sjordan2

#1 consideration: good-size arm rests; make it easier to change positions. Don't go with the short pedestal style. A seat that promotes flexibility of position is key.

Killer. Except around here, the wheels would have been long gone.

Multibrand dealerships have been common everywhere I've lived - Tulsa, D.C., Houston, and now Knoxville. In almost all cases, it has depended on corporate ties, such as Ford's Ford-Lincoln-Mercury (still Ford/Lincoln here in Knoxville). Except for Cadillac's usually standalone dealerships, you'd find GM brands in multi-dealerships, with Opel squeezed in there somewhere in the old days. One of our largest dealerships now is Chrysler-Dodge-Jeep (Fiat and Alfa are separate). Mercedes sells Smart. BMW dealer sells Mini. Here, the same dealer has separate buildings side by side for VW, Jaguar+Porsche, Infiniti, Fiat+Alfa+Maserati. Then, there are the superdealers like Rick Hendrick and Rusty Wallace, who have dozens of dealerships in many different towns, selling just about everything. Many brands, like Mini and Fiat, require independent buildings dedicated to one brand, but that's subject to negotiation.

I do it all the time. It's simply a hot dog Reuben, especially with Russian dressing. I also recommend a Cincinnati-style chili dog with Skyline chili. A whole different thing.

We need to endure this stuff and play along, because we often have recent members who haven't been involved before. The OP only has 140 posts here.

If we're going beyond styling, there's the one and only Yugo. Maybe the Trabant.

Back to what I said before, no, it is not model-car-speak. I hear it all over the world of professional 1:1 car guys on the TV car shows. But what if it existed only for model cars, which it doesn't? Every special-interest field has its own lingo. All that bothers me is when the proper use of "build" comes out as "here's my latest built."

We've been here many, many times before on this forum. Pontiac Aztek gets the most votes.

I frequently hear "beautiful build" and words to that effect on TV car shows, such as auctions (That's when describing Cristy Lee at B-J on Velocity; they also apply it to rods, customs, etc.).

Just terrific.

For those who aren't into these kinds of cars, race cars of most marques of the era had positive camber that looks like this... But the box art tells me this part is taken care of.

What does the front wheel camber look like?

Having spent my life in Oklahoma, Texas and now Tennessee, here's my idea of righteous chicken fried steak... Or just go to Cracker Barrel.

Always loved those old G&G figures.

I said the same thing. And this stuff was deadly. It was cleverly disguised as food.

We had to eat every bite of our TV dinner because children were starving in Europe.

That would be coarse language. (Man, once this stuff gets started, it's hard to stop .?)

I had to defeat autocorrect to misspell "a lot" as "alot." Alittle humor there.

I hate those alot.

Here's a cliche that's been around but is picking up fast: New albums/singles/videos are no longer being released, they're being "dropped."

I was reviewing this thread to see if anyone had nominated this one.

I started with the utter simplicity of the Gowland and Gowland Highway Pioneers line of antique cars, and horse-drawn vehicle kits like a stage coach or chariot when my skills got better. Everything was brush-painted. They were later sold by Revell and now some are Minicraft. Plenty available on eBay.

So this is what my dentist does with his money.

Just beautiful. Outstanding work.