This is a really old post but I went to the link anyway. Some pretty cool pictures. Photo 14 of 40 showed what looked like a new Corvette but with an old rear clip on it. A quick google search turned up the link below. A c5 corvette made to look like a 1953. Very interesting and it looks well-done. Anyway, fishman10: thanks for taking the time to post the pics. Here is a link that might be useful: 2004-1953 Corvette

When you have four pockets ... ... and you know that there's no money in three of them ... ... into which pocket do you stick your hand when you need some? ... how often do you stick your hand into any one of the three pockets where you know that there's no money even when your hand gets all of the way to the bottom?? Memo ... to individuals, as to businesses (but most of the latter know it now) ... ... when you need money ... ... go where the money is! Like the credit card companies do. They may cancel the cards of folks who've been giving them a rough time, i.e., not paying. But they don't mind your payment being late - look at the large fee that they charge ... for what ... waiting an extra day or two for the payment? Suppose it's $100.00 payment ... at 10% annual rate, that's $10.00 per year, or about 3 cents per day. If your payment arrives 3 days late ... their cost is about a dime ... and they charge you a $20.00 late fee? Think they're about to cancel your card? Why would they?? They're making a very nice bucket of money off of you ... and others like you. You go over your credit limit? More of the same. So why would they shut you down?? You're a profit centre for them!! If so for them ... how about you?? If you blow an engine in your car tomorrow ... how will you pay for the repair? Or ... if you get laid off ... what will you live on? Have you ever had a pair of handcuffs snap around your wrists? I haven't either ... and I don't want any: I have absolutely no hankering for such an experience! I love my financial freedom!! If you don't have a financial cushion of some funds available in case of immediate drastic need, I claim that you have a pair of handcuffs lying on your dresser, right beside where you lay your wallet at night. Just waiting for an emergency need of money ... or a layoff ... to have them jump up and snap around your wrists. Financial freedom - that ain't!! Hope you all have a lovely weekend ... and if you'd be sweating blood if you don't get a paycheque ... or two ... ... please - do yourself a favour. Even though it may be a beautiful weekend, find a way to enjoy it while spending little or nothing. Start that savings fund ... build yourself a financial cushion. Aim at a minimum of 3 months' income available in case of emergency. Six months' earnings, or 9 months' ... or up to a year's worth, is even better. After 25 years or so as a personal financial advisor, I don't have it, myself, some of the time. Some of the time I have money in the bank, money market fund, etc., immediately available ... but sometimes not. I have a credit card that I don't use much, that I can use to fix my car, fly me home in case the travel co. goes broke and the hotel says pay - again - or go to jail, etc. And I have a Line of Credit at the bank, initiated several years ago at no fee, fully secured by stock or mutual fund certificates, in order to arrange a low interest rate ... and it lies there unused, most of the time (but there's no inactivity fee to pay). If I use the card for emergency ... I pay off the full balance prior to the due date, using my Line of Credit if the amount in my bank account, money market, etc. are short. Then ... pay off that loan (low interest - far lower than the rate charged on unpaid balances owing on the credit card) as soon as possible. I want my money working for me ... not be forced to use other folks' money ... and pay rent on it while I'm using it ... especially if it's the kind where they charge very high rates! I never want to have to darken the door of a payday loan company: their rates are ... *horrendous*! (By the way ... have you read my thread about the differences between a paycheque and a pension cheque?) ole joyful

How timely is your thread! I'm in the process of doing my car quilt, although it may be a little different than what you had in mind. One of our car clubs hosted "Americruise" this year and last, and I walked around taking pictures of neat, classy cars - no particular model or year - just ones that appealed to me, and color was important. I just this afternoon printed off on fabric, 28 of the best, and I'll sash them with, I think, mottled grey (black might be too stark, grey could represent pavement) and then the border is one of my car fabrics - probably a 5" or 6" wide border. For your quilt, I would maybe fussy-cut the cars, in a sizeable piece, and make it the center of a star block, then use the same fabric for the border? Can't wait to see a picture of what you do. I'll post a picture of mine when I get it together.

Thanks, PK. It was quite scary. We could hear stuff cracking around us, the lights blinking, water leaking through the patio door due to lateral rain. It was that bad for a short time, though, but it was scary. On Monday morning a bunch of us were outside assessing the damage and picking up all kind of things around the houses and roads: fences, patio furniture, roof shingles, pots, trampolines, toys, etc. Omar