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y'all ain't growed.You forgot to tell me to give you my lunch money.
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y'all ain't growed.You forgot to tell me to give you my lunch money.
Well, there's a fine line there. When someone's trying to convince you of something that you have seen differently many times it's almost one of those you'll never convince me....but it is a pretty bad way to word itPeople will always have differing opinions and references, which is why there are conversations, disagreements, arguments, whatever, but it takes a special level of intentional ignorance to state "You will NEVER convince me..." on any topic.
Why? I have seen enough and done enough so I know what I know. There are things nobody will ever convince me of and the same goes for you. Will anybody ever convince you the sky is purple?Well, there's a fine line there. When someone's trying to convince you of something that you have seen differently many times it's almost one of those you'll never convince me....but it is a pretty bad way to word it
Not overall but I very frequently say that people should never say what they will never do or that things could never happen. I often say, even on this forum, that everything is relative.Why? I have seen enough and done enough so I know what I know. There are things nobody will ever convince me of and the same goes for you. Will anybody ever convince you the sky is purple?
That's really nice, I always did like those. Look at the woman in the red mini-van checking it out.As a Side Story I want to give credit to this man who blew up his Mustang Transmissions. He is the one that solidified my goal to own a Buick Grand National.
I knew what they were and thought they were awesome looking and have you even driven by a car lot where three of them were part and looked at the window sticker.
They were like $17,800 and I was 16 with a part-time job 3.35 an hour. A little out of my price range then.
I was friends with his daughter who had a Nova with a 355 in it and he was giving me a case of Valvoline 20w 50 racing motor oil. And I case I mean the old case. 24 cans of oil. Cardboard waxed cans with the metal top and bottom that you had to push the spicket through to pour out. Now I was no stranger to this because I had been a motor head since I was about 8 years old and was taking valve covers off my mom's 283 in her 67 Malibu when I was 12.
So he was giving me this old case I have been sitting in his garage for either my 68 LeMans with a 350 in it or my 67 LeMans with a 400 Pontiac in it. I can't remember which car I had at the time. Probably the 67 because I did a lot of engine work on that and that's probably why I was getting the oil.
We were talking hot rods and cars that stuff and he told me about the Mustang he had, which had already gotten rid of, and I told him that I used to always chase those down and race them so it must have been my 67 because it was much faster than the Mustangs.
Then the Grand National came up and I said what about those Buick Grand Nationals with the turbo 6 are those faster than a Mustang?? I naively said at my young tender age of 18.
He said oh, and I quote: "Are they faster then a Mustang? Let me tell you how much faster they are in a Mustang. I raced one and not only did he beat me, he was so far ahead of me that he passed the finish line and when I passed the finish line he was already pulled over, had his hood raised, and was wiping off the chrome shield on his intercooler....yeah they're faster than a Mustang. The Buick Grand National is the baddest car to ever eat up American pavement!"
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It was this very second that I decided that I was going to have me a Grand National.
It was about three and a half years until I got one.
I kept that one for about 3 years and then sold it after minor front fender impact. I actually made money on the car from what I paid for it.
Then I got busy with big lifted four-wheel drive trucks for a while and my LeMans was just sitting for a few of years.
So about 5 years later in late 2000 I was thumbing through an auto trader magazine and one state away in Indiana saw this beauty. I could tell in the small thumbnail black and white picture that the paint had some gloss to it.
I drove this thing 6 times down to the Pigeon Forge Rod run in Tennessee. It's a 700 mile round trip for me.
It's my Beast!
My GPS still has the high-speed of 117 in it from racing a ZO6 Vette up 75 coming back from one of those trips.
I pulled him quite nicely to that speed. He obviously would have taken me higher up but I have no desire to drive an 87 boxy Buick Regal with narrow Weld Racing front tires any faster than 120 unless I'm on a race track.
I still have this one.
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I never noticed that.That's really nice, I always did like those. Look at the woman in the red mini-van checking it out.
I'm just saying that sometimes it's not a matter of convincing you of something. Even if you have seen something happened many times a certain way it is very possible that someone else has had a different experience so you can't tell them that it didn't happen if they know for a fact it did on their end.I mostly agree and there are just some things that you and nobody else will ever convince me of. Too old, too wise, been there-done that, not buying it...……...
If you're wearing those tac-lite sunglasses on a cloudy day with a hangover, yes the sky is purple. No doubt. Its all a matter of terminology and perspective. Color only really exists in the brain of an individual person. All people experience it slightly differently.Why? I have seen enough and done enough so I know what I know. There are things nobody will ever convince me of and the same goes for you. Will anybody ever convince you the sky is purple?