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Nice '73 Laguna, BP. Looking at your other thread, Camino - it looks like you got your unkinked hood.

Sweet road trip!

You seriously think that red car has an ounce of Mitsu in it? Every ounce is Pontiac. While I don't care for the taillight treatment or the concept-like hood scoops, the rest of it is sublime, imo.

Re: Evil Bowel. Thanks for the visual, moltie. :AH-HA_wink:

I've decided against a hard tonneau due to difficulty in quick removal and storage. I've chosen a folding, framed tonneau with a soft cover. I'll have it put on at the same time I get my BedRug. Since I enjoy camping, it would be ideal for me to get a truck tent to use in conjunction with this cover and the BedRug liner. There's a cool one I've seen that has a canopy that extends from it that you set up with poles. The tent pitches in the truck bed. Thanks for reminding me about GM accessories for the 900. I cruised the site when I was considering buying, but haven't been there lately.

Either of those two front ends would have been so welcomed. They crackle with Pontiacness, with character, with authenticity, with individuality and distinctiveness. We need curves where we have straight lines. All of this can be done in a modern way while being true to the brand.

I smoked a few times with a crazy closet case roomie in the late 90's, and a few more times with an ex-gf (after we met up again and I came out to her). One time I had those feelings of paranoia like two days later, they only lasted a few minutes, but they were intense enough for me to remember them now. I think I've only done it maybe twice since, with a nice lesbian former co-worker at a barn party. It usually made me pretty horned up.

pry bar

Um, thanks griffon. :AH-HA_wink:

Uh, rusting welds? Preposterous. Yes, fullsize GM trucks and the previous S-10s had their frames dipped in black goo, and the GMT355 has a painted frame, but are you sure what you're seeing isn't just the medium used in the welding process? I believe the painted frame is a trait passed down from Isuzu in the GMT355 development process and all other import-brand pickups. And I have seen a new-style Tacoma parked around back at the local Toyopet dealership with 11k miles and lots of surface rust at the license plate pocket on the chrome rear bumper.

Thanks Drew and GM1, and nope, no corn liquor here, so I didn't bother ordering the Flex-Fuel 5.3L. There is talk of one coming about 15 miles away in Ephrata, but it's still just talk.

How many "stopgaps" are we going to get before we get a commitment from GMNA to renew Pontiac at the top end? This is two in a row now. I will accept this car for a couple of model years because I can't do a damn thing about it, but I want to see brand-specific design changes and a North American factory for this car soon. GMNA Zetas, spread across the divisions except for Cadillac. This car comes across as another rush job, design-wise for Pontiac (fine for Holden, make no mistake). At least it has NA function more carefully integrated.

World of Wheels, isn't that the cool show for Customs, Rods and a few Ricers? Aren't there some motorcycles there too? Cool.

I may be a bit confused, but wasn't the Corona (with lime) Toyota's bigger car here in the States, before the Cressida came along? Wasn't it just Corolla, Corona and Celica there for a while?

I'm an honest man. It kills me to keep this from my family. But I just... can't... get over that hill. Bob, you're going to miss her when she's gone. Please try to forgive her failings as you see them. Until then, there's always Shady Pines.

EDIT: girls who try to get in my pants have cooties. Other girls are fine. SHOES? In high school, I used to take pride in wearing weird sneakers. Vans usually. Now I just have Tims, Docs and a pair of Maddens. The Tims (6" basic black) are what I wear 95% of the time, except at the gym.

Made by DJM Suspension, sold through "Stylinconcepts".

Watch they don't freeze. :AH-HA_wink:

illustcat, there was certainly no mistaking that old Bonneville. The grille, hood scoops, and badges are the only brand indicators on the G8, same as the GTO. The G8 has an Americanized understructure for safety and all, which is better, but to look at it from any angle except the front you'd never know what it's supposed to be. All I'm saying is, it needs more brand indicators. Right now, it's the Anycar GT.

I feel guilty because I lied to my mother. "So, now that you've joined a gym, have you met any girls there?" "No, they're all fat old ladies." "No they're not, that's not what's on the commercials. They're all skinny, built girls in the commercials." "You don't believe me?" I am stuck, like a dusty needle on a record.

Girls have cooties.

That hood is dead, imo. Unless you weld a length of angle iron to it. '73-'79 Chevy pickups were notorious for this. I think J.C. Whitney had a repair kit for them... a length of thicker steel to attach to that vertical edge. The hood is so physically large that it needed heavy duty mechanisms to hold it up. As soon as the grease dried up, those mechanisms became very stubborn, and the hood would buckle from the effort needed to bring it closed.

I'm thinking that sound may be from the camera car... or truck. No wait, tractor. It's from the camera tractor. The video quality is still not great in this version.

The last Bonneville GXP was better looking than the G8. It was all Pontiac, not just the grille and emblems. The interior of the last Bonneville was overdone, that much is obvious, and this new car's interior blows it away, but for exterior style, there is simply no comparison. That Bonneville GXP was authentic, and with the right drive wheels and a more sane interior, would have been a righteous competitor instead of a last gasp. The G6 is authentic. The Solstice is authentic. This car's design is foreign, and I don't mean it just literally, I mean figuritively. Viper, you're reaching pretty far to defend this car as having any design continuity at all. A grille and badges (and that's all it is!) does not a brand make!

Cool, looks like Holden designers did the taillights.