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Story's a little vague. I learned just as much from your title as the article. :nono:

 

But I can say I'm not surprised. Those Tojo drivers are a weird bunch :jester:

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Those Tojo drivers are a weird bunch :jester:

They sure are. Last Thursday I was following a Prius on the interstate doing 85. I sure glad he was saving the enviroment, by driving in a conservable manner.

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60 or not, if some old fart did that my truck, he'd be on the ground knocked out.

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Damn tree huggers.

 

My wife has one of those. We also have a big block. The Prius is just a cheap utility rig we that is purely an around town rig. It gets better mileage than our Harley's. That is about it. Only time I hug a tree is when my chainsaw gets pinched in the cut or I'm trying to shake a spotted owl out for supper. We almost always had GM V8s and decided one gas miser would be sound economics. I probably always will have a GM V8 in the garage, but GM blows when it comes to little economy cars. They usually just repackage some Japanese components or worse yet attempt to do it on their own. Some day they may come up with a small, reliable car, but I haven't seen it yet. The closest they came was the Chevy II/Nova and they have only gone down hill since.

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Damn tree huggers.

 

My wife has one of those. We also have a big block. The Prius is just a cheap utility rig we that is purely an around town rig. It gets better mileage than our Harley's. That is about it. Only time I hug a tree is when my chainsaw gets pinched in the cut or I'm trying to shake a spotted owl out for supper. We almost always had GM V8s and decided one gas miser would be sound economics. I probably always will have a GM V8 in the garage, but GM blows when it comes to little economy cars. They usually just repackage some Japanese components or worse yet attempt to do it on their own. Some day they may come up with a small, reliable car, but I haven't seen it yet. The closest they came was the Chevy II/Nova and they have only gone down hill since.

 

 

I was in Australia 5 or 6 years ago, and had a picture of me taken with my arms around this huge tree to show how big it was. My 10 year old sister saw it, and called me a "tree hugging hippie." :jester: She called me that for months.

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Damn tree huggers.

 

My wife has one of those. We also have a big block. The Prius is just a cheap utility rig we that is purely an around town rig. It gets better mileage than our Harley's. That is about it. Only time I hug a tree is when my chainsaw gets pinched in the cut or I'm trying to shake a spotted owl out for supper. We almost always had GM V8s and decided one gas miser would be sound economics. I probably always will have a GM V8 in the garage, but GM blows when it comes to little economy cars. They usually just repackage some Japanese components or worse yet attempt to do it on their own. Some day they may come up with a small, reliable car, but I haven't seen it yet. The closest they came was the Chevy II/Nova and they have only gone down hill since.

 

 

I was in Australia 5 or 6 years ago, and had a picture of me taken with my arms around this huge tree to show how big it was. My 10 year old sister saw it, and called me a "tree hugging hippie." :jester: She called me that for months.

 

 

Here's my wife and daughter tree hugging. They we actually thanking the specie for supplying us with an outstanding redwood deck. Crap, file too big to upload pic.

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I'll take a page from Brain and say Prius' = FAIL :jester:

 

There is a guy here at work that drives a Prius.

 

And yes, I am pretty sure he is gay. If not, he sure talks like one. :nono:

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I'll take a page from Brain and say Prius' = FAIL :jester:

 

I'll tell you what. I'll let everyone the first time it has to go in for a defect or component failure. I don't like giving Japan money for their product, not at all, but also don't like giving Venezuela or Saudi Arabia money for their fuel. Like I said, I'll always have a GM in the garage, but this time I also have cheap transportation too.

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I'll take a page from Brain and say Prius' = FAIL :jester:

 

I'll tell you what. I'll let everyone the first time it has to go in for a defect or component failure. I don't like giving Japan money for their product, not at all, but also don't like giving Venezuela or Saudi Arabia money for their fuel. Like I said, I'll always have a GM in the garage, but this time I also have cheap transportation too.

 

 

It's OK Art, we still like you, no need to get defensive. But if you think we aren't going to rattle your cage about it, think again. Just ask Jim (Zembonez) about his Scion xB and the shit we give him about that. :nono:

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Some of y'all may remember the two incidents I had with a stupid Prius driver in Oregon last summer.

 

He thought he could dictate to others how fast they could drive.

 

Didn't work with me. :cheers::cheers::D

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