balthazar

Coupla days left of decent daytime highs (50s), then it looks like a steady stream of 40s -30s after that. Get outside today!

Took off 2day & went & saw Ford vs ferrari w/ the missus. Tomm: going to 1 of my jobs, take some measurements & do a drawing to submit for a permit. Off Wed: prep day. About 17 people over here Thurs. Showing the GTO Friday or Sat- hope it goes! Not planning on working Fri. TUES: did my measurements/pics and got a permit form. Patched 3 potholes in my terrible asphalt driveway (hope to repave next year), and cut a 8', 18-20" dia rotten tree trunk down, cut it in half & hauled it into the woods.

Interesting Corporate / dealer relation info (from 1969) ~

I've driven or ridden in only 3 convertibles (all with the top down): '68 Buick Skylark '68 Pontiac Catalina '68 Cadillac deVille What's the chances they would all be from the same model year?

Reminds me of the VPG MV1 ~

Nope. But it actually doesn't have cladding with either version, so...

Sent this piece down the road. I got it in 1983 from a closed-down antiques shop/junkyard. 2' x 3', it's an original double-sided porcelain dealership sign. It's hung in my shop probably since the first year or 2 it was built (in '92). Of course, Durant Motors was William Durant's final empire, incorporating Star, Flint, Rugby, Locomobile and Mason trucks, it was to have challenged his original masterpiece work (General Motors) but only lasted from '21-31. Man who bought it said his father was friends with Durant and he's always admired him as an industrialist. It's a cool piece, but time for another to enjoy it.

That's the point - everyone is doing the same thing, because the same thing does what everyone is there for- sales. RE the 'cybertruck : you KNOW your shit is bad when a competing OEM offers their design to you out of embarassment / pity!

Is this the same ‘anything goes 2020’ that has rolls royce building an SUV?

That’s exactly what your Uncle Floyd said about the 1956 Sir Vival C’mon, let’s keep a grip on reality here.

^ There's no evidence to the contrary. There's no price-competitive, capacity-competitive, range-competitive, functionality-competitive EV truck out there. Yet. While it may be blissful to accept every start-up OEM's marketing claims at face value, I for one need to see some objective testing and hard data.

Having preference in aesthetics does NOT mean one is close-minded or resistant to change. Just as unilateral acceptance of every single new consumer product pitched does NOT mean one is a bobblehead with no ability to make a decision for themselves or evaluate their own needs/wants. If change was an aspirational virtue, where are all the wife/husband of the month clubs at? No, really; where they at? ?

For actual truck use; yes. But we know some folk just use trucks for commuting.

Almost looks matte... but just on the nose. Satin finish?

Weird; it looks like a truck.

Correct of course. Federal law prohibits rear lighting that's only on a moving panel (trunklid).

Yes; mercedes is pretty much the same as every other vehicle out there.

That car looks like a shoe.

Which one sells the most; the underpowered one? Immaterial to most every single buyer... except those that value more room.

Too much plastic.

• I don’t see SS remotely being a draw. • 14K towing is in the same ballpark, but serious tow folk have 2 & 3 tier heavier trucks from the big 4; Ram 3500 can tow 35,000K. • 14K lb towing will be $70K, not $40K. • 0-60 is irrelevant in F/S trucks. Meanwhile: the bed is horribly inaccessible - the sides are unprecedentedly high.

I think EVERY serious rendered guess at what a tesla truck would look like looks better/more marketable than this. The Workhorse truck is suddenly the Pretty Girl at the prom.

I can easily put the looks of the Trailblazer and the Seltos in the same tiny basket.