G. David Felt

Very Interesting and a solid debate issue for our group. I personally like the look but needs a few tweaks and like DF said, it should be unique to the brand not a rebadge.

Good Luck DF on the engine swap Project. Take pictures and keep us posted as to the change out and details of the work.

Found a 1987 Monte Carlo Areo SS model with T top. If the price is right this might just be my next project.

Yup Grew up in Kirkland, specifically Totem Lake, went to Juanita High School and lived only 2 miles from Chateau St. Michelle which is across from Columbia. both have been there for ever. Great place to spend a weekend. Woodinville now has 44 wineries, you can get on the wine bus and tour them all and just pay your tasting free and munch on the free food and have a great weekend. That is a frugal weekend indeed. Great way to take a date out for fun time.

Back on the first page I included the link to the test in my post. Go there and you can take it.

Actually Monica has a clothing line and purse line that is selling and she went in 2006 to England to work on her masters. She has actually become very successfull on her own. Lately she did a boat cruise and here are more current pics of her. Not bad looking but has put some weight on. Keep in mind that her mouth could suck all including the balls in one shot I am sure. Another Julie Roberts type with that toothy smile, but would anyone pass on a free offer from her? Monica Lewinsky Cruise photos

I will agree with just about all that is stated here plus here is some additional input: Gewurztraminer is sweeter usually then Riesling. Both can be either dry or wet in their finish in the mouth. These wines will be fruity, on the sweet side and for most part very pleasing especially on a sunny day. If you want even sweeter wine, then you have the Ice Wine or late harvest wines. These will have even more sugar and the Ice Wine and Late harvest will also have a higher alcohol content but due to the sweetnes you will not tast the alcohol. Wine is all about preferance and tast. I would strongly suggest you visit a winery and listen to them explain the wines, ask questions and try both red and white to see what you really like. If you have more questions fire away, [email protected]. Here is a great winery, it happens to be local to where I live in Seattle and is frugal. They do have more expensive wines, but for beginners, you do not need to spend allot of money to get an enjoyable wine. 10 - 15 dollars a bottle can get some very pleasing wines. Columbia Winery Here is a link to a collection of books on wines and how to understand them. Some great info Wine Book Selection Have fun as wine drinking and collecting can be very fun.

thanks for pointing me to it, great story and build up from rust out situation. Hope it all continues to run well for you. Updated after seeing comment above. Sorry to hear you do not have it any longer. hope you find a new project that will rock your auto dreams also.

Interesting as I remember visiting my old High school and talking about career paths in the late 80's and I mentioned about that little software company in my backyard called Microsoft. Many students laughed, made fun and even some of the people I graduated with also made remarks about my choice of career. Course then into the 90's and I finally go to one of my highschool reunions and listen to a nuch of the people talk about how great it is to work for Microsoft and yet these were the same idiots who made fun of my choice before it was cool to be a nerd. Just chalk it up to being on the bleeding edge of society. At least it has been a very interesting journey.

Like Bill Clinton, i would have taken the BJ from monica too over Hillary doing it to me. In regards to her ability to work, I do respect them as they are well educated thinkers. It does not mean they always do the right thing but IMO they have done better than Shrub did for this country.

Would you want a Fix or Repair Daily in your driveway? I borrowed a friends F250 Super Duty, what a piece, and yet they lead in selling trucks. I will never understand that.

Yup that will buff out! Is that a Roadmaster edition station wagon? Good luck, looks like you got a nice clean up done so you can get going on the rebuild portion. in regards to all the others, there is that special cream they always sell at the auto shows that buffs out anything. I am sure it can buff out the million dollar Bugatti.

Not pot heads, just a knee jerk reaction to people hearing that GM might go bankrupt and lack of incentives to buy the auto's.

I have 3 units I use right now, 512mb DELL unit I loan out to people, 4GB and 8GB Data Traveler for work. I just ordered up the 32GB Data Travelers for my FVT Team as this will allow us to have these units as full bootable USB fobs. I am going to also get a few 64GB models. I have found from a reliability standpoint that Kingston is the best, even when one actually got broke by an idiot who no longer works for me, Kingston still exchanged it for free with their warrenty. They are great.

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Personally I would go for it and be hard about negotiations for a lower price. If the weather is cold, by all means start it up and listen as I have the 6.0 V8 and they do have a large annoying issue. The lifter knock on start up. I have gone from regular to mixed to pure sythetic and mine still knocks and GM says it is normal and expected. It did not do this for the first 25K miles or so but at 50K it sure is noticable on a frozen morning day for a few seconds and then goes away. Some people have gotten GM to fix the noise but they do not do it for everyone, not really sure how they correct the noise either as it has hydrolic lifters so I would have to think they replace them. Looks sharp and nice, go for it.

I will disagree with Ocnblu, this car is plain, very ugly and the interior is pathetic. There are far superior auto's out there in the same price rang, some very much american. Why send our hard earned cash out of the country? Live in America, Buy American and Drive American IMO.

I see a nicely done knock off of the Aston Martin. The interior is a nice concept but terrible for us big guys, talk about a tight interior with no room. I see this as a very nice evolution of the Aston Martin line. Nothing original as is usual for this company.

Understandable considering the situation of GM, the lack of incentives, etc as they state in the story. I suspect GM will come back with a vengence in March.

Is it an Allard? Kinda looks like one?

I was fortunate enough to get my company to pay for my current system due to working from home as I have to be available 24 / 7 so I got a new Dual Quad Core with dual 1GB Video cards and 8GB ram. Plus I am using a 80GB SSD drive for boot and a 500GB sata 7200RPM for data and software install. It just rocks on the server. I can understand a slow PC can suck for running intensive games. Glad you can enjoy it on the xbox. Rock on and Flag everyone!

I will have to disgree with you that it is only sheetmetal. For me, the Northstar engine is great, but the rest of the package needs major renovation. Suspension, interior layout, seat design and support etc. I feel this car should also come with an AWD option on top of a superior suspension package and a newer sheetmental along with top notch internal material.

The focus that I believe was lost in the Stimulus bill is that we need to invest in this country that causes companies to hire. The bill covered billions to bail out both red and blue states that could not manage their own money and pay for extended unemployment benefits. If they had taken the 800 billion and spent it on roads, infastructure and building upgrades. This would cause a Huge hiring boom as companies will need people to get this work done. Add on that all employees, both part time and full time must be covered with insurance and you have a win win situation for getting America back to work. Upgraded bridges, roads, electrical, etc. The amount of work that needs to be done cannot be accomplished in 1 or even 2 years so we are looking at long term hiring and growth with a country that ends up having one of the best infastructures in the world. IMO

I bought this for my son this weekend and he loves it. I tried to play but the xbox 360 clearly is for people with small hands. I will stick with first person shoters on my computer as I handle the keyboard and mouse much better than the small controllers on xbox or playstation.

Personally the DTS has a market as they sell many of these profitable auto's to the baby boomers, but it is what I think will be the last of it's kind in regards to the Float ride. They sit too low to the ground, I hate the float ride feel, STS is better but not by much. Yes the auto has lots of internal room and I love that for a big family. Time to retire and replace it but due to the current economic issues, we will still see it for at least another 4 years.