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Another clean Imperial Derby car... Well done model of an Imperial derby car...

Interesting the Riviera at the twelve minute mark... She is up a bit in the polls, but it is going to be a long 80 days until the election.

Interesting read I’ve Been Driving an EV for a Year. I Have Only One Regret. (msn.com) Interesting take by this gambler. Nate Silver on the 2024 race: 'It's no longer Trump's election to lose.' (msn.com)

Would love to have this as an EV with a huge Frunk!

I miss them hugely. Would love to live in an earlier time when I could go in and buy one of the abovementioned new... People love the 1970 GM products, but the Torino was/is a stunner.

I came into Europe via Hamburg (DE) instead of Southampton (UK). I had never been there before. It's wild because they've got this really challenging language I would not readily choose to learn. And, then, you have way more immigrants than you might think. Turks are one of the biggest ethnic groups in Germany these days. So, it's amazing to see people from the Middle East and Africa who have managed to learn this language and are (close to being) fluent. I figure they knew they were going to stick around, not return home, and had to do that. Either way, Germany stressed me out because of the language (there is not much English signage, though most people speak decent English) and the UK would have stressed me out because they drive down the other side of the street and it takes a lot of mental adjusting just to cross the street. I don't think Hamburger Sparkasse (photo up above) was a food joint. I did not see tables and such. So, rather than try to figure out what a sparkasse is, I got myself to Southern Europe as quickly as possible. Here's another one. An important site and subway station is Rathaus. It means a city hall and theirs is fairly stunning. (It is not a decrepit subway station in a bad part of NYC where rats are eating pizza leftovers.)

Of all the fairly active members on the forum, I am probably the biggest torchbearer for the GM colonnades. I loved the (Grand) LeMans of this year, and especially those of '76 and '77 that went to quad rectangular lamps up front. What was so sweet about them is that you could get the fantastic dash and general feel of a Grand Prix in a more manageable package and, if one chose to, with smaller engines. However, the "pushed down" look of the rear trunk was a little polarizing. Maybe it was meant to be that way because a little bit of nick and tuck to "normalize" its silhouette and proportions could have cannibalized sales from the absurdly successful Cutlass Supreme and Regal of those same years. My 2 cents. Ditto on this one ... particularly fond of '75 to '77 ... and what a quirky treat when you saw one that was a coupe. I had to give these cars a nickname and - like a broken record - an Olds 98 of those years was "la cathedrale roulante," where the upright and pointed rear taillamps fins made it look like a Gothic cathedral.