Who wants to loan me $5000?

[Satty]

There is a '71 Eldorado for sale in the Wal-Mart parking lot, $5000. Its red with a tan top and red leather interior. The body is really straight, the interior is in great shape, only problem I see is the rear window on the passenger side is down and I dont know why. I want it and I could probably talk my way into being permitted to buy it, but I'd have to find someone to give me a loan for at least part of it and someplace to store it.

[ZL-1]

You can always ask the US Government for a bailout

[regfootball]

what an intersting range of extremes. prius for saving fuel, but then get the old 70's guzzler?

[Satty]

Already got the 80's gas guzzler which looks odd in the driveway next to the Prius.

I think that to pull this off I'm going to have to appeal to the romanticism of owning a big, old convertible for those midsummer drives to nowhere.

[Satty]

Uggg...the Eldo was gone last night, but I've moved on....to this. I drive by it often (its a few houses down from my ex's place, so anytime I drop my son off or pick him up, I see it) but now I know how much they want for it.

[Robert Hall]

what an intersting range of extremes. prius for saving fuel, but then get the old 70's guzzler?

I have a friend in Colorado that's kind of at similar extremes, at least as far as gas mileage--he has a Prius for his 80 round trip mile commute, a Subaru Outback for the family car, and his new 40th birthday midlife crisis toy is a new black Challenger SRT8..saw it Friday, a pretty sweet car.

Another friend (in Oakland, Ca) has a Prius for his daily driver and a '73 Ford LTD Country Squire wagon w/ a 460 for his weekend toy.

Speaking of Eldos, I was driving to the airport in Denver yesterday and saw a white '73 Eldo convertible w/ the top down on the airport road...pretty sweet.

Edited October 21, 2008 by moltar

[Robert Hall]

Already got the 80's gas guzzler which looks odd in the driveway next to the Prius.

I think that to pull this off I'm going to have to appeal to the romanticism of owning a big, old convertible for those midsummer drives to nowhere.

Sounds great to me... one of my dream oldies would a '71 LTD convertible...

[balthazar]

"hardened piston rings" ???

"rebored new cam shaft" ???

[Robert Hall]

"hardened piston rings" ???

"rebored new cam shaft" ???

Maybe the old piston rings were soft? Needed harder ones for unleaded gas? Not sure why they would 'rebore' a cam shaft, though

[Satty]

"hardened piston rings" ???

"rebored new cam shaft" ???

Yeah, I was hoping that would make more sense in the morning. It doesn't.