Robert Hall

Curious... by the way, FOG, what is the origin of that pic in your sig? I've wondered for a while..

I'm very sorry about your loss, and my thoughts are with you PCS.. I lost my father in 1999 on Non-Hodgekins Lymphoma when I was 29..wish I had had more time to spend with him as an adult... he was 50 when I was born, retired at 55, so I did get alot of time w/ him growing up..

The funny thing about PBR--it's sort of become a trendy hipster beer in recent years... a couple years ago, I used to do happy hour all the time at a Mc Cormick & Schmicks (upscale seafood restaurant) in a trendy office park, and they had PBR in cans! I remember drinking those and eating tasty calamari and oysters. Phoenix has a few decent microbreweries (Four Peaks, Sonoran) but I miss all the brewpubs of Denver...there is a ton of great beer brewed in the Centennial State..

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Microbrews and Mexican beers for me, and red wine w/ dinner usually (Merlots, Rhones, Cabs). I used to like vodka and Scotch, but very rarely have anything heavy anymore. I do like a mojito occasionally, esp. in hot weather. Speaking of wine, I want to do a Napa wine tour sometime in the Spring.... I was there briefly one afternoon a few years ago, but want to go back see more. Elsewhere in CA, there is a winery in Paso Robles that I want to visit, mainly because they have my name. (a friend clued me in to them, I've tried their Syrah, quite good).

Winter beaters I always thought were under $500 (or $1000 to adjust for inflation). My brother used to do that in Ohio, getting a new rusty junker every year.

I wonder which would be worse, a winter in Fargo or a summer in Phoenix I've lived through NE Ohio and SE Michigan winters, but Fargo would be much worse, I think. I can't imagine why people would want to live there...

it wouldn't stop me... airlines go bankrupt all the time, and I still fly on them. Bankrupt does not mean out of business.

I would think GM would be looking at building Hummers in Russia, what with all the OC there...those guys love their bling toys.

Yes, they are great to have. Used 'em for years in my Jeep....even though I have a heated garage in CO, they were nice to have. Not sure if I will use them much in AZ, though. The '84 and '91 Mercs have them also. And the '84 has a power rear seat, unusual feature to see..

Ah, yeah.. Sarah Shahi is in 'Life', I think? Quite hot. Another young hottie I forgot is Emanuelle Chiriqui...she was in 'Entourage' and 'Don't Mess With The Zohan'.. I also like Eva Mendes and Michael Michele (from 'Dark Blue', been in 'House' a couple of times)...

I would think the dash and IP would be the hardest parts to swap because all the stuff that attaches to them. I assume you are keeping your steering wheel (that would be difficult also because of the airbag, I would think).

Yeah...massaging seats would be nice. A feature I'd like to have (some cars have 'em) are cooled seats. Leather and desert summers do not work well. I use sheepskin seat covers, but it's still 140 degrees inside at startup..

Congrats!!!

I was thinking Toyota, Honda, and Nissan could set up a charity thing...put money cans in their showrooms to collect donations for GM.

Do they have much competition from other GM dealers? If they are the only game in town and for miles around, they probably are doing fairly well... that's how I remember the Chevy/Pontiac/Buick/Olds/Cadillac/GMC dealer in Key West when I was a teenager--their nearest competing GM dealer was well over 100 miles away. They are still around, except they have Hummer and Saturn now in place of Olds. One of things I've seen with closures in large metro areas like Phoenix is an oversaturation of dealers.. several stores of a given major brand within a 20 mile radius..

You are reading too much into things. The gas tax hasn't been raised since a while back, IIRC.

Again though, the reality would be the more you consume, the more you pay. That's fair... if drivers choose to move to more efficient cars, that's a side effect.

Yes, lots of retro details on the concept Challengers, like the shaker hood scoops on some, and the Cuda-style billboard Hemi quarter panel decals...

Problem is the Tiburon car is too mild for the name, I think...that would be as if Dodge had named the Neon coupe 'Viper'..

Other cars I've been in in recent years that had awful outward side visibility I thought included the Thunderbird w/ the top up, the TT roadster w/ the top up and the TT coupe... they would have been fine if I were 5'0" instead of 6'0", probably... The Magnum and Caliber were awful for rearward visiblity, and one of the worst for forward and side I found to be the HHR...the A-pillars seem as thick as phone poles to see around...

I hope this is the case...sadly, I know some people that have said they'd be happy to see GM go out of business or sell out to Toyota.

Yeah... my Mom still has a 'Nixon-Now More Than Ever' decal on the back window of her '67 Cougar... and Dole, Bush-Cheney '00 and Bush-Cheney '04 stickers on her '96 Town Car, and a McCain-Palin sticker on her Navigator. That's hard-core.

Sorry to hear that.. I hope he gets better. The last half of '99 was rough for my Dad, he was hosptialized several times before succumbing to cancer a couple days before Xmas...flew back and forth from Colorado to Ohio 6 times in 6 months..

I took my bumper stickers off the car and the sign out of the yard Wednesday.