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Im afraid you are correct with that analysis. I guess alcoholics could also feel tech savvy as they need to breath into the car for it to start... LOL

True dat! But my beef (and disdain) with that kind of thing is that do we really need our gadgets, including our cars, to be Mission Impossible & James Bond wizardry like? Does every aspect of our lives really need to be that high tech? All the time? My phone... is not locked. I dont have any password or thumb print unlock on it activated. No face recognition. Nada. The thing is, I dont leave my phone laying around anywhere either. Its always in my pocket. I dont shop around with it in the air. I dont constantly text or google or use it like its part of my natural limbs. I wouldnt want that tech in my car either. I have a hard time with push button start as is. I dont like that feature at all let alone having features being controlled by my phone... I have never equated push button start with race cars. I actually prefer the old fashioned way of putting the key in the ignition, turning and leaving it there until the big cubed V8 roars to life feeling the vibrations through the ignition unto my fingers. Fuel injected so I dont have to give some gas to the carb before that process. Although I dont mind that process either. Prefer that than the cold hearted way of just pushing a button like Im pushing the popcorn button on my microwave oven to pop some popcorn... You have to press on the brake for the engine to turn anyway, so its not as if push button start eliminates extra steps or anything... As far as face recognition goes, I wouldnt want to see the repair bill on that when the car in question is a few years old and the warranty is out.... Just more shyte to go wrong and expensive to repair making cars even more disposable... Its not the EV thing that makes cars more appliance like, its the overuse of technology... End of rant!

442s and Roadrunners

Trans Ams and Hellcats

Such an odd look... Im sure their software technologies promise us heaven and earth like all the modern shyte we end up consuming nowadays, and will be par for the course with other vehicles sold, but what an odd look that thing has.

@David For me, it is no big deal to wear a suit and tie to a party if it was requested. Even if it wasnt requested, Id feel comfortable wearing a suit and tie when everybody else is in Hawaiian shirts and shorts. But this party is about you and not me. There are several facets to this for me and the suit is not the problem. Covid is. For me, in a Covid pandemic, with 2 vaccine shots and adequately protected, but definitely not wanting to catch Covid, because vaccines dont prevent Covid, vaccines lessen the symptoms... Id be weary of going to a party full of people because the risk of catching Covid is real regardless of being vaccinated or not. Are these people worth the risk? Are these people family? Or are these people just mild friends? For you, wearing comfortable clothing and NOT formal wear, are you gonna piss them off? If these people are family, then I dont think these people will care that you showed up in comfortable clothing. They'd be happy to see you and your lovely wife (and kids?) regardless! If these people were good friends, same thing applies! However, if these people are gonna be bitchy about what you decided to wear, maybe you shouldnt be risking catching Covid for them...because THAT is how I sees it. That is my opinion. Take the other Cheers and Gears folk's opinions and make the best decision for you and your wife and that is that!!!! PS: I havent been to a gathering requiring a suit and tie several years now. My mom passed 5-6 years ago and I had a wedding to attend in and around that time and that was the last time I wore a suit and tie. So I have a suit and tie on alert of need be. But I was thinking in acquiring 2-3 new suits soon. Even if I may not have any events to go to anytime soon. Taylor made is the only way I go.

^^^ There were a couple of those radios in my life back in the day!!! Thanx for the memories!!!

Acura drivers 15 years ago were just as bad as the stereotypical BMW driver around these parts. Id say, Acura drivers, VW Golf GTI drivers, BMW and Audi drivers from the mid- 1990s to 2010 around, were the worst for douchebaggery driving tactics. This doesnt apply anymore. Acura SUV folk around here drive normally. There is no common vehicle in the Montreal area, really, with Douchbaggery drivers. But I have noticed since the summer that Toyoter and Lexus folk are afraid of their own shadows when driving. ALWAYS below the speed limit. ALWAYS unaware of their surroundings and not letting anybody get a chance to pass them. ALWAYS in a comatosed daze. I was stuck behind two youngish guys in IS-F Lexuses on 2 separate occasions in the summer... Countless of times behind Camrys and Corollas. Yesterday was a dorky Lexus SUV with a V8... I KNOW IT HAD A V8 BECAUSE I HAD TIME TO SEE HIS BACK END FOR A FEW MILES AND IT WAS SARCASTICALLY WRITTEN THERE MOCKING ME!!! Yesterday's post was me having a suppressed road rage attack and me letting off steam! (no worries, no actual road rage incident, but I HAD to tell someone!)

I also like that idea of a '50s finned car to have big horsepower. Albeit with my approach, its more of a restomod and/or pro touring with modern everything. The exterior remains stock looking tho. Some exterior refinements are fine by me, but more original looking than modern. LED headlights and taillights are good. Maybe a bumper could be integrated in the body lines more... But the chrome stays! Powertrain is all modern though. (In some cases, if the car in question has matching numbered engines and the like, those could and will remain, but if the car in question has no engine for example, than a GM/Mopar/FoMoCo crate engine goes in. I am not searching for a V8 from the '50s from another junked car to put in... But...for some cars, stock appearance might not be part of the equation. Say Tri-Five Chevys... Those will have a hot rodded look! But then again, those cars have had hot rodded appearances since the '60s, so basically...par for the course! Cadillacs of the '50s and I would want to squeeze in a Blackwing 4.2 twin turbocharged V8... A '58 Plymouth Fury and THAT car would have a Hellcat crate engine under the hood. This one apparently has a Hellephant residing in it. But I would have fatter tires on it...

Legault (Quebec's Premier---leader if you will) and Quebec has authorized and acquired 3rd booster shots for the old fogeys. Time has come where the old fogey's 2nd shot is waning so its time for them to get the boosters. And next month, Quebec will authorize the rest of the population whose 2nd shot has come to its 6 month limit to get their boosters. My family's time for the 3rd booster is gonna be in January. Soon.

Why is it that Toyoter and Lexus drivers in and around the Montreal area all drive slow? No matter what model these drivers drive, no matter who is behind the damned wheel, no matter what time of the day it is or season it is, its always a waaaaaaay too slow commute and its a waaaaay too frustrating event being behind them!!!

I didnt know how to react to these names. But I think your view on them best suits my feelings. Yes. I too am not a fan of these names. Its a source for comedic fodder. But seeing that these are some sort of a name and not alphanumerics,, its impossible for me to be hostile towards them. Yeah, I will chuckle at the thought of a CelestIQ or even at an Escalade IQ though.

Ive got my reasons on why this is posted here and not in the what are you listening thread. Trolling just a little bit...

I know. Read further...

@ccap41 You have a reading comprehension problem? I said the program is on hiatus. Where does it say that I stopped helping people in my community? I hope you realize that you do not have a 'gotcha' moment. THAT is how you operate. Yoy troll with 'gotcha' monents. Grow up!

Who said I didnt continue on? I said the government program stopped. Who told you I stopped helping people in my community?

IE: his words dont fool me. I see through him. I see his...hypocrisy

NOT about that. its about Musk telling ME that I need to be saved from a fairy tale extinction scenario where hundreds of billion of dollars are spent but 5 or 6 billion for a few souls save in the here and now is a no go because we cant save all humans. Yet spending hundreds of billions saving all humans from a fairy tale hundreds of years from now is the right way to spend. I never asked you to agree with me. Just told you how I feel about Musk. And I think he is a hypocrite... PS: I dont care how he spends his money. I just think he is a...hypocrite.

Part Two: I told you that I have helped some kids along the way with this program. Surely this program is not unique to my area only... Anyway, if I had this attitude that my time just doesnt help ALL kids in ALL of the world, then its just useless to help ANY kids because ALL kids wont be helped then I will just NOT participate in this program at all. Well, helping some kids for a short period of time is STILL worth it... Same for this Musk thing. Saving a few souls even for a few days IS worth it... But that wasnt the issue either. NOBODY was saying that 5 billion WILL end poverty and forever... THAT was HIS words. Kinda like Aaron Rodgers saying that he had Covid Toe and saying people were accusing him of having Covid Toe and then HE proceeds to prove that he does NOT have Covid Toe. NOBODY said to Musk that 5 billion will save world hunger. HE came to that defense by responding that way Your quote by the way. And thanx for posting it as I didnt have to search for it... Beasley also said that while the $6 billion figure wouldn’t solve world hunger, it “WILL prevent global political instability, mass migration and save 42 million people on the brink of starvation.” (CNN had erroneously reported that the money would “solve” world hunger, but later corrected its headline to say 2% of Musk’s fortune could “help solve” world hunger.) " And that would be MY take on this situation as well. Although my vision is not as grand by saying 5 billion will prevent political instability and mass migration. That to me is just stupid to think that way. Because political instability has NOTHING to do with Musk's money. But 5 billion goes a looooong way in helping a few human souls and if done the right way, could help those souls and many more for quite a long time. And for as long as it can, we should not question it. Didnt say solve. Re-read your own quote. But regardless... YOU didnt even read MY point of view. It really is NOT about solving ALL poverty. Its about helping. Spending hundreds of billions of dollars going to MArs in helping humanity hundreds of years from now on a fairly tale extinction scenario that is actually helping out that fairly tale to come true versus helping humans in the here and now... You dont see the hypocrisy?

Nope... You just do it. Its not about GIVING 5 billion dollars away. Its about building an infrastructure so that money could go a long way helping many people for as long as that money or infrastructure could survive. Its like this. There is a program that my restaurant is involved with. Its a government program (infrastructure that Im kinda talking about) that involves a high school close to the restaurant and the local businesses around it. It caters to the kids that are not into school and are a danger in becoming drop outs. Not every child wants to go the distance with higher education. Sometimes these kids do not want to invest the time for trade schools either. So, the businesses around this high school, be it a hot dog joint like mine, or McDonald's (I dont know if the owner of the McDonald's wants to be a part of this program) or the hairdresser place or the auto mechanics shop etc, we accept these kids and teach them what the business requires them to do as a job. I as an owner/manager mentor these kids. I shape their work ethics. I teach them what the job requires... We (the businesses) dont pay them, the government pays educators to follow up on their studies and their "job" that they do for me or other businesses. I do get a tax cash back for the time I take to teach them... Well, that takes money. And because its a government program, its tax payer money. I and other managers/owners dont save all kids, but we do are darndest to help them. Our time and effort trying to help our community as much as we can. Because of Covid, this program is on hiatus. What I just said, hopefully shines a light on some questions asked: 1. Does money solve ALL problems? No. It does not. Problems will always exist. Some help with some money helps some people sometimes. And THAT should be the goal. 2. Is it a permanent solution? No. it is not. But any help, no matter how much time and money it took, helping as many humans as we can be helped SHOULD be the goal. 3. A one time deal? No! Try to develop a program so it could sustain itself as long as it can. Covid putting a stop to this program temporarily is an example that nothing lasts forever. But... What if Musk could give a small share of Tesla shares to some sort program that HE has concocted to help a few poor souls in a city or town HE chooses to which the Tesla shares pay DIVIDENDS and that program gets that money revenue to pay for people to run a program... I dunno. That program buys a small location with a big enough kitchen and some 50 rooms or so. As small motel or mid sized hotel. The program hires staff to cook and wait on the rooms. Its a homeless shelter... financed by Tesla stock. Tesla stock that pays Tesla dividends to keep open to help homeless people in a small part of a city or town somewhere in this world. 5 billion dollars worth of Tesla stock keeps a place like that open at least a decade. A decade's worth of human help. And Musk doesnt even have to get his hands dirty... Maybe if he chooses, he could always foresee the funds and how those are used. Just a minor time of the day and the week for him. But then again... Tesla stock dont pay dividends. Space X does however rely on US government money, ie tax payer money (not all of Space X's funds is from Musk's money) Like I said. He is a phoquing hypocrite! If he has a solution to colonize Mars, surely he could forge a plan for his 5 billion to help a few souls for an x amount of time during his stay on planet earth...