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The Cadillac Lyriq has been growing on me. I am starting to like it. But I m NOT admitting to be wanting to buy one. Its an SUV after all... I am super excited about the Celestiq. I so want Cadillac to nail the exterior styling. I dont have worries about Cadillac's efforts on quality of fit and finish and interior qualities. It will be a hand built affair anyway and I KNOW that when GM is focused to do a vehicle, they never fudge it, and the Celestiq is such a project where GM is super focused. Its in the styling department that Im afraid of. They sometimes fudge that...focused or not. Camaro and Corvette is proof of what Im saying. Both cars do the performance part and no other OEM could best them. The interior of the Corvette is a homerun. Its in the looks where there might be a slight stumble. Yeah, the C8's exterior is not all love.

Thee car is pretty popular though. It has been previously restomodded in California. That car's story could easily tell us if restomodding a not so in demand classic could fetch the money spent on it with GM crate motors and substantial work done on the car by paid mechanics and garages. I wonder how much the original restomod cost and I wonder how much the car was sold for that this owner actually paid for it and I wonder how much this project costs to do. Perfect project car to settle our discussion. I would sooooo restomod early 50s Chevy, Pontiac and Oldsmobile cars with EV powertrains from GM EV crate powertrains, Ford EV crate powertrains or even from wrecked Teslas...

I sure do like it. I wouldnt do this restomod on THAT particular Chevy. But I would do THAT restomod on a Tri-Five Chevy. Or a myriad of 1960s Impalas. On an Olds 1949/50 and even possibly on am '51 Rocket 88. There are 442s and GTOs and Trans Ams that I would do this kind of thing to with that kind of powertrain. Maybe an LT5. Some with the LS7. But GM stopped producing that one. I wonder how much all that would cost to do. ???? Because I remember having several discussions with @balthazar when he was dissing EV conversions and EV crate motors and how expensive those could be... And if the money spent on THIS creation could actually be recuperated since its just a '54 Bel Air. It aint even a Tri-Five or nothin'.

In reality. Want I DO want to say. Bruh! You buy what the phoque YOU want to buy! Let no fool tell you otherwise!!!

And so...the wussification of our society continues... (Just joking) (Just let me be on my dumb ass rant for levity purposes) So... You want to sit higher so you could see better? May I suggest this instead? Because you feel safer being in a taller vehicle? Wah Wah Wah Here, let me cuddle you... We could play peek a boo if it wont be toooo scary for you... Now, unless you are talking about a REAL man's SUV, then Im all for it. But if you are thinking about one of those soccer mom deals... I gonna petition to revoke your man card...

Boston. LOL. Carolina. Those Jerks sure can play hockey!!! LMFAO Boston struggled all year long against Carolina he says... LOL LOL LOL Such an understatement... Game 1 doesnt make the series he says LOL LOL LOL (I actually agree...game 1 does mean nothing.) I said 'Canes in 5.... SCRATCH THAT!!! 'Canes in 4... Bruins cant even goon it up correctly to gain an edge over those 'Jerks' . Them Jerks could handle themselves quite alright... Its embarrassing to be a Bruins fan I think... I read EVEYWHERE that this year's no brainer upset WILL be the Bruins beating Carolina. I never understood why and how these hockey 'experts' could get such an idea. The Bruins havent had depth scoring going back to when they lost to the Blues in 2019. And THIS year the Bruins also lost their 2nd line center. If they had a chance to win the Cup, it WOULD have been IN 2019... I knew that the Bruins would not proceed to round 2. But I didnt think they would be outclassed the way they are. 'Canes are for real. They are a very good team. The East though is such a beast. It will be tough for them. Anyway...Jomboy always makes me laugh. His latest video for whatever reason, and I was in hysterics more than usual. Enjoy it! (The video and the Blues' Cup run!!!) PS: Im actually rooting for the Blues to win it!!! Or the 'Canes!!! I do NOT want the Maple Leafs to win...like even one round. LOL

Why so small of a font? We should have swapped fonts!!! You should be LOUD and PROUD that the Blues won their first game so a BIGGER font is necessary while I should be ASHAMED that the Bruins LOST their first game so a smaller font should have been made. Its only the 1st game, but I do not think the Bruins win this round. I say the Canes in 5... I think the Blues advance and shall go to round 2. Blues in 6.

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Top pic is rue Berri going north almost at the corner of rue Ontario. The bus terminal is just outside of the picture to the south. Bottom pic is the southshore suburb of Brossard. My mother-n-law, may God rest her soul, lived maybe a mile or two away from that intersection. My first house was bought in the suburb of La Prairie. You could see the sign telling you to drive straight ahead. In another 2 or so miles and you'd reach my house. The Ford Edge I bought in 2007 would be bought at the Ford dealership along the way to La Prairie just slightly past that overpass down yonder. Montmorency Ford. I know both areas very very...very well. Actually, I know Montreal and its surroundings very very well no matter where. Rue Berri is almost at the center of the city. St. Laurent boul. is the street that divides the city/island between east and west and Berri would be a handful of streets to the east. But Berri is the tourist and city bus terminal and our metro system has Berri at the center of where all the lines connect. EVERY Montrealer or tourist knows Berri very very well... Berri is almost downtown and Berri is also almost the access point of OId Montreal. About those sidewalks (trottoirs- merci pour le français) Montreal does clean them. We have cute ski doo buggies that fit our sometimes narrow sidewalks, (but in the last 2 decades it looks like Ville-Marie (the official name of the main city of Montreal) has spent millions in enlargening the sidewalks and bicycle paths. This is done after a snowfall during the snowfall but usually not long after it has stopped snowing. They do a fantastic job of clearing the snow. But...in the following days, snow ends up getting back to the sidewalks somehow. Whether because the actual street removal will dump snow back on the sidewalk through thee clean-up and residual snow gets back up there. Although sometimes those cute little tractors clearing the sidewalks work in tandem with the street clearing crews. It just happens. Montrealers ALWAYS bitch on how poorly the city cleans its streets and its sidewalks. No matter who the mayor is, no matter what burrough and what era, Montrealers DEMAND better... But ultimately, Montrealers cope with it...because we know it will NEVER get better. So we bitch some more to cope with it better. Keep in mind though...we do get a lot of snow.

I dont know why the camo. The "E-Ray" as this is supposed to be called, is in essence the Grand Sport. Grand Sports from the C6 and C7 were Z06 bodies with base Corvette V8s. This one kinda is the same in that it sounds like the LT2 is back there with obvious AWD from electric motor(s) (2?) powering the front wheels from a battery energy source in the front and inn the back, the rear wheels are powered by the V8. The body clearly looks like the widebody of the Z06. Even the shark tooth blade of the side vent looks like the Z06 blade rather than the Stingray one. The pattern seems to be followed albeit slightly modified. Therefore we already KNOW how the Z06 looks like and wee dont even NEED to visit a dealership. We dont even need to speculate as we could CLEARLY see through the camo that the body is CLEARLY a very close copy of the Z06 body. Like you said, Drew, a new vent and/or electric charge port door here or there. Maybe the front end is modified a tad...and it has a plastic "electric stylized" panel in the front like a Bolt had similar to this where as the Z06 is just a flat piece of plastic... But yeah, Im excited about it too!!!

Another personality change for America's sports car is on its way. This time its 2 changes at once. Hybrid electric and AWD. We knew it was coming. And Chevy finally revealed to us that its actually real. What it really looks like and how will it be powered by is yet to be revealed. The short reveal video is entertaining albeit cliché. Still, if one is a Corvette fan, especially if one is a fan of the C8, its exciting news.

^^^ @David I was to post that pic, but I had technical difficulties doing so, got frustrated. so I left it out. Thanx for posting it!!!

You got to remember that he was a product of the 1970s. He stopped smoking considerably in the 2000s. Cigarette marketing was at an all time high by this time. Cigarette ads like the Marlboro Man started in the 1950s? and by the time we got to the 1970s, cigarette smoking was a regular thing we did. Yeah, he actually smoked DURING the games, ON the bench. He wasnt the only one during his era. I do agree with you about smoking being bad for one's health, and I equally agree with you about vaping, at least today's young athletes for the most part, do NOT indulge in unhealthy life choices. Smoking is largely gone in the sports world. Other kinds of drugs however are not. Its scary to think how much faster, stronger some of these old school athletic superstars would be if they ate, exercised and trained and stopped the smoking and drinking like how today's athletes are. Take Babe Ruth for example. He smoked, drank and ate without a care in the world. But that was normal behavior for his era. Now imagine his natural abilities with today's view on athletic training and diet...

Phoque YEAH!!! Imagine how steady you have to be in order to accomplish that sort of thing? The pilot has to counter every little blip for a rescue mission like that to succeed. Blips like wind, or if in the water, the waves. The people walking inside the helicopter also produces bounces. I would be in a psychological mess trying to focus to get the Chinook steady enough for people to be rescued. LOL