balthazar

Kudos to you for having the financial time to donate to others. Myself- I will only deal with state or corporate clients when the deal is air-tight and lucrative for me. That said, I have had good returns recently doing insurance-paid work. I will enter an agreement with the State this month- we'll see how that paperwork looks...

I don't recall seeing this piece before, interesting 'what if'. http://www.oldcarmemories.com/content/view/92/1/ I did think the 2nd gen GAs were clean & attractive, they just never had anything under hood. Haven't seen one in decades, tho.

Water on the knee, going to have to press my powers of self-healing extra hard to get rid of this.

You've been eating too many lead paint chips.

^ everything is cyclical, you never kno (RE short hood/long deck). Unfortunately, you have CAFE on your side here.

Short hood, long deck, hardtop, RWD, V8 & American one-ups the above.

Trickle up reform? I don't think so, Tim. A few thousand guppies aren't going to turn the Queen Mary around. I cannot afford to donate my time to Gov't projects for free, and I would never trust a 'tax for work' agreement written up by DC lawyers. However, I will do evil for cash. • • • Here's what happened; There used to be 3 broadcast news outlets with limited daily shows, so the 'pie' was cut into 3 huge slices. Now there are 40,000 news outlets, 24/7, and partisan broadcasting works really well, so every outlet filters their output.... in order to fight for their 1/40,000 slice of the pie. 'Objectivity? SNORT!- who still believes news is about the news? Unfortunately, I am going to have to lay the blame of rampant subjectivity in the media at the doorstep of Technology. • • • How exactly has refrigeration been used for evil in the past? Do tell....

My truck's blower fan resistor, just replaced under a factory TSB/recall a few months ago, is on the fritz again.

An alternative to what ?

Balthazar is still salivating over a Lincoln flower car...

And here we are different...I would take a 69 GTO over any car built int he 1950's by Pontiac. Clarification: I was saying I could take a '68-72 A-Body, but I would not buy a '73-77 version. I like the 1st gen GA and the '77 Can Am, but I'm still not buying one. I've actively pursued a few really nice '68-72 generation a few times (Pontiacs), tho sadly it never came to pass. But in your comparison, I would take a '57 Super Chief Catalina over any GTO (value aside).

Not sure how old my street view house pic is, but it's at least 2 years old.

Yes, but do we really need to read it in EVERY. THIRD. POST?

We CANNOT just send people to DC and expect a turnaround- we've been DOING that all along. The SYSTEM has to change, not just the puppets. That said; I don't necc. disagree with you, Horsey

"RWD proportions" is the new "hardtop" on C&G.

Had a nice dinner with Mom & Dad tonight- Mom still makes a killer scratch-baked apple pie!

^ Yikes, I'd have never bought if I followed what I really like- they were all out of production before I was born.

The '60s ones are real clean, but to the point of almost being boring, IMO. I've been around them (same owner) and while I appreciate them, there's not much going on stylistically. Converting a car to have a bed where it did not would take a thousand hours of skilled labor. As for building a copy of this from a hearse; impossible, there were no hearses built. Hearses in general have rather high interior floors, anyway. It's likely easier to build one from a 2-dr hardtop. ClassyE- I'm on the message board of the PCS, but the owner was a long-time member of the LCOC, I do not question the claim (and it was borne out by my own research). Frankly, if I have any chance at this, alerting the core audience for this one is not advisable.

I don't watch these, but I don't believe the price is that out of line.

I mentioned this about a year.5 ago- a exceedingly rare car may become available to me in the near future. I got the phone call today, touching base & alerting me to this ad of said car: http://cnj.craigslis...2621361274.html My friend/ the owner passed away in Sept of '09, but I had seen this car a few times over the years. Imagine a circa 19' long El Camino with custom bodywork & trim and commanding presence. I am pretty damned good at research, but there's ZERO on the net about this vehicle- seems the "1 of 1" claim is true (tho I remember the owner telling me it was '1 of 2', but the other no longer existed). According to the owner, he had a considerable mental list of people who wanted dibs on the car should he ever sell it. What it might reasonably be worth restored.... even I don't know. Money & time are always tight... but today not only did I find a possible inside storage location with a drive-up ramp & plenty of room, but a willing financial backer (same party). Hoo-boy. The (tiny) pics in the ad are from many years back, as it is no longer in such spiffy shape (tho it has been inside since those days). I have a feeling this one will slip away to another buyer before me....

There's really only 1 grade of chrome on the front of any vehicle- plasti-chrome. Beamer & Benz use it too. The GMT800s are rugged, yet not terribly refined/classy. The GMT900s got classy, but lost most of the ruggedness. There's a balance somewhere between the 2 concepts...

Of course you had 2 tiers of Pontiacs at the end; the GTO, G8 and Solstice.... and those other things. None of those 1st tier were 'cheap, flashy & boring'.

^ Eons in the minds of the typical mainstream, mass-produced lux vehicle buyer...

^ Ferrari-esque.

^ I would disagree- DC just isn't that plugged in to be directly effected. They operate outside of reality & the world of the people they supposedly represent.