Robert Hall

Depends on geographically where you are at and the particular market sector (telecom, healthcare, financials, a pure technology company, etc) and the technology. VB or COBOL programmers aren't going to be in as high demand as new technologies like Java or Ruby.. I'm a software engineer/architect and the jobs I'm seeing around here (Denver) for sr. J2EE developers are often north of $80k... in my company, $85k is probably about the average for our FTE development staff (we don't have many people under 30), with most of my 30-something peers (10+ years in the game) in the $85-105k range, with the architects going up to about 125k or so... Of course, the big money in software is in contracting..it's dicey and you can't always expect to be billing all the time, but it's still possible around here with a good skill set to bill $50/hr-75/hr for 6-12 month contracts.. The numbers I see here in Denver are probably higher than some areas, but most likely lower than more-expensive places like the Bay Area, LA, NYC, or Boston)... Even after all the dot.bomb bubble burst, the outsourcing trend, and H1b influx of the last 5 or so years, I'm finding there are still good paying jobs to be found, but you have to keep current and keep growing your skills...

Summer 1985. Got my learner's permit around my 15th birthday. First car I ever took out on a road was w/ my dad in his '84 Lincoln Town Car. Followed by his '84 Ford Escort diesel (first manual I drove, the car I did my driving test in, and later became my first car), then his '79 Dodge Power Wagon 4x4 pickup (my main vehicle for practice on the Ohio backroads--an awful thing to drive--numb power steering, tended to stall on left turns, bouncy suspension), and occasionally mom's '82 Mustang GT (fun car). then occasionally I got to drive my folks vintage cars--a '69 Mustang Mach 1 (351W, auto), '67 Mercury Cougar (289, 3spd manual), '68 Mercury Cougar (302, 3spd manual), and '68 Mercury Cougar XR-7 (390, auto)...

I can definitely understand that..I was young and single when I left Michigan in '97...sunny, booming Colorado seemed like a world apart from gray, dying Michigan. Ann Arbor was a great town to live in when I was in grad school, but the overall area just wasn't happening for me.

1960 Brasilian Chevy truck joins museum

I'd rather see a modern RWD sedan, something to compete in the big leagues with the LS/S-Class/7-series/etc, but the reality is that the DTS is their link to the past..to keep the loyal retiree demographic at GM...if they don't have it, are they are going to go buy.... Town Cars?

Looks like the same concept that has been in magazines as an Opel (Antares?)

Ugh..the base model gets the old 3.5 with a 4spd. Can't they make the 3.6 w/ the 6spd standard and leave the old stuff for the Malibu??

I see a little of the Equinox/Torrent in the greenhouse, and some Sequia in the rear quarters..

Technically, they are wheels..the rim is only part of the wheel. Anyway, I see a bit of the current Stratus/Sebring in the greenhouse.

Saturn is becoming the new Oldsmobile, between Pontiac and Buick.

Oh, as far as the dash, you would prefer the gauges in the center like the Ion? Would that be contemporary enough for you?

Looks great...very distinctive, and looks NOTHING like the Enclave. The wood trim layout on the dash and doors tells me someone has been looking inside Acuras...

Very, very nice..looks quality inside and out..

Apparently, this east coast highrider style is called a 'Donk'. The magazine 'Donk: Box and Bubble' is all about them...it's a wierd new subculture..

Another way of looking at it that the sedan was probably a rusty beater, the Elco was probably a wreck, and someone merged the two into something else rather than both going to the crusher...

I was surprised to see the 4dr being a softtop (unlike the Dakar concept which had a fixed roof).I wonder if the doors are removable like the 2dr.

I guess the idea behind the 4dr Wrangler is to make the rear seat more accessible/usable and give more rear legroom...(getting in and out of the back of a regular Wrangler can be a pain for adults)..

Sounds plausible...I'd read the jousting thing somewhere else also. I could see that at the time of the American Revolution colonists walking on the opposite side of the road (right side) to be different from the British...

Too bad Ford doesn't offer the Focus SVT anymore. I'd take the GTI over the Civic for many reasons, incl. that it's a hatchback (I'd much rather have a hatchback in a compact than a trunk). I've driven one of the previous style GTIs..it was a fun car. A coworker of mine is looking to trade his '02 Eclipse on a new GTI.

Yeah...look how long it took to shut down Olds..5 years? It's just some wiseguy bs-ing...

I've seen a few mutants like this before..when I lived in Florida, in my little town there was a '73 Torino wagon that had been cut off behind the driver's seat and had a flat bed installed, and a '73 Mercury Colony Park wagon that had the whole roof cut off--a station wagon convertible..both crudely done..

I'm pretty sure it was a four door..look at the length of the door and you can see the outline of the sealed-up rear door under the bondo..

It's a '68 Catalina 4dr sedan that has had some crude cut-and-paste job done to it. Looks like it would be hard to get in and out of with the tiny door uppers.

How enlightened. Try using proper spelling, grammar, punctuation if you want to have any credibility to your posts.

I'm not sure why LEDs couldn't project white light.. they have blue LEDs, red LEDs for tailights, etc..