Camino LS6

To each his own. I hate over-cooked food. And yeah, I like my eggs over easy. :AH-HA_wink: ...and my bacon chewy.

Wow! That's big news without question.

Pink in the middle, or I leave it on the plate. Disease is another thing I don't waste time stressing over.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124035637935940943.html Quote: So King Barck the Mild is finding as he tries to dictate the terms of what amounts to an out-of-court bankruptcy for Chrysler and GM. He wants Chrysler's secured lenders to give up their right to nearly full recovery in a bankruptcy in return for 15 cents on the dollar. They'd be crazy to do so, of course, except that these banks also happen to be beholden to the administration for TARP money. Wasn't TARP supposed to be about restoring a healthy banking system? Isn't that a tad inconsistent with banks just voluntarily relinquishing valuable claims on borrowers? Don't ask. Kingly prerogative also conflicts with kingly prerogative in the case of GM's unsecured creditors, who are the sticking point in agreeing to a turnaround plan by the drop-dead date of June 1. His retainer, Steven Rattner, has delivered word that the king's pleasure is that these unsecured creditors give up 100% of their claims in return for GM stock. It may also be the king's pleasure, he advised, to convert at some point the government's own $13 billion in bailout loans into GM stock. There's just one problem: Why on earth would GM's creditors -- who include not just bondholders but the UAW's health-care trust -- want any part of this deal? They've already seen that the rights and privileges of shareholders are not worth diddly when the king is throwing his prerogatives around. He dispensed with the services of GM chief Rick Wagoner, though the king owned not a single share of GM stock at the time. His minions communicated the king's pleasure that GM consider discontinuing its GMC brand, maker of pickups and SUVs that offendeth the royal eye -- though these vehicles earn GM's fattest profit margins. His minions haven't asked GM to give up the Chevy Volt, even after determining it will be a profitless black hole, because of the king's fondness for green. No wonder the king's mediation of 40 years of stalemated labor and business issues in the auto sector isn't going so well. There's a reason royal discretion has long been outmoded as a way to run an economy: Things just work better if a realm's subjects are left to resolve their own disputes and interests through the impersonal mechanism of the markets and the law. His current bailout strategy amounts to asking thousands of bondholders and GM retirees to buy stock in a GM that the king's own policies mean they'd be loony to buy. Add the fact that passenger cars and trucks in the U.S. are a trivial source of greenhouse gases in any case -- they could all become carbonless and it would be irrelevant in the face of China's and India's coal use. King has only been on his throne for three months. His policies already have devolved into savage incoherence. But let's face it, the king is also somewhat lacking in the lion-heartedness department. He's on record saying that the only sensible way to reduce fossil-fuel dependence is to put a price on it, as with cap and trade. Then why not have the courage of his convictions and do away with the proven ineffectualness and perversity of trying to regulate automotive fuel mileage directly? He could release GM, Chrysler and Ford to make those cars, and only those cars, consumers would reward with profits (including fuel-efficient cars they might suddenly find desirable if Mr. President moves ahead with plans to tax carbon emissions). He wouldn't be foolishly trying to rewrite GM's labor contracts and splitting negotiating hairs with its lenders. GM -- along with Chrysler and Ford -- might not avoid a trip through the bankruptcy courts. But either way, they'd be better able to meet their obligations to creditors, including UAW retirees, if allowed to focus on making cars the public actually wants to buy. King Barck could take a leaf from St. Jimmy the Simple, who faced a collapse of the railroad industry. He signed the Staggers deregulation law, returning power to the industry itself to decide what services to provide and which customers to chase. What had previously been an industrial basket case, halfway nationalized already, fixed itself almost overnight. He might consult with the Sage of Omaha, who has become a fan of the rail business. What would make Sir Warren similarly enthused about investing in GM? The answer, we're guessing, is not more cars like the Chevy Volt. The banks get all the attention, but they have the power to earn their way out of trouble. Not GM, the way things are going. St. Warren could do the king a real service by warning him off a path with Detroit that could end up blighting all the years of his reign.

Bah! Rare is the only way to go! :AH-HA_wink:

At which point it is no longer worth eating. A cinder between the buns, slathered in condiments, is so unappealing. Ever eat raw hamburger with salt? Yum!

I'm still in a sweat over this collection. Everytime I thought it was done, they'f round another corner and there would be more! So much of it was as if I had created the collection - things I would seek out if I had that kind of money, but wouldn't expect others to. Like the '70 El Camino SS and the Shelby Series1 for two examples. All in all, that garage is heaven.

Actually, it wouldn't surprise me. But it could be a while before it would happen.

If you haven't clicked the link yet, just do it! Trust me on this.

Sneaky! But smart.

Mountain out of a (possible) molehill.

Big "if" there.

It's the freakin' MOTHERLODE!!! I need to go clean myself up.

Key.

It always amazes me how the internet can make something out of nothing. At the absolute worst, this means that GM caught a potential noise problem and took action to prevent it. Big friggin deal.

Much ado about nothing.

Meh, minivans can't do what real vans do. The real vans have "gone back to their roots" and almost all of them work for a living. The van customization craze is long dead and has nothing to do with minivans whatsoever, so I see the ad as stupid. Besides, I "respect the wagon", not the blasted minivan.

Funny. Pathetic, but funny.

I just can't imagine ever making a science of what I eat, I don't get the fascination. I eat what I want, when I want, and as much as I want. That's good enough for me.

I found it to be quite stupid. Van does not equal minivan in any real way.

That was some tale. Having spent time in various BMWs, you won't catch any grief from me on your decision. The pre-Bangle BMWs are amazing cars.

I was pretty proud of him for that. I wish I'd been there to see it.

Pretty balanced and fair article.

Some people! He wouldn't have gotten away with it at our local tavern if my brother was around. My brother and a life-long friend of his were at the bar enjoying themselves, when this sloppy drunk accosted my brother. He asked: "What are you, some kind of N****r-lover?" My brother replied " Yeah, I guess I am" ...and decked the guy. The crowd applauded and threw the drunk asswipe out of the bar. After that, the regulars all started calling my brother "killer".