And we're at 16!
...and I thought 12 was wildly optimistic.
Thank you Lane for all those pages filled with not only interesting opinions and theories...but with entertaining kibitzing!!!
I'll be submitting the 16 pages for a Pulitzer Prize
Yes, submitting these 16 pages is sure to win you the literary drivel award. 
A man's reach should exceed his grasp, Ron.
This thread reminds me of the occasional threads that pop up on a Cobra forum I belong to page after page of sometimes highly entertaining reading that pertains to nothing the thread originally began with...LOL...entertaining for sure
Like I've said before, threads on this site have more drifting going on than in all the Fast & Furious movies combined!
Like when we're hanging out in the garage with our gear-head buddies and just shooting the $hit! Do those discussions EVER stay on point? I think not! 
I like turtles...
Vince likes beehives
Originally Posted by MusbJim - '14 VS SoCal:
Like when we're hanging out in the garage with our gear-head buddies and just shooting the $hit! Do those discussions EVER stay on point? I think not!
When you think about it this site is our virtual garage.
...when we last left our intrepid...
...I think he was cleaning, or was it adjusting his Webers? Pass the humus please.
And garages usually have pinup calendars.....just sayin'
oooooo......this thread is getting a little tired.
Maybe this'll perk it up!
Thread Drifts!!!!!!
Speaking of garages, I remember going to various shops around my home town with my Dad in the 50's. Radiator shop, iron works, auto parts, etc. and they always had a pin up calendar with a cellophane lift up feature that removed the beautiful young woman's clothing. It left quite an impression an this 8 year old.
I have very vivid memories of seeing that famous nude shot of Marilyn Monroe in the local garage when I was ten years old or so.
Some things just seem to imprint themselves in your brain. First time I saw an XKE about the same. As with the pin up, not at all sure what I was looking at, 
but I knew I liked it.
And who can forget all of those wonderful "Vargas Girls"?
Seemed like every garage/shop had one, including ours!
Google it - You'll remember, too!
Yes please!
Nope, tonight is for Beefeater, a little Tribuno, two olives and lots of ice.... x3. Peter, you can just hold your Vodka or else Geraldine is gonna get ya man.
SO I took off for TG w/ family in Charlottesville for just a few days, really, and holy carp, another three or four pages!!! AND, can you believe your eyes/ears, THE FIX is in:
'Twas some kerdunkle (?) w/ the carb. My money was on a broke part, or a seriously clogged passage, but a senior moment where an important part was left out (or went sprong! while not looking) will do it for me just as well. I have the Weber book, and am going to go study that picture. WTF is a "starting jet"? when there is no choke? Funny business, if you ask me.
And the tip about the carb shop in Utah is very well worth sorting through the 16(!!!) pages.
Lane -- I am very proud of your persistence here, even if not so proud of -- ummm . . . what can I say?? -- your occasional lack of concentration? It just had to be that carb . . .
So THAT's what it was......
Lane was having a "Senior Moment"!
It just keeps getting better from now on, Lane.......
per earlier posts here, the "getting better" part Gordon refers to is facilitated greatly by the Oban, Jameson, or whatever poison you might care to name. That's how it is done.
Standing by the hear that some idle and mixture jets were tweaked, linkage set right, throats balanced, and the car is down the road w/out too much by way of complaint. We gotta wrap this thing up.
Did some tweakage last Saturday that helped a good bit, but I need to do a proper carb tuning. It's running pretty well actually, but I want it as close to Danny Piperato perfect as I can get it. I'll do a tune this weekend after Cars and Coffee. It should be good and warmed up by then.
Sadly I am temporarily out of Tullamore Dew and will "settle" for some Maker's Mark this evening.
Maker's is not "settling" IMHO. That's pretty good stuff, speaking as a card carrying Ambassador for the brand. Sarah and I have a barrel with our names on it, along with a few others, that should be ready in about 5 years. We will look forward to raising our glasses on that day. Forget scotch, we're Americans and we know what tastes good to us.
Evan Williams is my staple. I like to sneak small bottles of Makers into football games for bourbon and cokes. But when its time to go neat I reach for the Blanton's or Prichard's. Bourbon is the American whiskey.
I love bourbon neat. I've tried just about everything at every price level (except Pappy Van Winkle). After lots of experimenting, i finally decided that I like Jim Beam just about as well as anything else.
I'm a Scotch man, Glenlevet 15. Twice a year, my birthday and Christmas I get a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue, Lordy Lordy...
As I learned from an old Irish Jesuit, Fr. Barney O' Neil, when havin' it neat add a just a spoon of water to open it up!
Now THIS is why I'm keeping this thread going. We are sitting around a virtual fireplace sharing a drink of our favorite libation and talking about stuff - occasionally even cars.
And Hoss, I put "settle" in quotations as I agree with you on Maker's Mark. Tom turned me on to it a few Carlisles back and it is now a close second to the Tullamore in my cabinet.
I have to agree with the "fear" guy that Blanton's is an exceptional bourbon. It is made at the Buffalo Trace distillery and is (or was) made in a building set aside for that spirit only, aging to bottling to wax dipping and the cutting of the tendrils (which Makers forced them to do - a trademark thing) and boxing. It is a sharp taste and should not be cut with anything, even ice, for my taste. However, I have discovered a new bourbon that is uniquely priced and called "Old No. 8". It is Benchmark and comes from the Buffalo Trace distillery also. Good stuff!
Gonna have to give those a try.
I used to be a Glenlivet drinker...not anymore more since I was turned onto Balvenie...straight up in a leaded crystal glass only way to enjoy it properly
I have a very good friend of mine from WA state, an IT whiz, he and I used to always partake of GlenLivet. He took an IT job for a little over a year in Balvenie, Scotland. That is where he discovered Balvenie scotch. They came back home for two weeks vacation and he came over to the house with this 'new' scotch for me to try...I was sold from that point on.
When John finished up his job in Scotland he brought me two bottles of Balvenie one a 20yr old and the other a 24 yr old triple cask purchased directly from the distillery...neither of these are available out side of Scotland as they do not export them...heavenly to sip upon and very expensive, even in Scotland...20yr old was about $110US and the 24yr old $130US about 10 years ago now. I only partake of them on Christmas and my Birthday and will only offer them to someone that really enjoys good scotch.
Scotch snob here...lol
Thank God there's two of us
I am just glad that alcohol means nothing me. Having no self control over food I'd be one sorry mess if I liked booze .
Gordon; Didn't the Vargas Girls have a dedicated page every month in Playboy?
Maybe Esquire...
Lagavulin is great if you like smoky islay malts. I usually add a little water to it.
As for bourbon, I think Four Roses is a good deal.
"Gordon; Didn't the Vargas Girls have a dedicated page every month in Playboy?"
How the hell should I know??
I woulda been, like, what....six years old or sumthin?
How would I know that the Bunnies always drove pink Mustangs? Or that the Playboy club in Boston (now the site of the "Four Seasons" Hotel) had this terrific, un-advertised, Sunday morning breakfast around 6-7am with kitchen leftovers from the night before? And it was FREE! I would never have known that, being so young. That woulda been, like, 1970 and I woulda been WAY too young to know any of that. Just wish I was a horny college student back then 
Wasn't Gloria Steinem a bunny in Boston back then? Or was that in NYC?
Oh, and I never got "sophisticated" enough to get into Scotch. Or Bourbon. I was happy just to become educated about Jameson's offerings When I was in my late 40's.