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Saw that, too... looks like there was some L and the T got cut off... also to the left is a faint Chevy bowtie.

That looks like it weighs a ton. Its much taller than I suspected it would be... I thought the cross part of the T was going to go under the rear seats... this looks too tall to do that... so it is going behind the seats? I suppose that will affect the pass-through abilities or make for an uneven trunk floor. I'm looking at it and imagining the thousands of Li-ion cells and the need for them all to work... I just bought some more Li-Ion packs from a nameless company (Starts with an Ry, ends with an I, rhymes with Toby) and it took several returns before I got working battery packs. Granted, GM will have a tighter quality control, but its still a bit scary.

Methinks Ted wants to show you around Toronto while he checks out a certain CTS-W...

I like the way they made the split rear window, so you can reach into the bed... no 'Camino I know of had that "feature". WTF is on the roof? A spoiler?

I just don't like the Jeeps added in there... they weren't Chrysler owned (Or even American Motors owned) in the WW2-era shot or Chrysler owned in the '70s.

Yeah, totally agreed. Not the worst year on record in my world... but only by a small margin. I started wishing away 2009 back in November. 2009 saw quite a few things very important to me come to an end, and many other things take a giant step (or steps) back. As I continue to distance myself, time wise, from birth, NYE continues to accumulate more and more baggage of remembering things of the past, which are gone forever. I don't know if its me, and others simply have shorter memories, but I don't know how the elderly can bear it... Anyway, I survived another one (I need a T-shirt, "I survived 2009!"), and I'm rallying for a strong 2010! I wish all of you a fantastic new year!

I hope to god that is a 'shop. I guess you have to drive it up to the loading dock to pop the hood and check the oil.

I think you guys are taking this panel-gap issue to a new extreme. I mean, BFD... getting out the micrometer? LOL... getting out the microscope... Nobody is going to be satisfied until GM starts using nanobots and the car is manufactured in one piece, as an atom-by-atom perfect copy. I wish everyone attacked the styling shortcomings on modern cars and trucks as vigorously.

I've tried to stay away from detectors, as I feel it can make one complacent. Sure, lots of cops will just sit in the car with the radar blasting, and are easy to pick up... but some cops are much sneakier. Not only that, but a lot of tickets are done without radar... pacing, for example... since many people are completely ignorant to whats in their rearview mirror. In Jersey, the troopers seem to like Lidar... which has a much more focused beam, and it much harder to detect. Honestly, though, I have not kept up to date on radar/lidar tech in the last 7~8 years.

I dunno.. even some of the more common GM stuff has PITA serp belt issues... The '99 Bonne has the belt running through the front engine mount... once you twist the belt up and realize its not coming out without taking the piece (which isn't real obvious) of the mount out, you forget the layout of the belt... and the car doesn't have a belt diagram on it! The '89 GMC fullsize van requires SO much force and twist to get the belt off/on I have to use a breaker bar... which, of course, does not clear the cowl panel... you have to remove several relays, pumps and the window washer res. and mounts from the "firewall"... then you need to twist the idler 160 degrees... so you start with the braker under the master cylinder and twist it to hit the A/C box... I've used shorter pieces, but they slip off and I have injured myself several times in this process... *Plus* there is little space between the belts and the fan shroud... so any last minute adjustments require careful planning with your free hand. The van has the belt diagram on the air intake... which falls off easily and sits in my garage... not on the truck! Now, I understand the desired direction of the accessories... so I can figure out the belt routing... but it seems like on every GM serp setup there is a Right Way and a Nearly Right Way... both will work, but one requires 2 inches more belt length and 20 minutes of head scratching before the Right Way becomes obvious... I love the Caprice's serp belt... but its non-HD... I need to do the belt on the GF's Corolla... which looks somewhat PITA... the worse thing being that there in only about 1.5-2" of clearance between the inner fender and belts.

I'm not so sure of this... Without the dog food market, they would just dress up the scraps and sell them as stuff like Slim Jims... to a whole new third world market.

Nice... I really liked the last gen Bonnes in the pearl whites... I probably will own one one day. Of course, with all the snow and salt, my black Bonne is almost completely white. Driving through NYC, the salt was flying so thick, it covered my headlights... I had to pull over and wash them off to see! Poor thing needs a bath bad.

Yeah, we had a problem a few months ago... my sister's Sunfire is normally parked in the street in front of the house... well, we have a turn around in front of the house and people turn boats on trailers at higher speeds... well, I guess someone finally clipped the car... leaving a bunch of red and black stripes... I hate people... Security cameras will be going up soon.

Its the thread that asks 'Seen any cars with Red Bows?'

My only suggestion would be some good driveline pictures, so we can see how hard to showhorn a ls3 will be. Normal car rags barely take a photo of the top of the engine with the cover on.

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Yeah, yesterday was nice... An hour to dig out of one house... had about 8-9 inches... about 1.5 hours to drive 30 miles to other house. Had to park in street and dig into other house... 24 inches at the lowest... 3'-4' drifts and about 36 inches at the street of frozen slush from the plows... didn't dig a spot for the car, but had to cut a walkway 100 foot long. Takes 2 hours to get home, helped dig out a guy stuck blocking the AC Expressway entrance. I really which the frigging plow guys didn't plow across on/off ramps and intersections... its not easy driving across a 2-3 foot high pile of plowings... this dude didn't carry enough momentum and got pretty badly high centered. Get home... and the plows and snow have filled in my driveway... dig in AGAIN for 30 minutes. All told, a 1.5 hour round trip turned into into nearly a 6 hour excursion... get to do it again today, but I'll have to dig a car spot at the other place. Later, assuming the flight comes in, I have to drive from AC to JFK and back to pick up family... once their home, I'll likely have to dig out there cars as well. Fun. I'm getting too old for this crap... I might get a snowblower next year, if I can find one that fits in the car easily.

So all your kids' friends think your Amish. ;-)

No, no, this is time compression, not lossy quality compression. I've been fine with quality compression, as in MP3s... I rip at a decent rate and it sounds fine. I'm talking about simply time compression... playing a song, 5% too fast... so it plays in 3 mins instead of 3min 10 seconds... something you could do with a 33 rpm record player playing at 36 rpm. I'm not completely sure I was detecting that, or if my timing was getting off, but it seemed like my music timing was slow... and now there seems to be something to it.

That a '58 T-bird above the yellow car on the lift in the background? Are those the plates Pennsy gives you for classic cars? Or are the vintage classic plates?

Are you hearing the lastest in lousy radio? Song compression? They are speeding up the music to fit more commercials. My local station is advertising "Real Time" music, as they play it at the proper speed.

Good one. whizwhizwhizwhizWhizWhIzWHIzwHIZWHIZ *Thump* Wrrrrrrr. These were always pretty rare in NJ... but I do remember when the phone had its own special space in the home... and you only got ONE. Especially without remotes... I can still remember the tactile feel of the knobs and the exact twist needed to to get from ch 17 to ch 29 to ch 48... back when we had a whopping *7* channels (and we got a lot of channels in Jersey). I even vaguely remember a remote control demonstration of jangling keys and causing the TV to freak out... back then remotes used sound.. i.e., "The Clicker". I thought of another technology slowly fading... fax machines. It has been a bumpy 150 year journey for the fax, shame they peaked and then nearly became useless. I understand there are alot still out there... but they are rarely used for faxing... most multifunction fax/scan/printers I see aren't even in a house with a land line.

While I agree its the "new static", its just not the same thing... Their called artifacts... I suppose the process would be artifaction... or arties. ;-) While this may be going on, the problem with modern cd recording is too little low end definition... there is just not enough bits to represent the low frequencies. Add to the the awful mixing, called the "The Loudness War" in which even the silent passages are blaring, and modern music is just sludge to the ear... and most people are too IPod tone deaf to understand the problem. There was an article on Digg a year or so ago which compared a Metallica track off the last album and the same track on Rock Band... the difference is insane. Lars should fight that, not people copying music.

So after watching the Jammin Me music video, and seeing the artistic manipulation of TV static, I had to laugh about a whole generation who have never seen real static on a TV. I don't think I've seen any for years with analog TV switching to the blue screen with no signal... and now that analog TV is dead, I suppose there will never be static. How many of our younger readers have never seen it? Or never heard a real dial tone. Or will future folks who will never hear the sound of a modem handshaking. Or the GSM radio interference though speakers (Which is what I want for a ring tone). Anyone think of any others?

"Jamming Me" Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers... "Take back your losing streak Check your front wheel drive"