Robert Hall

Corruption

Ya, I hear you... I really want out of AZ, debating whether to move back to Denver, or to Seattle, or to Pittsburgh. My Mom is 78, still in good health, but I'd like to see her more often...feeling guilty about living 2000 miles away, remembering 10 years ago being 1500 miles away when my Dad had cancer, feeling like I didn't see him often enough his last years. Pittsburgh is only 75 miles from the farm and my Mustang. Columbus and Cleveland are 100 miles away. Columbus and Pittsburgh seems to have a pretty decent job market for my thing, still seeing a good number of posts on Dice and Monster, even in this economy. My sister is even wanting to get out of AZ and CA, looking at a 3 yr contract with the State of Ohio in Columbus.

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I've built models since age 7...still have all mine from childhood, still buy quite a few every year, finish very few now, though. I have about 1500 unbuilt, 250 built, and 250 restorable used that I've bought from ebay and model shows/swap meets. Mostly 1:25th and 1:24th scales, everything from AMT, MPC, Johan, Revell, Monogram to Italeri, Tamiya, Aoshima, Fujimi kits....my oldest kit is an original AMT '58 Edsel ht. I'll post some pics tonite of some of mine.

WHAT? PCS--a G8? Weren't you the #1 critic of this car (and Holden) and defender of the W-body GP ????? Shocking...

Speaking of PA car shows, I really want to go to some of the various Carlisle events someday. Who knows, if plan B works out, maybe they will be close weekend road trips next summer.

Sweet...I saw a gorgeous red '65 GTO convertible when I was out blasting along St Rt 751 in Coshocton County, Oh in my 5.0..didn't see any vintage Mopies this past weekend, but saw several nice GMs and Fords..

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I wanted to take a pic of my brother's black '82 GT, but it has a dead starter currently. There is also his '79 Mustang Indy Pace Car and my '69 Mustang in the barn, along with my Mom's 3 '67-68 Cougars and my brother's '69 Fairlane.

More holiday weekend pics: My rental car: Tappan Lake, about 20 miles from where I grew up, used to go boating there: The family farm house, circa 1859: The house in Steubenville, Oh I lived in until age 10:

By the way, here are some pics I took back in Ohio this past weekend..never say never, but I'm about ready to run screaming from Arizona and back to the land of snow and ice, of yellow and black. My '87 Mustang:

Speaking of T37s, weren't some of them pretty basic 2dr sedans with dog dish hubcaps and 6 cylinders? Chevy didn't even offer a Chevelle 2dr sedan those years..seems strange Pontiac would have models as or more plain and basic than Chevy, which I think was the authors' point. Same argument could be made about Buick and Olds, since they may have had very basic midsize models also those years (Skylark and F85 two door sedans w/ 6 cylinders). Even 35+ years ago, GM's 4 mainstream divisions competed with each other with similar models.

Heh-heh...I didn't have a hangover, but felt jet lagged. 4 hrs flying across 3 time zones yesterday, up at 5:30 this morning. Once in while that's ok, but I couldn't do it every week.

steak (btw, the barn in the pic is a circa 1880 Amish horse barn, now with Mustangs inside)

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Anyone remember the Briggs and Stratton Hybrid? I remember reading about this concept car as a kid in Car and Driver (or maybe it was Road & Track). The car had six wheels and was designed by Brooks Stevens. First time I'd heard of the concept of a hybrid.. Briggs and Stratton Hybrid

Mogwai-Mr Beast

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Saw this on a late model Silverado this morning on I10 in Phoenix: RED NEX

I noticed that in PA and OH...driving Rt 22 West from the Pittsburgh area, there was practically no traffic at 7:30 on Friday evening. While not an Interstate, it's a 4 lane divided highway that crosses through WV and into eastern Ohio...saw a little more traffic yesterday afternoon, but still light.

Sounds like a nice weekend.. I managed to put 275 miles on my rental Town Car, not bad considering I was only driving 150 round trip from the airport to the farm...it was funny--the car had Wisconsin plates, picked it up in PA and drove to OH through the WV panhandle, with an AZ license. put about 100 on my Mustang, which only has 64,500 (which is low for a one owner '87).

Had a good time back in Ohio...flew into Pittsburgh Friday (4hr flight from Phoenix), picked up my silver Town Car rental from Hertz, drove out to the family farm, drove my '87 Mustang GT on Sat and Sun...went fishing Saturday. Wanted to get the '69 Mustang out and drive it, but it was blocked in the barn by my brothers' '82 Mustang GT which has a bad starter currently. Watched the 500 Sunday. Got to drive some of my favorite twisty, roller coaster roads in E. Ohio. It's so beautiful and green back there, esp. around the lakes and rivers. Quite different from the beige desert of AZ. Drove over to Steubenville yesterday, cruised around my old neighborhood..looks much the same as it did 30 years ago, IIRC, though they have built a new school where my old elementary school was, and their is a Bob Evans where the Pontiac dealer was. Then back to PITT for the flight back to Phoenix (had some pierogies and beer at the airport while waiting on my flight).

Speaking of random, over the weekend, I was looking at a 1966 Guam yearbook, put out by the island chamber of commerce...had some neat photos of 50s-60s Galaxies, Impalas, etc on the island, and ads for the local Ford dealer.

Had a good holiday weekend in Ohio... 8 hrs of flying to get there and back, and a lot of driving around over the hilly backroads of E. Ohio and some 4 lane roads in W. Pa/E. Oh. Saw some nice oldies, incl. a red '65 GTO convertible (top down), a gold '67 Camaro coupe, a sharp lt blue early '70s Camaro (base model, I think). Had a great time driving my '87 Mustang GT and my rental car. May have found the next Moltarmobile also. Will post pics later.

Impressive.