balthazar

Moving = always no fun. If by ‘expecting’ you mean offspring; congrats. Put ‘em to work early!

Dark blue ‘71-72 Olds 442 convertible on the interstate, mint restoration.

Local Chevy dealer has almost no inventory. One brand new '21 Silverado W/T; regular cab / long bed, 4WD but stamped steel 17" rims, refrigerator white. Sticker was $33K, but has a 'market adjustment' addition of another $3K.

GM has already been deleting AS/S- the Yukon pic I posted last week had it on the window sticker.

True, but again- it has nothing to do with motive power.

My '40 : has push-button start, no ignition key/cylinder. There's a 'master' toggle switch on the steering column bracket (to the dash) that energizes the truck. There is a key in the same column bracket... but it only allows you to lock the steering column (rotate wheel until you find the 'notch', turn key & remove). All this works as intended.

"Yeah, but, you are aware that there's an invention called television, and on this invention they show shows, right?"

Have had bunches of both door counts for various reasons/happenstance, but I'll always prefer 2-drs since I don't have 3.5 screaming children to ferry around. Plus.... dey cooler.

:shrug: Push-button start goes back to the dawn of automotive time. Millennials think it's 'high tech'. ? I kinda like keys only because you can control it more precisely. Sometimes you need to 'bump it'.

Sure; they can ask Santa for one. Motive power has zero to do with body style availability. Is the regular cab / long bed pickup coming back 'if people want it' because it's pushed by kW instead of BTUs?

"Wrong"? The Lincoln is factory ('61-'67), the Cadillac is not. Last Cadillac 4-dr convertible was this one: Talk about a dead body style. And the t-top thing was tried en-mass to replace the convertible. Nothing ushered its return quicker.

Not much to report. I'm driving it 90% of the time vs. the '04, just not going many miles. In a bit of a lull at the moment- just a tick over 1400 miles & about halfway thru my 3rd tank of fuel. Actually... that's about right; say 800 miles/mn = 9600/yr. OK, I'm on target. I feel like the trans is learning my driving style, as it seems to be slightly 'snappier' (I have a lead foot). I did try a dead stop/full throttle start... but I had it in normal mode and (I just remembered!) traction control on. No squealy, will try again, 'cause it feels quick enough to lay rubber from a stop. 3 times to date it has done this weird thing where you press the starter button and it just cranks- I only let this happen 2-3 secs before shutting it off. Normally it starts after less than a sec of cranking. Don't know what that's about... but I can FEEL the layers upon layers of electronica between me and the mechanical bits. I believe you have to look at the starter button more like a door bell; press/release; don't hold it down. I have a lot of 'starter button time' in the '40, so have to unlearn.

Maybe, maybe not. 'They' said that about convertibles, remember. Oh course- if all the 2-drs go, so do all the convertibles. ?

SSC official 2-way run was still 282. 282 > 273.

Fastest top speed car is the (Shelby) SSC Tuatara, which ran a 2-way average of 316 MPH (unofficial). It did a 1-way run at 331 MPH. It's verified 2-way run was 282 MPH. SSC is American, based in Washington State. Also, the Hennessey Vemon GT did a 1-way run of 270 MPH. AMG One is only projected to go about 220.

I'd like 'DEATH' for the '59- nothing low profile there, car-wise. No doubt it's not permissible.

I'm as degenerate as the next guy, but I never understood this sort of thing. The 'being clever' part and the 'getting it past the Man' part is cool, but the ultimate statement is 'p*ssy!', and much like those 'truck nuts', I just don't get what they're really trying to say. It's like standing around at a party, drinking some beers, then blurting out 'p*ssy!' and laughing uproariously... except the license plate is you saying it CONTINUOUSLY. Perhaps it's just a notch or 2 too adolescent for me. :shrug:

^ Spanish : bread= 'pan', 8= 'ocho' :: 'panocho' . slang for a woman's junk.

"Ferrari should build a circa $60K V-6-powered car... so they can sell more product."

Want to make auto-related stock profit- buy GM or Ford. Tesla’s run seems over and there’s zero dividends.

• Half of my truck is aluminum (tailgate, hood, all 4 doors). • A ferrari with enough batteries to beat a Tesla will weigh 4500 lbs. They’re already made mostly of plastics, alum, FG & CF- smk talks about them like they’re all-steel bodies now. I’m a connoisseur of Good Taste.

More recycling :

This a hodgepodge mess of elements that are fighting like the Hatfields & McCoys. No fluidity, no harmony. Looks like it was designed by committee.