Drew Dowdell

Paging SMK.... PAGING SMK..... Push button start is one of the items on his "must have" list for a car to be any good.

In looks, that's about as much Firebird as those Towncars they transform into "S600s" are Mercedes Benz.

I have a book full of his photography.

You know what pisses me off? Chicago! They pollute and I get to breath it! Pittsburgh sits at the western edge of the Allegheny Mountains. As winds come from the west, the pollutants that they carry build up behind the mountain range and hang in the air in Pittsburgh. It's actually so noticeable, if I drive 90 miles east, once I pass the first tunnel, my allergies start to clear up. What we do locally can still have effects on a much larger scale. Let's try some inductive reasoning. 1. We pump trillions of barrels of a trapped, carbon based liquid, known to be poisonous to plants and animals, to the surface of the earth. 2. We refine that liquid so it is actually even more poisonous. 3. We then put that liquid into a machine so that it combines with oxygen to form CO2 and a variety of gaseous poisons. 4. We pump that CO2 and those poisons into the atmosphere even though we know that CO2 is a greenhouse gas. (that CO2 is a greenhouse gas really isn't in dispute here) 5. Repeat for 100 years. If this were anything other than oil/gasoline, wouldn't this sound incredibly stupid of us?

Saw a 83-84 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz left over in the C4C lot of a Nissan dealership that was in beautiful condition. Since it was 4100 powered, I'm betting the dealer didn't bother wasting his $7 bottle of sodium silicate. With these cars, all you really need to clunk the engine is about 12 volts to the starter motor.

Yeah, the settings are very rudimentary and inconsitent. I didn't even intend to leave it running.

Actually, I was just experimenting with it and left it running that's all. But here's a and for your trouble.

Congrats, it only took you guys 5 months to notice I re-enabled the filter.

really? I see German.

Wow! That sport chop is HOT! GM is on a roll with me lately. First the CTS wagon and coupe (and the SRX for my partner), then the Terrain or Equinox (for my partner), then the Caprice if it makes it here in civilian form, and then this Regal GS idea. GM, if you build the Regal GS to look like this, you'll officially have at least one vehicle from each division that would be on my shopping list!

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Ya'll simma down now. If you want to fight about this, take it to the political forum.

Just a reminder to submit pics for the 2010 Cheers and Gears member's rides calendar.

There is a manual Riviera out there. Saw a conversion done a bunch of years back.

The overall global warming that was causing the polar ice caps to melt at a higher rate dumped massive quantities of freshwater into the North Atlantic and ended up shutting down the billion gigawatt heatpump called the Gulf Stream. The effect was substantially cooler temperatures in most of Europe. So yes, I can see why the term "Global Warming" would confuse people. "Global Climate Change" is a more semantically accurate term.

2.8l turbo from the SRX

Zing!

Officially Official: The Buick Regal returning! As part of Buick GMC’s strategy to engage and listen to its dealers, more than 1,000 dealers this week will be the first to learn the name of Buick’s next mid-size sport sedan will be the Buick Regal. The announcement was made at the Buick GMC dealer business meeting. Discussion: Buick Regal returns to Buick's North American lineup.

I"m sure it's not from lack of use..... but from being out in the weather all the time. Warm, damp places will do that ya know....

Cadillac quietly un-refreshes their logo Cadillac updated their logo in 1999 to coincide with the new Art & Science look. One of the fatalities with that refresh were the ducks which had been part of the logo since at least 1902. With no announcement at all, they've updated it once again. Discussion: Cadillac un-refreshes logo

That's what 12 hours of turnpike driving will do to you......

Talk to Chris Doane about it. I'm sure you'll get a rather emphatic response.

Good thing we don't have any of those types around here....