Random Thoughts Thread

[A Horse With No Name]

Why I am thinking Vinyl....

[A Horse With No Name]

When screaming Ohhh God isn't enough...

[trinacriabob]

A trivia item:

The average collegiate GPA is 3.15.  (I had always assumed it was around 2.8.)

An opinion:

If a coffeehouse does not have the interior of its store open, I won't be a (drive-through) customer.

[David]

Seems FORD is on an amazing sales year even with production shortages due to chip shortages.

Ford Electrified Vehicle Sales Up 117 Percent in June – Delivering New First Half Record - Mustang Mach-E Sales Up 27 Percent Over May; Ford SUVs Post Best First Half Retail Sales In 20 Years On Strength From New Products; Lincoln SUVs Set New Record, Retail Sales Up 23 Percent | Ford Media Center

 

[A Horse With No Name]

1 hour ago, David said:

Seems FORD is on an amazing sales year even with production shortages due to chip shortages.

Ford Electrified Vehicle Sales Up 117 Percent in June – Delivering New First Half Record - Mustang Mach-E Sales Up 27 Percent Over May; Ford SUVs Post Best First Half Retail Sales In 20 Years On Strength From New Products; Lincoln SUVs Set New Record, Retail Sales Up 23 Percent | Ford Media Center

 

Fantastic...

 

And a bit more Ford love...

 

 

[balthazar]

I just learned why all these trucks have these amber grille lights.

Guess I'll have to get a quint of ambers for the B-59 (80.75" wide). 😉

[trinacriabob]

Vive la France!

Happy Bastille Day to all the Francophiles on the forum, and in the world.

[A Horse With No Name]

More...

 

[trinacriabob]

7 minutes ago, A Horse With No Name said:

 

Chris, we can rely on you for the dry, sarcastic ones!  Those are usually the funniest ones.

[A Horse With No Name]

 

If I ran NASA...

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[David]

Very cool, seems the tug boats of the world are going pure electric too.

 

Seems even while Musk is before the courts over the law suites over solar city purchase, Tesla Solar just released the largest panel yet at 420 watts. I could cover my whole roof and power my house with no power from the county. I am liking where we are going with solar.

Tesla launches new 420-watt solar panel, setting 'high' mark - Electrek

[trinacriabob]

I miss not having Olympic as an option to cross the pond with.

[A Horse With No Name]

16 hours ago, trinacriabob said:

I miss not having Olympic as an option to cross the pond with.

Beautiful bird!

Bronco, LOVE this shot!

 

No one else...

 

 

More Bronco...

 

[A Horse With No Name]

Random rail picture...

 

GTO...got to go...

 

[David]

Seems the Chip shortage has hit Stellantis, while many of their plants in Europe and the Asian rim are going offline for the next month to month and half causing short term layoffs or furloughs, America had avoided this till now. The Jeep Grand Cherokee and Dodge Durango plant was scheduled to be offline for 1 week for maintenance and changes for the model year, but will now shutdown from July 11th to August 9th due to chip / part shortages.

Detroit SUV plant among Stellantis factories halting production – De.Yuan (deyuan.enterprises)

Europe has decided on two dates to be voted on this week. Either 2035 or 2040 for a ban on ALL ICE auto's across Europe and to open the discussion on when to phase out ICE medium and heavy duty auto's to move to pure BEV.

EU set to call time on combustion engine within two decades | Reuters

gm has committed $71 million to build a new design studio for future tech in Pasadena California close to the worlds best design studios/schools. This will allow them to recruit and have the best for the future of auto design.

GM to invest $71 mln for new design and tech campus in California | Reuters

First Vietnam auto company has opened offices in California with slated new car sales locations to follow.

Vietnam's VinFast starts operations in North America and Europe | Reuters

[David]

More interesting reads:

Like this about the various types of rims.

What Are the Pros and Cons of Different Wheel Materials? | The Drive

OUCH, this could hurt ford in the reputation department and clearly end the making of track ready auto's.

Judge OKs Ford Mustang Class Action Suit Over Track Performance (thedrive.com)

Proof of just another reason to NOT BUY A NEW AUTO right now. Chip shortage has GM much like other auto companies to cut out basic features that have been in place to keep production going. Makes a used one very important to the buyer to pay attention if they want missing said features.

GM Drops Wireless Charging From 2021 Tahoe, Yukon SUVs Over Chip Shortage (thedrive.com)

Tesla Supercharging network getting upgraded to 300kWh charging to reduce charge times.

Elon Musk: Tesla is upgrading Supercharger network to 300 kW faster charging - Electrek

[A Horse With No Name]

Good news on the Electric front, David. Interested to see the Rivian roll out. 

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[David]

Seems Ford is really working to get people to attend the Chicago Auto Show. They have a major press release as to the reasons to attend.

They also are working with a company to build a real world version of the F150 Rocket League truck.

FORD Lists 5 reasons to attend the auto show this year.

Five Reasons Why You Must Visit Ford at the Chicago Auto Show | Ford Media Center

I am sure people will love the Bronco Obstacle course.

 

 

[trinacriabob]

The rental car companies are out to get you (and me) with their rates these days for having put all those ungodly free miles on their vehicles in the past.

[David]

Wonder if Hennessey will really build this Bronco?

Hennessey wants to build a Ford Bronco VelociRaptor with 405 hp - Roadshow (cnet.com)

Seems this truck is right up @balthazar alley. More photo's at the story link.

1948 Ford COE Is Half Pickup Truck, Half Motorhome, Flaunts Big-Block V8 - autoevolution

[balthazar]

Blech.
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This is my wife's older cousin in her family's '39 Dodge. Story as related by her younger brother goes... When she was about 6 yrs old, they were riding down a local road about 25 MPH, and she opened the door and fell out onto the road. Her parents stopped, picked her up, put her back in the car and continued on to grandmother's house. 

[David]

3 hours ago, balthazar said:

Blech.
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This is my wife's older cousin in her family's '39 Dodge. Story as related by her younger brother goes... When she was about 6 yrs old, they were riding down a local road about 25 MPH, and she opened the door and fell out onto the road. Her parents stopped, picked her up, put her back in the car and continued on to grandmother's house. 

So then does that explain all her 🤔 craziness? 

[balthazar]

[daves87rs]

2 hours ago, balthazar said:

Even better when you’ve seen it live…..

[trinacriabob]

Yikes.

Much like one of these

[balthazar]

A '68-72 Impala Craft Avenger. About 10-ft long. Super rare, only about 16-20 known to exist. This would make that 17-21. For sale soon. 

[regfootball]

Found this at my Moms. My dad in his Corvair. At least I thinks it’s Corvair?

[Robert Hall]

^ Yep...looks like a '65-67 Corvair convertible. 

[David]

19 hours ago, regfootball said:

Found this at my Moms. My dad in his Corvair. At least I thinks it’s Corvair?

Is that him Smoking?

[A Horse With No Name]

From my Facebook friend Vince in CA...

 

Who needs old Pontiacs....all of us, actually. 

[A Horse With No Name]

On 7/17/2021 at 10:50 PM, balthazar said:

A '68-72 Impala Craft Avenger. About 10-ft long. Super rare, only about 16-20 known to exist. This would make that 17-21. For sale soon. 

I wonder how much rare stuff is just lost to history...tons probably. A female friend of mine lost her mother...parents were art collectors. Her brother started a large bonfire and was about to "burn all of that junk mom and dad collected for decades...." before she stopped him. 

If landfills could only talk. 

Neat looking boat though....would be fantastic restored. 

[A Horse With No Name]

From the Local FB marketplace...

 

It's actually in Kansas, but aI always liked these as a kid...

 

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/columbus/?ref=notif&hoisted_items=723757951726107

[trinacriabob]

Two quick random thoughts:

I wish I had a dollar for every time I've seen the Lauren Landry on Purdue Global (presumably their on-line degree venue) streaming banner ad in a little box somewhere on my browser while on C&G.

If I have two 12-packs of LaCroix flavored water in the fridge and it has been taking months to work that "inventory" down, it must mean that I don't like LaCroix flavored water as much as I could / should.

[A Horse With No Name]

43 minutes ago, trinacriabob said:

Two quick random thoughts:

I wish I had a dollar for every time I've seen the Lauren Landry on Purdue Global (presumably their on-line degree venue) streaming banner ad in a little box somewhere on my browser while on C&G.

If I have two 12-packs of LaCroix flavored water in the fridge and it has been taking months to work that "inventory" down, it must mean that I don't like LaCroix flavored water as much as I could / should.

Beer takes me forever to drink at home. Does not mean I don't like it, I just keep it for special occasions. 

[A Horse With No Name]

Amazing technology

 

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Race car....

 

 

Interesting thought...

 

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Profit...

 

 

[A Horse With No Name]

Hopefully not too political...

 

 

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[trinacriabob]

The market took quite a dip today - hopefully transitory - but there is some good news today:  Canada will be opening its border to FULLY VACCINATED Americans on August 9th of this year.  (I knew I did something right.)  

[David]

Seems in September at the Munich auto show, Mercedes-Benz will show off their EQG, the electric version of the G-Wagon. Yet according to this story, it seems it will be a Hybrid not a pure EV. As such, it will be interesting to see what motor they have in it as the dual electric motors are supposed to deliver 500 HP.

Electric Mercedes G-Class Could Come To IAA Munich As EQG Concept (motor1.com)