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2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
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I like how some of the outside walls(locally sourced from the farmers fields) have been brought inside.
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Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
I have a connection to something local, a prior archbishop of Spokane is in my family tree. As this area boomed at the turn of the (20th) century, many churches were built - some not fancy, some maybe a little overdone. The main Catholic church here is this fancy thing:
And to relate it to cars, that particular archbishop was one who took the vows of poverty seriously, living a minimalist life and as far as I know, never having owned a car.
The priest who married us drove a low-line K car, which was subsequently stolen.
Here's the church we got married in. The name of the church is "Mother of Sorrows" which is not lost on me and I've kidded my wife about it once or twice over the years:
The Administration Building in South Bend, late summer '63:
Boy, JFK was still president; Studebaker was still building cars in the U.S., Vietnam hadn't really escalated yet, and the Beatles hadn't hit the U.S. yet. All set to change within a few short months of this photo.
As Bob Seger said, "Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then".
Yesterday I saw it driving around, beautiful shape, dark blue with a CT 'Save the Sound' plate 'HTTRSS'(Pamlico not Long Island?)
Today, a Lime Rock Edition M3(hard to miss those!).
Did the building really have an enormous flag, or was the image retouched, as was commonly added on period postcards?
I don't know what kind of salary the average Methodist reverend pulls down, but this church never had a huge congregation...maybe 100-150 people. I couldn't imagine that these reverends' only job was working for the church. It's not like our congregation was exactly the moneyed sort. I guess it's also possible that they had working spouses as well, bringing in income.
In college, I went to a church that was next to the University of Maryland, and had a larger congregation. Still, the reverend they had, when I first started going, was a middle-aged guy with a beard, who acted younger than he was. But while some people can't pull that off and just look desperate, this guy was kinda cool. He drove a first-gen Acura Integra...nice, but not fleecing-the-flock nice. He was replaced by a lady reverend, who was then replaced by another. I can't remember what they were driving, but both cars were modest. I think one of them was a Nissan Pulsar, one of those odd versions that had some kind of add-on to the back that made it look like a stubby little wagon.
Yes, Meant Grand Wagoneer.
I don't recall any church leader cars when I was younger, as I never really knew any church leaders. I recall when I was a kid, there was a Methodist church down the street (a kind of cool looking 50s A-frame style thing that was probably hip and with-it when new), and one of the members there had a then-late model BMW E23 7er - for some reason, it seemed very exotic to me, as I was in a small town and such things were rare. I remember riding my bike over and admiring the car several times.
Here's a photo taken of the building on Oct. 8 of this year and the flagpole is visible.
The Stude Museum has the company negatives from the photographic department. I love color pics of the late fifties/early sixties, as there don't seem to be a whole lot of them. Lots and lots of older B&W factory photos up to the early fifties it seems. I would've been ready to start kindergarten soon when the pic was taken, and I do have a couple foggy memories of that summer.
Well, can't copy the current-day pic here, but here's a link:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10218556613243394&set=p.10218556613243394&type=3
A good friend of mine used to take tours of the Stude plant in South Bend in the early sixties with his older cousin. There used to be a little diner place called "The Toasty Shop" about half-a-block east of the Administration Building. He said he saw Egbert sitting at the counter drinking coffee and reading the paper. He was too shy to approach him, which is hard to believe now, LOL. Hard to imagine a CEO today stopping at a local joint and drinking coffee at the counter. Everything would be catered to his office I'm sure.
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The priests shared a couple of cars - I think one of them was a Nova. I used to play golf with a couple of the priests, and one of them also played raquetball.
(and, before anyone jumps in, I was not subject to nor aware of any abuses, and I was an altar boy)
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I suspect the worker to CEO pay ratio was as wildly different when Egbert was around as "leadership" attitudes and entitlements as a whole.
Another church related car memory - when I was in middle school, we lived a few blocks from a Catholic chuirch and school, which had a large paved lot where I'd ride my bike and practice "moves" (before skate or bike parks were a thing in this region). Someone at the school had a Crown Victoria glasstop, grey and white IIRC. It was frequently parked on the street next to the school, I admired it - that was in maybe 1989.
The Senior Pastor at my current church has a older Pilot and an F-150. The pastor at the campus where we attend has a newer Frontier and a Wrangler TJ- both manuals. His wife has a minivan, I forget the make/model.
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
I do recall one female minister at that time that had a yellow Camaro(gen 2) 6 cylinder with a manual trans. I did like that. Though I recall it already had rusted out rear fenders. In those days, where they used salt, you would see that on many cars by the time they were 5-6 years old.
Actually I think she had 2. Maybe an older one that rusted but replaced by a newer one.
I was mostly impressed she was driving a manual trans.
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I drove past the old Filer Studebaker-MB garage, which I knew had been bought by the Greenville Water Authority. Was it depressing--all doors and windows boarded over. They are probably storing equipment inside and don't want prying eyes to see.
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In looking around, it looks like the Aurora came in two similar shades back then. I think this one was called "light teal". There was also an "Adriatic blue", which leaned a bit more towards blue than green, depending on your eyesight. And probably the light/shadow you view it in.
If I was in the market for a '95-99 Aurora and could have my pick of any color, it would be that light teal. It makes me think of GM's Light Jadestone of 1982 vintage.
I'm pretty sure those colors were offered on other GM cars at that time, at least I can picture a 1995-99 Riviera in a light blue/green. But it seems like it wasn't that common, outside of the Aurora.
My '81 Monte Carlo was light jade over dark jade two-tone, and I thought it was striking. The upper color did look like that Aurora. My '82 was solid dark jade, not nearly as attractive. The interior color, might've been called Jade also, was nice in cloth. A couple years later, on the Monte Carlo anyway, on two-tones the dark color was on top and the light on bottom (after Jade was no longer offered), and my Dad and I both agreed dark should've been kept as the bottom color.
My former boss bought a used one but only kept it for a short time. For a large FWD car it had surprisingly little interior room.
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I remember the mags almost unanimously complaining about that. Curves and swoopy lines cut into room for sure, and I think I remember reading the console was bigger than it needed to be. Ford found that all out with the '83 Thunderbird, as modern as it seemed, was no match for interior space as the boxy GM intermediates were. I do remember thinking the Taurus was roomy though.
I think I could appreciate a '95-99 Riviera. Weirdo that I am, I'd look for one with cloth seating and bench seating with fold-down armrest. I'd look for one without the supercharger too, although I think at some point in the run that choice went away. I like the car until I get to that tapered tail, ugh.
I took three tours of the building, first in 1990 and last in 2018. It was occupied by the South Bend School Corp. (I think), the first couple times. It's been empty for several years and the last tour, it was rough inside--peeling paint, no heat or A/C of course, evidence of homeless in a place, maybe two. Lots of wood and marble still in the executive suite. Sigh.
When he passed away a few years back it had all of 14K miles sitting on the OEM tires.
My cousin took it as part of the will and wanted to drive it awhile. It needed so much. Tires, brakes, and every hose was the first job. He serviced the AC and drive it about 10k miles fixing a few more things along the way.
It eventually had one of the Northstar kisses of death (can’t remember exactly) and he gave it to his friend, a GM master mechanic. He gave the car all its needs and it is his runabout car at his place near Key West FL. I still don’t think it has 30k miles.
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Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
It wasn't enough to turn me off to the car, but I guess it still wasn't quite the experience I thought it would be. Handling-wise, about the best way to describe it would be if you took my Grandmom's '85 LeSabre, which we still had at the time I drove this Aurora, and put 70-series tires on it.
As for first-gen Toronados, I know a lot of people prefer the '66-67 because it's the purest of the design, but I like the '68-69. To me it just seems a bit more filled out and muscular, but still looking upscale. In a way, when the Aurora first came out, I thought of it as a bit of a 4-door Toronado, in spirit and marketing position. A "personal luxury sedan", if you will. Say, an Oldsmobile Seville.