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theterminator93 said:
I parked the car only 10 minutes ago - it wasn't snowing then. Viz is down to maybe 500' right now.

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It's been so snowy and nasty I haven't had a chance to take down the lights, either... 🥶
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I love days like this. As long as I am doing what you are doing, looking out the window. I hate driving in this becuase PEOPLE turn to complete idiots when it snows here. Like its the end of the world or something. I mean, you can drive a car easily at 35 in the snow without much issue, so why drive 15 mph in a 25? SERIOUSLY! Shew... rant over.
 
Drove by the old mall today, I saw the beginning of the demolition at around the end of October and didn’t look like they got much further than one anchor last I checked. Turns out based on today in the sunlight they must have worked their way from the inside out! RIP Stratford Square, I had some fun memories here, got all my Craftsman tools from this Sears.

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Zep5.0 said:
My brother had a dark gray 87. I got a ride in it when I was 11, and thought it was FAST. Certainly a quick car and ahead of it's time(small turbo engine)
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Awesome!
It’s a little quicker than stock, I upgraded the turbo, and swapped in a custom re-grind ranger roller cam, also added a 3” down pipe.
 
I really hated it when they closed my local sears. I bought a shitload of stuff there. Charlie would even order me stuff he didn't carry. I bought a plasma tv there, and he pricematched amazon, and gave me a 10% discount for cash, and delivered it free. 15 years later it's still working,but needs new caps in the power board.
 
XR7-4.6 said:
Drove by the old mall today, I saw the beginning of the demolition at around the end of October and didn’t look like they got much further than one anchor last I checked. Turns out based on today in the sunlight they must have worked their way from the inside out! RIP Stratford Square, I had some fun memories here, got all my Craftsman tools from this Sears.

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Wow.... so you saw the demise of Sears as well. One reason I used Craftsman was because I could drove 2 miles to the Sears and exchange my broken or outdated Craftsman tools there. Now, I don't know if Ace honors that or not, but someday I will have to try.

Sad about the Mall. As you mentioned, the mall was a great place to grow up around. Now they are deserted ghost towns and not much is there in the way of big name merchants. Sign of the times.
 
White Lincoln said:
Wow.... so you saw the demise of Sears as well. One reason I used Craftsman was because I could drove 2 miles to the Sears and exchange my broken or outdated Craftsman tools there. Now, I don't know if Ace honors that or not, but someday I will have to try.

Sad about the Mall. As you mentioned, the mall was a great place to grow up around. Now they are deserted ghost towns and not much is there in the way of big name merchants. Sign of the times.
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Yeah and this Sears was one of the last ones standing too, it closed in 2019!!! I was exchanging tools there to the bitter end and saw firsthand the decline in the store; in its heyday it was a two story department store, in the end it was blocked off to one story with basically the craftsman and appliance department within. I think the auto center too was gone by the last time I was there.

The overall mall got hit hard by the 2008 recession and never recovered, I think the theater was keeping it afloat prior to Covid. Venture deeper and there were tons of vacant stores in the last 15 years, one anchor (I think the former JCPenny/Macys) got demolished for a woodmans grocery store(which wasn’t connected to the mall so a whole wing inside the mall dead ended :facepalm:).

It’s a shame because it was a nice mall in its heyday, nicer than the larger and still thriving Woodfield mall in Schaumburg, it had nice inviting indoor architecture, lots of natural light, real plants and a great food court, big for a variety of businesses, not so big as to be overwhelming like Woodfield. I’m just glad I got to experience it in its peak, I had so many great memories with my parents there as a little kid and even more fun memories there with my friends on Friday nights when we were teens.

Shit I have no idea where to get my eyeglasses prescription checked now, I used the LensCrafters there since I was 6 years old 😆
 
My first job in the automotive world was as a mechanic at Sears. My first professional toolbox was a Craftsman. That was a sad and sorry demise.
 
White Lincoln said:
Sad about the Mall. As you mentioned, the mall was a great place to grow up around. Now they are deserted ghost towns and not much is there in the way of big name merchants. Sign of the times.
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Maybe where you live.

We got Santana Row and Westfield Valley Fair shopping Mall right down the street from the Winchester Mystery House if you want to eat Cheesecake factory after a Gucci shopping spree. 🤔
 
Son of a BITCH!!!

So all Cougars tend to have a minor issue where the one piece reflector assemblies develop a crack in the backer plastic in the middle above the plate, which my factory one had. It’s not something anyone sees but it’s something I know. Well back in 2019ish I stumbled across this utter unicorn intact in the junkyard and immediately grabbed it and even took pics of it because it was such an unbelievable sight to me…

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Well 5 years later, out of the blue, this is it today …

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:bawling::bangedbycougar
 
1997ThunderbirdLXV6 said:
...fun fact: in the Mk7 Jetta community, there's a similar phenomenon. The GLI rear spoilers all crack in the same spot.

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Thank god my sport spoiler is still one piece, the Cougar crack happens where the sun doesn’t shine at least!

It must be expansion/contraction, I’m just amazed this panel remained intact for nearly 30 years before my car finally did it in, I thought I just found a better mold composition as it was still in one piece last I drove it in November.
 
XR7-4.6 said:
for nearly 30 years
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Expansion and mounting probably. Damages like that can sometimes be avoided by adding rubber washers between the plastic panel and the metal mounting surface. Too late now...

Meanwhile this reminds me of a post from the Facebook group. Someone posted about his O/D OFF light bulb having burned out, and people commented he should swap in LEDs. And I'm like, the incandescent bulb lasted 30 years; just go with another incandescent for the next 30 years.
 
1997ThunderbirdLXV6 said:
Expansion and mounting probably. Damages like that can sometimes be avoided by adding rubber washers between the plastic panel and the metal mounting surface. Too late now...

Meanwhile this reminds me of a post from the Facebook group. Someone posted about his O/D OFF light bulb having burned out, and people commented he should swap in LEDs. And I'm like, the incandescent bulb lasted 30 years; just go with another incandescent for the next 30 years.
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I used butyl on the mounting nuts!

+1 on LEDs, I changed a few for them but I’m gradually going back to incandescents, because in reality LEDs too die, and their color sucks(bluish white isn’t white!!!)
 
Made the part on the left out of scraps this morning to replace the junk on the right from the PO. It supports the air filter on the dune buggy. My daughter ran the press for the dimple dies. The new one is 20.8 oz lighter, too. The tubing is actually pieces of flat that are welded into a rectangular tube shape.

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