The Official Argue About Where Upstate NY Is Thread

[Aldo]

This little pocket of the world seemed that way - most of the resident s seems to be building there own inventory very slowly around the houses...

I had a feeling i went right by you especially on way back GL -was on a mission - or I would have for sure slowed down and poked around ( lock museum ) I’d have tapped the brakes for that...

Yep used parts - that looks better no?



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[BmillsSkier]

That shaft on the left has a scratch on it.

[Timberridge]

Is upstate CT a repository for used auto parts any more than the Upstate might be?

Yeah, but in Upstate NY they remain on the cars. Back in the 90's when I used to race, there was a bunch of parts guys up that way. It was a convenient stop on the way back from Lime Rock after breaking something. Idk why they're all up that way. Antiques dealers and used auto parts are kinda the main industries around there. By the process of elimination I figured Aldo wasn't headed up to buy a 18th century mahogany slant front desk.

That shaft on the left has a scratch on it.

Aldo should post that in Tech Talk so guys could chime in how to fix that. Woulda saved him a trip to CT.

[BmillsSkier]

Yeah, but in Upstate NY they remain on the cars. Back in the 90's when I used to race, there was a bunch of parts guys up that way. It was a convenient stop on the way back from Lime Rock after breaking something. Idk why they're all up that way. Antiques dealers and used auto parts are kinda the main industries around there. By the process of elimination I figured Aldo wasn't headed up to buy a 18th century mahogany slant front desk.

That sounds oddly similar to the rural areas surrounding Mid-Ohio Road Course except the antiques are all family heirlooms made by the Amish population and the drive back home is considerably more filled with horse shit in the road.



Aldo should reconsider that desk though. A nice mahogany secretary is something that can be passed down from generation to generation and is a nice piece in any formal living room.

[EWG]

That shaft on the left has a scratch on it.

Frankly, for Upstate NY that's a lot less rust that I would have expected.

[BmillsSkier]

Frankly, for Upstate NY that's a lot less rust that I would have expected.

Aldo, did it fall off in a pothole? I mean, that's what they're there for right, to collect used car parts?

[Aldo]

From my plow truck - It ripped right out as I was rolling onto lift to fix the broken exh manifold studs I’ve been putting off for 3 years. It’s always right before the storm....

I didn’t think it was too rusty either - now this ? I try not to look...



I’d better go back to my secretary in the office before something else breaks....


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[Aldo]

Aldo, did it fall off in a pothole? I mean, that's what they're there for right, to collect used car parts?

the potholes knock em off the storm drains swallow em up

[Timberridge]

Gonna need that plow truck tomorrow, so get back in the shop. Its no time to put it to the secretary. Shit's about to get real 'round here.

[ötzi]

stopped there a few times when I lived up that way, but never stepped into the lock museum - the doors were always...

Open?

I have a question though. Is it locks, like on a canal? Or like on a door? Or perhaps hair?

[Timberridge]

Open?

I have a question though. Is it locks, like on a canal? Or like on a door? Or perhaps hair?

Or like the stuff you put on a bagel?

[Brownski]

Or like the stuff you put on a bagel?

I was born upstate so I’m no expert but I’ve been to Brooklyn a few times and ’m pretty sure that one is spelled differently.

[Aldo]

“ to preserve the engineering genius of locks and associated hardware “

Maybe they have a message board?


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[rideit]

“ to preserve the engineering genius of locks and associated hardware “

Maybe they have a message board?

I feel secure in saying there is one.

[Core Shot]

I always wondered what Locks of Love was all about

[ntblanks]

Open?

I have a question though. Is it locks, like on a canal? Or like on a door? Or perhaps hair?

looks like your question got answered.

but CT has canals, Jews who eat bagels with salmon, and curly-haired people, so a legit question.

[gravitylover]

That sounds oddly similar to the rural areas surrounding Mid-Ohio Road Course except the antiques are all family heirlooms made by the Amish population and the drive back home is considerably more filled with horse shit in the road.

Aldo should reconsider that desk though. A nice mahogany secretary is something that can be passed down from generation to generation and is a nice piece in any formal living room.

My desk, that I'm sitting at right now, was my great grandfathers desk that he bought when he was Thomas Edison's secretary.

From my plow truck - It ripped right out as I was rolling onto lift to fix the broken exh manifold studs I’ve been putting off for 3 years. It’s always right before the storm....

I didn’t think it was too rusty either - now this ? I try not to look...



I’d better go back to my secretary in the office before something else breaks....

Yeah that's what the front end of my Durango looked like. Apparently it collapsed on the guy last week and he's a little pissed at me...

[Aldo]

Tell you what they had a lock on in Terryville, I had to have passed 5 dunkin donuts within a few miles.

[Aldo]

hopefully it collapsed far enough to land on the oil pan and exempt you from that one. Wow it cracked the pan? huh..... hmm

[BmillsSkier]

Gonna need that plow truck tomorrow, so get back in the shop. Its no time to put it to the secretary. Shit's about to get real 'round here.

Wait, are we talking about that well-kept piece of mahogany?

Open?

I have a question though. Is it locks, like on a canal? Or like on a door? Or perhaps hair?

See, this is why this thread thrives. It answers many questions. And poses many more.

Or like the stuff you put on a bagel?

“ to preserve the engineering genius of locks and associated hardware “

Maybe they have a message board?


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If they do I’m fucking positive it’s more useful than the Wegmans “assistant”

My desk, that I'm sitting at right now, was my great grandfathers desk that he bought when he was Thomas Edison's secretary.



Yeah that's what the front end of my Durango looked like. Apparently it collapsed on the guy last week and he's a little pissed at me...

Well that’s fucking cool. The desk, not the guy. That’s a bummer but hey, caveat emptor.

Tell you what they had a lock on in Terryville, I had to have passed 5 dunkin donuts within a few miles.

Some kinda bizzarro no mans land up there. Tim’s and Dunkins fighting for hearts and minds and waistlines.

[Aldo]

I felt like I was driving right through this thread.

And also thinking if I had the correct slip on footwear for a quick rummage at an antiques showroom..

No , I added that part.


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[BmillsSkier]

Did you at least have pajama pants on? That’s just acceptable no mater whose slinging the donuts.

[Aldo]

Playing dangerous games with my street cred showing up at a strange wrecking yard in pajama bottoms ; “hey big guy, here for the driveshaft “ -
I’d guess , but Maybe I’m wrong.


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[BC13]

I recommend sliding over a bit west and rolling down Rt 12. Sherburne, Oxford, Chenango Forks, Greene. Some beautiful old homes that time forgot. Some totally run down places that time never knew. Buncha cops trying to catch you missing the speed limit drops every 10 minutes as you whip into the towns. Feels like an old pair of jeans. Your mileage, however, may vary.

Some beautiful old homes and sketchy back roads. That is one of the upstate drives many enjoy that I find unappealing. But that could be because I travel down that way for work and find it to be a slow and good awful boring drive.



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[gravitylover]

hopefully it collapsed far enough to land on the oil pan and exempt you from that one. Wow it cracked the pan? huh..... hmm

I dont know the details but it happened at highway speed and the passenger front wheel and hub assembly pulled over off the road without the truck.

See, this is why this thread thrives. It answers many questions. And poses many more.

Well that’s fucking cool. The desk, not the guy. That’s a bummer but hey, caveat emptor.

One of these days I'll clean it off so I can close it and get some pics, it is a really cool turn of the century piece that lives in the corner of our living room now. Yeah he crawled underneath but didn't look at the right places, I hinted at it but he missed it. Oh well huh.