Robert Hall

It's too bad the current VW California camper isn't sold in the US...neat vehicle.

My buddy in AZ w/ the FJ 60 and FJ 40 was looking at something like that, he and his wife go camping in the FJ 60...

If I ever spend time on my family farm again, I'd love to have an old truck there...a '73 Ford F100 w/ 6 would be neat.

Love the exhaust note on this modified Caprice PPV, at around 9:35 min mark and again around 11:08 and onward..

I think there is a lot to like about the GM Colonnade A-bodies, esp. the '73 coupes w/ the integrated rear bumpers...even with the huge front bumpers on most...

Another early 70s muscle car I love is the '72 Gran Torino Sport..love the huge fastback roofline and the way the top of the door kicks up...'73 had the same body, but got a huge front bumper and smaller grille.'

Maybe my favorite of the muscle car era Plymouths--the '71 Road Runner and GTX. Love the rounded fuselage styling and loop front bumper.

For a vintage Buick convertible, this would probably be my ideal..

Carina

The Waterboys 'Whole of the Moon'.. Ultravox---Dancing with Tears in My Eyes

Immodium

The Port Washington house is over 5700 sq ft, 9 bedrooms..sold for $189k in 2017. Built in 1868. Big old houses like that seem to me like they would be a maintenance nightmare...(not to mention all the steep stairs).

That reminds me of a house outside Port Washington, Ohio that I've gone past for decades.. only a couple miles from my family farm. Also reminds me of houses in Milan, Ohio--visited there a couple years ago, neat little town.

Ohio (Cardinal is the State Bird)

In reference to the T-car's '70s Opel origins?

On one FB car group I’m in, there is a guy w/ 3 diesel Escorts, restoring one. And this is a Millennial, someone that wasn’t even alive when they were new. I don’t get it, but there are so many angles to the old car hobby... Speaking of Scooters, before the getting the Escort as the dinghy for the RV, my Dad had an ‘81 Chevette Scooter for a couple years as the dinghy. It was a real shitbox..I remember shutting the door and the glass falling off the track. Another time the shifter came off in my Dad’s hand, leaving it stuck in 2nd..

For every car, there are enthusiastic fans. I sort of enjoyed my Dad's '84 Ford Escort diesel--5dr, 5spd manual, 52 horsepower. It was the car I did my driving test in as a teenager, my first taste of mobility and freedom...and it did get 55 mpg on the highway, long before the hype about hybrids... it was my first road trip car....Ohio to the Florida Keys and back.. between my Dad and I, we put 140k on it...it never let us down, took many a family road trip with it on the back of the Winnebago... The mid 80s Escort was definitely a more modern, refined product than the ancient Chevette that GM was still peddling then.

Nah, these appliances have 1.2 and 1.3 turbo 3 cyls...

Encore GX. Sized between the Encore and Envision. Buick version of the Chevy Trailblazer.

Supposedly available as a 'credit option' in the Firebird in '79. Apparently in '78 the Chevy 305 was available in a Formula LT Sport Edition (which I'd not heard of).

The Cragars were definitely a thing on muscle cars and pony cars in the 60s-70s... still popular on those types of cars today for the retro Day 2 look. I'm not a Baby Boomer, but I do like the period muscle car look. The 301 N/A was available in '80-81 in all trim levels I've read..155hp..not quite the low point, but pretty close. there was a Turbo 301 available (210 hp) n the T/A and a Chevy 305 (150hp) also, and apparently in '81 the Pontiac 4.3 (265) V8 w/ 140hp. '80-81 were pretty dreadful years for Pontiac performance...and for performance in general.

The black Trans Am is an '80-81 w/ the 301 and automatic...pretty weak sauce, compared to the nearly-identical looking '79 which was still available w/ the 400 and a 4 spd manual IIRC. (some '79 T/As came w/ the Olds 403 and an automatic, IIRC). The maroon '75 has the Formula hood, would be a 350 or 400..not sure if the 455 was still available in '75. This one is very similar to one my brother had in the late 70s--his was a '75 Formula 400, dark blue w/ the white interior. He had wide Cragar SS wheels on it.

DoorDash driver was driving a new Camaro in a ghastly fluorescent green/yellow highlighter color...

People can get overly emotional and personal in conversation about consumer products. I really haven't liked BMW since the early 00s. The era of the E36, E38, E39, E46 was a high point for the company as far as the 'Ultimate Driving Machine' ethos, IMO. BMW's product has become more powerful, faster, heavier, far more complex, far less reliable, and less serious as far as driver involvement since then..

Reminds of the E. Ohio backroads I loved exploring in my Mustang long ago....