mike6024

Sonoma County is doing this. Frankly I am disgusted. And they want us to sign up for their "Green Energy Program" so we can pay extra in order to subsidize these projects. I think the only people with high electric bills must have air conditioners, and I can't understand why anyone would want that in this climate. My electric bill is typically under $20. I would need to buy an EV to boost my electricity usage in order to justify putting panels on my roof.

You haven't done all the math on that John. California is loath to build new plants. In the early 2000's was the "energy crisis" with Enron and all, and Calpine stepped up, and built some natural gas power plants. The price per kwh at the wholesale level dropped when there was no longer a shortage, and Calpine, which amassed a $10 Billion debt building plants could not make payments on it's debt and went bankrupt and reorganized in 2006. Since then I think there has been next to no power plant construction. There are incentives for people to install solar panels, which does not add up to a significant percentage of the power delivered. And our biggest plant, the Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant which has two units at 1,100 megawatts each is set to be decommissioned. EV's do not have a significant impact only because there are so few of them. And many are being bought by wealthy elderly retired people who do not need to commute to work, and don't use them that much. The bulk of the heavy commuting is certainly being done by conventional vehicles, fossil fuel. Lots of hybrids too which is good.

For sale on Facebook, Northern California Last year for the marque. I6 GM 230 cu.in w/3speed automatic. Runs well. Interior re-done in similar design. NOS headliner, three point seat belts up front, working am radio. Plus CD/radio, good heater/defrost. Tires good, brakes all drum work well. Vanity in glovebox, newly re-covered visors. Plenty of spare parts to maintain the Cruiser. Studebakers have access to many exceptional parts vendors Nationally available, most are all NOS. With the GM I6, easily maintained. No smog required. Shop manuals and parts resource catalog included. The Good- daily driver, the not so great- will want a paint job. Clean title $5,500 https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/901017867133669

I’ve got a running, complete drivetrain from a 1953 Plymouth Cranbrook. 218 flathead 6 and 3 speed transmission with overdrive. Going to be doing a v8 swap so no longer need the engine or transmission. Everything is still in the car currently if anyone wanted to see it running before buying.

1951 photograph

I couldn't help but read this post https://www.jalopyjournal.com/forum/threads/mad-mikey-accident.1224752/ "...the throttle stuck and the car launched into the work bench and wall.... garage wall is pushed out, ..."

First car I ever bought for myself back in '78 was a '67 Camaro for $850. It had a badly dented passenger side door. 327 with 2 speed powerglide automatic. Not much rust visible, but the trunk would fill with water when it rained. Removed the rear glass and looked at the lower channel where the glass sets in. Rusted through, not falling apart, but it had at least a couple rust holes all the way through. I ground it out with a grinding wheel on an electric drill. Painted it with lead primer. Then filled the holes with bondo. Then painted it again with the lead primer. Put the glass back in, using some "rope" type black caulk stuff an auto glass place sold to me. So it turned out to be not to big of a deal to fix.

I have heard of permits for 400 Amp services being pulled for homes and marijuana growing indoors is one of the reasons. I suspect some of our very large homes also need that much.

Point the rust near the windshield out to the seller. Say I heard that often can mean water leak right through, and very expensive to repair, removing the windshield, maybe some welding in the channel, primer/sealer, then re-install the glass. See if the seller is open to knocking a significant amount off the price.

It sounds over-priced. The windshield will need to be removed, as well as the back glass. Those channels where the glass mounts, if rusty, will leak rainwater into the car. So that would be a big expensive problem to deal with right there.

Here's a calculation one could do: About 95 million barrels per day of oil are produced. How much energy is that? Take BTUs and convert that to kw-hours. Could that energy production even be accomplished with solar panels? I doubt it, even if every home had them. A good sized solar panel installation can produce 5,ooo watts (5kw). About 5 hours of full sun on a good summer day, that would give you 25kwh per day. Point being, that 95 mbpd of oil represents a huge amount of energy.

We don't care about that crash. The Fire Department says they found one person in the passenger seat, and one in the back seat, but no-one in the driver seat. I find that hard to believe. How do they know the driver didn't crawl over to the passenger side when it caught fire attempting to escape. Anyway people crash into trees all the time. In the San Francisco bay area there are many commuters that do 6 miles each way every day. Like Tracy to Sunnyvale. Or Santa Rosa to San Francisco, which I did when doing surveying. $15 to $20 per day in gas, plus bridge tolls, $6 or $7. I would like to know if ALL those cars commuting, went electric, what is the total daily kilowatt hours. And if you commute 60 miles to work in the morning, the place where you park during the day will not necessarily let you charge your car while you are in the office. So you would be doing 120 miles, then need to charge that back up at home over night.

I would think you would want foam on a Lithium battery fire to starve it of oxygen.

Yes it got taken down, or whatever.

Cadillac Audi RS Look at the "styling" of these things. It's converging to "crossover SUV."

I had thought water was what you did not want to use on an electrical fire. I seem to even remember that being taught in some safety class, something like refinery safety or construction safety practices. It seems not much can be done once the battery ignites. Mainly you want to prevent the fire from spreading beyond the vehicle, to the surroundings.

I could have bought a very nice Nash, kept in indoor storage, for only about $3500. It was an estate type sale and I would have felt bad even buying it. The owners son said he was letting someone buy it for only $2500, unless I wanted to top that offer. Indoors, no rust good paint. I think I posted a picture a while back. So in comparison these outdoor rusty hulks are worth less than the cost to go pick them up, even if you lived within driving distance.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1938-studebaker-coupe-express/ Current bid $5,000

no one seems to want them so they are going to be scrapped soon, that sums it up nicely

Yes If you compare the pic with a 1947 Chrysler, several things are consistent, such as the profile of the front bumper.

Oh yeah, you picked up on that small tip of chrome strip peeking out from behind the pole.

Chrome along the lower edge. Maybe a Dodge. Dodge would have that chrome along the rocker.

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