Robert Hall

A 2dr shooting brake style wagon on the Challenger body would be interesting. There is a '71 Challenger I've seen a few places online and in a magazine that someone put a Vista Cruiser rear roof and glass on, pretty unusual looking, but not ugly, IMHO.

What's scary is I think it is a real ad and not a joke.

As they say, if you aren't doing anything illegal, you have nothing to worry about, right?

Pretty stupid thing to do any way you look at it. Besides, it takes two hands for me to text, can't really drive while doing that. I make/take calls (hands free) while driving on occasion.. I used to read my email while driving (sitting at lights) years ago when I had a wireless Palm..reading email using a stylus is a bit awkward while driving.

This belongs on that best of Craigslist site. I like these lines-- 'I have a ebay 6 puck clutch thats jdm since it was made in japan and was also installed by japanese people. The only thing that is not jdm about my swap is that i let some vietnamese guy with long hair put my radiator in.' What a goof.

Interesting... I wonder what that black mark is on the fender ahead of the door. Speaking of Magnums, there is one of the facelifted Magnums at work, with tiny wheels (must be a base V6 model). The facelift was only for '08, I think..don't see them often.

She does have quite the incredible butt. Other women in recent years with big butts I noticed were J. Lo and Vida Guerra (from Speed Channel's Low Life)...nice and curvy all over.

'65 Thunderbird was first, I think. Then the '67 Cougar. The '67 Shelby used '67 Cougar taillights sans chrome trim, and then the '68-70 Shelbys used '65 Thunderbird taillights. Not sure if the Shelbys had the sequential feature, or when the Cougar and Thunderbird stopped using it. My folks' '67 and '68 Cougars have them, neat feature. The '68 Mustang California Special and High Country Special also used the '65 Tbird taillights, don't know if they had the sequential flasher or not.

I hear you... I'm not much of a small car fan, but I do like small cars with personality and that are fun to drive...e.g. VWs and Minis. I find Kia, Suzuki, Hyundai, Toyota, Nissan, etc offerings to be too much of generic FWD appliances that are just too 'meh' for me to ever consider. Driving a FWD automatic, 4cyl compact or subcompact sedan w/ a gray interior would be hell on earth driving for me.. (I have a buddy that has a lt blue w/ gray interior '93 Corolla that swears it's the greatest car ever..was always trying to convince me I needed one..) Rob

Evergreen is very nice...because of the altitude, they get a lot more snow than Denver or Boulder. It's a bit too far out for me as far as commuting...I used to have a coworker that lived up there and commuted to the DTC, about an hour to an hour and half each way. I've thought seriously about the Boston area before..went up there many times to visit my sister when I was in college and grad school in the '90s, lots to do in the city, great countryside, mountains and ocean nearby. There is still plenty of tech work there. A good friend that I worked with in Colorado moved from Breckenridge (he's a skiing fanatic) to the Boston 'burbs a few years ago...just a lot more job opportunties there, rather than commuting from a Colorado ski town. A couple buddies from college and grad school have been there since around '00.. The winters are pretty harsh, though. But it's a shorter flight to Europe than from the West..

I wouldn't recommend it. I regret moving here, should have stayed in Colorado. Even my sister sometimes says she regrets moving back here in '97 (she lived in Phoenix originally after college from '80-89, then moved to Boston, then moved back to Phoenix in '97--moving back here was part of marriage #3).

If the Fiesta is successful in the US, maybe Ford can do a full-lux version w/ unique styling as a Lincoln MKB (since it's a B-seg entry). Hmmm...Fiesta sedan w/ padded top, gold trim, wire wheel covers on whitewalls, stand up hood ornament, Lincoln's new grille treatment, lots of sound deadener (since 4 cyl subcompacts tend to be deafeningly noisy at highway speeds) etc..

The '05 was worse, IMHO. I had one for a 3 day weekend once..the design wasn't bad, but the materials...ugh. Some of the worst recent interiors I've seen in the last couple of years are the Chrysler Sebring convertible and Caliber...not so much for the design, but the materials...so painfully cheap.

Dash covers are kind of a necessity in AZ, though, with the constant sun and triple digit heat for 5 months.. I'm glad my cover fits without using velcro or double sided tape. I got one specifically made for a Grand Cherokee. My sister's '84 Merc 500SEL has a heavily cracked dashpad, and has a cover that attaches w/ doublesided tape, but the tape dried out, so when I accelerate the cover falls off..ha ha... All the years I was in Colorado I never used one, since I had a garage and usually always parked in a garage for work. No such luck here.

Auuggghh..I remember that! Must be 30 years ago. I watched CHiPs regularly as a kid.

House looks like it's going to be pretty interesting this season. House, The Simpsons, Top Gear, and the current F1 season are the only things I'm actively watching these days...tiVo them and catch up on the weekends..otherwise, I'm watching DVDs and the news occasionally. Sometimes it seems not worthwhile to have cable at all...really only watch a few programs from 5-6 channels at most it seems.

Ah, forgot about her..thought she was Persian. Agreed, quite hot.. Speaking of CBS actresses, I'm fond of Sofia Milos that has been occasionally in CSI Miami (and memorably on one episode of the Sopranos a few years ago)...Greek-Italian.

Yeah, the Chevettes were dreadful. My Dad made the mistake of buying one over the then new Escort in '81 as a tow car for the motorhome (like a dinghy to tow behind to use when we were on vacation) . After a couple years, he traded it on an Escort 5dr diesel, much nicer little car.

Yeah, they have a new law here about license plate frames that cover the state name. I left off my U. of Michigan plate frame that I used in Colorado, since 'Arizona' at the top of the plate gets covered with 'M GO BLUE'...

Speaking of number plates, I've seen several cars lately with strange plastic plate covers that are very difficult to read the # through, they distort the view of the plate, esp. when seen from an angle. I would think those would be illegal, makes it harder for speed cameras to catch the #.

Yes. But curvier.

Sounds like the Phoenix metro area, climate wise. Without irrigation and air conditioning, there wouldn't be 4.5 million people in the Sonoran desert. Phoenix and Las Vegas are places that logically make no sense to be as big as they are...

Cars I've been in: '81 Chevette Scooter. Cardboard (covered in vinyl) door panels.No glovebox door. Bare painted metal everywhere. Other memorable ones.. '94 Hyundai Scoupe. '02 Cavalier rental. Cheap. Gray. Despair.

No, it's fair. And gas taxes are fair as well--if one choose to drive something less efficient, one pays more. I drive a Jeep that averages 18 mpg, so I'm consuming more than someone in a Jetta getting 50 mpg, so logically, I pay more taxes for the privilege. That's only reasonable.

It's great as a headline newsfeed...I follow all sorts of news tweets--local, national, international, automotive, motorsport, tech... it's easier to scan a bunch of tweets in a desktop app like TweetDeck than to comb through my RSS feeds in a reader like GoogleReader (though I use it also to keep up w/ a number of blogs). As far as my own tweets, they tend to be boring and about real world stuff--the weather, what new restaurant I ate at, etc. When I'm home, I always have TweetDeck open, with 1/2 dozen categories of tweets (automotive, friends, tech, news and politics, f1, etc) plus localized keyword tags searches on tweets tagged for areas of interest (#phx, #den, #pgh, for example), plus I pull in my Facebook updates.. Good stuff..