oldshurst442

THAT must have been a very enjoyable drive. Im feeling envy right about now.

EVs are coming... EVs ARE the future whether we want to accept that reality or not.

I gotcha!

Those are gorgeous too. I dont get why the automotive world wanted bigger horsepower figures on that model. It was a cruiser. Not meant to be a bruiser. I guess the world then was thirsty for horsepower and torque. But clearly didnt want Camaro or Trans Ams.... I get the concern for the lack of V8 and horsepower for the Plymouth Prowler, I just didnt understand it when some folk whined about that too for the Thunderbird.

Also...that dash design goes further than 1970... A 1966 Olds Cutlass dash to beat a dead horse...completely...dead...

I didn't like the newer interiors. I preferred the original. Because it resembled the classic Cutlass interiors also...I preferred the fact that those interiors were also optioned with the digital readout. 1970 1980s G-Body Olds Cutlass W-Body Cutlass Supreme And digital version Minus the digital screen where a that is clearly a modern upgrade where a plethora of buttons used to be.

Not quite yet ready for one just yet. It will be a 442 clone. Either a 1969 Hurst/Olds Clone or 1970 442 clone. Or it will be a numbers matching 1970 442 W30. If it will be a clone, it will NOT have an Olds 455 under the hood. But a modern powerplant. But it will not be a ubiquitous LS/LT engine swap. It will be a custom engine job. kinda like a SD 455 cubic inch Trans Am depot engine based on the GM's LT engine series. Or a Hellephant 426 cubic inch engine based on Mopar's Hellcat/Demon/Redeye Hemi. Yes...if I was ready NOW, and I had the necessary 100 000 dollar plus budget for buying a number's matching 442 or building a quality show room clone 442, Id SERIOUSLY consider putting a 426 inch Hellephant engine in it. Or even the Red Eye version Hemi. YES! Id MOPAR my Oldsmobile!!! And yes! Id consider putting "426" on the front of the car instead of "442" and Id consider doing hockey stick graphics like the Hemi cars of old, instead of the Oldsmobile Hurst graphics, which kinda look like MOPAR hockey stick graphics AND...Id have a logo that says HEMI/OLDS instead of HURST/OLDS on the side front fenders... Yes...I dream a lot...but THAT is what keeps my dreams alive for owning a 1970 Oldsmobile Cutlass one day. Id even consider making the Cutlass an EV 442 clone...as of now...using Tesla Model S or Model 3 skate platform and putting the Cutlass body shell over the Tesla skate platform some how... Id NEVER spend 100 000 dollars on a car. But if my other retirement plans do not go through, this option is open for me. If the other plans go through, then maybe Ill never own a 1970s Cutlass. If Im lucky enough to have my cake and eat it too, then Ill get to live my life with my wife in paradise and not worry about money at all when we are both old and grey, and my kids are living their lives without having to worry about money, and I still get to have my dream car.... If none of my plans go through...at least Ive had a nice dream to dream about all these years of hard work... But...in the meantime. We save money for the future. My future, my wife's future and my kid's future and we see what happens...

You had one of those? Man...I LOOOOOOVED those! I tried to get my dad to buy an 1994 Cutlass Supreme 4 door, but it was a tad too much money for him, so we went with my 2nd choice, 1994 Pontiac Grand Am GT 4 door. It was a tad cheaper plus we got a better deal on the Grand Am...a better deal than what the dealership was willing to do on the Grand Am than on the Cutlass. But yeah...that Cutlass Supreme convertible was a dream machine for me back in the day. W-Bodies were good cars. When they got all the bugs fixed, they were quite reliable cars. Minus a few stupid engine choices GM chose to use on a couple of models...

I see what you did there...cutlass. A type of sword... Transgression...his transgression of not acknowledging my friendliness towrds his car yet I am the one being truly rude by callingn him an asshat... Very clever. Well done. Well played. Phoque him! One day... MY Oldsmobile Cutlass will be better than HIS! One day....

All it takes to kill any kind of momentum that is generated by durability ads, is for somebody to do a political style attack ad.

Reality is indeed complex. There are many facets to reality. Different types of people, in different parts of the world have a different type of reality. I understand this and accept it too. I have a problem ONLY when one individual thinks that there is only one reality and THAT reality is the only reality we should adapt to. And I know that this is a two-way street as THAT person WILL think EXACTLY like I AM THINKING, that I am trying to push MY reality unto HIS... Back to EV infrastructure: Nope...not a thing. False claim. Not reality. ESPECIALLY going forward. Technology IS moving forward with this so charging times WILL go down. But even as is, NOT. A. PROBLEM. For daily driving needs. For long distance traveling. Again. Its ONLY a problem when you resist change. People that have bought EVs, dont see that as a problem. And you know what? I gassed up yesterday. JUST before going to my daughter's softball practice. I was running on fumes. I wanted to full up to the brim. On a usual fill up from completely empty to fully full, it does take a good 5-6 minutes just at the pump...well, the pump yesterday was slow as phoque for whatever reason, and it took LITERALLY 12 minutes JUST for me to put gas IN the car. THAT is ALMOST EV charging times right there. And I had to stand there like an idiot with my hand on the pistol. EV chargers...you just place it there and leave it there... Oh...I had the wife's Fusion, and the Ford has no gas cap for me to do the little gas cap trick to stick it under the handle so I could smoke a cigarette while the car fills up...(yes...Ive seen this before in the 1980s when smoking was rampant and safety was of little concern regarding fire hazard around gas stations...) ??? Portability??? Electrons move very easily. Even the suns rays could be transformed into fuel...actually, we as humans get fuel with the sun's rays... Maybe you mean charger stations? THIS is why GM is investing in a charger network system. Tesla keeps on growing theirs. THIS is also the reason why they continue to bleed money. Nobody acknowledges this fact, but they keep poor billions in expanding their charging network system. Its an asset that is very very valuable... Again...false reality on your part. That is a problem with ICE as well. Prices keep going up in price for those. EVs as compared to ICE is sure higher for EVs. Yeah...and? Reality is that housing is expensive. HEALTY FOOD CHOICES are expensive. Good quality clothes that last more than two wash loads are expensive. GASOLINE is expensive. Maybe in YOUR reality it aint. In mine it is. And as is for the most of the world. Electricity though, in my reality is cheap cheap cheap and clean clean clean clean so for me, in the next generation of EVs, the higher cost of EVs over ICE will be offset by a huuuuuge margin with maintenance and gasoline purchases...especially when MY government is gonna help out with electric vehicles and electricity as fuel for housing (heating and cooling) and all that. Not just for private usage, but for public service buildings and vehicles such as metros, buses, garbage trucks, postal vehicles etc... All that will fuel our economy as hydro-electric power is almost our only source for electricity (we do have wind mills to assist) and there has been no coal powered stations for the last 50-75-80 years, and our only nuclear plant was decommissioned and dismantled 3-4-5 years ago.) So...different reality for you and I... EVs ARE profitable... Tesla is not...NOT because EVs are not profitable...Tesla has other issues... For GM...well, as good as the Volt and Bolt have been technologically, GM's half assed attempts to sell EVs and to manufacturer them...THEIR resistance to EVs in the past have kept EVs non-profitable for them. But now...they are going full tilt EV...and they think that they could make a buck or two with EVs... Again...reality has MANY facets...it depends what reality you choose to believe in... Only with folk much like yourself. Resistant to change and happy to be ignorant about the whole thing. Nobody, other than Tesla and Toyota, has created the right packaged EV just yet. Nobody, other than Tesla has created a visually beautiful EVs yet either. The Prius family of EVs are ugly as phoque. The Bolt is too small and too phoquen ugly. Tesla cars, while not Harley Earl/Bill Mitchel/Virgil Exner/Pininfarina/Henrik Fisker (irony that I mention Fisker as he had a slight influence on the Model S and the Model S was a good looking car 6 years ago) masterpieces, Tesla cars DO invoke passion with their car design language... Tesla has sold half a million cars to date. And still selling, although sales have dipped, so have other manufacturer's sales. But 500 000 Tesla cars sold. 500 000 THIS figure alone has made the rest of the industry to say...WTF??? Again...different reality you choose to believe in. You could tell me that EVs are nothing but barely 2% of all vehicle sales...which is one reality...but I choose to see 500 000 units sold... And..as it seems, so does GM, Porsche, Mercedes, BMW, VW and all others... Yes... but IF it crashes... Also...Tesla is bleeding billions because they are expanding their network... VW has a war chest of billions. GM does not. So...smart thinking for GM. But again, your perception of reality is different than mine. Who is right? I dunno...but GM and others are going full tilt with EVs. Crash and burn? You think GM will let that possible reality BECOME reality? Like in baseball or sports in general. Numbers, statistics and analytics have taken over. The poor teams adopted this, to better compete with the rich teams. The rich teams laughed at this idea. It worked. The rich teams used this to vastly improve on their chances. Poor teams still such, but not as much, but the rich teams still win....but numbers, statistics and analytics are part of reality in sports. EVs...are gonna be part of our reality. Too much money from governments, car companies are invested in this going forward. It will NOT fail as THIS is the reality governments want, and car manufacturers are accepting, complying and ultimately ONLY going to offer EVs for purchase. Phasing out ICE slowly, but surely. Like digital and high definition TV. Like how oil from whale blubber lead to oil and electricity to fuel our appliance and heating needs.

Tesla's supercharging network is an asset that Tesla possesses that appears to be overlooked. Tesla's network is an advantage that Tesla has over all other manufacturer's EV sales. That network system is a big part of Tesla's prestige. When VW and now GM matches Tesla's charging network in term of size and accessibility, that might just eat in to Tesla's appeal just a tad and maybe reverse Tesla's God-like aura they have.... Its in GM's best interest to build up a and beef up the charging network system if they want to succeed in selling EVs to the masses.

Going to my daughter's softball practice this evening. '69 Cutlass convertible. White. It looked like a red or burgundy interior. Great shape. I was on a two lane small winding road while he was coming on the opposite side. I saw him a mile away. I knew it was a '69 Cutlass as soon as I saw it on the horizon. Gave him a thumbs up from a looooong distance, the phoquer either didnt see me (how could you not see me? Two lane road, one going one way and the other going the other way...) Or he decided to ignore me....either way...asshat!

Edited...? A little less on that one, but yeah, Infiniti seemed to have great unloved cars in the 1990s. Especially compared to Acura and Lexus. Ill do another car... Of all the versions of the VW Phateon's platform mates, I prefer the Veedub version. Actually, the VW Phaeton is mucho revered by me. Though, not much love for it here in North America.

I prefer the regular Monte Carlo SS over the Aero Coupe. And more to it than that, I prefer the LS trim over the SS. But yeah, G-Body GM cars are good looking vehicles. The 1990s B-Body Impala SS was a great car too! Ive always loved this Infinti myself. And the 1990s J30 So far, I havent included a car that that I feel about. Ive been piggybacking on somebody else's choices. I like the Lexus RCF, despite predator face and it being a Toyota product. I JUST JUST mentioned that!!! AWE-SOME!!!

I owned a 2005 Impala SS. I had the other mags. The ones that looked like the 1995 Impala SS on my car. Great car. Great engine. Great everything...except the interior. Cheap. Cheap. Cheap. Not worthy the 40 000 Canadian doallrs that I bought it for. But...I miss it dearly. I miss the sleeper aspect of it. Nobody new what it was, other than a cheap ass Chevy that 99% of the population that it was... The othe 1% that I was an undercover cop prowling the Streets to give out tickets. (When that version of the Impala was actually a Montréal cop car...)

Go figure with Ford. I like my wife's Fusion. Good car, But I a tad disappoint with all those recalls on it. Not so much with the recalls, but with the fact that Ford rushed the model to market, and it took the recalls to perfect the model, but all that bad planning had made Ford lose money on a what is essentially a winning car only for Ford to now cancel it... Just plain dumb... And its like FoMoCo has not learned from its past doing stupid shyte like this... Very disappointing.

Blame the (North American) tourist for that...Possibly the American or Canadian Greek on top of all that... And we were there last summer...I think I know what joint you are talking about Yeah...my mom made the best Greek potatoes. I miss those. I miss my mommy. The wife is a good cook too. She cooks authentic Greek food quite alright. My belly is proof. But nothing beats momma's cooking. *SIGH* I agree though about questioning the authenticity of it all. Although, Athens in general has changed for the better IMO....however, the street food that you got in Athens during the 70's and 80s' will forever be gone. Today, first of all, you cant get a souvlaki stick sold by a vendor with a grill on a sidewalk, who also grilled corn too to begin with. That is loooong gone. But even the souvlaki, although still delicious, its not the way it used to be. Back then, it was beyond delicious. It was heavenly. At least that is how I remembered it anyway...

Ah... Thanx for clearing that up...not that you owe me an explanation or nuthin'...but you gotta admit...you do many of the trolly responses...and I hate that...so Im up your face wit dat...

Why are you surprised? These come with turbo engines... A turbo 4 cylinder and a turbo diesel. You know...no need for a 6 cylinder because the turbo 4 is THAT good... And unlike GM's diesel, VW's diesel is quite good...

Those are not so much as Greek fries as they are cultural appropriated Greek oriented American fast junk food...(I aint sayin' they are not delicious, could very well be, I dont doubt it!) These are Greek potatoes... Just sayin'...

I could sense you are a troll...A Ford Shilling kinda troll I help you out... True...GM had prtoblems with Diesels. Maybe peeps could forego a GM diesel and they could flock to Ford with their ecoboost turbos. Sure as hell Ford never had any problems with those catching on fire...and I AM talking about the trucks catching on fire, not just the little 4 banger ecoboosted Escapes and Fusions...but the lawddy dah 3.5 liter Ford F-150 ecoboosted 6...and I am talking about THIS decade...the one YOU are talking about was sooooo 1/2 a CENTURY ago..

Unless of course the dude or dudette has more money than brains, are vegans, buy "organic" foods, and want to save the planet and a big 'ole Charger Hellcat is the antithesis of what they believe in so therefore a Tesla is the new Prius for these kinds of people. These people scour the internet for planet friendly clothes and furniture to buy...and they make sure to tell you how eco friendly they are...and they might, just might scold you how eco friendly YOU are not... And Ive met some of them... they do exist these kinds of people. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, these types of people drove Volvos and Lexus sedans. Then they went on to Priuses and the Lexus version of the Prius. The new generation of these types of people flock to Tesla...not because of the performance numbers, but because its a green vehicle...they dont care about cars...they care about "saving" the planet...

YUCK!!! NEVER WITH SOUR CREAM AND CERTAINLY NEVER WITH VINEGAR!!! Yogurt...always with and only with yogurt...thick yogurt. Strained yogurt. Never with vinegar. Too much sourness... Lemon juice ONLY. Lemon juice also gives you that "refreshing" taste... But the first one says add some feta cheese....interesting... ? The second one...mayonnaise??? WTF???!!! But if you like it like that...you like it like that. Im Greek so...Ill be a purist about it...

Tzatziki? But you said dressing. I guess tzatziki could be made to be less thick and more liquidy to be a dressing. Tzatziki is a dip. Its also the "sauce" that is in a gyro or souvlaki pita. Or "on the side" when ordering souvlaki on a stick. All kinds of veggies taste good with tzatziki as well as all kinds of meats (except beef) and fish and seafood. Unless of course its not tzatziki what you are referring to. But the only thing that I could think of that has cucumber and dill as a dressing or dip is tzatziki. And I wouldnt think that tzatziki would be that exotic. Even Lebanese cuisine has a version of this. Granted, maybe there might not be a big population of Lebanese people but Greeks are everywhere in North America now-a-days. Not as big of a population as the Eye-talians. But still...I would think that tzatziki would be more popular than that. No matter where we are in North America. Or maybe its because Greek cuisine has had a big influence in Montreal and Toronto...and Boston and NYC, that I take it for granted...that maybe other parts of North America may not be so into Greek cuisine.