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Old 01-06-2010, 01:17 PM
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-29 C here this morning.. XK8 fired straight up, no problem.

Who said a Jag is not a good winter car?

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Old 01-06-2010, 01:32 PM
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..that's what I like to hear!
 
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Old 01-06-2010, 01:57 PM
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Originally Posted by OregonJag
..that's what I like to hear!
The funny thing is that there have been a lot of AA cars here to help other cars. But the jag has fired straight up without any issues apart from the wheel bearing.

If you have a dry wheel bearing, I can promise you it breaks in no time when it is -29...

Cheers, Jarle
 
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Old 01-06-2010, 05:03 PM
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good on you
mine is as dead as a dodo
just turning over on the key and not firing at all
im getting a bit stressed now!
 
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Mother of god, it's pretty much always 75-80 degrees F here...
 
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Yeah, I can't imagine how hard it must be to contend with day to day life in truly cold weather. It's cold here in Florida right now....................but not compared to that!
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Old 01-07-2010, 06:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Brian2000XKR
Yeah, I can't imagine how hard it must be to contend with day to day life in truly cold weather. It's cold here in Florida right now....................but not compared to that!
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Brian, you stay mostly indoors When it's -10C only I grab my shorts and go out skiing

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Old 01-07-2010, 06:26 AM
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Got up to 36F yesterday and after a week in the teens and twenties felt almost balmy . . . . almost.
 
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Old 01-07-2010, 06:47 AM
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You definitely get spoiled when it's usually in the 75-95 degree range. I'm playing tennis today......................so I plan to bundle up!
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Originally Posted by test point
Got up to 36F yesterday and after a week in the teens and twenties felt almost balmy . . . . almost.
Yea, but you're getting snow tonight!!
 
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Old 01-07-2010, 02:09 PM
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Snow? What's this "snow" you speak of?
 
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It is expanded crystaline water (six points only) and it makes your little lizzards fall out of the trees and your snow birds go home.
 
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Originally Posted by RJAG
It is expanded crystaline water (six points only) and it makes your little lizzards fall out of the trees and your snow birds go home.

So does it look like this? and cause all you poor, freezing, people to look like this?
'Cause ya know. It's a bit more like this....here


I just can't help myself. I grew up on a farm in New England. I froze my b@lls off before the sun came up shoveling horse **** for 17 years. When I left, gas was 88c a gallon and it was ten below zero.

To the OP it may be 20 below, but at least your jag runs. That's more than I can say
 

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Old 01-07-2010, 08:14 PM
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I'm sorry, you cannot use the rabbit with the pancake on its head.

Matt (Captain Kirk) presented it to me some time ago for an extraordinarily brilliant post.
 
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Damn! Oh well....I am slighted again. :/
 
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You boys need to play well together!
 
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I tried the "Pancake on the Head" trick with my Dwarf Netherlands Rabbit, he liked it.........................and ate the pancake! He is a seriously cute little guy...
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Originally Posted by Brian2000XKR
I tried the "Pancake on the Head" trick with my Dwarf Netherlands Rabbit, he liked it.........................and ate the pancake! He is a seriously cute little guy...
Brian
I see a bunny, but no pancake


Pics, or it didn't happen!
 
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Originally Posted by viscoussquirrel
I see a bunny, but no pancake
Pics, or it didn't happen!
... challenge issued, will there be acceptance?
 
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Old 01-08-2010, 03:12 PM
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Pancake? I didn’t see any pancake! What pancake? What!
 


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