Robert Hall

One Honda I've liked for the last 15+ years is this: And I'll own one sooner or later.. I've always liked styling, and love the way they drive...a friend of mine has a '91 that I've driven a few times, a very fun car on a windy road.

The purple thing in the fifth photo sure is strange.

Yeah, seems odd to me too..but June will make 20 years since I got my drivers license., and I'll have had my '87 Mustang GT 20 years in May '07. It doesn't seem like it's been that long...

Sweeet....love the stone work and location...looks like an Aspen residence.

We had a karaoke machine at my company's Festivus party last year...among other songs, I sang 'Pour Some Sugar On Me' in a William Shatner style...(I'd had a few shots of Jaegermiester). Eventually a friend took the microphone away from me..

Yeah, it does seem like an odd pairing, but it would be fun.. I'm not much of a Bryan Adams fan, but I love Def Leppard...partay like it's 1985..

I haven't really developed a taste for German cuisine. Nor German pop music. Or movies. Though I do love many German cars.

I'd like a house with a concealed 10 car garage (built underground or in a hillside) and the house built partially into a hillside with a view out over a valley. Lots of stone, glass, and steel. Oh course, that's a pipe dream for now...my next home will likely be a decent $400k 4-5 bedroom 3000 sq foot recent build in suburbia w/ a 3 car garage and big basement (for the home theatre). I've outgrown my 1200 sq ft loft.

Maybe for '07 they will rename the Grand Prix GXP the GTO. I wouldn't put it past GM..

i'm afraid that one is almost 2mil... in CT.

Cold War

I'd have to vote for Thai... I definitely get cravings for it.. the noodle dishes, the curries.. I can't go more than a few days without some. We have quite a few excellent Thai restaurants here in Denver. I love Chinese also... moo shu pork, mongorian beef, potstickers, lettuce wraps.. a bottle of Tsingtao. and Vietnamese--a bowl of Pho, a noodle bowl, some spring rolls... I love Italian (Northern, Southern, Tuscan).. definitely like Greek and other Mediterranian food--Syrian, Persian, Morroccan... I'm happy with hummus and falafel, some lamb. I love Indian also--chicken vindaloo, some dal, some naan, a pakora, a samosa...with a bottle of Flying Horse.. I had some really good Ethiopian a couple of weeks ago, and a Somalian restuarant opened recently, have to check it out. I also get cravings for good 'ol Mercun vittles--- BBQ ribs, cheesesteaks, cheeseburgers, chicken fried steak, biscuits and gravy... I love to eat. I guess that is part of why I'm 6-foot, 220 lbs.. (my friends say I look like a small Tony Soprano with my hairline and shape).

I've lost a couple of close friends before--one of my two best friends from high school went into the Army, trained as a chopper pilot, served in Desert Storm, then died in car accident in Germany a few years later. Another close friend in grad school died in Michigan when a semi ran over his motorcycle. I've been trying to cut back on the workaholic thing myself over the last year...consiously gone from 70 hr weeks to 45-55 hr weeks...the long hours have mentally taken a toll on me and my relationship w/ my g/f (she works long hours and travels for work a lot)., and hasn't helped my waistline (not enough exercise, too much take-out food and alcohol). With tight deadlines, outsourcing, and desperate customers overtime and workaholic environments seem to be hard to escape in the software biz.

Travel... even just the weekend getaways w/ my g/f or w/ friends. Drive 100-150 miles and it's a totally different environment (Breckenridge, Vail, Aspen, etc). A weekend in the mountains is so relaxing. Or a 3-day weekend down in Phoenix or LA. I love the 1-2 week trips to Europe every couple of years, but they are exhausting. I'll probably take a few days and go up to Oregon and Washington this summer and explore some more. I love going to concerts also...last year was a good year--saw U2 6 times, Green Day, Foo Fighters. Going to go see David Gilmour in April.

U2

Yeah, we had occasionally joked at work about the when the project would going to kill someone...didn't think it would literally happen. Though I have another colleague who had a mild heart attack at work at age 31 and another that had a nervous breakdown at 32....both put in over 3000 hrs last year. (my company has a long history of being a workaholic/alcoholic company, esp. amongst the Canadian expatriates that founded it).

Interesting color...kind of a flat mustard.

My brother had a blue '83 Monte SS for a couple years-bought it new, traded it on an '86 IROC-Z. Nice car, always liked the color. The '80s G-body coupes (MC, Regal, GP, Cutlass) and '80s B-bodies (Caprice, Parisienne, 88) always have happy memories to me of my high school years, as those were the cars many of my friends had, along with the Mustang 5.0s, IROCs, and Trans Ams..good times in good cars back in the day...

Yes, it was freaky...he had gone to lunch with myself and few other coworkers on Friday... we were planning on going skiing together with a few friends next weekend. I'm still shocked about it.

Anyone remember the '80s cars with the factory padded tops... my dad had a couple Lincoln Town Car Signature Series w/ 1/2 padded tops, first an '84 then an '88 (similar to this one on ebay which has only 39k miles). Kinda gaudy, but smooth and cushy. I used to drive his to high school occasionally back in the day...

I can only imagine that there are new Lucernes and DTSes out there done this way... (I've seen a couple CTSes and STSes with this special 'fogeyluxo' treatment..

It seems very strange to me... and potentially quite dangerous...(or maybe I've been watching too much '24' lately).

'G7'.

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I test drove one a while back..loved the interior, but felt $40-45k would be a better price point. That said, I really, really liked the TL..if I were going to buy a FWD commuter car, it would be a loaded TL with the 6-speed manual...loved the interior and exterior, the size is right, etc.