NJ use to be the same way. I was attending an Oldsmobile car show and went to a restaurant and they didn't serve alcohol but you could bring it in. As I understood alcohol license were/are hard to get and not all places have them. Another thing, I was in NJ on another trip and stopped to get fuel and got out and grabbed the pump handle and a guy starts yelling for me to quit. You can't pump your own gas there or at least at that time.Ahhhh.... the Blue Laws. We still have some remnants of them in Texas. No hard liquor sales on Sunday although you can buy it by the drink in a restaurant or bar. Dealer vehicles can't be sold on both Saturday and Sunday; pick one or the other. Ignore those laws at the risk of pissing God off.
I think Skuza should show up at a national event and con a funny car team into letting him make an exhibition pass. "And the crowd went wild."
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Thanks.....it was a great conversation with those fellas. Not surprisingly, their spoken English was better than most you'll find while getting waited on at a fast food restaurant nowadays. Ida was a DNQ but I was happy for them they saw her on Saturday and in her pit.
LOL.....yeah I have a 2004 Saab 9-3 convertible. Silver with a blue top. 2.0 Turbo, 210hp, automatic. 97.5k miles. The convertibles during that time were only made in Graz, Austria. It was imported through Tampa and spent most of its life in sunny Cal. Wish I had a pic of it to upload.Me too. Cool car but we sure did cuss them when one came in the shop. I used to say working on a Saab will make you sob.
Luckily this was before GM did its most unpardonable sin (in my view) and ruined Saab. Very well built, almost to the point of over-engineered, cars before GM sunk its claws into it.
You know what Saab stands for? Something Almost Always Broken. lol Which might be a little unfair, but one thing undeniable is those cars are all leakers, esp oil.
Snip - Everything is pricing itself out of existence
Except labor it seems, lol. Seems like that's getting cheaper every day.
I think it still is, I have a buddy that lives in Yonkers, NY, and he was telling me it's actually against the law to pump your own gas in NJ. Some old holdover law from several decades ago, I forget the reasons for it. I think NJ is the only state left like that.
z28
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still can't pump your own gas there
I live in Oregon. You can pump your own gas at the gas stations. Half the pumps need to be full serve and the other half can be self pump.
Where do you get your false information??? Lol
Chili
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No official word but he hasn’t been around the last few races.
65 Goatboy
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They were actually very good cars, back in the 70's and 80's they had a cult following like Volvo's. They were also very popular in the Northeastern US for their legendary ability to deal with their brutal winters. Living in a college town professors and grad students liked cars like that. But parts had to be ordered, even a simple oil filter which were 100 miles away in St. Louis causing lots of aggravation for everyone.
ironpony
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Way back when I lived on LI and would go to Englishtown you had to make a jug handle turn, 4 rights to go around instead of making a left.
ironpony
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A New Jersey jughandle is an at-grade road ramp that replaces direct left turns at major intersections with an indirect maneuver. To turn left, drivers must move to the right lane, exit right into a curved ramp, and then proceed straight or turn across the main intersection when the light turns green.
My bad I thought you were talking about Oregon....Should have reread it....lol
Rocket Man
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99% chance that's not happening
stitcherbob
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Former 40 year NJ guy here....
1- You can't pump your own gas.
2- If you live in PA and are lazy, you drive over the main bridge to NJ (free in that direction) and let them pump it. Usually cheaper too. Then I go on errands and come back over a small free iron bridge in a neighboring town. But cold sweat if a dually and a trailer is coming at you....
2a- NJ is so bad you have to pay to get out of it....
3- Being only 3 minutes into PA dropped my taxes exponentially. Some up to 9 times cheaper per year.
4- NJ's only drag strip is now 23 minutes away from me, yet now I drive to E-Town for work 2 times a week
1- You can't pump your own gas.
2- If you live in PA and are lazy, you drive over the main bridge to NJ (free in that direction) and let them pump it. Usually cheaper too. Then I go on errands and come back over a small free iron bridge in a neighboring town. But cold sweat if a dually and a trailer is coming at you....
2a- NJ is so bad you have to pay to get out of it....
3- Being only 3 minutes into PA dropped my taxes exponentially. Some up to 9 times cheaper per year.
4- NJ's only drag strip is now 23 minutes away from me, yet now I drive to E-Town for work 2 times a week
NitroRichFire
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So there is no information on Buddy Hull's operation, like when he might be back at the track?
Rasn1320
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Alot of people asking on his fb when he is comimg back but no answers,maybe it spooked him and he isnt ready yet?
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