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Awesome video! My dad kicks himself sometimes for buying the '78 Vette instead of a '70 442 that he was looking at years ago. This vid makes me want to get an Oldsmobile for my next car.

I was driving around and listening to Van Halen II about half an hour ago...the perfect summertime / gas crisis album to make me forget the $3.68 for 87 I just put in the Lumina.

I concur. I want the first G-body Cutlass found!

I did a little internet digging and the only source I found for that name was mentioned on some Metallica message board, so I'm a little skeptical. I don't really like the title that much though...St. Anger was not a good album and I hope Metallica distances itself from it with the new album. I really hope they come up with something better than "Reverend Furious."

Danger Kitty - Love Rocket

I just realized today that I have been a member of C&G for five years this month. May 2003 was when I first registered, way back on the really old board. I was looking for some information on the Oldsmobile phase out and linked to here, which was still in a fledgling state and probably had only 200-300 members. And what kept me coming back was the Member's Talent area, the Skunkworks designs for the Chevelle, and the professional comprehensive reporting on automotive news. As long as I've been a member, we've had three major board redesigns, two large board failures, we've seen the last Oldsmobile roll off the line, we speculated what the C6 Corvette would look like, we watched the dark days of GM's bottoming out in 2005-2006 and all the talk of bankruptcy, we got a peek at the long-awaited first Camaro pics, we witnessed the Kerkorkian/York fiasco, among many other events. I remember when NOS was a 14 year old kid, and now he's in college! I just wanted to thank you all for being like a second family. I'm graduating in a few days and will be off to the working world, but I still plan on coming here often.

Not too hot of a month...SUVs and trucks are tanking. http://media.ford.com/article_display.cfm?article_id=28166 *Ford's new Focus posted an 88 percent increase in retail sales compared with a year ago; highest April sales for Focus since 2000. *Retail sales for mid-size sedans also were higher; Ford Fusion up 31 percent, Mercury Milan up 19 percent, and Lincoln MKZ up 20 percent; Fusion and Milan set April sales records. *Total car retail sales up 21 percent. *Crossover retail sales up 11 percent led by Ford Edge (up 24 percent) and Ford Escape (up 13 percent). *Rising gas prices accelerate the industry-wide shift from trucks and SUVs to cars and crossovers. *Ford, Lincoln and Mercury sales totaled 189,247, down 12 percent; retail sales were down 7 percent and daily rental sales were down 32 percent. *Total Ford Motor Company sales (including Jaguar, Land Rover, and Volvo) totaled 200,727, down 12 percent. DEARBORN, Mich., May 1, 2008 - Ford's new Focus continues to defy gravity -- and the U.S. economy -- with a 88 percent jump in retail sales versus last April and the highest total Focus April sales since 2000. "Focus is the right car at the right time," said Jim Farley, Ford group vice president, Marketing and Communications. "This is the little car that delivers in a big way for customers, with outstanding fuel economy, cool features including SYNC, a fun drive and the right price, right along with the rest of our newest cars and crossovers." Ford, Lincoln and Mercury cars achieved a 21 percent increase in retail sales. While Focus was the standout, the company's mid-size cars also posted higher retail sales. Ford Fusion retail sales were up 31 percent, Mercury Milan retail sales were up 19 percent and Lincoln MKZ retail sales were up 20 percent. The Fusion and Milan set April sales records with total sales of 15,059 for the Fusion and 3,809 for the Milan. Retail sales for the company's crossovers were 11 percent higher than a year ago, paced by the Ford Edge (up 24 percent) and Ford Escape (up 13 percent). Retail sales for the Mercury Mariner were up 6 percent and Lincoln MKX retail sales were up 4 percent. Higher gas prices are accelerating the industry-wide shift from trucks and traditional sport utility vehicles to cars and crossovers. At Ford, April sales for sport utility vehicles were 36 percent lower than a year ago and trucks were 19 percent lower. Lower sales to daily rental companies (down 32 percent) also contributed to the company's sales decline. Overall, Ford, Lincoln and Mercury sales totaled 189,247, down 12 percent compared with a year ago. Retail sales to individual customers were down 7 percent. Total Ford Motor Company sales, including Jaguar, Land Rover, and Volvo, totaled 200,727, down 12 percent.

Congrats! My sister got a free ride to Univ. of Iowa and it's really helped my family's financial situation not having that extra cost burden.

Megadeth - Set the World Afire

Man, that's rated better than my Lumina (17/25)! Lately I do a lot of highway driving and have been getting 23, but around town I only get 19.

^Are those figures accurate? 1979 Chevy Malibu 5.7L V8 Auto 13/19 1982 Chevy Malibu 5.7L V8 Auto 23/34

More at link: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24383373/ The good news is that most of the loss was due to one-time charges with GMAC and Delphi. GM stock is actually up right now. Automotive operations only lost $350 million.

Holy crap! In April 2007 a guy drowned in Lake Laverne here at ISU at between 4 and 6 AM on a Sunday morning. He had been out drinking heavily that night and was last seen around Campustown by a jogger. For three days nobody could find him until they started searching the lake and found him submerged at the bottom. The whole thing has been a mystery; police assumed he got drunk and fell into the lake, but the lake really isn't that deep until you get toward the middle and the place where he was found had railing, so he would have had to climb over the railing. It just doesn't add up. However, after reading this story, maybe there is more to it...

We need more refineries, and the government needs to break up the oil conglomerates. Split ExxonMobil, Conoco-Phillips, ChevronTexaco, etc. I was reading somewhere that all the "speculation" has artificially inflated prices by almost $1. Break up these companies and increased competition will result in lower prices. Finally, severe penalties for Wall Streeters that manipulate oil futures to push the stock price higher. And it's not just oil, you see it with Google, Apple, etc. These scumbags take honest investers for a ride while they make a pile of money off the misfortune of others.

Pictures of the cellar and the guy who did it can be seen at the following link. http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=757925 That guy looks evil.

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5...e3oH2Z3Y4GXt_A

Joe Walsh - The Confessor

What did Old Man Warner mean when he said "It ain't the way it used to be...people ain't the way they used to be" ?

The thing I've always loved about the anti-utopia stories like The Stand is how the survivors deal with the situation. For example, when the one character was in Maine he had to get gas for his motorcycle from the wells below the pumps since there was no electricity. And they had to search through every house in Boulder to get rid of the bodies so that the city could be inhabitable again. I also liked the part where they talked about how within 20 years or so entire highways would disappear with no maintenance crews to repair them. King also wrote the book so that it has a very "rustic" feel to it...he often refers to the "old Detroit iron," old Philco radios, and other things that are long since gone. Part of that is because the first version of the book was written in 1978 (and later updated in 1990), but he's great at describing things in his stories. I liked the part in Utah or wherever it was where he went into great detail about push-starting an old abandoned Chevy Nova (or whatever it was).

Joe Walsh - Rocky Mountain Way

Hmm, that's probably where Stephen King got his inspiration for The Stand, another one of my favorites. It sounds like basically the same concept, except King introduces a "good" civilization that forms in Boulder and an "evil" civilization headquartered in Las Vegas and armed with all the old leftover nuclear missiles.

The Griswalds also knew how to use the clone brush.

1984 is one of my favorite books, along with The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, both by Ayn Rand. 1984 was way ahead of its time too; the videoscreens and black helicopters predated his era. My favorite part of the book was when he discovered that history book and it described how the world formed into three superstates. And if you look at the world today, the European Union has basically become a superstate, and of course there is the North American Union proposal, which I am against. There was an article in the UK Daily Mail about how some politician named Brown is pushing to eliminate the names "England" and "Great Britain" from maps, and the English Channel would be renamed "The Channel Sea." An area of land along southern England and northern France will be known as "Manche," with Paris becoming the district capital (over London as well). Then there is the "North Sea Region" that will encompass eastern England, Denmark, Sweden, Belgium, etc. and the "Atlantic Region" which will include western England, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, etc. I don't get why people over there aren't up in arms over this...it sounds like Britain is losing its soveriegnty to the EU.

It all sounds great except for the "XFE" badge. It's as bad as Lexus' LS-F "Fast."