Regular Car Reviews: The 1995 Grumman LLV

This is an interesting video about why you can't own a 1995 Grumman LLV... and how you can. It's a very pleasant story about an equally pleasant car; there's just something very satisfying about the LLV, from an outsider's perspective at least. I hope people enjoy. =]

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

Please tell me I'm not the only one who expanded that acronym as "Lunar Landing Vehicle".
(Yes, I know, that's actually the LEM.)

>Please tell me I'm not the only one who expanded that acronym as
>"Lunar Landing Vehicle".
>(Yes, I know, that's actually the LEM.)
Lunar Excursion Module for the guys in the back

>>Please tell me I'm not the only one who expanded that acronym as
>>"Lunar Landing Vehicle".
>>(Yes, I know, that's actually the LEM.)
>Lunar Excursion Module for the guys in the back

Fun fact: NASA dropped the "Excursion" part midway through development, on the grounds that it made the mission sound like something you would do to earn a Boy Scout merit badge, making the official initials just LM, but everyone below the executive level kept calling it the LEM even thought the "E" no longer stood for anything.

--G.
As an aside, if I had been running the Boy Scouts of America at the time, I would totally have created a Lunar Excusion merit badge and issued it to any of the Apollo astronauts who happened to have been Boy Scouts, which was probably a lot of them.
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I remember when these things replaced the old right-hand-drive Jeep DJs the U.S. Postal Service had used for ages and ages and ages. Some people around here were really upset about it. "Oh my god, I have to look at that delivering the mail for the next umpteen years?!" Wait until those as are still alive get a load of the NGDV. :)

Me, I'd like to get hold of an LLV and do it up in the '70s USPS DJ livery, which was long gone by the time they were made in real life, because I dig anachronisms (and also because it's cool-looking).

--G.
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Benjamin D. Hutchins, Co-Founder, Editor-in-Chief, & Forum Mod
Eyrie Productions, Unlimited http://www.eyrie-productions.com/
zgryphon at that email service Google has
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam.

Alas, I think that would be double-super-turbo-illegal. Impersonating a postal worker and such. They're gonzo strict about that shit. It comes up in the video that it counts as impersonating a postal worker if someone just assumes you are one and you don't immediately tell them otherwise. Having USPS livery, even of the anachronistic kind, is probably right out.

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"She's old, she's lame, she's barren too, // "She's not worth feed or hay, // "But I'll give her this," - he blew smoke at me - // "She was something in her day." -- Garnet Rogers, Small Victory

FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

news just in: traitor arrives at party, poops it.