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Build this little split gate yesterday for a customer. Had to buy a 6-ft x 8-ft fence section (cedar), completely disassemble it, then fabricate this. Turned out very nice.

“No body buys those cars”.

"Walking & talking is dangerous!" ?

This just in : the Lincoln / Rivian co-developed product is... DEAD. As in: cancelled (vs. delayed).

If people at large become disinterested in living in dense cities due to being pandemic hot spots, they're certainly going to think twice about moving into a converted office building where they fear going outside their front door. At least home owners can go into their yards. Everything is in a holding pattern right now and likely thru the summer. If COVID comes back significantly in the fall, that holding pattern will push thru into next year. That's a LOT of taxes on empty buildings producing nothing. And if there's no buyers for these buildings, and no income to pay taxes, etc, the next inevitability is loan defaulting and a commercial real estate bubble going POP.

You have more optimism towards the near future than I have. My response to the bolded above is 'who?' The private citizen is 70% of the economy, and beyond the 26 million to date out of work, there are even more than have simply retired early (and aren't tallied). A lot of companies are extending 'good will' and retaining staff even tho they're already feeling the downturn hard. That cannot & will not continue long-term. That means- more unemployment / more corporate contraction. That means less commercial demand. It's all interlinked. There may not be any 'others'.

What are ferrari's crankshaft maintenance recommendations?

And other companies, IF they go to 100% remote work, will be putting owned properties up for sale... for which they'll be a greatly reduced pool of potential buyers. Add to that the business that maintained physical property (restaurants & retailers) who will go out of business. Will a commercial real estate crash spill over into a residential one?

Not currently, but they've done it before- it's not a challenge or 'new territory'.

The 'office world' has dragged it's feet on the work from home metric for too long- having investments in 'brick & mortar' sites they allowed work from home just a few days a week for well over 10 years now. IF they go to a largely WFH model, look for a crash in commercial real estate as a result. Toyota average buyer age : circa 52 yrs old. OEMs have targeted the 'youth buyer' forever, and it hasn't worked since the 1960s. Toyota's last grand experiment on this road, the scion, was a failure.

I realize you said “for many”, but the same circumstances that are keeping people working remotely from home are also keeping a huge swath of people from working AT ALL. There are tens of millions of reasons to go back to the so-called “old way” (of a mere 2 months ago).

I don't have a problem with the Mach E- AS LONG AS the Mustang coupe/covert remain, and remain IC. I'm going to scope out the Mach-E (not to buy) when it finally comes around. Likewise, I'd be fine with a CUV Camaro AS LONG AS the coupe/convert IC core models remain. In the past I would've cried 'heresy!' but perhaps the Camaro / Mustang just aren't that close to my automotive heart.

^ five-niner. - - - - - five-fiver :

^ excellent post. I’ve said it before; because it’s ‘General Motors”, even an article about the Camaro seemingly MUST involve sales numbers in some degree of damning light. Like the Camaro should be selling 250,000/yr in order to be a ‘success’. Read an article on any of the other sports cars mentioned above and you just won’t find the same tone directed toward them. IMO, the Camaro could sell 5000/yr and I’d still vote for it to continue production.

There are 'accident' reports and 'incident' reports- police at their discretion (lacking property damage or injury) may merely record the 'who-what-when-where' of an incident so there's a record.

Motorvair :

Reason for the foray was to buy some B-59 bits from a guy who's selling / has restored a number of '59s. He had a job he restored about 20 years ago, but the owner passed so he is going to touch it up and put it on the market : '60 Buick Electra 225 convertible, red w/ red & white interior with A/C. Still in very good restored shape, but needs a bit of attention. He showed me his personal car too, a gorgeous lavender '59 Buick Electra 225 convertible, again with A/C (only 10% had it), and buckets. Highly optioned, show car condition. No pics, he was reluctant to show it to me (we'd never met before today), but I can talk any American car with anyone, and I'm charming. In turn, respecting his privacy, I didn't ask to take any pics.

Took a road trip into the Commonwealth of Ocnblu today. Saw TONS of stuff randomly scattered. Beaut of a day today & folks have to be getting itchy. I've never had such a good sighting day. Unfortunately I was drivin / GPS'in, so only got 1 pic : '41 Ford convert, med blue, mint restored, top-down cruising '60 Cadillac Series 62 convert, white, exc shape, top down, gassin' up '68 Olds 442, primer grey, done up drag car/gasser style, rumbling down road circa '70 Chevy C-10 pickup, fenderside, restored stock, light blue, pulling trailer w/ lawn tractor '63 Sport Fury 2-dr hardtop, white, mint restored, cruisin' '72 Torino 2-dr hardtop, medium-dark green, solid but unrestored, parked next to barn circa '60 Studebaker Champ pickup, black, unrestored/tired, parked as advertising by antique dealer '57 Chevy 4-dr wagon, medium-light blue, mint restored, crusin' circa '40 Pickup, grey/teal color, didn't get the make, parked at business '69 GTO 'Judge' convert, looked restored, likely a clone, Orbit Orange, parked at repair shop '69 Dodge Polara 2-dr hardtop, rust & orange, sitting at hot rod shop, tired but still lookin mean '67 Ford Fairlane 2-dr hardtop, dark green, very clean, parked in driveway 70-74 Challenger hardtop, red, saw for a distance but recognized the quarter panel gas cap '55 Chevy gasser, getting pizza in same shop I did :

There's a couple good sites to look at them online. I can ink if you like. There's probably a few well-rounded dealers out there. Walter Miller and Faxon's are 2, but they sell on ebay a lot too (at least Miller does).

abandoned Iowa ice plant, 1940 :

I related this once before. I know this occurred before '92, which is when my buddy moved out of state. Parked on the side of the road for sale was a maroon Buick Skylark (X-Body). So it was an '80-85 car; not all that old. There was absolutely nothing special about it, it had no signs of any work done to it. I swear it had 2 doors on the driver's side and 1 on the pass side. It was NOT the case that the rear door was welded up- it had the coupe's longer door on that side. At the time, I thought 'how could the factory have mated a coupe and a sedan body stamping together THEN actually let it get out the door?' No pics of course, and the gelled memory is growing fuzzy. But we both circled the car and were like 'WTF??' There must've been something else interesting parked next to it, otherwise we'd never have even glanced at it. Then again, my buddy owned/drove a Citation 4-dr liftback for a while.... maybe it was his fault.

MX-30 definitely is overwraught, but the cactus, regardless of it's 'mission' or intended useage (you can't regulate what environment private owners are going to use your product in. Witness how many smart cars you see on the interstate- supposedly never it's intention), is an affront to the senses. Axiom, Aztek, Cactus; all in the same basket of ugly.

^ Ghia-penned Borgward?