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IF her estate actually includes some classic cars, I suspect they were purchased for investment purposes only.
Remember the crash in 1988.  Lots of Wall Street types were suddenly in classic car markets, art markets, having a wine cooler built at their estate which would store their 50,000 bottles of wine....they one's they were buying like a 4 year old in front of the Brach's candy bins at the Piggly Wiggly. 

I noted it down most of Sunday 10/1/2023.  It was doing some "Server busy" type message (sorry, I should have screen snipped it).  Today 10/2/2023, was down in the morning (central USA time) and now back.
It would be very nice if someone like an Administrator would say what happened.  The Server Busy type message makes me think the site was under a Denial of Service type attack. 

Carefully go in and check each step in those pasted views above.  Then type in the forum/screen name of the person you wish to "mute".  It should autofill as you type it in.  Then read that screen carefully.  I don't have a way to "do over" right now but there was a step to doing it.  I then backed up to my "Profile" and went back in and the person I'd put in, did show up in the list of Ignore.
Now when I go to "recent posts", the threads/topics do show up.  However each of the people on the "Ignore" list, their posts shows up but it's simply a hot link that they are Muted and "Click here to see it". 
So you still see the post in lists and such, just not the actual post the muted person posted, unless you click to view.
Hope that helps. 

Performance Motors of Hanover also has some showing on their website. 

"Recent Post" comment.

You might want to try what I do on this forum, and as many others I can if they support it.  I ignore the "Recent Post" thing that pops up on many forums as a default.  I go and find the "Unread Posts since last visit" and click that.  Then I see a list of new posts which I've not seen.   Recent Posts shows stuff that I've already seen, but still falls in the forum software definition of "Recent".  I find if I get on every day, unless there has been a spammer on, the list is one page.  Maybe once a week it will show there is a second page.  In a few minutes, I can scan down and open the ones that I've posted in or that I have an interest in.  Some are updated daily (car photos, photos of CS).  I click and read the ones I wish.  Which removes them from my list.  Once I've look at everything, I find the "Mark All Posts Read" and click that.  Do that so when you next get on, you only see what changed since your last visit.   If it doesn't interest you, just don't read it and by "Mark All Posts Read" it will be gone, unless it gets updated again.

Quote from: Krelboyne on September 13, 2023, 01:58:44 PM

Quote from: pbf777 on September 13, 2023, 11:38:17 AM
     If I might comment;  I feel that "post counts" considerations should not be a tool for governing the function of the forum, that is to be regulated by the rules set forth and enforcement of such.  The idea that if we just make a minutia feature that we think might be a driving force for a few, which I assume this intent would be for those that might not be presenting postings of an appreciated subject matter but rather just flood the site with banter assumably solely for post count purposes, then better regulation is the answer, not limiting features to the entirety of the group.   

     I would fear otherwise that a policy of removing currently available features being deemed as the simplest solution to control the few, follows similarly to to choice in attempting to control homicides in the society by first removing the guns from being available, but then realizing that knives are now a problem so further regulation is required with still fewer choices for the masses, then baseball bats, sling-shots, before long bricks will need regulating!   

     I believe the intended value in the posting counts feature is that this perhaps provides some guidance to the readers as to the possible validity of the comments being made, as otherwise with proper regulation the disfavored poster would shall we say..........have been tarred & feathered, and run out of town!   

     Scott.

Very well said.

Maybe posts made to the following areas of the forum should not count towards an individuals post counts: The Lounge, Deals and Appeals, Regional Forums, and The Lounge.

I'm aware of several forums who don't count posts in off-topic areas.  Some also don't count in the "For Sale/Trade".   And at least two forums (Not cars) who have an active For/Sale/Looking To Buy sub-forums, to post in those forums you must have a post count, say over 100.  Even then, people have been caught and banned for abusing it.  Such as a scammer got on, posted 100 post to any topic they could "Yeah, I agree"  (that's ONE!) do that 100 times and then start posting stuff for sale and scamming people.
So, post count can be used as a tool for forums.  It can also be abused. 

Quote from: TA Coupe on September 09, 2023, 06:10:48 PM
Magnets will mostly attract some sludge. Some factory automatics come with one in the pan. I have some in my heads incase anything brakes. You can also buy some really strong ones that you can just stick on the outside of your oil pan also. I do have a couple that go around the filter, can't hurt.

      Roy

Yep.  And it seems to take about 3 paper towels to get that sticky sludge off.   I've also found that some drain bolts are magnetic.  I've changed the CVT fluid on the wife's Honda and the end of it inside the transmission, looks like your finger tip.  Rounded end.  It attracts the sludge.

Well......written by Jim Smart.
Seems to be a sales write up.  I admit to only browsing the write up, but I don't see any "Hard Data" (Charleston Heston, since True Lies was on the TV last night). 
I've never used one.  I put 200,000 on a F250 7.3, only doing oil changes every 3,000 miles, including filter.  It ran great.  My Mustangs all went over 100,000 with no issue and internal bearings looked fine on tear down. 
But I'm open to the idea.   

Quote from: deathsled on September 02, 2023, 01:07:54 AM

Quote from: rhjanes on September 01, 2023, 11:23:42 PM
Driving home a week ago and there was a white Mustang behind me.  We turned off the freeway access road and stopped at a light.  It was a Boss 302.

They look good in white.

It did.  Very "Sleeper".  I think it was a 2012, but I'm not sure.
Driving out to do a sporting event in the forest, I was east bound on Texas 82 out of Gainsville Texas...and sitting on a corner was a 2013 red Boss 2....for sale.  Went by that evening and it was still sitting there. I had a buddy and so never stopped to look.  Next morning it was gone. 

Driving home a week ago and there was a white Mustang behind me.  We turned off the freeway access road and stopped at a light.  It was a Boss 302. 

According to my 1997 Registry, it was re-bodied.  Lawsuits were filed and won.  Says there are two titled with 6S1530 and until that is settled, owners won't be listed. 

I have one from some 25 or 30 years ago and it was more of a stated value letter.  IIRC, send in a few photos per their spec, with what you think it's worth and if it seemed reasonable, you got a letter on SAAC stationary saying it was worth what you stated.  No one spent any time with the car. 

Quote from: Don Johnston on July 14, 2023, 09:35:39 PM
My father had a 300 acre orange grove ranch in southern California in the '50s and '60s.  The roads were decomposed granite(DG) sprayed with used oil to keep the dust down.  The oil would sit on the road for a couple of days before vehicles used it.  After a few weeks of use it was almost like a paved road.   It was very common proceedure on the farms until it became a banned practice.

yep!
They still used tar in some places to hold together aggregate.  We are currently visiting a family vacation place.  The people out here pay to have the state and county highway department to bring over their ground off asphalt (when they are redoing roads) and lay it down on the 1.5 mile of private road.  The cars driving on it then pack it down.  The county/state is HAPPY to get rid of the old stuff. 
I do a lot of hiking and a sport out in forest.  You find all sorts of old house stuff and farm stuff down in ravines.  There is one scout ranch, there's an old 1940's car down in one.  Lots of old water heaters, I mean OLD, old animal tanks and such. 

All in good fun.  I used to be creative with oil disposal.  But I also grew up on military bases and my wife worked at a major corporation machine shop site.  Which had had "spills" since the late 1950's.   When they sold the property, about a foot or two of soil had to be scraped down while being watered, trucked out to a toxic disposal site.  Many military bases have similar issues.  The USAF used to flare off the contaminated fuels but heavier stuff.......

Quote from: deathsled on June 20, 2023, 11:21:41 AM

Quote from: rhjanes on June 20, 2023, 09:52:17 AM
10W30 is fine if you are in the northern half of the USA.  Here in the south, I use a 15W40 in my old classics.  I've been using the Shell Rotella T, the old dino-stuff.  A synth or blend should also be fine.  Our temps in the summer are.....toasty, hence the "40". 
Castrol is good oil but I'm wondering which one you got?  I've been using the Castrol, Synth, High-Mileage in my wife's Honda which has 180,000 miles on it.  It runs over 6,000 miles before the car tells me to change it.  Seems like a good oil.  I've also used the Store Brand, which is by "Ashland Refinery" (that's Vavoline).

Exhibit "A" for identification.

I've run that in my 302 and 428, but in a 10W40.  Seemed to run fine. It was a few years ago and I think I used some Zinc in it.  Also used it in a 0W20 Full Synth in the wife's Honda and was just fine.