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  1. 33 minutes ago, trinacriabob said:

    I just noticed this. That's impressive.

    Was that an illuminated crucifix on the building's wall?  Drive-through religion?

    5.0 liter V8? Manual? I'm thinking you probably would have enjoyed the twisties of the Front Range with a stick (even more).

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    What I was going to post ...

    What did I do to my car today?

    Well, I THOUGHT about the car.  It would have been its 16th birthday.

    I sold it with 128K.  There is almost no doubt that, aside from smaller annoying fixes, the powertrain could deliver at least twice that.  They'll have to take care of it.  I'd hate to see a babied 3800 Series III not delivering the service it so easily can.

    * sigh *

    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? 

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  2. 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.

     

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  3. 2 hours ago, trinacriabob said:

     

    Mostly, I agree.  My favorite would be the Parisienne (he didn't mention it) followed by the 88.  Right, 307s and 301s over 305s (for me, anyway).  

    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.   

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  4. 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).   

     

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  5. On 12/21/2023 at 4:13 PM, trinacriabob said:

    Can't GM or any entity, for that matter, announce layoffs AFTER Christmas or the holidays are over?  Is it about making some kind of a favorable accounting or tax related entry on the books for the current fiscal year? (I'm theorizing, since I can't come up with what that would entail.) Shouldn't it be about people?  Who wants to see glum faces at the breakfast or dinner table?

    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).

  6. Updated pictures after recent restoration after a 20 year slumber.   65k miles now.  

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    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.. 

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    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.

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  7. 11 hours ago, Drew Dowdell said:

    I’m going to be working on the ads this coming week . I am not happy with the ads provider we’re using. If you’re seeing ads but are a subscriber, let me know

    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.

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  8. 1 hour ago, surreal1272 said:

    You are a premium subscriber so you don't get all the pop ups I do. Not just the ad after the first page clock. It's the constant video pop up that come up and on a mobile device, the "x" (to close) button is so small that you will click on the video 9 times out of 10. The desktop version is much more manageable in this regard but I am all but done with using the site on my phone.

    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.

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  9. On 11/18/2023 at 7:16 PM, trinacriabob said:

    Is it possible to know the disposition of a vehicle a person once had?  By the VIN or other information?  I'm not expecting an obit, but maybe the date (and geographic location) where it was junked, scrapped, etc.

    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.

     

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  10. On 11/17/2023 at 2:43 PM, ccap41 said:

    The Problem Cadillac/GM have is that they're rebadging vehicles and as EVs, they're even more similar to their Chevrolet counterparts. They're desperately doing something to differentiate themselves, That Optiq is nothing different than an Equinox EV,,,, but it charges faster!  

    I'm sure there is a substantial price difference...

  11. 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. 

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  12. 26 minutes ago, trinacriabob said:

    Just thought about this because I just saw this:

    I saw an early 2000s Impala and saw how they still had the rubber bumper strips integrated into the body-colored bumpers, which are now how bumpers are designed/made in their entirety.

    It's much easier to see a severe dent or ding in a polyurethane bumper.  It makes me think they changed to this to create more work for body shops.  Ya think?

    Cheaper to manufacture...fewer parts.   And it looks cleaner without the strips inset into the bumpers. 

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  13. 3 hours ago, David said:

    I am such a Depeche Head, Loved them since my first concert with them in Japan.

    Depeche Mode Music for the Masses Tour 1987 to 1988, Japan Leg. This is memory lane of an amazing time in my life.

    Depeche Mode "Music For The Masses Tour" 1987-1988 (depmode.com)

     

    They were great...2 hr show tonight on the new 'Memento Mori' tour...new songs and songs from throughout their career.  Gore and Gahan don't disappoint. 

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