Well, I can only speak for myself here, but I have learned a lot from list members in my years of both active participation and sitting on the side observing the action. Many of the long timers on the list will remember the "good ole days" when we had fussin' and fuedin' and loads of posts daily, but I am sure Greg WON'T remember them quite so favorably as the referee/sheriff/moderator/caretaker of children he was at the time. I suspect one of the reasons the list has died down a bit is well known to all here, the fact that GM (aka mafiaoso hitmen/women) killed one of the oldest continuously produced cars without much more than a whimper of an effort to salvage the good parts..... While we are now looking at retro Camaros, Challengers, GTO, Mustangs, Chargers (ugh, the car gawds never meant for them to be 4 doored I'm sure), and others of like ilk, I am sure none of us realistically expect to EVER see another updated, GM built version of the Cutlass, the 442 or the king of the Oldsmobile hill, the Hurst Olds. After all, they are going so far as to tear down the entire manufacturing facility in Lansing, so I guess it can't get much more definite than that, huh? Speaking of which, I had occasion to make a two day run to Lansing last summer, and I'm going to tell you, it was really neat to see the Olds name and to drive by the facilities. As luck would have it, I got lost up there while looking for my lodging or restaurants or whatever, and just happened to drive by the Olds plant. Talk about karma, circumstance or what have you, I really loved that part of the trip. The car I drove up there was acting up somewhat as the distributor moved somehow or another (as I later found out), so I didn't go on too many side trips, but the few I did go one were very interesting. Anyway, the one thing that struck me the quickest was how deserted the whole area was for the most in downtown Lansing, and how little new development and restoration was going on in the area. It made the realization of the impact a move like the closing of the plant on the area really so obvious it was painful, and that was just me as an observer, not a local person affected...... A really nice area it seemed to me though....
-----Original Message----- >From: Kerry Doyle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Nov 24, 2006 8:07 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: End of the line for the list? > >Just don't know how I would have progressed to this >point without this list. Its been just a great list >in may ways for the past couple of years and I'd >really miss it. Sincerely hope it can keep going. >Kerry > > > >> >>>No, there is just no traffic on the list of late >> except for the usual >> ebay >> fraud alerts. Makes me wonder if we have come to the >> end of the line for >> the list. >
