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Originally Posted by RonP
Thanks for the Congrats guys. Pete, I am not sure about that one more. Getting a little wore out, but there isn't much better than being a CWO5 in the Corps as far as I am concerned. Plus you dang near make what a LtCol does.
anyway, here is an update as of an hour ago.
Ok, I talked to the President of the club today. He blew smoke at me at the entrance of our housing area so I did a u-turn and we had a chat. Seems like an alright guy. Has nice rig for sure. I expressed my concerns about the safety factor in this when they smoke out intersections and other public places (school buses). He informed me there was no law here for black smoke. that is fine, but there soon will be if they keep it up. I also informed him about the Marine Base and their growing interest in why they keep getting reports about smoking diesels. He agreed to talk to the club and curb the smoke some. That is all I can do at this point. If I see it on base or excessive in town again, I will do a 3rd party ciatation on who ever it is and they will have to go to base traffic court and I will be there to inform the judge as to exactly why the truck smokes.
on another note, he said the truck runs 10:80s at 133mph and he will be at the Jacksonville dragstrip soon. I would love to see that but I am moving soon. I mentioned JohnP and he said he had heard about him, but like he said, his runs 10:80's.
I just hope they curb it some because I could have taken a whole different approach to this and I am trying to be cool as I am a gear head myself.
Thanks guys
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hmmmm.. in all humility I've gotta admit that if I get tailgated on base. (which happens alot on Lejeune because I actually follow the speed laws) I let out some to give them a message, works well. I've pulled into Piney Green shopping center and stopped and talked to the black smoke mafia guys one time and they seem to be good dudes. The one cat with the single stack and long bed white dodge can definately chug the coal and he isn't afraid to roll it. I dunno.. Moderation is probably the best course here. You don't have to dot out the sun at every stoplight you leave but at the same time it's fun to puff out some, especially when all the young ricer/lowrider guys are trying to chug up your rear end out on western Blvd.
Lejeune/Jacksonville is off the hook for bombed out diesels. I've never been in any part of the country the size of this area that has such a concentration so I can understand the CWO's concern for it going overboard and causing a new base order to be put into effect, I'd be lying to you if I were to say that I don't roll it out of my 12 valver sometimes but I'm also not rolling it all over at any chance..
I would post up a pick of my truck but I don't want anyone recognizing it and getting their feelings hurt because I gave them a black love squirt at some point and time.. lol
Last edited by greg@Lockitup : 07-22-2008 at 08:38 PM.