This is a great time of year to live in North Georgia. Cool nights and warm days. Don’t need the furnace or the AC.
Took the Z3 out to get the annual emissions check. Put the top down and took a long circuitous route to the emissions check place. Beautiful day to be driving a sports car with the top down. I got there and the emissions check failed due to an OBD communications problem. In other words, the emissions check computer couldn’t talk to my car’s computer. The dude told me to take my car to my mechanic and have the OBD system checked out. I told him to retry the test. He did. This time it worked. Geez. They’re computers. If they fail, you always do a retry.
Took the long way home as well and drove down Peachtree Industrial so I could open up the car a bit. I don’t drive this car near as much as I should. For example, it is a 2001 and I only have 53K miles on it.
It was a lovely fall day here in the central Commiefornia mountains as well. I broke out my 1973 Corvette convertible for a spin. It’s been parked for 2 months and I don’t want to flat spot my new white wall tires. Do you know how hard white walls are to find? I had to order them and wait three weeks to get them. It had to have them IMO.
My older Sister and late bro in law bought it new. 56,300 original miles.
I hope your drive was as terrific as mine was.
https://www.cokertire.com/tires/styles/whitewall-tires.html
Just gotta know where to look.
I got mine at a Goodyear shop down in the valley.
Thnx for the tip.
Yur welcome.
Agreed, that a two seat convertible and temperate weather are a fine combination. Here in south Florida, the top on my 120 Jag rarely ever goes up. It must be raining or its being parked outside somewhere far from home and is under a car cover.
The Jag will be exercised again tomorrow, now that the summer’s heat has abated a bit. Enjoy yourself Denny!
Emissions check. Chalk up another win for liberal bastions of America. Denny, it’s time you moved out to the country. We tell the state to “stuff it” when it comes to emissions checks.
OTOH, it did get Denny behind the wheel to go enjoy a beautiful day. Moving? Nah, it’s just as easy to exempt the Bimmer: http://www.cleanairforce.com/senior-instructions/
Thanks AD. I didn’t know that. I’ll have to remember that for next year. It will save me $25.
You’re welcome, Denny. Sorta figured you weren’t aware of the senior exemption. The smog racket is structured the same in all states. Back when Michigan had that scram going, the only people who didn’t get ripped off were the seniors who should’ve been exempted automatically but, could apply for exemption, and the poverty-leech hoodrats in Detoilet that don’t bother to pay for insurance on their ghetto-cruiser piles of shit anyway.
Back in St. Louis, it was not just pollution but mechanical as well. Of course, if you drove up to North St. Louis (or any part of the city with a large black population) you would see clunkers galore that you knew couldn’t pass any inspection. I had a friend or two who would pass me every year without looking at my car but they knew I kept my cars in good shape and they knew it was a racket anyway.
They’re computers. If they fail, you always do a retry.
I have it on authority that they are not computers. I just googled it and I cannot find any reference those “so called computers” to having keyboards, screens or even useful programs.
Stop spreading lies and misinformation. What? Do you think you’ve worked for IBM for many years or something?
Then, it must be a phone.
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BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I still owe my readers the story behind that.