![]() A partial tonneau cover and stylized roll bar loops complement the distressed leather interior of the two-seater. Next, the roof was cut off and a new wrap around windshield added. Once Chip took delivery of the Thunderbird, he molded new front and rear fascias and built new front and rear grille inserts. The vehicle was one of 3 Thunderbirds given to select hot rod builders, So-Cal Speed Shop and Bobby Alloway being the others, which would be modified and premiered in the Ford booth at the SEMA Show in Las Vegas. In 2002, Ford Motor Company provided Foose Design a model of the recently reintroduced Ford Thunderbird. While most of Chip’s custom creations are vehicles from years past, he also does work on modern era machines. Material / Color: Leather / Black with Burnt Orange inserts.Headlights / Taillights: Reshaped Volkswagen Beetle / Stock.Paint type / Color: BASF Glasurit / “Chipewter”.Grille: Custom grille inserts by Foose Design.Body Mods: Custom front and rear fascias, custom grille inserts, side vents and custom trim.Body Style / Material: 2002 Ford Thunderbird Roadster / Steel and epoxy front and rear fascias.Rear Wheel Make, Size: Foose custom wheel, 20″.Front Wheel Make, Size: Foose custom wheel, 20″.Front Suspension: Stock, lowered w/ Eibach Springs.Rear Suspension: Stock, lowered w/ Eibach Springs.It's too loud for street use if you have neighbors but would sure be fun to rip around a track. MaintenanceCosts Went and watched a few videos, and, damn, does that Voodoo sound good.They still have defined pensions and cost of living increases.Yes, the free market solves everything. Cars? Hah, only for the pink-handed never worked a day of manual labor in their life people working in finance/banks or federal or state bureaucacies. America, home of the free, land of the brave, will devolve into a feudal state. When the real middle and upper middle classes feel the unseen hand in their pockets in five or ten years, the days of the ultrarich lording it over the working masses will truly be here to stay. And the well-off like having wage-servants who bow and scrape for scraps. Expect urban decay and homelessness to increase, because after all, the free market solves everything. When you're working two jobs just to live meanly, you're too tired to complain. ![]() Conundrum Your standard of living will drop and you will like it because the free market solves everything.It's especially good at fleecing the less well off with myriad fees/late payment charges and higher inflated prices for food and rent.As with every "next big thing!", follow the grab for money and power by our "betters" loudly tilting at the windmill of nature to harvest that money and power. He!!, my fields haven't rebounded from the most recent glacial event, Wisconsin Glacial Episode, that milled them off smooth but left a butt-ton of rocks lying about. The Earth has not yet rebounded to the average temperatures of prehistoric times that have occurred between glacial events. The climate change warming currently occurring has been going on for tens of thousands of years since the recession of glaciation from the Holocene Glacial Retreat. Bullnuke "This ban also has nothing to do with “stopping climate change”.". ![]() People asking why the big car companies are investing in EVs its not just the 20 deadlines its the cost of the carbon credits they have to buy. By doing so, they can comply with regulations without having to make significant changes to their own operations. Tesla then stunned the carbon markets with its landmark $679 million credit sales in Q1 of 2022.The carbon credit market is a way for companies to offset their carbon emissions by investing in renewable energy and other carbon reduction projects.Companies that exceed emissions standards set by regulatory bodies can purchase carbon credits from companies like Tesla that are generating carbon offset credits through the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The big move came in 2020 with $1.58 billion in revenues from the sale of credits. In 2018 Tesla sold $419 million in carbon credits. It’s reported that Chrysler bought US$2.4 billion worth of Tesla’s Carbon Credits, accounting for the majority of the company’s sales in years past.
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