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Man. I didn't say I liked her or didn't like her. I just was capitalizing on posting that vintage photo that has made me laugh for years and years. And I had to get a "down vote" for doing so. Too funny.

Am a dog lover, my sister is checking out the type of dog she wants to get. Spent the weekend with this labradoodle.

I am a sucker for these animal stories and videos, though more so when they are about dogs. I like this one, too, about a goofy dog hopping onto a bus in Finland: https://www.thedodo.com/close-to-home/dog-rides-bus-alone He didn't sit down. He stood on the seats. At least he didn't have a boom box with him.

Random cool pic of dogs. Obviosuly an EV semi Running at full capacity....good morning, 'blu...

The STS sold on Saturday..just got back from going to the bank to get the title notarized...off to a new home with 139k miles...

This is an intelligent review. I wish everyone was as intelligent about discussing actual issues as this dude. The Awesome chocolate cake I had for desert yesterday. Me out hiking....Robert isn't the only guy enjoying Ohio fall colors. Patina, I love this. My wife, out on the trail with me.... Bringing home another big old saw to restore....this one is 2300 pounds. actually belongs to my friend Dustin. From my trip to the Corvette Museeum at Bowling Green. My favorite car of the whole bunch!

WIDE-TRACK

YOU didn’t get a ‘downvote’; hillary did.

That's a trippy choice for a college student. The dad and the son must be free thinkers who don't need conformity to guide them. - - - - - Well, something had to sour the trip. Here it is ... spotted on October 8: the car for free thinkers who aren't such free thinkers.

I remember seeing that Uranus Fudge Factory on Rt 44 in MO when I was driving from Phoenix to Cleveland in June '17. Got a chuckle out of the sign..

An IT director in his 50s bought for his college student son.

One more pic from the trail hiking I ahve been doing for good measure.

This is badass... As is this....Guys wife was buying a VW Tiguan, back when I still ahd the Beetle and it was in for service. Love this vintage Kenworth... Still having lots of Bonfires in my fire pit..

My favorite pic from my trip south looking at Civil war battle fields...This is Stone River in Tenneseee.... From my Recent Trip to Nashville... Ranger is very busy....hauled a similar load for a friend yesterday. Just re posting a bunch of Random pics I really like...but I think this is fantastic. Lunch on the trail with my wife... Workshop....

Seen on the 'webs :

Re: dog pics.. Recent pics of Henry, Beardsley's bum, Raine, and Ginny...

October 26 seemed like a familiar date. Then the light bulb went on. It's Hillary's birthday. Happy birthday, Hillary. Some people just keep on hitting the wall harder and harder. For others, they're not getting older, they're getting better.

They forgot MSRPs.

Tesla is installing a 40 MWh battery system in Santa Barbra to increase GRID Resilience for the area which will reduce brown outs and outages as there is only a single supply route. The focus of California is to build in clean energy as a backup of renewable energy. Pictures of the install is on the link at the bottom. To quote: It is going to reinforce a weak point in the region’s electricity transmission system known as the Goleta Load Pocket (GLP). Coastal View reports: Clean Coalition, who has been backing the project and pushing it through approval, says that the VESR project is going to be a first step in creating a microgrid to protect the region from such outages. They wrote: They decided to go with Tesla’s latest utility-scale battery technology: the Tesla Megapack. VESR will consist of 15 Tesla Megapacks and the first 5 batteries are currently being deployed at the site. https://electrek.co/2020/10/26/tesla-megapacks-deployed-increase-grid-resilience-santa-barbara-county/ Very interesting read as the web site iseecars reviewed the start of widely available hybrids and what the longest owned versions where. No surprise to see Toyota at the top with #1,2 &3 spots covered by Toyota Highlander Hybrid 38%, Avalon Hybrid 36.5% and Camry Hybrid 34.6%. Toyota's Lexus ES 300h sedan and Prius were in the top 10 of the longest owned auto's. Low cost of ownership with reduced maintenance costs seems to make these auto's push the 10 year plus ownership. This I can see increasing the number of older auto's on the road as people upgrade less often. https://www.greencarreports.com/news/1130070_why-do-owners-of-toyota-hybrids-keep-their-vehicles-so-long

This is cool.

The guy was driving an XT5...said he'd driven Cadillacs for 30 years.. Speaking of Subarus, there was a black Ascent parked behind me at the bank this morning, looking at the tail end in my rearview mirror, I thought it was a Ford CUV of some sort until I noticed the oval emblem wasn't a Ford blue oval...

I want to do more cross country trips eventually, but not in plague times. I would do one again but at a leisurely pace, staying in hotels along the way or in an RV. No more straight-through drives.

You can't make this stuff up.

Neat Patriotic paint job on these trucks out front of Campus this morning. Plus a bit of Ohio fall color... Neat cover of this song...

There are others like that on Youtube... 'JR Garage' is one, a couple creepy-looking rich kid teenagers that buy, fix up, and sell broken exotics..

'60 Pontiac is SIMPLY FABOLOUS

I chose the laugh icon because I'd be afraid to feed it. The mpg I got between Tampa Bay and Orlando in that base Charger sold me on the 3.6.

Velcro (blu how'd you know my dogs breed;-)

'toyoter' & 'impressed' in the same sentence ?!? Only instance I can imagine that being uttered is 'toyoter went 7 days straight without a recall.'

I realize I captioned a photo up above incorrectly. The engine bay has a 3.6, and not a 3.5. They will obviously have some money in the budget to fine tune these vehicles' styling and amenities for the next 3 years. I hope they take them in the right direction. Sometimes, there is some floundering and wavering with how they change things up. Take the 300. I liked the clean, horizontal grille of this mid-decade more so than the later and current blacked out eggcrate/honeycomb grille. I think that these platforms are continuing on for a few reasons. FCA may have some hesitation about the next moves with this platform and may be buying time. With GM and Ford leaving this segment, they have it to themselves among domestic brands. Police fleets and rental car companies, as well as die-hard fans of this platform, will buy them again. In consumers sounding off, quite a few have stepped up from one Charger to another one, or one 300 to another one, over the last dozen or so years.

Sounds like the Charger, Challenger and 300 will be around in current form at least the next 3 model years.. https://www.autoblog.com/2020/10/23/dodge-challenger-charger-new-variants/

Finished railings... except at house. Replacing double window with slider door. Except for concrete; the entire deck’s materials were transported in my 2500 HD.

My rosebushes have not done well, this was their third yerr. This summer, in a bid to shore them up, I applied Miracle Grow rose food every 2 weeks, with surprisingly limited success. In the same bed, I have two weigelas. One is fantastic, the other is puny. They were planted together about 10 yerrs ago. Now I am thinking of yanking them all out with a tow strap and eliminating that side bed altogether. Ass, Grass or Gas, no one rides for free.

Still hangin on; Oct 23rd :

It's not that it's on the market or in the market. It's that I keep going back to the fridge saying, "I'll just eat a few more spoonfuls," and it's gone way too soon. And then you don't feel that great afterwards. I keep telling myself that I won't buy ice cream cartons (in some form of chocolate) anymore and then I repeat this mistake every 2 months or so. Tonight, I learned that I can't buy Trader Joe's water crackers, either.

Explain please, this seems crazy as I just got a few cartons of ice cream at my local Fred Meyers. EV in the ICE Thread! Tesla of China is recalling 30,000 plus Tesla S and X from 2013 to 2018 imported from California due to suspension issues. OUCH https://www.ibtimes.com/tesla-recall-30000-cars-china-over-suspension-defects-3068441

Seems GM is willing to let software companies battle for their right to build the ultimate auto interface versus current GM interface that is across all four brands. As such, GM has NOT currently stated who will build the next generation interface / HUD for Buick or Chevrolet, but they have committed to two companies. Cadillac will have their all new interface, Retina Quality based AR interface with HUD from Envisics https://envisics.com/ https://www.digitaltrends.com/features/envisics-ar-windshield-technology/ https://electrek.co/2020/10/19/gm-cadillac-lyriq-electric-suv-crazy-head-up-display/ GMC will have their new auto interface / HUD built by Epic Games using the unreal engine. https://fossbytes.com/epic-games-to-develop-ui-ux-of-electric-hummer-using-unreal-engine/ https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/gmc-hummer-ev-will-use-fortnites-gaming-platform-epics-unreal-engine/ https://www.cnbc.com/2020/10/20/gms-official-run-for-tesla-starts-with-its-electric-hummer-debut-tuesday-night-.html https://www.bgr.in/gaming/hummer-ev-to-run-on-fortnites-unreal-engine-reveals-epic-games-918745/ https://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/gmc-hummer-ev-will-use-fortnites-gaming-platform-epics-unreal-engine/

Interesting juxtaposition:

‘66 Toro ~

I just saw one of those right after being totaled. The car was still on the side of the road with the family, safe, giving statements to police. A dump truck pulled too close to the driver side of the STS, hooked onto it and started dragging the STS down the road. The entire driver's side was destroyed.

Impy whole family is trying to talk me into an IPhone right now.....

Seen that with so many GM, Fords, FCA, etc. Democracy and freedom is the ability of choice. Buying American does NOT insure you get a quality product as American products of the 70s to 2000s has proven. Nationalist Propaganda does not insure quality. Taking accountability to read the owners manual, follow scheduled maintenance gets ya closer but even then does not insure quality. On another note, many of us can respect this man's welding project that my sister sent me today since she knows I grew up making models.