Housekeeping: TTAC Takes Juneteenth Off

by Tim Healey

Published: June 18th, 2020

The edict came down from our corporate parent last week: Juneteenth is now an official company-wide holiday.

That means we’ll be off on Friday, June 19th.

As is often the case when we’re off, there may be some pre-written posts that go live. And since not every car company is observing the day, if news breaks and one of us is near a keyboard, we’ll try to catch it and post. I, myself, will spend part of the day learning about a refresh for a particular German sedan (under embargo until the 23rd).

Our weekend posting schedule will likely remain the same, even with Father’s Day being this Sunday.

So, until we’re back full-throttle on Monday, take some time to reflect on the experiences of others, and enjoy Father’s Day, however you may celebrate it during a time of social distance. And if your dad has departed, or you don’t get along, I understand Father’s Day may be fraught for you. In that case, simply have a good weekend and we’ll be back on Monday.

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Tim Healey

Tim Healey grew up around the auto-parts business and has always had a love for cars — his parents joke his first word was “‘Vette”. Despite this, he wanted to pursue a career in sports writing but he ended up falling semi-accidentally into the automotive-journalism industry, first at Consumer Guide Automotive and later at Web2Carz.com. He also worked as an industry analyst at Mintel Group and freelanced for About.com, CarFax, Vehix.com, High Gear Media, Torque News, FutureCar.com, Cars.com, among others, and of course Vertical Scope sites such as AutoGuide.com, Off-Road.com, and HybridCars.com. He’s an urbanite and as such, doesn’t need a daily driver, but if he had one, it would be compact, sporty, and have a manual transmission.

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Jeff S on Jun 20, 2020

@Arthur Dailey–If you haven’t already seen it go on Jay Leno’s Garage where he has a video on his Merlin engine going over the history of the Merlin and running his own Merlin engine which is not in a car or airplane. A really nice engine with lots of power.

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HotPotato on Jun 21, 2020

"And KGB wasn't only bad" you say? I can't imagine anyone saying this unless they're trying to live with having been a collaborator or informer for them, slavuta. Maybe it is better you just leave this topic alone.

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- Slavuta on Jun 21, 2020
  
  Everybody sees KGB as tool of oppression. But this wasn't their main task. Their main task was to protect and collect information. At least they did not dirty their hands like CIA.
  
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- Lie2me on Jun 21, 2020
  
  @slavuta Go home you fool ^^
  
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- Slavuta on Jun 21, 2020
  
  Lie2me you have very low knowledge. And are boring
  
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- Inside Looking Out on Jun 21, 2020
  
  @slavuta KGB was a wonderful organization. I got a call from KGB agent once to meet in empty hotel room. I met him to find out what is the issue. He told me that he wants to hire me to "collect information" about my coworkers. I told him that I am too busy so thank you but no. It was the time when Soviet Union was already crumbling down and I just graduated from college and was thinking about immigrating to USA so I did not care.
  
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- Slavuta on Jun 21, 2020
  
  @Inside Looking Out My Grand-grand father was an "enemy of the people". Well, he screwed up something in 1930s. This was the kind or era. I had same meeting with someone from a similar organization from Wash.D.C. Under Brezhnev if you have not done bad things, they wouldn't come for you. Another problem of course, if you want to read a banned book, you get on their radar. I was totally disturbed by this. Ok. Still, I've read hundreds of banned books and listened banned radio stations daily. And I never had a glitch. I had reliable sources. You said it yourself - thanks, no. And they were gone. But, they would usually come to you if you had some skeleton in closet. And they would ask you to cooperate in exchange for keeping your skeletons well hidden. Question is, what did you know??
  
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Teddyc73 on Jun 22, 2020

Ridiculous pandering. They STILL won't be happy.

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- Pig_Iron on Jun 22, 2020
  
  Yup, never appease the neo-communists who have co-opted and weaponized BLM. :-)
  
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- Old_WRX on Jun 22, 2020
  
  They wouldn't be happy if they had all their demands met right now.
  
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- Pig_Iron on Jun 22, 2020
  
  @Old_WRX They're segregating blacks and whites in CHAZ. Because equality.
  
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- Slavuta on Jun 22, 2020
  
  @Old_WRX This is exactly right. A stupid uneducated minority ruins the whole country for everybody. And if we give them anything, they will come for more. Google has track of all their phones. Lets FBI get all that data and for once track real criminals. Build American Gulag and throw them in. Or, lets do it old Russian style from Russian empire times and used still today - allow these people to live in remote Montana towns where only other citizens are their friends.
  
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- Inside Looking Out on Jun 22, 2020
  
  @Old_WRX Who are "they"?. I am sure BLM is the organization run by white people to collect money from sh!t-scared corporations and intelligentsia.
  
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- Slavuta on Jun 22, 2020
  
  @Inside Looking Out Come on commie friend. Why KGB came to you? What did you know and why did they trust you? Did they bring you a woman to handle you?
  
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Dukeisduke on Jun 23, 2020

Years ago, I worked with an African-American woman (like me, a native Texan) that refused to celebrate Juneteenth. She thought it was stupid that people would celebrate the fact that they didn't find out they'd been freed until two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, and two months the Civil War had ended. Juneteetnth has been a thing here in Texas for a long time, and it's just started to become a thing elsewhere in the last few years.

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