Here is my take in the mid west. The problem is the shortage of peop,e willing to make a living working with their hands. So many go to collage major in what ever and run up major school school bills they can’t pay. Today we have shortages of plumbers, mechanics HVAC techs, welders. My father in law made 6 figures welding and when he retired they had to call him back to do jobs no one else could do. I often find good mechanics making more than many collage grads. Now the harsh truth is not all mechanics are worth big dollars. The highly skilled ones yes not someone with out training. My buddy does well enough wrenching he has his own plane. The money is there but people need to get the training and experience to make the money. Everyone should make more money but then prices go up and we are back in the same spot. The way forward is not just to hand money out but train, learn and gain more skills and experience. Most good wrenches started out just changing oil. The go to school and gain certifications. That is the way forward. The real trick is to get young people to not be afraid to get dirty and be willing to work with their hands. My son is getting his masters and yet I am going to get my father in law to teach him how to weld. Why some day that skill just may pay more. The Dirty Jobs guy is a real promoter of skilled labor jobs and how it is in great decline. He tried to promote these jobs and just how rewarding many can be financially. ... View more

Sure enough just like so many could have predicted the Eldows Out Cadillac was in a car crash because of its wheels. It opened up the other car like a can opener destroying the car it hit. Why would Hagerty promote such a dangerous feature which I sure encourged others to do the same? Can you even imagine the lawsuit Hagerty will be dealing with when a pedestrian along side the road is killed because of you promoting such a thing.. It's was almost like looking to balance the race of your readers by giving in to such a thing!!! ... View more

Look some things should be left alone. Bullitt stands on it's own and even if Steve was around today I would leave it alone.    More is not always better and Spiellberg has had some misses too.    Like the original Smokey and the Bandit some movies should never be remade or a sequel done.    The Next Bullitt could be another Smokey 2.  ... View more

Apparently no one considers this pollution! ... View more

My '78 Country Squire was rear-ended by a 2000's Honda. It did not end well for the Honda. My plate got wrinkled up. ... View more

I was working for Oldsmobile back in the seventies and a customer ordered a navy blue Cutlass with a light blue top and light blue wheels it didn't come that way it came with navy Wheels we found a light blue car with a white top and light blue wheels and swap them. I got to tell you a light blue car with the Navy Wheels and white top was sharp ... View more

this article is weak... Chrysler and Imperial was one too many luxury brands for Chrysler... and they became the "same" thing... so that was the death of Imperial... just like it was the death of Pontiac... Of Oldsmobile... Desoto, Mercury... and Buick should be dead or next to go... I think China saved Buick. ... View more

The rust took them off the road eliminating the issue fast.  ... View more

Yes, Caravaggio's designs really are beautiful and his riff on the C8 is just what the car should have looked like from GM. As far as the interiors go, don't let us forget that the whole business model for the Vette is "obtainability" by the "regular Joe/Josephine"; if you want a Ferrari or exotic interior, well, ya ain't gonna get the car for <$100k, not to mention $60k!! You want an excellent interior? Then go see Caravaggio. ... View more

I suspect that the staff at CandS knew that the Germans were selling Porsche 911s and VW Beetle Convertibles in 1979, two dinosaurs that made the 1964 Wagoneer look as advanced as an Accord. Also, 'producing' the fastest numbers in 1979 would have meant claiming this LA360 powered SJ covered the quarter mile in less than eighteen seconds at over seventy-five miles per hour. ... View more

The Cobra Mustang didn’t see the modular DOHC V8 until the ‘96 MY, wellll after the fox body Mustang Cobra debuted in late ‘92. ... View more

So F1 didn’t screw Michael over enough in 1993 that they have to do it again in 2022? Bet if the potential team was Chinese the FIA would be falling all over themselves to welcome them. ... View more

I remember you mentioned your Conti a while back!  It's a shame modern sedans don't have trunks as long as the Conti (or even as long as a BMW of the era) because they are so much more practical, but still nice and low to the ground. Oh well, those days are long gone, we got what we got now.  ... View more

You're a better man than me, my Brother. As a black man here in Canada, I was exposed to racism but not as much as you folks in the US. Here it's more "underground" if you know what I mean. I could never pull off what you did,,no matter the price. Respect to you and what you did to get by and make a life for yourself. ... View more

Good question. ... View more

The sliding door did not appear until 1968, when they redesigned the whole van. (I think it still was the first). ... View more

...and just think if the money wasted on Alfa had been spent on a Grand Wagoneer (as many insiders would have preferred) that would have arrived in the first year of Trump instead of WWIII. ... View more

The hood vents were there to allow underhood heat to escape from the turbo when the engine was shutdown.  ... View more

“And I still haven’t had a go in a pickup” Looking forward to hearing your continued adventures here! ... View more

In my opinion one of the best looking Cadillacs of all time. ... View more

Fun Fact: Those Lincolns used a hydraulic wiper motor, fed from the power steering pump, which was itself located ON the crankshaft, and bolted to the timing cover, behind the harmonic balancer. Mid 60's T-Birds used the same setup. ... View more

In terms of styling, I do agree. Although it got better when it changed from Sebring-to-200. So much better that the Dodge became the ugly duckling.  ... View more

I first read this on a Buick forum, of all places, because many of the (advanced age) hardcore Buick guys have become disillusioned with mother "gm" and turned to buying Challengers/Chargers for their affordable-ish, fullsize, full power fix. This is the story that made me find the Hagerty site and start reading "Avoidable Contact". And I'll say the same thing here that I said there, Jack: That was beautiful, and sad, and every car guy should have to read it. ... View more

I highly recommend this book to anyone who appreciates cars and/or fine art. Not only is the artwork presented most impressive, but the story of Art and Van's collaboration that author Robert Keil tells, is equally interesting and uplifting. ... View more

Thank you Jack. This is helpful. ... View more

Sorry, my own humble nick name for a Pistol Grip since 1968 when I first saw one on a Charger. ... View more

Mike Copeland did a Hellcat Charger on Roadkill! He's the Hellcat swap genius. ... View more

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt. When my son was a Cub Scout, one year I decided to build a car for the "everyone else" race. Extended wheelbase, 3 wheel car, etc etc etc. His car (I think he was maybe 9 at the time) beat mine by 2 car lengths. The only thing he did not do on that car was cut the profile of the body (some sketchy Dad handiwork with a jigsaw). Oh and he beat me repeatedly. Every time. Yeah... ... View more

Glad to see Milan will come. Being from Toledo we went there many times in the 70s. Fun fact.. got hit by a car in front of the track while going on a 2 week trip to upper Michigan. Riding a borrowed Schwinn 12 speed Continental. 115 stitches in the head later we decided to call it quits. ... View more

After enjoying my Christmas vacation, I’ve decided to expand a little more on my earlier posting. If I were as skilled as Jack, I could probably romanticize this and make it an enjoyable read. Brevity being the soul of wit, I’ll instead use bullet points. Maybe the underlying theme here is “you don’t know what you don’t know.”   Unions: For those of you who bemoan the United Auto Workers “running manufacturing out of the US” and I thus assume look to Germany, Korea and Japan as models of labor efficiency, please do a little research into their home-market operations. Germany’s IG Metall is the union which represents German autoworkers and with 2.3 million members, it represents 15% of the entire German workforce. On a good day, the UAW has about 390,000 members, mostly in Michigan, representing whatever ever-tinier percentage of the American workforce it thus equates to. That matters (as you’ll see) because each casts an accordant influence on a nation’s industrial policy. To quote the readily available article “How Germany Builds Twice As Many Cars As The U.S. While Paying Its Workers Twice As Much”, the average auto worker in Germany made “$67.14 per hour in salary in benefits; the average one in the U.S. made $33.77 per hour.” (Both of those numbers include fringe benefit costs… Keeping in mind that Germany has a national healthcare system!) Moving on to Korea, perhaps I could recommend “unions-are-driving-hyundai-and-general-motors-out-of-south-korea” as a search, or just think of the last time you recall the UAW battling with police commandos sent in to remove them from occupying a factory? About 1937 if you know your history. In Korea, it was 2009. It’s safe to say that South Korea has a vibrant labor movement that makes the modern UAW look like a Sunday-School picnic. The Japanese also have unions, (unimaginatively known as the JAW) who make wage and benefit demands, but the Japanese approach is more nuanced, given what is termed shūshin koyō, roughly translated to “lifetime job contract”.   Politics, Trade and Societal Norms: As you might imagine, generous pay and benefits don’t lend themselves to competition in a cut-throat world market. The simple answer was “Do Not”; at least for much of the 20th Century. The Anglo model of free-markets and competition simply isn’t looked upon the same way in Asia or continental Europe. Competition between companies is viewed as OK, but as you might imagine with such strong labor unions, there was little appetite for labor-price wars between nations. Before the European Union, tariffs upon German cars largely kept them out of France. French cars weren’t often seen in Italy. As recently as 2019, Japanese auto imports to Korea were 23,400 units, less than 1.4% of a 1.77-million-unit market. Two similar markets separated by 200 miles of water. Culturally, it’s more socially acceptable to drive an American car in Korea (a novelty) than a Japanese car (a competitor) and consequently, US imports to Korea were almost double the number of Japanese cars for 2019. In years gone by, the barriers to trade were fairly obvious. Outright bans on imports and steep tariffs gave way to costly “certification” procedures that would return an entire shipment on the basis of a defect found in one vehicle. Banks simply didn’t lend money for their own citizens to build foreign dealerships. To this day, European Value Added taxation (VAT) is computed on top of an American Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP), a price that takes into account any type of tax incurred while building a product (such as property taxes for a factory, etc.) For that reason, the same Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe that retails for $56,230 in the US will cost you 71.000 €; or $80,259. Ohio gets some tax money, and so does Das Vaterland. Of course that doesn’t totally prohibit American imports to foreign lands, but it damn sure marginalizes them enough that labor cost advantages are neutralized. In the meantime, American politicians concern themselves with opening bathrooms to the opposite sex, rather than foreign markets to American imports. Well there was that one guy who tried to do something about this, but he was “GoInG tO eNd dEmOcrAcy” as we knew it. It’s almost like the rest of the world and a lot of heavily-lobbied American politicians didn’t want these kinds of trade disparities to become yet another talking point among the unwashed deplorables.   Why Canada and Mexico aren’t as bad: Prior to 1965, traveling between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit Michigan not only took less time, but was looked upon more favorably then going to Ohio… No one from Michigan had ever shed blood over Canadian land. (Look up the Toledo War.) However, Canada did impose tariffs on vehicles built outside of the country. This meant the Detroit Three (and the independents) were wasting huge sums of money duplicating tooling to build identical vehicles literally minutes apart from each other. Sanity arrived in 1965 with what was known as “Auto Pact”, aka the Maple Leaf found on the driver’s door in any Chrysler Cordoba. The D3 agreed to keep Canadian employment at its current level in exchange for the removal of tariffs on American-built vehicles. Immediately, Canada became the sole-source for particular American-badged models, like the aforementioned Cordoba or any L-platform Mopar in the modern era. This was not only a financial benefit to the manufacturers, it resulted in the quality improvements gained by reducing model complexity at any given plant. Because Canadian and American workers earned similar pay (then represented by the same union) and had similar buying-power, this agreement was benign, or even ultimately beneficial to workers in both nations. A similar situation existed in Mexico, along with the idea of Mexican plant’s duplicating Detroit efforts. Thus 1992’s NAFTA was marketed using the Canadian Auto Pact’s success as an example. Of course, the Mexican government isn’t Canada. Organizing a meaningful union in Mexico is a good way to take a permanent vacation in the Sonoran-desert. Before long Mexico’s upper-caste saw an opportunity to exploit pennies-on-the-dollar labor into entirely new industries… That giant sucking sound which a marginalized, third-party Presidential candidate predicted. All of that said, the Detroit Three have not fled the US for Mexico. All of them have a similar number of Mexican employees and investment as they did before NAFTA. Of course they has become more efficient, sole-sourced and much more frequently mentioned, but each had manufacturing operations in Mexico dating back to the 1920s (and earlier in the case of the Model T). The real American job loss has come from new supplier investments and entirely new industries that didn’t exist in Mexico prior to NAFTA. By including a “minimum wage” provision in the USMCA, the Trump administration essentially did what the UAW failed to do 35 years earlier.    Why is a Mexican Hellcat better than an Alabama Hyundai: Quite simply because a platform of American origin will generate more employment in higher-paid fields of design/engineering, testing, procurement, marketing and service parts. While it’s far from an ideal situation, until someone changes what you’ve read above, some amount of low-cost/high-profit manufacturing sustains the motherships in Detroit. And by the way, try being a “superpower” without significant employment in STEM disciplines. The same resumes that land on desks in Warren, Dearborn and Auburn Hills, Michigan also land on desks throughout the country in environments like General Dynamics, Raytheon, Boeing, etc. Without a civilian industry, the knowledge becomes like a lost language because the demand for manufacturing engineers, logistics, and the supporting machine tooling dries up. I came from a mechanical background and was later trained how to write testing programs, using German-language software. I've never seen a computer-coder taught how to rebuild an engine. With the loss of its domestic industry, Australia within a generation will become either a tourist destination that doesn’t allow anyone inside, or perhaps a Chinese call center for semi-English speaking markets. Remember that Toyota once operated an Australian plant on the basis of “See mate? We employ people too!” That plant closed in 2017 and if the Aussies don’t like it, they can ride a Kangaroo.  If you don’t want to believe me that those jobs will never come to the US in the form of foreign-headquartered companies, then believe their own words from this 10-year old piece in Automotive News. I admit that I need to make a legitimate scan, but it says that despite cost advantages for American R&D, those disciplines are staying in their home markets. Try being an American purchasing a controlling interest in a German industrial company… their constitution forbids it! “foreign direct investments that are likely to affect public order or security in Germany or another EU member state, or relate to projects or programs of EU interest as set out in article 8 of the FDI Screening Regulation may be restricted, meaning the investment can be made subject to certain requirements or be prohibited.” Unlike the U.S. Government which was too busy prosecuting/defending the Monica Lewinsky scandal to notice the SEC filing that predicted Chrysler being hollowed-out by Daimler, I believe the Germans would take action.    Whew, that was a lot of typing.   ... View more

   No need to scratch me, I'll readily cop to loving railroad stuff, and steam engines particularly.  I used to live fairly close to the depot in Boise, Idaho back when there was still passenger traffic and steam locomotives came through occasionally.  Have an "American Freedom Train patch (from 1976) on my old riding vest.    Can't say as I know a lot of "factuals" about them, but I do love to see and hear them.  In fact, I proposed to Mrs. DUB6 in the cab of one (with the engineer's permission, of course).  We were at the end-of-line point on a scenic valley mining area ride and passengers were detrained to allow for engine turnaround.  The trainsmen notified everyone what we were doing, and they all silently gathered outside.  When we stepped down, they of course asked, "what'd she say?" and when I told them it was "yes", they gave us a cheer and round of applause.  To this day, we celebrate special days with something regarding trains whenever we can (including the Dollywood experience once). ... View more

This photo was taken by my father in Cisco Utah in July 1970 during the filming of VP. The kids are standing next to the 1967 Camaro. The Camaro was loaded with dynamite for the explosion in the final scene. Another detail about the Camaro, the roof had lead plates attached to it so it would blow outward instead of up through the roof. If you looks closely on the photo you can see the edge of that roof plate slightly behind the windshield. Of course this could never happen today. Too dangerous! We were on a one month vacation from Chicago to a bunch of National Parks out west. By pure luck we came upon the sight of the final scenes. We have 5 other photos taken during that day. A few if the photos were shown on Graveyard Carz and also in a book written by Robert Genat, about E-Body Mopars. ... View more

After enjoying my Christmas vacation, I’ve decided to expand a little more on my earlier posting. If I were as skilled as Jack, I could probably romanticize this and make it an enjoyable read. Brevity being the soul of wit, I’ll instead use bullet points. Maybe the underlying theme here is “you don’t know what you don’t know.”   Unions: For those of you who bemoan the United Auto Workers “running manufacturing out of the US” and I thus assume look to Germany, Korea and Japan as models of labor efficiency, please do a little research into their home-market operations. Germany’s IG Metall is the union which represents German autoworkers and with 2.3 million members, it represents 15% of the entire German workforce. On a good day, the UAW has about 390,000 members, mostly in Michigan, representing whatever ever-tinier percentage of the American workforce it thus equates to. That matters (as you’ll see) because each casts an accordant influence on a nation’s industrial policy. To quote the readily available article “How Germany Builds Twice As Many Cars As The U.S. While Paying Its Workers Twice As Much”, the average auto worker in Germany made “$67.14 per hour in salary in benefits; the average one in the U.S. made $33.77 per hour.” (Both of those numbers include fringe benefit costs… Keeping in mind that Germany has a national healthcare system!) Moving on to Korea, perhaps I could recommend “unions-are-driving-hyundai-and-general-motors-out-of-south-korea” as a search, or just think of the last time you recall the UAW battling with police commandos sent in to remove them from occupying a factory? About 1937 if you know your history. In Korea, it was 2009. It’s safe to say that South Korea has a vibrant labor movement that makes the modern UAW look like a Sunday-School picnic. The Japanese also have unions, (unimaginatively known as the JAW) who make wage and benefit demands, but the Japanese approach is more nuanced, given what is termed shūshin koyō, roughly translated to “lifetime job contract”.   Politics, Trade and Societal Norms: As you might imagine, generous pay and benefits don’t lend themselves to competition in a cut-throat world market. The simple answer was “Do Not”; at least for much of the 20th Century. The Anglo model of free-markets and competition simply isn’t looked upon the same way in Asia or continental Europe. Competition between companies is viewed as OK, but as you might imagine with such strong labor unions, there was little appetite for labor-price wars between nations. Before the European Union, tariffs upon German cars largely kept them out of France. French cars weren’t often seen in Italy. As recently as 2019, Japanese auto imports to Korea were 23,400 units, less than 1.4% of a 1.77-million-unit market. Two similar markets separated by 200 miles of water. Culturally, it’s more socially acceptable to drive an American car in Korea (a novelty) than a Japanese car (a competitor) and consequently, US imports to Korea were almost double the number of Japanese cars for 2019. In years gone by, the barriers to trade were fairly obvious. Outright bans on imports and steep tariffs gave way to costly “certification” procedures that would return an entire shipment on the basis of a defect found in one vehicle. Banks simply didn’t lend money for their own citizens to build foreign dealerships. To this day, European Value Added taxation (VAT) is computed on top of an American Manufacturer's Suggested Retail Price (MSRP), a price that takes into account any type of tax incurred while building a product (such as property taxes for a factory, etc.) For that reason, the same Jeep Wrangler Rubicon 4xe that retails for $56,230 in the US will cost you 71.000 €; or $80,259. Ohio gets some tax money, and so does Das Vaterland. Of course that doesn’t totally prohibit American imports to foreign lands, but it damn sure marginalizes them enough that labor cost advantages are neutralized. In the meantime, American politicians concern themselves with opening bathrooms to the opposite sex, rather than foreign markets to American imports. Well there was that one guy who tried to do something about this, but he was “GoInG tO eNd dEmOcrAcy” as we knew it. It’s almost like the rest of the world and a lot of heavily-lobbied American politicians didn’t want these kinds of trade disparities to become yet another talking point among the unwashed deplorables.   Why Canada and Mexico aren’t as bad: Prior to 1965, traveling between Windsor, Ontario and Detroit Michigan not only took less time, but was looked upon more favorably then going to Ohio… No one from Michigan had ever shed blood over Canadian land. (Look up the Toledo War.) However, Canada did impose tariffs on vehicles built outside of the country. This meant the Detroit Three (and the independents) were wasting huge sums of money duplicating tooling to build identical vehicles literally minutes apart from each other. Sanity arrived in 1965 with what was known as “Auto Pact”, aka the Maple Leaf found on the driver’s door in any Chrysler Cordoba. The D3 agreed to keep Canadian employment at its current level in exchange for the removal of tariffs on American-built vehicles. Immediately, Canada became the sole-source for particular American-badged models, like the aforementioned Cordoba or any L-platform Mopar in the modern era. This was not only a financial benefit to the manufacturers, it resulted in the quality improvements gained by reducing model complexity at any given plant. Because Canadian and American workers earned similar pay (then represented by the same union) and had similar buying-power, this agreement was benign, or even ultimately beneficial to workers in both nations. A similar situation existed in Mexico, along with the idea of Mexican plant’s duplicating Detroit efforts. Thus 1992’s NAFTA was marketed using the Canadian Auto Pact’s success as an example. Of course, the Mexican government isn’t Canada. Organizing a meaningful union in Mexico is a good way to take a permanent vacation in the Sonoran-desert. Before long Mexico’s upper-caste saw an opportunity to exploit pennies-on-the-dollar labor into entirely new industries… That giant sucking sound which a marginalized, third-party Presidential candidate predicted. All of that said, the Detroit Three have not fled the US for Mexico. All of them have a similar number of Mexican employees and investment as they did before NAFTA. Of course they has become more efficient, sole-sourced and much more frequently mentioned, but each had manufacturing operations in Mexico dating back to the 1920s (and earlier in the case of the Model T). The real American job loss has come from new supplier investments and entirely new industries that didn’t exist in Mexico prior to NAFTA. By including a “minimum wage” provision in the USMCA, the Trump administration essentially did what the UAW failed to do 35 years earlier.    Why is a Mexican Hellcat better than an Alabama Hyundai: Quite simply because a platform of American origin will generate more employment in higher-paid fields of design/engineering, testing, procurement, marketing and service parts. While it’s far from an ideal situation, until someone changes what you’ve read above, some amount of low-cost/high-profit manufacturing sustains the motherships in Detroit. And by the way, try being a “superpower” without significant employment in STEM disciplines. The same resumes that land on desks in Warren, Dearborn and Auburn Hills, Michigan also land on desks throughout the country in environments like General Dynamics, Raytheon, Boeing, etc. Without a civilian industry, the knowledge becomes like a lost language because the demand for manufacturing engineers, logistics, and the supporting machine tooling dries up. I came from a mechanical background and was later trained how to write testing programs, using German-language software. I've never seen a computer-coder taught how to rebuild an engine. With the loss of its domestic industry, Australia within a generation will become either a tourist destination that doesn’t allow anyone inside, or perhaps a Chinese call center for semi-English speaking markets. Remember that Toyota once operated an Australian plant on the basis of “See mate? We employ people too!” That plant closed in 2017 and if the Aussies don’t like it, they can ride a Kangaroo.  If you don’t want to believe me that those jobs will never come to the US in the form of foreign-headquartered companies, then believe their own words from this 10-year old piece in Automotive News. I admit that I need to make a legitimate scan, but it says that despite cost advantages for American R&D, those disciplines are staying in their home markets. Try being an American purchasing a controlling interest in a German industrial company… their constitution forbids it! “foreign direct investments that are likely to affect public order or security in Germany or another EU member state, or relate to projects or programs of EU interest as set out in article 8 of the FDI Screening Regulation may be restricted, meaning the investment can be made subject to certain requirements or be prohibited.” Unlike the U.S. Government which was too busy prosecuting/defending the Monica Lewinsky scandal to notice the SEC filing that predicted Chrysler being hollowed-out by Daimler, I believe the Germans would take action.    Whew, that was a lot of typing.   ... View more

Neither of them grew up wealthy, bezos started out by selling books in his parents dining room and musk made his by starting a successful map software. ... View more

There will be fires and deaths as this is a less forgiving form than a hot and heavy engine.  God know we have people now that should not be turning wrenches.  This tech you need to know what you are doing. I have already seen what training fire and safety crews need to know.  It could thin the heard though. Lol! ... View more

We drove 9C1 (police pkg) boxes in 84 and then from 87-90. The 84’s had Chevette bucket seats (really) that collapsed within months of being put in service. Camshafts turned into dowel rods by 20K. Brakes faded badly. But they sure were nimble, and much quicker off the line than the Diplomats we also had. The 87-90 boxes were nearly perfect-all the weak points of the 84s were resolved, plus they were quicker. The 91s (Shamu when painted the traditional black and white) were so disappointing-slow and ponderous, with a troubling lightness in the rear end when driven at speed. 94 saw the introduction of the iron-head LT1, and the complaints disappeared. The handling may have still been ponderous and the rear light at speed, but that all was lost in the wake of all that glorious power! In the days before dashcams (and before my acquisition of common sense), I saw 137 mph in a slick top. I ran out of road before I ran out of acceleration so I’m not sure what the top end really was. That the fastest squad I’ve ever driven (though the hemi Chargers and turbo Fords of today will leave it for dead), and I wouldn’t mind driving one today still. ... View more

Please just Morn the racer and save the woke politics for a story on woke politics.  Sorry to be direct but the blatant hints are not working.  ... View more

“ When is this nonsense going to stop?”   when you stop thinking you have inalienable rights and freedoms.      ... View more

I'm thinking there are bound to be other things that really needed updating or replacing that would be encountered with the dash off. But congratulations. Progress is progress, and maybe over time the smell goes away. ... View more

Mannix - hadn't thought of that one in years - one of my favorites at the time!   😊 ... View more

It was lovely ... View more

I love how the switch blanks in the Pony are labeled to remind you of the options you couldn't afford. ... View more

Hey there @knownasthedude, the Aztec is definitely something we would be interested in insuring! If you want to send me a PM with your email Id love to look into this a little more for you.  ... View more

A better way to go is the Chevy Nomad prototype, based the the 1953 Corvette. Purists who oppose a Corvette station wagon love the Chevy Nomad, which was in production for years. An after-market wagon modification was available for C3s, and is not rare. A C2 four-seat wagon would be just fine. ... View more

I agree with you with one issue. Auto trans is the way to go "if" you are over say 60 and live in a high traffic area. Stick will eventually break your leg in either case. Auto is a much more enjoyable drive and a whole lot less work. Ski in TX (1990 LX 5.O Auto) ... View more

Parents and grandparents, best Christmas-Ever.   ... View more

Yep, you're probably right about it. ... View more

Lame redo on a failed truck and bad Hustler story. Hmmm….. I’m glad no one is making a living with this stuff. ... View more

Very good. Very, very good. ... View more

I got the point. Don't let the fun-killers win. While I was amused at your Spinning Rock take, I'm surprised you didn't go Uncle Tom McCahill? I'm catching up on these during lunch, maybe I just haven't read it yet... ... View more