Robert Hall

I thought about that comment then went back and read through and realized nothing was said about it being necessarily present day vehicles. I started thinking about the usage scenarios and it suddenly made sense. Now for some reason, I think I sort of knew this factoid, maybe I read it in Collectible Automobile or Hemmings Classic Cars in the context of a particular model...

One detail Balthy didn't devulge is when. This might be something from 50 years ago, not necessarily obscure, but not necessarily current. I could see in olden days maybe having the only outside lock on the passenger's side, when cars had bench seats and people parked at the curb (get in from the sidewalk side, safer than in the street). Maybe a '50s 2dr car or truck? I've actually seen in movies people getting into a car parked at a curb from the passenger's side and sliding across to the driver's side. Would be hard to do today w/ buckets and center consoles in most cars..

That's why I was thinking of a bus of some sort...but they usually have more than 2 doors, and some don't have a LHS driver's door.

Was 70 and sunny this afternoon. Drove around w/ the windows open.

Saw a bright red w/ black interior '68 Shelby GT500KR convertible (rollin' top down on a sunny Sunday afternoon) and a bright red w/ black stripes '70 Chevelle SS, both minty.

The video also said 'First for India. Then for the world'. Toyota. Still planning world domination.

In the context of all that's been in the news this year about Toyota in the US, I found this slogan from a video about their new Indian-market Etios to be ironic-- "Toyota--the global Quality standard" Etios

My sister has been doing a lot of that lately, selling stuff on eBay. Getting rid of Fiestaware dishes she's never used, liquidating her doll collection, old furniture, guitars, clothes, too much stuff in the house that will need to go somewhere if she sells the house this year or rents it out to someone other than moi. eBay-America's garage sale site..

2009 was fine for me financially, just bored and frustrated w/ my situation otherwise. Looking optimistically forward to a better 2010. Time to hit the reset button and make changes in my life.

Job market in Az is horrible. It's economy is based on real estate appreciation and population growth. Isn't working now after 50 years of boom times. The desert is hideously ugly IMHO, the climate is horrid w/ triple digit highs for most of 5 months. I plan to get out this year. Even a humid climate w/ gray winters is preferable to this red state hellhole, IMHO. Being here, I realize I can handle cold much better than heat. Colorado really is the ideal climate for me--blue skies (don't get that in AZ--just silver-blue haze in the summer), dry w/ a bit of snow in the winter but sunny. But alas, I'm likely headed back east. Southwestern PA most likely, which is an area I do like..not a Colorado climate, but something worthwhile and resolves family and car issues. Kind of like you don't know what you have until it's gone.

Grumman mail truck? Those were on Chevy S10 platforms, I think. They do have doors on both sides, couldn't tell if the lhs one has a outside lock (just saw one about an hour ago).

Irrelevant. They've been Chrysler owned since '87. It seems when a company acquires another company or brand, they acquire that company/brand's history. Ya, kind of a 'Bullitt' homage to that scene.

Nice ad. I like it.

I just did a test. Set IE to be my default browser. Clicked on an arbitrary link on a page open in a Firefox tab. IE opened the new link. Set FF back to default, back to normal.

Exploder is probably set as your default browser.

Not unionized...for now. I'm concerned about when they rise up against us (i.e. when Skynet comes online).

Exactly. You can't expect $2k beaters to drive as nicely as a new car (or as nicely as a well-maintained, clean survivor).

A troll in our midst?

minibuses? airport shuttles? taxi cabs? Fed EX or UPS trucks? No idea. A lot of vehicles today have the exterior lock only the driver's door, quite common in this is era of fob ubiquity. But this is something else, something very strange.

Went to the movies today, saw the black on black '90s Cutlass convertible again, top down. Really clean car. Saw a gorgeous white '65 Mustang convertible, top down also. Pretty quiet day otherwise.

I'll have to dig out old photos and Polaroids eventually and scan 'em. My folks had a lot of interesting cars over the years, some before my time, and some when I was growing up. Besides the family Montereys, Marquis and Town Cars from the '60s-90s, they also had a variety of Mustangs ('65 black on black 289 hi po coupe, '69 351 W Sportsroof, various Foxes), Cougars ('67 and '68s), Thunderbirds...

There is black on black one, very clean, that I've seen lately quite a bit, top down. Perfect convertible weather this week.

Strasburg, Pa, I assume.. Strasburg, Oh is near where I grew up, and right at the edge of Ohio's Amish country. Great roads and flea markets, old car shows around there...

+1. I prefer the '71/72 over the '69/70. I esp. like the rear end of the '71/72, w/ it's crisp decklid detailing. Along w/ the '71/72 Riviera, probably my favorite '70s GM asses...though the '70-73 Camaro and Firebird rears are quite fetching, as is the '71 LeSabre/Centurion..

'86 is when I got my driver's license, '87 when I got my Mustang GT. The mid-to-late '80s still resonates w/ me, esp. the last of the RWD G-bodies, before GM completely went to all-bad FWD models.