Messerschmitts

I found this in a trashcan at school today.

Way to go PG:



The power button has been ripped out and it looks like they tried to open it a little bit but stopped. Maybe thats why they threw it away.

Reagardless, I could try and get a power cord and turn it on.

Or maybe even send it to apple seeing if they will repair it and such.

oh and it's 4GB, original price $250.

It only has a heafphone jack and a long, wide port. Do the power cord and the USB to the computer go in the same port?

Oh well. Maybe I'll get a cord tomorrow.

best:

lulz:

hollocause joke kinda funny:

b tard tine's:

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cyoot:

and

lawlz:

moar lawls:

video game fans:

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and OH MY GOAT:

they are tres ghey and take a long time to write because el smitty has struck the fear of God in us about how if we don't use MLA for every tiny little detail then we will get kidnapped, taken to an abandoned farm, raped, then put in a meat grinder.

so basically I'm freaking out over a 5 page paper. pretty ghey. (no need to brag college folk).

Worked for a few hours today cause no one could cover for me.

possibly going to get a 1957 Chevy Bel Air Wagon for a daily driver.

( you like? )

( oh snap, looks like amy has some competition )

Charlie died at 10:30 this morning while driving to his girlfriend's house.

this is copied from what somewhat wrote after calling his mother:
"she said that charlie jones was killed instantly this morning at 10:30 when he supposedly took a curb too fast and ran his car into a tree. they concluded that by the skid marks he left on the road.

she said he was on the way to his girlfriend's house, he was going to spend the day with her and his mom, to go to a game.

she said that she's had many visits today. i told her i hoped that her and her husband were doing the best they could be..and that i wished them through this. and she said that charlie was their pride and joy. and that she loved him so very much. and we both agreed that a lot of people... loved him, very much."

Rest In Peace Charlie

My forearm. Some how I didn't wash it yesterday after working on the model A. I noticed it today. still smells like model A. I was told to write a thank you note to my aunt and uncle for Christmas presents. One of them was a bottle of Avon aftershave in a glass 1951 studebaker. The cologne must have been from 1951 cause it smells like shit. Ok, here's what happened, I opened it, just to smell it. So instead of wafting like Dr. Burrows would do, I give it a big sniff. That was about 2 hours ago. I can still smell it. I had just opened the bottle and the entire room smelled like the stuff. It was awful. My hands still smell very strongly of the aftershave. If you're ever over here, you can smell it if you want to. although I might make you stand on the roof to smell it. At least it would get be blown away. Anyway. I am very bored. I have now finished my homework, although I have no idea what I am going to do now. Maybe I will check the ebay Messerschmitt cituation.

Anyway, I'll see everyone tomorrow. Tomorrow is......Thursday. Ugh thursday after school will be crazy. from 3:00 till 6:00 will be my time frame for homework. I will probably start my homework around 4:30, 5:00ish. Ugh I have a history in class essay Friday on something.

Bye for now.

In four hours we took the engine out of a 1930 Ford Model A and took it almost completely apart. Very cool. Although we had one hell of a time getting the head off. We tried to take it off in an unevenly (not on purpose) and it bent two of the bolts holding it down. We got it off of one but we had to saw the other one in half. It was very messy. I am very tired. I have lots of homework that will be put off.

Good night.

Well. I have now reconsidered buying the Messerschmitt. BECAUSE I have found a micro that is much much much more rare than a Messerschmitt and if I play my cards right I can get both. hehehehehe. So here's the deal: I sell the MG for 8 grand. Then, I sell my all size all make all year model car collection consisting of about 500 cars for $3000 ($6 a car is not bad when I'm including a model that is worth $125 along with many others worth $20). Then, I have $1000 saved up from working this summer. Ok, $8000+$3000+$1000=$12000. Nobel=$8000, $12000 is now $4000, Messerschmitt=$4000. Although...they would be uncovered for a little while while I find them a home aka a trailer.

Pros about buying the Nobel:
-It is one of about 20-30 known to exist
-It is my second favorite Microcar
-I will most likely be able to sell it for more than $8000
-I can stay in the Charleston British Car Club
-It was made in Ireland (Belfast, where an everlasting piece was filmed)
actually, i gotta go, ill edit this later or something.

I noticed all of my posts in my LJ were done at night.
accept for that last one.
Odd.

I guess cause it is the end of the day.

Yea, I am in these yahoo groups thingies where people talk about micros and post stuff about them. Whenever someone posts they go to my "Junk Mail" folder, which is good because otherwise my inbox would be flooded with posts along with penis enlargement spam. Anyway, I read most of what people post. So, I havent been getting of those posts in my junk mail folder recently. Turns out my email had been rejecting the posts and everything aimed at my junk mail folder. I missed a total of 69 messages sent to me. Great. It has been rejecting a few messages at a time since the beginning of December.

I though I had fixed it a little while ago, nope, still rejecting messages from the groups.

Although I think I get messages that are sent by people. Sent specifically to my inbox.

Anyway, I would switch emails, but then I'd have to sign up again to all of those groups and tell everyone what my NEW email is and it is just not worth it unless this keeps acting up. Ill probably switch over to Gmail if it does.

Well today I went to the orintation for the Great Race. Pretty sweet. Great group of guys. Very friendly. 2 other "students" were there. We went to go look at the car. Took it for a VERY short ride. It wobbled around ALOT at 15mph meaning I could see the front fenders moving about an inch up and down. We took it back to the garage and decided to go ahead and work for an hour. We took half the engine apart (including taking off things like the hood, chrome, the radiator, horn, etc, etc in an hour. Pretty sweet.

Then I came home and watched the end of Diamonds are forever and the beginning of Thunderball. Then Remi came over, played some xbox and N64, then went to his house and play GTA SA, then ate some pretty shaweet dinner of Goose and rice (which I did eat with a fork this time). It was good, although I'm not a big fan of mineral water. Then we watched "Death Race 2000". Then after that Me Celine and Remi chatted about random stuff for about 15 minutes then I ran/walked home cause it was so effing windy and cold.

Anyway, I'm bored now.

Looking at wierd ebay stuff......

yea so I hung out with Celine and Remi for a while and watched some movies and tv and had some food. Then, I'm heading home at 10:30 and I'm walking cause it's just a few blocks. It is a dark and stormy night, Friday the 13th, and a full moon. Lovely. I got home fine, after fighting off the werewolves. I actually decided to stick to the main street, East Bay. There were a good ammount of cars out. Well at least I got home before it started raining which is about now.

I'm sorta tired. I gotta go to the orintation of the Great American Race tomorrow.

Bye for now....

Well. I got home about an hour ago. When I got home I layed on the floor for a while cause I was really tired. Why was I tired? Well. Today I drove the MG to school. I haven't in a while. So Paul and I are on our way home and on the corner of Meeting and Wentworth, the MG dies. A little while back the car's fuel pump was making the noise it makes while i was driving. It usually only makes a noise when you turn on the ignition. Anyway. So that while back I turned off the car at a stop light and started it again and the sound stopped. So when we get to Meeting and Wentworth and the car dies....slowly. I hear it start to idle really really really low and its going lower. Eventually the car does die and I try to start it. No luck. (Meeting street is possibly the busiest street in downtown Charleston, Mr Samblob.) So cars behind me understand that it is an old car and they go around me. After trying to start it through 3 changes of the light. I came to a conclusion that we would have to push the car home. (I'm on Society which is a block down the street) Thank God we were so close to our house. So Paul and I push the MG down Meeting street and turn onto Society. (Paul is THE shitties turner in the world.) We go down Society and then we have to push the car up our driveway which is hard because it goes down then up and then levels out. So We get it in close the gate get our books and go inside.

So that's what happened this afternoon.

I'm going to go take a shower. I'm sweaty and nasty.

Ok, so, I come home from watching Transporter 2 at Celine's and I walk in the kitchen and I hear a package from England came, I knwo it is my Isetta clock so I go an open it and have one hell of a time opening it. anyway, it is one sweet clock. SO. Then I get word that I was invited to go on the "Great American Race" which is a race across the country in cars from the 20s - 50s. What we would do is someone in the model A club of charleston is offering up their model A for us (me and a few other teens, I think 3-5 more, are going to take the Model A apart, clean it, replace old parts, and put it back together in time for the race. I don't think I will be doing any driving tho :( but I will navigate. The other teens and I will rotate being navigator. Anyway, the race is from Philidelphia, PA to San Rafael, Ca. It will take 2 weeks. The thing is, is that I was going on trip to to Greece. which I switched over from trip 1 on monday. So, now I have to switch back to trip one. The reason is is because trip two starts on June 25th, the same day the race starts.

So that's my problem.

Oh and I won;t be able to go to this music festival in Illinios called Cornerstone that is awesome, it too starts on the 25th.

So that's my problem. I'm still pretty sure only Mr. Samblob will see this. Oh well.

We are taking a 1930 Ford Model A 2 door sedan on the great race.

Well. Our house was in charleston maganzine. and damn did they make it look good. MY CAR IS IN IT!!!!! but it is about one sqare centimeter in size, if that. and it is not mentioned in the article. Although paul and I are -> "...and their two children..."

anyway, im on trip 2 to greece now. w00t.

In same advantage we were raided by small chlidren. quite scary really.

not too much really has happened. Oh, I might go to the Microcar Museum this weekend. My Mom is still thinking about it. I will say again, Everyone is invited. Then again, not many people read this.


Hehehehehehe, i think i will go around on other people LJs and post comments asking them if they would like to go, muhahahaha. I might also see my Messerschmitt....wow....I just said "my" Messerschmitt.....*good chills*.....


hey, who is going on the second Greece trip?

Anway, I gotta do my chem. its 8:30

hey anyone wanna do something this afternoon or tomorrow? I am extremely bored.

Here is some cool isetta stuff I've found on ebay:

1.A very nice old Isetta clock. The face is made to look like the speedo(speedometer).
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4602346793&fromMakeTrack=true
2.A Japanesse Isetta Fan doody. And it's BIG
http://cgi.ebay.com/ISETTA-FAN_W0QQitemZ6999164104QQcategoryZ223QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem


Now, look at the following auctions...
1.http://cgi.ebay.com/BANDAI-ISETTA-BRAUN-BEIGE-RARE-COLOR_W0QQitemZ6999161169QQcategoryZ223QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
2.http://cgi.ebay.com/VERY-RARE-NR-MINT-BANDAI-BMW-ISETTA-JAPAN-TIN-FRICTION_W0QQitemZ6027360460QQcategoryZ737QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

and look at this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1,1&item=6998798904&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1

Sure its a lil different with color. Someone jsut painted some more red on it. But that decreases the price to $20???? Also, I think the guy doesn't now what hes got.

good night

I'm going to make a movie or flash video or something with the song "Dragula" by Rob Zombie in it. That, no this, song is awesome. I think it will involve.....Zombies.....and.....people getting away from the Zombies. Maybe....they find a .....a......tank, no too slow......a British Ferret?hmmmmmm yesss a british ferret.....NO! an old European car......a sedan....or something......a Messerschmitt would be too small I think. I was planning on it being a group..... AH HA! A Hot Rod with exhaust pipes coming strait out of the hood...or something close.....a rat rod.......this one
http://i16.ebayimg.com/03/i/05/00/79/1a_1.JPG
There we go.

Although..............I guess they could take a TG500 sport.

and who knows where they would go. But there would be zombies on the road and stuff too. Zombies are funny.



And its really hard to do Chemistry while listening to the beginning of "More Human than Human". If you've heard the begining then you will understand what I am talking about.



And yes, I am aware that this is very very strange. I just thought onto the keyboard and didn't use the backspace key.

Well Mr. Samblob, I see what you are saying although I know next to nothing about my MG. I don't know how to work on it at all (Electrics and Mechanical), I don't really know the history all that well, and it has many annoying and illegal problems: when it rains, water gets in, there are no brake lights, there are no working windshield wipers, there are no working turn signals, there is no working gas or temperature gauge. Those are just a few problems. It has had an old (1980s) amateur restoration. I love the car but Messerschmitts are my true favorites, hence the name of my live journal. With Messerschmitts, The engines are simple, it's just a little two stroke. I admit that I have no idea what I'm doing when it comes to engines although I hear that Messerschmitts are not hard to work on. I think it would also be a good car to learn how to work on. The Messerschmitt I'm getting is unrestored, RUST FREE, and was home painted. That's about all I know. I have liked Messerschmitts for over a year now. I used to have a DAILY favorite car. I also have to admit, I know quite a bit about Messerschmitts. I can recite the entire History off the top of my head. If the Messerschmitt I get has a few problems, I can deal with that. There are many microcar forums and there is the MOC which can also help me. There aren't many Magnette enthusists. The thing was, when I got my MG I was expecting it to be in pretty good condition. Sure i can drive it but all those things that don't work make it not legal and definately not safe. The thing about the Messerschmitt is that I can deal with cosmetic problems(if there are any). They are also easily fixable. An entire new interior set costs $200 in blue, black, or red leather. I dont really need gauges. I can just stay at the same speed as the traffic. There is no gas gauge but thats why we have the odometer. So if the Messerschmitt can hold around 3 gallons and gets about 60mpg, then I can just estimate when it is time to get more gas. I can also carry a spare gallon on the side of the back seat underneath the side (because of the 85/15 seating split in the back). The Messerschmitt would also win me trophies if I took it to car shows. Sure I can't carry as many people as my MG could (a record of 5) but I like it more, it's got more nifty things, aka the door, the hood, 3 wheels, its engine, its seating arrangment, its shape, its steering wheel. Suprisingly, the Messerschmitt has a very large supply of parts from many different people. The MOC has a massive list of almost every single part for the Messerschmitt. There is also a guy named Chris in the Netherlands who sells some other parts that the MOC won't sell to Americans. It is nearly impossible to find parts for the MG because they are rare and not made anymore(the MOC makes their parts).


Anyway, I think that's all of my reasons for wanting to get a Messerschmitt. I hope I didn't bore you too much...

-Connor

All in favor of me keeping my MG say "I".

All in favor of me selling my MG and getting a Messerschmitt say....."poo".


Actually I just wanted to get another post in before I go to sleep. I think a good 2 people or so read this anyway. That's OK tho.