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[scarecrow]

Can't wait to master it... My wonderful wife  (love   bought a Garmin NUVI 205 GPS. No more getting lost  drive&& I hope :icon_confused:  flamebug**

[jthw8]

It will change your world.  My wife bought me one for the first BABE rally in 06.  Prior to that I always used mapquest and figured I didnt really need such a thing.  But it just makes life sooo easy :)   

Enjoy it, and use it to hunt down more cars and parts (thats how mine gets most of its use)

[lovebus (jack)]

 BO** BO** BO**  Now set it to 9 East Ave. Clayton NJ

[Beetleboi -Greg-]

Garmin's a great company, that's what mine is. I think mine is called the street pilot or something. You should be able to get a chip for you that tells you about bad traffic.

[Baha (Shawn)]

Just don't throw away your map... If you travel out into the middle of nowhere aided by your GPS and for some reason it fails... You'll be more lost than ever because you weren't memorizing landmarks as you would if you were trying to find the place.

I saw it on a 60 minutes piece about a new paradigm brought on by the popularity of Nav systems

[njgt-1]

Just don't throw away your map... If you travel out into the middle of nowhere aided by your GPS and for some reason it fails... You'll be more lost than ever because you weren't memorizing landmarks as you would if you were trying to find the place.

Believe it or not I still use an old Road atlas, gets me there all the same! Ok call me a dinosaur !

[Beetleboi -Greg-]

Bob I think my parents have one of those... I look at it and go cross eyed. It's like all 50 states and all major and some minor road ways. The only time that I've ever lost signal was when I'm in a parking garage or in a tunnel otherwise it's pretty trust worthy. *knock on wood* I drove to Pittsburgh once for a job using maps printed off of mapquest *this was after my first gps was stolen out of my car* and I was so paranoid about missing a turn that i spent most of the time driving with the map *route directions* on the steering wheel. I guess us new folks are are spoiled with technology. I was arguing with a guy this week who JUST bought a dvd player. He asked me how can I tell if this *the case he was hold* is blue ray or not, and I said simple we don't carry blue ray, but we should be getting it by December. I told him how he should think about getting a blue ray player because in 2 to 3 years DVD's will be harder to come by. He cursed at me and left. Today somebody called "Do you have the new Indian Jones on VHS" I wanted to say what the "F" is that? but I chuckled to myself and said no we havnt carried VHS for a good 4 years sorry.

[jthw8]

Believe it or not I still use an old Road atlas, gets me there all the same! Ok call me a dinosaur !

Dinosaur!!!!  Seriously Bob, I never thought I would get use out of one...but damn they are useful.

[njgt-1]

Today somebody called "Do you have the new Indian Jones on VHS" I wanted to say what the "F" is that? but I chuckled to myself and said no we havnt carried VHS for a good 4 years sorry.

 LoL LoL LoL LoL

thats a good one!
I'm not that bad when it comes to movies, I still have my VHS but I've had a DVD for years as well. Now my movie camera is still an "old" Panisonic  palm recorder with the small tapes!

Dinosaur!!!!  Seriously Bob, I never thought I would get use out of one...but damn they are useful.

I can see how they would be but my last long distance trip was to Florida about 6 years ago, I used the maps but it was easy, just drive south until you see water & lots of old people! 

[lovebus (jack)]

A GPS is GREAT you just have to learn to trust it. It always get me where I'm going.

[Beetleboi -Greg-]

I remember when we trusted my gps to get us to Flanders Jack, you kept questioning its knowledge! Gps knows all, i wish it would yell at you when you miss a turn instead of saying sweetly "recalculating".

[matt]

Believe it or not I still use an old Road atlas, gets me there all the same! Ok call me a dinosaur !

Saw one of those over the summer in a museum. :icon_tongue:

YEs, bring a map even though you have a gps.

My experience,

Bad weather can whack them,  ( even a heavy overcast) sometimes, but all it takes is sometimes for you to be "lost" until the storm is over.

Mine just quit today on the way back from the car show. just stopped.  :icon_eek:When I got home I got the manual, it said  If this happens, to remove the faceplate, hit reset button for 3 sec then try again. I would have never known that out on the road.....would have been bad on on familiar roads.

Mine is Garmin c340.


matt