A Horse With No Name

Okay guys, I am trying something really strange. This idea came to me at my sons track meet this ayem, and I'm writing a fictional story based on all of us and GM cars. It is a strange story, based as a parody or satire. The only two of us I reveal by name or user name are myself (who I write about in third person) and Caddy Cruiser, because I needed a car salesman for my story and I felt like making him a character. Don't know how this is going to work out, but here goes...into the world of the odd...

Happy birthday, guys!

Bingo. this is one of the reasons I live in rural Ohio... a slower pattern of life. Although no one has ever accused me of being especially quick anyways....

I agree on the size thing.

I've had three excahnge students live with me from France. The French system of doing things is infinitely better. They have a much better education system, a much better transportation system, much better protection for the environment, better foreign relations with other nations, better, cleaner, healthier food, better architecture, better wine, better looking females even.... I think I read somewhere that it's much easier to advance in class in France than in the USA. So much for the whole bull$h! notion that unrestricted free market capitalism builds a better world....

The writer quoted by the OP must have been stoned. Reg...let me fix this for you..."I wonder what cars I'm going to be paid minumum wage to break apart at the scrap metal yard...with my degree." Or....Given the whole outsourcing thing...."I wonder which cars I'm going to be paid seven bucks a day to put into containers and shipped to China...after the Republicans do away with minumum wage...." Or...given the whole energy thing..."I wonder what cars we'll be parked, imbile and broken in front of my house when we can no longer fuel them." This is utterly trajic bull$h!, and the result of thirty years of effed up Republican thinking and action IMHO. Greedy Criminals...I think Future of GM got it right! Prayer ain't gonna solve things....

Having jusst taken a ride in a ragtop...heck yes!

I love it! Agree with balthazar, it would be a shame if so much work wre wasted.

A very rational post, sir....

My only thought would be that a lot of the stuff 98 Regency posts is good, possibly achival type of stuff, like the Car and Track road tests of the 60's and 70's cars. If we could have a small archive section for those, that might help. Post count doesn't matter so much...and please, clean up around here once in awhile! (Please note the sarcasm in my words!)

Both of those are good looking wagons!

Once you own a ragtop it's hard to go back...and again, you know how much I loe convertible style roadster (ish) cars. And yes, with roll up side windows I know it's not a true roadster...

Thanks for the responses, guys....and like vonV said, i want something a little more natural and with a little more character.

It's all going to be real hardwood...I know a couple of people that own sawmills and can buy great stuff cheaper than laminate...

Hey guys, we are missing the mark when we don't pick up on something like this and discuss this. Here we have a mainstream automotive writer picking up on what we've known at C and G for years!

I live in a colonial style 4 bedroom two story house, the kind you find all over the midwest in Suburbia....anyhow... I've got hardwood flooring in the living room. Kitchen cabinets are Oak, but I got a good deal on Maple flooring, so I put down maple. I don't have a formal dining room, but I do have a nice, large living room. Here is my question. Stylewise, is it okay or just plain wrong to put down a different style, species, or color of wood in other rooms in the house? Part of me feels like its wearing one blue sock and one red sock style wise...and part of me loves wood and wants to put down a few different kinds of flooring. The rest of the trim in the house is that generic photostatic wood, with a decent profile. I'm planning on painting that all white, and then getting six panel doors that are real wood and painting them white also...and yes I know that six panel doors painted sometimes have issues as the panels expand and contract. I've just fixed up three older houses before buying this newer one, and don't like the "fake" feel of the fake woodwork... Anyhow, opinions good bad and ugly, weldome! And I'd have the floors seperated by carpet or other flooring, so you wouldn't see two different floors at the same time..

The girl living in your house is a brunette, a blonde, a redhead, and has purple hair...all in the same week. Not sure why chicks like dieing hair so much but...it's bad when you almost don't recognise your own kids.

I believe in Global warming and the need to reduce Carbon, but also believe in the need for real world people to drive real world cars. Congrats to GM for making real steps in the right direction.

Mine too, and if I were at a different stage of life, I would own one.

And FOGM...GM crate motors are stupid cheap...a 250K mile clean Geogia truck, with a crate mill dropped in, nothing real high po...for say maybe 3-4 K you could wind up with a fairly friesh tow vehicle. 90's GM trucks are badass with a little finess. Guy who runs the shop next to our shop at work has a 95ish Chevrolet that is slightly lowered, decent paint, cowl hood, fantastic driver, Texas truck, he's got almost nothing into it....and it makes the hair on my arms stand up on end every time he pulls it into the lot. Chris

The Orange 5 door is even rarer... What I was saying is keep the Stang, get a truck at some point, and drive the stang, truck, and Camaro's until you are a rather old man. Paid for rides, cool...! Good luck FOGM, whatever you decide. And yes, I am a huge SVT Focus fan, so that would be cool also, just not what I would do. The 68 Firebird is too much of the same in the fleet IMHO....if you were to do another Camaro, something like a third or 4th gen might better "balance" your portfolia...probably even better than the firebird. Chris

So what do you think of the MK VI? Actually, I really like the MK 5 GTI, and have had more than one evil thought of trading the Miata in on one. Only the Miata's powress as a RWD car in autocross, the fact that it's a ragtop, and that it's almost paid for have deterred me. Chris Sometimes, people just get sand in their vagina... How people get sand in their vagina in an al male forum is beyond me but... Once I understood what yhou were saying, a light went off. Some times (me included) we tend to read through each other's posts too quickly, and not slow down to think about them.

Actually, I just really hnope they keep a premium version of the golf around, GTI or TDI. Two of my (obviously) favorite cars. And I agree, the new Jetta may be what the market needs, however, I like the current (premium) Jetta much better....

Fixed for ya....

Autozone has good priuces on Duralast... Just kidding....