Went to a cruise-in car show and Jolene won a trophy! FYI…best “non-three” means non-Chevy, non-Ford, non-Mopar. But not import. They had a separate import award. I thought “non-three” meant non-“big three”, but the big three is/was GM, Ford, and Chrysler. And Pontiac is GM, so…yeah.
Either way, a win is a win! I parked next to my buddy’s ‘90 Firebird.
They made this award because they have separate categories for Best Chevy, Best Ford, and Best Mopar.
Other cars there:
As y’all know, we’re building a house (it’s almost done - we move in in two weeks).
And we added a third car garage specifically for Jolene! My wife and kids got me this custom made sign for Father’s Day!
Had to leave a Pontiac group on social media tonight because two guys decided to team up and pester me about how “crappy” Jolene is and how she “doesn’t belong in the group.”
Direct quote from them: “It may be a Pontiac but it’s front wheel drive junk that would run an 18 second quarter mile. People were just surprised to see it outside of a junkyard.” One guy even kept going when he couldn’t get me to fight back and couldn’t get the response he wanted out of me. He eventually just turned to posting laugh emojis over and over again.
Keep in mind these were both 30 or 40-something dudes with GTOs as their profile pictures.
I’ll never understand full grown adult men that want to belittle strangers on social media, but whatever. People seriously need to take a long look at themselves and find something better to do with their lives! At least I had good in-person feedback at the cruise-in tonight. Trying to focus on that. I assumed a Pontiac group on Facebook would be open to all Pontiacs. Wrong!
On Saturday, it was a foundation and a pile of lumber. This is today.
The Amish dudes don’t mess around. Still looking at an early July move-in.
Got some great news about Ginger from the vet today.
Her lungs are completely clear now and the irritation around her heart is gone. She had pretty bad bronchitis which was causing the fluid buildup in her lungs and strain on her heart. We just have to finish our antibiotics. No heart disease signs and no heart medicine needed. 
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Tonight’s cruise-in was one of the ones where most people were rude and laughed at my car. And yes, I mean literally laughed out loud. And pointed. It seems as though every other show I go to is like that, and then the others have nice people that are genuinely interested in the car and how it survived in this condition for 31 years. I’m not phased, though. I will keep going. Jolene is special to me, even if not to most others. I’m proud regardless.
P.S. If you’re ever at a car show and unimpressed by a car, just be a decent human being and keep your nasty comments/opinions to yourself - especially if the car’s owner is sitting right there. It’s called manners and basic human decency.
I get that my car isn’t a conventional show car, so there’s no need to remind me of that. But I’m gonna keep going. Just because.
Here are some of my other favorites from the show (tonight’s theme was trucks):
Full price offer. Closing times and possession times line up with exactly what we need. $50k more than we paid for the house in 2015 and all we did was clean it, paint, and put down some new carpet.
Wow.
The housing market is nuts right now.
Happy 13th (or 14th) Birthday to my first baby girl.
She came to us on June 29, 2012 when she was estimated to be 4-5 years old. She’s a punk but we love her anyway. It’s such a blessing to have a dog that I don’t have to worry about taking on walks and having kids want to pet her. She loves little ones! Well, really, she loves everyone! She’s cute but not very cuddly (too independent). She likes to kill birds and chase rabbits (she used to be able to catch them but not as much anymore).
She barks her silly head off anytime a dog walks past the house. And, she loves going to visit Meemaw and Papaw when mom and dad go out of town. She’s incredibly healthy and active for her age, and for that, we are thankful.
^^Two pictures right after we brought her home in 2012.
^^More recent pictures.
Just missed Jolene’s 31st birthday! We are the same age now (until November). She was invoiced and shipped to the dealership on 6/14/1990. I was born 11/13/1989.
She’ll be turning over 60,000 miles soon.
Some guy in one of the Facebook groups asked if I “bought it brand new.” Lol no sir, I was seven months old when this car hit the dealership’s lot. 
We closed today.
Remind me to never move again. I’m staying put until I’m too old to walk up these stairs.
@musashi66 said in Someone thought that a Chrysler Concorde was worth storing in climate controlled storage for 27 years:
@mazda616 I meant the Chevy Corsica that Huser mentioned. I think you expressed interest In those before?
Yep. I basically grew up in one and it was as tough as nails. My mom put 10 years and 170,000 hard miles on it. 
@musashi66 said in Someone thought that a Chrysler Concorde was worth storing in climate controlled storage for 27 years:
I like these okay but nah. Chryslers of this vintage were unreliable and difficult when new, much less with old hoses and gaskets after sitting for decades.
@musashi66 said in Someone thought that a Chrysler Concorde was worth storing in climate controlled storage for 27 years:
@ohcrikeytherozzers There are many cars that make me feel like that. Many are here, I don't understand the love or infatuation, so I just chose not to comment on them.
I’m assuming you mean Jolene the Sunbird. FYI, I don’t understand my love or infatuation, either.
@huzer I get too emotionally attached and change makes me nervous. That = keeping a car for a long time. Had my former car (2008 Mazda3) for six years and I’d still have it if I didn’t have to try and fit two child seats in it. This October, I’ll have had my current car (2016 Mazda6) for six years and since it only has 57,000 miles and has been largely trouble free, it’ll be sticking around longer as well.
@musashi66 Cute dog and car. Red is my favorite Abarth color!
@pickup_man My first car did this to me. It was a ‘92 Chevrolet Beretta. Base model with the 2.2 four-cylinder from the Cavalier and the 3-speed automatic. It was soooo slow. I wanted a GTZ Beretta with the 2.3 Quad 4 or at least a Z26 or GT one with the 3.1 V6, but I had to take what I could get.
The Beretta had super low miles and was an older lady’s car. It sat a lot. Until me. I was 16 and there is/was nothing else to do in this town (and gas was cheap). So, my friends and I drove the hell out of the Beretta and it responded by breaking down. A lot.
Coolant hoses all eventually went. So did the heater core. And it somehow had a misfire one day and decided to run on three cylinders but with no “check engine” light. It leaked water under the dash in the rain (common Beretta problem), had its rear drum brakes lock up when going slowly (like through a parking lot), the parking brake quit working, the alternator died (as a result of my expensive stereo that was worth more than the car), and there was some other stuff I’m likely forgetting. Oh, the transmission. It was dying and wouldn’t shift gears unless you let off the gas. It would hold first gear forever if you didn’t let off the accelerator.
It was shiny and rust free and still looked decent, but it couldn’t handle being a teenager’s car. Poor thing. I sold it for $1,700 in April 2007. The girl who bought it ended up junking it after the headgasket and the transmission both died.
@shop-teacher said in Steve Lehto has pointed out a significant flaw in my plan...:
@carsoffortlangley said in Steve Lehto has pointed out a significant flaw in my plan...:
Personally? I find the idea of towing a trailer or whatever to some paved "camp site" repulsive and they are my idea of hell on earth. But hey, to each their own.
I don't camp in places like that, but I require electricity to sleep. I have a c-pap machine, for sleep apnea. Boon-docking it out in the wilderness, isn't in the cards for me.
Same here! I quit breathing 40+ times a minute during my sleep test. If I sleep without my CPAP machine, I wake up feeling like I got hit by a truck.
I want a small camper to pull behind the Highlander but as has been said, they’re expensive as hell and they are shoddily-built to start with. Annoying.
The show premiered on NBC on this day in 1985…36 years ago. We (my wife and her younger sister and I) are heading to the movies tonight to watch them on the big screen.
https://www.fathomevents.com/events/Forever-Golden-A-Celebration-of-the-Golden-Girls
That’s all. Back to your regularly scheduled Oppo.
@pip-bip He had me at eating cake. And lost me at drinking piss.
@just-jeepin There were two Jeeps but I didn’t photograph them because they were meh (not modded tastefully at all).