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    A Sucker Punch From Your Neighbour/Friend? (US/Canada Trade War)

    Was that MTG saying that?
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    billy bob and the trooper.

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    Nice cars other than x-fire

    Fair amount of these 3 wheelers around here. Most common is the T-REX model
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    billy bob and the trooper.

    I hope you salted it!
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    billy bob and the trooper.

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    Nice cars other than x-fire

    The Mustang II is the Mustang nobody wants to talk about. Built from 1974 to 1978 on a Pinto platform during the oil crisis, it was smaller, slower, and more sensible than anything the Mustang name had ever been attached to. Most came with four-cylinder or V6 engines. The performance crowd moved...
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    Nice cars other than x-fire

    The 1969 Mustang was a different animal. Bigger than its predecessors, wider, more aggressive. The days of being a rebodied Falcon were gone. This was a purpose-built muscle car that couldn't be confused for anything else. Scalloped outboard headlights, an open-mouth grille, and new dual...
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    Nice cars other than x-fire

    Ford made the right call in 1964. The Mustang was a four-seater, not a two-seater. That decision opened the car to young families, commuters, and people who needed a back seat even if nobody sat in it very often. It defined the pony car category and separated the Mustang from the Corvette. The...
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    Nice cars other than x-fire

    The 1967 Ford Mach 2 was a mid-engine, two-seat GT based on a production Mustang floor pan. Read that sentence again. Ford took a 1967 Mustang convertible, chose it specifically for its reinforced rocker sills, cut it apart, installed a small-block V8 and a ZF four-speed transaxle behind the...
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    Anyone Else Fascinated By Old Locomotives?

    Hudson locomotive, on turntable, at Smiths Falls, 1958
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    the FOOD FOR THOUGHT thread

    Academic degrees signal training in a system of methods, not possession of truth. A doctorate in theology demonstrates fluency in doctrinal history, linguistic interpretation, bullshitology and philosophical argumentation within a defined tradition. It does not, by itself, establish the...
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