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Saw this yesterday. I'm going along the interstate in Appalachia. Coming the other way (north) was a flatbed truck carrying a large object with a familiar shape ... the curved roof, the orange/red/blue striping ... was I dreaming? It was an old MARTA rail car. Where was it going? And why? Toward PA or upstate NY? To be recycled or repurposed? Then, about 2 minutes later, I saw another one, so I was not dreaming. I could not possibly take a photo. But I looked and found the exact same situation, uploaded onto RailPictures-dot-net back in 2006, so a nod to that site and its uploader. Too funny. I used to ride this system and these rail cars daily for 2 years in my 20s.

Neat new track 'Bitter Taste' by '80s idol Billy Idol... the guitar part reminds me a bit of Chris Issak's 'Wicked Game'...would fit well in a David Lynch film...appears to be a '65 Buick full size early in the video.

'09 Cuyahoga electric, on the juice meter. No documented cases of one running into a lit-up emergency vehicle by itself, or burning down to it's rims.

Could be. The Elco had buttons up high also on the dash. Couldn’t really see much of the exterior of the vehicle. Saw a badge on the rear quarter but couldn’t read it on my phone. Edit: watched again, could briefly see the horizontal speedo and the close rear window of an Elco. Need to watch on a tv.

^^^ 1. The song could have been released in the '80s and it would not have been out of place. A little less hard and edgy than what Billy was actually releasing in the '80s, but its still vintage Billy Idol. 2. After all these years, he still sounds the same. Not only with his actual vocals, but him being at retiree age, his vocals have not lost a beat what so ever. LOVE the song! @Robert Hall Thanx for posting it! PS: True about Wicked Game. I also hear a little bit of White Wedding in the song.

Twice now in the last couple weeks I’ve gone to park with TourX and a Cascada is right there next to me Last time though there was quite the milfoil cougar to go with it.

It was my wife's cousin's mother's house. He spent about 20 years completely pigging it up. I actually went thru 100% of that attic (top pic is before that), looking for family mementos & interesting vintage stuff. Nothing worthwhile left to donate anywhere. Took me (4) partial days to get thru. Cleaning crew emptied it this week- going to the dump. My son & I are certainly not above combing thru scenarios like this; we like vintage 'stuff'.

I buy Grado headphones. They are made in the USA by a company that has been owned by the same family since 1953. https://gradolabs.com/headphones I find I really enjoy listening to headphone music at times. Just me and music, nothing else.

Right, so three grilles each year: sedans and wagons had the one above, Regals, always with a formal roofline, had the vertical Parthenon-like grille, and Century and Special models had the sloped back grille. What was interesting is that they made some Century models with the formal roofline and gave them the sloped back grille. Most of them were trimmed out in a sportier way, with very few trimmed out in up-level cloth and wire wheels. I could see these models being amended for NASCAR. I vaguely remember that. Still, my favorite Regal of these 2 years would have been the Regal S/R, by a long shot. Burgundy (manual windows) Tan (and in a junkyard, per how the door is thrashed) That trestle shifter was the best of the quadruplets with buckets in those years.

I had forgotten all about these, and how the sedans were handled! The wagons were handled similarly. Here, the '76 has more of a uniform eggcrate grille. But the '77 has nicer horizontal lines in the grille. Note that this one is badged as being powered by the V6! - - - - - The converse was true for the coupes. The '76 had a cleaner grille and the '77 had too much horizontal chrome trim at the top of the grille. It looks like they didn't do much to the sheetmetal of the sedans and wagons in 1973-1977, while they spent a little more money on cleaning up the colonnade coupes in 1976 and 1977. That investment paid some dividends via big upticks in popularity.