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Ive never even seen the Impala one in my life. Didnt know THAT one existed until a couple of years ago. I just found yesterday out about the other two when I posted it. I guess in Canada, GM probably never offered those , you know because...Canada. OR Us Canadians we never bought those, because, well, you know...Canada...not America. I would have definitely bought the Impala one though!!!

Honestly...I got no problem with that!

Id consider a Grand Wagoneer is if Chryco "redeyes" it. Or in Jeep's case, "Trackhawks" it. I think the world needs more of these engines on the road before the EV thing takes over.

^^^ It turns out Chevrolet had 2 other "Spirit of America" trims. Nova and and Vega as well.

These 2 songs and scenes came to my mind reading your post

I logged in one last time just before going to bed when this caught my eye. I am curious to know why you fell out of love with Cragars. Is it because they became too popular? I love Cragars on 2nd gen Camaros and Trans Ams. I prefer Cragars on Trans Ams over any itineration of the snowflake or honeycomb wheel. And I love the snowflake and honeycomb wheels!!!

Love those Salt Flats as well!!! Dont forget Cragar SS wheels

I just promoted an employee of mine of 6 years or so to manager. She is 28 years old. I need her to fill in the big hole my partner left. She is in training... But I know she could do it. She started working for us when she was 16 as a cashier. Stopped after a couple of years when she graduated high school. Came back when she started university as she knew that we would be very flexible with her schedule. She graduated recently but Covid had a real impact on her career... I know she will eventually leave me again, because restaurant management is really not what she studied for. But for now, this arrangement suits us both. Its a big move for me too. I never had a manager. Its a new thing for me too. I will have to learn how to cope with having a manager. I will have to learn how to teach somebody in becoming a manager. I will need to learn how to delegate stuff to my manager. I will have to learn what tasks are manager tasks and what are my tasks as a working owner WITH a manager... (exhales with a sigh of relief and with a whole new set of rules and how life is gonna be from now on...)

^^^ I would have, but Robert beat me to it! Celine did a cover of her song that I preferred over hers. Celine's version was all over the radio here, and I think all over North America too. Great memories with Celine's version. Until Youtube comes along and teaches me that a lovely lady named Jennifer Rush had written and performed this song first in 1984. Which also became my favorite version really really quick. But all three singers are great and do a great job performing it.

^^^ True and thanks! And another correction. The Caprice logo on top of the grill, I dont think is a Bowtie. Its got the Caprice Fleur de Lys logo with a small Bow Tie somewhere in there. The Fleur de Lys being predominant. Now Im going by memory not really looking at a picture for reference.

The rear...just sucks ass.. The rear 3/4 window and panel is awkward and the rear rear is just plain ugly. Sorry to be such a Debbie Downer.

Every Breath You Take cover. But rap/hip hop celebrating a gunned down rapper's life and friendship. Gunned down because of that East Coast/West Coast rap thing. Or that is what they want us to believe... The original still kicks ass and is the better version. IMO Not saying that the other versions posted are not good, just that the original is best. Woot woot, the sound of the Police rocks! And I really do mean The Police. Sting's Police. Not Sting the movie character that inspired Sting, the wrestler...but the singer sting that front the group THE Police! I remember something about his finger tho... Oh yeah...it begins that he will be wrapped around somebody's finger and then it ends with that somebody will be wrapped around his finger...

I love that! The real funny thing about that is that Heath ledger's Joker would actually say that. Its in character. Other times, memes like this are funny, but not in character. Whomever thought of that is not only a funny guy, but genius enough to equate it to Heath Ledger's Joker! And about that Chevy. Just a minor correction. Its a Caprice, not an Impala. The grill defines it. Caprice grill is more fine with the bowtie on top of the grill Love those what I believe to be torq thrust wheels Impala Grill is more eggcrate-ish and the turning lamps are integrated on the front fins with the side marker as opposed to being in the headlight section only and the front fins just having the side marker on the Caprice. Not forgetting that the bowtie on the Impala is in the middle of the grill. My dad had a '74 Impala coupe. Red with white vinyl top. Im trying to find a picture of it so I could post it. I know I have it somewhere. Ive been trying to find it since the last time I mentioned my dad owned one. Which would be a year, year and half ago. But enjoying the fact that you agree with me that this generation Chevy is a good looking car!

Take away all the shytty accesories that the guy plastered on the car and the car actually looks very good. It has a great stance with the right amount of tire tread and what it seems to adorn very nice mags that compliment the stance which makes it look like a legit muscle car. I like it.

The internet is full of these crazy builds. Maybe for extra revenue from youtube adverts? Why do we wanna harp on an EV swap? https://www.topgear.com/car-news/electric/jaguars-e-type-zero-only-classic-ev-you-will-ever-need Like I said, Jaguar will make you one. Charge you 300 000 English pounds for a car that will do 0-60 in 5.5 seconds with only a 295 BHP electric motor and have a 170 mile range. 300 000 pounds. A fool and his money you say? Some idiot will buy it. Will he get his money back if he wants to re-sell it? Well cars DO depreciate if he drives it regularly... Also... would some fool WANT an EV Jag E type? Is the market for fools that spend big bucks at auctions as big as classic restored inline six E-Type Jags? Who knows? But the passion for EV Jags or inline six Jags or any car for that matter is DEFINATELY there as we are talking about it. Lets talk about an ecoboosted 4 cylinder from Ford swap on one of these Jaaaaags then. Since an ecoboosted 4 cylinder from Ford has the same specs...

Depending on what kind of money losing adventure the fool is embarked on. In a Las Vegas Casino, how much money is a fool ready to lose? Is the fool gonna go back to a bank machine to withdraw more money from his bank account after losing the initial money he went in the casino with? Probably as gambling is an addiction... When embarked in a more personal project, like restoration of a car, most of the time, most people get in over their heads. 10K over 50K? What is the difference? Other than the monetary value. Embarking on a money losing adventure is embarking on a money losing adventure. Like that casino I was talking about... Its just how deep one mistakenly goes on. Its just that losing 10K, one loses his shirt. Losing 50K, one loses his house as well. And sometimes, fools dont see it and go down that rabbit hole anyway... If that werent the case, then we wouldnt have that saying, right? When someone has a vision for his restoration project, and has got the funds to lose... We are talking about a dude with more money than brains here, and there are plenty of these kinds of fools, then sometimes, taking a classic whatever and pooring money into it is done without any regards to external values. The only thing that matters (to them) is what the finished project looks like and if they achieved the their vision. And often times, in these circumstances, the project is a money loser. 10K versus 50K You know, one could take a junky car worth only the scrap metal it adorns, and one could restore it with the utmost caution with a very carefully plan of not going over budget, with hardware that pleases most people (LS engine swaps, no crazy paint jobs) and still be a 50 thousand dollar money loser. There is no need to equate that to a restoration that includes ONLY electric powertrains... I wanna know why are you so caught up with this EV swapping thing so bad? I get it, but please dont ignore the illogical aspect of restoring cars. The money part. The green part of not throwing out a good piece of machinery in the garbage and re-purposing it to re-use it is very very logical. EV conversions ARE insanely expensive. There is little value to them as the the market for EV classics is not big. Not in 2021. But its growing. And THIS is where EV conversions makes sense. To re-purpose and re-use an old car that will go in the dumpster eventually. It just so happens that an EV conversion is made to it rather than a junked LS engine. What will fetch more money in the market place? Well, that also depends on what the project car was, how the project was made (was it made properly?), how it turned out... Performance specs means diddly squat... But they dont... Ill bring up Eleanor again. You brought up a Jaguar, somehow I get to be ridiculed by bringing up an Eleanor themed Mustang... First...about Jaguar... https://www.jaguar.com/about-jaguar/jaguar-classic/authentic-cars/e-type-reborn.html Jaguar the OEM is offering one to the public themselves... It probably will cost an arm and a leg to buy one from Jaguar themselves. And Im guessing they will sell a few of these to fools with more money than brains. But isnt that what the automobile is all about anyway? PASSION Another criteria that has no value to the fool that is actually restoring a car with whatever vision he has. PS: sometimes that passion is NOT about performance specs to the restorer... But this is where we will talk about an Eleanor Mustang. Its a movie star. It wasnt a speed queen in the original, but the reboot with Nicolas Cage, the 1967 Fastback landed itself the illusion that she is fast. With ricer styling to compliment the engine under the hood that outran a helicopter. So...when someone has a new vision for an Eleanor Mustang, and wants to go on a DIFFERENT direction than a ho hum LS swap, or a Voodoo swap or a 5.0 swap, or keep the original carburated V8 in it... one wants to do a radical thing for 2021. Well, one COULD put a 2JZ from a MKIV Supra in it... I wonder how much THIS mustang cost this owner and how much its worth in the Mustang and Ford community. Or even in the Toyoter community... But...again I ask... Because we ARE talking about hypotheticals... in this whole debacle anyway... I ask...is an ecoboosted 4 cylinder Eleanor worth the effort? Maybe to the guy that has THAT vision. But its probably worth shyte to everybody else. And it falls way way short of what an Eleanor is from the Nic Cage movie... But could it be worth it to someone down the road ...if an electrified Mach E powered Eleanor be made? Its new territory for sure. Its probably a money loser as well... But is a vision. This was a SEMA show F-150, right? Like the GM vehicles before it, right? SEMA is FULL of high dollar restored classics that most of them WILL be money losers. JUST because some idiot paid Chip Foose or Troy Trepanier or Gas Monkey Garage to build them a Riddler Trophy caliber car, (we are talking about high amounts of money here) doesnt mean that when that owner gets fed up with that car that he will get his money back when he tries to re-sell it... Smaller builds than never make it anywhere other than to the local car meets, well, those have the potential to lose the least money, I gather. But those are almost never that radical restorations anyway. But sometimes, those restorations are not super high tech and modern also...

Did you? Honestly? Scout's honor? Maybe you have... But you must have a MAJOR reading comprehension... Did NOT say I said... The one post above yours REALLY explains it all... Try to figure it out. Unless of course you are trolling... If you are not trolling, I am not your dad or mommy helping you out in school. I am not your teacher either. You are a mid 30 year old adult. Stop being a troll and/or take your obtuse way of looking at life and study the last post that @A Horse With No Name wrote just above yours. An answer is right there for you. Its screaming at you to be discovered...