Archive for the ‘Cars’ Category
Awesome/Not so awesome
Awesome: just made the Dean’s List. For the first semester I’ve been at my university.
Not so awesome: I’m not at class right now, because I can’t get out to the main road. Because the county decided that the hill with a small sinkhole would be an awesome place to scavenge gravel from.
Now the hill has a large sinkhole. I miss having a four wheel drive vehicle. (sigh)
“I’m from the government…”
“… and I’m here to sink you.” Ford sales up 33%, GM sales down 6%, Chrysler down 4%. How’s that bailout workin’ for ya’, GM? Oh, and the guy now running the show (Whitacre) admits he knows nothing about cars… but he does have a history of co-operation with the government. No wonder the company’s in a death spiral.
As I’ve said before, I’ll never buy a GM vehicle again. It would have pained my dad to have seen GM in such a shape… would have hurt him even more to buy a Ford. (chuckle)
(H/T Uncle)
Automobiles
Via Tam, a video from Kevin Baker about car safety. Go watch it, old timers… trust me, it’s revealing. What’s unnerving is that my dad had a ‘57 Bel Air (4 door with the post, 283 Power Pack V6, and glass pack mufflers.) and he drove like he had stolen it.
As an example, one time (during Dad’s early years) a man came into the local diner and made the announcement that someone driving a Bel Air had been rear ended and killed, and that he thought it was Dad. One of the men spoke up and said “No way in Hell! No one’s that damn fast!”
I’ll take my Century (quit laughing!) over a deathtrap any day. Same engine as a Grand Prix, Lumina or Malibu, but with better styling, a bigger AC, and the safety of being viewed as a Granny-mobile. (By the way, she’ll beat a Grand Prix off the line and in the quarter mile. As far as to how I know this, I plead the Fifth.) Too bad I’ve sworn to never buy a Government Motors product again… looks like a Crown Vic or Town Car for me. (Time to see when the local PD has their vehicle auction…)
I still want a GSX or Invicta. They may be rolling death raps, but they’re stylish rolling death traps.
