balthazar

NAAT AH! No; really? If so [and it is always recommended to carefully parse blu's words]…. i TOLD you a big truck wasn't for you! ?

Lookit this rig! ~

I've seen a few Gladiators- would have been better as a 'Wrangler SUV' because the bed is literally pointless.

'I like shifting my light beams manually'.

^ Much of what I was alluding to. Overkill, squared.

OK; I thought we debunked this whole 'headlight rating' thing before. We did... or I did. IIHS testing does not reveal any "poor" headlights, only RELATIVELY 'poor' headlights. They should all still eclipse headlights made just 10 years ago. This misleading rating will only spur automakers to release brighter and brighter and BRIGHTER headlights until we as opposing drivers are all legally BLIND. It WILL spiral out of control. IIHS should NNOOTT be ranking headlight 'performance'.

For Walt; hope the 'A' is still a happ'nin thing ~

Coming up on 4600 Pontiac dealers logged. I'm amazed how many there were; in little towns, changing hands/locations. Very busy industry. I realize that it's a very specific thing, butI am quite positive this is the most comprehensive list of Pontiac dealers in existence.

Oldsmo-trains for DD ~

Pointy.

Except for one branch, all my & my wife’s family arrived here in the early 1900s.

A bad dream that’s thankfully long in the rearview mirror. OR.... we all find ‘90s-00s Pontiacs automatically ‘tasteful’ NO TAKEBACKS!!!!

'They say' if you go back far enough you can connect everyone. Roughly 4 generations per century, a 12th cousin requires going back 300 years (very roughly speaking). That'd be approx the year 1650 (Dahmer was born in 1960). Not many people in the US in 1650 (only 4 million in 1790). These have to be connections via marriages, not blood.

Sounds astronomically unlikely that there's any family connection between all those individuals at once - the 'killer gene' theory would have been hashed to death by now. Having been immersed in the genre for going on 10 years now, I've not heard of any mass connection. If correct, your sister may have latched onto something.

Mmmmmmmm: THE CLADDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Do tell!

Gnarly Studebreaker 4x4 ~

I've always … kinda… liked porsche 911s. There, I got that out. It might be interesting to pick up a '60s mercedes SL. They're fascinatingly poorly built, so it'd be a ton of work to get it up to even '60s structural standards/finish … then shoehorn a worked Buick 455 / TH400 into it; drive the purists nuts.

I understand the lure of buying new. I did it once, my father almost always bought new, his father always bought new. There's appeal there; in a full warranty, in the 'untouched' nature, in everything clean, yes; in the new car smell. I've been looking at new trucks on the lot for most of this year, I would like to own one, I can afford one… i just refuse to pay the cost of one. If you can afford it with no lifestyle penalties and you want to buy new- go right ahead! but you DO 'pay' for that, and significantly.

When I bought my (only new purchase) '94, I said to myself 'when the exhaust rots out, I can put a performance muffler on it, sound a lil more grumbly'. When I sold it at 146K, it still had the original, unrepaired, non-leaking exhaust. Replacement truck has 191K miles- still on the original exhaust. I haven't even replaced a hanger yet. NJ salts or brines if it's below 45 degrees & they forecast rain.

If your house is well insulated with good windows- you still should not see such a huge intentional swing in humidity. It WILL change with the outside weather, obviously, but to intentionally try & keep the inside of your house below 15%; you're already (physically) dried out due to low external humidity and non-stop heat. I've always heard 35%-50% is the goal, year-round.

I don't care enough to even think someone in a used bummer is trying to impress me… or a new one. I don't care. I see high dollar stuff all the time; you guys know me; I'm impressed with VINTAGE stuff- that you sought it out, that you bought/built/care for/like it. A machine that's relatively unique. A new lux car is a dime a dozen. A CPO pre-owned lux car is a dime a dozen. if YOU like/want it, GREAT! Enjoy! But if you have delicate sensibilities; don't ask my opinion of your vehicle. BTW : you can still buy a 2-3 yr old vehicle and THEN run it into the ground. It's hard to neglect maintenance so rabidly that the car's life is artificially shortened within that 36K miles. And with car fax & CPO certification, you can be reasonably sure your car had a few oil changes by 36K. And you save thousands & thousands. Not for everyone, and that's fine. But I don't see much strength in arguing against the fiscal scenario.