Thriller

Hmm...my challenge is that, except for a trip like the National, I don't tend to drive one car that much. I have too many to exercise. Of course as noted, this is voluntary and for fun. Perhaps I'll make some popcorn and sit back and watch.

Fourth hand...if you've got three, there's surely another hanging around likely getting into trouble.

Bernie, I'd have been tempted by the Rebel SST too. My first car was a Javelin. The current wish list includes a 1933, a turbo Buick (aside from our modern ones) - an unmolested GNX would fit the bill, a supercharged Buick (will most likely be a last generation Riviera), and a genuine Buick truck. That said, a 1954 Skylark would be nice as would a 1953 Estate Wagon. The Avista would be nice to have. There's too many to choose from! If money were no object, I'd like to turn all my cars into restored versions of themselves and have highly reliable Buicks to enjoy and drive. I've got some neat ones and would just like to enjoy them.

EGR or ECM would also be related but need to think of a long form. Here I had been starting to get shakes with nearly a week between updates...if we are pretty much caught up to current day then I'm really in trouble. I guess Lamar will just have to work faster ?

Blink. What I really liked was the fact that the second link had a baby Buick convertible photo. Perhaps in print it it could be simplified - the CCCA defines Classic autos and for the rest of us, we can have our classic autos. I don't know how to pronounce the difference between upper and lower case c though. Perhaps we need to enlist the aid of Victor Borge's phonetic punctuation.

Whew...it had been a week and I was getting a bit of the shakes from a lack of updates. I put over $100k Canadian into a 40'x60' steel building plumbed for in floor heating with insulated roof and doors. I think it was completed to it's current state in 2010 (or 2011...would need to double check records). There's no electrical, wall insulation nor active floor heating yet.

Ok so I had to look. I found 14.2 cubit feet and 10.5 for Reatta coupe and 10.0 for convertible. From memory it doesn't seem like there's that much difference in usable space.

The Reatta has a pretty big trunk. Because it is low, we tend to think of it as a "small" car. I'd say the trunk is at least as big overall as the 2017 Regal (without measuring nor looking for the specs).

Yup. In the forecast for the next week, I did see it get above freezing. With mostly sunshine expected, we may be on track for the second driest February on record. We don't have much snow right now.

There's are in-laws there so we've been in the region a couple times. I'm pretty sure their address is Spokane Valley.

I've got a 1923 four cylinder that I can't really say the condition of the clutch. If you need to add me to the list for a minimum run I'd be ok with that, but not sure I need them. Perhaps by the end of the summer I'd have a better idea.

Propane heat...cozy. Nice work. Those McLaughlins at auction scare me a bit since I don't have all the machines and practice you do, but you do make it look doable.

Will do Rod. Once spring arrives, I will see about making contact and seeing if I can take a day to peruse the offerings. That electric car is also neat as well as the truck body on a McLaughlin chassis.

My father lived his life farther north in Saskatchewan. August was the only month he said he'd never seen snow. That time of year in that corner of the world could be in the range of 100, although I'd hope it would be a bit cooler (fat guys melt, although it's a dry heat).

Love seeing the ashes Gary.

It's about a four hour drive for me. I'm considering the McLaughlins, particularly the 1913, but don't have much space left and I'm not sure I want that big a project.

I saw the ad in the Bugle in Montana and got to thinking. There's another 1913 (massive project) that is up for auction this summer that I keep thinking about. There were only 886 (if memory serves) built of all models in 1913.

Cold air...in Jawja...funny man ?

A city in Ontario east of Toronto. That's where the McLaughlin Carriage company was...they initially contracted with Buick for chassis and drivelines building their own bodies and eventually were purchased and became GM of Canada.

Thats what steel-toed boots are for.

I look forward to visiting Buick Gardens some day and sipping a beverage with you in the vicinity of this fine outbuilding.

It's much better to be hyper detail oriented than the alternatives of missing parts, "where does this go" questions, and similar issues.

Larry - I love the note "Order from Oshawa".

That reminds me of re-roofing a garage years ago. My father-in-law laid up the first sheet of plywood and we than had to trim every edge piece. My father started the other side and there was no trimming involved as everything was square as it could be (building itself wasn't quite nor was a bedroom in the basement of the house that I worked long and hard to set up a waterbed as a spare bed before I put a square in the corner and figured out what was going on).

One of these years I may make it down. I will be traveling that weekend, but west not south.