Robert Hall

I would think pretty much all the Fox Mustang aftermarket performance parts could be adapted to one of those Continentals..one could be the basis for a sweet lux-performance sleeper...

I like the taste of beets, but can't eat them...they give me explosive diarrhoea.

Hmmm.....had to pin down a single 'soul' era, but for cars that really 'speak' to me, I'd have to say two main eras--mid 60s-early 70s, and mid 80s-mid 90s. The first as those were cars I grew up around as a kid and noticed, and the latter is the era I started driving and experiencing cars. Having read Car & Driver and Road & Track from age 7 exposed me to all kinds of interesting cars in print. Some that really 'speak' to me from the older era---Lincolns, esp. the 4dr convertibles, the early Cougars and Mustangs (esp. the '69 like I grew up with), various full size Fords and Mercurys ("69-70 XL and Marauder, '71-72 LTD, '69-72 Monterey and Marquis, etc), the C2 Corvettes, '66-67 Toronado (what a design), '67-70 Eldorado (ditto), the Riviera from '63-73, the early '70s Camaro and Firebird, the early '70s Challenger and Cuda... For the latter era, I still love the Fox Mustangs I grew up with and owned, the original Acura NSX, the Ferrari Testarossa, F40, and 288 GTO (still my favorite Ferraris--the '60s ones are expensive museum pieces, the '80s ones are new enough to be drivable), the E36 BMW M3 (my favorite M3, used to own one), the 80s-90s Porsche 911s (esp. the 993). I'd have a bunch of these in my dream car garage...would need probably a 20 car garage, though..

I think the Weather Channel names them..they seem to name any weather event..

I used to work with a guy that thought his BMW 540 had a V4 because it was a 540...

WOW, he must like bland non inspiring autos. His fiancee has a Toyota Sequoia for hauling their kids..I think the Escalade may be his wife's car. (He has two houses in the neighborhood, he can't divorce his wife as she is the co-owner of his business).

Speaking of Infinitis, my next door neighbor had a deep maroon '13 QX56 for the last two years, it disspeared a month ago or so, replaced by a '15 Cadillac Escalade ESV...which disappeared after 2 weeks and now he's got a black QX80.

Well, we've had family dynasties in the states, when George Bush's ignorant son became President... Leaving work this afternoon, I go to the parking garage elevator...the down button has been acting funny lately...today there was a sign taped over the button with the handwritten note 'BOTTON NO WORKS'. Made my day... So the coworker I'd been walking out with and I walked back into the building and went over to the opposite side of the building, to the other elevator..when the down button worked, I exclaimed 'BOTTON WORK!'.

Yeah, I was 2 in 1972. Some days I do feel old, but that is more corporate burnout and being out of shape...or when I look at a receipt at a coffee shop and see that I got a senior discount...or when I have to deal with Millennials...

1970 was a great year for cars...hard to pick just one. Maybe a '70 Mustang Mach 1, Challenger, Charger, Camaro, Mercury Marauder, Ford XL, Cadillac Eldorado, Lincoln Continental, Porsche 911, Porsche 917....

At one time I was. Now it has no meaning to me, reliability is everything...I've had a 5.0 V8, 2.9 v6, 3.2 6 in the past, and a 4.0 6 for the last 15 years...my sister had cars w a 5.0v8, 3.0 6, and a 4.6 V8...all unreliable money pits of pain and frustration, all gone--replaced w a car w a 1.6 turbo 4....pragmatism.

I'm not sure which engine..didn't have any engine badging that I noticed and I didn't open the hood. Seemed smooth overall..

I'll admit I'm not a small car guy, but the Trax seems very well put together...loads of headroom, cubbies for storage everywhere, etc. Seemed smooth and plenty of power around town for a 4cyl.

This followed my sister home today...we were just going out to lunch, but... she got a 2015 Chevy Trax LT, pretty well equipped w/ sunroof and the Bose sound system, XM radio, etc. Since she started working locally again in August the DTS has become too unreliable for a daily driver, going to the shop every week or two weeks for repairs. She needed a new car. Our neighborhood Chevy store is great, I was looking at the Colorados and Equinox, may be tempted to trade my Jeep on something sooner than later...

At 6'0", 240lbs, this one fits fine. Loads of headroom. My sister brought this home today, a 2015 Chevy Trax LT, replacing the DTS.

You must live in my neck of the woods (Phoenix). I'll be glad when it dips back into the 90's next week. Yeah, I live in Phoenix..moved here from Denver in '08. Long story..don't like the climate and the desert, but the tech job market is solid, and lots of good restaurants around the valley...

After my iPhone 5s died in a freak accident (fell off the roof of a 6 story parking garage), I replaced it with iPhone 6 a couple of weeks ago...happy with it so far, more battery life, bigger screen, more space (64gb).

About the only exercise I get in the long hot summer here in the Valley of $h! is swimming in my pool....got to get back into morning and evening walks once fall gets here in a month or two...

I did ride a 21spd mountain bike the 5 years I lived in Colorado Springs...best shape I was ever in...lots of dirt trail riding..alas, that was 15 years and 60 pounds ago. Haven't ridden my bike in close to 10 years. Too sedentary...

Or someone who likes fitness and exercise. Esp. if they are spandex clad and out on a 105 degree day...

Picked up a gray Sonata w/ two tone gray interior at the San Jose airport Friday evening, drove through late rush hour traffic down the 101 to Salinas. Drove from the hotel to Mazda Laguna Seca Raceway on some twisty roads Saturday and Sunday, and then back to the San Jose airport Sunday afternoon. Impressions: Smooth, quiet, reasonably powerful, good on gas, well put together, good outward visibility. Kind of an anonymous midsize, pleasantly styled but not particularly memorable. I'd driven a rental Sonata 2 generations ago, this definitely felt bigger and more solid. Seemed to have more space inside than the Malibus I've driven in recent years. Dash design and control layout worked, a lot of hard plastics but not cheap looking. All in all a decent way to get around for a couple days.

Over the weekend I saw Porsches..hundreds of Porsches of every type and variation. Street Porsches and racing Porsches. I went to Rennsport Reunion V (I went to IV 4 years ago) at Laguna Seca Raceway near Monterey, California. Great weekend. Still tired from all the walking. As far as non-Porsches, I did see a sharp red mid '50s Ferrari of some sort, an Alfa Romeo 4C in red and black, a dark red '61 Chevy Impala ht lowrider, and a bright green '63 Chevy Impala convertible lowrider.

On further review, the headlights do kinda look like afterthoughts. But it's relentlessly square-ish as well. As far as the glass-covered headlights: I'm pretty sure there were laws against them. The Ferrari Daytona and Jag E-type had to change their look to sell over here. Dodge got away with the clear headlight covers years later on the original Magnum because they opened when the lights were on.

The '65 300 also had those neat clear headlight covers..the Imperial had similar covers then also. One detail I love on the 64-66 Imperials is the offset rear license plate, as with the '71-72 Riviera..that's a detail I love... As far as light up grille emblems, Mercedes has a light up 3 pointed star grille emblem on some models today, albeit a bit bigger than Chrysler's emblem...I'm surprised that trucks don't have such an option with their huge grille badges...

Good to hear they have a suspect.they have linked him to 4 of the shootings...I've heard speculation on the radio that there may be copycat shooters responsible for the other shootings..who knows at this point.. I'm not on the freeways w/ my current commute across the valley, but I've been following it in the news closely...