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Blech. - - - - - This is my wife's older cousin in her family's '39 Dodge. Story as related by her younger brother goes... When she was about 6 yrs old, they were riding down a local road about 25 MPH, and she opened the door and fell out onto the road. Her parents stopped, picked her up, put her back in the car and continued on to grandmother's house.

Yeah; the Cadillac pictured is emitting far less than the manufacturing/operation of a new BEV. Recycling without destruction :

? Let's see; leave the old Cadillac quietly sleeping in place, waiting to donate unobtanium parts to other projects, or shred it / melt it down into something imminently disposable like a modern sh!tbox. ?

I just learned why all these trucks have these amber grille lights. Guess I'll have to get a quint of ambers for the B-59 (80.75" wide). ?

My (actually my wife’s) cousin, a bit of a hoarder. House isn’t inhabited, neither is the one next door he owns (same condition). Also has 8 storage units plus a warehouse maybe 7000 s.f..

Very sorry to hear, Dave. Stay strong, my friend.

Correct- GNX's have VentiPorts.

• More cleaning of trans exterior. • started cleaning valley pan. It's 2 pieces of stamped steel, spot welded together around the perimeter (22 spot welds). PCV vents into the space between, and it has a few 'drain' ports on the underside. Hardened grease accumulates inside, and it's certainly advisable to clean it out internally as best as possible. Different suggestions out there... or pony up $150 and buy a fresh repro one. Pondering if I can find a tub big enough to soak it for a few weeks.

Of what I can see, I might go for the '67 Dodge.

Nice rides. What's the 2nd to last one?

• pulled the master cylinder & power booster to cross-reference for dual MC upgrade. • pulled LH rear wheel/brake to evaluate braking components. Drum is fine, shoes look fine but might replace those anyway. Hydraulics will be 100% new. • stripped the linkage and a vent apparatus off the trans; going to the rebuilder next week. Also did some scraping/ wire brushing/ burr filing on the case exterior.

Question is; will investors totally disregard all fundamentals and buy these electric-committed OEMs like they did with Tesla, or will they hang back (esp in light of Tesla's current and near-future gloomy stock outlook) and wait to see if anyone makes a strong & consistant profit on electrics? It's illogical to assume Tesla is going to take a nosedive and the other OEMs are somehow going to make a profit inline with their best recent years'.

Probably closer to 150 than 100 (over the years).

Also:

If it wasn't about vintage Pontiacs, I'd have been gone at the first few notes.

'Curves' almost always = flubber. Boss level spin doctoring. I reject.

Re-read my post.

So; you're assuming. That assumption flies in the face of the mass movement away from BOF to unibody construction, which was done industry-wide to save on manufacturing costs. There's still going to be differences in the platform for a coupe vs. a 3-row SUV, etc. Suspension, width, length, strength... it's not like the old days when they'd bolt a 2-dr sedan / 2-dr hardtop, 4-dr sedan, 4-dr hardtop, convertible and wagon to the same frame ('platform'); OEMs don't hardly build multiple bodies on the same platform anymore (sadly). Like I alluded to; the skateboard MAY be amortized over more than one model, spreading out its costs. I get that. But the coupe body, interior, electronics (a chunk of), glass, etc would all be unique. With the super low sales of coupes, I would not be sure the skateboards amortization would support the cost of the coupe body dies, material costs, R&D, certification, etc etc vs. it's likely super low production.

Seems like Brotherton didn't pick up Pontiac until very late ('06), when they bought out a 'local Pontiac-GMC dealer' - David; might you know the name of this bought out Pontiac store in Renton?

Cost comparison data?

I find the tunage real catchy. Think I posted this once befur...