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Crazy weather today... 37F and snow flurries...more like March than May...

It’s available for rental.

Ack! Now trapped in our homes until May 28th. Want to be free... ? . Going to have to find more things to do around the house....

Grand Coulee Dam construction, 1940 :

We are supposed to hit 80 today and all weekend long. WTF, this is supposed to be spring showers.

I did buy gas for .039$ / gal after Kroger fuel pt.s a couple weeks ago previous low was .119 / gal circa 1976 during gas wars. Never thought I'd see that day, took pictures of the pump.

Diesel IS about to slip below $2/gal here. Hmmm, I wonder what Cam 2 is going for??? Nah- I have most of my 455 parts on hand, plus a back-up block if I split the lifter galley.

If there's no new cars, imagine what the used market would turn into. Cuba 2.0. I thought the C4C program was kinda crazy, but who am I to turn down $4600 for a $500 truck??

Yes, I was off by a few years thinking of when they had multiple years of $100 billion plus gross profit, but the end point is that the oil industry DOES NOT need billions from the tax revenue of the government. https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/XOM/exxon/gross-profit

^ I sure hope that's an Olds powerplant in there. - - - - - Awful lot of 'pure toy' money for these times. Dead on the vine is my prediction.

Back to c4c it decimated the used car stock. I live in Dayton Ohio and was out of work from 2009- 2013, sure my age and highish past pay rate added to my woes but that was a painful time. In looking through car adds afterwards the used cars were more than triple and my wages were 1/3 of what I previously was making. My point is that the folks at the bottom can't afford new and get a Gov check. The used car market hasn't recovered here yet, my 2000 Dakota Sport 3.9l 5spd man. with 300k mi would still pull in maybe 1k-1.2k$ and that's absurd. I know pricing inflates but this insane and I was just reading last week that the used market was reeling from all the lease turn ins and rentals. I was hopeful that I might be able to afford something newer, after I get back to work.

Like the Influenza of 1918/1919, expect this over the next 18 to 24 months. I expect an increase in cases for the fall, the time to take an actual real vaccine, test, verify and then produce for global use will take time, so I do not see an end to social distancing and shelter in place at home till after 2021.

I need this for when I need to make a point on the internet.

About all that's left of me once daily '64 Catalina; both rear door sill plates. They are rough - not good enough for driver quality (besides I believe repros are out there). Since my disease doesn't readily allow me to throw out automotive pieces older than me, I came up with a plan. Kept the center section, and radius-cut the 2 bad ends off. Some steel wool and Poof! another wall hanger.

I always wonder why governments subsidize businesses in any way. The corporate tax code is notorious for business subsidies that are tax expenditures when the corporate tax code is supposed to fill the Treasury's coffers. THOSE are the worst. The current PPP program is not working as intended mostly because the biggest banks are administering it to their biggest clients FIRST. This is bad. I would rather have that money go to individuals rather than businesses because it is a LOT harder to distort incentives when people (not large businesses) are getting the money to do what they need to do, whether it is paying for essentials or debt service. I am all for cutting the fat and ditching the pork. The biggest hogs are in the corporate tax code, excessive military spending, and basically all subsidies to big business. Where should we start cutting?

Love both of these cars....loved that Body style ford since I was a kid but....the Savoy just does it for me on so many levels. Enjoy! Addicted tow watching 60's muscle do the quarter mile...both of these Pontiacs are achingly beautiful.

'49-50 Mercs are tops~ Great green above, but sure wish the builder hadn't eliminated the characteristic Merc 'swoop' in the body line. Two thumbs down on that point.

Got it, an east coast thing since that does not exist on the west coast. Saw an L train in a movie once. Clyde Dales