What did you do WITH your Ranger today?

[TBR17]

And a very good reason to avoid at all costs anything downtown PC!!!

You ain't kiddin......250k people occupancy. Too windy to boat this weekend and rain Saturday so I think some overlanding in the Ocala National Forest is in order.

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[VoodooRanger]

Took an impromptu late night trip out to the levee last night. Luckily the no-see-um kept all the mosquitos from eating me alive.

 

[Fawnbuster]

Wife and I drove onto the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the new single dose covid vaccine, it's a safer alternative for her immune system. Post a couple of pics and if I am lucky I can upload a short video clip.

 

[DukeCanBuildit]

Wife and I drove onto the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the new single dose covid vaccine, it's a safer alternative for her immune system. Post a couple of pics and if I am lucky I can upload a short video clip.

So cool Mike - I’m very happy for you and your wife. Drive the speedway AND get a vaccine - it doesn’t get much better than that. ?

 

[Fawnbuster]

So cool Mike - I’m very happy for you and your wife. Drive the speedway AND get a vaccine - it doesn’t get much better than that. ?

Thanks Duke!

 

[Fawnbuster]

Why do they have flying saucers for ceiling lights? ?

Cuz they had to back-engineer the small alien crafts lol

 

[Fawnbuster]

I can dig that.
Got gas at Costco this morning and it had gone up to $2.77 for 91 octane
Pretty sure it was just $2.55 a little over a week ago at last fill up.

Ya I got .50 off premium at Kroger yesterday and today regular is up to where premium was. Thanks new govt...

 

[Fawnbuster]

I have a noise cancelling headset I wear while shooting. When I first got them it drove me crazy hearing all the crunching from just walking. There is a volume control so I keep it at its lowest setting. You can hear every little thing with those I can't imagine wearing a hearing aid everyday. I know it's better than not hearing but is there a volume control of these?

2 of my brothers in law got new hearing aids last year and they have a Bluetooth app that let's them adjust all of the settings at will.

 

[Cabose-1]

Small dead tree that froze to death at my parents house.

 

[gfitzge2]

Wife and I drove onto the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the new single dose covid vaccine, it's a safer alternative for her immune system. Post a couple of pics and if I am lucky I can upload a short video clip.

I saw that on the news. Wow!!! Thats awesome. Driving down pit lane at Indy. Did I see that they actually gave the shots in the garage area? Glad you got your shots.

I had been to every 500 since 1987. Even went back on the rain delayed ones. Of course that was until 2020. The only consolation is that almost no one else got attend.

I got my second shot a week ago Thursday and I am so looking forward to this years race. I hope I can get all 4 of my tickets in the South west vista deck.

 

[Salty.Ranger]

Finally did some ForScan stuffs. Disabled Auto Start/Stop, Bambi Mode, messed with the DRL settings, no more chimes, changed splash screen, and best of all corrected my speedometer

 

[Jms81661]

I do this every weekend.

 

[gfitzge2]

Hi Duke,

There was a Titan Silo outside my grand parent's house in Conway Springs Kansas...Population 600. The one here in Green Valley it is amazing that it is still classified where in the world this missile was aimed.....Mum is the word.... Dido for the Conway Springs Missile and this silo was blown up and filled in.... Titan Missile was interesting in that the fuel was hypergolic. The twin tanks of fuel when mixed self ignited...no spark required.

As I recall, Titan was used on the Gemini spacecraft...very dangerous during the "space race"...Astronauts sure had guts....

Best,
Phil Schilke
Ranger Vehicle Engineering
Ford Motor Co. Retired

Here is some missile control equipment with a Ford tie in. At one time Ford owned Philco. One of the things they made was missile launch control systems. In 1969 when the Kentucky Truck Plant was built, they used one of their missile controls to monitor and control some of the plant equipment. State of the art at the time. The "programming" was on a punched tape that you see at the bottom . I salvaged the operator panel when it was decommissioned and hung it in our training center.Some joker put the Apollo 13 on the top.

 

[Tracy Bowman]

Hi Folk,

When In Tucson...a great place to visit.

Where it all stated

Now!

Sammy Dog. Special bun from Magdalena Mexico, daily. Two bacon wrapped hotdogs with all the trimmings. Watch out for the Jalapeno on the side....Hot, Hot, Hot.

Best,
Phil Schilke
Ranger Vehicle Engineering
Ford Motor Co.. Retired

Boy, that looks good!

 

[Fawnbuster]

I saw that on the news. Wow!!! Thats awesome. Driving down pit lane at Indy. Did I see that they actually gave the shots in the garage area? Glad you got your shots.

I had been to every 500 since 1987. Even went back on the rain delayed ones. Of course that was until 2020. The only consolation is that almost no one else got attend.

I got my second shot a week ago Thursday and I am so looking forward to this years race. I hope I can get all 4 of my tickets in the South west vista deck.

Yep we came in off 16th Street in front of the museum and then they directed us thru an actual garage , stopped on gasoline alley under the sign, got our shots there then drove down pit lane to the gravel lot next to the hospital to wait 15 minutes to make sure there wasn't a bad reaction. Gave us a half off coupon to get into the museum but it's only valid this weekend, not sure if we will go. There doing the shots from Friday thru Monday, they have it running like clockwork , we came in and left in less than 30 minutes, they are vaccinating 14,000 people there Fri-Mon. Governor drove thru Friday. Having everyone pre registered in advance helped alot.

That's the 3rd vehicle I've had the honor of driving there, a mustang at an outing and twice in an advanced Evo instructor course. I have an in car video of that somewhere, if you dropped below 100mph anywhere on the track you failed the entire week. Doing emergency lane changes in curves and straightaways and evasive maneuvers.

My unmarked crown vic did fine, never hit the brake, scrubbed off the speed in the turns due to tires and suspension. I had a Vascar unit in my car and from being stopped, leaving pits, taking 4 laps and coming back and stopping at the same spot my average speed was only 111 mph, darn governors!!

Guy who had the fastest elapsed time was an undercover excise officer who was driving a full-time 4x4 jeep Cherokee, his stiff suspension meant he never lost speed in the corners, his lap average was 120+.
Ill have to see if I can find a picture.

https://www.wishtv.com/news/coronav...-vaccinations-at-indianapolis-motor-speedway/

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