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On 1/8/2025 1:13 AM, rbowman wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Jan 2025 22:11:07 -0500, DFS wrote:
> 
>> On 1/5/2025 9:18 PM, rbowman wrote:
>>> On Sun, 5 Jan 2025 17:20:53 -0500, DFS wrote:
>>>
>>>> SUV   : Infiniti QX80 car   : Porsche Panamera
>>>
>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qev-i9-VKlY
>>
>> You gotta love that voice!
> 
> I'm a little vague on dates in that era but I saw her in a roadhouse on
> the Albany-Schenectady road. It must have been fairly early in her career
> since the stage was only a raised platform about 4' high, with people
> walking up to give her pints of Southern Comfort.

Awesome.  I saw Iggy Pop in college.


>>> I'd go for a Cayman. The base flat four is around $75k. I came close to
>>> a Porsche once. I went in to buy a 914, didn't like it, and bought an
>>> Audi instead.
>>
>> I'd like the Cayman for short local trips on winding roads, but it's way
>> too small for an out-of-state trip.
> 
> That is a problem. Depending on the season I tend to have camping gear,
> snowshoes, bows, axes, coveralls, trekking poles, a bicycle, and sometimes
> even an Advanced Elements inflatable kayay stuffed in the back of the
> Yaris.

At 75, you're still kicking ass.  Knee or hip problems?  I'm just 62 but 
I think I'm getting arthritis in my right hip.



>>> It was summed up years later when I went in to kick the tires on the
>>> Pontiac Fiero. The salesman who had sold me a Firebird a couple of
>>> years earlier yelled across the showroom floor "They don't make that in
>>> your size".
>>
>> Fiero was for hobbit-sized people.
> 
> I kept the Firebird. That's a case in point. I had a '73 Mustang and when
> a friend and I went grocery shopping and came out with a groaning cart, I
> popped the trunk. She looked at it and said "I don't think this is the
> sort of car a guy interested in a woman with kids drives." She was right.
> After '73 Ford came out with the Mustang II kiddie car. I switched to
> Camaros. Comfortable, but the same ridiculous trunk. Then in '82 my
> fondest dreams came true, the Camaro/Firebird line became hatchbacks. The
> Firebird had retractible headlights aand I thought it was better looking.


Camaros were always great-looking.  Wikipedia says Chevy shut down 
production in late 2023.