Robert Hall

Beach day today..drove up to Presque Isle State Park in Erie, PA to sit on the beach for a while and walk in the surf...very relaxing. Stopped at a 1/2 dozen other beaches along Lake Erie on the way home...saw a variety of interesting cars today. Saw a new Ford Bronco in person for the first time--a gray 2dr out front of a Ford dealer, saw a Porsche Taycan for the first time--a pale blue (almost white) one in Conneaut, Ohio, saw a sharp dark red '70-ish Nova w/ a large cowl hood scoop, a very clean dark blue '65 Mustang 2+2 on I-90, a dark gray w/ black stripes current Shelby GT500, a bright yellow Lambo Huracan. At a beach in Ashtabula, Ohio saw a car show by the water, incl a neat '62 Mercury 4dr. On my street tonight when I got home, saw a very sharp white w/ red interior '70 GTO in a driveway next to a sharp black '73-74 Challenger.

Reminds me of the '69 Custom S, and the former C&G member that had one..

Don't think I've ever seen that green. Riptide Blue was another good 'Slade color.

With the holiday weekend coming up, maybe I'll see something interesting..planning on going to a couple beaches on the lake..

Mr Ickx and Derek Bell at Rennsport Reunion, Laguna Seca 2015. Was such a fun event.

^ looks like a ‘67-68 Olds 88/98 dash.

Another change they made was in 1994 to open up the rear wheel wells. Made the car look less bloated than the low cut 91-93 opening.

The badge.

The gold car is a Caprice that someone inexplicably added Impala SS badges to. The quarter window opening was changed in '95 so the '95-96 Caprice Impala SS both had that 'kink'...(the '94 Impala SS had some plastic there). Those look like '91-92 Caprice LTZ wheels. The real Impala SS was only available a few colors--black, dark red, and a gray blue IIRC...

I'm sure that was said on this very site..

2003-2011 Tesla was pretty much a non-entity in the market, so I could see how he overlooked the first 8 or so years... Rivian has been around for 12 years now as a company, but has yet to get product in the hands of consumers, for example. Lucid has been around 14 years. I can't imagine having such long lead times to get a product to market.

Sharp...sounds pretty stripped down for a Denali trim, though.

They only made about 2500 Roadsters from '08-12, so 2003-2011 doesn't really count--it wasn't until the Model S came out in 2012 that they were taken seriously.

About 10 years ago, I got to ride to lunch in a coworker's '69 Sedan de Ville he inherited from his grandparents. Silver blue 4dr ht. We went out to lunch in it, said it was quite different to drive compared to his Camry. I remember it being very, very quiet and smooth. Seemed as quiet as a modern luxury car...and vast and empty inside w/ bench seats. Lots of hood to look out over...

That would be horrible. I think that does happen w/ the newest Teslas, though. I like interiors with conventional controls for the common use cases--lighting, wiping, radio volume/channel, HVAC... and leave the less used actions to the touch screen. FCA did a good job w/ balancing the practical button-based controls w/ the touch screen, and with redundancy, IMO.

Circle is the best shape for a use case of a steering wheel, haven't really found a way to improve upon it. As far as engines go, It's amazing how much maintenance was needed to keep vehicles going in the olden days...points, rotor caps, carburator adjustments, plugs, lifter adjustments...and at low mileage intervals. Today's engines are more complex but require much less frequent adjustment/maintenance.

Those '50s FI experiments were mechanical fuel injection, I believe? I guess they weren't successful and had cost or functional issues which prohibited taking them mainstream...it is interesting that automakers continued with old, proven cheap approach of carbs for so long...

Sweet Road Runner. Not old enough for Balthy, though...and it doesn't have tailfins.

Just give it a brushed aluminum wrap and it will look just like a Cybertruck.

^ Some interesting cars there...the humpy lumpy red car w/ the side opening hood is an 40s Buick. They used that style hood into the 50s. The Eldorado is a '66 (last year of the RWD Eldorado). I think the '65-66 Eldorados were convertibles only. the white Chevy 2dr sedan is a '60, looks like a low trim level--Biscayne or Bel Air I think.

The GM small displacement V8s of the late 70s-early 80s all seemed to be very low on power..the Pontiac 265 had 120hp, the Olds 260 had 110hp, the Chevy 262 had 110hp, and the Chevy 267 had 120hp... I assume they were an attempt to get better gas mileage.

Hit a curb at a high speed? Took a corner too hot and the g-forces tore the wheel apart? Manufacturing defect? Lots of possibilities...

As much as I dislike white for being too dull and mainstream, I saw and sat in a white Challenger R/T Scat Pack in the dealer showroom a few years ago.. with a black shaker hood scoop, gloss black wheels, and a black interior w/ bright red seats and red door inserts. Love the red seats. And a manual..was fantastic.

Nah, not going to drive like that for 15 miles... not when it's 90 degrees out...and the hatch open beeping would drive me nuts.