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I'll do this in YouTube - the first two cars I went bonkers over were different animals ... the Pontiac Firebird and the Cutlass Supreme coupe, of roughly the same period. I'd sketch them an awful lot. I found a couple of these on YouTube ... beautiful. 1.) '75 Cutlass Supreme coupe - great color that year - swivel out buckets - crank windows (fine with me) misses: no dual body color sport mirrors, no gauge package when there's a console, black seat belts (didn't pop for the upcharge), whitewalls would have looked better, and these metallic rust ones looked better with white vinyl landau roofs the price was way too much IMO (see windshield) but someone went for it 1.) '75 Cutlass Salon coupe (top of the line) - great color combo but landau roof should have been burgundy or silver, not black - crank windows (fine with me), gauge package comes with this trim level misses: black seat belts (would have expected color ones with this trim level), didn't like the exhaust note since that's not what a stock one with an intact exhaust system should sound like sold ... price unknown ... this thing is a dream, a true icon of Americana at its best circa the bicentennial Those were the days.

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Sounds like it's a "yes" to Eastern Michigan University.

Q: What do you call a dog that can tell time? . . . A: A watchdog

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With some of his solo songs, Peter Gabriel fits the bill when you WANT to be depressed. Now this here (^) is what you want to listen to when you are on a road trip and want to be put in a good mood. Epic Pointer Sisters lyrics: "Someone stole my brand new Chevrolet And the rent is due I've got no place to stay" - - - - - I looked around with the title and actually found this one. People I knew who also studied French would laugh at this, which is a different spin on a "Lady Marmalade" type song. It's a unique hybrid of disco - vaudeville - New Orleans jazz. Here is "Cherchez La Femme," which could mean "look for (a) wife" or "look for (the) woman." Compared to the bigger disco classics, this one is an underdog. Not only that, these songs took a lot of coordination to merge vocals and instrumentals and, more so than any other genre of music, its performers appeared to have the most fun while performing them.

Are you going into establishments as states begin to open and wonder what is going to be different? I am, to some degree. We can anticipate the paper menus and disposable utensils. Then, as I embarked on my first meal INSIDE an Arby's, I was thinking that one additional thing would be different. I just knew it! I often ring the bell upon leaving. I couldn't ring the damn bell!

I don't know about that, specifically. Mostly, I wouldn't want to risk being "someone's" meal.

If you are going to somehow bookend Seattle's King County, I think it's way better to be in Snohomish County than be in Pierce County. And it makes it even easier to go to Vancouver BC (more frequently). The number of counties in Texas and FM labels on their roads may be interrelated. FM means "farm to market," I believe. So, counties could only be so big so people could navigate them (on horse, in a Model T, I don't know). The only county in Texas I know fairly well is Harris, which is where the city of Houston is located. Also, the top end of Houston has the major artery FM 1960, which crosses Lake Houston on a causeway. You don't want to even think about swimming in Lake Houston. No you don't.

I plan to in about a week. I am not seeing their usual coupon. I guess they're wanting their full revenue for their services. Can you blame them?

Do you mean the state university in Ypsilanti?

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This was exactly what I was talking about. Beautiful! The best GM full-sizes during that decade. It would have been nice if they could have started them out with a 350, though. Definitely sufficient. Once they downsized them, they downsized their base engines, too.

Unbelievable stats. How did it even pencil to have an option like this, with no economies of scale, on their production line? Literally, a few. I would hope that someone hung onto these as relics. I'll say this ... that, by about '75, Pontiac was the best division at producing full-size (premium) vehicles that could pull of the sporty look, thanks to things like their dashboards and wheel options.

Georgia plates! If I recall, Georgia has something like 148 counties. California definitely only has 58. The Atlanta metro area is counted so many different ways, with some far flung hick and unpopulated counties sometimes thrown into the expanded equation. As far as I'm concerned, the bulk of Metro Atlanta lies in the counties of Fulton (city of Atlanta is within it), DeKalk, Cobb, Gwinnett, and Clayton (where the airport is). The others are more tentative. Still ... 148 counties seems wasteful. Even Florida has nowhere near that many. Also, this sled ^ makes more sense in Florida than it does in Georgia.

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I used to have Greg Brady hair when that was "acceptable." Thank God that, between the onset of male menopause, which I guess takes the fullness out of it, and frequent Great Clips coupons, I try to look respectable. Perhaps I succeed because I was at a self-serve picnic event last year and this guy standing next to the table and talking to the person seated next to me was complaining about those "Dumb-o-crats." I let him keep going for a while and then went at him, "Hey, I'm a Democrat ..." and told him that that's how I was raised and that you can still be a suburbanite and on and on. (I'm not referring to politics here, but appearance, behavior, and stereotypes are often linked and, most of the time, the linkages hold some water.) He wasn't expecting that sort of a comeback! Humans are a fascinating species.

Is it really true that the mother of a bird will abandon its offspring if it has been touched by a human or had its scent altered by another species? I've heard yes and that, on rare occasions, it's a no.

They most certainly did, but that was to price way down below psychological price barriers, like $3,999. You had to pay for the 3 speed THM 350 automatic. I don't know if I've saved the new car stickers of cars my parents bought that would bear this out. I think driving a 4,000 pound Cutlass or Regal with a "3 on the tree" would be a chore. Funny to look at, yes. Fun to own, not so much.

To decent enough GM V6 engines, add the 3500 (with or without VVT) that has gone the long haul, lasting for some 14 + years mostly beginning in serious volume in Chevy Impys and MCs. Some other cars, such as the Saturn Aura, also had this engine as an option. Also, we can't forget the pushrod early cast iron block, cast iron head 4.3 Vortec V6 produced by Chevrolet and derived from their 350 V8. Supposedly, this engine was also in the bulletproof category. - - - - - Just saw two IDENTICAL current-gen GMC Terrains in the bank parking lot parked next to each other. Both were metallic charcoal gray. I looked a little closer and saw that one was badged AWD but the other was not. Love that tiny rear quarter window ... as in "not."

Awesome. My dad was really big into his garden - accurately fulfilling the stereotype about Italian immigrants - and he had a few birds that seemed to know him and react to him in a similar way that you described. He just hated it, though, when they ate his figs. Half the figs on that fig tree were basically decimated by birds.

I wondered the same thing. There was an awful lot of hardware taking up engine bay space with yesteryear's turbocharged engines. - - - - - Happy Father's Day to those who have taken on the challenge of raising a rugrat or two ... or three ... and giving it their best.

Photos - rented Fiesta - smack in the middle of the winter season I was wrong! It was a hatchback ... and not a sedan. The bezels are oddly shaped and information in the middle is sparse, with temperature shown by vertical bars. Not so nice: the upper lid, the amount of storage space ... somewhat nice: easy audio controls, easier A/C controls, and central locking control located in the middle on the dashboard and not on the driver's door. Its shared heritage and design with the Ford Focus is apparent. The shifter was more nicely detailed and finished than much of the car's interior. Here's another wintry view of the Fiesta. The illuminated console at night with the purple option! Y You will have no problem figuring out where to put your drink cups. - - - - - End of photos