trinacriabob

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red

OK --- Las Vegas: The Strip at night, mostly between LV Boulevard/Spring Mountain down to LV Boulevard/Tropicana - above that, it gets skanky and below that, there's not much pedestrian activity. A good buffet is at The Mirage, it's in the low $ 20s. You might day trip it to Hoover Dam (about 20 miles). Just pick one show. Do not go too far east of the strip (not east of Paradise and definitely don't hang around UNLV or Maryland Parkway, it's gross). Your weather ought to be good in about 1 month. Los Angeles: If you see this city wrong, you may write it off. The Westside: Sunset Boulevard from Hollywood and West Hollywood through Beverly Hills and out to the Beach, from there you can turn north to Malibu and then return to Santa Monica. Cheesy sights include the Chinese Theater and the Studios. This area is where LA's "people in the spotlight" live. The South Bay is a great spot and includes Manhattan Beach, Hermosa Beach and Redondo Beach...at astonishing prices for cracker boxes. This is where people who are successful but prefer a laid-back lifestyle, but don't want to be too visible, live. Most tourists don't go here, but it is considered a great spot by those of us who grew up here. And you can see my high school as your plane lifts off from LAX...I always look for it and can see it. Do you have 1 day for a day trip? Try Santa Barbara (95 miles or 150 km north, along the coast) OR Laguna Beach/Newport Beach (60 miles or 100 km south), but both are NOT doable in such a short span. Enjoy and PM me with any questions or need for details.

PB, babe, I think you are the one that is quite taken with PCS and his follicles. I just like his car...only one of them, actually.

stiff, huh? response to thread: superpotency look it up, it's a real syndrome

nun

OK, I'm in Florida and I've started to see some 2008 LaCrosses on the road as well as at a few dealerships. The grille is overpowering. The shape is right, but the vertical chrome bars are too pronouced. It is a little too much bling for a car that otherwise has subtle and proportioned contours.

True. This is the best color for the car, IMHO.

placebo

Oh, stop...c'mon! :AH-HA_wink: Seriously, it'll be the best-looking car in Switzerland!I say this as I'm in Florida for 1 week in a white Grand Prix, thinking how much fun it is to pilot this thing around from behind that wrap-around dash!

yeah, I'm in Florida right now, so, response to thread: flat as in pancake flat

Hoover

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I was running errands and also popped into a Chevy dealership. They were refreshingly nice. I asked about 08s and there weren't too many on the lots. I then asked how much the extended warranty would be. Now, keeping in mind that the powertrain warranty is 5/100, the extended warranty for everything else to go 6/90 with a $100 deduct nudges $1,500 for a basic Impala 3.5 and $1,400 if you do the $200 deduct. Yikes...I was expecting $1,000 to $1,100. I bought the extended warranty for my Regal when there was basic 3/36. It was the 6/72 and it cost me about $ 700. What's the deal? I mean, the powertrain is now up to 5/100. Why so much for the balance? Is this just the retail price that can be dealt down? Any thoughts?

...somehow, I don't think you are the only one experiencing this dynamic ...

tawdry

While I may not have gotten a new car, I DID get hand-me downs....two Cutlass Supremes to be exact. I think it's a bit much to give a kid a NEW car, especially an expensive one, unless they paid for at least part of it. I don't have so much of a problem with a nicely depreciated 5- or 6-year old car that might have low miles and/or a lot of life left in it.

Whatever, I always put sports behind academic rankings...you know me, I'm an a-hole that way. I am not a believer in what I call "sports theory." Instead, like statistics, each game is a discrete (sp) occurrence.That must be a blow to their psyche. An employee of my last firm is at U of M right now doing an MBA, so he must be fuming. Regardless, I would have rather been a Wolverine than an Illini, but U of M doesn't reclass your residency status if you start out as out-of-state while U of I did (or does). What happened with Oregon yesterday against Univ. of Houston....I happened to be in Eugene yesterday...that effed up Subaru jockey town...

Well, let's see, who on here has a thing for GMan.....PCS....Delaware....and gated enclaves of the affluent?

The queen of doublewide:Tonya Harding

Post a picture of your wife so WE can decide!Nice sled. I think I already posted that my Dad had the following year's coupe with an inline six. Like some of the moronic things he said and thought, he had always affirmed Pontiacs were duds because a close friend of his got a lemon. Turns out his LeMans coupe was the BEST car he'd ever owned...it NEVER stranded him...not even once.

music

Agree with your list, except for this. The general angularity of recent Cadillac models has increased their visual appeal...and sales. Twenty years ago, would we have ever thought that 20- to 40-year olds would have aspired to an Escalade or CTS (true, those models didn't exist)...but to a Cadillac? Cool. That's progress!

PB, babe, the reason why I think the vinyl top helps is because the bottom part of the vinyl top assembly aligns with the greenhouse's beltine. On the coupe, particularly, the beltine of the fixed "opera" window was way off that of the doors and, "architecturally," it didn't flow. The vinyl evens it all out, though they are prone to rust at the edges......back to the Buick

It's not being financed by a company. I'm on my own, and that's expensive. Plus, I don't have AV type money (!)...I was in SD last week and thought about you, bud!