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More Eldo Brougham love ~

Roof, roof, gimme a roof!

'62 Merc... with rare anti-gravity option ~

Not alone that is some addictive stuff, especially with a Costco Size bag of Ruffles Potato Chips and Home-Made French Onion Dip while watching a movie! ?

I like the '64 Eldorado... I like the lack of rear fender skirts on these..

• One customer/friend's wife (in her early 70s) caught COVID in Feb, she was in the hospital beforehand for a bad fall, so before vacc, had mild 'cold symptoms' despite having other contributing factors. Came out of it fine. • Another customer (circa 63) says she had it twice & was in the hospital at least once, I believe before getting vacc'd (I try not to absorb when she describes all her troubles), but she's a medical nightmare. No lasting effects that I know of, wasn't overly serious. • Another customer's daughter tested positive (18), but no symptoms. • A friend's daughter's fiancé just tested positive, he caught it from a co-worker, now the daughter tested positive. All 3 had 3 shots, super careful to the point of paranoia. Daughter has RA, had some breathing trouble, had to go to the hospital to get medication (but wasn't admitted). 3-4 days in so far. Fiancé has 'cold symptoms'. • Another friend, his wife and his 2 kids all had COVID at home, they're vacc'd, he said he was very sick but he's way overweight, has diabetes & high blood pressure. Everyone is fine now. That's my list of people I know that have had it.

If Im not drooling over a '59 Eldorado Convertible, Im drooling over a '57.

and 2 other Cadillacs when Cadillacs ruled the world that are in my collection. (with a Fatboy in the middle)

I wonder if it will have the CT5 6.2 supercharged V8 w/ 668hp? Probably with the 10 speed auto. A 6spd manual version would be cool and unique. Cadillac needs to out-Hellcat the Hellcat with 900hp versions of the CT5-V and Escalade-V.. call them the V-BAMF... 420 according to the Wikipedia.

https://www.autoblog.com/2022/01/20/2023-chevy-corvette-z06-markup-price-protection/ It wasn't even two weeks ago that Ford's VP of sales for the U.S. and Canada decided he needed to tell the dealer body to stop squeezing 2022 F-150 Lightning buyers for more reservation money. The shenanigans risk alienating the very important new customers of a very important new truck. Corvette Action Center reports that now Steve Carlisle, General Motors' president for North America, has done the same thing with the Chevrolet dealer body to stop the same kinds of antics happening with the 2023 Corvette Z06. The problem according to Carlisle is "a small number of Dealers [that] have engaged in practices that do not support a positive sales experience for our customers." Those dealers who don't end such practices will risk losing their Z06 allotments. The letter identifies three unwelcome tactics. The first is dealers insisting customers pay more than the $1,000 reservation fee that GM set for the Z06. This problem is already years old, with some dealers opening up their own reservations lists in 2019, more than two years before GM announced the car. While some dealers only took $1,000 for a reservation, a dealer in New Hampshire claimed to have more than 1,300 potential buyers who had put down $2,000. The second game Carlisle wants to take down is the dreaded market adjustment, dealers having "requested customers to pay sums far in excess of MSRP in order to purchase or lease a vehicle." We're not sure what recourse GM has against this. We're sure Ford isn't happy about F-150 Lightning markups, either, but Ford specified in its letter that it wouldn't tolerate gaming the reservation system as opposed to ADMs. Carlisle insists that these methods can be "harmful to the reputation of Dealer, General Motors, or its Products," and "puts our collective interests at risk and generates negative press that reflect poorly GM's brands and your dealership." The third offense is dealers reselling vehicles to brokers; having a broker volunteer fat sums over MSRP is an easy way for a dealer to sidestep having to ask for more money. Carlisle notes that this practice is explicitly outlawed in the dealer's sales and service agreement with GM. It will be interesting to see how dealers respond. With the prodigious sums on offer, we expect some dealers will continue to explore where the line is and whether it can be nudged further into the black. Surcharges have been around as long as there have been more buyers than product, and in a market where a dealer feels justified asking a $38,000 ADM on a regular 2022 Corvette — which GM hasn't said anything about, remember — stopping all of these practices could be a mighty challenge. GM has to put up a fight, though. Just like Ford, it has additional, crucial new products arriving soon that are trying to attract crucial new audiences, and it needs to be seen doing its best to provide the best experience.

Well, my head unit is getting flakey on my Escalade, and I have to say, I am liking what I see here in the Pioneer AVIC head units as they all can connect everything including maps wirelessly. Once a feature you had to pay thousands for along with a monthly charge to BMW. Now that BMW has given up on it, the tech is now coming out on 3rd party head units. Love that my phone can be in my pocket, and I still have full connection to the head unit. AVIC-W6600NEX - 6.2" - Amazon Alexa, Apple CarPlay® (wired/wireless), Bluetooth® - Multimedia Navigation Receiver | Pioneer Electronics USA AVIC-W8500NEX - 6.9" - Amazon Alexa, Android Auto™/Apple CarPlay™ (wired/wireless), Bluetooth® - Multimedia Navigation Receiver | Pioneer Electronics USA AVIC-W8600NEX - 7" - Amazon Alexa, Android Auto™/Apple CarPlay® (wired/wireless), Bluetooth® - Multimedia Navigation Receiver | Pioneer Electronics USA

You don't know a single person locally who's contracted COVID? The ONLY people you know who've contracted COVID have been coworkers in Boston and your son's girlfriend? You do know STL is a democratic city, right? There is nothing in the science that's stopping me. It's just the fact that it isn't a game-ender. The vaccinations we all got when we were little 100% prevented the spread and illnesses to be contracted. None of the COVID vaccines do this. If any of the current vaccines 100% stopped the spread once contracted (okay, it wouldn't exactly need to be 100%, but an extremely high number) I would have gotten it a year ago. It doesn't stop the spread and only minimizes the symptoms.

0%, as I said, not going to spend my time posting the proof that is out there when you can see it for yourself and are ignoring it. All I know that have gotten covid, 100% unvaccinated have had to be in the hospital, 0% vaccinated that have gotten it have had to go that I know so far. That proves to me that vaccinated is the way to go and you have still AVOIDED posting your reasonings and only state your youth. As such, one would have to infer the conservative leanings of lies that you are following rather than the science as you have not responded to that either of what you find wrong with the science that is sound in comparison to the lies and FUD of the unvaccinated.

^ Seems according to the above 'prevalent hospitalization' chart, that we're seeing the same peak now as we were 1 year ago, when hardly anyone was masking and NO ONE was vaccinated. Interesting.

Ya know you want that Dip NOW with crunchy Chips. Cool will have to try them, thanks for posting about them.

I've found Whole Foods 365 brand Ruffles-style chips to be tastier than Ruffles. With the crappy snowy and cold weather, think I'm going to stay in and stream movies this weekend.

Work out a little extra. And, damn, why did you have to put up this photo?!? With a good night's sleep, I had forgotten all about French onion dip.

LOL You asked a very selfish question. I answered in kind. My words to you were not of shaming, but of being very direct to you on a very selfish kind of thinking you have. If you feel shame, that is more on you than it is on my choice of words to you. I REALLY dont care what YOU choose to do with your own life. Its YOUR gamble. Extremely low? LOL You have NO idea how Covid will affect until you actually DO catch it. Just dont catch it. Because it maybe a gamble that you will end up regretting... The thing is, we arent even talking about that. YOU seem to want to justify it to me. I DO NOT CARE... YOU asked a question about who would care if one has been vaxxed or not. I answered you in kind. And THAT would be people with surgeries that NEED to be taken care of but cant BECAUSE hospitals have been run down with unvaxxed Covid patients... If YOU feel that these words are shaming you, that that feeling is more on you than it is on my choice of words to you...

Still thinking on this hours later, gonna have to make some and enjoy it with a movie this weekend.

Yes, you are right, vaccinated have gotten sick, but for the most part is able to recover and stay at home not taking up Hospital Beds. I know this as I got a call last night by my son who lives with his Girlfriend and her two kids. Karina helps out her senior parents and as such, while all are vaccinated, she has come down and tested positive for Covid. She is isolated in the bedroom and Alex is sleeping in the great room on an air mattress as she stays away from Alex and the Kids. He takes food to her, and she leaves the dishes outside of the bedroom door. He told us last night that he is sanitizing everything and being very careful. She feels like shit, but overall says it does remind her of the Flu, just more intense. As has been well documented by the healthcare industry, she should recover just fine, but will take a few months. There is the risk of Alex and the kids catching it too. The KEY POINT is that except when you have additional medical issues, VACCINATED are able to get over this in the comfort of their home. They do not put a stress on the Hospitals or medical personnel. I think if we all did not care, we would not be talking about the needs of the many over the one with getting Vaccinated. The amount of news stories of healthy people, people who felt they were strong, prime and would have no problem dealing with getting over Covid only to have it kill them tends to lean to the importance of using the mRNA Vaccination to prep your body to deal with it when one does get sick. Based on your statements, I feel there is more to this on your belief as to why you are not getting vaccinated that you could share with us. FYI, I just got off a work zoom meeting where I was talking with our federal team, and they were sharing with us that the GOV is not even talking with suppliers, support or even possible candidates for internal job roles if they are not vaccinated beforehand. As such, it will be harder as more companies take the same approach of requiring vaccination to work let alone be considered for jobs. You say your Healthy and should have no problem dealing with recovery when you catch Covid. Yet this also leaves a big unsaid space of what else your concerns are about vaccination. No Judgement from me and I ask that all other members DO NOT JUDGE. Let's keep this open as I am truly interested in the points you have as to why you are not willing to get vaccinated. I will start the bullet list off for you: Young and Healthy, see's oneself as strong and capable of dealing with Covid. ????????

When Cadillacs still ruled the world.

Sadly, we have seen way too many news stories of young and old that were very active, fit and in what their families have stated prime of their life killed by this virus and how on their deathbeds they wished they had been vaccinated. As you have stated many times, I hope @ccap41 DOES NOT get Covid and have to deal with the affects as hearing a person say they cannot breathe and are suffocating is the worst thing ever to experience. I have a coworker who she was very much against the vaccine till her husband, son and eventually she ended up in the hospital last year. They did recover lucky for them and have since been vaccinated and boosted and yet she is now a strong supporter of having everyone get vaccinated. Daily she still deals 6 months later with fatigue, shortness of breath going up her stairs at her house and many other side effects of the Virus. Covid will expose all weaknesses in ones DNA if they are unvaccinated. I hope for the good of Humanity, we can get the rest of humanity vaccinated this year. I fear we will still see millions more die unnecessary due to the lies and deceit spoken by those against this vaccine and technology.

Paid with her life... I wonder when she was taking her last breaths, did she ever think about how her husband and son felt as they saw her take her last few breaths? Sometimes, we dont think about the shyte we put our loved ones through because of our own selfish stupidity. I wonder how many times the husband and the son pleaded with her to get vaxxed. How many calm discussions and loud arguments were had since they WERE vaxxed...

Random thought: I can and do inhale French onion dip.

I had Moderna with booster, didn't have any side effects, just a sore arm for a day or so each time. A moron. It's expensive to be stupid.

As one who has family that does work in the health care industry. It is a choice for everyone to get vaccinated or not. Yet the stress and added workload put on these healthcare workers is burning many out. As such, I had a sister in-law who has lost a number of patients that needed alternative surgery but was canceled due to hospitals being at 100% capacity with Covid patients of which the majority, 93% in Washington state are unvaccinated. As such, she has decided to help as much as she can those vaccinated patients before the unvaccinated which I am hearing is becoming more common. Sadly, this choice has been a clear point made since the 1960's when Star Trek, Spock talked about the good of the many over the good of the one. Yes later in the series, the crew went after the one to rescue them as that one was very much needed for the many. Yet in life we all should be thinking about the many, Humanity survival as we will have our own sucess if humanity wins as a group versus an individual. It would be great for everyone to look at the good of their local society and help out, sadly those that can only look at themselves I feel need to look inside to assess why their personal choice is more important than the wellbeing of society. This is my own humble opinion, but for society to move forward, we need to let the unvaccinated have their say. Then clearly point out the science one last time and if they still want to believe lies, misdirection, narcissist, then I see no reason why they should go ahead of others that are doing everything they can to survive and not be a burden on society.

I have little doubt that in the long run, Stellantis will F up Chrysler & Dodge, and just shrug about it. And 1000% agree on the cheesy 'EV" badge- OEMs have to move past this 'trendy pandering' BS.