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  1. crankcall

    Pickup Trucks

    I shopped a bit for winter rims/ tires and at the end of the day the Toyota dealer had the best pricing . I was sort of shocked . Factory wheels and decent tires . I stopped doing steelies about two decades ago , they rust like heck in the first winter and just do not improve the look of any...
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    Pickup Trucks

    Lovely truck , congratulations !
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    🇪🇨 To the Jungle and Back Again

    I kicked a sea urchin snorkeling in Venezuala , went to a “walk in clinic” . Don’t do that . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Vendee Globe and other sailing around the world

    Sailing has a lot of obscure rules , that is not one of them . DSQd boat was running an asymmetric spinnaker which tacks to the centerline of the boat and used a pole , new winner was using a conventional spinakker so pole is allowed. Bit unusual for the race committee to file protest but in...
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    🇪🇨 To the Jungle and Back Again

    We were deep into the jungle in Venezuela years ago ( when it was just a little crazy ) . The rainforest is quite incredible. Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Off the road

    Same issue happened to friends daughter , new driver forced off road , OPP consider it a new driver mistake , she clipped a tree rather than the truck , she gets charged with careless driving . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Pickup Trucks

    By the time Aspen / Volare came around trying to modernize the slant six was a failing ordeal . I’d forgotten the ballast resistor thing , we had a white ceramic brick in every car . Pops had a fondness for Mopar for a while . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Pickup Trucks

    Dodge made one of the best inline six in history, two twenty five sideways slant hemi . In our half ton farm truck with the three speed manual it was newish when I could reach the pedals and still running when I left home . Then they stopped making that engine . Sent from my iPhone using...
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    Off the road

    Might also depend on your broker and the relationship you may have . We have had the same Gal at three different companies ( we follow her) . I can get “off the record “ conversations with her that leaves no paper trail . Many of the new style mega brokers where your call may be recorded for...
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    Vendee Globe and other sailing around the world

    Both really , the hundred ft maxi yachts are built to a “guideline “ rule and in a short distance race when geographic features are in play you can go inshore or further out but you have to make sure you can get back on the course line without sailing too many miles extra . They all have pretty...
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    Vendee Globe and other sailing around the world

    Top three boats finishing within miles of each other after six hundred miles of racing is crazy . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Pickup Trucks

    The only extended warranty I would consider is drivetrain . It’s a sixteen K engine or six k transmission that would make me think . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Portable solar chargers for phones laptops ect

    Phones are much easier than laptops , phones are almost always USB while the laptop needs to get to whatever voltage the laptop needs , which depending on who made the laptop twelve to twenty four volts so for ease of life you need to use the transformer that comes with the laptop , go from DC...
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    Vendee Globe and other sailing around the world

    Almost all the foilers are in Europe with the transacts and the Caribbean six hundred gearing up . No time to be in Hobart. Wild Thing , the hundred footers is now out , rudder and rigging problems. Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    Vendee Globe and other sailing around the world

    Conditions aren’t “quite” as rough as media is portraying it . Twenty five kts and miserable sea state , which is every year . Lot of boats reporting sea sick sailors , which is also every year . The hundred footers have a huge lead , and advantage, they don’t bounce like the forties . Sent...
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    Portable solar chargers for phones laptops ect

    Most solar panels are too big for a tank bag . The Sail store sells small flexible panels but the output is pretty low , CTC also has a small trickle charger about eight in by twelve , rigid solar panel but the output is pretty low. You may do better with a small lithium power pack , I have a...
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    Nakatomi Plaza

    God bless Sgt. Al ! Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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    COVID and the housing market

    Many new Canadians and also Old Canadians in business for themselves , or those recently separated without a separation agreement can struggle to qualify for a conventional mortgage . These are often folks that will work hard and pay the mortgage ( sometimes early) . It’s the guy that has two...
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    We Know you Ride, But do you Shoot?

    My current Nieghbour is retired TO police, he was in the special unit to keep an eye on the TO Police service . Own radio channels , phone lines with security against taps , almost a rogue agency things in TO in w seventies and eighties were that bad . Sad to see they still don’t get it . Sent...
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    COVID and the housing market

    The “mortgage finder” guys with catchy ads are about one step up from the payday loan guys . They exist because there is a market , it’s sleazy, but desperate people do unfortunate things . Sent from my iPhone using GTAMotorcycle.com
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