Robert Hall

I've seen 2 Crosstours on the road (looks much better in person, at least in profile). Have yet to see a ZDX on the road.

The first auto accident (non-fatal) occured in 1891 according to this site, in Ohio (of course--so many 1sts have happened in Ohio).. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2596 Haven't turned up the first fatal, but I bet it was before 1900 also.

On Wyatt's JLCollector site, this is Trucks and SUVs R3.. http://www.jlcollector.com/suvr3.html IIRC, I have most of these.. All the known variations of the Syclone are here. http://www.jlcollector.com/419.html

Wasn't the concept just unveiled about a year ago? LAIAS '09 or NAIAS '09, IIRC.

Cool...I have the white one. IIRC, JL made a Syclone about 10 years ago or so also.

Not out yet...don't know if the street date has been announced yet or not.

It was unveiled at the LAIAS in silver last month.

From profile, the taillights remind me of the previous 2 generations of GC (the trapezoidal taillight shape, the angle of the quarter windows), but the rear hatch details (taillights on the hatch, chrome strip) strangely make me think Highlander, Sequoia, Sienna, Land Cruiser... it will grow on me, I'm sure. Definitely like the front end, a nice improvement over the 3rd gen (I never liked the hood w/ the humps over the headlights on the 3rd gen). The front looks like an evolution of the 2nd gen. Looking forward to seeing it in person and driving it.

Looks faithful to the concept that was at one of the autoshows last year. Interesting the change from vertical to horizontal taillights after 3 generations. The taillights and chrome bar give the rear a strong Toyota vibe, unfortunately.

screaming (as in some days I just want to run screaming from work)

Gather all the parts for a particular car through various companies and put them in a big box, it would be like a metal body 1:1 scale model kit

Found this.. Cars Inc makes a '55 Chevy convertible body... 55 Chevy body Here's Dynacorn's list of GM bodies they offer.. Dynacorn No '80s Cavalier bodies that I can find yet.

ribs (I be grillin' some pork short ribs right now on tha Webah)

Cool name for a hardware architecture...'magny cours' like the French F1 circuit.

Probably a bad sound card.

hunger

I think all '55-57 Chevies have the same wheelbase, regardless of bodystyle. I wonder if Dynacorn or one of the others will make repro bodies for '55s..I think they are making '57 convertibles now.

Interesting how certain interior elements (the center stack and vent shape/placement, gauge pod, steering wheel) seem to be showing up on many different new GM models..

Ya. 6th gen Jetta coming for '11, supposedly not a 'Golf w/ a trunk' anymore..

The AMT '55 Chevy Nomad 1:25th scale model kit has parts to convert it into an El Camino style pickup. I built one that way once, makes a very nice looking El Camino...

A couple of the worst home-brew car-pickup conversions I've seen were genuine 'Keys Cruisers' (got their picture in the Saturday Keynoter newspaper in the Florida Keys)---a '72 Torino wagon that had been converted into a rusty 2dr convertible pickup w/ flat bed and a '73 or so Mercury Colony Park wagon that had been made into a 4dr pickup (the rear roof area cut off, sawed through D-pillars still sticking up a few inches)..

That reminds me, I saw a dark gold base '90 2dr Lumina (gray egg crate style grille) in really clean condition recently. Not something you see very often in any condition.

The Magnum would be a natural for conversion into an El Camino style vehicle. I plan to do that eventually w/ a Revell 1:25th scale model kit. An El Camino based off the last W- Monte Carlo could have been interesting..

Ya...driving in E/NE Ohio (6 winters) and SE Michigan (3 winters) really prepared me for winter driving. And most of the Ohio winters were in RWD cars w/ snow tires. The 12 years of Colorado winters in SUVs were mild by comparison (lots of snow, but much less of the sleet, freezing rain, ice storms, and general slop).

I don't recall ever naming one of mine...but I named my sister's '84 Merc 500SEL 'The Big Dog' years ago, because that's the kind of car the big dogs (doctors, lawyers, CEOS, Wall Streeters, etc) drove back in the Big 80s. My brother has usually always named some of his cars, incl. a sluggish 4cyl Mustang II he called 'The Silver Bullet'.