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And that late model Merc sounds like a food processor. Mercs are supposed to sound like this :

Gawd- the Mercs in that first vid are horrific. Even as RWD, V8 coupes, I find them ghetto-craptastic & repulsive.

Yep- my Silverado was telling me the exact same temp Wednesday at 5:30 PM. Yeterday & today were wonderful- was briefly up on a 2.5 story roof, and the breeze up there was downright pushy...

I had a wood chipper, I actually returned it, unused, in it's box, after like 3 years (for a full refund). I think that was right around the time I was doing excavation full time. Between loading demo'd houses in 125-yd trailers, and digging basements & septic systems, we dug a LOT of holes in NJ & PA. Did you know a Hitachi EX110 has a near 24-ft depth reach ?? -- -- -- -- -- Ya know, I'm not so sure I like this. Do I rally look like a killer of some stripe or other ??

'02 T/A, yellow, shoe-polished numbers on the rear glass, rollin'. '72 Cutlass coupe, gold, excellent shape, taking a long drink @ Hess. '70 Mustang convert, red, very nice driver, in parking lot w/ top down. '68-69 Chevy C-10, beige roof/bronze body, beauty, aftermarket rims, rollin'. '68-69 Chevy C-10, white w/ white steelies, real solid but unrestored, parked & for sale. '68 Corvette, bright red coupe, perfect/stock, rollin'. '66 Charger, pale yellow, perfect, factory spinner 'caps, rollin'.

^^ A likeness to the actor Stormare, or a feeling of the "taciturnly thuggish kidnapper/murderer" he played in Fargo ??

Well- when you can charge $15K for a 10-ft walk, you should be 'floatin' for a while...

Cubical-aka-Moltar ~ >>"True, not much interesting about a Celebrity. But there were plenty of contemporary cars I remember liking in the '80s from the Camaro and Firebird, to the Monte Carlo SS, Buick GN, etc to various Fords (Mustangs, Tbirds, etc)."<< Too slow (Buick aside) & too common. Plus priced like a new car = kids could not afford them. >>"...my brother was always buying and selling old rusty cars that were breaking down...I had no interest in that side of the car hobby."<< Because you don't work on cars. Lots of people did and still do... on older cars. In the late teen & early 20-somethings, no one I knew had a new car- they were all older - my first choice daily driver was 27 years old- had 2 great years working on & driving it, and standing out on the road. Still miss it. Great car. >>"I'm not like I'm interested in the computers, cell phones, tvs, and other gadgets etc of 10 years ago, more interested in that of now and tommorrow."<< Tomorrow never gets here. Sure, but that industry is different- it purposely makes prior product obsolete as quickly as possible. It has taken 'planned obsolescence' to towering new heights. No parts, no program updates, no nostolgia, no value. If the computer industry made cars, you could no longer get the gas, trans fluid or tires for a 1980 Monte Carlo today. I still use my 1999 MAC G3- haven't installed a program on it since 2000... but those on there still work perfectly & usefully. In that light & to me - it's not in any way 'obsolete'. IMO, "obsolete" is a term made up by marketers, and I reject that breathless attempt to convince me that what I have that works; 'doesn't' anymore.

If everyone only took an interest in things from their lifetime, there'd be no History channel, no historians, no history classes, no museums and no recognition of past events, to name but a very few casualties to such a limited outlook. Everyone involved in those instances is likely to be studying things older than them, too- sometimes by thousands of years. Quite commonplace. Besides, 'growing up' in the barren automotive wasteland that was the '80s, as a gearhead one was pretty much forced to appreciate vintage iron. WTH is one supposed to do with a -say- '85 Celebrity ?? Hope I don't look 55-65 yet :

I cannot even think about winter anymore. Yesterday, got in my truck @ 5PM, according to it it was 91.

Some call it a chronic sickness....

Is that a stand-up factory hood ornament ?? Doesn't seem correct to me at all. I usually pass up Chevys, but recently a few pics & in-the-steel '65 Impys have been getting cozy in my mind. Nice front end on those...

I have yet to pin down my year here, so in observance of that tradition, suffice it to say: the GTO.

OK, if it was a '54 Patrician, 65 units built would be correct. But there is no question whatsoever that this is a '56- complete new body for '55, and the 'Dagmars' moved outward directly under the headlights for '56. As such, it is one of 3,775 units - not common by any stretch, but no where near as rare as 65 units. The Patrician (4-dr) & Four-Hundred (2-dr) were the senior series Packards, eclipsed only by the Caribbean convertible. I took a look at a '56 400 1-2 years ago- it was tempting. Interior is fantastic.

Just about the greatest emblem IMO I can quickly recall is the 1st gen Viper. Like the Ram head, too. Those born-in-the-'70s MC emblems I never cared for- too froo-froo, frilly & meaningless. I liked a lot of the '60s Pontiac emblems, tho: GTO, GP, Bonne. It does add to the image when done well.

'52 Chrysler New Yorker sedan, royal blue, stock & natty, rolling.

Pro Pain ~ Don't Kill Yourself to Live I need to get an iPod one of these days...

'61 Ford Fowl-coon, 2-dr sedan, bright orange, perfect shape, happily cruisin.

Perfect '50 Ford Tudor, black, stock, parked. '29 Ford Fordor, grey & black, mildly rodded, rolling.

Standing, alone, at the end of the airport runway...

'66 Plymouth Satellite hardtop, white, tired & sleeping on side of house. Plymouth Prowler, 'black cherry', rollin' past my house.

The first car (it certainly wasn't new) that made a big impression on me was a '58 Cadillac Series 75. My school bus used to rumble by it daily- it sat under a long commercial carport, dusty but incredible. I stared at it every day.

Wow- A8 sales are terrible.