Sniping is Cheatin????

Those were made from seperate letters from an annimation website...sheesh, didn't think I was EVER going to get the f to work!!

Mrs. M

quote:

---

Originally posted by fordfalcons:
you may have created a monster!

---

LOL! We like monsters!!




Mrs. M

Lol! Rick, we were on the same wave link, again!

Mrs. M

There you go, Ford, reduce that down and put it with your signature.

Mrs. M

Mrs. M

Mrs. M,

That was fun. It's always fun to see someone else do pixs. Also, Christine is the 1st regular to join our little pixs club. Maybe some day chatter163 or amh will join. Oh, well - it's always a hoot having you around. Thanks Mrs. M.

Yes, it is a blast!

Mrs. M

I noticed that I have only used 8.8% today and I have uploaded the entire day, including both cases of the alphabet! I think I really overbought.

Mrs. M

Thanks to both of you! And I added the Falcons to my pictures folder. Guess now I'd better get back to working on a midterm assignment. Have a great day!

OMG!! You are wearing Rick's sack! LOL!!!!!





Mrs. M

C-ya later!

Mrs. M

Christine,

There's one down side to these pixs. It's hard to leave a serious post after you start using them.

Also, you can click on other pixs in this forum (except Mrs. M's because she uses Village Photo) and get other web site home pages for more goodies.

I'm new to the forum, but very experienced on eBay and AS. I cannot figure out why anyone would bid early. That just drives up the final cost 99% of the time. The only winners there are the Seller and eBay. I use AS only and have been very successful to date. Only once (tonight) was my bid not placed, due to timing issues I assume. It kills me to see rookie bidders bidding up prices with days left on the auctions !QUOTE]Originally posted by samuraiblossom:
Personally, I feel it's fine to bid at any time you desire when it comes to an auction. Sometimes I bid the second I see the item...other times I'll use AS or snipe manually. It depends on a lot of factors, really. I'll normally put in as much as I'm willing to pay once I see an item I really want, or I'll use AS. I don't like to snipe manually at the last minute, I usually do all I can to avoid that kind of situation...since I might slip up, or my connection will be slow, etc. It's not cheating to bid, what are auctions for? It doesn't matter when someone bids, although some people do feel cheated when they put a bid in for something, the auction goes on for a full week with no other bidders, then at the final moment someone shows up and outbids them. It's a disappointment for anyone, I've been there myself. But, even I must admit it's not cheating. That, and I've done the last-minute-bidding thing myself, so I can't go and say it's a bad thing, I'd only be a hypocrite. ^^; Just my two cents on the subject.

*~samuraiblossom~*[/QUOTE]

Had a Ford Falcon once (1966 - I was 6!) and we lost it in Auckland Harbour when a dog knocked it out of Park and it rolled into the water, floated a bit, then sank.
They got it out be we ended up with a 1967 model - something to do with the salt water...

R2

Now you know what that funny lever marked "Handbrake" is for!

You just rip it out, cable and all, and tie the dog up with it.

GG

What a rotten thing to do to a dog!

Here are some pictures of my 1967 Falcon that were taken at a car show about 5 years ago. A few years ago I took it in for an oil change and the guys at the garage let it fall backward off the rack. They had to put a different door on it. The engine was just rebuilt this summer.
I'm also restoring the first car I ever owned, a 1966 Falcon sports coupe.

Anyone ever been to the 'Dream Cruse' in Detroit? It's this weekend and a very big deal.

Classic and custom cars and trucks cruse a 10 mile stretch of Woodward Ave all weekend. You don't have to walk around. Just find a spot, sit, and let the show drive by.

Average speed on Woodward is normally about 45 mph. This weekend it's slower than walking speed because of all the traffic.

That sounds like fun.

The last car show that I went to had a Duesenberg. They didn't say if it was a real one or a replica, but I'm guessing it must have been a replica because you just don't see those at car shows. The owner wouldn't let anyone get too close to it, but he did let me take some pictures.

I learned to drive in a car like yours, Falcon Gal. Then my father bought a later model "Fairmont".

Ultimate expression of that era has to be the Australian Falcon GTHO. Great cult car in this country and they fetch incredible prices. Somewhat unnerving to drive in this modern era however, brakes and handling nowhere near matched the grunt.

GG

You're right about the handling, Gardengnome. Those older cars don't handle as easily as the newer models and when they go through water they tend to lose their brakes until they dry out. I like the cars from the 1960's because the different models look like different models. Today's cars look pretty much the same and don't seem to be nearly as much fun to drive.

I still love the cars of the late sixties/early seventies, the look, the sound...everything.

"Proper" cars have rear-wheel drive, north-south engines, metal bumpers and preferably, carburettors and a full chassis.

ABS, SRS, traction control, engine management systems, cruise control, all-wheel drive etc, etc, etc, are for wooses.

As the bumper sticker says, "A REAL CAR IS A STEEL CAR!"

GG

Right! And nothing on a real car has a computer chip.