Everything posted by Robert Hall
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"I don't much care for..."
MMMmmmmm...bbq. I love BBQ whether it's Carolina style, Memphis style, Texas style,St. Louis style, whatever. I've found a couple decent places here in AZ, but good q is hard to find in the West, I'm afraid. I still remember as a kid stopping w/ my folks when on a road trip at some little BBQ place in Mt. Airy, NC and another place in Georgia just north of the Florida line on I-95... great food. From '82-88 we did the I-77/I-95 (or I-75 instead) drive from Ohio to S.Florida and back 3-4 times a year for 6 years--either in the Winnebago or a Lincoln..
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Most Popular Car Colors
Hmmm...I can't recall if I've seen one either. The most common colors of 2nd gen models I've seen here are silver, dark gray, and gold. Once in a while a silver blue one, silver green or dark red, but rarely. I would think I would see white ones here, since white seems to be the most common car color in the desert (reflects heat?).
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What Are You Listening To?
Oasis- Dig Out Your Soul
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Word Association
Flood (as in the album Texas Flood)
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GM Studies Killing Saab, Saturn, Pontiac
If they don't go after the import buyers, they are giving up a pretty large chunk of the new car market.....
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More Pics on 2010 Model
Cold climate testing... I assume those connectors on front of the prototype are for hooking up sensors or something
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What Are You Listening To?
Guns N Roses- Chinese Democracy
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Winter Driving
I bought a new set of aggro Goodyears for my Jeep about a year ago, and they were great last winter. This winter so far, though, in Phoenix, I haven't had to put it in 4WD or drive thru snow yet.
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Most Popular Car Colors
A future of happy, shiny people in white Priuses, clear blue skies, rainbows, green fields, sunshine and happiness. It will be blissful.
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More Pics on 2010 Model
Well, the '10 LaCrosse is primarily a Buick China design isn't it? So it is Asian in orgin...
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Most Popular Car Colors
It was... changes ever few years...
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Dodge to pull out of NASCAR Truck series for '09
Meh...NA$CAR is to motorsport what the WWE is to wrestling, IMHO.....a bunch of shapeless colorful blobs going around in circles, with technology that doesn't remotely resemble production cars or engines..
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5 things you didn't know: GM
And during the Smith era, one thing that really hurt them was mediocre product. Far too many square, look-alike generic FWD models (X-,J-,A-,N-, etc) throughout the '80s and into the '90s (when they became rounded, generic FWD models).
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GM Admits it screwed up
I've had a couple Cobalt rentals in the last year and thought they were fine...decent little car. Much nicer than the last Cavalier rental ('03 I think) I drove.
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Speculation: Buick as a core brand...
Only 3 SAAB dealers here in the Metro Phoenix area, pretty small for an area w/ over 4 million people. Then again, SAAB has historically had a stronger following in the NE than elsewhere.
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"I don't much care for..."
Whoa..that is some trippy sh*t...WTF is it???
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Word Association
eccos (Danish shoe brand that I like)
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Unsold Imports Piling Up
I remember something that happened in the '80s, about the time the first S10 came out, GM had a stockpile of unsold LUV pickups...I think they ended up crushing them..
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GM Studies Killing Saab, Saturn, Pontiac
Well, the Cruze will be the bread-and-butter mass market compact while the Astra will be a bit upmarket from it, different styling, more bodystyles and content, I presume.
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New Chinese Chevy Lova = NG US Chevy Aveo?
Front end looks like the Traverse...lots of plastic
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Christmas Celebrators...
I had a neat little minature tree a few years ago---it was internally lighted--blue and silver instead of green. Kind of neat, it would flash on and off in a pattern.
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Don't Shoot Your Eye Out, Kid!
Saw two 60s Pontiacs on the way to work today--a plum/white '66 Catalina and a white '69 Catalina, both 4dr hts w/o hubcaps (black steel wheels). The '66 was very clean, looks like a resto in progress (missing some side trim), the '69, a bit tattered.
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Pundits Unfairly Target American Automakers
Detroit News article from today.. Detroit News
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"I don't much care for..."
I wonder what the record is for time between posts on threads (i.e. when they went dormant and when they were revived).