Comments on: New Wheels, New Gadgets.

By: joated

joated — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 05:50:22 +0000

Back in 1990 I bought a Chevy Astro Van, the extended version, because our little family of four liked to go car camping and this seemed to fit our needs. I discovered I also needed the extra carrying capacity to haul the owner’s manual.

I personally never read the thing from front to back but I was lucky enough to have a 10-year old daughter who was a speed reader and extremely bright. I gave it to her to keep her occupied on our first trip and from then on I had my own voice activated help service. (She later taught herself to read Japanese! She said the kanji (letters) were just like reading music, which she mastered at around 11 years of age!)

She’s 26 now and living on her own. Maybe that’s why I haven’t bought a new car in 6 years.

By: Catfish

Catfish — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:58:30 +0000

Good for you Jimbo, enjoy it to the fullest. You will fit right in, up there in Jersey.

By: lactoso

lactoso — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 02:22:50 +0000

Jim,

Drop me a line if you need help programming the homelink thing. I just got back from FL last month where one of my duties as ‘visiting brat’ was to program my dad’s homelink buttons in his Big, Fat, pale green (say it ain’t so dad!), Capitalist Lincoln Town Car.

It really isn’t that difficult once you find the right ‘farookin’ pages in the manual.

Good luck,
Ed T.

By: Mark Reardon

Mark Reardon — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:21:42 +0000

Jimbo,
In Denver New Car Manuel is a guy with an accent doing the detailing.

By: MCPO Airdale

MCPO Airdale — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 17:34:10 +0000

Jimbo – Aren’t you afraid that “they” will take away your Jersey credentials. . . after all, it’s not a Caddy!

By: dogette

dogette — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 16:23:21 +0000

Somehow I think there might be a website somewhere with a slick professional shot of a BRAND NEW big fat black 2006 Lincoln on it. ‘Course it won’t have the guy sitting in it pressing buttons on the dash with the manual open on his lap trying to get the various alarms to shut up while muttering “farookin’.”

By: Rube

Rube — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 12:55:19 +0000

Wow, you bought a McKinley? Awesome car, man!

By: Teresa

Teresa — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 05:28:14 +0000

WooHoo!!! Congratualtions! Enjoy the new wheels.

By: Brian

Brian — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 04:56:58 +0000

Hmmm, doing better these days I see. Well, Your Honor, I seem to remember you driving Mercury cruisers a few years ago………or maybe the cobwebs are too thick. The button to open the garage door has to be set by your wife. At least that was what mine told me and I never argue with her.

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 02:39:05 +0000

Congratulations!!

Find a buddy with a digital camera or a camera phone and post a picture of that fine beast of an automobile!

; )