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What the holy flying actual flurk? ?? What kind of insanity is this? I might not be able to buy paper products to wipe my Aristotle but I can certainly buy enough Guinness to cause an ugly mess. My heart bleeds for you George and my prayers are with you in your time of need (of a drink).
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Mar 28, 2020 23:23:39 GMT
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I think that sounds a bit steep Phil, especially as you are right on the Gulf. I paid about $1,500 to ship a Landie 109 to CA
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Mar 26, 2020 17:09:20 GMT
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Shipping isn't as bad as you might think - I am sure there are some on here that have accurate numbers but I seem to recollect paying about $1,500 to ship a Land Rover 109. Santa Clarita is ideally situated as it's not far from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles and Port Hueneme in Ventura so transport to the shipper would be cheap-ish. Of course, after the zombie apocalypse there's no guarantee on prices remaining low.
I hope that someone who appreciates them gets involved.
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Mar 26, 2020 16:40:18 GMT
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I figured that as you are a well known SD1 devotee that this would be as good a place as any to post this link - ya know, just in case n all losangeles.craigslist.org/sfv/bar/d/canyon-country-1980-rover-3500-sd/7091570663.htmlTo future proof this post i.e. for when the Craigslist ad expires... it's two SD1s for sale just north of Los Angeles - $2,100 each. Both are 5-speed cars with the original engines and rust free bodies.
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Mar 26, 2020 16:31:46 GMT
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I've told you a million (3) times not to exaggerate...
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Rooting for Barney.
Good luck with your rather limited new world!
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Mate, so sorry to hear about the pup - it never rains but it pours. I think you and I share similar thoughts about our respective vets - we were fleeced to the tune of $1,700 - reassured the Emma would be fine and then... not so much. I thought they might have chucked in the cost of the cremation but, no... made all the more palatable when they tried to double bill me... miserable c*&^s We are in a state of "safer at home" - in other words the world's ninth largest economy is practically at a stand still. I am actually relieved that someone in power finally had the cojones to take decisive action. My missus works for a relatively well known museum, the name rhymes with flowers and it is in a city named in Spanish for Saint Anne - said museum has $20M in reserves - nonetheless the head of the museum and his CFO had the unmitigated cheek to ask my wife and her colleagues to "donate" their accrued holiday pay so that the museum could cover costs - what the actual flurk? I am currently self medicating with Guinness and whiskey. I went to the grocery store today to find the same as the rest of you in various parts of the world - did I miss something? Does this virus cause you to sh1t yourself to death? If not, what's the fascination with hoarding bog roll? This is obviously no laughing matter but what is wrong with people - I live in one of the largest consumer economies in the world and I can't buy bottled water, eggs, butter or bog roll. Tomorrow I intend to go to LA and spend some time with some friends working on the Country Squire and my mate's Olds Cutlass - perhaps when I wake in the morning this will all have been a bad dream. All the best to you and yours George - and to everyone out there, stay sane and safe.
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Mar 18, 2020 16:39:48 GMT
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I think that Orange County has taken a leadership initiative course run by the same people in charge of your manor George. Yesterday, the Health Department issued a press release that clearly, and unequivocally ordered all non-essential businesses to close. Today, they have issued another press release telling us that it didn't say what it absolutely said and that we are responsible for fully reading and understanding the Health Care Order... then it went on to say that the original order was confusing and they didn't mean it to mean what it meant and that they would issue another order later... *sigh* These are the people we are trusting with our lives... I think I can safely say, having read George's thread, that I am beginning to understand what life in the Philippines is like... it's more confusing in the Philippines everywhere
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Internal flights aren't affected at this time - at least, not to my knowledge.
Here is what the orangutan-in-chief responded when asked about a domestic travel ban:
"We’re not really. We hope we don’t have to. We think that hopefully, we won’t have to do that. But it’s certainly something we talk about every day. We haven’t made that decision"
I tried running it through Google translate but it seems moron isn't a supported language at the moment.
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Last Edit: Mar 18, 2020 6:34:59 GMT by wildrover
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Good dog news is always good news!
As predicted, all businesses in Orange County are now closed unless they are considered essential - just waiting for that shoe to drop in Los Angeles county now.
We have had the usual panic run on the supermarkets - so Monday shopping was a bit bleak. We have an order for delivery that is scheduled for next Monday... actually the missus thought it was for this week until she waited in vain before finally checking! Hopefully our full order will be fulfilled.
The hotels here have been less considerate - guests have been given a few days but then they must get the flock outta Dodge. Nevada has issued an order closing all the casinos... that's 440 major resorts.
Interesting times indeed.
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George, hopefully things don't get too bad for you in confusion central - as it stands sh1t's getting real here at the moment... all six counties in the San Francisco Bay area are on "shelter-in-place"; it hasn't happened down here yet but, all bars (steady there George) are closed, all restaurants are closed except for take away and delivery and I suspect it won't be long until the whole state is under a shelter-in-place order.
Please keep us in your thoughts as I am down to my last two cans of Guinness...
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Mar 13, 2020 17:46:26 GMT
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A State of Calamity - wow! They don't mince words do they? We are merely operating under a State of Emergency - I feel cheated now that I know there is a whole other level out there...
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Fun fact - I right clicked on the pictures and they opened in a separate page. Now that they have been opened/viewed they appear in your post as if they had always been there. I don't know why... I just know that it is currently working for me in Firefox.
And..... now they've gone again...
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Last Edit: Mar 3, 2020 21:09:12 GMT by wildrover
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So, so sorry George - you are made of sterner stuff than me. Here's hoping that the worst is now over for you and your pack.
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Feb 25, 2020 18:45:58 GMT
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Thanks for the good thoughts - they are very much appreciated. georgeb I was really bummed to see your latest update on your pack - here's wishing the rest a full and speedy recovery. rblote thank you westbay yes, it really was. eurogranada thanks Alex - I love your build, keep up the sterling work. The photo of Emma above was taken at the adoption event in July 2009 - she was recovering from a broken leg. In spite of her early injury she always moved at light speed. When walking her she would pull like a sled dog - we tried everything to get this to stop... if you pulled her back she would stop, rock back on her haunches and pull harder! After years of trying we just gave up and accepted that it was just Emma being Emma. Ironically, she came to us with an injured leg, and eleven years later she left us with that same leg injured. Our thoughts are now focused on our other dog, Nelson. We got him at the same adoption event - I went down intending to adopt Emma, but after meeting Nelson there I had to call home and explain that there would now be two dogs! On the one hand Nelson seems fine - on the other, he is clearly a little lost. Nelson avoids going down the hallway where I found Emma - if he has to, he will sprint down it, but he always hugs the wall to avoid the spot where Emma lay. Generally he will go out the dog door in the back room and circle the house to come through the dog door in the living room. He no longer lies outside the bathroom when Lesley is getting ready for work - again, it was somewhere that Emma had been on her last night. Nelson has never spent any time alone in the past eleven years and he was never separated from Emma. I am a little worried as today I have to go out and he will be alone for the first time since we got him. I am sure he will cope - I know I am projecting my own feelings on to him, but that's the way these things go. On the car front... small progress has been made on the Country Squire - you are now able to open and close all doors from the inside and the outside. Progress is also being made on the power windows - the tailgate motor was rebuilt and now the glass goes up and down - it still needs some cleaning and lubrication of the regulator mechanism, but it works. The rear door windows also work well now. The problems lie with the front windows - this car has the power mini-vent window that opens first. It's a fussy system and is giving us fits. The vent window drops down first, followed by the main window - we can get this working, but, the track that holds the vent window in place has come away from the glass and is damaged. I have the correct primer and adhesive but the track is a little damaged. I have tried looking for replacements, but like so many, many things on this car they are very elusive. Several Fords, Lincolns and Mercurys of this era had the power mini-vent, but it seems, based on my research so far, that I need something from a Ford or Mercury from model years 73-75 - finding exactly what I need is proving challenging to say the least. Another issue I have encountered that surprised me is trying to locate mounting bolts for the power window motors. It seems that Ford in their infinite wisdom used a "trilobular" bolt - when you look at the bolt closely you can see that it has three flat-ish sides on the threads - and the threads do not match up with metric or imperial sizes. Just one more challenge.
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Feb 25, 2020 18:09:38 GMT
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George,
What a real shame - I read your first optimistic post and was glad to hear that all seemed to be going well, and then I saw your next update. You're a stronger man than me... I am still broken by the loss of our Emma. Good for you for doing whatever you can for these, and all the other, dogs you've taken in.
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Feb 21, 2020 17:45:39 GMT
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George,
As you know from my thread where you added a kind comment, we lost our Emma this week - I too am wondering if my money was more interesting to the vet than my little companion... he was a very good vet when we visited, but there are some questions I have that will never be answered. I also know I shouldn't go down this path for my own sanity.
I am so sorry for the loss of Toppy, I am fully aware of how this feels. To paraphrase your advice to me, remember all those happy memories you have. Our little furry mates are now at peace. From one side of the Pacific to the other, all the best.
Alan
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Feb 19, 2020 22:31:45 GMT
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I once heard it said that a dog will never break your heart, until, one day, they inevitably break your heart. That day was today. Emma had been diagnosed with severe pancreatitis, we were treating her and believed we saw some improvements. Over the weekend she went lame in her rear right leg - we put it down to an unrelated injury due to her weakened state - we took her to the vet and x-rays showed an inflammation of her knee - possibly confirming our theory. She had a fever, which was treated with a long lasting antibiotic. Once back home she showed tiny signs of improvement - she gobbled down a bowl of chopped up pork and she drank from the bowl that was placed beside her and refilled regularly. She was alert and responsive. Last night I found her on the floor at the foot of the bed, all seemed normal. This morning, there was a damp patch on the carpet by the bedroom door - I wasn't upset as she had trouble walking and I would rather she had an accident than drag herself outside. Emma was lying in the hall, sound asleep... at least that's what I thought. I went down to wake her and greet her... although she was there, she had gone. Emma lived her life at 110 miles an hour - this last 10 days has been hell for Lesley and me; we have taken it in turns to be with her so that she always had someone around. Poor Nelson, whom we adopted the same week in 2009 is confused by the absence of his lifelong companion. We are all devastated. I know that we are real softies when it comes to dogs, and I know that not everyone feels this way - that's okay, I don't expect everyone to feel the way we do. For those that understand, they know. You are missed Emma...
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Last Edit: Feb 19, 2020 22:33:29 GMT by wildrover
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Did get a quote today for insurance, comes back as a regular use car, 3000 mile limited policy fully comp with breakdown cover etc for $86 a month, which is actually really very good for here. Set of go no go feeler gauges should be here tomorrow so I can do the tappets with those. Phil Yikes mate - I know a lot of other things are cheaper in your neck, but that is significantly higher than my Country Squire - I can't remember the numbers you mentioned before but, did you go through Hagerty? I have comp/collision, uninsured/under-insured motorist, and 100/300, plus breakdown etc., I can drive 6,000 miles p/a and I have an agreed value of $10,000 all for $160 a year - frankly if someone nicks it I am quids in. As with all insurances, you wonder what voodoo they use to come up with the premium... having said that, in your parish they probably do use voodoo..... I must check our local Auto Parts to see if the carry feeler gauges as you have got me wondering now.
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Feb 11, 2020 21:11:35 GMT
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Just saw a trailer for this documentary George and thought of you...
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