Mike Powell wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

Me, I sell car parts at AutoZone amd cuss the kiddies at the home office
who constantly futz with the OS (in Linux) the we use on the terminals
at the counter. I really hate it when I try to access something that
used to was easy to get to and has been buried under layers of menus
and steps. Or hidden entirely and must be accessed by opening another program - like the catalogs for lawnmowers/garden tractors aor ATVs
and motorcycles/scooters or the Heavy Truck stuff.

If AutoZone sells any of those "fart pipe" tailpipes, I hope you are
not selling them to the kiddies who decide it is cool to put one on a Mustang.

What are you calling a "fart pipe"? I'm not familiar with that usage.

We sell glass packs and headers and some "speed shop" stuff. The "speed" equipment doesn't move very well. And most of the glass packs are sold as replacements for resonators or mufflers that are *expensaive* in direct replacement configurations. And catalytic converters? Fuggitaboudit

This newer generation really needs someone to teach them about
glasspacks and to kick their asses for doing stupid stuff to their pony cars.

'Druther they do stupid stuff TO their cars than WITH their cars. But,
They'll live and learn - or they won't live long. Like the three guys
riding crotch rockets that passed me on their back wheels like a pay
wagon passing a tramp. I was on the interstate goinf 10 over the limit
when these three, standing on their pegs and riding the wheelie passed
in the hammer lane at at least 30 mph faster than I was going. YIKES!

It takes very litte to make a situation like that go sideways.



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Me, I sell car parts at AutoZone amd cuss the kiddies at the home office who constantly futz with the OS (in Linux) the we use on the terminals
at the counter. I really hate it when I try to access something that
used to was easy to get to and has been buried under layers of menus
and steps. Or hidden entirely and must be accessed by opening another program - like the catalogs for lawnmowers/garden tractors aor ATVs
and motorcycles/scooters or the Heavy Truck stuff.

If AutoZone sells any of those "fart pipe" tailpipes, I hope you are
not selling them to the kiddies who decide it is cool to put one on a Mustang.

What are you calling a "fart pipe"? I'm not familiar with that usage.

Tailpipes that restrict the flow of exhaust (opposite of a glass pack) and cause the car to sound like a motorcycle with a very shrill exhaust note.

We sell glass packs and headers and some "speed shop" stuff. The "speed" equipment doesn't move very well. And most of the glass packs are sold as replacements for resonators or mufflers that are *expensaive* in direct replacement configurations. And catalytic converters? Fuggitaboudit

People just steal those anyway. :)

Mike

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Mike Powell wrote to DAVE DRUM <=-

What are you calling a "fart pipe"? I'm not familiar with that usage.

Tailpipes that restrict the flow of exhaust (opposite of a glass pack)
and cause the car to sound like a motorcycle with a very shrill exhaust note.

A couple of years ago in West Oakland, CA, people were making "whistle
tips", exactly what you'd expect. Make your car exhaust into a shrill,
our of tune, shrill whistle to annoy your neighbors.



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A couple of years ago in West Oakland, CA, people were making "whistle
tips", exactly what you'd expect. Make your car exhaust into a shrill,
our of tune, shrill whistle to annoy your neighbors.

Cue the "woo-woooo!" video that went viral before going viral was in our vernacular :P

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