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[crutch]

well i got stuck working till 10 tonight but looks like a nice night anyone around want to meet up and go for a cruise or stop for a few drinks

oh and keep an eye out for those sobriety checkpoints, a buddy got busted last night on state street

[OstTrefftWest]

Quote, originally posted by crutch »

keep an eye out for those sobriety checkpoints, a buddy got busted last night on state street

Please say he wasn't the one I saw in the paper that led police on a brief chase and wound up with criminal-confinement charges, too?!?

[crutch]

yep thats the one, he smashed his car up pretty bad

im not really sure what he was thinking

i was actually suppose to be with him but i decided to stay at bdubs when he left

[heysuperman]

it wasn't your corrado buddy was it?

[OstTrefftWest]

Quote, originally posted by crutch »

i was actually suppose to be with him but i decided to stay at bdubs when he left

Glad you weren't -- that would've sucked! (Or who knows -- maybe he wouldn't have acted so if he'd had calmer heads with him....) Either way, glad you didn't wind up personally involved!

[OstTrefftWest]

Bumpity -- anyone else out there, or am I gonna have to register with Uberdubs (which has better people but slower forum software)?!?

[perf311]

better ppl than the purdue thread? or the vortex.
i guess i'm regged at uber either way, so i'm not too offended.
i'm around, just been busy doing stuff.

[dalasdhn]

Was anyone at the game this past weekend? what they heck happened?? how could we loose to freak'n Bowling Green

[OstTrefftWest]

Quote, originally posted by perf311 »

better ppl than the purdue thread? or the vortex. i guess i'm regged at uber either way, so i'm not too offended. i'm around, just been busy doing stuff.

Sorry 'bout that -- better people than Vortex in general, present company excluded!!!!! I'd just been rolling my eyes at the friggin' MkIV forum when I wrote that -- no offense meant to our local guys, who are regardless. It's just that the "tool/non-tool" ratio on the Vortex is getting pretty close to 1:1, at least in MkIV....

[vw fiend]

i feel like a slacker, i've just not had alot of time for my car or the tex. yes, i'm growing really tired of the whining and general b!tching on here, so much so that i only browse the mk2 forum once every few days instead of whenever i can get on the computer.

my brother, whos a freshman, is in the band. from what he says we were ahead by a few points, then we pulled a purdue and gave them the winning goal.


Modified by vw fiend at 12:06 PM 9-9-2003

[vw fiend]

oh, keep an eye out for a kid in a brand new black lexus convertible. he passed me on mccormik, a double yellow, i was going at least 35-40 with the traffic (in a 30). he comes zipping past me, and pulls right in front of me, barely leaving me time to brake at the stop sign. all that so he could jump one car ahead in a 4 car line at the stop sign. he got the finger the whole way down the road. i got a finger back for a few seconds, and all i could think was, what do i deserve that for, for being a better driver than you? i was gonna call him in for wreckless driving, but i dont even know how the police handle that type of thing.

[OstTrefftWest]

Thanks for the heads-up, Adam -- "hit list" (or is that "$hit list"?), which already included the red faded-paint second-gen MR2 Turbo with county-code 7 plates, now includes that Lexus. (Can't be too hard to spot -- not more than a few Lexus convertibles in town, and I don't think I've seen any black ones yet.)

I think I still have the exact license number on the MR2, if anyone wants to join the fun....

[heysuperman]

3 of us on the purdue thread already joined uber, but so far i'm the only one that's gone down there to hang out with them. they meet ever wednesday around 6:30. if anyone wants to go let me know.

[heysuperman]

there is a cruise this saturday in indy if anyone wants to go

[OstTrefftWest]

Quote, originally posted by heysuperman »

they meet ever wednesday around 6:30. if anyone wants to go let me know.

I'll be in Indy tomorrow, but I'll probably still be doing work-type stuff by then. If you can, though, PM me your cell number or something, so I can try to track all of you down if I get free earlier than I expected....

[farfromugen]

hey everyone, Rich finally gave me a price for the job...$775!!! kinda high if you ask me, afterall its taken like 3 months but whaddya do? If anyone knows of anyone looking for a p.o.s. car, i have that Sable for sale, make me some offers somewhere close to $700...otherwise I won't see my car short of next year

[heysuperman]

took them 14 hours to do it? come on. i thought they just worked on it a few hours once a week

[vw fiend]

you got off easy. back when i first got it i had the fuel pump replaced in my car, and the brakes cleaned up, and the bill was $1200.

[heysuperman]

you got robbed

[vw fiend]

yeah, but i think the term is... own3d? shop prices in connecticut at $75+ an hour, and i trusted, and still trust these guys. i guess its the price you pay for things you cant do yourself

[farfromugen]

Quote, originally posted by vw fiend »

yeah, but i think the term is... own3d? shop prices in connecticut at $75+ an hour, and i trusted, and still trust these guys. i guess its the price you pay for things you cant do yourself

The sad thing is I could've done it myself had I known some of the people I know now...who do you think told them what the problem was....(me) It took one of our service guys a cigarette break to tell me what he thought the problem was, and guess what, he was right...kinda sucks it took them 10 hours or so to figure it out, and yeah who knows how long it would've taken had I not called and told them what I "thought" was the problem...I figured they would have atleast taken into account that and the fact that even if it was 10 hours, it still took them 2 1/2 months to put in 10 hours of work

[heysuperman]

did you ask them to cut you a break since you're the one who figured it out? what was the problem anyway?

[dalasdhn]

un-freak'n-believable
http://forums.vwvortex.com/zerothread?id=1016160
Make sure u look at the fun facts onpage two!


Modified by dalasdhn at 1:21 PM 9-11-2003

[farfromugen]

Quote, originally posted by heysuperman »

did you ask them to cut you a break since you're the one who figured it out? what was the problem anyway?

tried to, but he doesn't seem too keen on doing that, I'll try to see if he can help me out any again when I pick it up, but I'm not going to be an azz about it, I just want it back!!!!!!
Speaking of which, who would be up for a road trip to Libertyville this Sunday????

[vw fiend]

http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/badgers.php

and thats all i have to say about that. and for the homestar fans:

http://www.homestarrunner.com/sbemail84.html

[perf311]

"dremeling my airbox" bump. how's everyone's weekend been so far.

[heysuperman]

from the Über cruise last night.

[farfromugen]

well....after several hours of driving my car is back with the living!!!!!! still has a few bugs and reassembly necessary, but it works!!! just thought I should let everyone know

[heysuperman]

sweet! now you have to do a cruise with us...now that you can keep up

[perf311]

awesome!

Quote, originally posted by farfromugen »

well....after several hours of driving my car is back with the living!!!!!! still has a few bugs and reassembly necessary, but it works!!! just thought I should let everyone know

[Reznor]

wow, i never knew the 'tex had a p-due thread going, very cool. I've been a lurker in the car lounge for a while. Did anyone go to the sae callout with the crossfire guy? I missed because of a thermo test If you did let me in on what i missed. catch you around

[perf311]

i was there. he was kinda boring.
if you want to be on the sae formula team, they meet tuesdays at 6pm in ME 156
baja meets thursdays at 6 but i dunno where. i'm gonna do formula. any other questions, feel free to im me. (aim name in sig)

[Reznor]

Thanks dude! I appreciate it. and Formula > Baja

[farfromugen]

So when are we having a gtg??? Now that my car is back I'm strangely pumped up and ready to hang the v-dubs again I think lack of my car started to make me part ways with my love I'm open for any tuesday (except this one) or sunday, late night friday or late saturday.... lets do this again!!!

[OstTrefftWest]

Hey Eric -- belated congrats on having your car running again! And if it's any comfort, look at it this way: Walter got three times as much money out of me than Dubwerks did out of you -- and when it was all done, I still had an 8v with an automatic and no working A/C!

My next couple of weeks (basically, through the end of the month) are going to be completely crazy -- if it tells you anything, I still haven't even found time finish touching up my fender, which my best friend's second-grader accidentally scratched with her bike! So even though I'll do what I can, don't count on my participation until October....

But if nothing else, I'll stop by Raisor one morning to check out the resurrected GTI!

Oh -- and Adam, I think I saw the same black Lexus you were talking about the other day. The top and windows were up, so I couldn't ID a driver, but there's probably only one black one in town (or at least so far, I've only seen red ones in town).... As for my MR2 nemesis, there's a similar-looking MR2 with Ball State plates, but he's friends with my parents' neighbors, so be sure not to get mad at the wrong guy!


Modified by OstTrefftWest at 9:37 PM 9-16-2003