Robert Hall

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.

Enjoying a 3 day weekend. Nice quiet day, supposed to be sunny and in the low 60s here. Maybe go to a movie this afternoon.

There have been articles in all the new-car mags over the last year, and articles on Autoblog and other sites. They've been well publicized.

I like the styling of the '55-56 GMs in general. Kind of between the humpy early 50s cars and the finny late 50s cars. My parents first foray into GM products was a '56 Chevy Bel Air 4dr ht. I've seen a couple B&W pics of it. After a '49 Ford (their first new car, bought the year after they were married) and '52 Ford, they went w/ a GM for a couple years. Traded the Bel Air on a '58 Mercury Monterey 4dr ht (they stayed w/ big Mercs for the main family car until switching to Lincolns in '76).

+1. I like those cars...the styling worked much better on the bigger body than the downsized '78-80, which was one of GM's ugliest designs of that decade, IMHO. Sorry, Balthy..we've hijacked your thread forward a couple decades.

Having to deal w/ Outlook issues, losing email when computers died, and changing ISPs is one of the reasons I quit using Outlook and went to Gmail completely a few years ago.

I like the '73 styling more overall, esp. the '73 Grand Am with the lower rear deck and pointy nose. The horizontal '73, '76-77 taillights work better than the vertical '74-75, IMHO. Of the Colonades, I esp. like the '73 Buicks and Olds, great sculpturing all over. I love the rear ends on those, esp. w/ the smallish '73 bumpers. I do wish they had used quad headlights in '73-75, though.. Of '70s GMs, my favorite designs are probably the '71-72 B- and C- bodies (before the bumpers got too big, esp. like the Buick and Olds), the '71-72 Riviera (my favorite GM design of that decade), the '71-72 Toronado, and the '73 Colonnade coupes. The '70-72 A-bodies were quite nice--evolutions of the '68-69 designs, along w/the '70-72 Grand Prix and Monte Carlo. '60s-70s designs and cars in general will always be way more appealing to me than the '50s designs.

It's possible the SMTP or POP address w/ your ISP has changed or been corrupted on your machine. I'd verify in Outlook the settings are what they should be, or call customer support at the ISP.

Do you get any errors if you select send/recieve in Outlook? I assume this is an email account through your ISP?

Definitely...and get some chrome 24s and put on it, and eventually paint it kermit the frog green.

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Never had one, never had a need for one in 23 years of driving. No tickets.

Interesting. Trunk release is on the fob?

Hmm...according to this, I was concieved a couple weeks before my father's 50th birthday.

Looking at the logo, it looks like it's used to indicate an automatic wiper setting is on?

NVH--Noise, Vibration, Harshness. i.e. is it quiet and smooth as would be expected of a Buick...any excess road noise, wind noise, engine noise/vibration, etc?

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How is the feel on different roads..smooth riding? Any harshness or NVH issues? Quiet?

Cool...will have to rent one sometime. My last rental was a practical Ford Escape this past weekend in cold Ohio.

Don't cattle create a lot of methane? Why aren't they fitted with catalytic converters of some sort?

What surprises me is that they weren't in Canada already. Isn't the subcompact market in Canada a bigger % of the total market there than it is in the US?