PS: Sorry for the late reply, Rex. The place with the great rides is not 100 miles from Disney Land or World. It's 100 miles (well, a little less) from us, yet the Disney park is much farther away.

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Mr. Anon, you may not understand adult Disneyland lovers, but they definitely exist. When my (now ex-)wife and I were in our forties, her standard Christmas present from me was an annual pass. And my 49-year-old stepdaughter plans to have her boyfriend take her there this November.

Achmed, which park are you talking about that's 100 miles from Disneyland and has steep, hairy rides? Magic Mountain is closer than that, Knott's is MUCH closer, and I can't think of any other candidates.

PS: Ooops, never mind the rack (maybe a worm gear though?). Friend said he'd never worked on these doors but the inside - motor and cables - shouldn't be too big a deal.

PS: I thought about asking my mechanic friend about those van doors, Adam, but then I remembered he doesn't do body work. I suppose he may have fixed one of these mechanisms before, either the rollers and tracks or the stuff inside the door - the motor and some worm gear/rack or whatever.

I'll ask him tomorrow.

PS: I didn't notice new comments till now.

Mr. Anon, for my parents it would have been a matter of money, even in "the day"s prices. I don't think we would have cared much anyway. It's hairy rides that we were after. There are plenty of better places for that, or WERE, at least.

Oh, so you've been on the Wolverine Ride, I see. That sounds like an E-ticket one!

PS: Good morning, y'all!

𝐼'𝑙𝑙 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑑𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑒𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑖𝑐 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑏𝑙𝑒𝑚 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑡 𝑜𝑓 𝑠𝑎𝑖𝑑 𝑣𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒...

Indeed. Other than the lame(ish) transmission thing, Honda Odysseys are fine cars. They're practical, reliable, pretty good on gas, and as nice as a Honda should be.

(You know Hondas. Change the oil, brakes, tires, windshield wipers, etc. as needed and don't forget to do the timing belt & water pump every ~75k. Also, CV axles. But that's about it.)

(Though I do wonder how on god's green earf one goes about fixing those motorized sliding doors when they break. I've never had to deal with such a thing, but I do imagine they break from time to time just like anything else. And as I've never really looked into how that mechanism works, I guess I'm trying to say, it is still a mystery to me. Now, on an other hand, go ahead and ask me how one fixes a broken sunroof. That is something I do know how to fix. No longer a mystery.)

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𝐼 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑎𝑣𝑒 𝑎 𝑐𝑎𝑔𝑒 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ 𝑎 𝑙𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑤𝑜𝑙𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝑖𝑡 𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑝𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑡𝑜 𝑚𝑦 ℎ𝑒𝑎𝑑.

Oh my... That sounds rather unpleasant.(!)


Happy Sunday! ☮️

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My parents took me to Disneyland once when I was ten or eleven. I guess I liked it. I have no particular memories from it.

I'm sure they didn't especially enjoy it. They would have preferred to see some historical sites - an old fort or mission or mansion from old California.

I don't understand people who go to Disneyland/world as an adult. I would sooner have a cage with a live wolverine in it strapped to my head.

PS: I'm not completely sure about "to Germany", but they were headed to Europe via the port of Charleston.

PS: Well, I'll have to add that the mechanic has no problem with the rest of said vehicle. (It's not too high on milage, IIRC, the low 100,000s, a "barely pre-owned" car today, haha.).

Here's something interesting I didn't know about until I saw, and that is, that the BMW plant right off of Greenville-Spartanburg airport ships some of their product overseas, as in to Germany, I would imagine! You are indeed a purist.

Interesting about the 4wd mini-vans. Back to being a purist, there's a guy in town with this very small Japanese van that he shipped from Japan, with its RH steering and all! He loved it. We talked to him a few years ago, then my kid and I saw it at an intersection a few months back.

PS: Good morning, Mr. Moderator!

𝑊ℎ𝑒𝑛 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑠𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒 1𝑠𝑡 𝑔𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑤𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑜𝑛𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑛𝑒𝑠 𝑚𝑎𝑑𝑒 𝑖𝑛 𝐽𝑎𝑝𝑎𝑛, 𝑑𝑜 𝑦𝑜𝑢 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑤ℎ𝑜𝑙𝑒 𝑣𝑒ℎ𝑖𝑐𝑙𝑒 𝑜𝑟 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠𝑚𝑖𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑜𝑛?

I mean the whole vehicle. (First gen Honda Odysseys were made in Sayama Japan.)(Sencond gen odysseys were made in Lincoln Alabama and Alliston Ontario. All the newer Odysseys that were sold in North America were made in Lincoln Alabama.)

(Also somewhat interesting, to me anyway, some of the first gen Odysseys were available with 4wd, but they were never sold in North America.)

Wildly, (and much like German cars) they used to make Japanese cars in Japan.

I don't want a Mercedes that was made in Tuscaloosa any more than I want a BMW that was made in Spartanburg. And I'm really not interested in any Japanese car that wasn't made in Japan.

I guess I'm a ＜s＞snob＜/s＞ purist (or something?).

Cheers! ☮️

PS: This guy SHOULD be paying attention, Alarmist. He's a Christian with his kids at a Christian school. Don't they keep up with anything there?

I do remember that thing after the Superbowl. I can't remember it the 1st one was just a line a guy said, and that Disney went with it. Or, did they set the whole thing up as a different kind of ad?

I can remember when re-runs of "The Mickey Mouse Club" were on TV even. That was a different time, you understand ... a MUCH different time.

If you want to lay it out here, I don't mind at all, Mr. Blanc. I hope the fate of the devil mouse lies with a big cat of some kind. Cats are not kind to mice at all. I wanna see that.

PS: Yep, that's the van, Adam. This one is an early 00's, I thnk.

When you say 1st generation only ones made in Japan, do you mean the whole vehicle or the transmission?

PS In 1973 I was visiting my grandparents in Sarasota. By chance, my father, step-mother, and two youngest half-brothers (then 8 and 10) were visiting as well. They were going to return to Michigan via Orlando, to visit Disney World. They asked if I wanted to join them. A chance for a little bonding with the sibs would have been a good thing, but otherwise I had no interest in Disney. I took a pass. I don’t want to endanger your site, so I won’t say what I think should be done to the Disney cesspits of degeneracy.

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Q: “Why would you, on an obviously tight budget, put out a couple of thousand to support those who hate your kind? Plus, the steep, hairy roller coasters are right down the road!”

A: Not everyone is paying attention: The Devil Mouse House is living large on a long but undeserved reputation of wholesomeness. Do you remember back in the day when Superbowl champs would exclaim, “I’m going to Disneyworld” ?

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PS: Greetings, Achmed!

Generally speaking, the only Honda Odysseys worth buying are the first generation*. All subsequent Odysseys have the shit transmission problem. The first gen (1994-1998) were the only ones made in Japan.

* There was some sort of quality control issue in 1995. Don't buy a 1995 Honda Odyssey. They too have shit transmissions.

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