A little short quiz to see how well you've paid attention in life.

http://www.ol.../thinktst.htm

It's not car related, but pretty interesting... I did 22 out of 25...

Soupy

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Hello all...
I am concerned about some of the groups on this site making challenges a total waste of time. Their members select cars to challenge and then all of the members of the club are instructed to vote for the club member's car, even if the car that's been challenged is far superior to some of their rust buckets. This is not why this site was setup. I, along with many others, shouldn't have to tolerate this type of behavior.
I would be interested in hearing from everyone else on this subject...
Soupy

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Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas!!!!! I hope that your special Santa brought you all that you had wished for and more...
Soupy

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Hi All,
I am "Happy" to report that it was another successful weekend here in sunny South Florida with beautiful weather, a great car cruise and two fantastic car shows.
Friday evening started it all off with the usual cruise-in at the Tower Shops in Davie, followed by a bite to eat with a few of the guys at the Falcon Pub.
Saturday morning I was up early to head on over to the S.A.B.A. Car Show on Andrews Avenue in Ft. Lauderdale. S.A.B.A. stands for the South Andrews Business Association and they put on a great show from 9:00 until 4:00 with 142 cars and trucks attending.
Saturday evening was dinner out at Stevie B's in Weston - an awesome place for ribs!!!
Sunday I was up early once again and headed over to the BIG show. The last real car show of the year, and the biggest. I was out of the house at 6:15 and headed over to meet up with a few buddies to drive on over to the show. It is held at the Festival Marketplace Mall in Pompano Beach and was attended by 610 cars and trucks. I was joined by 12 other members of the Got Muscle? Car Club along with my girl Tina from MFI. The day was awesome, although a little tiring, what with all the walking around...
I wrapped up Sunday at a small cruise-in at a Bar & Grille by the name of Zo's and was finally home and in bed at 11:30...
God I hope this week goes slow enough to get caught up at the office, yet quick enough to get to the weekend...

Dave Szczublewski
Weston, FL
www.soupy28.com
www.ban-one.com
www.motortopia.com/soupy/cars

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Hi all,
WOW!! What a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend I had!! A real whirlwind of activity
I hope that you also had a great Holiday weekend, and if you were one of the brave that went shopping on Friday, found all of the bargains that you were looking for... LOL... By the way, anything Trans Am related will work for me.
My weekend started Thursday, Thanksgiving Day. I slept in for a change and got up around 7:30 instead of the usual 5:30. Well, I decided to go and get a cup of coffee at DD's (Dunkin Doughnut's) and since I needed to move my '78 Trans Am out of the garage, jumped in it, turned the key and... nothing. Just the tell tale sound of something wrong with the starter, and oh my God, on Thanksgiving!!! Well, I managed to stay calm, got in touch with my buddy Mike, who in turn, was able to get in touch with my Mechanic Marc. Well, long story short, Marc had a used starter in his shop that would fit, so he got in his truck and drove on over to my place. 45 minutes later the old one was out, the new one was in, and a quick turn of the key proved that the starter was good and panic time was over.
Now, you may be wondering, why the panic??? Well, I was supposed to leave at 5:00 am on Friday morning with four of my buddies to go to the Turkey Run Car Show in Daytona Beach, so it was really important to me to get the car repaired so I could leave with the rest of the guys. It's a 4 to 4-1/2 hour trip and I really wanted to go with everyone else.
Well, with that out of the way, I took the car down to the hand wash place, got it all cleaned up for the Friday trip and returned it to the safety of the garage.
The rest of the late morning and early afternoon I hung Christmas lights outside for the wife, then around 2:00 headed on off for Thanksgiving Dinner at a local restaurant. After dinner I spent some time fixing some of the pinstripping, straightening out the trunk, and getting her all waxed up.
Friday, it was up at 3:45 am to shower and dress and head over to meet up with other four guys for the drive to Daytona. I drove my '78 Trans Am, Harlan drove his '76 Trans Am, Mike drove his '72 Chevelle SS, Joe his '68 Plymouth GTX and Gonzo a 64-1/2 Mustang Convertible. It was quite the sight to see all of us heading North and we got a lot of claps, whistles and thumbs up from the other cars. Well we arrived around 9:30 got set up and then just sat around and people watched most of the afternoon.
The show ended Friday at 4:00 and we headed off to the hotel for some much needed rest. The rest of the evening was doing a little cruising, some burnouts for the people lining A1A in front of the hotels and ended with a cocktail or two at one of the local gentleman's clubs.
Saturday I was back up at 6:00, showered, grabbed a little breakfast and headed over to the Speedway for a whole day of Show and Shine. It was a beautiful day too... Lots and lots of people to talk to and lots and lots of cars to check out. They estimated that there were well over 5000 cars at the show, and after all of the walking I did, I can't disagree.
The show ended again at 4:00 and we all headed back to the hotel, even more tired than we were the day before... LOL...
Sunday was the final day of the show, and like most other 3-4 days shows, was the slowest day. We arrived at the Speedway around 7:30 and by 1:00 and wrapped things up and were on our way back to Lauderdale. So that's it... Fun, fun, fun...

David "Soupy" Szczublewski
Weston, FL
www.soupy28.com
www.ban-one.com
www.motortopia.com/soupy/cars
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'78 Black SE Trans Am
'84 Black HO Trans Am
'94 Red GT Trans Am
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An article in the Times of May 12th 2007 observed that the word "accident" has been removed from the latest edition of the Highway Code and replaced by "collision", "crash" or "incident".

The reason appears to be that describing something as an "accident" the driver feels less responsible as they are considered unavoidable, while using these alternative words encourages drivers to see the incident as a fact for which someone is responsible.

Some motoring groups have, however, claimed that the change will "foster a blame culture and encourage the prosecution of drivers for casualties that they had no intention of causing."

Some police forces refer to RTCs (road traffic collisions) rather than the more common RTA (road traffic accident.)

* Do you agree that the choice of vocabulary in this case reflects the way we view road traffic incidents?

* Is there a neutral term we can use?

* What other examples can you find of terminology which colours a listener's attitude towards an idea, a thing or an event? Consider the difference between "freedom fighters" and "terrorists" or "chubby" and "obese". Is this the same as political correctness (crippled / handicapped / disabled), (black / negro / colored), (chairman / chair / chairperson)?

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