Robert Hall

1. Pontiac Firebird Trans Am (Smokey in the Bandit, Hooper) 2. John Voight, father of Angelina Jolie.

A favorite Plymouth style is this '65 Satellite. The '64 Fury and Belvedere had the same hardtop roofline, as did the '64 Dodge Polara and '65 Dodge Coronet. I'm a big fan of the '70-74 Cudas, '68-72 Road Runners and GTXes, and the '69-71 Sport Fury. Here's a sweet '71 Road Runner: Here's a sweet '71 Sport Fury GT:

IIRC, it was an option with just about everybody from around '76-80. IIRC, my folks had one as an option in their '79 Lincoln and my Dad put one in our '78 Southwind and '82 Pace Arrow motorhomes. I remember as a kid listening to it in the motorhome and my Dad playing around on it to get traffic info on cross-country vacations.

Fun....for 5 years in Denver I celebrated Festivus with a party at a friend's house...lots of drunken Canadians, feats of strength (drunken guys pushing a Jeep down the street), and at midnight capped by the throwing of a fully decorated tree off of 2nd floor balcony. Fun times. Enjoying a quiet Xmas with family in Ohio now..30 degrees and sunny today. Will be flying back to Phoenix Sunday..

Wikipedia article on Lima beans I like green beans, white beans, beans with chili...but I can't eat black beans or the bean mud w/ Mexican food..they mess up my stomach.

Well, Chrysler was of Daimler's US brands..

I suspect with the previous gen ones people have imported them to the US as parts (ute bodyshell, etc) and assembled them here using GTO front clips, interior parts, drivetrain and titled them as GTOs, like this one.. Expensive to build, no doubt. I'm sure if the ST doesn't happen, people will build 'em from G8s eventually..

The winters are great..... the summers horrific. The area is kind of dull, at least compared to Denver..

Mag chloride in the Denver area, IIRC. Nothing in Phoenix...

Probably since the Volt is sharing a platform with the Cruze, etc they have to deal with shared production hard points, pedestrian law hood heights, bumper and light height laws, etc..so the car is going to have generic FWD proportions...and I'm sure the Volt is quite aerodynamic as it is.

Extensive time in the wind tunnel, I assume. The '84 Corvette was quite aerodynamic for the time also..

I've always liked this generation Quattroporte...I'd never confuse one with a FWD Buick..has great RWD proportions, long hood, nice rear quarter curves..they look much better in person than in pics, IMHO..

Yes.. a 3rd gen w/ a 4th gen engine would rock. A dark blue '87 IROC-Z would be nice to go with my red '87 Mustang GT. Several buddies in high school had '86-88 Z/28s/IROC-Zs/Trans Ams/GTAs....alas, at our 20th reunion this summer, I don't think any of them still have those cars...most are mainstreamed into Camrys/minivans/SUVs etc now it seems. Myself and one other guy (who has a '75 Duster) still have our HS rides....

I'm taking off until Jan 5... went into work yesterday and today, didn't have much of anything to do, but I had two meetings and 16 billable hours. Looking forward to some time off, will be busy, not looking forward to the cold weather--will be flying to Pittsburgh tomorrow to visit family in Ohio, then to Denver for New Years..

Funny thing I've always liked the 3rd gen Firebirds and Camaro, yet the 4th gen styling has zero appeal to me...

Well, the Firebird is very low in the front end (lower than most of today's cars), not remotely a brick... low nose, sloping hood and fenders, windshield laid back, very sleek wedge shape.....relatively wide and long, and with a sleek rear window, it would stable at speed, I would think..

Yes...IIRC, they were the or one of the most aerodynamic cars on the market at the time.

Ya... in the same category, waking up to the alarm clock on a day when you didn't want the alarm clock to go off...sometimes, I turn it on out of habit, and having it go off at 5:30am on a Saturday is not fun..

And Festivus... I like Festivus... used to have a get together w/ friends, drink a lot, toss a Christmas tree off a 2nd floor balcony. As to the holidays in general, it's a lot of 'meh' for me... Not big on them, but I do like taking the week off between Xmas and New Years every year... not looking forward to the airports, though...flying to Ohio tomorrow to see family, then back to Phoenix Monday then to Denver next Wednesday (going to go hang out w/ friends in the Mile High City for New Years eve).

Cool. This reminds me of a Car & Driver project car from the '80s..they modified a Trans Am to go over 200 at Bonneville.

Cool...the 500SEL aka 'Big Dog' turned 177,000 last week.

I kind of figured that was the plan.... LaCrosse replaces Lucerne, Regal replaces W-LaCrosse. The era of the big car GM is dead (though their last real big cars were in '96).

No big deal, some people like spicy, some don't.... I've always been pretty adventurous with dining (at least once i got out away my Mom's hearty meat-and-potatoes Midwestern cooking). There is a lot of stuff I won't touch, though, like eggplant, organs (no menudo, breadfruit, etc)...can't really take anything with beans (I esp. don't like the brown mud bean glop in a lot of Mexican/SW dishes).

+1. The more immodium I have to take before and after, the more I enjoy it... I've love spicy Indian curries, Thai curries, etc...

What will be, will be