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Merry Christmas everyone

Olds had a serious rear cove on the '61s, and on the top-tier Starfire, it got silver contrasting paint. They dropped the treatment in '62, probably because the '62 SF had the widest/longest applique of textured mylar paneling down both sides ever put on a car. Probably felt it would've been overkill. The Starfire ran from '61-66, and the painted cove only reappeared for one year; '64 [pics in order of model year] :

It's commonly stated that pre-net engine ratings (1971), that manufacturer's often overstated HP ratings. It's important to know that OEMs also UNDERstated many engines, notably their top-tier engines, since they were regularly competing against each other in sanctioned events. The NHRA invoked 'factoring' that re-calculated HP ratings after verified stock cars performed 'too well' for their ratings. The Chrysler 426 Hemi, rated at 425 HP, was immediately refactored to 480, and the FoMoCo 427 'Hi-Riser' was refactored from 425 to 465. Noted racer & car tester, one Roger Huntington, did his own calculations on the Pontiac 421 SD. Rated at 405 HP, he deduced via it's performance times it was putting out at least 450 HP. Something to keep in mind before 'poo-pooing' vintage ratings.

Rivian has become one of the best electric auto start ups with secured $3 billion in funding in the last year. https://electrek.co/2019/12/23/rivian-funding-tesla-investor/ Seems the 100,000 Amazon electric van order is valued @ $3 billion alone on top of building Fords F150 EV and bringing out their own truck and suv next year. Will be exciting to see how they affect other auto makers.

Merry Xmas and Happy New Years Drew and to all the amazing members here at Cheers and Gears!

@dfelt, I could probably google the answer but I feel like you have the knowledge as well. Theoretically, if an EV Semi(or car/truck/SUV) were to wreck into a lake/river, I assume there is less cleanup as there's no diesel fuel to cleanup? The question though, other than for the battery cooling/heating system(which passenger vehicles also have cooling systems), is there any other contaminants to pollute the waters similarly like a diesel? This came up because(the above pic) and we locally had a semi crash into our lake(not sure how or why as I saw no trailer attached either, but that's besides the point) and it made me think if EV vehicles will also help in that regard.

That's a lot of charging stations in one location.

Near Reading, U.K.

Don't have to tell me the V8 is the way to go. More folk must be comfortable in the early part of the 21st century than the media lets on.

@surreal1272 Happy belated B-day

Good for you! Just don't look back and say I could have gotten this or that a year ago and make out like a bandit. You don;t need to go that far back, Just go back a week and you could have bought the winning Powerball ticket!

Yes, lots of crying over spilled milk with all that looking in hindsight. I can name 5 Seattle area based companies whose stock would have lined someone's pockets in a big way if they rode the wave upward - Boeing - Costco - Starbucks - Microsoft - Amazon

LOL... you could have bought AMD @ $2 in 2016 and it's $40 today. Put a million down on that instead of a home and it'll be worth 20 million today. Moral of the story? NEVER look back and moan over the investment you should have made. That's a sure way to be very unhappy.

That '68 Catalina is HAWT!