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That's a trippy choice for a college student. The dad and the son must be free thinkers who don't need conformity to guide them. - - - - - Well, something had to sour the trip. Here it is ... spotted on October 8: the car for free thinkers who aren't such free thinkers.

I chose the laugh icon because I'd be afraid to feed it. The mpg I got between Tampa Bay and Orlando in that base Charger sold me on the 3.6.

I realize I captioned a photo up above incorrectly. The engine bay has a 3.6, and not a 3.5. They will obviously have some money in the budget to fine tune these vehicles' styling and amenities for the next 3 years. I hope they take them in the right direction. Sometimes, there is some floundering and wavering with how they change things up. Take the 300. I liked the clean, horizontal grille of this mid-decade more so than the later and current blacked out eggcrate/honeycomb grille. I think that these platforms are continuing on for a few reasons. FCA may have some hesitation about the next moves with this platform and may be buying time. With GM and Ford leaving this segment, they have it to themselves among domestic brands. Police fleets and rental car companies, as well as die-hard fans of this platform, will buy them again. In consumers sounding off, quite a few have stepped up from one Charger to another one, or one 300 to another one, over the last dozen or so years.

Yes, in the DTS, too. And Parks and LeSabres of that era. I liked them in that they made interiors look less cluttered.

You make no sense and I don't get the humor. I can't possibly remember the old vehicles from "The Godfather" except that the "cannoli car" was big, American, bulbous, and about that color. - - - - - Spotted on October 7 near the Straits of Mackinac Bridge, a wonderful area. I did it again ... you know, some interior photos. I've got a soft spot for the Bonnes, given that I was invited to a car clinic where I got to drive one on a test track with pylons when newly released. I was surprised I liked it as much as I did and that it handled nimbly for its size. I can't tell the years on these Bonnes. Most of the ones I see seem to be this color, silver, or white. This one has too much ribbed side cladding. I think the automatic lamps in my vehicle light up the rear light bar on the Bonne since it was late in the afternoon Busy interior and dashboard and Pontiac sure liked to put circular vents and gauges anywhere they could. That extra pod with climate control vents scabbed on to the right of the center stack has always looked weird but, otherwise, the dash is cool. This interior is super comfortable and supportive, I'm sure. This is the only car I can think of where the seat belts were anchored to the seat, and not to a pillar or structure that is not part of the seat. I wonder why that was discontinued and how well that worked, but I've always thought it was an interesting set-up. And I also like the perforated headrests, which were also found in Grand Prixs during that span of years.

Thank you for using the word concrete. Meh ... I know you know the score on this topic. Quite a few learned people tend to use the word cement for it. It's probably even the most common way to refer to it. However, it is okay to use if you're the Clampitts and have a "cement pond."

Woohoo! Thank you for this link. This means I have some safe options suitable for my boring and time tested shopping methodology for automobiles.

This car has "take the cannoli" written all over it.

I also saw this (October 5) and wouldn't know what to call it ...

October 5 - when it rains, it pours ... W-bodies: By the color, I'm going to say 2007. I had this same car/color in Montreal as a rental. That's just dirt I see. Amazing that there's no visible rust. No comment about the other stuff I could comment on. A cobbled together Intrigue ... I'm going to say '98 or '99, or are those alloys from 2000 and beyond? It's hard to tell without looking at the rear fascia. A LaX at a pull out overlooking the lake and a sandy beach ... beautiful view (of the lake and the beach). This was a rough 2005 or 2006. Apparently, these things keep going and going, given the harsh conditions.

Sediment * Wheel of Fortune mistake? *

This looks like something out of a Disney flick or a poster from the hippie days.

Donation

It's not that it's on the market or in the market. It's that I keep going back to the fridge saying, "I'll just eat a few more spoonfuls," and it's gone way too soon. And then you don't feel that great afterwards. I keep telling myself that I won't buy ice cream cartons (in some form of chocolate) anymore and then I repeat this mistake every 2 months or so. Tonight, I learned that I can't buy Trader Joe's water crackers, either.

October 4 - special purpose post - yeah, right ... I suppose it's weird to point your phone camera into a parked car's interior. Here you have a photo of the interior of a parked 2004 Grand Prix. I remember that I had reentered the market to purchase at that time and liked these GPs, especially their "wraparound" dash and console. That very first year, and maybe into the second year, their cloth interior was bizarre (see photo). This is what you'd see in an econobox by Renault, Fiat, etc. overseas. It was almost like backpack material. It would probably last forever, though. They changed it to a normal cloth interior in subsequent years. I don't know if they were trying to appear European ... or go on the cheap.

Caboose

"Ten - four." This would mean October, 4 spotting in this case: Wow, this T-bird is a blast from the past. One of our neighbors when I was a kid, a Mexican lady who would give my mom a ride to church with her, had one of these, or maybe a slightly later version. It had the sequential blinking turn signals in the back, as did the more svelte Mercury Cougars of a few years later, as well as a steering wheel that tilted away, in a diagonal direction. Don't know the year of this one. It was for sale. Don't know how much they were asking ... not really a FoMoCo buyer.

I wish peak autumn color could hang around for two MONTHS instead of just two WEEKS ...

I cannot buy cartons of ice cream at the store anymore.

I'm going to guess '74, maybe '75. I'd pull over, too! That's a good price - probably a 400 c.i., maybe a 455 c.i.? Back to the V6. I don't think I'd want to do the turbo 231. It's not a project I'd do or could do. I was wondering if one could swap out the '77 "odd firing" V6 for the "even firing" "offset crankshaft" one that followed in '78, '79, '80 etc. My dad had an '80 N.A. 231 and it fared well, save some CCC issues. I had an '84 N.A. 231 in a hand me down Olds and really liked it. It's more about getting an engine that has less vibration and more longevity. There really was a difference in smoothness. So, I want to know if the basic exterior design of the following 231 ('78 on) matches up in terms of manifolds, throttle cables, and all that, or is it different enough that a swap wouldn't be a slam dunk. They made that last "even firing" 231 N.A. engine with a carburetor from '78 up to the '87 or '88 M.Y.

Aggressive * ever watch them chase those "Jungle Cruise at Disneyland" type boats in the same body of water that they're in? *

October 3 - more conventional cars seen: Blast from the past - I believe it was an '85, per the grille - in very good condition - could do without the pimpy coach light and metal decoration in the B-pillar This was about 4 houses away from the Cutlass! Just a minute or so away. Wow. Again, these look sharp in silver with burgundy leather inside. Who said we don't need coupes anymore? A GP in great condition considering where it was - a 2004 because of those wheel colors and a keyed trunk lock - all that was missing here was Mary Tyler Moore (just kidding ... RIP MTM, a cool lady). Last but not least, the Chrysler product - a Ram truck. Granted, their grilles have gotten nicer. Within the last few years, it has finally sunken in that it's not a Dodge Ram, but a Ram. What struck me here is that this dude, or chick, can keep their truck in perfect condition but not pop for a needed window pane for their garage door in a cold climate.

I'll do this post as a stand-alone post and do the boring more current domestics as a separate one. October 3rd - a very clean (unknown year to me) Chevrolet Bel Air convertible

I have Windows on the HP I bought a while back. So far, I have really liked their home computers. It's the only brand I've ever owned. *keeping my fingers crossed.* I have read that Microsoft has done a really good with the current Edge browser and it is giving Chrome and Mozilla some stiff competition. I'll look again to see if Safari is Mac only. I was doing a quick glance of the articles and I think I pulled one up that said it was also available on a PC, but that article could be stale dated by now.

Any ideas on these as additional browsers for Windows on a home desktop computer? (Pros and cons of these) Epic? Opera? Safari? Every once in a while, you might be in a hotel lobby's business center and see that they have Opera or Safari as a browser.