Locate an Auto Repair Shop in Cheyenne, Wyoming

Ohhh... this could be interesting. I was just invited to the "Porsche World Roadshow" where I'll be driving nearly 3 hours up to Monticello NY to participate in a performance driving session on the track up there in the 911, cayman, boxster, panamera, and cheyenne, followed by an optional half hour on-road test drive of the car of my choice (I chose the base Panamera). Supposedly an exclusive event and you need a passcode to register. Space is limited, blah, blah, blah. Anyone else get this? Came in my email this morn. At first, the code didn't work, so I called Porsche, they said they've been experiencing problems, and they fixed it. I'm now registered for the 9:30am session on 6/11.

It's funny ... my parents were very much against Prop 13 when it was on the ballot. Since my dad was a firefighter, there was great concern about jobs. Since then, however, they decided to stay in the house all these years specifically because of Prop 13 - if they sold it and bought a new house, they'd lose the exemption. The low PT was very nice when the appraised value of their house exceeded $500K a few years ago, before the housing bubble burst. Now probably worth around $350K. And this is for a 1400sf ranch home on a 7200sf lot in a 45 year old neighborhood. As for us, we really don't know any better. The house I'm living in is the first one I've ever bought. The wife and her first husband owned a house in Cheyenne, but the purchase price was something like $58K, so I can't imagine that the PT were very much. When the time comes for us to move to warmer climes, PT will certainly be something to take into consideration for the next house we buy.

Jobs, Schmobs. Anytime any industry tails off, the people get other work. Americans adapt. Solar and Wind are not unreliable at all, when placed in the correct locations. Albuquerque (and other places) get 300+ days of sun per year....how "unreliable" would solar be in those towns? NOT VERY UNRELIABLE AT ALL. 10 sunniest cities Annual percent of possible sunshine 1. Yuma, Arizona 90% 2. Las Vegas, Nevada 85% 3. Phoenix, Arizona 85% 4. Tucson, Arizona 85% 5. El Paso, Texas 83% 6. Flagstaff, Arizona 79% 7. Fresno, California 79% 8. Reno, Nevada 79% 9. Sacramento, California 78% 10. Albuquerque, N.M. 76% Lots of cities and locales (I posted a chart last week) get daily wind averaging more than 12 MPH - how "unreliable" is wind in those areas? NOT VERY UNRELIABLE AT ALL. 10 windiest cities Avg annual wind speed in mph 1. Blue Hill Observatory, Massachusetts 15.4 2. Dodge City, Kansas 14.0 3. Amarillo, Texas 13.5 4. Rochester, Minnesota 13.1 5. Casper, Wyoming 12.9 6. Cheyenne, Wyoming 12.9 7. Great Falls, Montana 12.7 8. Goodland, Kansas 12.6 9. Boston, Massachusetts 12.5 10. Lubbock, Texas 12.4 Gary says, "So we get the negative benefits in the global air quality and lose the good benefits of cheaper power. So how smart is that? " I only understand HALF of that......How is getting "negative benefits" a smart thing?

>"What cars do you drive? Your MySpace page doesn't list anything." Right this minute mine and my wife's are a 09 Honda Ridgeline, 09 Toyota RAV4 that hasn't unintentionally accelerated, and a 78 Chevy Van. We originally set the Van up for towing medium size campers years ago. It probably towed a total of 2000+/- miles. Most trips were less than 50 miles. It has the extra engine and tranny cooling and 342 rear gear. Now it is generally used for trips to HD and Lowes because I can leave materials in it until I need them. It has been expensive to keep over the years. Working on the 3rd drive train, Engines, trannys and diffs. Towing is now done by the Ridgeline. ( utility trailer and boat) One of my sons, 33 years old got rid of his Dakota Pickup and Mustang (both build in the 2000s} and drives an 07 Ridgeline. Another son (39) has a 99 Jeep Grand Cherokee. It has cost him to keep everything working. And consequently a lot of stuff doesn't work any longer. Don't know what he will get. Like I've said, we aren't strangers to D3 cars. But in the 70s and 80s we didn't keep them long due to high upkeep. My 1st taste of a new Asian car was in 1973. I had been driving a 72 Chevy Cheyenne but is was troublesome. Sold it and bought a 73 Toyota Pick up. Hauled a bunch of motorcycles a lot of miles in the bed of that thing and worked out of it every day. I don't recall ever having it to a dealer for anything other than routine service. Got rid of that when finances got better and bought a Pontiac Catalina. Big trouble! Really got into Japanese stuff when I traded my Chevy Astro for a Mazda MPV in the mid to late 80s. Same experience. Astro problematic Mazda no problems except for the torque converter going out at 50K, which Mazda fixed with a new tranny free of charge. My wife had an 87 Olds and it got to a point that the engine and tranny were shot at 75K and she had a glovebox full of receipts from the Olds dealer just to keep the thing on the road. Traded it for a new 95 Maxima and again only saw the dealer for routine service. If there were any recalls done, I don't remember them. Kept the Maxima until we traded it at 75K miles for a new 03 CR-V. Traded that for the 09 Rav4. I had a 96 and a 98 Ram Sport during those Maxima years and they both were troublesome. Traded the 98 for an 03 Pilot and traded that for the 09 Ridgeline cause I wanted a light duty P/U. Been there and done that! :) Kip

Was waiting for the final outcome of this story before posting. My son and daughter-in-law live in Utah, but will soon be moving to Wyoming. Anyway, the son is already there, laying groundwork, so the DIL was meant to join him last weekend. While driving from UT to WY on I-80 near Rock Springs, WY, the DIL got distracted and wrecked their "good" car - the 2001 L200 that had probably 160K on the clock. Naturally, being young and poor, they didn't have collision on their insurance policy, so the car is a write off. On Friday, they go to buy a car in Cheyenne. They're thinking new Altima. Turns out, they need a co-signer, so we get a call to fulfill that role. No thanks - we co-signed on the L200 and that was it for us. So, last night, the DIL, now back in Utah, gets her parents to co-sign for them on a 2007 Dodge Caliber. All I know about the car is that it has between 40-50K on the clock, is silver and has the 2.4L engine with CVT. I think they paid somewhere around $13K for it - I know, not the best deal, but it gives them payments they can afford and a car with 1/3 the miles of what they were driving. (BTW, the "other" car is a late 90's Camry that she got from her older brother. It, too, has way over 100K on the clock and probably has only 1 or 2 body panels that aren't damaged in some fashion. I told her last night that when the time was right, they could probably sell it for $1500, using Shifty's logic that if it runs, it's worth that much)