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There are a couple of Camaros and 1 Firebird of that era around my area. I think...all of them, with their V6 base engines. I am sure of the Firebird and one of the Camaros as that Camaro has a Berlinetta badge on it. The other Camaro, I cannot tell. But it aint an IROC, therefore it could have the 5.0 middle offering... Electric motors on pop-up head lights? Couple hundred dollars at least to replace the motors.

^^^ Hold on tight to your dream. Electric Light Orchestra In 1968. It was a dream. in 2021...its reality.

Yeah...finally that American-Canadian border is open! Yeah...there was a time, just a couple of months ago actually, that Quebec was divided into regions and one person couldn't cross into a different region... Especially if one came from a red zone. Montreal was a red zone when he got his Vette in May.

I was on a playdate today. With an employee's father who had a convertible C6 Corvette. I had thought that it was a Z06 badge on the side of it a while back when I posted seeing, but in fact it was a Z51 badge. Well, he sold it privately and got himself a.....C8 Corvette. 2021. He had to jump through hoops to get it. None in Quebec were available. All sold out. He gad to fetch it in Saint John's Newfoundland. But couldnt because of Covid restrictions. He had it shipped by ship...to Quebec City to another Chevy dealer But couldnt fetch it there either. Covid restrictions. So had it transported by truck to another dealer. Had to pay extra monies to have it shipped to these dealers. But all in all, the transaction price was NOT higher than MSRP. However, it wasnt the trim level he wanted. His is a 1LT base Stingray. He wanted another Z51, but beggars cant be choosers with a hot and rare commodity that is a C8 Corvette in Quebec and in Canada generally. White with a red interior. Red seats. Red stitching. BEAUTIFUL. But there is no wing. The mags are plain. The only option I think are red brake calipers that have the Corvette name on them. Basic but beautiful. So...I spent the entire day with him and his Corvette. Two middle aged men having the time of their lives. Bonding of our love affair of cars. Talking about Corvettes, but other muscle machines as well. We spent it in the Laurentians. He let me drive it. I fed him steak and beer and chicken wings. You know...manly food. Ahem.... It turned out to be a Thelma and Louise kinda day. (without the sexual abuse, killings, runnin' from the cops and ultimately jumping off a canyon...)

Oldshurst: CCAP:

@ccap41 I had a funny GIF response to your Toyota/gm comment, but posting on an iPhone didnt seem to work…So, imma gonna post it when I go home tonight. Imma not at work either so I cant use the restaurant’s office computer either. ?

- "Hey guys!" - "Who's that? Who's he???!!!" - "Tony! Tony Esposito!"

I saw yesterday, in pretty decent condition, a late '80s early '90s Chrysler New Yorker. The pop-up lights looked like they werent working and they were in the 'up' position. It was white, no visible rust. Nothing exciting about it other than seeing a relic of the past. I hadnt seen one since before the '90s decade was up.

^^^ I like the colour. Green on this era Cadillac makes it stately in my opinion. Couple that with a green interior and its a winner for me.

Elon Musk as current leader and CEO of Tesla Motors

Maybe... If EVs are truly the wave of the future, maybe, compact cars in North America will truly disappear. And if that happens, maybe, midsize vehicles, even if CUVs, will grow bigger. Become longer and wider. If maybe that happens, maybe, the necessity for having 4 doors wont be an issue because midsizers are now gonna be fullsizers again. Maybe... And if that happens, maybe, because EVs dont necessitate all that transmission tunnel stuff cutting in the interior and space for an engine up front making a huge dashboard protrude into the interior, maybe, that will inspire a 2 door, personal luxury car market again. Which will filter down to affordable 2 door personal cars. Pony cars. Muscle cars....

Maybe Elon Musk is shooting his own Tesla foot and maybe THAT will destroy Tesla and coincidentally that will enable the competition to eat up Tesla? https://ca.news.yahoo.com/elon-musk-says-tesla-wasnt-142537743.html Biden doesnt invite Tesla, despite Tesla outselling all other in North America concerning EVs. is it because people in the know-how that actually will make the EV thing happen with laws and money dont have faith in Tesla anymore? Why? Some say because unions. But maybe other reasons too? https://ca.news.yahoo.com/tesla-chinese-rivals-xpeng-li-062943833.html https://www.scmp.com/business/companies/article/3142148/tesla-drops-down-rankings-below-average-quality-mainland-auto?utm_source=Yahoo&utm_medium=partner&utm_campaign=contentexchange&utm_content=3143475 https://ca.news.yahoo.com/california-couples-tesla-caught-fire-154040409.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/25/business/tesla-autopilot-ntsb.html https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/5/22563751/tesla-elon-musk-full-self-driving-admission-autopilot-crash ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Maybe the powers that be are just sick and tired with Elon Musk and Tesla no longer gets a free pass? Maybe Elon Musk needs to step down...

Base Corvette... But for the love of God...dont ever reply to me ever again... Please....Im begging you...

Why arent you waiting for a Corvette Z06 and ZR1 Porsche GT2 RS and BMW M4 Comp beater? Dont reply, I dont care. I just wanted to point out your hypocrisy and American self hatred.

Is it me and the way the angle of the photograph is taken, but I see this how both Buicks are parked ...although still within the lines... Are Buick owners slightly drifting in the "what is the difference between porcupines and BMW owners" level? Maybe?

Im like you Balthy, Im a degenerate (or used to be) too. But like even in your example of someone at a party just blurting out p*ssy and laughing just seems...stupid. Sticking it to "the man" is what we all should strive for. "The man" could include many entities. Guvment. Big corporate bullies. Religion. Hell, even law and order sometimes because even law and order needs chaos to re-stabilize itself again to reset the boundaries. I think Bread 8 on a license plate and similar verbiage is a way to say FU to the Guvment for free speech and stuff like how George Carlin's 7 words comedy bit defined the stupidity of 'bad' language. But at the same time, we DO have to have some sort of decent decorum when in public. That also includes radio, TV and theatre (movies) and our media in general. I dont like personalized license plates either. For the same reasons Robert mentioned. Plus others. On a daily driver, appliance vehicle, I see no reason to personalize ANY part of the car. On a toy vehicle, yeah, Id like a vanity name. "Stranger" would be my personal license plate on my 1970 Olds or 1973 Trans Am. Its my last name in English.

Yet...he mentions cars that are ABOVE their base offerings. HE ignores the fact that the (new gen) 3 Series in Europe is one small step above entry level econobox compact car with a lowly 2.0 liter 4 cylinder engine producing 150 horsepower 0-60 in 9 seconds... There is a 330 3 Series with a 2.0 liter 4 cylinder that is the base model in North America that does 0-60 in 5 seconds...with a price tag of starting at 40 000 US dollars... But NONE of THOSE comes CLOSE to ANY Vette EVER produced... Sorry, a 1953 inline stove bolt 6 Corvette DID in fact produce 150 HP and had similar 0-60 times to that 2020 318 Bimmer... I decided to move the bar MYSELF for a change...

When Cadillac sowed us the mid-engine Cien in 2002, I was all in for a Cadillac supercar. At a time when it was hip and cool to do mid-engine supercars. Everybody had a concept or actually produce one. Cadillac did not, however, produce it. It was featured in a movie thought and it was a great way to fantasize what a 300 000 dollar mid-engined supercar from Cadillac could be. When Cadillac then made the Evoq sports car and actually did produce it calling it the XLR based on a advanced Corvette C5 platform that was a precursor to the C6 platform that Corvette didnt have just yet...I was again all on board for Cadillac's attempt to be yet another follower as THIS was the way everybody else was trying to market themselves. At the same time of the Cien, Cadillac also gave us a V16 cruiser concept that better fit Cadillac's image. They didnt produce that one either. By the time the Ciel concept came around, I was in between thought processes on what Cadillac should produce. The El Miraj came and went and Cadillac didnt produce ANY of these concepts but by this time, I had made up my mind that in MY opinion, Cadillac for me, is NOT a sports car, hypercar type of brand. Cadillac was always a boulevardier brand. A cruising brand rather than a speedy one. In terms of alcoholic drinks, a Martini shaken not stirred. A Cognac neat or on the rocks. A LITERAL boulevardier drink. In terms of alcoholic drinks, Cadillac having sports cars are akin to shots. Alabama slammers, tequila lime shots with lime. Sex on the Beach... THIS is NOT Cadillac... Youthful. Promiscuous. Sexy. Not Cadillac DESPITE wanting to be younger. Maybe Pontiac if we are talking about GM? Definitely Lamborghini! Having sports cars and hypercars at Cadillac is like this: and this Although THIS IS Cadillac Let the other brands debase themselves to that (You see...Lamborghini!!!) Cadillac is more akin to this Similar... but there is a fine line and difference between the debauchery. In the 1980s, cocaine and wild parties skewed the arrogance factor towards the adolescent... Cadillac is arrogant luxury. But not adolescent. Supercars are adolescent.... Yuppies are new money. Newer money than Cadillac. Rolls is the old, stick up your a$$ conservative money. Cadillac came along and still kept the sophisticated aspect of it, but SHOWED YOU in FULL display how filty rich you are. Rolls Royce too, but there was a hint of understatement there. The 1980s came along, yuppies and white collar crime con artists with their cocaine fueled state of mind drew us back to our teenaged ways. Cadillac shoudnt go this route is what Im trying to say... Its not them.

The Impala SS fills(ed) my muscle car desires. I dont think Canada ever got the Olds Custom Cruiser on that final B Body. I got to learn that it even existed sometime in 2010 or so when I joined Motor Trend forums. My initial thought about that final B Body Olds Custom Cruiser was that it was a shame that Oldsmobile didnt get a sedan version too. It would have been #2 on my list if Olds had sedan. Therefore, I would have to say that that the Olds custom Cruiser would be #1. And surprisingly, the Buick Roadmaster wagon would be #2 and the Caprice wagon at #3.

Watching the Olympics on and off, not really into them this time around. Came across this pic...thought about it and said...yup that would be a correct assessment of this situation! Thought about it some more...somehow I tied it in with sports...came across this meme But the ONLY Trans Girls I could think of right about now are these kinds of Trans girls... So...I might not tell that lovely lady to move out of the way after all. Well not completely out of the way anyway.

I agree with this statement. yet...its a tired old argument. 10.6 @ 135 or so MPH versus 11.2 @ 122 MPH or so. So yeah... On the 'base' 488, its got close to 200 HP and 60 ft/lbs of torque more than the Vette. Considering the price tag difference, the 488, as pointed out, is 200-300 pounds lighter than the Vette. That price difference equals to more expensive, lighter materials being used for the Ferrari. The Vette's engineering prowess is NOT how the power is put down and the numbers being accomplished as compared to Ferraris, Porsches, McLarens, Lambos.... The Vette's engineering prowess is how all that is being translated, by the level of high technology being used AT A PRICE POINT being MASS PRODUCED and BEING CONSISTANT from car to car, and doing that from year to year, decade to decade, generation after generation keeping up with cars that cost 2-3-4-5 times as much. We shouldnt be putting down Vettes in relation to Ferraris and Porsches. We shouldnt be putting down Ferraris and Porsches in relation to Vettes either. HOWEVER, I REALLY like to see what Ferrari could do, PERFORMANCE wise, within the SAME price point and BUDGET that Chevrolet and Corvette engineers have to deal with... I dont care what Ferrari sells their cars at, if people buy them at any MSRP, good on Ferrari, but I really do want to see what Ferrari engineering could do with a Corvette budget regarding engineering... We have already seen what Porsche has done in this 'Corvette' situation. 1. Porsche 914 2. Porsche 924, 944, 964 3. Porsche 928 ALL PERFORMANCE FAILURES as compared to the Corvette. (I am STRICTLY talking about PERFORMANCE and NOT sales) The ONLY one that has succeeded in keeping up with the Corvette is the Cayman/Boxster. It comes up short ONLY because the Cayman/Boxster could EASILY outperform the 911 but Porsche does NOT what to cripple the 911 that way so they INTENTIONALLY keep the Cayman/Boxster at bay. Which means that the Cayman/Boxster could really mess up the Corvette. But then again, how much more engineering costs would go up when higher performance upgrades happen to the Cayman/Boxster to put the bloody nose to the Corvette? THAT is what makes modern Corvettes so awesome. Its NOT the performance numbers by themselves. Its coupled with the fact that those numbers are accomplished to a PRICE POINT both in an engineering budget and a relatively low MSRP...

I have a feeling that Tesla succeeded and continues to succeed DESPITE Elon Musk... I read recent stories of him being a loose canon. Very authoritarian and not in a good way. Oh well...what Tesla faces now is an onslaught of various competition from all kinds of manufacturers whose EV technology is at the very least on par with Tesla's. The competition has caught up. Their vehicles are new, fresh. And THAT is ALWAYS important in the market place. Tesla has a bigger uphill to climb than just to get the tech right and perfected. Tesla has a bigger uphill to climb than just to get people to buy EVs. Tesla has a bigger uphill to climb than just to get their manufacturing hell (because it STILL a thing) under control. Tesla's next battleground is again within itself but not directly within itself like it is with figuring out how to build cars...but to convince people to buy their 2nd generation of EV cars... Tesla has to find a new design language. And as we all know, that is a TALL order for ANY manufacturer. Here we are, dissing Corvettes and Porsches and Ferraris, but all these brands have ALL tested the test of time within MULTIPLE generations spanning DECADES. MANY decades, not just 1 or 2. More like 5 and 6 decades... Mercedes...HA HA HA Mercedes hasnt offered ONE viable EV to date. One particular person laughs at GM and FoMoCo yet both of these American brands have SUCCESFULLY manufactured an EV or two that not only did well within the engineering specs of Tesla, but also in the marketplace. Mercedes has NOT done anything on those two levels... Its a small, personal rhetoric I made, but its close to the truth and reality of where Tesla stands in the marketplace and what happens to Tesla in the next decade. Its not their tech that is in question here. Its not even their manufacturing ability. Its their next generation of corporate design language that needs to be accepted in the marketplace because all else IS equal amongst its competition... By the looks of Ford's design language of the Mach E and all other EVs, GM's. Lucid's and everybody else, these designs look like winners in the market place. Hoping that Tesla's design is special and awesome because by the way the Cybertruck is going, the future does not look good...

Oh...baby!!! Give me more! Dont stop! Yeah! Right there! Now from the back! ooooooooh baby! yeah!