Just for fun...

Saw a 2000GT many years ago parked at Longo Toyota, the largest Toyota dealership in the world and located in SoCal.

But the ultimate car to me is the convertible version specially made by Toyota for James Bond in "You Only Live Twice." Seems Sean Connery was too tall to fit inside, so they made two convertibles for use in the film. One apparently has been totaled and the other is now at the Toyota Museum.

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Ten facts about James Bond's Toyota 2000GT

Do you know about James Bond's Toyota 2000GT? Check out ten facts about the British spy and the car featured in You Only Live Twice.
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PedalUma said:
There is an electric car with in-cabin ICE audio simulation and a manual transmission emulator. It would be fun if you could make it sound, rev, and have pull/torque and HP curves like a selection of classic cars. Such as, today I want to drive a 1971 Corvette.
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Mine was 1970 Challenger Convertible.
 
I'm Toyota believer.
I saw land cruiser set world record for being driven submerge in deep water. It was battery powered
Google it.
I look like picture I included
 

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Rome said:
I'm Toyota believer.
I saw land cruiser set world record for being driven submerge in deep water. It was battery powered
Google it.
I look like picture I included
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I also am a Toyota believer. They are doing well with their hybrids. And hybrids make a lot of sense where charging stations are ...
unreliable ... at best.
 
I may look at a hybrid when my Kona ICE lease is up this December. I have also had good luck with Audi. Just seems like it's harder to find a good buy these days. There used to be great lease deals everywhere!
 
Rome said:
Show us new ebike build
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Okay. This is a bike packing build. The frame has a spit seat stay and horizontal drops so that it could run a Gates belt. Every component is top shelf and it has a specially prepped cargo grade mid-drive. I love the bar. I did think the chicken pic was funny. Yesterday I gave a kid a chicken sounds emulator prepped to attach to his handle bar. This is a chicken town. The kid will use it when riding in the Butter & Eggs day parade April 20th.
 

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Wtf who would buy a pigeon for $135. I can buy a set of Schwalbe Eddy Current for that price. Return is good I'm almost 2000 miles on my Schwalbe.
Wait I take picture of my odometer.
 
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At $135 each, they will return home from 1,000 km in about ten-hours; rest a few days to do it again. 135 x 97 birds = $13,000. $13,000 x 52 = $681,000 per year.

Does anyone want to buy my flock to implement this revenue source themselves?
 
@Jeremy McCreary might recall that in San Clemente they had a pigeon problem, so they soaked grain in white lightning and spread it out. The pigeons found the food, fell over and went to sleep. They were scooped up and put in burlap sacks and driven to the Arizona desert and released. They were all back in two days!
What made me think of this silliness is that on Monday I was riding a bike past grain elevators when I saw a falcon fly behind a wall hidden and then it popped up, flipped and nabbed a pigeon in a burst of feathers. In Greek mythology those raptors were symbols of Zeus and witnessing that sort of capture is an omen for justice.

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PedalUma said:
@Jeremy McCreary might recall that in San Clemente they had a pigeon problem, so they soaked grain in white lightning and spread it out. The pigeons found the food, fell over and went to sleep. They were scooped up and put in burlap sacks and driven to the Arizona desert and released. They were all back in two days!
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Hey, my wife's been threatening to do that to me lately! Maybe that's where she got the idea.

Of course, it'd take me a lot more than 2 days to get back. Scariest part is the burlap, though — so itchy!
 
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Scariest part is the burlap
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Junípero Serra wore a hair shirt that never got washed. No wonder he didn't have much of a sex life. That would make a great story. She gets her husband drunk and rolls him out of the car and into the desert. I love it. Then he has to make his way back.
 
I heard a story about Seattle. All the unwanted kittens were getting adopted. 100% success. It was great! Until they found out the adoptors were shark fishermen. The cold water slowed down the cat's metabolisms until a shark hit. I wonder if the fishers could use rats of the sky instead? I used to fish off that San Clemente pier. One year I was fishing at night and Pacific lobster season would open in two hours when I caught a lobster. We ate poached lobster that night with melted butter. Nothing better. To me as @Rome inferred, a $135 pigeon is like a $135 rat. Maybe NYC could sell them to fishing boats.
So the plot is that she wants to know that he really, really wants to come home.
 
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