Re: GM slashes Chevy Volt prices to spur flagging sales

That is very, very cool. I've never heard of it... I assume they drop a regular transmission in? Available with a manual?

--scott

Manual or automatic.

Here's Kugel's site. I see the price has gone 'way up in the past 9 years, but they've probably improved it a lot from the original, too.

The original was just the frame members and a Ford crate engine and gearbox, but the whole package was available for $4,600.

There are other sources, but Kugel is the best-known.

I can explain GPS in more technical detail that you'd ever want to hear, and I don't use or care about it, but navigate by paper maps and the sun and stars. jsw

I keep a pocket compass in my arm-rest pocket. My son asks, "What's THAT thing for?"

If he ever read a map and there weren't good road signs, and the sun was behind the clouds, he'd know.

I've been using Google Earth to explore property. I use an online cadastre with legal lines and an opaque satellite photo layer on one side of my PC screen, and GE on the other side. Draw property lines or whatever in GE by azimuth and distance or in relation to landmarks, then save the file to a phone or tablet. In the field I can be in dense bush with no view out or no sun, and thanks to GPS still know exactly where I am in relation to whatever I drew, along with a satellite (or aircraft) photo overlaid with adjustable 3D representation of terrain, vegetation, buildings, abandoned vehicles, whatever was there when the photo was taken. The GE data can be cached ahead of time and used in areas without cell reception. It's absolutely amazing and there's no practical paper substitute. Even better, anyone who has a smart phone has free access to all this tech.

Ahma be mighty pissed if you don't swing by my place!!

We're gonna take the subway up from Penn Station, and the date won't be set until he has a free day -- and seats are available.

I don't think we're going to come close to Yonkers. Not this trip, anyway.

That's the smart way to go.

But, ahm so LONELY over here!!!!!

Hey, yer not one of these old guys that goes to Yankee games in full Yankee regalia, are you?? Uniform, cap, baseball glove, AND bat?????? PLease tell me No..... LOL

We'll send you an inflatable friend to tide you over. d8-)

No. I wear a Yankees cap. In fact, I'm wearing it right now, aftraid to take it off after Mariano nearly lost one last night. This is it on my head, with me wearing glasses. d8-)