Robert Hall

Spotted a solid red '70 Ford Torino GT convertible in a driveway, looked like it was being worked on.

I've found the C8 to look better in person than in photos. And especially looks good in dark colors, which show off the dozens of creases on the frunk lid and bodysides. Not a fan of white or the dayglo cartoon colors, really like the bronze w/ tan leather interior.

Short sleeve dress shirts w/ ties and shorts...very strange. Maybe a 70s Florida thing?

Power been off a few hours from a storm. Ugh

I’d really like to have an additional garage or small barn to have space for a project car and to tinker. Something quasi-rural but not really rural like my family farm.

My next will be a ranch. I hadn't lived with stairs since childhood, it's been painful at times going up and down 3 flights to do laundry. Albeit short flights.

Yes, 3 levels plus the basement. The right side is living room, kitchen, dining room, 4 steps up from the front hallway and TV room...the TV room is at the same level as the garage, w/ a sliding door leading to the back patio...I have office space in the corner of the TV room and in one of the bedrooms.

One of the auto fix up YouTube channels I like is Watch JRGo, he's recently done repairs on a barn-find Aztek, an GMC XUV (had to replace the sliding roof), among other vehicles..his latest acquisition is this neat 1977 Mack firetruck. Fun stuff...

So 30 minutes a day is unrealistic for most heavy equipment probably, except maybe something like those giant earth movers or huge off-road dump trucks.

30 minutes a day refueling each vehicle. Maybe driving hundreds (thousands?) of miles a day w/ a large tank and very slow pumps... ?

Yes, great garden. I really haven't done much gardening, mostly been planting shrubbery in my back yard. My cookie-cutter 1967 split level---2000 sq ft (+ 750 sq ft finished basement), 4 bedrooms, 2 1/2 bathrooms, 1/4 acre lot, undersized 2 car garage. Wish the garage was bigger, but all in all I've been happy with it the last 4 years I've been here.

Lexus already has 3 row SUVs---the GX and LX, so I guess they didn't think they needed a 3 row CUV.

Clear valve covers or cam covers, oil pans etc coupled w/ cameras would be useful for using a screen on the dash to keep watch on the engine.

different gear ratios for low speed off-roading? Depends on the reality context, diesels can be quite loud and unpleasant if one is a pedestrian and has to hear them passing on streets. In the past I've found myself walking in cities and heard diesels. And certainly driving w/ the windows down and getting passed by some yahoo in a diesel monster truck or a semi accelerating the noise is quite unpleasant. Noise pollution...

Fleetwood Brougham

The turbo in a J80 like that would be a 4.2 inline 6 diesel.

For Zep, I love ‘When the Levee Breaks’ and ‘In the Evening’. Love the opening of Levee....

Ford's 'modular' family was named as such because in theory components could be interchanged between V6 and V8 engines of different displacements. Long running family of engines, in SOHC and DOHC versions. The first reunion was fun...small turn out, maybe 20 people out of a class of 64. Flew in from Colorado Springs. The 2nd reunion had a bigger turnout, had an '08 Mustang convertible rental then. Flew in from Arizona. Was really hot and humid in Miami in July, but the breezes offset the humidity in Marathon. Not sure why, but we didn't have a 30th reunion in 2018.

That looks like a '95-97. The '90-94 was very similar, but had a fixed quarter window in the rear door and squarer headlights, the '95-97 had slightly rounded grille and headlights and a new dashboard. I've always liked these, I had a silver '97 rental I drove to my 10th high school reunion in Marathon, Fl back in '98. My Dad's last new car was a silver blue '96. All the '90s TCs had the 4.6 except for the 1990, which was the first year of this design but had the carryover 5.0, with the new modular 4.6 coming in for '91.

Those headlights look a lot like an Isuzu D-Max..wonder if it's based on an Isuzu van.

@oldshurst442 as a random aside, I kept looking at the photo in your post footer and thinking it looked familar--appears to be of Athens, but the color and lighting kind of remind me of an album cover of a favorite album of mine, 'Forth' by the Verve. Not really that similar, but it was reminding me I need to listen to that album again...been a while.

Wouldn't it be easier to have the dealer there ship it to a dealer in your area? Or this a private party purchase?

Reality is complex, if the UK market is remotely like the US, the general public is deeply ignorant of anything technical about their consumer products....probably typical generic 'muppets' that buy a Porsche for the bling factor with no comprehension of it's usability.

It could be just a lease...a lot of Brits have tiny houses or apartments with very little space to park.

Nonsense like this is why I will stick with a proper gas-guzzling SUV for the next decade or so. I haven't had issues finding a working gas pump.