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Robert Hall

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  1. Songs from the Sparkle Lounge-Def Leppard
  2. I can't recall the last time I saw an '80s B-body coupe in any condition. Though with all the retirees in Phoenix, I'm sure there are a few low mileage ones lurking around in garages around here.
  3. The irony is when I was 13, a Pontiac literally was a Chevy with a different grille--the '83 Pontiac Parisiene was a Caprice with a Pontiac grille and different taillight lenses. GMs in the '80s across the CPOB brands seemed to be differentiated primarily on grilles, taillights, and dashboards (sometimes, even the dashes were shared). The oldies had much more differentiation across the brands.
  4. Wow...a coupe w/ a sunroof..that has to be pretty rare. And it has the cool Buick mags.
  5. I was channel surfing this afternoon and saw an infomercial for Colon Blow. I didn't know what they were advertising at first, but figured it when one of talking heads talked about "after a few short weeks, you will see natural, smooth bowel movements".. I do know a few guys that tried Colon Blow a while back and said that all it did was give them a week worth of diarehha. Colon Blow
  6. Agreed. I'm on the moderate side of liberal...I'm not a flaming Prius-driving, tofu eating, birkenstock wearing eco-weenie, but a car enthusiast, SUV driving, rock and roll fan, technologist, and a progressive, secular idealist.
  7. Hopefully you told the narrow-minded retard to go please go f*ck himself..
  8. Maybe, but I suspect 9/10 nutcases are conservatives...they are the most tightly wound and most likely to freak out at modern, secular society.
  9. I don't hunt, it's a disgusting hobby IMHO. The problem is, these same people that have assault rifles often go nuts and shoot up schools, shopping malls, offices, etc. It's best to keep military guns away from the masses. The general public doesn't have access to RPGs, SAMs, SCUDs, etc either...
  10. At Target today: Saw a Lincoln MKS for the first time in the wild....black w/ dark window tint, tan leather interior...they look really sharp in person...I like the sculpturing and distinct pointyness to the centre of the rear bumper. I parked next to a dark blue '80s Caddy Eldorado Biarittz convertible...looked great, except for the tacky gold trim. Saw a dark gray Bentley Continental GT.
  11. There is no reason for civilians to have military weapons like that. Shotguns and regular rifles should be enough for the hunter types...
  12. Yesterday I saw a couple neat old modified Chevy trucks...a blue '71-72 stepside, and a bronze early '80s stepside w/ tube grille. Saw a tattered brown w/ brown top '74 Valiant today, and a lt blue late '70s Pinto wagon.
  13. One thing I've noticed lately in blog postings and online articles is instead of 'click the link below' the strange phrase 'Hit the jump'. Sounds odd. Anyone else notice this becoming more common?
  14. Hey, that's me, though I'm not granolafied!!
  15. Interesting concepts, but how far are they from being production ready? 5 years? 10 years? This is just talk, nothing concrete like the Volt appears to be...
  16. Ah, yeah..and they try to 'pawk the cah in Hahvad Yahd'... When I lived in Michigan (in A-squared), I knew some locals that pronounced car as if it were 'care', and they weren't youpers, but from the DEEtroit area... (being from Ohio, I pronounced it 'Duhtroit' but the locals I knew pronounced it with a long E).
  17. I saw 'speeling' years ago in school... I had a teacher write that I needed 'check my speeling'... thought it was funny, kind of stuck w/ me.. I've used it on a few occasions..
  18. Yes, the E21 had a long run--'75-83 (from '77 in the US), replaced the 2002, was available in 2dr form only. I vaguely remember reading Car & Driver and Road & Track road tests from then, they really liked it, IIRC. The 3-series pretty much had the compact RWD sports sedan market in the US to itself then. When I was a kid, seeing a BMW was a rarity....though by the mid '80s living in S. Florida they were all much more common.
  19. For my $10k I'd put it as a down payment on a 335i hardtop convertible.. I'm still hoping the Camaro SS convertible will be out in a couple years..
  20. Purely intentional, of course.
  21. A spell checker wood help with the speeling, also.
  22. A google turned up this one for sale for $9999.
  23. I've seen a Ciera convertible in Florida years ago, bright red w/ white interior...and IIRC, there was one on TV in the mid '80s..maybe the woman in A-Team drove one or something.. I remember one.
  24. 107 and sunny here. As is every day. Will it ever end? This is September. I don't know how long I can stay in AZ. Another 6 months or so.
  25. It will be interesting to see the volume in a couple of years... I've read a diesel is coming next year for the 3 and the 4 cyl versions of the 1 and 3 likely are coming also with the next 24 months...
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