1st Gen Lunchtable Thread - General Discussion

I'm good at picking out cop cars, but the Tahoe's are innumerable around here so if I have one in my sights behind me it is still 110% there is one in front too. We have a lot of night patrols here.

 

It was night time and I had this weird feeling about the car driving behind me. I couldn't make it out since it was so dark. Something in my brain made me suspicious of it being a police car. It was, I saw it overtake me and speed away.

You know that feeling that you're being watched? That's exactly what I felt. It was surreal.

 

This last one I was pretty sure wasn't one, so I did my pull (i guess it was only 5 over in 55 anyway), slowed down and then he pulled up next to me and I was like :/

 

I use to do work with the El Cerrito police department so i got pretty good at tell if a car was a cop or not.

 

I waited till the last minute to take my second SAT and the only place within a 20 mile radius of my city that had an open spot was El Cerrito HS.

Nice place, but the parking there sucks. I had to park three blocks away and park in front of someone’s house.

 

What I figured out when I was towing my Toolbox home on that flat bed trailer was that backing up a trailer is hard.

Seriously. This video perfectly embodies how I looked like trying to re-position it in the parking space when I tried dropping it off again.



I gave up and just tried lifting it and positioning it by hand. Surprisingly it was light enough that I could move it myself without using the truck.

 

It's hard if you've never done it before. I worked at a boat yard for a summer and got damn good at backing trailers into all sorts of spaces. Backing my trailer with the cruiser sucks because I don't have much visibility and it's a dual axle so tight turns basically drags it but even then I can get it in a tight spot well enough, have to back it into my tiny garage every once in a while. Practice make perfect. When you get it going the direction you need it to you chase it and it'll keep going that way, but if you hold steady it'll turn more. I think that pisses people off the most when they're new.

 

It takes some getting used to, I’ll say that.

I’m tempted to buy a dinghy tow hitch for my 5-lug and just flat tow it with my PreRunner. Insurance will suck on it so I might as well use it as a track car, lol.

What’s nice about towing something is the insurance of the tow vehicle usually carries over to the object-in-tow as well.

You can flat tow Manual trucks, right? I would assume you can just throw it in Neutral and not worry about it.

The driveshaft would still spin I suppose.

 

Nope counter shaft still spins, should pull the DS if you flat tow.

 

Meh. Honestly I just want the excuse to flat tow the 5-lug just because of how ridiculous it would look.

 

Love old Baja bugs, great combination of vintage and off roading. Debated on buying one in the past

 

Yeah there is no parking at that school. But thats where i went to school lol, mater in fact that is where mt parents went to school too..lol

 

@BartMaster1234 hpw pretty are your welds? Lol

 

I forgot he is still probably asleep till like 12...

 

Im usally up by 8 everyday because i dont need to be at work till 10:30. But i can wake up earlier if i need to that day no problem.

But when i was going to school yeah i was waking up at 05:00 everyday no problem.

Granted i also have a caffeine addiction now from the 2 red bull a day thing i do...

 

Hey @Speedytech7 if i give you 300$ wanna rebuild and re charge the SOA lol. Because ik if i buy them they will sit here forever till I decide oneday to rebuild them or sell them

 

I don't have a nitro rig to charge shocks, it'll be a lot cheaper to reseal them yourself. Then a motorcycle shop can usually charge em

 

Back to the real world...

 

How was living in a van down by the river?

 

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