balthazar

>>"it did look a bit of "too much the same"<< Huh? All the Suburban is, is an extended wheelbase version of the Tahoe. It should have a unique front clip, why, again? I haven't seen any '07 Suburbans; I only saw my first Tahoe Thursday.

Cool! No: I don't recall hearing about Fragonard, but a quick google showed up a bunch of his paintings- nice, intricate stuff. If you have any links to his statuary, I'd be interested to see them.

No s2000s in sight at this dealer; all the "SUVs" coughelementcough are up front for the serious NJ off-roaders. Besides, there's always 3 2x4s triangulated into a ramp to climb any curb; that's no excuse. They obviously chose to park a real attention-grabber out front for a change.

All righty then. This is not common practice here in central NJ.

No, 04MI, I read & understood it fine. My contention is that these cars have gotten so mashed and crunched while in this yard. Like I posted above- I have been in 15-20 junkyards --I know junkyards-- and have never seen such an overwhelming majority of cars so hurt. It's one thing if the car is obviously an accident victim, but this is random, intentional damage for the most part. And while it's good that the owner hasn't crushed them out, it's too bad that so many parts were needlessly damaged already. That's not "respect" in my book. This yard moves cars with a monster CAT forklift, and they move stuff A LOT. This '54 Star Chief has been here the 10 years I've been going there (prolly more like 25) and has been moved twice since then. Find a car in Sixty8's pics that looks this straight- there's maybe 1. The '67 Impala wagon to the right has a bent windshield header but is otherwise pretty straight. In the upper right is a '62 GP- well stripped & getting rusty but also straight. Most all in this busy yard are in this shape. Here's some more from another yard: not neccesarily the best condition, just random pics I took for various reasons: Yet another yard (posted in another thread):

Sorry- I missed the intention of this part of your post. Is an '02 or even an early '90s domestic truck not expected to be still running in '06?

Loads of pot-smoking opportunites; never tried it. Don't smoke/ never did tho all my friends did (does 2nd-hand smoke count?). No other illegal drugs. Gotten drunk countless times when younger, but I only maybe drink twice a month now and don't manage to get truely drunk even once per yr anymore. Sigh.

Not that I know of. I can't point you to exactly where I got it from online. I know that night I was also looking at some corpse pics from naturally mummified persons from Mexico, which I may or may not have seen on rotten.com (not for the weak of constitution). Sorry. Why; what's the story on Fragonard?

I agree- the quarter window and the fender creases scream '70-72 Skylark to me.

This is the scene at a local-ish stand-alone honda dealer. Really catches your eye, especially with rows of grey or dark blue or dark green (all with a plethora of black plastic) honda SUVs as a backdrop. On other days the SSR's hood is up. As of this week it was gone, assumedly sold. Unusual practice to say the least. Anyone esle seen this done?

What; I wasn't agreeing with you?BTW, if I was "that f'in illiterate" I doubt I could post anything at all.

>>"The SRX and STS show all that was and may still be wrong with GM. GM lost sight of their vision for Cadillac and hedged there bets on Art and Science. It shows in the sales and lack of consistency with the rest of the line up from the aesthetics point of view."<< Gotta agree- an awful, terrible, wretched POSs. Never got any critical acclaim, either. Junk- would've been better off building nothing in these classes. The writer also has a GREAT point about all the missing convenience features in the new Escalade....I didn't realize it was lacking all those things.... Right on- no way is all that class-leading HP & TRQ going to make up for no express up windows! I mean; c'mon! This is 2006 not 1906! I'd rather drive a rotted-out nissan with express-ups than a beautiful brand new Escalade! Cadillac will be lucky to move 10K units annually, mark my words.

Well...Hmm... what? That's 100% perfect? You've got to be F'ing kidding me.

I never would have guessed that there could be people so hooked thru the bag over toyota. It's truely mind-boggling.

What would help loads and loads if people refrained from quoting the post only 1 or 2 above WITH ALL 14 PICTURES IN THAT QUOTE! DON'T REQUOTE ALL EARLIER POSTED PICS- IT'S TOO MUCH! HAVE PITY ON YOUR DIAL-UP BROTHERS! Loading 45 pics once is more than enough to send 56K dial-up into a death twitch, loading them 2 or 3 times and you might as well go to bed and check it in the morning. Sixty8; I HAVE to know; if this individual(s) who has 'preserved' these cars is so admirable, why the hell is every single one mashed & crashed? I've been to nearly 20 different junkyards and I've never seen even 15% of their stock looking like these: like they rolled down a mountainside then were beat with sledgehammers. Every F'ing picture- WTF?! IMO, the owners need to be harshly questioned under bright lights rather than congratulated.

Military HumVees are not getting blown up because of how they are built, but because of what they are being blown up by. Nothing on pneumatic tires would survive whatever is blowing them up. On the image: the military-spec lineage far outweighs any miniscule negativity that warfare reporting is having. And I also disagree about an H1 replacement. I don't think the fact that the H1 exists has much sales bearing on the H2 & H3, to the extent that a replacement is necessarily necessary. But if so, there;s no way in hell there should be a Cadillac version of it.

Oh no you don't, Camino. You were 'proved' wrong and 'wrong' you continue to be. You're just gonna have to live with this burden the rest of your automotive enthusiast life, buddy. BTW: >>"Boomers are coming to the end of their new car buying lives."<< Boomers are as young as 41, which is still a number of years LESS than the average age of toyota-in-general buyers, never mind the average age of camry buyers. On average, the younger boomers have up to 35 years of new car buying years ahead of them.

The AMG-tuned mercedes are big performance disappointments relative to their power numbers- they should be much quicker. Either something mechanical is compromised or the numbers are bogus. Cadillac already is 'succeeding' since they surpassed mercedes in volume. Sales are up 37% since '01, but they are up even more if you go back another handful of years (the arbitrary year of '01 is curious to me). They have taken a monsterous bite out of the entry-level lux segment, surpassing many established players in popularity with the CTS. This (and much more) is all fact and in the history books; how could one even suggest it is a mirage? I don't think any other marque has ever turned things around so markedly in such a short period of time.

Must've had something to do with the nature of canning, which is heating the jars after filling them, putting on hot lids and tightening them. When they cool they contract and vacuum seal the contents. Now- this is the way it's done with current 2-piece metal lids, which feature a sort of rubber-esque coating on the center round portion that seals against the jar top. Also, the metal centers flex in when cooling, like the caps on a Snapple bottle that pop up when you break the seal. Glass isn't going to do that. I don't know that the milk glass tops had rubber rings too or what. But more curious to me is, why glass lids and why milk glass? You've got lots of time- research it and report back.

Nor has anyone else.

Obviously 'Charger' is a misprint in the hybrid/alternative fuel catagory since it offers neither. 'Charger' also appears next to 'truck considerers'... Still, I don't see much buzz coming from these vehicles' competitors...

So you get how they were used, right? Mason jar lids (actually, the rings) used to have these milk glass centers. How the 2-piece metal & glass lids sealed better than a 1-piece lid, I don't know, but that's what you got. About 2 years ago I was working in PA west of Doylestown, on a site where 3 houses were being built next to each other. I found a 'bottle dump' where a farmer (assumedly) tossed all his glass. I brought home a good 3 dozen old glass milk bottles along with a bunch of others, including some mason jars with these type of glass/metal lids.

Unquestionably and without a single solitary doubt. Some people make it a personal mission to never be even close to 75% satisfied with GM output, and we will have the cozy pleasure of reading all about it, ad nauseum.

Better -Helmet

Guy I work for on occasion is big time jonesing for an '07 Tahoe. Loan lady at the bank I talked to today gushed and drooled over the '07 Tahoe she drove recently, saying it would be the last car she would ever have to own. I have never heard such glowing 'street' praise from non-car people before!