Misreading Signals

[Muzh]

Was she Hawaian??  did you get Lei'd??   

In those days I was lucky if I got to second base on a sacrifice bunt.

[Rubicon]

In those days I was lucky if I got to second base on a sacrifice bunt.

Well at least you and her got there in big time style!!

[Daveman]

I think you would appreciate this since I can see you are a car guy.


For my senior prom, back in medieval times, my mother's cousin handed me the keys to a brand new 1972 DeTomaso Pantera just for the night. I guess he heard that I was blind dated for the prom since I was not really looking for a date (it was a really small school) but our advisor insisted I take her daughter. You  can guess how blind dates go. On top of that she was a soph in college so I can imagine her mother forced her to go with me, a mere highschool kid. Well, I got to her house and the reaction was identical for both of us. Jaw dropped to the floor. My, she was stunning. And so was my car. Boy, what a night!!!

Wow.... I think I'd have skipped the Prom and headed straight for California..       What color?  Those early Pantera's were wild looking weren't they?  Didn't those have the 351 Cleveland?  (I think the same engine as the 72-74 Mustang Mach 1's .. though I could be mistaken with my failing memory)...     and another example of a mutually beneficial arrangement! 

[Rubicon]

Wow.... I think I'd have skipped the Prom and headed straight for California..       What color?  Those early Pantera's were wild looking weren't they?  Didn't those have the 351 Cleveland?  (I think the same engine as the 72-74 Mustang Mach 1's .. though I could be mistaken with my failing memory)...     and another example of a mutually beneficial arrangement! 

They're all RED!!  At least that is the only color I have ever seen them in...

[Muzh]

Wow.... I think I'd have skipped the Prom and headed straight for California..       What color?  Those early Pantera's were wild looking weren't they?  Didn't those have the 351 Cleveland?  (I think the same engine as the 72-74 Mustang Mach 1's .. though I could be mistaken with my failing memory)...     and another example of a mutually beneficial arrangement! 

SkyBlue outside, black inside. 351 Cleveland (ay, ay, ay) with ANSA exhaust. Very different sound from the other 351s I should say. Seats were two plywood boards covered in leather but who cared. You were literally sitting on the floorboard. No powersteering (+100 except when parking), but power brakes and windows. 1st gear was on the bottom and really, you didn't need it. Trying to get those gearshifts (5, it was a ZF1) through the slots was an accomplisment by itself. Had a am/fm stereo only and all you could hear was the engine. Ah, yes. A/C.
 
Orgasm achieved in second gear.

[SANDRO43]

1st gear was on the bottom and really, you didn't need it. Trying to get those gearshifts (5, it was a ZF1) through the slots was an accomplisment by itself.

Ha, you poor drivers of automatic-gearshift cars, no wonder there are no US Formula 1 drivers -  the only exception was M. Andretti (he probably retained some Italian driving genes ).

I also had a bottom-slot 1st gear in my 5-gear Fulvia Coupé:

I prefer not to have some dumb mechanism decide when to change gears, and manual down-shifting is far better for slowing a car down. Here only women are fond of automatic gearshifts .

[Muzh]

Ha, you poor drivers of automatic-gearshift cars, no wonder there are no US Formula 1 drivers -  the only exception was M. Andretti (he probably retained some Italian driving genes ).

I also had a bottom-slot 1st gear in my 5-gear Fulvia Coupé:
 

I prefer not to have some dumb mechanism decide when to change gears, and manual down-shifting is far better for slowing a car down. Here only women are fond of automatic gearshifts .

Sandro, with all due respect, I've never owned a car with automatic transmition. I taught my wife, my oldest son and my daughter how to drive using a stick shift.
 
My first car was an NSU 1200 TTi.

[SANDRO43]

Sandro, with all due respect, I've never owned a car with automatic transmition. I taught my wife, my oldest son and my daughter how to drive using a stick shift. My first car was an NSU 1200 TTi.

Ah, a minority driver .

NSU TTS 1976 at the Nürburgring

A friend of mine had an NSU Prinz 4, its air-cooled 2-cylinder engine sounded like a sewing machine .

Other 'cars' of the late 1950s, powered by an air-cooled 2-cylinder engine, were the Italian Isetta and the 3-wheeled German Messerschmitt KR175 with tandem seats:

[Saltheart]

I have very limited experience to share but I will offer what I can.

The only site  I used was EM.  I did the platinum deal.  I put up what I think was a decent profile with some actual content.  My pictures were less than stellar that's for sure....hell, I put up my 325 LB pics, haha... 250 lbs now... (at the time they were the only ones I had on my laptop)... anyway, in the month I had it active, I was (to my surprise) contacted directly by about 30 women.  With the exception of 2-3 of them, they seemed very legit, especially as almost all of them responded directly to some specific things I had put in my profile.  EM seems to be very legit from what I can gather...but like anything, you need to try to parse through the BS and use your head.  I will say, what I did find very suspicious for some reason was the ones who wanted to goto private email within the 2nd contact...not sure why, but it just felt like a red flag to me.

I searched probably 700 profiles...of those, I found 12 I liked and sent expressions of interest....half of them declined to be contacted further haha, which honestly, I really found refreshing as it solidified my thought that the place was mostly legit.  The girl I am with now was literally my top pick...sent her an EOI....didn't hear back from her for 6 weeks... in fact, I was done searching at that point (sort of got into this in a non-serious way, just more of a selfish, safe way to see what's out there)...and when she contacted me, I was thrilled....so far so good.

Anyway, not sure this adds anything, but best of luck!