chuckv97 - Posted - 01/09/2017:  15:09:25

Ya, you have to wipe/squeegee your windows or you get smears - at night it's hard to see

DeanT - Posted - 01/09/2017:  16:03:00

yep, I clean the windshield with windex when I get home

OM45GE - Posted - 01/10/2017:  03:30:08

I drive a convertible and I don't like the wax on the top either. I hand wax the car when it needs it. 

DeanT - Posted - 01/10/2017:  05:36:37

I always wanted a convertible.... but never had one

OM45GE - Posted - 01/10/2017:  05:49:01

I've had about seven of them. Given where we live, I get a surprising amount of top down driving in. Last year we drove around on Christmas Eve with the top down looking at Holiday lights.

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/10/2017:  05:56:35

The only convertible I had was the 1960 Sunbeam. It had a ragtop, but also a hardtop roof you could snap on in winter.

Edited by - chuckv97 on 01/10/2017 06:09:31

OM45GE - Posted - 01/10/2017:  10:53:06

We had an Austin Healey Sprite that had an erector set top. You had to assemble the bows and then snap the top to them and lastly hook the clear side curtains on. It could take 15 minutes so if you had a sudden downpour, you were soaked for sure.

DeanT - Posted - 01/10/2017:  16:58:07

my Honda has a sun roof, so that's the best I get. I like it though.

OM45GE - Posted - 01/11/2017:  03:40:20

Sun roofs are great. Easier to close than the Sprites top too!

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/11/2017:  08:10:40

I"d like a sunroof. You get fresh air flow without dead flies ending up in your ear when you have the side window down. I often put some tissue in my left ear.

DeanT - Posted - 01/11/2017:  10:14:48

the sunroof airflow is surprisingly quiet too... not like the side windows where you can't hear the radio....

OM45GE - Posted - 01/11/2017:  15:01:57

My current car is surprisingly quiet with the top down - even at highway speeds. At least for the front seat passenger. If you're in the back, your screwed.

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/11/2017:  15:29:05

I was in slow traffic in a town a few years ago with the truck. There was an injector problem and every time I accelerated a huge cloud of black smoke came out of the stacks. There was a downdraft and a middle-aged couple in a convertible a few cars back got bombarded.I can still see the woman waving her arms and yelling to her hubby. lol

Edited by - chuckv97 on 01/11/2017 15:30:59

DeanT - Posted - 01/11/2017:  16:37:12

yeah like it was his fault

OM45GE - Posted - 01/12/2017:  02:53:30

Of course it's his fault. 

DeanT - Posted - 01/12/2017:  06:14:58

everything is the guys fault always

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/12/2017:  06:54:04

So are the pregnancies....

OM45GE - Posted - 01/12/2017:  07:23:07

If a man is walking alone in the woods talking to himself, is he still wrong?

dmiller - Posted - 01/12/2017:  08:42:40

Ask any woman.  She'll (most likely) say yes.  That's been my past experience.

DeanT - Posted - 01/12/2017:  10:26:57

I have three x-wifes that were never ever wrong

OM45GE - Posted - 01/12/2017:  11:23:29

They'd get along with my exes.

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/12/2017:  12:35:58

Maybe they all belong to a jilted wives debating society

OM45GE - Posted - 01/12/2017:  13:33:27

Boy, I bet those are fun filled meetings.

DeanT - Posted - 01/12/2017:  14:12:34

my first wife had a cat fight with one of my girlfriends when we crossed paths at a gas station...

OM45GE - Posted - 01/12/2017:  15:43:42

My second wife ran into my brother and his family at Disney World and accosted them. She wasn't very complimentary about me.

Edited by - OM45GE on 01/12/2017 15:44:06

DeanT - Posted - 01/12/2017:  17:11:14

they are just mad because they couldn't mold us into subservience 

OM45GE - Posted - 01/13/2017:  02:52:33

She was mad about almost everything. 

DeanT - Posted - 01/13/2017:  03:00:25

why do they change so much?

OM45GE - Posted - 01/13/2017:  04:53:26

I'm starting to think I drive them crazy.

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/13/2017:  09:04:49

'''Tis a tangled web we weave"

dat - Posted - 01/13/2017:  09:44:14

Hey. Whatcha durin in here. 😁. Finally had a chance to pop back in. Been busy and loving it. Life is great not dealing with tha public

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/13/2017:  09:52:39

Hey Daniel. Glad you're grooving along.

DeanT - Posted - 01/13/2017:  10:42:24

how can you love being busy? Unless of course it involves making lots of $$?

OM45GE - Posted - 01/13/2017:  10:48:50

Hey Daniel. Great to hear from you. Glad you're enjoying everything.

Happy New Year!

DeanT - Posted - 01/14/2017:  12:16:20

waiting for the ice storms in Kansas....

OM45GE - Posted - 01/14/2017:  16:35:14

Stay safe. 

dmiller - Posted - 01/14/2017:  18:46:24

Good to see you again Daniel (if even briefly).  Here's hoping the New Year treats you well!

The sun was shining bright and it got up to 28°F today.  I was almost fooled into thinking it was Spring.

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/14/2017:  19:01:21

That ice storm is covering a lot of territory

OM45GE - Posted - 01/14/2017:  19:13:46

Nasty weather. 

dmiller - Posted - 01/14/2017:  19:30:54

The AWD Subaru is great in winter snows - - but not on ice.

DeanT - Posted - 01/14/2017:  20:13:09

My little Honda stays in the garage when it's icy out!

OM45GE - Posted - 01/14/2017:  20:37:24

When I was learning to drive, my dad would let me take the family car on a frozen lake and drive around. I don't mind snowy or icy roads, except for the other drivers. 

DeanT - Posted - 01/15/2017:  07:07:00

donuts in the K-Mart parking lot was a right of passage!

OM45GE - Posted - 01/15/2017:  13:46:24

Oh yeah. That was great fun. 

DeanT - Posted - 01/15/2017:  15:30:57

it doesn't work so well with today's front wheel drive cars...

OM45GE - Posted - 01/15/2017:  16:19:01

Nope, but my car is rear wheel drive - wheeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't stop doing the parking lot fun until a few years ago when my son was born. I got more responsible. 

One of my friends use to have a Lincoln Town Car. We use to love thrashing that around on snow covered parking lots.  

DeanT - Posted - 01/15/2017:  18:24:36

My old Buick Skylark was made for donuts!!!

OM45GE - Posted - 01/16/2017:  11:05:50

I bet. My grandmother had one of those. Some salesman convinced her it was a little old lady's car. She bought it brand new. It had a honkin' V8 in it. They had to move the seat mounts forward so she could reach the pedals.

Edited by - OM45GE on 01/16/2017 11:06:13

chuckv97 - Posted - 01/16/2017:  12:38:58

Little old lady from Massachusetts?