longtooth

Presuming that many have forgotten the Pontiac of the same name, I'd 'umbly suggest...(drum-roll) Phoenix Motors ( a nod to the James Stewart classic from '65 "Flight Of The Phoenix)

Chry-O-Gen would do it for me. Clone some dinosaurs too.

If you rummage around, you may find that they already do. Maybe recast the Slant 6 and stick it in Challenger.

So if you reckon that you don't want to blow it up, is it really more like a 4.9 or 5.1 car?

I was explicit enough. I did not infer what you have stated.

For what it is worth: Yesterday President Bush remarked that the SEC would go after anyone trashing stocks with intent to devalue. The entire system would benefit from such vigilance.

IMO: It'd remove continuing excess in the over-supply. GM/Chrysler realize the dire nature of the situation. America is part and parcel of the levelling of the global playing field. Trade agreements will require transparency going forward. Patriotism could be construed as providing economic security for the citizenry here. 'Charity' begins at home.

Well then, in "REAL LIFE" as you are pleased to put it, how does the evaporation of wealth sit with you? There is no guide-book to consult for a solution to what we're facing now. No "Market Crash Analysis for Dummies". Pro-active trumps inactive here. Being prudent is one thing but he/she that hesitates may be lost.

MSNBC's been running that clip all morning long. The mentality displayed by that woman is representative of the hard-core, foam-at-the-mouth, children-of-the-corn demographic President Bush-base loyalists. About 26% of the GP. But they are our neighbors, bankers, teachers etc...woven too tightly into the fabric of "this great nation" of ours. What's good about showing that clip is that it also portrayed the forced humbling of one John McCain. To compensate, Palin's amped-up her shrill harpy-speak. Lovely. Palin is that woman from the town-hall meeting in 25 years. America's become synonymous with Robert Smigel's "Dumbf*ckistan".

It'd be piece-mealed anyway in the largest garage sale in this hemisphere if nothing's done. A reconstituted GM/Chrysler would have Trucks, Luxury, Bread & Butter vehicles. Access to funding. It'd whittle the UAW down to near insignificance. Even beyond where they exist in a 'Pleasantville'-type limbo now. Old coots such as myself would retire and meet for lunch and tell stories and enjoy our status as anachronisms all the more. Happy to have been there and pleased to be out.

More insight into the motivation for such a deal. WRAPUP 1-GM, Chrysler in merger talks-source Sat Oct 11, 2008 1:02am EDT http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews...20081011?rpc=44

The Challenger and Camaro would morph into the 'Chimera'.

Oh c'mon, elaborate.

It wouldn't surprise me. Even as it'd likely put me out to pasture ungraciously.

Cash? Would size matter? GM's been reducing themselves 'nicely' for some time now.

G.M. and Chrysler Explore Merger By BILL VLASIC and ANDREW ROSS SORKIN Published: October 10, 2008 DETROIT — General Motors is in preliminary talks about a possible merger with Chrysler, a deal that could drastically remake the landscape of the auto industry by reducing the Big Three of Detroit automakers to the Big Two. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/11/business...amp;oref=slogin Come Watson the game is afoot. Could it work? Enquiring minds might like to savage this topic. Sweet side-deals with Nissan and others could come of this.

10 million plus are looking for work now. Three-quarters of a million since January. With the turmoil, a million by Thanksgiving perhaps. Jobs. Let prices settle and fix themselves. Still need work for the people. The Chinese maintain a stand-by workforce equal to the population of this country.

We'd have kept better paying jobs here. Appreciation will be a concept not associated with real estate for some time to come. Flippers or not. A home will be where one lives. We might even reacquaint ourselves with being thrifty.

Job's too big for one Man or Woman. Too many separate and special interests. I don't know how we've made this far.

The unquenchable thirst for endless growth exhibited by retail and banking drove the upward spiral in credit. I expect the fallout from this to last for a generation. Reaganomics is dead. Trickle-down misery is the order of the day and for the foreseeable future. Hyper-educated people are standing around numb with shock and lacking the first clue as to what to do. For certain we can't go back to the way it was. We're no longer the powerhouse we were coming out of the Second World War.

Who do you like in the Preakness?

In more ways than one we'll be forced to reacquire the ethics and thrift of our parents and grandparents. In my opinion it was easy credit and the ceaseless quest for endless growth on the 'Street and elsewhere that has mainly caused the house of cards to collapse. Every thing that we clung to for the past 30 years is recalibrating in light of the new reality.

The Uber-Wealthy can 'strike' too it seems.

Blackwater'll have franchises in major urban areas. Track us via our cell phones. Maybe send a Predator drone out to search for rabble-rousers. It'll keep the riff-raff in check, minus the drug trade which they'll want regulate. And whores. To keep morale up a bit.

GM's just as dismal Morgan Stanley, Auto Stocks Sink Rally... http://www.cnbc.com/id/27096060/site/14081...C&par=yahoo Well, doh! The pressures on what little manufacturing that we do retain amplifies the pain across the broader spectrum. Jobs tied to autos and the infrastructure sustaining revenue realized from them: Priceless. Exxon/Mobil will be offering rebates soon. (i wish)