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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,342

    My daughter does that. She also flies a lot. Looks like a bag lady with sweats about 2 sizes too big. She just turtles into them and puts on a giant eye mask and noise cancelling headphones and basically cocoons in her seat. Helps that she is only about 5’2” and pretty thin.

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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,565
    Michaell said:

    Had to take my shoes off both at Cleveland and Sea-Tac this past weekend. Belt, too.

    Best $85 I spent was on TSAPre, even though I'm only flying once or twice a year now. I've also learned to wear athletic clothes when I fly so I don't have a belt to remove.
    We got it on sale, last year for $78. :)

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  • MichaellMichaell Moderator Posts: 262,184
    kyfdx said:

    Michaell said:

    Had to take my shoes off both at Cleveland and Sea-Tac this past weekend. Belt, too.

    Best $85 I spent was on TSAPre, even though I'm only flying once or twice a year now. I've also learned to wear athletic clothes when I fly so I don't have a belt to remove.
    We got it on sale, last year for $78. :)
    I was lucky enough to be able to expense it the first time I applied, in 2016. Company wouldn't cover the cost when I renewed in 2021, however.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,342

    Some credit cards paid for it IIRC. I just forgot to check mine in advance.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    I just renewed pre this morning - $78. Previously I had it attached to Nexus/global entry, but the program changed and they aren't in that bundle now, so I couldn't renew online. Easy process completed at a Staples.. As I won't be crossing into Canada at a Nexus location in the foreseeable future and won't travel internationally more than every several years, pre will do it.

    While out on that errand, spotted from a distance a 57 Ford with a continental kit.
  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,723
    Spotted while walking the dog yesterday


    I think you can forgive the parking job trying to protect their car in a grocery store parking lot.


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  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,579
    58 Ford in the garage. I don’t care much for the 58 or 59 Ford.

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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,565
    I like the license plate on the Porsche.

    Plus, he isn't taking up another parking space, so that's okay.
    I'm a little worried about his front spoiler, though.

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  • xwesxxwesx Member Posts: 17,681
    sda said:

    58 Ford in the garage. I don’t care much for the 58 or 59 Ford.

    I couldn't tell what the one in the garage was. I was going to guess, "storage rack?"
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  • andres3andres3 Member Posts: 13,928
    ab348 said:

    Picked it up today. So far so good. Wife is loving it and took off with the top down to show her brother.

    This is a small, rural dealer 30 miles from us. One-family owned since 1928. Two salesman: the owner, and his son. Wife is the office manager.

    You both look many years younger all of a sudden! Congratulations!
    Congrats, the new Corvette is impressive.
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  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,723
    @xwesx,
    58 Ford in the garage and it's been repurposed a storage rack. :)
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  • roadburnerroadburner Member Posts: 18,325



    I think you can forgive the parking job trying to protect their car in a grocery store parking lot.


    I always take an end spot wherever possible and park a bit over the line if it doesn't interfere with traffic flow.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    I also park a little into the striped areas when I don't park out away from the masses. At work there are striped "paths" dividing the lot, I park just over the line - a couple others do this near me too, a SQ5 and a late teens 750.
  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,860
    I do that too. It's not liking you're infringing on another parking space.
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  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,023
    edited October 2023
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    Yesterday we went to the wedding of a friend’s daughter. The venue had originally been a new car dealership. I thought @andre1969 would find the decor particularly interesting.


    Thats an interesting beast. Looks like a 1957 Firesweep, painted in Adventurer colors. However, DeSoto didn't offer a Firesweep convertible in '57. So I wonder if it's a '58 that was made up to look like a '57? Or just a '57 hardtop, with the roof cut off?

    Or, is it not even a real car, but a full-sized prop or replica? It seems a bit "off" in some respects. For instance, when you raise up a car like that, the wheels would normally hang down. And from that angle, I'd think you'd at least be able to see the silhouette of the left side rear leaf spring?
  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,860
    We actually saw a Tesla Cybertruck on the street in Seattle last weekend. It looks as ridiculous in person as in photos.

    At the LeMay Museum, which was wonderful, I smiled (as always) when I saw a '59 Isetta. It's amusing to me to think that was built by BMW at the time. Their display said that the 'Urkel' character on "Family Matters" drove one, though I don't remember that. It would seem appropriate!
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  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,860
    You guys have good eyes to distinguish that it's a '58 Ford in that garage!

    I like '58 Fords, but I think it's a lot because my favorite aunt and her son, my older car-crazy cousin, had one well into the late '60's so I remember it well.

    I love the '56, like the '57, like the '58, like the '60, love the '61, but just don't like one single thing inside or out, about the '59 Ford.
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  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,723
    @andre1969,
    It seems like he left front suspension is there.
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  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,023

    Ford designed their impact bumpers worse than the other manufacturers in those years.

    The Maverick and Comet wore them terribly.

    That said, although I'm one of the few who likes the '73 Chevelle, the front bumper used on Deluxe and Malibu models truly looks like a railroad tie tacked on. Even worse first half of model year, when filler panel between bumper and grille was silver on all colors. Mid-year, when this piece was made body-color, it looked a good bit better overall IMHO.

    The more I look at them, the more the bumpers on all of the '73 GM colonades (with the exception of the Grand Am and Laguna S3) are starting to bug me, except for the Cutlass, which seemed to wear them rather well. While the Chevelle seems to be the worst offender, they all look like they jut out more than they should. From certain angles they can look decent, but the wrong angle will show just how far out they protrude.

    The Grand Prix looks good, at first glance, because its bumper isn't nearly so thick, but if you look at it from the side, it still protrudes just as bad as the rest. I think my problem with them, is when you look at the car from the side, there's little to no overlap of the bumper and the body. The back of the bumper's wraparound stops roughly where the actual body of the car begins. In '73, the Cutlass seemed to be the only one of those midsized cars that had a bit of overlap, which made the front bumper seem at least a bit more integrated.
  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,860
    edited October 2023
    The Cutlass' front bumper was thin in appearance which helped a lot. At Hershey last year I was admiring a very nice '73 Century Gran Sport in the HPOF area, and the front bumper stuck out a lot and it had silver between the bumper and body, which made it look worse too.

    The Colonnades drove and rode a lot nicer than their predecessors IMHO. In fact, both my one friend's parents' '74 Monte Carlo and my other friend's parents' '76 Malibu Classic seemed smoother and quieter than our '74 Impala at the time.

    Once in a while online I'll see a nice, original-looking '73 Laguna for sale. I like the front end but I don't like the body-colored rear bumper. I'd probably rather have a second-half-of-the-year '73 Malibu or SS than a Laguna, overall.
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  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,860
    edited October 2023
    andre, thinking about the '73 Colonnades again, I think the only one with a good-looking instrument panel was Pontiac--Grand Prix and Grand Am, anyway. The Chevy panel is plasticky with black cluster; the Olds panel has the clock down low on the left side of the steering column and is plain on the right half; the Buick dash and steering wheel are pretty plain and has the "Fasten Seat Belts" light tacked to the top of the dash.

    I plainly remember the first '73 Grand Prix I saw at our town's Pontiac dealer. It was a maroon SJ with the finned wheel covers. The interior--dash and seats and door panels--just blew me away. I like the exterior styling of the '69-72 better, but love the '73 interior. I didn't like how in maybe '75 or so they added the flimsy Monte Carlo-style door pull strap right in the middle of that beautiful woodgrain panel on the doors.
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  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,579
    edited October 2023
    Remember, too, the Olds grille curved into and touched the bumper which made it look integrated. The grille was hinged so it would fold back if the bumper was hit. I thought that was clever.

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  • fintailfintail Member Posts: 58,415
    Went to work today and thought of uplanderguy mentioning old cars in the PNW on my drive. In order, I spotted a Fiero fastback restomod - yellow, modified rear fascia, sounded mean at ~55 in front of me. Then spotted a "Euro" G-body Cutlass, then square light VW Rabbit, and finished it off with a Corsica.
  • tjc78tjc78 Member Posts: 16,946

    Waze routed me through a small subdivision yesterday and there was a G-body fan. No less than 4 Monte SS’s. Pretty sure I spotted a Cutlass too.

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  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,023
    edited October 2023

    andre, thinking about the '73 Colonnades again, I think the only one with a good-looking instrument panel was Pontiac--Grand Prix and Grand Am, anyway. The Chevy panel is plasticky with black cluster; the Olds panel has the clock down low on the left side of the steering column and is plain on the right half; the Buick dash and steering wheel are pretty plain and has the "Fasten Seat Belts" light tacked to the top of the dash.

    I don't actually hate any of them, but I think the Chevy dash is my least favorite. It's just too big and blocky, and I don't like how there's that big empty space in between the vents on the passenger side, with the little glovebox mounted low. Just seems like wasted space, and all that padding, just waiting to crack as it ages.

    I like the shape of the regular LeMans dash, but don't like how they have it interior-color around the gauges. If it's black, I think it looks okay (until it fades, at least), but the I've seen it in light blue, and it just doesn't look right. And in buckskin, it looks like cheap woodgrain that faded. But overall, I like how it has a slim look to it.

    With the Buicks, I like the overall shape of the dash, but where the instrument cluster is looks a bit plain and cheap in basic black. The woodgrain dresses it up.

    The main thing I don't like about the Cutlass dash is the passenger side, with those round vents. They just look out of place to me, like they really belong on a 50's or early 60's car. For some reason, it also makes me think of some kind of cheesy science fiction prop. It's interesting that Olds went through the effort to change the passenger side ducts to rectangular for 1977, considering that would be a 1-year only thing.

    Another thing that I just noticed with the Olds dash...it looks like it's staring back at you!
    Although to be fair, most cars that have the two large gauge faces like that, usually give you a similar effect if you take a pic from just the right angle!

    But overall I'd agree with you, I think the Grand Prix/Grand Am/Grand LeMans dash is the best.

  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,860
    edited October 2023
    I hated the Chevy Colonnade glove box lids. When my friends' parents bought a new '74 Monte Carlo Landau, which I thought was gorgeous and whisper-quiet, even he said, "look at this" and opened the thin plastic glovebox door that had no detent whatsoever...just flopped the whole way down.

    Back then I thought the metal glovebox doors on full-size Chevys, and Novas, seemed high-quality, but then it didn't occur to me there was no padding there, LOL.

    I can't say I remember Chevy Colonnade dash pads cracking on the right side between the vents, but I definitely remember the full-size panels getting cracks in the upper pads starting in '71 and not ending 'til '90, LOL, and the midsize RWD's cracking with '78 'til the end.

    The six-banger '77 Caprice Classic sedan in gold I see tooling around here regularly has the original, uncracked pad, which must be a minor miracle. It's a clean car that sits nicely at all four corners and to my eyes doesn't seem very dated at all, especially if anywhere near the competitions' full-sizers that year, or Caprices even a year older.
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  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,860
    edited October 2023
    Another thing about Colonnade instrument panels--at Hershey in 2022, I was admiring a '73 Chevelle SS station wagon. It was bone-stock in appearance except for a small thing--the black instrument cluster was outlined in chrome, something that didn't begin happening until '74. Of that, I am 100% certain. I casually mentioned something to the owner, and he said, "It better be right; I paid a guy 400 bucks to do that!". A guy with a '73 Monte Carlo at the show said, "Mine is chromed there". I thought, "Hmmm". I walked down to look at it....and it wasn't. :)

    I know '70's Chevy authenticity stuff. I lived and breathed it and soaked the brochure stuff up like a sponge. I about lived at the Chevy dealer. At the end of the '73 model year our salesman gave me the '73 showroom album, which I pored over until about a decade or so ago when I sold it. I wasn't into sports and didn't have a girlfriend in high school. This stuff was my life, LOL.

    I always say I don't have to be right, but I also don't have to pretend to be wrong to massage someone's ego, LOL. If I'm not sure about something, I word it that way. If I'm certain, you can take it to the bank, LOL.

    Unlike the cr** I read on car FB groups spouted as total certainty, LOL.
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  • xwesxxwesx Member Posts: 17,681

    We actually saw a Tesla Cybertruck on the street in Seattle last weekend. It looks as ridiculous in person as in photos.

    At the LeMay Museum, which was wonderful, I smiled (as always) when I saw a '59 Isetta. It's amusing to me to think that was built by BMW at the time. Their display said that the 'Urkel' character on "Family Matters" drove one, though I don't remember that. It would seem appropriate!



    This one?! I enjoyed that room as well. It was just packed with all sorts of history!
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  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,860
    I actually can't recall the color, but it wasn't in a room; it was on a gently-descending ramp down to the next floor. But those cars always crack me up.
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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,107
    I didn't remember seeing those 'bumpers', but about half the pics on google have them.
  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,565
    The LeMay museum is great..

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  • xwesxxwesx Member Posts: 17,681
    There were at least two or three of the Isettas there. Just a crazy little cool car.


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  • roadburnerroadburner Member Posts: 18,325
    I should have bought the pristine Isetta I looked at in 1970- only $1,000.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,107

    Yeah, there are two for sale on cars.com, about $25k and $45k.

  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,675
    edited October 2023

    Picked it up today. So far so good. Wife is loving it and took off with the top down to show her brother.

    This is a small, rural dealer 30 miles from us. One-family owned since 1928. Two salesman: the owner, and his son. Wife is the office manager.

    What a delightful purchase experience. Quiet, no pressure, low-key, sell C8's at MSRP and charges only $73.70 as doc fees. Son ran through all the technical features with us, and was not only thorough but patient with us old-timers. I can't say good enough about Stratton Chevrolet. In fact, I told them they could put a license plate frame with their name on it on the car, and I NEVER say that.

    Today I'm going by a car show at a festival in honor of Myron Scott, who named the Corvette. Without him,
    your car wouldn't have a name? LOL
    In small town Ohio, small things can be reason for a festival!

    It's in Camden, near Miami University home of Oxford Ohio. (Note @uplanderguy's
    sweatshirt is for Miami, my alma mater.)





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  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,565
    Guessing a lot of brownies for sale at the Black Walnut festival?

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  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,860
    edited October 2023
    Very cool imidazol, thanks for posting!

    Both our daughters went to Miami. I used to enjoy visiting the town of Oxford there. Looks like what every TV show or movie about a New England college town looks like!
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  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,860
    BTW, a good friend and longtime coworker of mine graduated from Miami in 1969. He is very loyal to his alma mater and reminds me that Gov. Mike DeWine was a classmate of his.

    You'll know that "Love and Honor" is Miami's slogan. My friend told me the address of his apartment in Oxford and I looked it up one visit. There was a big banner hanging out an upstairs window that said "Lovin' On Her", LOL. My friend said, "Yeah, I left that there".
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  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,860
    edited October 2023
    I saw a '72 Nova at a cruise-in up here near Kent, that had a license plate frame that said "Ziliox Chevrolet, Oxford, OH". When our girls went there, there was not a single new-car dealer in town, which surprised me. I googled "Ziliox Chevrolet" and saw, among other things, that their advertising slogan once was, "Don't be a silly ox; go to Ziliox!". Hooboy.
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  • explorerx4explorerx4 Member Posts: 20,723
    One of my kids and her husband are a Miami Merger. So are my neighbors on one side.
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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,675
    kyfdx said:

    Guessing a lot of brownies for sale at the Black Walnut festival?

    I didn't see any brownies with nuts but I was afraid someone would pick up on the "nuts welcome" squirrel in the bottom corner and point out I was going to a car show there and by syllogism would say I was one of the "nuts." LOL

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  • imidazol97imidazol97 Member Posts: 27,675
    edited October 2023
    I got to the Black Walnut, Myron Scott festival just as some rain showers moved in. Wasn't forcast to be so heavy. Lots of cars compared to previous years with scattered, interesting Corvettes of various years. Had to walk with my umbrella. Yuck.

    First car show was great but smaller than usual because of the "cold" weather.

    My wife rode with me to both cars shows and the 35 miles between them. I did treat her to lunch at Chick Fil A on the way to the first.

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  • andre1969andre1969 Member Posts: 26,023

    I googled "Ziliox Chevrolet" and saw, among other things, that their advertising slogan once was, "Don't be a silly ox; go to Ziliox!". Hooboy.

    Sounds like a slogan only a McMann & Tate client could love!
  • sdasda Member Posts: 7,579

    I've seen this beauty before, however, most of the time it is stored under a car cover. Today I was able to sneak in a quick pic. I would love to see it up close and view the interior.

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  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,860
    Pretty bone stock, which I always appreciate.
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  • roadburnerroadburner Member Posts: 18,325
    sda said:

    I've seen this beauty before, however, most of the time it is stored under a car cover. Today I was able to sneak in a quick pic. I would love to see it up close and view the interior.

    That was a favorite of mine; I even built the AMT 1:25 scale model of it.

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  • stickguystickguy Member Posts: 53,342
    quite a few today on our trip back from Boston. on the pike, a ratty Triumph TR-7 on a trailer. then shortly after, an original style Ramcharger. Not a classic, but also on a trailer, a K car wagon, with a supercharger intake sticking out of the hood. And driving, an early 70s Ford PU, and something really unexpected, a late 20s/early 30s roadster. No clue what it was (and if real or not) but not a Ford or Chevy. Something quite a bit bigger and more upscale.

    and near home at the lumber yard, an orange with white roof K5 blazer square body. with a lift.

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  • texasestexases Member Posts: 11,107

    “ a ratty Triumph TR-7 on a trailer”

    Wasn’t that factory equipment?

  • kyfdxkyfdx Moderator Posts: 265,565
    VW Routan... times 2. Weird

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  • uplanderguyuplanderguy Member Posts: 16,860

    That TBird Landau must have had the biggest blind spot in the industry then!

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