Drew Dowdell

Only ever hear good things about them..... and the people who own them tend to love them so much you'll only their HHR from their cold dead fingers.

less than that if you're going to be using that 0-60 time rather frequently I actually already have gloves that have conductivity in them for touch screen phone use. I can use my Android without taking my gloves off.

*spits tea all over the keyboard* *chokes* yes.

A single entity controlling interest rates is bad. Congress would be even worse. Free-market would be the absolute worst.

was probably a repaint then.

Well, we're not talking about old muscle cars in the dead of winter here. It's been in the 50s or 60s around here (and Camino's weather is about 12 hours behind ours) with a fairly modern HVAC system. If it was flowing water the way he said it was flowing water, he should have been getting some heat. If there is something I do better than anything else, it's thinking through trouble shooting. It's why I get paid to sit at work and surf C&G all day.... because when work has a problem with the systems, they know that I can hunt it down and identify the problem faster than anyone else.

you own 6 of them? And they aren't in the C&G garage.... why?

According to my book, 2-tone was standard. Doesn't say if there was a "delete" option. However, people did all sorts of things with these vehicles. So who knows if it was repainted or just what. edit: Did it have the Vista roof? It's also possible that someone swaped a Custom Cruiser hood onto a Caprice, but then there'd be no vista roof.

Oh that's easy... the mirrors. In the 3 pictures I posted. The Custom Cruiser and Caprice are 91-94 with the door panel mounted mirrors. The Roadmaster is a 95-96 with window mount mirrors.

Like this for example: It's easy to tell that this is a Custom Cruiser wearing a Caprice grill. Two-tone + Vista roof = Custom Cruiser.

Oldsmobile almost always had two tone exteriors. Some LTZ Caprice wagons had two tone exterior also, but most generally came with woodgrain. So if it has a two tone exterior, it's a Caprice or Custom Cruiser. If it has woodgrain it's a Roadmaster or Caprice. The Custom Cruiser was not available with woodgrain at all. (part of Oldsmobile trying to modernize it's image) The Roadmaster came with woodgrain standard, but the customer could delete it at his/her option, leaving a single color vehicle...... which brings us to the next point. The Vista roof. It wasn't available on the Caprice, but was standard on the Custom Cruiser and Roadmaster. So the final breakdown is this: Single color + no vista roof = Caprice Estate Single color + vista roof = Roadmaster Estate Two Tone + no vista roof = Caprice Estate (and probably an LTZ) Two Tone + vista roof = Custom Cruiser Wood grain + no vista roof = Caprice Estate Wood grain + vista roof = Roadmaster Estate Now you can identify the late body wagons with your "crucial clue". You're welcome.

I didn't mean to say that it was. Sorry for not completing my undeveloped thought.... We "got out" of stagflation in the early 80's right? No... we put it on our Mastercharge and used easy credit to get us out of it. Stagflation never went away.... just the easily recognizable symptoms. Treating stagflation with easy credit is like treating cancer with Tylenol.

B-29 P-38 Messerschmitt ME 262

I would like to remind everyone that my birthday is in two weeks.

God that things got MOVES! I really like that very last shot of it powersteering over the hill of the curve.... :wub:

I wouldn't say so much that the Fed encouraged it, more like it enabled it. The easier credit of the last 30 years (not just interest rate, but ease of acquiring new credit) became a substitute for higher wages.

I didn't think it'd be the core if was was flowing through it like you said. Even a dirty core, as long as the water can move, should get some heat.

When you've done that repeatedly, does water flow through the core?

You can flush just the heater core directly. Disconnect the ends of the heater hose as far away from the core as possible. Run the "in" hose to the ground. Attach your garden hose to the "out" hose. Turn on spigot. Essentially, you'd be running fluid through in reverse and would help to de-gunk the core.

There really isn't much of a cost bump for Eco. They could have left off the Eco badge, different wheels, and fascia changes and you really wouldn't notice. The Eco is really just the manual transmission turbo with a few extra tweeks to get them to the 40mpg number.

uhm... I think that is a white CRX sitting next to a totaled red Jetta...... he's trying to tell you something there.

lol! I didn't know it was that edited! but yes that's it! thanks

Why do we have more carrier groups than the rest of the world combined? If you were a country with a large sovereign debt problem and you knew that the U.S. was required by treaty to come galloping to your rescue.... what would you do with your carrier fleet?