It's been awhile.
A long time ago, around '07, '08, I was a somewhat regular poster at NICO. I joined and wrote postings under the pseudonym "JHof". I had a lot to write about, and I did, resulting in some of my posts getting bundled into a column, "Skidmarks". It is still around somewhere onsite, buried in the archives.
Then one day, I experienced a massive crash, a computer depixelization, and my ability to communicate with NICO was compromised. With a brand new computer, I tried several times to log back on and was frustrated each time, so eventually I stopped trying and moved on, often visiting but never posting.
A few weeks ago, AZHitman, Greg, jumped onto my facebook page with a few comments, an the old desire to opine about Nissans, Infinitis and Datsuns bubbled up from the swamp of memory, so I found a way to rejoin NICO and now I'm back.
I'm a serial Datsun/Nissan owner. I bought my first Datsun, the near-forgotten 610, way back in the early '70s. Since, I have personally registered and driven nearly ALL the Z-car versions, owned a "Nissan by Datsun" 810 sedan, owned a pickup, a memorable 200SX, had a Y2K Maxima ( one of the very few automatic FWD cars that I ever called mine), a 350Z and, currently an Infiniti G35 Coupe. They have all been good to great cars, and I have nothing bad to say about any of them. Nissan is my car of note, and I'm qiute comfortable saying that I'm a "Nissan guy".
I have owned other cars, notably a Supra, which was a real POS, an Eldorado, a '56 Chevy that cost me $5.00 to purchase and now, if it's still on this Earth, is probably a $50,000 car; I even had a Yugo, but the lure of Nissan, their style, dependability and generel appeal has kept me in the loyal fold for a long, long time.
My G35 is still with me. A faithful companion, it has some serious flaws but it is still chugging away, now with 113,000 miles under it's chassis. My 1987 200SX, a real trooper, left my garage a couple years ago with nearly 300,000 miles on her, a gift to my grandson. Unfortunately, he got into a wreck and had to give the car up.
so, the saga of me and Nissan continues, and in the coming days I hope to entertain NICO readers with some stories of car ownership, road trips and growing older.
It has been awhile, but I'm back...
AH, WELL, I'M BACK
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i remember those "skidmarks" stories. they were very interesting and entertaining reads. great to have you back, and hopefully we can revive that series of stories/articles.
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Can't wait for more story!
Can you tell the one of how you 'broke in the back seat' for the first time in one of your Nissans? :P
Can you tell the one of how you 'broke in the back seat' for the first time in one of your Nissans? :P
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Welcome back!
Your penmanship will raise the bar and set a great example for the noobs.
Your penmanship will raise the bar and set a great example for the noobs.
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JerryHofschneider
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Re: AH, WELL, I'M BACK
frapjap--
I think you may be referring to an incident from my pre-Nissan days, probably a couple of lines from "The $5.00 Chevy".
Most all of my Nissans have been 2 seaters, or else they had a back seat that was so miniscule that frisky behavour would have been near impossible. I did have a Maxima, but I don't think I EVER got into the back seat in that car. I once owned a Chrysler 300-J that had a back seat as comfy as a leather sofa. That one got "broke in" more than once...
I think you may be referring to an incident from my pre-Nissan days, probably a couple of lines from "The $5.00 Chevy".
Most all of my Nissans have been 2 seaters, or else they had a back seat that was so miniscule that frisky behavour would have been near impossible. I did have a Maxima, but I don't think I EVER got into the back seat in that car. I once owned a Chrysler 300-J that had a back seat as comfy as a leather sofa. That one got "broke in" more than once...
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Can't wait to hear more stories! Glad you're back-
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He called tonight from California and we had an hour-long conversation about what's happening now and what will be happening.
He's training to be a mechanic, working with the nuts, bolts and advanced electronics on one of the Air Force's most sophisticated aircraft.
Sometime this summer, after he has learned what he needs to learn and whenever the USAF gets around to it, he'll go to his next assignment--South Korea.
I was honored by the call. He's a good kid and will do well wherever he winds up.
My Grandson, Airman E-3, off on the adventure of a lifetime.
When he was in Junior High, I made a pact with him. Do well in school, I said, and I guarantee you'll have a car when you start your Senior year.
He did well.
Entering his final year of High School, he had a 4.3 out of 4.0.
He called over that summer...
"Hey, Grandpa, you remember our pact?'
'Yes, I do".
'Well, I'm coming up this weekend to collect the car"...
'The Car" is...was... my old faithful companion, my 260,000 mile 1987 Nissan 200SX. The SE V-6 model,a hatchback. Or, as he has always called it, the S-12. He's inherited the Nissan genome from me, there's no doubt about that.
When he was born, I drove over to the hospital to welcome him to Planet Earth in the thing.
When his legs grew long enough, I taught him how to drive, how to master the manual transmission, and when he graduated, a co-valedictorian with the same 4.3/4.0 GPA, a lettered soccer player, a star in his little country school, he was known as the Senior with the Cool Car.
I went to his graduation, and after all the ceremony and pomp and circumstance, we went off with the rest of the family to a celebratory dinner. His friends clustered around him, anxious to meet the grandfather who gifted him with his car...
He motioned me aside, tossed me the keys and said "You drive, Grandpa. I know you're dying to", and off we went, the Graduate and I ,shifting gears and tossing off high fives in the little black Nissan. It was the first time I'd driven it in over a year.
None of his buddies had any idea just what the little black hatchback actually WAS, because none of them had ever actually SEEN one on the road. And none of them, zero, knew how to use a manual transmission. A few of them waved and looked on in envy as we drove out of the parking lot...
I had the car since 1989. I bought it with around 14,000 on the odo and drove the hell out of it for 23 years. It went from my main car to my Spare Car to a valued and respected old friend. Over the decades that it occupied real estate in my garage, it hardly ever broke, it stayed dependable and sturdy and it became a prized possession, much more than just a car.
(If you're interested, the S-12's biography is buried in "Skidmarks" here on NICO. "17 Years With a Z's Cousin" ,I think the title is. The final sentence turned out to be ironically prophetic...).
He went off to college, went through a couple of part-time jobs and girlfriends, drove it up to Ocala a couple times, and settled into his routine with his cool, dependable car.
Two years passed, and one rainy night my phone rang.
He was in tears when he told me how the little Nissan slid on a dark and rainy road and punched into the back of a pickup truck. He apologized profoundly for destroying it. It was beyond his means to repair it, even if he could find the parts needed to do so.
I told him not to worry, and since there were no injuries or lawsuits involved to just move on, don't look back.
He got a cheap Ford Escort ( stick shift, of course), got an Associate degree and joined the Air Force.
The Nissan got sold, for $700, he said , to some guy down the road in St Petersburg.
A lucky guy...
He's training to be a mechanic, working with the nuts, bolts and advanced electronics on one of the Air Force's most sophisticated aircraft.
Sometime this summer, after he has learned what he needs to learn and whenever the USAF gets around to it, he'll go to his next assignment--South Korea.
I was honored by the call. He's a good kid and will do well wherever he winds up.
My Grandson, Airman E-3, off on the adventure of a lifetime.
When he was in Junior High, I made a pact with him. Do well in school, I said, and I guarantee you'll have a car when you start your Senior year.
He did well.
Entering his final year of High School, he had a 4.3 out of 4.0.
He called over that summer...
"Hey, Grandpa, you remember our pact?'
'Yes, I do".
'Well, I'm coming up this weekend to collect the car"...
'The Car" is...was... my old faithful companion, my 260,000 mile 1987 Nissan 200SX. The SE V-6 model,a hatchback. Or, as he has always called it, the S-12. He's inherited the Nissan genome from me, there's no doubt about that.
When he was born, I drove over to the hospital to welcome him to Planet Earth in the thing.
When his legs grew long enough, I taught him how to drive, how to master the manual transmission, and when he graduated, a co-valedictorian with the same 4.3/4.0 GPA, a lettered soccer player, a star in his little country school, he was known as the Senior with the Cool Car.
I went to his graduation, and after all the ceremony and pomp and circumstance, we went off with the rest of the family to a celebratory dinner. His friends clustered around him, anxious to meet the grandfather who gifted him with his car...
He motioned me aside, tossed me the keys and said "You drive, Grandpa. I know you're dying to", and off we went, the Graduate and I ,shifting gears and tossing off high fives in the little black Nissan. It was the first time I'd driven it in over a year.
None of his buddies had any idea just what the little black hatchback actually WAS, because none of them had ever actually SEEN one on the road. And none of them, zero, knew how to use a manual transmission. A few of them waved and looked on in envy as we drove out of the parking lot...
I had the car since 1989. I bought it with around 14,000 on the odo and drove the hell out of it for 23 years. It went from my main car to my Spare Car to a valued and respected old friend. Over the decades that it occupied real estate in my garage, it hardly ever broke, it stayed dependable and sturdy and it became a prized possession, much more than just a car.
(If you're interested, the S-12's biography is buried in "Skidmarks" here on NICO. "17 Years With a Z's Cousin" ,I think the title is. The final sentence turned out to be ironically prophetic...).
He went off to college, went through a couple of part-time jobs and girlfriends, drove it up to Ocala a couple times, and settled into his routine with his cool, dependable car.
Two years passed, and one rainy night my phone rang.
He was in tears when he told me how the little Nissan slid on a dark and rainy road and punched into the back of a pickup truck. He apologized profoundly for destroying it. It was beyond his means to repair it, even if he could find the parts needed to do so.
I told him not to worry, and since there were no injuries or lawsuits involved to just move on, don't look back.
He got a cheap Ford Escort ( stick shift, of course), got an Associate degree and joined the Air Force.
The Nissan got sold, for $700, he said , to some guy down the road in St Petersburg.
A lucky guy...
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PapaSmurf2k3
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Re: AH, WELL, I'M BACK
Damn. That's deep.
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SUP DUDE
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JerryHofschneider
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Eightyfour Months
So, let's say it's been seven years since I've provided any meaningful drivel to this site.
Seven years-- that is one in dog years, 1 and 3/4 terms in Presidential years, a completed payoff in auto-finance lingo, a college education, with grad school and student loans added on, 70% of a decade, 10% of my existence here on Planet Earth.
During that time, my hair went gray, my grandaughter became literate and ISIS emerged from the ooze. Superstorm Sandy had its' way with the Northeast and electric Teslas became an automotive reality, Volkswagen became the largest automaker on the planet-- just before it became an automotive shame-- and beloved Infiniti changed all it's designations, embraced the Q, and baffled everyone as to WTF their car lines actually were. (They seem to be trying to emulate Cadillac a bit too eagerly.).
I'm waiting for them to "Q" up the Z car. The 370 QZ, perhaps ??? V8 powerplants grow rare and the turbo 4 has become the New Six.
Bentley now builds trucks, and you can't buy a new Suzuki car, a Dodge truck (or Viper) or a Pontiac anything anymore. SAAB has vanished and Volvo speaks with an Indian accent. And venerable Buick, a car line shunned by most Americans, has become the favorite of the Communist peoples of China, where it is thought of as a limousine. So there, America.
NiICO expanded like a digitalized balloon, so much so that the site went from a big box store to a hypermall. The once intimate NICOclub has become HUGE, like a Trump analogy or a Federal Budget. But bigger, for lack of a better word, can be better. (redundancy inferred)
Dubai, for example, built a skyscraper that actually scraped sky, the Federal deficit got large enough to potentially screw everybody. Hyundai has become competitive in the big-time, luxury world of Benz and Lexus, and Chrysler was osmosed into FIAT and started speaking Italian, poorly, ---It is losing more money than ever before, now that it has become larger.
Oh, yeah--the robot car, something that mere humans have labeled "autonomous" is about to be unleashed into a population pf drivers who have no desire to actually drive. Those of us who actually enjoy driving must prepare ourselves to be marginalized. The enthusiast is going to become a minority within a minority, if mighty Google has it's way.
Here at NICO, I recognize a lot of names from the olden days, folks whose post counts have climbed into five figures; it's comforting to see the Old Guard still functioning, here in the hypermall of automotive arcana.
Seven, eight years ago, just before my abrupt departure, Hillary was running for the Oval Office ( if I were a sarcastic, smartass sexist Republican, back then I would have called it the "Ovulating Office", but that was then and this is now ), wars were being halfheartedly fought in places that NO American would ever want to visit and the American economy was beginning it's freefall into third-worldism.
Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea were "governed" by complete Marxist azzholes and 'South Park" was pumping metaphorical vulgarity into the heads of pimply-faced undergrads.
(Hmmm, not much has really changed, it seems).
Gasoline, the reason things like Nissan and NICO (...and I...) desperately depend upon to function, was $3.00.9, then $4.00.9, then $2.00.9, proving that commodities CAN be schitzophrenic, just like ex-wives.
Today, everybody pokes their apathetic faces into little telescreens and communicates in arcane symbols ( ie; LOL, WTF, CTS, ROLF, KMA, FU2, etc) and Apple --which to a newer, hipper generation no longer means a fruit or references The Beatles-- has become a world unto itself, stashing a trillion dollars in banks around the world and providing employment to legions of Chinese while still insisting that it's an American company.
We no longer use "phones". We are bound by electronic sinew to computers, which have SOME ability to be a phone but are now cameras, wallets, libraries and SIRI-style robots that make everybody instant experts and have more influence over the population than The Bible or trans-fats ever did.
I've had a lot of adventures in the past seven. I've traveled, had medical issues, gone through a couple of poorly- built used cars and have squandered a goodly part of my massive fortune. the G35 grew older, inventing glitches for itself that no man could have anticipated, my family went in several directions at once; I quit smoking (...cigarettes), gained weight, stopped drinking, lost weight, saw new places, made new friends, pissed off some old ones, won and lost some interesting women, acquired valuable wisdom and misplaced my metaphors and my car keys more than once.
Some of that I will try to recount, now that I'm back to writing things down at Club NICO. Some I'll just keep to myself. Some I'll try very hard to forget...
Seven years...
Seven years-- that is one in dog years, 1 and 3/4 terms in Presidential years, a completed payoff in auto-finance lingo, a college education, with grad school and student loans added on, 70% of a decade, 10% of my existence here on Planet Earth.
During that time, my hair went gray, my grandaughter became literate and ISIS emerged from the ooze. Superstorm Sandy had its' way with the Northeast and electric Teslas became an automotive reality, Volkswagen became the largest automaker on the planet-- just before it became an automotive shame-- and beloved Infiniti changed all it's designations, embraced the Q, and baffled everyone as to WTF their car lines actually were. (They seem to be trying to emulate Cadillac a bit too eagerly.).
I'm waiting for them to "Q" up the Z car. The 370 QZ, perhaps ??? V8 powerplants grow rare and the turbo 4 has become the New Six.
Bentley now builds trucks, and you can't buy a new Suzuki car, a Dodge truck (or Viper) or a Pontiac anything anymore. SAAB has vanished and Volvo speaks with an Indian accent. And venerable Buick, a car line shunned by most Americans, has become the favorite of the Communist peoples of China, where it is thought of as a limousine. So there, America.
NiICO expanded like a digitalized balloon, so much so that the site went from a big box store to a hypermall. The once intimate NICOclub has become HUGE, like a Trump analogy or a Federal Budget. But bigger, for lack of a better word, can be better. (redundancy inferred)
Dubai, for example, built a skyscraper that actually scraped sky, the Federal deficit got large enough to potentially screw everybody. Hyundai has become competitive in the big-time, luxury world of Benz and Lexus, and Chrysler was osmosed into FIAT and started speaking Italian, poorly, ---It is losing more money than ever before, now that it has become larger.
Oh, yeah--the robot car, something that mere humans have labeled "autonomous" is about to be unleashed into a population pf drivers who have no desire to actually drive. Those of us who actually enjoy driving must prepare ourselves to be marginalized. The enthusiast is going to become a minority within a minority, if mighty Google has it's way.
Here at NICO, I recognize a lot of names from the olden days, folks whose post counts have climbed into five figures; it's comforting to see the Old Guard still functioning, here in the hypermall of automotive arcana.
Seven, eight years ago, just before my abrupt departure, Hillary was running for the Oval Office ( if I were a sarcastic, smartass sexist Republican, back then I would have called it the "Ovulating Office", but that was then and this is now ), wars were being halfheartedly fought in places that NO American would ever want to visit and the American economy was beginning it's freefall into third-worldism.
Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea were "governed" by complete Marxist azzholes and 'South Park" was pumping metaphorical vulgarity into the heads of pimply-faced undergrads.
(Hmmm, not much has really changed, it seems).
Gasoline, the reason things like Nissan and NICO (...and I...) desperately depend upon to function, was $3.00.9, then $4.00.9, then $2.00.9, proving that commodities CAN be schitzophrenic, just like ex-wives.
Today, everybody pokes their apathetic faces into little telescreens and communicates in arcane symbols ( ie; LOL, WTF, CTS, ROLF, KMA, FU2, etc) and Apple --which to a newer, hipper generation no longer means a fruit or references The Beatles-- has become a world unto itself, stashing a trillion dollars in banks around the world and providing employment to legions of Chinese while still insisting that it's an American company.
We no longer use "phones". We are bound by electronic sinew to computers, which have SOME ability to be a phone but are now cameras, wallets, libraries and SIRI-style robots that make everybody instant experts and have more influence over the population than The Bible or trans-fats ever did.
I've had a lot of adventures in the past seven. I've traveled, had medical issues, gone through a couple of poorly- built used cars and have squandered a goodly part of my massive fortune. the G35 grew older, inventing glitches for itself that no man could have anticipated, my family went in several directions at once; I quit smoking (...cigarettes), gained weight, stopped drinking, lost weight, saw new places, made new friends, pissed off some old ones, won and lost some interesting women, acquired valuable wisdom and misplaced my metaphors and my car keys more than once.
Some of that I will try to recount, now that I'm back to writing things down at Club NICO. Some I'll just keep to myself. Some I'll try very hard to forget...
Seven years...
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numbnuts240
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Re: AH, WELL, I'M BACK
Go on...
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JerryHofschneider
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Going on...
I do, usually...
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centralcoaster33
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Time flies! I like your way with words and look forward to you continuing to have your way with them! Are you going to have or do you already have a nickname, like Skidmarks, or are you Jerry? Ahem, Mr. Hofschneider, that is. And thanks for sharing what you have. I find it very captivating.
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Re: AH, WELL, I'M BACK
I was on board previously ( around 2007-08 ) as JHof, a much simpler nickname.
Skidmarks was a sort of blog that the admins set up to bundle some of my writings.
Those old posts are still around somewhere on NICO. Whenever I want to drench myself in nostalgia, I go to google, type in "JHof Skidmarks Nicoclub.com", like that, and up pops some of my old literary endeavors.
And everyone-- except cops and telemarketers --have always called me Jerry. Only my kids get to call me Mr Hofschneider.
Thanks for your comments...
Skidmarks was a sort of blog that the admins set up to bundle some of my writings.
Those old posts are still around somewhere on NICO. Whenever I want to drench myself in nostalgia, I go to google, type in "JHof Skidmarks Nicoclub.com", like that, and up pops some of my old literary endeavors.
And everyone-- except cops and telemarketers --have always called me Jerry. Only my kids get to call me Mr Hofschneider.
Thanks for your comments...
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PapaSmurf2k3
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Re: AH, WELL, I'M BACK
Great to have you back Jerry. Its crazy how much things have changed.
We were just discussing the fact that Wes will be turning 30 this year. What the hell happened?!
We were just discussing the fact that Wes will be turning 30 this year. What the hell happened?!
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JESDA
How've you been, Dude??
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Jerry, as I read this thread, I am sitting in an empty office... for today ends my 18.5 year run as a disgruntled government employee.
As such, I will have ample time to package and prettify the rants, rambles and rhetoric of NICO's most prolifically entertaining guest columnist.
Stay tuned - We're bringing skidmarks back.
As such, I will have ample time to package and prettify the rants, rambles and rhetoric of NICO's most prolifically entertaining guest columnist.
Stay tuned - We're bringing skidmarks back.
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Huh? Did you just retire?AZhitman wrote:Jerry, as I read this thread, I am sitting in an empty office... for today ends my 18.5 year run as a disgruntled government employee.
Excellent!Stay tuned - We're bringing skidmarks back.
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By the way, there's an easier way to find all of Jerry's wit and wisdom... Feel free to save the link: http://www.nicoclub.com/category/skidmarks-column
