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Thanks, yeah I gotta do whatever it takes to keep her, even if that means nice clothes and spoiling her rotten. Just kidding, I wake up every morning remembering that I am not worthy of her and therefore never take her for granted. I have been out of work for the last three months with lung problems and although I've been a pain in the you know what, she has been amazing. Sometimes it takes a serious health issue to truly see the depth of love that humans are capable of. Ooops, getting too mushy. Thanks for the compliment. I would post pix of my 15 year old daughter, but I don't like to advertise when she is out looking for boyfriends!!!!!

NW Indiana stretching as far as Porter county is less like Indiana and more like Chicago. That is why it is on the Chicago time zone, watches Chicago TV, reads Chicago newspapers, etc. It also shares the Chicago demographics. Within NW Indiana, Munster is the hightest performing High School as I stated above. One of the top ten performing K-8 schools is in the town I live in and it would be in the top 20 in Illinois. I wonder where you were from as your statements truly reinforce that you probably did get a poor education. Then again, it is what you make of it and you appear to not have done so well or you would realize that Indiana is not a poor ranking educational state. I am not defending Indiana because I like it, just because it is fact.

Actually, Chicago, which NW Indiana is merely a suburb of, is pretty diverse while not being overly import biased like the left coast. Munster is the most affluent town in NW Indiana and Munster High consistently has the best test scores in Lake County Indiana. Most of these kids are already driving newer cars or will be at graduation and therefore are probably closer to buying, through their parents, a new car then most. Yes, it is a fluff piece, but I believe the midwest tends to best represent the average car purchaser. If not being enlightened means not favoring imports above all else because that is the local culture, then I'd rather have my head in the sand. We should all just be happy that GM is at least trying to connect with a younger market.

Here is me and the Mrs. on a cruise last year. I haven't changed much although I don't have a tan anymore! Aint she a Hottie!!!

If you have to use the parking brake and it freezes like this again, drive it in reverse. The shoes energize differently in forward then reverse. When moving forward the primary shoe then through rotational force also pushes the secondary shoe out. In other words, the brakes work better in drive then reverse. So drive backwards and warm things up a bit and hopefully they'll release. If the water got into the cable though, it probably won't work. I used to have to do this with my CRX.

Can't wait to have a burst pipe of steam burn my face off! Let's melt all the plastic under the hood of a modern automobile. It will look like playdoh! I say we just put a small turbine under the hood of a car with a high density flywheel, plus this steam thingy, and we could have the first Sturbinawheel Hybrid! What's next, nuclear?

Had a buddy in high school got hit head on by a drunk driver while he and his girlfriend were riding his motorcyle. This guy raced dirt bikes semi professionally and was a great rider. The drunk in a van crossed the center line and took him out. His girlfriend flew a block and hit her head on the curb, she is still completely paralyzed. Thye drunk was an Illinois senator's son and got off with a slap on the wrist. This is one of the many reasons why I have never had a buzz in my life and never will. I don't drink or use drugs in any way. I made it through the Army, marriage, divorce, and college without drinking so I'm pretty sure I never will. If I ever get hit by a drunk and am conscious afterwards, I will make sure that he can't do that again. Hard to drive with a severed foot!

Head like a hole, NIN. Show the new Camaro right when the refrain hits: Bow Down Before The One You Serve!

All true except #10

Come to Chicago! Although it has its share of bad neighborhoods, the core of the city is wonderful,vibrant, and very desireable. I choose the suburbs because I like to breakout alot, but I have lived downtown and it too was wonderful, and expensive. I prefer the burbs, expecially just over the border in Indiana where 350K buys a half acre, 3500+sf, 4 Bedrooms, 3 1/2 baths, 4 car garage, cherry cabinets, walnut floors, tray ceilings, custom paint, intercom, fully wired for anything I'll ever want to do, central vac, etc., all on a premium pond lot and built to my specifications! Taxes are only 3800 a year! :)

What's sad though is that when I went to the auto shows growing up the displays were much better and impressive than nowadays. Even the dream cars were better, futuristic with computers for dashes and funky shaped interiors, etc. Now all we get is a pre-production styling exercise that at best looks like a car from two years in the future instead of 25 years in the future. You used to be able to get close to most of the cars andnow they keep em all on turntables fenced off from the public, even if they are production cars like the GTO, Solstice, or Sky. It's just not worth the 30.00 anymore, especially when I am usually there researching my next purchase.

I don't know,the new Impala hasn't grown on me yet. It looks like an inflated Accord or something. I wish they had kept some personality in the styling, but instead the just gave it a very vanilla remake! I like the 300, that would make a gorgeous, classy, and MEAN looking police car!

Still better than the Lincoln Mark VIII with the full glow lenses on the back of the trunk lid. They always looked like they were sourced from two different suppliers. The left side had noticeable bright and dark spots showing bulb locations while the right side glowed evenly throughout! Always bugged me!

I think FireAm was actually used by someone. It might have been a proto or an aftermarket company, but I'm pretty sure someone had a customized 70s GrandAm that was called the FireAm. I like BonneFire or BonneBird for a pink chick version.

PRO-Education, Big Time. BUT Kids are there to learn, not to find themselves and commit to the next half-baked cause that comes their way. I have a 15 yo daughter who I will help with College as well as my 15 month old son. The minute I find out they have joined the pro-dem or pro-rep anti-whatever demonstration club, I will cease funding their education. If they have time to hang out and try to get idiots elected from either party, and I am Republican and my guy won, then they have time to work their way through college without my help. I joined the military to fund my degree, and if that is what they have to do because they were manipulated into joining some stupid rallying cause then so be it. You shouldn't think that just because a guy finds a problem with professional students who lose focus as to why they are at college, that he has a problem with college. I believe it is the key to easier success!!!!!!!!!!!

First, THE PRIUS SUCKS AND IS SUPER-BUTT-FUGLY!!! Second, anyone notice on the link to the democratees that all of the models look like typical useless lost looking for some BS cause college students. I wish parents would stop paying for their college and then these kids might actually have to get a job!!!! Third, the more Prius the better as they make the road safer for my Wife, son, daughter, and myself in our 13MPG Chevy Avalanche! I Call Them Hybrid Toyota Crash Barriers!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :P

1st place: 3 2nd place:1

Bad, Bad, Leroy Brown. Shoot it in Chicago!

Yeah, so right now they would only be subsidizing about 1-1.50 a gallon without a discount, or .9-1.35 a gallon. If prices hit the worst that anyone is forecasting you're still only talking about a spike in the 4.00 range, so the discounted subsidy would be 2.70 a gallon. With the amount of guaranteed customers GM would be providing the fuel company, they could wrangle a better deal than 10% discounting. By tying the fuel card to a GM credit card they would also get back 1-2% of the purchase price in merchant credit card fees. The worst hit that I could see would be 2.40 a gallon if prices hit 4.00. IF all 1000 gallons were used for all three years the total burden would still only be 7200.00 amortized over a three year period. That, with returns from investing the escrow, has to be better than straight 6,000.00 incentives that makes it look like they can't give them away. Admit, it! It's a pretty good idea and my ingenuity is what is disturbing to you!

I may be a bit biased, but I think this one's pretty gorgeous even if I didn't shine up the chrome before taking this pic! Ain't she too pretty? I just love the character eyebrows that bracket the back end!

If high gas prices are disturbing the sales of GMs large SUVs, why doesn't the General just subsidize up to 1000 gallons a year at 2.00 a gallon. Total cost would only be 6,000.00 over three years which is about where the current incentives are anyway. I would buy one tomorrow if I didn't have to worry about gas prices!

I have never liked the headlights on the new rolls. They look cheap, like a guy had an accident and just bought some auto-parts store driving lights and trailer lights and screwed them on. They need to put much nicer jeweled HID lenses in.

An eye for an eye you stupid SOB! I want him and all other killers executed and I want it done more efficiently. They should give the victim's families the right to choose and perform the execution. If I had a loved one this idiot killed I would put a rat in a steel bowl and duct tape it to his belly and watch the rat eat its' way out. How any sane minded person is defending this P.O.S. right to live is beyond me. Just goes to show you that bleeding heart liberals will fight for any cause if it fits their agenda, even if the cause is such a degenerate!

[quote name='NOS2006' date='Dec 11 2005, 09:48 PM'] Absolutely untrue! [post="57110"][/post] [/quote] That's the way it seems to me.. which ones didn't? Wasn't this the start of the power numbers going WAY down? [post="57115"][/post] [/quote] 73 & 74 SD455 Formula and TransAm for one. These are considered the very last of the muscle cars even though technically they were pony cars. This was Detroit's last gasp before the stranglehold that emissions requirements took over. The horsepower started dropping in anticipation of the 75 law changes with milder camshafts as early as 73, but it was the advent of catalytic converters that truly crippled the horsepower of the muscle era. Somehow Pontiac got the SD cars through the corporate spider web and around certain GM edicts that made them truly against GM rules. Additionally, don't forget the beautiful Cudas and Challengers with Hemis, the GTO Judges, etc. although they all disappeared before 73. Ahhhhhhhh, the good old days. As far as the 70s being a good era, there was some good styling, I particularly liked the 74 GP and the Eldo, but due to horribly anemic engines that had a nasty predisposition to knock every time you hit the gas, the whole decade is but a bad memory for me.

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