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Robert Hall

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  1. And because they have changed styling so slowly (the current generation looks much the same as the Classic), they still look modern IMO..
  2. It will be interesting to compare this w/ the current one eventually. My sister loves her '23 LT, it has about 6k miles..she's had it a year now. I've driven it a fair bit, gets around just fine for a compact CUV, very comfortable on road trips.
  3. Looks good inside and out, definitely shows a family resemblance to other Chevy CUVs. Interesting that it has Car Play and Android Auto..thought GM was going to discontinue support for those to push their own crap.
  4. Had to think about it for a sec...1/20/25 is when the next President is sworn in.
  5. It's a 5.0 w/ 5-speed manual. I had a lot of fun with it in my 20s in Colorado... there are a lot more photos in the Member's Rides section--but that part of the forum seems impossible to find. Edit: here is a link to other photos I added a while back: I've been starting it once a week and backing out of the garage as the weather permits. Looking forward to summer and going for drives on the twisty backroads in nearby Geauga County. And yes, that is a crucifix..the owner of the body shop is a part-time pastor I think. Small town Ohio. Steve Gump and his team at Hill Valley Auto does great work, very reasonable rates. Newcomerstown, Ohio, about 10 miles from where my family farm was. The '69 Mustang and '67 Cougar are stored there, they are working on the '69 this winter. I'm sure you miss your Buick..served you well for a long time..have a found a new ride in Italy?
  6. My Jeep nav a couple times has made it look like I was driving in a river or parked in Lake Erie...
  7. I was looking into the Canadian market Parisiennes a while back and recall reading that they also had a Caprice based 2dr... and I think for '82 Canada got the Caprice based Parisienne like the US got for '83. I always thought it was odd that in the US for '82 they dropped the B-body Pontiacs and moved the Bonneville name to what had been the A-body LeMans sedan. Kind of a rogue move.
  8. Parisienne (the US market one from '83-86) would be a 305. It was basically a facelifted Caprice (had the Chevy-based interior, and got the Pontiac rear 81 rear clip for '85-86). The Pontiac 301 was gone after '81, last year of the B-body Catalina and Bonneville. As far as 80s GMs, I wouldn't mind having an '80-84 Buick Electra Park Avenue, '80-89 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham de' Elegance (long name!), or '80-86 Caprice as an occasional drive around car.
  9. I like that green...the R32-R34 generations were better looking cars, IMO. I love the R34 styling..
  10. Enjoying the week off...pretty quiet. Unusual late December weather for NE Ohio, was 60 on Christmas. Took the Mustang out for a spin on some of the nice back roads close by. Then soaked in the hot tub for a while. (Big meal was Christmas Eve, my sister and I went to a great local steakhouse for a big dinner, champagne, wine, etc).
  11. Speaking of actresses w/ distinctive eyes, anyone remember Meg Foster from the 70s-80s? Her eyes were very unusual...very pale blue.
  12. A friend who had been with a company for 15 years got laid off last Friday...the Friday before Xmas they laid off 300+ IT people...(a place I worked back in '10-11, a horrible vile bank w/ a sweatshop environment).
  13. Nice sunny afternoon, 56...nice for Ohio in December. Took it for about a 20 min drive at lunch today..hard to get good photos with all the shadows in the late fall.
  14. As an aside, I'd really like to have a 2nd gen Legend coupe w/ a manual. Beautiful cars..
  15. I'd like to see a big sedan and coupe named 'Legend' again..
  16. Updated pictures after recent restoration after a 20 year slumber. 65k miles now. More pictures, now stored for winter. Got to get more boxes out of the garage from the move to make room for the '69 which will be going in eventually.. A couple photos of how grubby it was in June 2022 when I put a new battery in and drove it out of the barn. Not sure the last time it had been driven, I hadn't been in the barn since June 2017 due to ongoing dispute with my (now-deceased) deranged brother after our mother's death in April 2015.
  17. I'm not seeing ads on Safari on the desktop, but am seeing a lot of ads on mobile Safari. The site is pretty much unusable on mobile because of the ads.
  18. Yeah, I'm a premium subscriber and see a huge number of ads when trying to access the site on Safari on my iPhone. I would have thought being a premium subscriber would reduce the number of ads, but It's pretty much unusable on a phone with all the ads....so I usually only go to the site on my laptop.
  19. I've used carfax and just google searches of the VIN to find info on past cars I've owned... found out my '00 Grand Cherokee I sold in Phoenix in 2017 turned up at a Copart lot in Tuscon 6 months later, and that the '88 Bronco II I traded for that Jeep in 2000 was registered in a small town in Colorado until 2003. Also found out my brother's Ranger that sold at the farm auction in 2022 appeared on a nearby used car lot a few month later, at 50% markup.
  20. I'm sure there is a substantial price difference...
  21. Nice sunny day, went down to the restorer's shop and picked up my Mustang and drove it home today. 94 mile drive on freeways w/ low traffic, hit the 65k mile mark driving through the Akron area. Happy to have it home, with me again after 21 years apart. I felt 25 again driving it... drives like a new 36 yr old car..tight and free of rattles, quick, loud, stiff springs and bouncy/jarring over freeway expansion joints...tiny side mirrors, no cupholders, comfortable seats though. It feels so small in traffic and sitting down low. Great to drive a manual again. And so very RED. One thing that gets me is the realization that when I was 26, I drove this car from Ann Arbor, MI through Chicago to Colorado Springs over a few days..without cupholders, NAV, and only a rudimentary 1997 cell phone (Motorola Star-Tac). How the world has changed in the last 25+ years. Hard to get good photos at 3:30 on a late fall afternoon, so many shadows.. got a few minor things still to fix but no biggies.
  22. Cheaper to manufacture...fewer parts. And it looks cleaner without the strips inset into the bumpers.
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