Fox Talk Changes
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Do we know you?
I still have a higher message count than you, punk!
BTW, did I know you were from Indiana? Why have we never met up?
It's probably for the better, I remember when you were working on that- I was just about to go through a big career change and I wouldn't have had the time.
Honestly I still don't have the time but I just missed you guys... so... much.
mikestang63
SN Certified Technician
Me too, man. I haven't been here much, but we kinda showed up at the same time. I do miss the Mustang camaraderie. Kinda wish you guys were all local and we had a Mustang club or a beer joint to hang out at togetherI might be able to hang around for a while with all this newfound enthusiasm I'm feeling about the car. Haven't been this excited in years. My timeline's been crazy:
Nov 2006 - car blew up after I turned the boost up too much
Feb 2007 to Fort Drum, NY to become a Platoon Leader
Sep 2007 to Iraq - dropped car at Dayton 50 Performance
Oct 2008 back to NY
Feb 2009 to GA - picked up car with a mess of problems
Aug '09 to Ranger school
Dec '09 to Germany and then a brutal year in train up w/o time to enjoy Europe - couldn't bring car with, so it stayed at the family farm
Dec '10 to Afghanistan
Nov '11 back to Germany to Command an Infantry Company
Jul '12 to the other side of Germany in a new unit where I finally had 2 years, but they were rough and unstable in other ways due to the Army draw down
Jul '14 out of regular army and into reserves, new company command (stressful job), civilian job hunting, finally got to do a little on the car (tinkering and Team-Z)
Dec '15 to Dallas for a civilian job of 80hrs/wk - dropped off car at HPP Racing
May '16 to Fort Knox back on Active Duty (left car at performance shop in Dallas)
Dec '16 to VA for an Army intermediate school for officers
April 20th - I'll head back to Knox to sign out of my assigned unit. I'll pick up the car over memorial day weekend at the beginning of May
Jun '17, moving to California to attend college in Monterey for a Master's Degree
It looks like 15 moves of 4 months or more in almost 11 years, and that's not counting unit training exercises at each duty station. Makes me feel like not as much of a **** bag for not getting my car done or doing most of the work when I look at it like that. I felt as excited as I do right now when I came home from Iraq in 2009, only to be severely disappointed by the progress on my car. I have not been as excited about it in 8 years. I'm back to studying parts and combinations, reading about new tuning developments. I can't wait to get the car back. I know it's pretty much going straight into a body shop when I get to California, in order to prevent the spread of rust and to make it look good again. But, I think I'll get a few dry days that I can take it for a spin. I've got my fingers crossed that I'll get it back ready to go from this performance shop (HPP Racing). *fingers crossed*
If you haven't been told in a while, thank you very much for your service and keeping us safe> No one joins the military to become rich or famous, or have stability.
I have a soft spot for military personel so I'll say thanks too, and will do my best to keep you pumped up even if it's just to drive it accross country to kick me in the nuts, or buy you a hotdog from the 7eleven, whichever you prefer.
I had to leave many years ago for work reasons. I come back to a very different SN. I don't post much but I am on the forums a lot. I am an admin on two other sites and it can be overwhelming at times. Oh and ban noobz.
mikestang63
SN Certified Technician
no other board will take him...lol
Oh I don't know. With that mustache he was sporting...I can think of a few that would like to "take him"
I'm calling for a fact check on your comment.
You've been "where" for over 20 years?
Do you also get up at 3 AM and tweet out stupid junk too?
I've been hiding, I mean living in polk county for over 20 years
And whats a tweet?
And I drive my junk but I don't think it's stupid, ugly, yes, stupid no.
So I'm to understand that you live in Florida? I was thinking it was California for some reason.
My wifes mom lives in Ft Walton. She drives through Crestview regularly to see her when she is on that part of her monthly circuit. I have been to the Emerald Coast Cruise in twice now when it comes to Panama City myself,....And to think...
Somebody with a tow truck is only 250 miles away....What was I thinking calling for some flat bed when I have your snatch and grab only 5 hours away?
Forums in general are different these days. Today, FB groups are the hot ticket for that instant response factor, but the posts are lost to history and there is no search function. At least with a forum, a thread can be searched and pulled back up quite easily.
FB groups ask the same damn question every day.
Mikemikemikemike, I would gladly drive the 370 miles to Panama city and 'snatch' up the monster and give it a damage free ride home. Hell, I'd drive all the way to your home town to grab it even if it ran out of gas at the end of your driveway, wait right there, I'm on my way!
BTW, the term snatch truck, as I first heard it was from a friend from NY, so probably a Yankee term, growing up the cable/saddle types where called wreckers, I don't know it that name was to violent or just hard to spell so they became tow trucks, the term for my type of truck is self loader.
BTW, the term snatch truck, as I first heard it was from a friend from NY, so probably a Yankee term, growing up the cable/saddle types where called wreckers, I don't know it that name was to violent or just hard to spell so they became tow trucks, the term for my type of truck is self loader.
You two got hosed. Got my mod status for free.
Slacker! Get to work dammit!
You said, and I quote, "boobs are useless". Funny thing is, you still paid moderator dues.
Here at SN it's not bad, plenty of inside jokes, a mostly mature community, minimal drama... AFM, on the other hand... while it had it's good points, it mostly sucked. Don't know why I stuck around as a moderator there off-and-on for a decade.
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