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Colour? Didn't think you were French Canadian Thought we usually left that to 'ole crazy Canuck @oldshurst442

That was a good video, he made some great points about the two fuel sources of his saws (gas and e) and the benefits of both. Pretty good YT channel for sure. I wonder how my Grandpa, who passed away years ago, would react to the electric chainsaws of today. He was a logger who ran a big Husqvarna with a 42" bar. And now they make smart, connected, electric products like this bad boy. https://www.husqvarna.com/us/products/robotic-lawn-mowers/automower-awd/

Congrats!! Yep, only money and only one life to live, totally worth it. Need pics soon!

Arizona Orange Sky December Sunset. Going to be 69-70 for Christmas here. Love it. I'll go up to the snow if I want to ski or screw around in the truck, don't want to live in it. To each their own. Glad 2020 will soon be OVER!!

Merry Christmas as well blu! 🎅🏼

Yep, Installed a B-W 50 gal. Hydrojet WH a few years ago because I found the same after some research and talking to a plumber buddy of mine. Few more bucks, but worth it. The Kenmore Roto-Clean WH I took out was a 1998 and replaced in 2017, great life with hard water too. Kenmore is/was solid stuff! Still have an old Kenmore Intelli-Clean Direct Drive (no belt to break) vacuum cleaner still going strong after 14 years.

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Same reason Corvettes get such great mileage on the hwy. power/weight ratio. I've gotten 30-32 mpg cruising at 75-80 mph Phx to Vegas and there's some elevation change as well. At 80 mph I'm at 1,800-2,000 rpm. Now my old square body 3/4 ton I had with 350cid 4bbl, TH400 3 spd. with 4:10's I was at 3,000-3,200 rpm at 65 mph and regularly got 9 mpg whether towing or not. Another reason Ford EcoBoost in the F150 doesn't get any better mpg's sometimes even worse than a GM Silverado/Sierra competitive V8 does. That small V6 is working a lot harder, the turbos are stuffing the air and fuel in.

For sure, and there are many Chevrolet/Cadillac dealers that piggy back dealerships and I think GM wants to separate them and have Cadillac stand alone. It's something MB and BMW can't do because they have no Chevrolet equivalent and it's something the VW/Audi model didn't emulate. I used to work at a large Chev/Cad. dealership back in the late 90's, the Cadillac dealership had it's own boutique style dealership on the same lot right next to the huge Chevy dealership. It was kind of strange, but it was GM's sales model back then. It was pretty comical as well because the Cadillac sales guys who were certified with GM to sell Cadillac (which is still required today) would say "if you can fog a mirror you can sell a Chevrolet". It's pretty accurate though. In today's highly competitive automotive market GM's strategy has definitely changed. GM is planning on Cadillac's model lineup to be fully EV by 2030, so they are planning full retooling at the Cadillac factories, and most Cad cars and CUV's will probably be built at Factory ZERO the old Detroit Hamtramck factory.

I don't trust Amazon/Alexa either or really Google for that matter. I bought a couple of Echo's a few years ago and they always seemed like they would key up on their own. The in my bedroom would have Alexa talking when nobody was in the room like it was being remotely linked from an outside source and the living room one would just key up randomly with the flashing ring like it was listening. I thought screw this and unplugged both of them and never looked back. The problem is damn near everything is made in China and the CCP can come in and steal physical and intellectual property from companies whenever they want. It's unfortunately part of doing business in China. I've always had good luck with Netgear routers. They have the Netgear Orbi 6 Tri-band mesh and the Nighthawk series is pretty good too but only WiFi 5 I believe. https://www.cnet.com/news/best-wi-fi-routers-of-2020-nest-asus-tp-link-netgear-orbi/

Who cares if they ask $500k it's because they don't really want to sell it right now, they want to keep it on the showroom and create a buzz. Looks like it worked, a troll in Washington State just found it! Someone is just jealous it's not going to be in their swampy State to see if they can fit their Hightower a$$ in it 😜

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Same thing when Earnhardt Auto Group bought Legends Cadillac in N Scottsdale and remodeled it. It wasn't a bad dealership just dated, 80's dated. I always liked the nostalgic feeling when you walked into the showroom at Legends though, call me old school ha. It's something Lexus and Infiniti dealerships couldn't replicate because they weren't even around yet. Here's some GM/Cadillac AZ history: One of the oldest car dealerships in Arizona was Lund Cadillac off of E Bell Rd. near 13th St. built by Bob Lund with help from GM Corp. which was rare, but it was because Bob was a top selling big wig at GM and ended up as the General Manager of Cadillac and Chevrolet in the 70's. He retired from GM as an Executive VP in 1985. Bob also owned Legends Cadillac in N Scottsdale and Kachina Cadillac down in Chandler that was also sold to Earnhardt Auto Group in 2015. Lund Cadillac is where I bought my '13 CTS-V Coupe a couple of years before they closed it down. It was an old school but upscale concrete building all white with big pillars on the front and a water feature with fountains in the middle of the drive. Larry Van Tuyl bought the Lund Cadillac dealership, but not the property, from John Lund (Bob's son who took it over) in 2015 and John sold the property to Fry's Food Stores/Kroger for $6MM which was a steal because it was a huge 5 acre lot off of a main thoroughfare. Van Tuyl moved the dealership out to Glendale to get coverage out there for Cadillac where they built a brand new dealership and renamed it Arrowhead Cadillac, which is now owned by Berkshire Hathaway Automotive along with Van Chevy and all the Van Tuyl dealerships in the nation. The Lund dealership was demolished in 2016 and a huge Fry's Marketplace went in along with a Fry's gas station and many other retail shops and restaurants. Kind of sad that all the automotive history went with it, the area doesn't look the same at all. End of an Era... https://www.autonews.com/article/19991018/ANA/910180724/super-seller-two-decades-after-his-3-7-million-heyday-at-chevy-bob-lund-is-still-moving-iron

Same here, it's like a Silver/Blue. Balthy prob knows the name of it!

I agree, '61 in top pic for sure. I like the cleaner body lines down the side and the upper character line follows around on the trunk lid on the '61 as well, that looks awesome. They can't make that upper line flow around on the '62 because of the vertical taillight housing and the rear quarters on it have that weird boxed look, '61 is much cleaner design all around.

Yes, it does look like the San Bernardino mountains in the background. Oh yeah they went vertical instead of horizontal on the tail/brake lights. Sweet rides.

Oh GM definitely has some poorly ran dealerships that need to go, every manufacturer does. All of GM's 4 divisions have dealerships that are franchises not wholly owned by GM so it's like babysitting in the Corp. world I'm told. GM does ride Cadillac pretty hard though, about 10 years ago they required every Caddy dealer nationwide that wanted to stay on to invest in updating and/or remodeling their dealerships to the latest tech. and the newest design language and style that Cadillac wanted to reflect, if not they were forced to close their doors. It's worked pretty well. The 5 Cadillac dealers in the Phoenix Metro Area have all gone through the transformation, 4 were older but still in pretty good shape just dated, but are now remodeled and one is brand new within the last 5 years. All the Cadillac dealers here also went through the GM EV dealer certification that included about $50-100k of investment by each dealer for the addition of charging stations in the service dept. and on the property in guest parking areas and tech. and sales training when the ELR was launched in 2014, they had to if they wanted to sell it. I think the dealers who are taking the buyout deal were mostly small boutique style dealers that weren't pulling their weight and needed to go anyway. From what I hear GM does stay on their dealers pretty heavy, it's just some don't do what they're supposed to (kind of like a spoiled child that won't listen their parents haha) and they get fined by GM Corp. and receive less allocation of new cars for not following the rules as well.

This definitely looks like Arizona or So. Cal. with the Mexican Fan palms and Olive trees in the front yard 60's flat roof house and beautiful early 60's Eldo. '62? Just watched this episode haha. Can't believe Whistlin' totaled MonsterMax! 😮

Yep, I buy the 6 qt. boxes of Mobil 1 Full Syn. at Costco when they're 10 bucks off in coupon book, so $28 instead of $38, then I hit up O'Reilly's or Wally's World for the Wix XP oil filter for $9-$11 a piece which is well worth it. Then I get 'er done myself and O'Reilly's takes the used oil. Good times!

It is the Holidays and I get that, but pretty much double is ridiculous. Not the first time SWA has been more expensive even to So. Cal. for work trips they are often more. There were more direct nonstops available to the PNWet with their competition which was also unusual. Thinking they have already ground much of the fleet. I was talking to a pilot for American who was seated near by on a flight a few months ago and he said they were only running half of their fleet of over 1,000 planes. Whoa! That was eye opening.

Not surprised with the way 2020 has been, but SWA pricing is way out of wack. I ran flights on them and on Kayak.com with American and Alaska Air from Phoenix to Portland nonstop same dates and SW was 1,000 bucks where Alaska and American were $500-$600 also nonstop. I was blown away. I don't really ever fly SW but I thought I would just price check for the he'll of it. Crazy times...

I read about this over the weekend. Cadillac dealer buddy of mine here in AZ said there is a TON of push back from all 880 current dealers who are not happy. It really is ridiculous. No reason they can't offer both EV and ICE pushing for all EV by 2030 is overly ambitious of GM top brass. They just know there is more margin made per unit with less assembly and maintenance to deal with, but not everyone is onboard with it. I think it will alienate many diehard Cadillac fans, the V cars are so impressive, they can easily equal or take down the German rivals in performance and build quality.

Beautifully designed solid cars, a ton of character.

Or this '51 Chieftain Deluxe dropped with the skirts on. Beauty! Or original factory stance '52 Deluxe

I've noticed the new F150 Raptor is a b!tch as well. One of my neighbors was out changing his the other day. They have an access door on the front skid plate and you have to buy a special extended oil wrench from Ford, which he didn't buy, so he was wrestling with it quite a bit. Pretty funny. I said those Ford engineers gotcha good! He scoffed and said no sh!t they really did! That's ridiculous that you have to do all that to get to the oil filter on the Ranger going in from the wheel well and to actually get to it you have to remove the splash guards in the well? I'd be really annoyed. Why couldn't they design it to get to it from the bottom near the drain plug?! They already make you take the skid plate off to get to the plug! Lol!