The Silver Buick's well Silver Buick!

[Scott Liggett]

because NOTHING says luxury like fake wood.

Like our brand new $75,000 Escalade with its fake wood, brushed aluminum aplliques and "leather seating surfaces". Translation: the only part of those seats that is actually leather is the part your ass sits on. The rest is fake leather.

[Beagle]

we have a fitPC2 in our autonomous underwater robot. atom processor, runs on 12v, boots on power up, you can get a small solid stated hard drive pretty cheap, etc. runs linux, has built in wifi. But you'd need to learn about computers to set it up for your application. It's small....

echo what Jim and Scott are saying. Solid state storage doesn't get pissed and drag a head across a platter when you drive over a pot hole. Another plus, their i/o is screaming fast compared to a disk drive, and they're silent. I can't get used to saying solid state hard drive since there aren't any moving parts?

[TheSilverBuick]

I have one laptop already that has a solid state hard drive. I'm kinda interested in seeing if I can forgo a hard drive altogether and load and boot from an SD card.

[Beagle]

You can boot from a usb memory stick or SD card with Win7 if your pc supports it, which anything remotely current probably does. I'm not sure about the Linux stuff but I would be surprised if you can't do the same with it. The box needs to support it, the OS part itself is pretty straight forward.

[TheSilverBuick]

Just got a report my car is a variety of colors and that some bondo and epoxy are currently drying right now. Paint isn't far behind.....

[BangShift McT]

Sweet! Staying silver, I assume?

[squirrel]

I was just wondering about how your paint job was coming along. Good to hear there's progress, although you're cutting it really close.

[TheSilverBuick]

Yup staying silver, and the engineer who is doing it is feeling bad about the time frame. She's been having a run of bad luck lately plus some hang ups from selling her old house in a town 70 miles away. Fragged a transmission in one truck, then ran through a deer in another, and was asked and paid $15k over the cost of selling the house to finish an improvement project she and her husband started there. Couldn't walk away from that one. I keep telling her it doesn't have to look mint, just a good driver quality and that I'd get to doing proper body work on it several years down the road. Besides, silver ought to hide a lot of sins and I don't want to cry the first time I find a chip in the paint.

I did clean up the rubber pieces for the bumpers the other day. I'm going to through a coat of wax over the chrome and get the whole bumper assembly back together today or tomorrow.

[Scott Liggett]

But ThePeaGreenBuick has such a nice ring to it.

[TheSilverBuick]

Apparently it's had one fender replaced as the color coming through on one fender was purple'ish One fender has had bondo cracks forever, so I'm guessing the one without the bondo cracks was likely replaced. My Uncle who drove the car before I got it ran into a variety of things with the car. Which is why the hood has a nice dimple in the nose of it and slightly bent, and possibly why one tail light is a slight shade of red different than the other (replaced, though I think it's more likely from sun fading where it sat for years with only half the car getting hit by the sun).

[TheSilverBuick]

I was just wondering about how your paint job was coming along. Good to hear there's progress, although you're cutting it really close.

At least it's running! I do have to swap the bellhousing and clutch out of it though. I have some nice concrete and an actual transmission floor jack now though, so hopefully should be easy as pie. Besides, with this moving from one house to another I haven't had time to do anything with it even if it was done.

[langleylad]

Besides, silver ought to hide a lot of sins and I don't want to cry the first time I find a chip in the paint.

Between the time I got my truck back from paint and back on the road I already had way to many paint chips to repair . On a daily driver they are hard to avoid .

[mrocketscience]

That's cool! Always exciting to see new paint.

[TheSilverBuick]

Getting closer! Can't do anything about the bent hood, but all else is looking good!



The Silver Buick is SILVER once more!

[Bamfster]

Isn't that a great feeling the first time you see it with new paint?

Looks good!