[elky] Re: a moment of silence, please

  • From: Robert Adams <elcam84@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: elky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 14:17:08 -0500

                         Yup. Their last decade or more has been pretty sad.
They haven't made anything that the consumer really wanted. Even re badging
the Holden as a GTO trying to save the brand didn't help any.


                        Well Sitting here waiting for the gas company to
come and turn the gas on... Only thing gas is the furnace and about to need
that here. Next year will be replaced by a heat pump and no more gas..
Course I'd like a gas cooktop and waterheater and then I could run a line to
the shop and use it for heat out there too.  (House was originally all gas)

               Here is a pic of the shop in it's current state after I took
down the wall inside that split it in half. Total size is 18 (IIRC) by 40.
There is half a roof outside so when I add on it'll be 60' eventually.
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l206/elcam84/new%20house/1288583823.jpg

                 And a pic with the square tube still in after I took the
sheet down.
http://i97.photobucket.com/albums/l206/elcam84/new%20house/1288583822.jpg

            Also replaced a section of missing insulation that the POs dog
tore up.


                   Robert Adams


On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:28 AM, <STILLFRANKSFAULT@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>  It's "natural selection" It's natures way of sending Pontiac the way of
> the dinosaurs.
>
> Smoky Mt. Frank
>
>  In a message dated 10/31/2010 7:10:38 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
> printces@xxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>
> US car maker Pontiac shuts down
>
> (UKPA) – 2 hours ago
>
> Iconic car brand Pontiac has officially gone out of business after an
> existence spanning more than 80 years.
>
> The 84-year-old brand had been in decline for years and GM's agreements
> with Pontiac dealers have now expired.
>
> Even before GM's bankruptcy, Pontiac's sales had fallen from their peak
> of nearly one million in 1968 when the brand's speedier models were
> prized for their powerful engines.
>
> At Pontiac's pinnacle, models like the GTO, Trans Am and Catalina 2+2
> were packed with horsepower and sported colours like Tiger Gold. Burt
> Reynolds and Sally Field fled the law in a Firebird Trans Am which raced
> through the 1970s hit movie Smokey and the Bandit.
>
> By 2008, the last full year before GM announced Pontiac's shutdown,
> sales were 267,000, less than a third of those sold in 1968.
>
> Formed in 1926, Pontiac made cars for the working class until a sales
> slump in the 1950s nearly killed it. GM revived the brand by connecting
> it to auto racing.
>
> This year, Pontiac's sales are less than 1% of the 2.2 million cars and
> trucks GM is expected to sell. GM built the last Pontiac in May.
>
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