Robert Hall

At the dealer this morning for service on the Jeep, they have two identical gray Ram TRXes on the lot…sticker price $99995…$13k ‘market adjustment’. Also a red one. A nice F8 green Charger R/T and purple Challenger R/T scat pack in the showroom. One curious thing I noticed were 3 used 2020 Kia Tellurides on the lot. First time I’d looked at them up close, they look smaller in person .

I remember one year it hit 119 on my birthday. And the A/C failed at the restaurant we were going out to dinner at. Hot and dry and hot and humid are equally awful IMO, but different. I’ve heard from friends about summers in Austin being nasty with triple digit temps and high humidity. I was in Miami Beach in July 2008 and it was like 98F w/ 90 percent humidity. Miserable outside. Was better down in the Keys with the breezes. My ideal would be a climate that never gets over 80F or below 50F.

I’d assume once the Baby Boomers exit the hobby over the next 20 years or so, values will fall…

I use Kingsford quick light starters (looks like shredded wheat) and lighter fluid to get mine going. Or those bagged logs like for a fireplace.

Needs anal glands expressed.

Corolla Cross--for the buyer that finds the CH-R too weird and the Rav4 too big...

Yes, the OEMs definitely know how to build autos at volume...been doing it for decades. It seems Tesla is still very much a startup when it comes to their mindset...move fast and break things.

I love the idea of wagons that really haul like that…

Saw a very clean two-tone blue ‘81-85 Impala 4dr, with white walls. Driven by a little old lady w/ white hair.

Sounds like there is an opportunity for a new sport--a hybrid of MMA and hockey where players get points for fight style, and the fighting is an integral part of the game...

Haven't followed hockey in years, but did enjoy going to a bunch of Avalanche games in 1997-2008 when I was living in Colorado...the games against the Red Wings were always fun--was at one in 2002 that broke out into a brawl at the Pepsi Center. I worked with a group of hard-drinking Canadians for a few years that made going to games as a group a lot of fun...

The gold '65 my brother had 40 years ago looked just like that inside...was a sweet car.

The '68-69 Buick 2dr roofline is very similar to the '68-69 Chevelle...but the lower body is quite different, and the low rear wheel well cutline gave it a frumpy look. That formal roofline on the '70-72 Cutlass SX/Supreme was Olds' answer to the Monte Carlo and Grand Prix, IMO (without a longer wheelbase or other body differences).

Sharp Skylark...haven't seen a convertible one in forever. Always thought the '70-72 Buick A-body 2dr ht roofline was very similar to the Chevelle. The '70-72 looked better overall IMO than the '68-69 Buicks w/ their sweepspear side crease and low rear wheel well openings. Though the concave rear was interesting and different.

My neighborhood Ace Hardware was like that this Saturday...employees and most patrons were unmasked. Are they fully vaccinated? Who knows...

Gray interiors are my turn off. Don’t know why, but I generally hate gray interiors. Esp the cheap and nasty ones so common over the last 30 years. I like two tones, esp Black and Tan, black and white, or black and red. I esp like the baseball glove color leather Audi and others have used over the years. I like solid red or solid dark blue interiors. All black interiors tend to be gloomy caves, though with a sunroof they would be tolerable in a luxury car or sports car.

I like the seatbelt attached to the seat on the DTS. That car had very comfortable, stuffed seats. The types of seatbelts I hate are the motorized ones (some Fords in the early 90s) and the ones attached to the doors (GM in the 90s).

Yeah, it seems 90% of interiors today are drab despair gray plastic....

The retrofit ones always seem to look cheap and cheesy...

I'm looking forward to the weekend...hope the rain lets up soon, though, want to do so some grilling. 2021 has been good to me so far with work. I did leave my previous long term contract at the end of January after 6 1/2 years, but landed a new gig with a growing local company (still 100% WFH) at a 30% pay increase and great benefits.

Was behind an older Ford Fusion Sport with a curious personalized plate---'CRASH29'...I wonder if it's a reference to the 1929 stock market crash, or the driver had their 29th crash in this vehicle?

Saw a recent black F150 yesterday, what was interesting was that the owner had added a row of LEDs across the top of the black grille, so from a distance it resembled the upcoming F150 Lightning...with the light tube across the front.

^ Wild van. That reminds me of an MPC Dodge van model kit that had a drag option of a blown Hemi to mount in the middle like that.

Precisely. It's not a flea market or Turkish bazaar. I don't haggle over the price of a Mac Book Pro at the Apple store or the price of a washer and dryer at Home Depot. Why should buying a car be different? Cars are saddled with the ancient, obsolete dealer franchising shit.

Those '70s clam shell wagons were something else... what beasts. A neighbor at my family farm had a '71 Brookwood that was quite the beater, a farm wagon...he drove it until he died in 1987 at age 82. And in Steubenville, the parents of one of my classmates from kindergarten through 2nd grade had a '74 Olds Custom Cruiser...I remember riding in it as a kid. Something like this..