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Ah, finally free from drama for a while. MIL had to move in with is for a few months....and nothing but issues. But she finally gets her own place at the end of the month. And the family and I gave her money for a nice hotel until then....

Technically, its a flying buttress design. I think I’ve seen a few call it ‘tunneled’, but never either ‘finned’ or ‘frenched’, despite those 2 being just as logical as ‘tunneled’.

Nice weather—-sunny and 46 and the snow melted....drove a couple hundred miles around NE/north central Ohio...shopping for wine, cheese and sausage. From Grandpa’s Cheesehouse in Ashland to the Amish country/Swiss Ohio area around Berlin and Sugarcreek. Went and visited my parents’ graves in Port Washington. ( the 19th made 20 years since my Dad passed). Beautiful day to be driving winding, hilly Ohio backroads, and the Jeep drove great....great day to be Alive and Kicking as the song goes ( had a New Wave soundtrack for today).

Another cool, period, industry-wide trend was the cove panel. I'm surprised it never made a wide comeback, tho the Mustang & Challenger have it. Instead we're over-saturated with 'sagging pants / the diaper':

RIP, Junior ~

This is a "cove", a sheltered inlet where land meets water. It's indented / concave shape is obvious. In automotive terms, the 'cove panel' was a widespread stylistic treatment found at the rear of a vehicle. While other locations have also been termed the same (the '56-62 Corvette's side scoop comes readily to mind), I would like to focus on the rear of vehicles. Part of the reason for that is; at one point the rear of vehicles got as much design attention as the front, roughly the mid '50s into the late '60s. But that standard fell by the wayside, and most modern cars wear quite bland rears. Like the geographical feature, the automotive cove panel would be a framed / concave section of the bodywork. One example would be the groundbreaking '65 Corvair : To further define the treatment, I'd like to focus on painted cove panels. From a production standpoint, it took at extra assembly step to mask off and paint a secondary color in such a relatively small area. The above Corvair was the Corsa trim [either quad carbs or turbocharged], the other trim 'Vairs had the same cove but painted body color. Of course the sheet metal as struck for the body allows the paint contrast, but while a number of cars had a similar feature they seldom offered it contrast painted. That extra step added flair and interest, and usually marked specialty models.

^ And that brings up a few more examples (good or bad) to support design attention to the posterior: this is the era of the continental spare, whether one of those outlandish aftermarket kits, or the sublime integration of the '56-57 Mark II or the Chrysler FliteSweep decklid :

'64 1/2 Mustang had a cove panel, but that generation never offered a contrasting color: Studebaker may have been the first; the '56 Hawk had a painted cove :

Well, the check engine light that came on sporadically during cold weather and yet did not affect drivability is GONE. I was getting that code that the thermostat and the ECT (engine coolant temperature) sensor were talking smack to each other. The thermostat was replaced, as was the upper radiator hose, for a fair price and my dash is free of warning lights (once driving).

What is the colloquial term given to those finned backlites specific to GM mid-size cars in the mid- to late-60s? Saw this on the road when stopped in traffic a few days ago. In perfect condition, with a nice exhaust grumble, and its driver waived. I

Love to be driving down the freeway and seeing clean and perfectly balanced alloy wheels on an adjacent car either - appear to be spinning forward in slow motion, or - appear to be spinning backward in slow motion Don't remember much about physics and science, and therefore can't explain why it happens or appears that way, but I like seeing it when I do.

It was during the downturn; around '09. I really should have picked some up- I actively thought about it. $5K would've got one 2500 shares. At -say- $10/share, that would've been a $20K profit. But I put money on Visa instead. I haven't looked into it, but it is very strange Ford hasn't risen with the tide. If GM is at $35, Ford, one would think, could/should be at at least $20.

How that is one I can get behind... ? Yeah, KIa is kinda growing on me......

i thought MKZ also. so then my next question to myself would be why not just find a good CPO low mileage MKZ..... (with the 400hp turbo v6)

From the Detroit Free Press; should answer a number of questions/musings above :

33 of those will be crossover coupes

A bit off the subject but while I have no opinion on her personally, I find it absolutely hilarious that a 16 year old with Aspergers has the president and his supporters in such a fit. Be careful Blu! Gretas gonna get ya’!!

They dropped the Volt because nobody is buying them and they are losing money on every single one. The idea is very simple. Electric Power from the battery only needs to get you to work and back or from the shopping mall and back. That's 30-60 miles round trip for most people. That's 90% of the driving. Everything else is the exception. Fuel Economy doesn't really matter for the exception. It is more important that it be convenient, tiny, light and cheap. A turbocharger is about $600~700 if YOU buy one. I am pretty sure GM is not paying $600-700 to KKK, Honeywell or Mitsubishi when they buy them in the tens of thousands. A two stage turbine generator is basically two small turbos, one combustor can and a starter generator. There is no coolant, no radiator, no cams, no valves, no lifters, nothing. In aviation engines they BURN the oil and simply top it off as an expendable. If you want to recycle that you'll have an oil cooler, but that's about it. It is totally conceivable that the entire ensemble be under $2000 even in moderate quantities and with today's technology.

Her parents are actors, as is she. She's on IMDB.

https://www.imdb.com/find?q=greta+thunberg&ref_=nv_sr_sm