Podcasts about Buick Skylark

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Send us a textPicture this: It's Christmas Eve 1984, and outside your home sits an unexpected gift—a 1971 Buick Skylark, your first car! As we travel back to that exhilarating moment, you'll feel the thrill of youthful freedom as I recount installing a pricey stereo system and turning the Skylark into a mobile hub of adventure and camaraderie. Next, we discuss Def Leppard drummer, Rick Allen's horrific car crash 40 years ago and how his determination and an electronic drum kit has kept him rocking all these years.But that's not all. We take a step back to the birth of VH1 on January 1, 1985. Reflect with me on the first ten music videos that hit the airwaves and the quirky stories behind them, including Burt Bacharach's unexpected role in one of the classics. Relive the glory days of music television, laugh at Stevie Wonder's looped love song story, and cherish the unforgettable moments from beloved VH1 shows such as "Pop-Up Video" and "Behind the Music."As the journey progresses, we'll revisit the comical chaos of the Y2K scare, the Snoop Dogg Bowl, and a legendary Ramones concert with Amy Carter. Reflect on the legacy of bands like The Zombies and The Pretenders while uncovering intriguing connections like those of Chrissie Hynde. "Music in My Shoes" where music and memories intertwine.Learn Something New orRemember Something OldPlease Like and Follow our Facebook and Instagram page at Music In My Shoes. You can contact us at musicinmyshoes@gmail.com.

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Let's just say if I was building or renovating a pool I'd call Vinnie Groppa. And for the record yes, stars do call him, but so do very regular people who still get the same star treatment!  Humble guy that Vinnie. Great sense of humor. Really nice human and super creative pool and backyard design visionary. I wanted to give Vinnie his own star treatment, so I invited him into the studio to tell the great entrepreneurial story of his family's 50-year-old pool business Gunite Pools of Westchester. It's a good one. And a story that's entering a new chapter... 'expansion'. Vinnie Groppa grew up in the family pool business, learned about the business from a very young age, and eventually took over the company. He now proudly employs his own son to help him run the day-to-day pool operations which every year involves a ridiculously busy scenario opening hundreds and hundreds of pools for the season to be ready to roll by Memorial Day weekend. “Gunite Pools in Westchester was started a long time ago by my father, who was a builder at the time. He and my uncle started the company. And Gunite Pools became renowned and very well-known in Westchester County in NY. I started my own little pool company, V Groppa pools, when I was like 15 years old. They were building pools but there was no service division. So at 15 I bought a car, the old Buick Skylark, I put a vacuum hose in a pole. I had this beautiful car, I could put my tools in, I had a pole hanging out the window, and I was on my way. The first year I had four customers. And then from there it just snowballed, and I got a great reputation. Eventually my dad retired, so I took on his company and now without giving that name up, I just incorporated the two together and now we have a beautiful service division.” While the demand for pool service is high, demand for new pools has slowed a little bit since the pandemic. However, the desire for well-designed, safe, and functional pools remains very strong. Vinnie's passionate about great pool service but his real passion lies in designing those gorgeous pools and transforming backyards into beautiful spaces. It's what turns him on and what he's looking forward to doing more of! People Fly Vinnie In To Design Pools? Yes! He's That Good! Lol V. Groppa Pools & Gunite Pools of Westchester have always been known for a high level of integrity and excellence. They're now expanding into Greenwich CT Fairfield County CT, the Hamptons (where Vinnie has already designed quite a few pools) and other upscale locales where people have actually flown Vinnie in. Vinnie gets a real kick out of doing that.  “It makes me smile because I really love that part of the business, I love being creative and seeing something through till the end and stepping back and saying hey, you know what? Look what I did. Yeah, look what I built, look what I created. You can leave something behind, and people enjoy it and to see the smiles on their faces is just invaluable to me.” Adding a Pool These Days increases the Value of Your Home. Realtors and Builders always reach out to Vinnie when they're trying to increase the value of a home sale. Either by adding a pool or renovating one, making a pool safer, or adding a hot tub, a waterfall, lighting etc. So, if anybody's out there interested in knowing more about this, Vinnie is the guy who can educate you on how to enhance the value of your home. Let's Talk About Pool Safety! There's nothing like enjoying a pool and nothing worse than having something go wrong at a pool. Especially when it's yours and it could have been prevented. One of the most effective ways to prevent accidents is to make sure the pool is securely fenced with a self-locking gate. Vinnie says, “So the code is you have to have a self-locking gate with a lock on top so you can actually lock the gate. And if, God forbid, you forget to close the gate, it automatically closes behind you. Another code is that every door leading to the backyard within the fenced-in area must have some type of alarm on it. So, if the mother of the house is upstairs and she's getting dressed, and the child's on the first floor and decides he/she is going to go for a walk out the back, the mother is alerted to that when the child opens the door.”  What else does Vinnie see trending in pool safety?  “The most effective thing right now in nine out of ten pools I'm building is that they are equipped with an automatic cover. So, it's almost like peace of mind where you close that cover. It's like locking your door to your house. You know this is something that every parent with a small child should have but the only thing with that is your pool must be a rectangle. “   When Somethings Wrong with Your Pool Make It Right - Right Away. “95-98% of our pools, we do weekly service. So my guys are my eyes and if there's anything that's wrong, they'll shoot me a picture right away and we reach out to the client and we tell them, safety's first. This is dangerous and we want to repair it, we want to take care of it. Give us the okay and we'll take care of it right away'   Does everybody want a rectangle pool? “I go in a backyard and immediately I'll tell you what the backyard dictates. It's like a palette and you can see what type of backyard people have, what type of house they have. Is it modern? Is it colonial, does it warrant a free form pool? If it's very natural in the back, I'd love to put something with a waterfall. “   It's instinct after all these years with Vinnie Groppa. He just knows what would work and what would flow. If you've got or want a pool, you need a Vinnie! LOL  Gunite Pools of Westchester (and beyond now) has a stellar reputation founded on integrity, loyalty and availability. V Groppa Pools and Gunite Pools of Westchester. Get in touch Vinnie Groppa at VGroppa Pools or Gunite Pools of Westchester at 914-769-3513 or at gunitepoolsofwestchester.com Meanwhile enjoy meeting the ‘pool artist to stars' Vinnie Groppa in this podcast of our live conversation on The Debbie Nigro Show.

More known as a party band than they were rock royalty, the J. Geils Band is still a rock band of the era that gets tossed aside, despite a decade of incendiary live shows and more hits than some may recall. One of my favorites. Played them loud.  Learned some history too. I seriously rocked the “Blow Your Face Out” live cassette in my $2,000 brown Buick Skylark back in 1986. It's really not just that the J. Geils Band is not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. But they probably aren't getting in. Yet the bridge they made - from the last 60s blues band era to the time of Seger, Springsteen, Petty, and U2 blowing up - was integral in rock and roll. Their live show.  The R&B fused with rock and roll. The way they hit the stage, took no prisoners, and then blew out of town. That matters.  That's their legacy. That was their time. It was a band more than the perceived one-time splash of "Centerfold" and "Freeze Frame".  The J. Geils Band were road dogs.  They were also a bunch of guys who reintroduced a whole lot of people to songs that were forgotten before they recaptured them.  And they had hits well before they were able to fuse the new wave with the old rock, and did it more seamlessly than lots of others who tried. Take a bouncing ride on this podcast.  We dig into the reasons why this band from Boston, one in a long line of great rock and roll, from The Standells to Aerosmith to the Cars - made in that town, matters.

I thought it might be simple.  Who were some of my favorite roots rock bands from the 1980's and 90's?  And why?  This episode turned into a deep dive into what still feels like it was only skimming along the surface of a genre that was hot for about five years and before fading back into where it was before, into a mostly forgotten sub-genre that I still love. "Roots Rock" was a name that was branded on a sound that came of age in the mid-'80s. Some guitar rawness.  Some harmonies. Roots rock had twang and guitars and drums. Garage-ish rock. There was definitely a crossover with the sound called heartland rock.  There was, however, a rawness that made it more roots than heartland. Heartland rock was a name used in the 1970s to describe Midwestern arena rock. The Mount Rushmore of 80s heartland rock? Arguably - but correctly  - Bruce Springsteen, Bob Seger, and Tom Petty, John Mellencamp.  Could also include bands like REO if you wanted. Maybe Cheap Trick?  Michael Stanley Band for sure.   How was it all the same?  How not? We listen to bands that made an impact both on the roots rock genre and on me.  It is not an all-inclusive list of everyone and every band that fit or that I listened to. Instead, it is a selection of music that was on the radio, or maybe not, and we talk about why it was or wasn't.  But these are certainly bands and music that slid into my cassette player in the 1979 Buick Skylark a whole lot of times. Band like: Cracker Del Fuegos Bodeans Rainmakers John Hiatt Steve Earle V-Roys Long Ryders It is an epic podcast.  More than an hour's worth of bands and artists and tracks for listeners to dig into more deeply. Turn it up. SUBSCRIBE: Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher Google Podcasts Read Rob's current and archived writing at rockforwardmusic.com website: rockpopandroll.com EMAIL: rockpoprollpodcast@gmail.com

When the left tire mark goes up on the curb and the right tire mark stays flat and even? Well, the '64 Skylark had a solid rear axle, so when the left tire would go up on the curb, the right tire would tilt out and ride along its edge. But that didn't happen here. The tire mark stayed flat and even. This car had an independent rear suspension. Now, in the '60s, there were only two other cars made in America that had positraction, and independent rear suspension, and enough power to make these marks. One was the Corvette, which could never be confused with the Buick Skylark. The other had the same body length, height, width, weight, wheel base, and wheel track as the '64 Skylark, and that was the 1963 Pontiac Tempest.

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Ever wanted to hop in your Buick Skylark and take to the Astral Highway? In this bonus episode you'll hear the first episode of Desert Skies FM, the brand new companion podcast of Desert Skies. This show is a short-form radio style broadcast that is not central to plot of Desert Skies in any way. In each episode of Desert Skies FM, you'll hear some announcements from the staff of Desert Skies Astral Plane Fuel and Service Center, an encouraging message from Mac, and hear about some of the products and specials at the station. Be sure to subscribe to Desert Skies FM wherever you listen to podcasts!

Early last year, divers pulled wreckage from a 1980 Buick Skylark out of Lake Tawakoni. They returned last fall and discovered human remains under the debris. Those remains have now been matched to Carey Mae Parker — a young northeast Texas mother-of-three who went missing along with her Buick in 1991. Parker's daughter Brandy Hathcock confirmed yesterday (Tuesday) that investigators used D-N-A to identify the remains, presumed to be Parker's. “She's coming home!” Hathcock wrote in a Facebook post. Her siblings made similar announcements. The Hunt County Sheriff's Office didn't immediately return calls overnight. In October, its officers coordinated with a private dive group to retrieve the remains — which included bones — from the Waco Bay area of the lake. The successful volunteer effort came months after a Texas D-P-S team abandoned searches after just one day.

Hop in your metallic mint green 1964 Buick Skylark convertible and pop on your finest red velvet tuxedo because Pete and Michael are heading way down south in our Re-View of My Cousin Vinny. Join us as we enjoy the antics of Vinny, Mona Lisa and the "youts" in this comedic case of trial and error.Follow @BoxOffice30 on Twitter and Facebook and @BoxOfficeThirty on Instagram! Or visit www.BoxOffice30.com!★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

Hello Interactors,Our family hit a snag in the transportation department last week. Our routine was disrupted making us scramble for remedies — including possibly needing a new car. It all came at a time when the state of Washington released its 2021 figures on automobile related deaths. It made me wonder and reflect on car dependency, the Covid funk, and the psychology of cars. As interactors, you’re special individuals self-selected to be a part of an evolutionary journey. You’re also members of an attentive community so I welcome your participation.Please leave your comments below or email me directly.Now let’s go…CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG“It’s making a strange noise, shifts awkwardly, and smells funny,” my son and daughter exclaimed. There had been similar reports previously, but things had worsened. “It seems ok on the straights, but sounds and feels worse going down hill,” they added. Then, as my daughter got in the car to go to swim practice, she soon came back inside and said, “I’m taking the other car. Uno is making an awful noise and smells even worse than before.”Our kids call our 2006 Audi A3, Uno. The Washington State Licensing authority named it when it was born. They even sent us two rectangular plates with its name stamped into it, along with a few appended random numbers. We mounted one on its nose and the other on its rear-end. Our kids use Uno to commute to school 12 miles away as well as other errands, appointments, and events. They both have a bit of an emotional attachment to this aging little black hatchback. Uno even becomes Dracula during Halloween when they affix dangling white fangs on each side of the license plate frame.I’ve had an emotional attachment to Audi’s since I was a kid. I saw my first Audi in the mid-70s. It was Audi’s first car sold in the United States – The Audi Fox. A guy down the street owned one. His name was Delbert Woody. I was drawn to Delbert. He was a World War II veteran who personified the post-war male mystique. He rode a dirt bike in the open field behind his house, was an avid hunter and fisherman, drove construction trucks for a living, was a life long Teamster Union member, and loved pecan pie and Pepsi. He, like so many other war veterans, got married after the war and settled in the suburbs. They were the first to move into one of Norwalk, Iowa’s first subdivisions in 1960. Their single story ranch house, nestled neatly in a line of others just like it, sat on a hill below the water tower at the edge of town on a street aptly named: Edgemont.Also in keeping with post-war tradition, he had a fascination with cars. I remember him owning more than one and this was during the 1970s gas crisis and recession. Audi entered the U.S. market selling the Fox as a ‘solution to the gas problem.’ The Fox was marketed as a sports sedan with a sporty suspicion, front-wheel drive, and an engine that could get 25 miles to the gallon. All for $3400. That’s roughly $20,000 today. I can see how a masculine blue collar gearhead like Delbert was attracted to this car, despite it being German.I’m not sure what I liked about it. Maybe it was the novelty of a foreign car in small Iowa town, the European styling, or maybe it was the cool fox emblem on the back. Probably all the above. The truth is, Delbert and I, and all auto-dependent motorists, share something in common. We all have brains that contain two separate modules that combine to form relationships with automobiles.One of these cranial circuits uses cool calculating rational thought that views a car as a utility – an appliance. It’s sensitive to numbers: miles per gallon, range, price, 0-60, reliance ratings, and a myriad of other self-justifying statistics. The other side of the brain tugs on our heart strings. Emotional affections warm our heart in the comfort of a climate controlled cocoon. It makes our heart go pitter patter with the status cars provide, or cause our pulse to quicken at the sudden and effortless acceleration through space.Both of these neuro-negotiators conspire to construct our comforting and sometimes conniving relationships with cars. And automakers have learned how to manipulate both of these brainy battles through design and marketing.Uno got its name from a random license plate generator, but automakers are less random. For Delbert Woody’s Audi Fox, Audi wanted to associate that car with a fox. A fox is agile, strong, fast…and cunning. Many animals are. Which is why it’s not hard to find cars named after animals. Here are just a few: Plymouth Barracuda, Mercury Sable, Buick Skylark, Corvette Stingray, Pontiac Sunbird, Ford Thunderbird, Dodge Viper, AMC Eagle, Chevrolet Impala, and who can forget the Ford Pinto.As you can see all of these are American made cars. U.S. automakers also like aggressive macho sounding names. Especially Dodge, with names like Challenger, Ram, and Avenger. Europe and Japan have a few examples like the Fiat Spider or Suzuki Samurai, but nothing like the U.S. You may be thinking to yourself, what about the iconic Volkswagen Beetle? Sorry, but that’s a nickname. It’s official name in Germany was Volkswagen Type 1. What about the Volkswagen Rabbit? It was the Volkswagen Golf in Europe. And Delbert’s Audi Fox would have been called the Audi 80 anywhere else but America.The design of vehicles are also expressive. When Uno dawns his fangs at Halloween, the gimmick only works because the headlights make the eyes and the grill its mouth. Different cars take on different personalities when viewed from the front, or more commonly, when viewed in your rear view mirror. There’s speculation by some psychologists that these personalities may even be reflected in the owners and their driving behavior. There is certainly evidence that some car design and some drivers have become more aggressive over time. But it’s equally true that some aggressive looking cars are sometimes driven by passive people. Or maybe they’re using the design of their vehicle to hide or express some other hidden or deep seeded emotion or personality trait.RAGE DISPENSED THE MACHINEStefan Gössling is a professor of social science at Lund University in Sweden. He researches and writes extensively on transportation. In 2017 he released a book called The Psychology of the Car. He says there are a wide range of emotions that relate to the power and dominance that play a central role in car culture. He cites research affirming “that driving powerful cars is generally understood as a means of expressing macho personalities.” Driving a powerful car exudes superiority and control.He lists different aspects and levels of control we have driving cars:Agency: To be able to decide when to leave at any point in time, and for any given destinationSemiotics: Being in charge: control of inside (music, temperature) and outside environment (navigation system, speed), and car physics (fuel levels, revolutions per minute)Haptics: Holding the steering wheel, pushing pedals, shifting gearsSmells and soundscapes: Choice of smell or music, interiorPhysics of movement: Being able to drive fast, to accelerateBut he also quotes the sociologist, John Urry. He too wrote extensively on the sociology of mobility, especially regarding the loss of control that can come with controlling a fast moving machine. The automobile, while offering us much control, can also rob us of critical experiences. He writes,“Dwelling at speed, car-drivers lose the ability to perceive local detail, to talk to strangers, to learn of local ways of life, to stop and sense each different place. Sights, sounds, tastes, temperatures and smells get reduced to the two-dimensional view through the car windscreen and through the rear mirror, the sensing of the world through the screen being the dominant mode of contemporary dwelling. The environment beyond that windscreen is an alien other, kept at bay through the diverse privatizing technologies incorporated within the car. These technologies ensure a consistent supply of information, a relatively protected environment, high quality sounds and increasingly sophisticated systems of monitoring. They enable the hybrid of the car-driver to negotiate conditions of intense riskiness on high-speed roads.”Our roads are designed to drive at high speeds. They even include optical illusions to put you at ease. For example, the length and distance between dashed lines on highways are designed to trick your brain into believing your body is moving slower than it really is. And while there have been many amazing safety advancements in the engineering of roads and cars for those inside the vehicle, they’ve inadvertently made them increasingly dangerous for those outside of the vehicle.Washington state ended 2021 with the highest number of road fatalities in 15 years. There were more than 540 fatal crashes killing over 600 people. One hundred and eighteen of whom were walking or riding their bike. An additional 2,411 crashes were estimated to have caused serious injury – a 16% rise over 2020. Thirty one people were killed in Seattle alone in 2021.While the design of our infrastructure and vehicles encourages speed, other factors are at play as well. Alcohol and drug related crashes have continued to climb 25% since 2019. Speed also was a major factor climbing 18% since 2020.There are a multitude of interrelated factors that lead to increasing numbers of motorists killing and injuring people – especially cyclists and pedestrians. But given the social malaise that has overcome us all over the last few years, anger and aggression are likely key factors. Whether it’s lockdown lunacy, income inequity insanity, racial reality, gender gut checks, or fights between the lefts and the rights there are ample reasons for us all to be disturbed.There are also threats to the status quo. Increasingly cities are seeing bike and bus lanes squeezing out car lanes, rising gas prices, and talk of congestion fees. Meanwhile, automakers are ditching the traditional internal combustion engine for progressive green machines. These are levels of social change that many welcome, while others reject – especially those adverse to change or who feel their individualism is threatened.So they take it out on others on the road. We’ve all witnessed, or are guilty of perpetrating, acts of aggression on the road: dodging and weaving through traffic, tailgating, flashing lights, running red lights, honking, flipping the bird, or yelling out the window. Worse yet, extreme forms of road rage where people take chase in a fit of anger to inflict harm or intimidation. There are more passive aggressive examples too, like parking in a bike lane, stopping in a cross walk, or failing to yield to a blinkering merging bus.In 1994, Jerry Deffenbacher, a Colorado State psychology professor who studies correlations of anger and anxiety with behavior, created a Driving Anger Scale that scientists have been using since. Results as recent as 2016 suggest personality traits like “impulsiveness, narcissism, and normlessness” confirm studies from 2013 that link narcissism to aggressive driving. One researcher concluded: “driving anger of narcissistic individuals may result out of threats to perceived power, control, and position rather than to image and attention seeking.”Results also vary by age, gender, driver experience, and culture. In a country who’s culture flaunts and breeds narcissism, individualism, and macho maleness – possibly even overly tolerant of outward expressions of anger as an acceptable emotional response – we should not be surprised to see increased aggression on the part of some motorists.Sometimes anger directed at strangers can take the form of contempt. The car then becomes a way to separate one’s self from others deemed inferior or from an anxiety inducing changing environment. Here’s how one geography researcher, Jason Henderson of San Francisco State University, described an SUV driver in a 2006 study looking at the politics of automobility in Atlanta, Georgia.  “After spitting into a toll collection device on the highway, the angry white male described his disdain at the possible alternatives to his SUV — a compact urban form with intensive transit infrastructure containing pedestrian and transit spaces where people would have physical proximity to ‘others’ of different racial, class, gender or sexual orientation. Seen in this context, his SUV was more than just an instrument for traveling through the city. It was an instrument of secession from what he scorned in contemporary American urban space.”WITH URBAN FRICTION COMES CAR ADDICTIONWe took Uno to the doctor. We had a sneaking suspicion it may be done for. When my wife pulled into the shop they said, “You best turn that off, it doesn’t sound good. You probably should have had it towed.” But after waiting a few days for the prognosis, it turned out to be a couple bad spark plugs, failing coils, and noise inducing broken catalytic converter.When my son heard this news, he said, “Let’s straight-pipe it!” Straight-piping is when you remove emission reducing mechanisms so that the sound, and pollution, from the engine goes straight out the tailpipe. Both my son and my daughter have an affinity for loud cars. My son can tell you the make and model of a car just from the sound of the exhaust. He’s a combusting carbon connoisseur. And lucky for him, there seems to be an increasing number of loud tailpipes these days.I’m more aghast at the uproarious racket. I grumble and mutter under my own exhaust as these cars rumble by, “There goes another UAS. Urban Attention Seeker.” And it seems I’m right. Overly loud modified exhausts, or even some motorcycles (I’m looking at you Harley Davidson), are symbols of rebellion. They signal to anyone in ear shot opposition to authority and social norms. They scream, “NOTICE ME!”In Gössling’s book he cites the research of Robert Merton who is regarded by many as the founder of modern sociology. He also studied criminology where he developed strain theory which says strain in an individual can come about in a society that pressures people to attain more than they can possibly achieve. So they seek forms of rebellion. More recent advances in this theory by the criminologist and social psychologist Robert Agnew point to three factors that lead to criminal acts of rebellion. They largely stem from childhood stress, trauma, victimization, and neglect:The inability to achieve positively valued stimuli (e.g., money, status, autonomy)The loss of positively valued stimuli (e.g., loss of romantic partners, property)The presentation of negatively valued or aversive stimuli (e.g., verbal and physical abuse)But loud cars, or motorcycles, can just as easily be driven by financially successful people at the top of the social status hierarchy. These are the cars my son most admires. They’re hyper or super cars made by companies like Lamborghini, Ferrari, or Mercedes Benz. One of his favorites is the throaty land yacht by Mercedes Benz – The G Wagon. These are less emblems of rebellion and more signals of status. Both are forms of attracting attention.And so is an Audi A3. Even though it was the cheapest car Audi sold at the time, it is still a luxury German automobile. And while it is a brand I dreamed of owning since childhood, I can’t deny my purchase also helped to signal my status. If my rational brain had one out, and I viewed the purchase of the car as an appliance for mobility, I could have easily put myself into a more affordable hatchback. As one friend put it, the A3 is really just a Volkswagen Golf for grown ups. Works for me.We decided to keep Uno in the family. And sorry, son, Uno won’t be straight-piped. It’s getting a new catalytic converter…even though replacing it will cost more than the car is worth. This is the last year our kids will be driving Uno to school together and they want that little car to be a part of it.Our kids could ride a public bus to school, but it takes an hour to go 12 miles and they have afterschool activities at locations far and wide. My son took the bus for a year and it left him exhausted with little time for homework. We chose to put them in this school, but we didn’t chose the car dependent design of our surrounding cities.When it comes to car dependency, it turns out there really are two sides of the brain at work; one rational and one emotional. Gössling breaks them down into ‘real’ and ‘perceived’ dependencies. ‘Real’ dependencies are like what I just described. There are aspects of urban planning and design that intentionally require people to have a car to live a modern, happy, healthy, and productive life. The car is an appliance that gets you to the doctor, practice facility, grocery store, or school on time – places that require a car and are practically inaccessible by anyone who cannot or choses not to drive a car.‘Perceived’ dependencies are rooted in fears and emotions where, as Gössling says, “alternative transport is considered ‘dysfunctional,’ i.e., creating anxieties related to complexity (buying tickets, finding ways), claustrophobic spaces, monitoring in ‘militarized’ environments (control, security), encounters with marginalized people (homeless, alcoholics, drug addicts), or specific smells and noises. Car use may also be related to status, fright-flight-fight responses, or other fears and phobias. In such situations, car reliance may be considered an addiction.”Automakers feed this addiction through advertising, marketing, and design. As Gössling summarizes in his list of car industry appeal strategies. I can imagine these being whispered seductively to the emotional side of our brain:The car will be good: The car is increasingly less polluting and safer in trafficThe car is your home: Home and car melt into one spaceThe car is your partner: You are a more capable person in cooperation with your carThe car will protect you: It is a dangerous worldYou need the car: Appeals directed at subconsciousBe aware of government: Someone is trying to take away your carI for one am ready to break the addiction. Who knows, once our kids leave the house for college, maybe it will be time for Uno to graduate too. That someone trying to take away the car may just be me. Unless, of course, Audi releases an electric retro Audi Fox!Thank you for reading Interplace. This post is public so feel free to share it. Subscribe at interplace.io

RM Sotheby's Open Roads, December online auction is heating up the winter with trending cars that are available now!  Greg Stanley reviews some of his favorites including a super low-mileage Porsche, a retro beachcomber and a few American classics.  You can see all of the cars available at RM Sotheby's Open Roads, December Sale.  Cars reviewed on this episode: 1989 Porsche 911 Turbo Cabriolet 1961 Mercedes-Benz 190 SL 1962 Volkswagen Type 2 Deluxe '23-Window' Microbus 1962 Chevrolet Corvette 1936 Auburn Speedster Replica by Speedster Motorcars 2021 Ford Bronco First Edition 1948 Playboy A48 Convertible 1954 Buick Skylark 1996 Ford Mustang SVT Cobra Coupe Please support our sponsors: RM Sotheby's, Hagerty, Metron Garage, Euro Classics and Pioneer Electronics. Follow The Collector Car Podcast: Website, Instagram, Facebook, YouTube or communicate with Greg directly via Email.  Support this channel by supporting us at Patreon. Join RM Sotheby's Car Specialist Consultant Greg Stanley as he applies over 25 years of insight and analytical experience to the collector car market. Greg interviews the experts, reviews market trends and even has some fun. Podcasts are posted every Thursday and available on Apple Podcast, GooglePlay, Spotify and wherever podcasts are found. See more at www.TheCollectorCarPodcast.com or contact Greg directly at Greg@TheCollectorCarPodcast.com. Are you looking to consign at one of RM Sotheby's auctions? Email Greg at GStanley@RMSothebys.com. Greg uses Hagerty Valuation Guide for sourcing automotive insights, trends and data points.

The Oregon-based group Adventures With Purpose located parts of Carey Mae Parker's car during its first search at Lake Tawakoni in February.  On Friday, the group might have found remains of Carey Mae Parker herself.  Founder Jared Leisek confirmed late Friday that his team found human remains in a debris pile from Parker's car near a causeway on the lake's Waco Bay.  The dive group located Parker's 1980 Buick Skylark in February and brought parts of it to the surface. Later searches by Department of Public Safety divers were unsuccessful, and Leisek's group agreed to return this fall with different equipment.  According to a Parker's sister, Patricia Gager, in a Facebook post, the divers retrieved a pelvis bone. Parker fractured her pelvis in an accident years before she went missing in 1991. That injury may prove useful in identifying any possible remains.  The Hunt County sheriff's office didn't immediately return calls late Friday.  But Leisek and Parker's family say they'll all be back tomorrow to finish the search.  For KETR News, I'm George Hale in Bloomington, Indiana.   

The beach is wonderful for sure but a lake, with its glassy, calm and serene surface holds a different, enchanting charm that is hard to replace. A perfect vacation spot for families, friends and self, these natural or man-made wonders don't only hold water. Sometimes, they harbor secrets. Here are 5 Missing Persons Discovered in Lakes.

Reach for the moon and you might land on the stars…like many who catch the car bug early in life we dream big of the cars featured in posters on our childhood walls. For Jason Gorman he dreamed in classic American muscle and specifically one of the most iconic of the 70’s street beast

It was around this time of year in 1991 when Carey Mae Parker seemed to disappear without a trace from southern Hunt County. Until three weeks ago — when a private search group located Parker’s car upside down in a bay north of her family’s home. Authorities lifted most of the 1980 Buick Skylark out of the water later the same day.  This week, forensic divers from the Texas Department of Public Safety and others returned to Waco Bay to search for more submerged evidence. After marking spots Monday along the White Point Causeway on FM 751, they descended into Lake Tawakoni yesterday (Tuesday) morning — hoping to finally locate and bring Parker’s remains above water.  The Hunt Co. Sheriff’s Office didn’t respond to calls and emails about the search. But Sheriff Terry Jones told members of Parker’s family at the lake that investigators had NOT located human remains and were NOT planning to resume operations today (Wednesday).  For KETR News, I’m George Hale in Bloomington, Indiana. 

DB Hooper finds a trap door. Then *another* trap door. Behind trap door number two is a table full of schematics and a Tpigeons (pterodactyl pigeons, the T is silent) and a plot to steal a mysterious bit of art. With a bag of scorpion peppers and snazzy plans for a Buick Skylark, DB is off to steal something a bit more exciting than a suitcase full of cash. Thanks for listening! Come visit the Podcast at HTTP://whashpod.wordpress.com or send us an email at whashpod@gmail.com! We look forward to hearing from you! --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/wehaveasituationhere/message

Jump in your 1964 Buick Skylark, don your floral catsuit and heels, and try to blend while brining that New York City vibe down south for the 1992 fish out of water courtroom comedy, My Cousin Vinny. It's your favorite ride or die couple: the goumba Winnie the Pooh and the force that is the one and only Mona Lisa Vito. 

We just finished up our 2nd Rocky Mountain Race Week and had a blast! Listen to the ups and downs of traveling over 1500 miles in our 1972 Mazda Rx2 with Gen V LT Swapped v8 in it! The car does amazing but we did run into a few issues! If you have never been on a racecar road trip I STRONGLY recommend it! This year we traveled with a pack of cars ranging from a 1500hp Buick Skylark to a $1600 Grand Marquis that the guy from Motion Raceworks pick up from Facebook Market place the day of the event! If you want to see more from our RMRW trip check out our videos! Day 1: https://youtu.be/mLq5XaVdZT0 Day 2: https://youtu.be/20y5LD9GysQ Day 3: https://youtu.be/rnzpzjLDrpU Day 4: https://youtu.be/rnzpzjLDrpU Day 5: https://youtu.be/rcnsDIgo7v4 Day 6:https://youtu.be/lT3TNG-FMEM Merch: BuildTuneRace.com --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/buildtunerace/support

Continuing our discussion with John Snyder, our new co-host. Peppering him with questions about the law, hacking, security, compliance, and we might throw in a few of our favorite lawyer movie quotes! "The car that made these two, equal-length tire marks had positraction. You can't make those marks without positraction, which was not available on the '64 Buick Skylark!"   Visit https://www.securityweekly.com/scw for all the latest episodes! Show Notes: https://wiki.securityweekly.com/scw37

They crossed several lines last time, but our heroes have no time to dwell on their mistakes—they’ve gotta turn this mutha out! It won’t be easy, not with one team member down and the others whiffing it left and right. Will the drug-addled Shrew and her leg warmers prevail? Will Bull live to take another Read More The post Episode 7: Requiem for a Buick Skylark appeared first on Bad Roll Models Podcast.

Several months ago, Chris Wood decided it was time for a new vehicle. He has a family, including four grandchildren, a 50-pound dog and a 5,000-pound ski boat and equipment to haul. He had $50,000 to spend, but he was faced with a lingering dilemma. Wood, 63, of Pleasanton, a retired Silicon Valley computer salesman, looked for six months but couldn't find a new sports utility vehicle that fit his criteria and could match the quality his previous vehicle, a 1999 Ford Explorer. Chris Wood of Pleasanton, California shopped for an SUV for six months before buying a 2018 Volkswagen Altas. Images © James Raia/2018. “I had it for 19 years; I serviced it all the time,” said Wood. “I put in transmissions and took care a lot of the things and kept it running. My dad gave me enough confidence introducing me to everything. He showed me how to rebuild a carburetor on a lawn mower so could learn how to do things myself." With his long, satisfying experience with Ford, Wood could have purchased another Explorer. But for 2018 he said the carmaker charges $600 for upgraded white paint. The basic white paint option was eliminated. “I just had an aversion to paying $600 for paint,” he said. Wood looked for used vehicles, but finding a well-built trailer hitch proved futile. Third-row seating was important and a cargo area large enough for a dog cage. He didn't want a white interior. Dodge, Honda and Toyota choices were eliminated for various reasons, including not wanting the expense and impractical issues of leather seats. The 2018 Volkswagen Atlas included 95 percent of what Chris Wood was seeking in a new sport utility vehicle for his family, dog and boat. “I really wanted an upscale cloth interior,” said Wood. “Maybe I'm the only guy on the planet who likes a cloth interior. I would have paid a leather price for a cloth interior. It's comfortable. The 19-year-old cloth interior of my Ford Explorer was in great shape the day I sold it. Plus you can't find five-year-old leather that looks good, in my opinion.” Wood recently purchased a 2018 Volkswagen Atlas, a debut SUV and his first VW. He provided a list of 16 pros and seven cons after driving the vehicle for 1,500 miles. He meticulously studies the owner's manual and has about two-dozen colored tabs on various sections. He has other sections marked in red for more tabs after additional reading. Among the features Wood appreciates in his new Atlas is the standard trailer hitch and better position than after-market options. The transmission shift points are good for daily driving. The rear seat tilt with a child's seat installed is superior. Wood is also impressed with the infotainment system, the 360-degree camera, the large navigation screen, the logical and easy-to-understand changes and settings and the automatic engine start-stop function. Expensive accessories, including the $600 side rail and the cost of installation as well and the $300 cargo cover, $320 roof rails and $300 ski rack are cons. Wood doesn't appreciate the manufacturer's obsession with warning proclamations throughout the owner's manual. He suggests a section for owners who to do their own maintenance and repair. "Give me a break," Wood noted. "Let Darwin's laws prevail." Like many car enthusiasts, Wood's fascination with cars began with a family vehicle from his youth. His mother and father saved their money and purchased a 1966 Buick Skylark demo model. His family took two cross-country trips in the Skylark, pulling a camper-trailer. “I tend to be pretty analytical,” Wood said. “My wife and I bought an RV a couple of years ago. We looked for a year for it. We thought about it and really studied and analyzed it. How are we going to use it? What do our friends say who've owned RVs?" With his new purchase, Wood is 95 percent satisfied. "It's an excellent vehicle," he said. "I just want people to know about it."

  Danny George is back!  We talk about Danny's new Marajuana sponsored BMW E36 M3 drift car, his other projects and his plans for the near future.  Project updates: Lane didn't do much, Warren's cars didn't break and Bryan got a new top for the Buick Skylark...if only we knew what material the top was made of.  We end the show with a little trivia.  Thanks for listening!  Please rate and review the show on iTunes.

S2E4: Make a Difference & Live: The Wrongful Conviction of Everton Wagstaffe Everton Wagstaffe was wrongfully convicted of the rape, kidnapping and murder of 16-year-old Jennifer Negron in 1993. Everton’s conviction was based primarily on the testimony of Brunilda Capella, a 25-year-old, drug-addicted sex worker who claimed that she had seen Everton pull the victim into a Buick Skylark driven by Reginald Connor. It was later revealed, however, that the car had been parked at a church during the time that Capella claimed she had witnessed the kidnapping. The owner of the car testified that she had told the police this fact prior to Everton’s conviction, but the police didn’t write any reports of the interview. It was also revealed that Capella had been regularly providing information to the police at that time—remarkably, she testified for the prosecution in 20 cases. The Innocence Project consulted on the case and aided in testing foreign hairs found on the victim’s body for DNA, which revealed that the hairs had not come from Everton or Reginald Connor. The ruling to dismiss their charges, however, was primarily based on a revelation that prosecutors had buried evidence that Everton himself uncovered that police had targeted him before even speaking with the informant who provided critical testimony against the two men. In 2014, his conviction was ultimately vacated after serving 23 years in prison. www.wrongfulconvictionpodcast.com Wrongful Conviction with Jason Flom is a production of Lava For Good Podcasts in association with Signal Co. No1 and PRX.

On this peculiar edition of Reels and Wheels, James and Sid are joined by... James. Yep, Co-host James Rodatus doubles up as the guest this time as he puts his experience as a lawyer to work so that we can talk about My Cousin Vinny. This 1992 comedy starring Joe Pesci was lauded for its realistic, positive portrayal of our legal system. So I guess technically this is an episode of Reels and Lawyers and Wheels. Either way, My Cousin Vinny is a thoughtful, enjoyable, and fun movie that uses the inner workings of a 1964 Buick Skylark and a 1963 Pontiac Tempest as a key plot point. So how accurate was this movie? How unique was the cast? What about the car we didn't see - find out what made the first generation Pontiac Tempest one of the most unique cars GM ever built! Find our special guest James Rodatus online @S2KJames and find Sid @SidBridgeComedy - leave us some feedback! Subscribe to @ReelsAndWheels on iTunes and Stitcher and spread the word!

Ron starts the hour talking about the actual price of a cheap repair : takes a call on a BMW-XI with a bad vibration : takes a call on a 93 Chevy S-10 with questions on the distributor cap : takes a call on a 2008 Chevy Impala with a whine : interviews Butch Patrick of The Munsters : takes a call on an 82 BMW with questions on winterization : takes a call on a 2015 Subaru STI with questions on possible startup abnormalities : and answers an email on a 72 Buick Skylark that stalls. Learn more about your ad-choices at https://news.iheart.com/podcast-advertisers

In a post-Woodward Dream Cruise haze, the guys go all "gear head" discussing the three cars of the '60s made in America that had positraction, and independent rear suspension, and enough power to make these marks. One was the Corvette, which could never be confused with the Buick Skylark. The other had the same body length, height, width, weight, wheel base, and wheel track as the '64 Skylark, and that was the 1963 Pontiac Tempest. Oh, and 66% of them insist on mispronouncing "broccoli".