balthazar

Lincoln had handle-less doors with push-buttons in the '40s. Iconic, they are reproduced and are popular on customized vehicles today.

I disagree that the Aurora 'wasn't coupe-like'. It shed the traditional 3-box proportions of a sedan for a very fluid, flowing envelope, like many coupes did. [I eliminated the rear door handle / cut line on the Aurora and darkened the pic so we can focus on the profile/proportions]

I don't mind the gensis's lighting; it shows continuity front-to-rear, which OEMs very seldom bother with these days. But I don't care for the grille (texture/proportion).

Eldorado Biarritz. But yeah :

I worked in a small office for 10 years. I guess about the first 2 I was in a cube, after that I was in 2 different single rooms/offices. Could never go back to that. - - - - - For 'blu : Afraid it'd be yellow, not green tho. Apologies.

^ doesn't show recovered cases or deaths by county, only by state (I looked at NJ only). - - - - - Hell.

Epoxy primer. It had the lower rear quarters & rocker replaced, and the initial bodywork there wasn't right, so it got stripped off (the filler) and redone also.

^ Well... ... it's a hyundai, so....

I took the body off the frame on my B-59, never knew anyone before that that did that job. I may have read one article in a car magazine. Seemed common-sensical to me. I also fabricated / welded the dolly its on in the below pic :

I guess my father had me earlier than you guys; he was born in '41. His father was a career cabinet maker & union carpenter, he could build or restore anything out of wood. My father is a retired mechanical / aerospace engineer. He did plenty of projects on our houses (patios, paneling, brickwork, etc), I would say he's pretty well mechanically inclined, but he hasn't really pursued that avenue over the years. He worked for the Department of the Navy at the Jet Propulsion Lab, so he was exempt from what would've been Vietnam for him. I went to school / worked for 10-11 years in graphic design, then jumped to construction / excavation. In the contracting/carpentry field for 20 years now, I have done everything from digging basements to roofing and EVERYTHING in between. I'll do electrical short of going into the panel box, and I'll do plumbing short of soldering/ the supply side. Have done many toilets & tubs. I never took any courses, tho I did learn working the 7 years I did with my brother. I would see how a job was done and pretty much 'boom'; I could do it. I think it was growing up around my grandfather that gave me an appreciation & respect for tools. That, and I've always been a vintage car nut, so that pretty much demands those skills.

Yep- looks great that way.

Dubuque IA, '40 :

^ Like most toyoters, it looks horrendous.

^ Interesting; so people are suddenly forced out of work, then while the factory is closed down, Musk brings in more robots so there's not hope of going back for many.

These are the neighbor's white pines. The ground stays wet often right where they are, and white pines have poor root structure; in wet ground with strong winds they go over. This is the latest one to start flirting with the ground from afar. I put a car ratchet strap on it - it's rated to 10,000 lbs so it should hold. But the tree has to go; now to get the neighbor to pay for it. For a sense of scale, I'd say that yellow strap is about 14' in the air.

This Sounds like you're doing OK! If you can look at a problem and envision how it needs to be repaired, all you need after that is some experience with tools & stuff and you can do it. Tools are the easier of the 2 'prongs'; understanding how things go together/come apart and how structure works is harder.

I think the only place in my HS that had A/C was the library. Single building, still there, It was built in '58. It'd be cool to walk it again, but I don't really miss it. Some of the girls tho, I do miss them. Time has a way of fucking that all up, tho. I looked a few of them up online. Yikes. [I reserve the right to be quietly and -at times- savagely judgemental].

I was being facetious. But you should see the recently-new high school near me. World's most inefficient footprint, marble & oak inside, cost $185 million to build, still spits out the same ratio of under-achieving graduates vs. flunk-outs as the old school. But the politicians involved can put it on their resumes all the same.

Maybe it is a '70s piece... or they hung around that long. Now they probably have a contracted mandate to replace all school desks every 2 years.

An original floor mat out of my now-gone ‘64 Catalina. It was torn across the top (2 pieces), so rather than just toss it, i made some low-brow wall art:

That explains the personal pics ban!! Oh God, and here I was left thinking it was some horribly disfiguring accident. WHEW! Glad you're OK (except for a terribly embarrassing haircut!)! - - - - - [ ^ How I feel my hair is about now]

Owner bought that house in 2006 for $300K. It has been listed a number of times both for sale & for rent. It didn't sell at 325K or 300K in '18, and it didn't sell for 290K in '19. So -with no work done to it- they list it at 325K in '20 (dropped to 310K). It's going to stay a rental unless the owner comes to her senses. It's an hour & 25 mins to the tip of Manhattan, and if you're working in NYC, I doubt your renting/buying this. NYC aside, it's in a very good, quiet area on a dead end street. 1,427 square feet, property taxes were $6742 last year.