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I never heard this story...This is right out of the Fidel Castro manual.
He was dead for, what, eight years?...before his "death" was announced. His double was unpersuasive - a willowy actor with a quick, innocent smile, so different from Fidel's career poker-face. Think back on what had happened - he'd had a large-intestine fissure, and physicians wanted to do a colostomy. He didn't want it - probably he thought he could still have a sex life.
So he went to some third-world clinic that promised they could sew the fissure up. Medical experts predicted a quick death of sepsis.
And the population was ready to launch a populist regime change; but CLINTOON wasn't ready to have his hero overthrown. So, with signalled support from Washingtoon, the farce began.
Now we're gonna have the same thing - Weekend at Bernie's in McConjob's office.
Who's the Asian?
Mitch's wife:Who's the Asian?
H'zs anybody here...I heard that he was last seen playing canasta with Maxine Waters, who hasn't been seen since March.
H'zs anybody here...
Seen my old friend Mitch?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He fleeced a lotta people, but only the good die young
Shoulda got more time, runnin' his con...
Hmmm.Hey Casey! You need to check out the latest post in the "Motorheads: Cars, Trucks, and Tractors" thread. I posted another one of those American cars that can't hit 200 mph again. This one is a doozie.
I remember the magazine article for the "new" Corvette. I think it was around 1984, give or take. The mileage stated was rather good, in the mid 20-s if I remember right. And the body changed from the old (shark?) that I hated to a newer and smoother style. But I was not going to buy their new car.The price of the 1955 Corvette was $2774. Today's money it works out to $33,275. A bit less than the current price.
I got one of my RX2 cars to go pretty close to that. And it cost me a lot less. Compared to the new Corvette, you might call that car "almost free".I suppose, if you're making a toy to sell to trust-fund babies to use on Track Day, you can gear it to get above 200 mph. Frankly, now, with all this turbocharged everything and ten-speed computer automatic transmissions, it seems MOST cars can get over 130.
That seems consistent with my RX2 cars. They had power for a short while, then the seals went. On the other hand, the Mazda transmissions were really nice. They were tight and slipped into gear quickly and easily. For what it's worth, changing a clutch was not too bad for a young guy (me) who could handle the transmission and its oil falling on my chest during the procedure.And according to what I've read and seen, from Scotty and Car Wizard and others...the newest cars are not making it to 80k miles total. Not before something proprietary and/or driveline-related, blows up.
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