Mazdax3

Is there a Ford Escort forum you can try to sell it on?

brilliantblackrx8

Here's a nice pic. This photo was taken by David Brown who did all of our photos while I was in the sqaudron. This was taken on March 11th, 2006 right after we got back from our last deployment and I left the Navy. Believe it or not, the 8 F14's you see here were all full body painted in July-August 2005. These eight (plus two more) had to be painted over the period of 30 days right before we deployed on August 30th 2005. Notice how the gloss show bird held up a lot better then the rest. You can see a lot of touch ups that we did throughout the deployment. It was a lot of hours that I remember to get this done over the period of 30 days and at one point I had the guys work for 24 hours straight!

fuztupnz

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Works for me. I've been scheming, but the wife is still denying me the swap for yours

I'm gonna put it up on CL for 1500 expecting low *****. I'd be happier than **** selling it for 1k. I have some stuff that i need to fix next weekend, but i'm not gonna bother fixing the A/C. Honestly, i don't know that you'd really want it, unless you're just looking for something to put in a ditch over the winter.

tacti

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Here you go.
http://www.feoa.net/

GLWS

Mazdax3

Should have outsourced the painting to Earl Scheib.

recondude

nice pic man. we just had some fast movers fly by. i love watching those guys in the sky.

recondude

so i told mazdax3 this, lets see if you guys think I'm crazy. how bad is it I'm laying here in my cot, trying to sleep, and instead of thinking bout my girl i think bout how sweet it would be to have everyone at my place having a old fashion cook out in the backyard, and the street out front is just lined with 8's. this ladies and gentleman is a prime example of what happens to you after being up for 23 hours straight.

chiefmg

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Welcome recondude. Thank you for your service. I look forward to meeting you when you return home.

As someone who spends a lot of time away from home, I can tell you what you were thinking is normal. You are in an alien environment and by thinking of something normal, it helps keep you in touch with home. For me, that helps maintain my sanity (although my wife might disagree!). Just do whatever works for you to keep your concentration and get home safely.

Mazdax3

We host you. You don't have to lift a finger. We'll do some meet at a park and grill some burgers and hot dogs.

I've done a few 24+ hour shifts in my younger days, but I'm sure it doesn't compare to what you are going through. The mind does tend to wander in strange ways. One time in my youth I helped drive a VW Super Beatle cross country in one shot. The thing barely topped out at 60MPH and we hit a headwind in Kansas. Knocked us back to 50. About 3/4 across I-70 in Kansas and 3AM, I started seeing semi's right in front of the car and nailing the brakes. About that time we decided to pull over at a rest area and grab a couple hours of sleep. Sleeping in a VeeDub wasn't much fun in November.

Keep us up to date on how things are going and keep your head down. Keep thinking the great RX-8 thoughts.

Mazdax3

If anyone is interested, iTunes has a free download of the movie "Truth in 24" about LeMans. Of course, Audi made it, but heck, it's free and in HD too!.

I have it downloaded and I'll probably keep it for viewing on a plane to DFW in a couple weeks.

Mazdax3

Let's get ready for the RX-8 swan song at Mid-Ohio. Gonna miss those flamethrowers.

Truva

steve how long did it take for your stechs to settle out, and how was the alignment? what is this fuel place you guys are always talking about?? is that code for goin to the gas station to top off the 8 hah..

tacti

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The Fuel is a coffee shop down in south east side of cincinnati.
they have coffee and cars every saturday 9-12 and also wednesday night as well.

if you have FB account, here's their page.
http://www.facebook.com/FuelCoffeeCincy

and here's the address.
2726 Riverside Dr, Cincinnati, OH 45202

brilliantblackrx8

We were there when OEF and GWOT(back when they still called it that) launched back in 2001. We were on the way to Australia for some R&R, and then we turned around. 21 days of some serious bombing in Oct-Nov and all at night, 454 direct hits with 8 hour missions flown from the Indian Ocean. Ended up being out at sea for 121 days without seeing land. That was my first deployment, and was the most dangerous and hectic due to situational awareness being so high. Here's a pic taken in Jan 2002, 5 days after our return, notice the bombs dropped we painted on this one.

recondude

badass man when i get home ill tell you some sweet times we had to call for air. can't say it on here its still pretty recent

recondude

lol woman will never think men are sane to begin with and ditto on meeting up and thanks for the support. but let me be clear its not all the news makes it out to be. I'm not one of those soldiers that take stories way out of context. I'm in the sw region not much happens here the fight is more out east. i saw more in iraq then i have here. iv never been so bored in my life on a deployment in some ways id rather be back in iraq

that happened to me when i was home on R&R and the lady and i were driving down to orlando to see my parents we started driving at midnight and half way thru KY i thought i was coming up fast on a car and slammed the brakes and then my eyes adjusted and saw the car was still 100 meters in front of me. then i pulled and let her drove lol. minded this was only days after i got home and was flying for almost 37 hrs straight and was still jet lagged as hell.

brilliantblackrx8

Member on RX8 club Singapore posted this recently and wrote under this "Drunk=curb... Hahaa painful."

Mazdax3

A couple days. I need to loosen a couple bolts and let it sit a spell. I think the rear is still a little high. Alignment I haven't checked yet. At first, the turn in was rather abrupt and highways it was a little twitchy. Settled down now, but I'm going to get it aligned in a few weeks.

recondude

Remember our fallen; thousands of families will have a lot more on their minds this weekend than a cook out. RIP my brothers.

Mazdax3

Ditto.

I visited the cemetery yesterday where my father (WWII vet) is buried. I looked at the graves of a number of other vets buried near him. Somber, but great to remember what these brave people did to preserve what we have.

Jeff, we'll be thinking of you and your comrades this weekend. Stay safe.

Steve

recondude

this was on my Facebook wall. just wanted to share. WWII is my favorite war to study bout and iv had the honor to talk to a few Vets. those are some hard guys. i salute your father, without him and many like him before me. i wouldn't have my chance to fight without their sacrifices. drink a beer for me everyone and stay safe and smart this weekend

Rotary-Kytten

Have a great Memorial Day weekend everyone - We are down in Largo, FL this week - just had lunch at the American Legion here in Madeira Beach and it was beautiful - saw Dolphins right there at the dock as we ate. Lots of Corvettes but not seeing any other riced out 8's, lol.

Mazdax3

Old farts don't drive RX-8's. Wait....

Yeah, lots of Viagra, er Vettes in FL. If someone offered me a free Z06, I'm afraid I'd take it. Rather have that than a ZR-1.

It's probably warmer here than in FL. High in the 90s tomorrow. Wish I had a neighbor who had a pool. I guess the next door neighbor's pool, which is inflatable, counts.

fuztupnz

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Recondude: It will be my pleasure to have a beer for you. Thank you and those who have or are serving! Get home safe. I'll be happy to host a cookout once you return.

Looks like I'm picking up the new beater tomorrow sure I could have bought something newer, but where is the fun in that? 20 year old BMW, here I come!

fuztupnz

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Oh yeah, how many of you goons are coming over Monday? The more the merrier.