Camino LS6

Would have to be late in the month for me as well - and I'd still be a maybe.

Ditto on chocolate world.

I can come-up with plausible reasons for taxis, cop cars, limos,emergency vehicles, and delivery trucks - but I'd call all of those special service.

Anti-theft for delivery trucks? Might be good for curbside.

How many doors in total?

The driver's side part is what has me baffled. Otherwise, a hearse would make sense (sort of).

Has to be a special service vehicle of some sort, but running down the list, nothing quite fits. Plenty of stuff with only a passenger door, but...

Cop cars? Doesn't exactly fit, but I am puzzled otherwise.

Another tidbit: I opened Firefox in a new window and it acted normally, except that this forum (elec/tech) doesn't show up!

It is, but that never mattered before - I could still use Firefox without starting IE.

Things have gotten even stranger. I decided to try firefox and ran into a problem right away. It won't allow me to go to any sites without launching explorer! WTF? And no, I didn't follow that instruction.

Not sure about that, but the 200R4 would fix it as well. At that point though, a Chevy V8 swap starts to look like the better idea. At any rate, a TH350 and 3.73 gears were the wrong answer for the 307. With that said, a bit of this is perceptive. I spent years driving 3spd. autos, and still have a hard time accepting the RPMs being so high again after having 4spd.OD autos in between. It's hard to go back.

I like this plan. Excellent news!

A 700R4 would have solved the highway problem.

Interesting. My experience has been just the opposite with the 73-77 cars being much harder to find parts for. At least there is aftermarket support for the Gs, there is virtually none for the Colonnades. Of course, the 64-72 A body cars are easiest of all. At least for El Caminos, lots of G-body stuff is widely available (I'm always sifting through it to get 73-77 stuff).

Tahoe/Suburban/Yukon

There were some things that were very wrong with that car, starting with the 3.73 rear. I suspect the trans had some issues as well - even a tired 307 should do much better than you describe.

...and an ill-informed one at that.

Just don't make the mistake of judging the G body by the tired survivors you encounter today. Trust me, when they were new it was a different story. Even those beaten examples can be refreshed easily.

At least I took a guess.

A rusty one, maybe...

Mail Jeep.

Heard a couple of rumors about the Gast cars, but I'll have to check to get the story straight.

Many of the family cars are captured on film, but mostly on slides rather than prints. I may be able to find a few you guys haven't seen yet. I know that there are prints of my Dad's '58 Golden Hawk after he flipped it, I'm hoping for some pre-wreck shots. My Mom just had a CD made of some old slides her Dad took, and a few of our cars made the cut - maybe I can lift them from that. Anyone other than me know what a Scout Aristocrat looks like?

Too true. I really wanted to save that car, it was pretty clean and straight overall. It had its original 327 (with the Gold displacement stickers on the unique, sqared-off valve covers), a good top, and that perfect interior. It needed tires, a new exhaust, maybe some engine work, and a fresh coat of white. Until it spent a year with "the boys". Could still have been saved, but I'm sure it wasn't. Wasn't even rusty. Didn't feel so bad for the other cars, they were pretty clapped-out. Except for the Chevelle - it was a low-mile original 4-door that got "damaged" in a flood. Ran great. Watching my idiot classmates maul these cars was too much for me so I bolted back to my regular high school.