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The crew I work with... How cold it is in Ohio Words matter.

New Tesla logo FWIW New Jazz album, they are fantastic. Local antique store has this cool arts and crafts style table, I love it. May try to build a copy alter this year. The one Imperial the derby guys missed, saw it on a walk with my wife. Built this small wall cabinet to hold some of my wood turnings and pottery My healthy lunch...

I pulled the 260 and dropped a 307 from a wrecked hearse in it. I called it my Hearse Olds, because people always mis pronounced Hurst Olds... Indeed. Kitchen table I build, one of my children was having a guest for dinner.

Cognitive dissonance...

The Cybertruck is the worst possible choice for a car bomb because It won't get to where it's bloody going. Nobody could come up with a fictional character as tragic and delusional as Musk.

Tesla needs to die. Elon Musk went from being the Henry Ford of our generation (automotive) to being the henry Ford of our generation (raging racist and anti semite). And 1978 was another whole year and generation. I had a 1978, it was a cool car but not as cool as the 66-67, 68-72 or 73-77. The beginning of a long, slow irreversible decline for GM. Still loved my 78, which was sadly totalled in an accident. (Not my fault!). I still have a dream every few months where I go down to the garage and that car is still there. He is one of the best thinkers of our generation. Everytime I do actually see someone driving a cybertruck, I imagine how moronic they must be

The Cybertruck is such a Failure that Tesla is having the Foundation badge taken off the existing oversupply of trucks to move them are regular 3 motor trucks. The assembly line is idle as they moved the workers to the Model Y assembly line. The thing I do not get is the amount of Asian and Black humans here in Washington buying Tesla Products from an opening racist individual. That is just mind numbing.

Tesla owners have become sort of cultish. They are very into their cars. One friend has one and was into showing me what it can do, including pin me back into my seat under hard acceleration. What's amazing is that a lot of rich West Coast liberals opt for them. You'd think they'd make a statement and avoid anything with Elon's mark on it. Here's hoping that other EV choices become popular. - - - - - Yep, your '78 with a 260 V8. I remember. And buyers had to spring even more for one of those over a '77. The most glaring example would have been the drastic drop from the big fendered '77 Monte Carlo to the anemic and cartoonish looking downsized '78. Cheap rat-tat-tat pods on the dash, a non descript bench seat, a base V6, and, drum roll, an unreliable Turbo 200 transmission. A couple of years later, they all brought out more engines. Two people I knew had a '79 Regal ... one had Pontiac's newer 4.3 liter (265) V8 and one had this tiny 3.2 Buick V6, which was only 196 cubic inches ... we're talking old Ford Maverick sized powerplants. All of these cars got considerably more attractive with the 1981 refresh, but they were on borrowed time. I loved my '84 Supreme Brougham coupe and won't easily forget the trip from an East Bay suburb up to Portland through the Napa Valley and meth lab plagued Lake County right above it.

New Album came out, NOT buying this one on vinyl.

I know he was a century old, but I feel like we got screwed on Death taking Jimmy Carter at 100 rather than Musk at 56.

Happy Monday ... may someone steal a Happy Meal for you ...

Interesting bit of trivia. I couldn't believe the numbers, but, with the arrival of foreign imports coming later, it could be conceivable. In the 1965 model year, they sold 1,074,925 Chevrolet Impalas. That's far more than the 514,000 Oldsmobile Cutlass sales in 1976. I thought this was the peak. They report that 632,000 were produced in model year 1977.

Imperial for the wanna be Imperialist Dicatator since I see the Idiot47 sign in the background. LOL

Had I known you, I would have bought that 260 from you! Quietest domestic V8 I have ever heard when the exhaust is newer ... as in amazing. Also, being a debored 350 meant bigger cooling jackets within. I'm going to say your 307 was Olds and not Chevrolet, and maybe from a so-equipped Cadillac hearse. The small block fit should be interchangeable. Beautiful table. That must give you both satisfaction and relaxation from this hobby.

VW has announced the eight-generation of the Golf model with the most powerful Golf ever built for the North American market. The 2025 Golf GTI and Golf R offer a compelling blend of performance, technology and driver engagement and will be offered in the following trims per model: 2025 Golf GTI S trim SE trim Autobahn trim 2025 Golf R Black edition The Golf GTI has a fresh look with enhanced technology. The exterior has new headlights, front bumper, illuminated logo and a standard lightbar. The interior gets significant upgrades with a new freestanding 12.9-inch touchscreen. This system has the latest operating functions as shared in the ID.Buzz and ID4 offering faster, better software with a more intuitive layout. Physical buttons replace the haptic switchgear on the steering wheel for improved functionality. The mid-level GTI SE trim gets upgraded seats as standard, these black ArtVelours seats from the EU market high-performance GTI Clubsport. The engine is a 2.0 liter turbocharged four-cylinder producing 241 horsepower mated to a 7-speed DSG dual-clutch automatic transmission. Standard features available across all trim lines: standard navigation Dynamic Road Sign Display Wireless App-Connect on the base S trim IQ.DRIVE driver assistance technology remains standard across the board consists of the following: Travel Assist (semi-automated driving assistance) Front Assist (Forward Collision Warning and Automatic Emergency Braking with Pedestrian Monitoring) Active Side Assist (Blind Spot Monitor) Rear Traffic Alert Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) Stop and Go Lane Assist (Lane Keeping System) Emergency Assist (semi-automated vehicle assistance in a medical emergency) The 2025 Golf R is more exciting than ever, featuring a 13-horsepower increase delivering a total of 328 hp for the 2025 model year. Paired with the dependable 7-speed DSG dual-clutch automatic transmission this moves the Golf R quickly delivering the power to new 19-inch forged alloy wheels that are 20% lighter than previous wheels. The driving purist can get the 2025 Golf R with the Euro Style Package that offers a sunroof delete, fabric seats and Akrapovic titanium exhaust for enhanced engine acoustics. This package reduces the Golf R's weight over the standard Golf R. Pricing and availability for the 2025 Golf GTI and R models will be announced closer to launch. View full article

A buddy of mine drove Golf Rs for years--had ones each of the last two generations...was always raving about it... but he got married a couple years ago, now has two big dogs so traded the R on a Subaru Outback...he's miserable the last time I talked to him--misses his zoom zoom car and lots of other things...

It's like if you completely separate Tesla from Musk and objectively look at the Cybertruck, it's just not a very good product. Their hatchback cars/CUVs are pretty good EVs from what I've read, though. I remember we were getting a lot of smoke in NE Ohio from fires in Quebec and Ontario that summer...the sky looked surreal at times with a red ringed sun in a gray sky....

It's cool but the hot hatch thing has kind of played out for me.

I love this dude, he is so thoughtful.

A lot of interesting factoids ... The number of plants producing the mid-1960s Impala were numerous, including 2 in SoCal (Van Nuys and South Gate) and 2 in Canada (Oshawa and St.-Therese). Imagine that ... working on the line with a Francophone in a herringbone cap who breaks out a baguette for his snack break. Then, other plants: up in Detroit, Atlanta, St. Louis, and the Arlington TX (Dallas) plant that made a lot of Cutlasses. Engines were varied: 230 in line 6 (not the 250 yet), V8s like 283, 327, and a 409 that gave way to the 396. I notice the absence of the 307 at this point. The great 350 came a few years later. - - - - - As far as Cutlass going from 1976 to 1977, they did a few stupid things, yet may have sold even more of them: - the waterfall grille up front got busier, thus uglier - they got rid of the spherical vents on the right side of the dash and made them rectangular as well - they went from a more traditional burgundy (for that type of color choice) interior to a red interior (called firethorn) and it was obnoxious - they slimmed down the bucket seats in the Salon coupe quite a bit - drum roll: the loss leader base engine went from an inherently balanced 250 in line 6 in an uncrowded engine bay to an "odd firing" 231 V6 (in its last year as "odd firing") and the area in the back of the engine bay around the engine itself was crowded. They should have left that one alone. No one should have had a nicely equipped Brougham model with an engine that had a faint shudder at idle. - and, of course, they raised the price a fair bit

"GM is just as reliable as..." Also GM: https://www.yahoo.com/finance/news/gm-facing-safety-probe-into-870000-suvs-and-pickups-how-bad-is-it-184430468.html

I love junkyards, you see the most amazing stuff crushed. When I was a kid a local junkyard had a lot of rare and interesting cars from the 1950s....one day I went by and they had all been crushed. Have seen everything imaginable in junkyards. Speaking of abandoned stuff, want to see North Dakota. I love the turquoise on this...

Very interesting read. Electric Vehicle Sales Jump Higher in Q4, Pushing U.S. Sales to a Record 1.3 Million - Cox Automotive Inc.

Thank you. Makes sense in a way. But for 20 to 30 minutes? Yikes. Mirrored walls at the sides are much more useful. I've found them handy. I'll glance at them every now and then.

Yes, Canada also did the stupid thing of allowing tree planting way to close together to maximize tree output and yet the climate change has then ended up killing large sections of the trees, ending in very terrible forest fires as I remember 2019 and all the ash coming down from Canada over Washington.

As green as I try to be, there is one thing I disagree with on the side of state/county/city government and that is the let them build 6 ft apart building. Building wall to the property line of 3ft and then another 3ft to the wall of the next dwelling. This close building is also a cause and fault of the politicians who favor more property tax over safety and space. As such, the density has allowed these fires to destroy whole sections of LA and it is not over yet. I have plenty of family impacted in the greater LA area with some having lost their homes. SAD