THANK YOU FOR LOOKING AT THIS ADD'L INFO. ON THIS UNIQUE CADDY. I HOPE THIS GIVES YOU A LITTLE MORE OF A FEEL FOR HOW THIS SYSTEM WORKS. This car is currently for sale in the $6,500 range.
!!!!UPDATE, I have been adding a high end stereo system to this vehicle, and although it will still be available for sale, there is a few thousand more that it will take to buy this vehicle. if interested, please contact me.
O.K. first here are a few screen shots:
this is the default desktop I use, Obviously you could change this to whatever you like, I like the clean, unclutered look. another thing I like to do sometimes is just run slideshows on screen through windows XP, And by the way, if you haven't used XP yet your in for a real treat, This is by far the best windows ever, and it makes everything before it feel buggy and old.
This is how the display shows what mp3 is playing. You can toggle the display on or off. when you raise or lower the volume remotely, the volume displays on screen for a few seconds, then disapears, like a home TV would. By the way, you can also adjust the bass, treble and balance through this. Another unique thing is that you can actually adjust the display brightness, contrast, and color through this interface!
this is how you select music to play, this is all done through the hand held wireless remote, or if you prefer, you could use the mouse. You could also use a different program like windows media player or winamp, but I like the minimal display and sleek remote functions of the creative set-up. Don't forget about the XM satellite radio that functions entirely independant of the computer, although you can STILL raise and lower the volume of that through the remote as well, EVEN IF THE PC IS OFF AT THE TIME! Satellite radio is great for when you want to listen to stuff that you don't have on the PC or when you may be using the computer for other stuff and want to free up some resources, and satellite radio is so good that I use it as my main music source most of the time.The audio is cd quality and the reception is continuous throughout the united states, so traveling is a pleasure instead of the dreaded "half way there and droping all of your local stations." the rest of the trip is spent searching for a station that is never right. XM has excellent programming and This happens to be another thing that once your used to having it, you would miss it when its not there. I've got so much media content at my fingertips that I have comletely abandoned using the regular am/fm radio to the point that I have disconnected the power to the orig. factory power antenna and it stays down PERMANENTLY! you, of course COULD hook it back up if you wanted to.
Your playlist can be as huge as you want it to be. the hard drive is upgraded to a 12 gig, And that's enough to store many many cd's worth of mp3's but you can even add an external usb hardrive rather inexpensively and have more music than you could ever listen to. An external usb hardrive is also a convienient way to move large files from your desktop computer to the car, however a wireless router is definately the BEST way. I've got a 40 gig harddrive in my office computer FILLED with mp3's and whenever I feel like it, I can just sit outside in the car and simply download whatever I may want to listen to wirelessly to the car, then drive home while listening to it!
From this screen, through the remote, you can add windows programs & launch them remotely. Here you see I can launch internet explorer and navigation (co-pilot 2002). you can add more windows programs to this list.
This is the navigation start-up screen. from here you can enter any address in the whole U.S. and the car will bring you there, no matter what. If you stray off course or miss a turn it will automatically notify you AND recalculate you route for you. This program is awsome and once you get used to having it you will miss it if you are forced to drive another vehicle without it, it's that good.
this is the normal operating mode of display for the co-pilot 2002 navigation set-up. As you can see, it is designed primarily with a touchscreen in mind, with large, finger friendly at 55mph buttons, on the right to control functions. It is designed to not feel like a windows application, rather it feels like a regular high end dedicated gps unit. I've found that for best results and performance you shouldn't attempt to run other programs while running this navigation program, and with this program if you try to run mp3's in the background, the music plays o.k., but the navigation software can get sluggish and give slow refesh rates, however this program alone is reason enough to install a computer in a car, even if you used it for nothing else!!! It also speaks to you and can tell you alot of other stuff, from when to turn, to how fast you are going, to how long until you arrive, AND although I have never hooked up a mic to it, you can, and then you could actually SPEAK BACK TO IT!! It accepts many different voice commands however if your wife is anything like mine, you will probably turn the speaking off when shes in the car. it can get a little annoying after a while.
This is the car on ebay on the car on ebay in the car. Where else could you see such a thing???? 21st century baby!!!
Browsing the web anytime, and anywhere is an awsome thing, I'm so used to the convienince of a system like this, that any car I am going to drive for more than just a short while will get a computer installed in it, plain and simple. The next one I've got to do is on an '03 pontiac vibe, a bit challenging because there isn't much space to work with. I am considering basing it on a chopped up sony picturebook because of the tiny screen, but the brightness becomes a huge problem. This caddy however, is based on an extra brite screen designed for out door use! it has a special anti-glare polarized coating also! it is always usable, even on bright sunny days, but the impact at night is awsome!!
...And the new wheels. These are true knockoff's, and use the center spinner as the single threaded nut to hold the wheel on. Notice there are no lugnuts. This is the same type system as was optional on early corvette's, many triumphs and others.
The next 4 shots are to show the rust I was speaking of in the ad. The black stuff you see is NOT rust, it is a professional restoration product called " POR-15" and it stops rust better than anything on the market. The worst rust is on the trunk lid inner and the rear bumper center. The rest of the car is pretty solid. the rear bumper center is easy to replace and the trunk lid could be repaired easily enough.
I don't think I have much else to show on this car, but if there is anything in particular that you would like to see just let me know and I will try to get a photo or info. to you. Thanks for looking and good luck.
