What did you do with your Thunderbird Today?

Picked up my personalized blackout license plates. Hopefully take a picture with them on Friday if things go well
 
1997ThunderbirdLXV6 said:
...speaking of which, how does one get the smell of gasoline off one's hands?

This stubborn yet not entirely unpleasant scent emanating from my finger tips reminds me of the days, in my teens, when I was dating a girl.
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In all seriousness I use this and it works amazing at removing any gas or oil smell
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I also find that any gojo orange and pumice hand cleaner does the trick cause the citrus oils that smell good and kill fuel odors, home depot and princess auto.. errr.. I mean Harbor freight, would carry this stuff
 
Jae 'Bird said:
In all seriousness I use this and it works amazing at removing any gas or oil smell
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I also find that any gojo orange and pumice hand cleaner does the trick cause the citrus oils that smell good and kill fuel odors, home depot and princess auto.. errr.. I mean Harbor freight, would carry this stuff
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I'm going to take a wild guess at what influenced @Zep5.0 to his username 😂
 
Jae 'Bird said:
In all seriousness I use this and it works amazing at removing any gas or oil smell
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I also find that any gojo orange and pumice hand cleaner does the trick cause the citrus oils that smell good and kill fuel odors, home depot and princess auto.. errr.. I mean Harbor freight, would carry this stuff
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This is what I use at the shop. Although I buy it in gallon jugs.
 
CDsDontBurn said:
I'm going to take a wild guess at what influenced @Zep5.0 to his username 😂
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It's a funny story, but you're kind of correct. I worked at a car dealership in my college days as a detailer. We used Zep products, and there was an old guy who couldn't say Seth correctly, so he called me Zep. Not long after the technicians in the shop started calling me that and it stuck. Since those were the years I drove the cougar it seemed fitting.
 
I took the radiator brackets off Lazarus; today I'm swapping the fuel rail over to the red cougar, as its rail is full of mud, from dirt dobbers; I missed the connections, but I got the other openings. I'll wash it out for reuse. I've got to rework the brackets to fit the cobra radiator.
 
Zep5.0 said:
It's a funny story, but you're kind of correct. I worked at a car dealership in my college days as a detailer. We used Zep products, and there was an old guy who couldn't say Seth correctly, so he called me Zep. Not long after the technicians in the shop started calling me that and it stuck. Since those were the years I drove the cougar it seemed fitting.
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LOL, that's awesome!

I'm pretty sure that all of us here have a story with our usernames.

Mine. Well, in my early 20s, I used to work for a regional computer repair shop named PC Club with a sales component. Think of it like Best Buy alongside Geek Squad. The company eventually expanded out of state and went as far as PA.

So I worked the sales side of the shop and would help customers with their items, answer questions, markups, etc.

One day, this older man comes in and is looking for a CD-ROM drive. I show him the drive and then show him the CD Burner right next to it for not much more, it was less than $10 more. He begins asking about the CD Burner and we eventually walk over to the register, me explaining to him the differences. Meanwhile, this older man just still isn't understanding the differences between the a CD-ROM drive and a CD Burner drive.

At this point, we've been at the register for a few more minutes, I'm still trying to explain the differences, and this man still doesn't get that CD-ROM drives don't burn CDs but CD Burner drives do, how it works, or what the differences are, and I'm frustrated at this point. In my frustration, I yell across the room to our lead tech and say, "Hey Chris! CDs don't burn, right?"

Not yet realizing what I had just said, I doubled down on what I said and repeat myself to the lead tech, "CDs don't burn, right?"

It was at that moment that everyone has eyes on me with glaring confusion. You could tell that the visible expression of confusion on the lead tech's face was that of, "WTF?"

The lead tech then replied with a, "That's right, CD-ROM drives don't burn CDs, but CD Burner drives do".

I don't remember if the older man bought the drive or not, but I remember that after he left and the store was empty of customers, everyone started poking fun at me and started saying, "Oh hey. It's Mr. CDs don't burn!" whenever I walked by or were looking for me.

And so yeah. That's my story to how I came up with my username 😂
 
My high school math teacher called me Mikey L. And at 17 years old, when I first registered for the old forum, I drove 100mph everywhere all the time, and my cousin said I was a madman behind the wheel. I also loved the movie Mad Max (more specifically the black XB Falcon), so combining that together came up with MadMikeyL.
 
Zep5.0 said:
How about Junkyard Bird?! Or JYB for short.
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28 Shift Knobs Later :D

Just when I think I'm being snarky, I come to realize right now that they released 28 Years Later earlier this year. Now I have to add that to my watch list because I really enjoyed the first two in the franchise and I'm not even big into the horror genre.
 
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