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I would have imagined! This would have been cast-iron block/cast-iron head with the injection through what looks to have a carburetor*, right? I like cast-iron block/cast-iron head engines. *a RWD Monte Carlo with the 4.3 Vortec V6 I once got to drive had the TBI in what looked like an everyday air cleaner assembly! "Original issue" Sevilles had their TBI in what looked like a regular air cleaner assembly as well.

Awesome. I'm really glad to hear that the General puts out such good vehicles. If only the foreign-car aficionados could see that our odometers match, or exceed, theirs, things might be different in Detroit today. And this is speaking from remembering the era in the Los Angeles area where everybody had, or wanted, a Cutlass Supreme, Greg Brady hair was commonplace, disco reigned, house prices were reasonable and the sun shone! (Well, at least the sun still shines). Which engine powers your sled?

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Happy Birthday to another Angeleno (who's lucky enough to still be there)!

I seem to notice the DTSs on the road. To me, they look particularly good in lighter mettalic colors - silver, ice blue, seafoam green...those types of colors. I am really impressed that, overall, Cadillac has put out good-looking cars for at least 5 years now. The DTS is my favorite by a wide margin. The styling is nicely proportioned and will withstand the test of time. I think that angular styling will always win over bulbuous/rounded styling over the long-haul. It's for that reason that I don't like any of the "rounded" cars (Enclave, Charger, Dodge trucks, etc). Look how Americans still long for the cars with classic angular looks (the Cutlasses of the 70s and 80s, Camaros and Firebirds of the 80s, the first FWD Park Avenues, 98s and DeVilles). I'll be keeping my LaCrosse for a while, but wonder if I'd pop for a DTS as a second car a couple of years down the road if I found a low mileage one with a great price. So, here's the question: aren't these cars a royal pain in the ass after 7 years or so when all the electric gizmos and toys take turns going on the blink? (We had a receptionist at work who had a mid-90s vintage DeVille who loved the car, but would tell me that every 2 months, she had an expensive power accessory go out that cost at least $ 400 to repair. Yikes). So, your thoughts or experiences with DTS/DeVilles on the more recent FWD platform?

My father had a completely different experience. Before emigrating, he moved from southern Italy to Bolzano to work. It was very clear that, up there near the border with Switzerland and Austria, a "terrone" (derogatory word for a southern Italian who was presumed to have working-class agrarian roots) was not welcomed. He lasted less than 1 year.

Well, notice that the Aryan-Nordic types come to Italy and Spain to vacation, buy condos, retire and some want so badly "to be" Italian or Spanish, but the people in those countries don't care to visit those places and really don't even like them very much.

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Hey Cadillac, I thought you might find this is funny. When I was in college in SoCal and we would road-trip to Yosemite, we would always grab breakfast at Bob's Big Boy (not there anymore) on Blackstone at some ridiculous early hour. We would ask ourselves what the acronym would be if the Fresno area got a rapid transit system, like BART....hmmmm Still, I think an icon showing some kind of "wind" motion could be good.

...and those Arabs would have largely been the Moors crossing over at, or near, Gibraltar. The Moorish influence in the architecture of Spanish Andalucia and the Portuguese Algarve is really interesting. In fact, a bunch of the area names down there, such as Algarve and Albufeira, have Moorish roots.

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That's what I've always heard - that it's a Teutonic/Latin hybrid. One question, though. What enabled us (via the English language) to escape the ridiculous "tu/usted, tu/vous, tu/lei?" I really resent this and have fouled up here a time or two, only to be reprimanded by some elitist $h! who was offended.

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That has beans in it, right ZL? Do we have an icon for "fart?"

Total Fitness (their annyoing renewal offers, with a hook, go into the circular file)

Yes, to some extent... but manicotti and cannoli...UNBELIEVABLE

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Dolly Parton (mais nao e muito nova)

Well, in Guido-land, it's "vaffanculo" (literally, it means something WORSE, but idiomatically, it means "eff off" or "go to hell") - how do you say "eff off" in Portuguese? (I may need to know that this summer).

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One more thing: The "road map" on this chart would make Sardinian unintelligble to Italians. It sounds pretty weird. Heck, they are closer to Spain than they are to Italy. I couldn't believe how many Spanish surnames are found throughout Sardinia: Palmas, Torres, etc.. Sardinia and Sicily are the best places to go in Italy if you want beach, bar none.

Very cool. 3 questions/comments: (1) where is the actual "Italian" listed instead of "Italian dialects?" (2) I do not like Catalan...just don't like it. The funny thing is that textbook Spanish, as taught to American kids, is what is spoken in South America, and not in Spain. While I was visiting Spain, someone once said to me "usted habla un Espanol correcto, que no es el Castellano." I took that as a compliment. (3) Is proximity indicated by the chart? In other words, I know Italian is closer to Spanish, yet French shows up closer. You'll like this...you know that, because of its position and "colonizations," Sicilian has absorbed words from French (accatare instead of comprare, and on and on) but it is freakily similar to Portuguese in structure...that is, the articles and prepositions in Sicilian are just like those of Portuguese instead of those of the "Sienese/Florentine" mother tongue. I wonder how that happened? Bottom line: I picked the wrong major in college.

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Title was misleading. I was expecting a YouTube on Guidos acting/looking loke idiots, but this was a pleasant surprise. The red/red combination is killer. I am assuming it's a 5.7 liter V8 (as opposed to a 5.0) and still was all cast-iron construction in that day. Wow...in all aspects...but I think your head rules over your heart ($20K).

Yeah, I was wondering the same thing...is it an invite or the usual flaunting of culture and wealth...this place just wouldn't be the same without PCS? So, B, are we invited?