balthazar

Saw a few year old Acura SUV driving on a tree-lined residential street last week, completely dark front & rear at 9PM. Even if the dash lights come on, all these cars have automatic lights, don't they? I'm continually turning my headlights off (NOT the DRLs) when they come on during the day, just because I'm not in direct sunlight or the like. They go on TOO often, and my truck is 15 years old.

'70 (real: 242 code ) GTO, Ram Air III 366/400, 4-spd, A/C, hood tach car. Need to check the trunk & see if the Ram Air pans are in there. Correct block, have to check head numbers. Rough & beat all way around, top to bottom, but complete. Guy who owns it gave it to my buddy, wanted him to get it running/fixed up some, but the owner is currently living in his car, so that's completely unrealistic, me thinks. Going to be advertised instead.

'46 DeAcro prototype, joint venture between Ford & GM transporters, built to haul 5 vehicles instead of the usual 4. Door sill was approximately 8-ft from the road.

Red herring for me: still is and always will be a Japanese company. *Big picture*

• Took a circa 4.25-in carpet cardboard tube and made a faux driveshaft, as a spacer when I fabricate the exhaust. • In order to get the rear tires off/out, I have to jack the car up so the tires are hanging 2-3 inches off the floor, then unbolt the shocks and the Panhard bar to get the axle to drop enough to get the tire off. Not a friendly car for a on-road flat tire (nevermind the radically different size of the front & rear tires). Contemplating my parking brake scenario : there's no hardware for it inside the brake right now, and any routing would be a 100% fabrication, as it's literally impossible to route it the way it was when new; too much is radically changed/gone underneath. I may have to go without one. • picking thru part stashes- there's stuff in multiple places in my shop, in the basement, and in my study closet. Finding stuff I forgot I had, which is good so far. Found a brand new dual master cylinder today, but haven't yet found the wheels the parking brake cable is supposed to ride on. Sidebar :: today I had my refurbished pot belly stove's inaugural first burn. Bought it off CL last year and blew it apart to clean & paint it. Finally got the stovepipe hooked up & thru the roof last month. No roaring fire, but a nice smaller burn. Outside was sunny but breezy, with the thermo just inside the people door reading 46... stove is on the rear wall between Bay 1 & Bay 2, with the Cab Over in between. Anyways, no issues, lit quickly & drafted well, and provided a nice warming of the air in the immediate area. Going to make it MUCH more hospitable over the winter and allow more work on the B-59.

ugh. - - - - - '49 Packard Monte Carlo. At least one of these has been found, built as a convertible tho ~

Only illogics can find Hidden flaws in a straight logic line Only erratics recognize Errors in patterns of a perfect design

Workin' on it. BTW- I will be dropping my 0-60 time from circa 10.0 secs to circa 3.0 secs.

^ Still doin' that whole retro look thing- I guess it works for a few hundred sales/mnth.

No; I'm going to plow ahead and assume VW group 'can't sell' the TT and 'doesn't make any money on it' to boot. ?

OK, but of course 0.3 sec diff 0-60 won't sell One Single More unit to a segment shopper.

You mean almost 30. What does 29+ feel like? :D

I didn't say it would be doing THEM a favor... ;)

They could do the USDM a huge favor, and pull out entirely. ;)

Wait. All along, since this feel-good nonsense started, it was a 10 year bump ('50 is the new 40'). When the hell did it double to a 20-yr bump?? BTW; I wish. ;)

Buncha old farts. ? HBD- DD!

Nobody takes a GLS offroad, so that's useless. Might as well throw a fly rod bumper rack into the package. Quick googling showed the Escalade doing 0-60 in 5.8 and the GLS doing it in 5.7.

Stinger, of course, is a kia. This is speaking to hyundai's misfortunes.

There's zero in that image denoting motive power. I'm not sure it's genuine tho.

Bumpers on the W/T are painted, but the rest of the front is not.