balthazar

All 6 of them.

I'm starting to come around to the hybrid as perhaps the best solution. It's not for me, and the BE fanatics will still whine, but it's very logical in real world usage.

What does our respective states have to do with anything? And; that's literally not the definition of the term.

If you didn't know about those late Road Runners, I'll guess you never saw the NASCAR variants :

Guess I could never buy one (I'm not an immigrant). I quickly get completely sick of the hyperbolic nonsense everyone is 'spray welding' all over their presentations. It's a major turn off. Then things I would gloss over, like how wobbly that front panel was when he opened it, become more 'visible' as a hypocrisy to the hyperbole.

The enclosed 8-ft section isn’t quite necc IF you have the 6.5’ bed. You can place any amount of material up on the (raised) tailgate, all day & night. 6.5’ really is a sweet spot. It’s the ridiculous 4.5’ bed that’s useless. With a tiny 112” wheelbase, you know that the Canoo rear compartment area is hella tight/ not for people. In a world of crew cab trucks that’s going to be a major market disappointment. A Ranger has a 126” wheelbase; they built this too small.

Blue job is a ‘53-54 Stude.

Well... pushing aside my doubts of yet another 'we're gonna revolutionize the pick up wuuurld!!!' claim, they definitely did some thinking centered around the bed & utility [unlike Rivian]. Would've been super cool if the bed extension then had a vertical 'tailgate' that ALSO slid out that you could close. It looks like a flat screen TV on wheels and the lighting is tragically bad, but I'll be watching this further to see more on the features. The square box 40kW delivery van is reportedly going to start at $33K, we'll see where this thing gets stickered (if it makes it to market).

But what you really do is drop a stroker crank in there, get it up to more like 390 CI.

On the flip side, you’d get the same mileage with a heap more moxie bumping the other way; to a 350.

I put thousands of miles on my father's 301 V8 Pontiac, and I've driven 307 Olds' cars numerous times. They're not what you'd call 'spritely'.

$95 grand (target)??? Hilarious- DMC isn't going to sell any of those, either. Specs seem very lame.

I don’t believe most people would discern operational differences in similar tune 350s. Olds had a hi-po 310/390 small block but that’s a fringe tune. Garden variety 4bbl 350s are fairly close. BB Buick 455 is an over-square configuration, and it developed more torque than the other 455s/454. Without looking up the specs on the 350s, I wouldn’t discount the Buick 350 as out-performing the Olds. My brother had a 350 Skylark way back, he was impressed by it, and he went to a 400/4-spd GTO from that.

• 'Favoritism'? Because the USPS has given so much other contract work to Oshkosh? • 'Expected to win' is meaningless. • If there is no mandate that the new USPS fleet be 100% BE, then there's no reasonable expectation it would be so. The 50%-75% requirement is a component of the new $6B proposed bill, I didn't see a breakdown requirement attached to the original bill/contract other than the USPS agreed to 10% and would do more if the FUNDING was there. • 'Makes more sense' fails to recognize the gorilla in the room - cost. You can't buy 165,000 BE vehicles with postage stamps. • The stock trade is certainly worthy of a closer look. But a potential info leak just as well could have come from the USPS or the Gov't.

^ That's an investigation of the stock trade, not of Oshkosh. And why is Congress writing ANOTHER multi-billion dollar bill to give money to the USPS- they literally JUST did that. They have zero self-awareness in D.C..

'62 GP, first year for a vinyl roof on a Pontiac ~

used outside I would be fine with. But even cutting/sanding them is iffy; you just don’t know. I don’t trust a lot of material handled thru that part of the globe. Just to save a handful of dollars?

I have zero issue with that.

Be cautious- a lot of pallets are treated with nasty chems to prevent rot.

Maybe. But I wonder (can’t think right now of examples from way back) if those were more cancellations of recent things, rather than that of things that had been around for 50-150 yeara, like it seems to be mostly now. I completely believe, using “logic” already displayed in this circus tent, that there are conversations saying ‘we need to change the name of the nation because slavery was conducted under it’, and with plenty of ‘manufactured rage’.

Yuck, I was imagining something like that, in accordance on how many electrical motors work on/off power. I’m hard on the accelerator, but I’m very gentle on the brakes; I brake like a tractor-trailer. It would be tough to go to something so unrefined/coarse like that.

I don’t think it’s quite ‘rage’ for the most part, but it certain is staggeringly pointless. I’m reminded of the adage ‘they came for my neighbor; I didn't say anything...’ or however that goes exactly. The whole ‘cancel it I’m offended’ had it’s 15 mins of fame, now it’s just completely boring ( in addition to staggeringly pointless).

Does it have a ‘bogging’ feel when the regen brakes are working, or is it just like any other brake system (sans the pedal differences)?

Hope you guys got any construction/ renovation projects done last year. Just came out of HomeDepot- last year a sheet of 1/2-in sheathing plywood was around $23 per. Today it’s :

The market has already emphatically voted, and the options are well established; 5.75’, 6.5’ and 8’. If a 4.5’ bed ‘would suit most truck buyers’ that same logic would tell you another, smaller contingent would be accepting of a 3.25’ bed; the ‘other side’ of that line.