Robert Hall

That's what it looks like..standard engine for two trim levels.

Spent the morning down in Kent, wandering around my old school campus and the downtown...a lot has changed in the 25-30 years since I was a student there. Campus looks great, lots of new buildings and ongoing construction. Saw a few interesting cars---a new Regal Tour X at a gas station in a dark red, a bright red Solstice w/ top down, a black w/ black wheels C7 Z06 w/ personalized license plate 'CTHULHU' (great HP Lovecraft reference for an evil looking Vette). The most interesting car sighting, though was while I was walking downtown..very quiet on a Friday morning in a college town between semesters--no one around...so I hear this very loud rumble coming down a street to my right--a noise bouncing off the old brick buildings--sounded like a freaking Pro Stock drag car idling---a loud, raucous rumble w/ crackling...what can it be....when appears a very clean black mid '90s Buick Roadmaster...looked stock, though had big rear tires and deep black steel wheels with tiny chrome center caps. I wonder what was under the hood...seemed very unseemly and out of place for a grandpa car..

Wow..a 2.7..thats a big 4. More power and torque than Chevy V8s had 30 years ago.

Couldn't get away with that here..Ohio always tickets for non-compliance w/ plate laws..

I thought about doing that with my Jeep last year when I moved to Ohio, since it didn't have a front license plate bracket. But it didn't have the optional tow hooks either, so I didn't want to have to drill or anything so I went with the OEM plate bracket..

31 states require 2 plates. Oddly, Ohio is a 2 plate state, yet is surrounded by 1 plate states. Only 13 states allow one only, I've lived in 3 of them.

I'd go for the offset license plate mount in the tow hook hole.

Like w/ tow hooks on SUVs, never know when you might be in a sticky situation and need to get a pull out.. get stuck in a muddy ditch, off the road in a blizzard, etc.

That would be a good place to mount a license plate. I've seen kits w/ license plate mounts that screw into a tow hook hole.

At least not wrapped around a tree.....probably 75% of these will be stored away as collectors items, the remainder crashed within an hour of purchase.

^ its weird but I kinda like it (and it's brown). Imagine what a production normalized pickup sedan could be like...(they were a thing in Brazil for decades). Here's some funky '60 Brazilian Ford pickup based ones... http://www.curbsideclassic.com/cc-global/cc-global-the-brazilian-ford-truck-sedans-how-about-an-escalade-sedan/

Yep...I think I saw this same car in Scottsdale a couple years ago...looks well built.

Saw this 1st gen Corvair convertible at the tire store earlier today..

Neat..those old trucks have a lot of charm...'64-66 looks like. May have a V6.

How about a Ram based sedan? Truck based sedans or SUV based sedans are clearly the next niche to be exploited, with traditional sedans going away.. https://www.carscoops.com/2018/05/aznom-atulux-coachbuilt-ram-doesnt-know-truck-suv-sedan/

I'm really surprised they haven't released Hybrid versions of the CR-V and Pilot yet..

^ So instead of 'rollin' coal', red Super Duty man is 'rollin' poles'....

Ya..been there done that... when I was a teenager in S. Florida in the late 80s, alcohol was easy to come by, along with much stronger recreational products. Flash forward 30 years, I do enjoy a good microbrew or glass of wine w/ dinner. I've been enjoying checking out NE Ohio's brewery/brewpub scene and doing winery tours of Ohio's wine regions over the last year...

I have dabbled in fantasy football w/ coworkers some years ago, but I found it was too time consuming and tedious if you really commit to it. I have been playing fantasy F1 for 15 years or so, though..it's pretty low effort.

They are good... I used to like the Bellagio buffet. Digression--as far as music, the Rolling Stones at the MGM Grand, U2 at the MGM Grand, and Prince's 'Club 3121' at the Rio were some of the best concerts I went to in the '00s... Though this is an unrelated tangent, my favorite concert of that decade was probably David Gilmour at the Gibson Amphitheatre in '04 (a venue in Studio City, LA that no longer exists--was razed to put in Harry Potter crap a few years ago), though his later show at the Hollywood Bowl was fantastic also.... concerts could be a fun thread all of it's own.

I enjoy watching sports. Betting on sports seems pointless. I always hear that gambling will bring in a lot of money for states, but from what I've read it rarely brings in the expected amount. I did go to the casinos in the Phoenix area occasionally for company parties and concerts--good restaurants usually, and I've gone to the one here in the Cleveland area for concerts (Hard Rock Rocksino). I've been to Vegas a few times over the last 20+ years, for concerts. Good restaurants there also. But the gambling part does nothing for me...so boring. I do understand that people can enjoy it, but visiting art museums, going to the symphony, even reading random Wikipedia articles in infinitely more fascinating to me.

Zero interest here..gambling is perhaps the most boring and pointless of human activities, IMO.

Some duds in there like the ZDX, but I wouldn't label the Viper a 'car no one wanted to buy'...it was always a low volume sports car and has a dedicated following.. the Flex is low volume, but must have some fans, it's been around for a decade. (I find it oddly appealing--sort of a wagonish CUV).

The '70s-80s low HP V8s still decent torque to move around 4000lb+ vehicles, though. The TC spec 302 in the 80s had 230-280 ftlbs of torque. For a slow vehicle w/ a V8, the slowest I've driven was my folks' '85 Winnebago Chieftain..33ft Class A motorhome, Chevy 454. It would cruise at 60mph, but took a while to get there... Definitely a Fiero midsection...

Here is something truly random..not sure it's the right thread or not, but it's a long shot. This must have been in the 1975-1977ish range, I was a child, and remember reading an illustrated children's book or comic book with a story about a German car maker with strange little humpy VW like car that was brought to the US and became a sales success through the portly German sales representatives' shady business tactics. The car had a funny German name like 'Phunbug' or 'Phennig'... For some reason, this memory from 40+ years ago popped in my head on my way to Starbucks this morning, did some googling, couldn't find anything. But I distinctly remember black & white sketches. Anyone remember something like this?