaps 20 miles or 
> >> so
> >> from Charlottesville)...
> >> So, if anyone has a 195.6 decent engine proximate to my next (temporary)
> >> home, I should be able to collect it when I get there...I'm willing to 
> >> drive
> >> to fetch it...but reasonable distance (under a million miles)...
> >>
> >> WRambler242...Keep in mind that chasing Toto may preclude you to get 
> >> bitten
> >> right in your, ummm, donkey...*hehehehe*
> >> However...
> >> Good for you--no..GREAT for you..--having a 'respite'.  I KNOW all about
> >> those...don't forget to Nod-To-Your-God and say, 'Thank You'...The 
> >> respites
> >> provide 'Hope', and it's that hope which allows one to progress one day 
> >> to
> >> the next.  Seems 'God' knows when 'the end of my rope' has been reached 
> >> and
> >> hopelessness is about to ensue...I get 'time off' which makes me realize
> >> 'this too shall end', and I'm re-resolved to fight onward until the 
> >> Respite
> >> is the norm and the norm thus becomes History.
> >> Yup.
> >> Soon Enough, I hope.
> >>
> >> Jerijan
> >>
> >> ----- Original Message ----- 
> >> From: <Wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> To: "AMC List" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 10:04 AM
> >> Subject: [Amc-list] TOTO?
> >>
> >>
> >> > Maybe it's not the Emerald city, but I'm chasing toto!
> >> > I finally have the appt for the epidural injection.
> >> > I'm thinknig I'll ask them to just shoot in some Omega3!
> >> > No, seriously, This is one more step to knowing what the source of this
> >> > misery is.
> >> > I hope...
> >> > I actually had a good couple of hours this morning, a rare event.
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Mark Price
> >> > Morgantown, WV
> >> > 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
> >> > " I was different before people dared to be different"
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