Robert Hall

Sounds like there is an opportunity for a new sport--a hybrid of MMA and hockey where players get points for fight style, and the fighting is an integral part of the game...

Haven't followed hockey in years, but did enjoy going to a bunch of Avalanche games in 1997-2008 when I was living in Colorado...the games against the Red Wings were always fun--was at one in 2002 that broke out into a brawl at the Pepsi Center. I worked with a group of hard-drinking Canadians for a few years that made going to games as a group a lot of fun...

The gold '65 my brother had 40 years ago looked just like that inside...was a sweet car.

The '68-69 Buick 2dr roofline is very similar to the '68-69 Chevelle...but the lower body is quite different, and the low rear wheel well cutline gave it a frumpy look. That formal roofline on the '70-72 Cutlass SX/Supreme was Olds' answer to the Monte Carlo and Grand Prix, IMO (without a longer wheelbase or other body differences).

Sharp Skylark...haven't seen a convertible one in forever. Always thought the '70-72 Buick A-body 2dr ht roofline was very similar to the Chevelle. The '70-72 looked better overall IMO than the '68-69 Buicks w/ their sweepspear side crease and low rear wheel well openings. Though the concave rear was interesting and different.

My neighborhood Ace Hardware was like that this Saturday...employees and most patrons were unmasked. Are they fully vaccinated? Who knows...

Gray interiors are my turn off. Don’t know why, but I generally hate gray interiors. Esp the cheap and nasty ones so common over the last 30 years. I like two tones, esp Black and Tan, black and white, or black and red. I esp like the baseball glove color leather Audi and others have used over the years. I like solid red or solid dark blue interiors. All black interiors tend to be gloomy caves, though with a sunroof they would be tolerable in a luxury car or sports car.

I like the seatbelt attached to the seat on the DTS. That car had very comfortable, stuffed seats. The types of seatbelts I hate are the motorized ones (some Fords in the early 90s) and the ones attached to the doors (GM in the 90s).

Yeah, it seems 90% of interiors today are drab despair gray plastic....

The retrofit ones always seem to look cheap and cheesy...

I'm looking forward to the weekend...hope the rain lets up soon, though, want to do so some grilling. 2021 has been good to me so far with work. I did leave my previous long term contract at the end of January after 6 1/2 years, but landed a new gig with a growing local company (still 100% WFH) at a 30% pay increase and great benefits.

Was behind an older Ford Fusion Sport with a curious personalized plate---'CRASH29'...I wonder if it's a reference to the 1929 stock market crash, or the driver had their 29th crash in this vehicle?

Saw a recent black F150 yesterday, what was interesting was that the owner had added a row of LEDs across the top of the black grille, so from a distance it resembled the upcoming F150 Lightning...with the light tube across the front.

^ Wild van. That reminds me of an MPC Dodge van model kit that had a drag option of a blown Hemi to mount in the middle like that.

Precisely. It's not a flea market or Turkish bazaar. I don't haggle over the price of a Mac Book Pro at the Apple store or the price of a washer and dryer at Home Depot. Why should buying a car be different? Cars are saddled with the ancient, obsolete dealer franchising shit.

Those '70s clam shell wagons were something else... what beasts. A neighbor at my family farm had a '71 Brookwood that was quite the beater, a farm wagon...he drove it until he died in 1987 at age 82. And in Steubenville, the parents of one of my classmates from kindergarten through 2nd grade had a '74 Olds Custom Cruiser...I remember riding in it as a kid. Something like this..

I think only the grille and bumper (and hood?) differed as far as the front end between the Caprice, Roadmaster, and Custom Cruiser. The Buick also had the Vista roof. It was odd that Buick also got the Roadmaster sedan (with a different front end from the wagon) but Olds didn't get an equivalent sedan.

I could see myself doing that..I don't really like dealing with car salesmen, they waste so much time. I have no interest in haggling, prefer fixed prices for products.

That is interesting...wasn't aware of that.

I've wondered about that before...Amazon is involved in so many different businesses.. I was thinking about it--- I'm an Amazon Prime customer and purchase a lot of products from their site, I have Amazon Prime audio and video streaming and listen to/watch/read a lot of content from them, and I use many of their AWS tools and services at work. 3 very distinct use cases.

Yeah, the one on the left is an '80s Hilux, which is a bit smaller than the original '90s Tacoma..but still quite a size difference.

Well, the first pic is a 2nd gen Sonoma on the left, those were truly compact.

I can see the Pontiac G8, Chevy SS and V-series Cadillacs being sought after, esp. the manuals..in an age of forgettable FWD transverse engine mediocrity, these were standouts for GM.

Yeah, Black & Decker..they work pretty well. I have a 100 ft cord, and that's enough to reach back of my backyard. Just have to not get tangled up in the cord, esp. the string trimmer..

My snow blower, leaf blower, leaf blower/mulcher, string trimmer, hand saw and chain saw are all corded...my drill is cordless w/ a charging dock. I can definitely see how cordless would be better for some of those...