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The sound, and the bark when I shift....'69 jag sounds great going through the gears. But it is a weekend dry weather car, and not really for moving people around - just for me to enjoy by my lonesome with out any of the newer tracking devices... Leave my phone at home, stay out of Flock's way, and it is ... almost like back when I used to get in a car and go. Nobody knows where I am until I tell them.....damn wish I could do that more often!

Awesome OUC

"Democracy Dies in Darkness"
It doesn't get any darker than WoPo

Seems Wrong . . .??? Correction: IS Wrong.
Invasion of privacy,
unjustified search
assumption of guilt
Guilty until proven innocent....

There's nothing ambiguous about this issue.

I'm a stereo snob, that Harman Kardon was the nicest rig I've had in a new car.
In fact, it was the only stock radio I never ripped out to satisfy my insatiable appetite for good tunes.

LoL.
Back in 2004 and '05, the "S" model was only available with a 6-speed stick. The top two gears were overdrive!
The first three years '02 to 05', the base model offered an automatic. A CVT, a pitiful dog of a thing. The stick was a respectable 5-speed, with 5th gear being overdrive.

Different animal altogether.
Corvettes are supercars: large, bulky purpose built race cars that require a closed track to truly explore it's limits.
Mini Coppers (especially the early models) are are affordable pocket rockets. Toss-able little cars that are just a hoot to push hard.
I owned a 2004 Copper S (all the options).
This was the car with the Supercharger.
Only available for '04 & '05
Fitted with 40 series Michelin Pilot Sport A/S 3+, this handled like a go cart that would do 142.mph. 75 mph on a 25 mph off-ramp without drama (except for the poor passengers)
The later models got bloated, heavy and cramped inside. The turbo model drove nothing like the Supercharger.
Almost bought a new one after 15 years, but one test drive and the wife and I were totally put-off.

It's floor pan is a BMW X1.
We bought the X1 instead because of it's interior was more suited to how the car actually drove: confident, but sedated. Comfortable without the pretense of performance. Hint: very little.
Don't get me wrong, it can get out of it's own way. 230 hp and a top speed of 132mph it is not slug.
Unlike the early Coopers, it doesn't beg you to run it through the gears and trash it hard.

As a 32rd Scottish Rite and York Rite Mason, I think I can shed a little light for the uninitiated.

Besides the benefit of like-minded brothers who want comradely, people they could trust implicitly, most especially in bad times, Masonry was, and is, a rock solid standard by which men lived up to.
Today it functions much like a networking system.

"Masonry makes good men better"

Before the days of life & health insurance, pensions and such, if the man of the house passed away way too soon, the widow and orphans often suffered greatly.

In a tradition that stills live today, widows and orphans are taken care of like the members of family that they are.

As in all of life in this world, there will always be deceitful, greedy, unbrotherly and downright nasty people within the Brotherhood. Ask me how I know.

An issue has sullied the image of Freemasonry over the centuries is the very real existence of the Illuminate founded in Bavaria, 1776 by Adam Weishaupt and more than a few Masonic Brethren.

This was, by all honest examination, one of the first real attempt at establishing a one world government/new world order control.

Once it's true nature and purpose started becoming clear, the Bavarian government outlawed it, followed by most of the western nations.
In a little known fact, the Grand Master of Freemasonry in the newly formed united states, George Washington, quite the Fraternity in protest, never to return.

The Illuminate did not go away. It went underground.

When JFK spoke of his abhorrence of "Secret Societies" he was not talking about your local Masonic lodge doing Red Cross Blood blood drives and Saturday breakfasts, he was referring to such groups as Scull and Bones, Club of Rome, CFR, Trilateral Commission, the City of London, and yes, the present incarnation of the Illuminate (or what ever they refer to themselves today)

There is true evil that is ever-present in our world today. Forces that work tirelessly to destroy the American Middle Class, Christianity, our national Sovereignty and enslave us both physically and financially through inflation, debt and endless wars.
Not just here in America, but the world over.

These same forces lie, officiate, indoctrinate, and propagandize the masses through false narratives of racial, social and economic division.

Your fellow man (and women) has much more in common with you than the main stream media, hollywierd, tv, liberal academics, or our so-called "leaders" in Washington.

Take a deep breath. Trust your gut.
If it doesn't sound right, it most likely isn't.

As Mark Twain said: "Don't trust anything you read, and only half of what you see"

everything made me smile, enjoy the wonderful moments...

I have a Ranger too! 2004. Automatic because I just didn’t find a good manual one, and I may plow with it.

Electric make financial sense for us. Our power is cheap for the area, and the rate is much lower anytime but 4pm-8pm, when it is 5x. If we just charge outside this, we drive for ridiculously low cost, and I never drive more than 150 miles.

Busted out laughing on that one. MENU from A-Z.
Smoked American bison tenderloin to slow cooked Zebu with eye of Newt as an appetizer.

I live for the sound, it guides my driving, always been a back roads man and never met a corner I didn't like and standard shift is a big part of that.
The only reason my Ranger is automatic is because with DeWALT, I was always on the highway in traffic.
But in completing my reaction, I'll never be an electric guy, quick? yea, but no fun.

Fantastic set … I never thought truth would be so funny and liberals so deluded. ThanQ brother . Hope you and Linda are well. BTW you in the post apocalypse , dealing memes look Q uite dashing!!!

Another surviving remnant of the fall of Nazi Germany was the Muslim Brotherhood. Formed in 1928, they formed an immediate alliance with Hitler, who financed much of the Muslim Brotherhood with the assets confiscated from Jews, who met their fates in the concentration camps.

After WW2, the Muslim Brotherhood received much of their funding from Saudi Arabia. On the run for war crimes and also getting purged from their stronghold in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood was eventually rounded up by British Intelligence, who handed them over to the CIA.

The CIA, formed after WW2, did not present the Muslim Brotherhood for war crimes. Instead, they sent many of them off to Saudi Arabia, where they became deeply embedded within the nation, particularly in the schools. There they forged the Islamo-Fascist religion known as Wahhabism.

Other members of the Brotherhood set up an underground base in Germany from which they would operate internationally.

It is claimed the Muslim Brotherhood provided humanity with the ‘benefits’ of Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, Al Baghdadi, Hamas, Al Qaeda, ISIS and possibly even Iran, with all the wars and terror that has come with its regime.

It is claimed that Hillary Clinton’s top aide, Huma Abedin, is from a family with very close ties to the upper echelon of the Muslim Brotherhood. It is claimed that Obama may have had his Harvard Law degree financed by Al Waleed Bin Talal – one of the richest Saudis in the world. It is claimed that ex-CIA director John Brennan, may have converted to Wahhabism.

The origins, or perhaps “the oranges”, of the CIA may have had dubious ties to international fascism and exceptionally close ties to Nazi Germany. Notably, GHWB’s father, Prescott Bush, had his company’s assets seized in 1942 under the “Trading with the Enemy Act” for effecting banking for the Nazi regime. What was the sentence for this crime? GHWB became CIA director. The same CIA that let the Muslim Brotherhood, or the Islamic chapter of the Nazis, thrive in Saudi Arabia and Germany.

Since 1945 the world has not stopped suffering under the Kaiser’s decisions in 1917. Communism would never have spread to China and beyond if it was not for the stronghold it managed to gain in Russia. Mao Zedong, Pol Pot and many other monsters would not have been born into authority.

We may not have seen radical Islam and its terror attacks; the War on Terror; the rise and rise of Government through massive taxation; the rise of the super-global corporations which are larger than nations. This all led to the 100-year march of the central bank, placing the world into a debt trap that would place nations into debt servitude for generations to come. The Prussians were not gone; they were just invisible.

The world was in a war so insidious, that it was impossible to detect. The world was being attacked by a strategy so ambitious and with such a deadly intent, that it is impossible to believe. The world was being attacked by an enemy that no longer used geography as the battlefield, but psychology.

This was an enemy that made us think we had won the battles, so that they could win the War. This is the Horrible Invisible Enemy.

Cool names. We have three labs. Two fox red labs and one black lab service dog. Most of my cars are manuals, but they are getting hard to find now. Soon will be gone.
I think my next car will be electric anyway. My son has a Tesla Model 3, and that thing will smoke any of my cars, but my Lotus 7 would probably take it on the track with enough curves. The self driving is amazing. Elon has this done way better than the others. No comparison

Excelent, I'm having so much fun just shiftin the thing.
Here's somethin funny, we have a little Maltese we named Mini and today a couple that bought one of our pups some years ago brought him back home to say goodby to me, they are moving to Vegas; his name is Cooper, he's Mini's brother

They also wanted to see my new Mini Cooper and hadn't thought of the connection between it and the dogs . . . .

By George, I think you've got it

Standard! Putting an automatic transmission on a little thing like that is like putting a muzzle on a hamster.

The mosquito trap is a typical democrat solution to a perceived problem. Much too big (waste of resources) and all the wrong items to boot. Mosquitos like blood. Tie Kamala up with her neck and arms exposed and the mosquitos will get drunk and fall out of the sky.

Speed and Handling reminds me of my first early Datsun 240Zs from 72 on.
It drives quiet (until you step on it) and comfortable, quests are quite impressed with it. Everybody loves the double sun roof, the 4 bucket seats and the Stereo (Harman Kardon)

Standard or automatic?

And what's wrong with that? As Libertarians don't we believe in the freemarket? They should be allowed to spend their money on whatever commodities they desire.

My wife has a Mini S convertible. Great little car, but she never drives it anymore. I take it out sometimes.

(1) Trump definitely isn't needed to do that.
(2) That meme gives Socialism too much credit. Even non-bongo-playing monkeys would earn the same amount of money as Taylor Swift.

Thanks, as always, OUC!

United Nations = Usless Nations