Advantages: good stories, good memories Disadvantages: may be dated for some
Rockford (James Garner) is a private investigator who lives and works from his beach trailer in LA. A likeable ex-con Rockford often skirts on the edges of the law to ensure that he gets his $200 a day (plus expenses) to solve all kinds of mysteries/crimes from fraud and kidnappings to suspicious deaths and robberies, he has a quarter page advertisement in the paper and the show often starts with an answer machine message that usually has nothing to do with the show that is about to start, and he drives a gold Pontiac Firebird.
I think as with all shows of the genre (even with modern shows, but more so back then) that the attraction is the "how" and by that I mean how the cop/detective gets his man, Columbo used to be great at this, with Peter Falk coming across as a scruffy, almost slow witted kind of guy, but we all know that the "let me ...
Advantages: Good CD/MP3 sound quality; looks smart Disadvantages: Slightly "cheap" quality; clips 1st second of MP3s; relatively expensive
annoying.
Ease of use
The control panel is generally intuitive and easy to use, following general conventional interface design. Unlike many in-car players, there are ten numbered preset buttons, although the presets 7-0 are accessed via a "shift"-style button, these buttons having other purposes otherwise. In addition, most of the buttons have a different action depending on whether you briefly press them, or hold the button down.
Recommendation?
I would have recommended this to potential buyers at the time I bought it, but this model is no longer available new. Also, there are now units that support other formats, such as WMA, and DVDs for additional storage. I would still recommend RockfordFosgate as a brand to consider. Their products are generally a bit more expensive, but overall I am pleased ...
Advantages: A roof over your head Disadvantages: No mod cons
indignant he resolved to report the matter to his favourite police station. Firstly though he had the appointment to keep with the barber.
His routine took him from the barbers to "The Club", where he met a drinking friend, played a game of pool, whilst doing so consuming in his own words "one and a half pints of lager and a sherry to steady my nerves". He recalled the story of the other drivers "outrageous behaviour" to his friend who positively urged him to report the incident to the police.
He got into the car and drove directly from the Club, the time was just before 1.00p.m.
As with the last visit to the police station his luck was in, he found a space right outside. Unlike the previous visit (see "Are there any casualties P.C. Smith?") this time he remembered to put both the hand brake on properly and the gear lever into the "Park ...
