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What year does it go back to? I wouldn't mind seeing a Carfax on my 1990 Suburban if it's not too old.

This guy has put together quite a collection of photographs of ASSachusetts State Police vehicles both new and old: older photos newer stuff I've always liked the look of the State Police cars in my state; shame that they're all driven by the biggest assholes on the face of the Earth.

Saw a BEAUTIFUL pale yellow with black interior '63-'64 Buick Riviera on my way to work today. What a machine! I wanted to follow it home.

Cloth exists in the Custom. My grandmother had an '04 with a cloth interior; it was the last vehicle she owned before she passed away. It wasn't spectacular but it wasn't terrible either. Overall, a very nice car.

Easy. They're brutal on handling and ride quality. Vehicles with huge, heavy aftermarket rims and rubber band tires eat tires and ball joints and every other suspension component you can think of.

Saw a Lotus Elise in the parking lot of a local restaurant yesterday.

In 1997, my father was driving his recently redone 1987 GMC Sierra Classic C1500 that his father had willed him in 1990 when he passed away, and my mother was still driving her triple Colonial Yellow(!) 1985 Cadillac Eldorado. My father still had his Old Town canoe, and we had a one car garage that just barely fit his 1952 Chevrolet pickup inside. He was also restoring a 1935 Ford 1-1/2 ton dump truck. My set of wheels was an 18-speed Raleigh mountain bike (I was 11). Now, a decade later, everything has been "upgraded:" Dad (daily driver): 1987 GMC Sierra Classic C1500 ---> 2000 Chevrolet Silverado C1500 Mom (daily driver): 1985 Cadillac Eldorado ---> 1999 Pontiac Bonneville SE, then a 2007 Nissan Altima Dad (boat): Old Town canoe ---> 18-foot Sea Nymph Backtroller w/60HP Johnson outboard + 34-foot Webber's Cove lobster yacht w/6V-53 Detroit Diesel Dad (garage): one car, no attic, no heat, no electricity ---> two car, six feet longer, propane heat, walk-up attic, electricity Dad (toy #1): 1952 Chevrolet half-ton pickup ---> 1937 Packard Super Eight model 1500 touring sedan Dad (toy #2): 1935 Ford 1-1/2 ton dump truck ---> 1940 Packard model 1801-A panel delivery Me (daily driver): Raleigh M-20 18-speed mountain bike ---> had 13 cars and 2 trucks, currently own three vehicles, an antique snowmobile, half a dozen antique bicycles and one modern one that I ride now when I have time. I've gone from grade school right up through college and moved out of my parents house. Where does the time go?

If I had to pick a 1975 model year barge to drive for the rest of my life, I think this Coupe DeVille would be just fine: Can't go wrong with white on red, especially if the interior were all white as well (with black carpets and dash).

I disagree. I would have liked to have seen a red Camaro, white Mustang, and blue Challenger I think. Maybe in a real photograph in a car magazine.

Regarding the ongoing debate about old vs new: Old cars > new cars. Always. End of story. HOWEVER For day to day use, I think at least semi-modern is the way to go, at least around here in New England (or other regions with similar weather patterns) where the winters and the gratuitous use of salt in said winters dictate that everybody has to put their neat stuff away for five months a year. I know I like starting a fuel injected vehicle on a freezing cold day much better than I do a carbureted one. I feel like a big enough ass driving a squeaky clean 18 year-old Suburban year-round, never mind a car that is 40 or more years old. But I'd probably driving a 50's or 60's something year-round if I lived in a climate that allowed me to. Not showroom perfect so I would be afraid to leave it anywhere, but something clean and presentable. In other words..... Modern cars are absolutely necessary because people need something to sacrifice to the elements and mundane crap without feeling bad. 98% of them are devoid of all substance, style, personality, and will have zero long-term value. Perfect for the day-to-day bull$h!. Once again, what would you rather take out in the salt and slush or let get dinged and dented in the grocery store parking lot? A brand new plastic jellybean or a 50 year-old classic that looks like Buck Rogers's rocketship? I think we all know the answer to that one. Regarding having modern music in old vehicles: Gotta have it, but it has to be done right. People with big loud retarded stereos are idiots. And people who put them in old cars are double idiots. I can't tell you how much it burns my ass to see a beautifully restored car with a CD player hacked into the dash, cheap speakers hacked into the door panels, and a box with subs in the trunk. People that do that $h! should be stabbed in the neck. I know a guy that rebuilds the guts of antique car radios to have AM/FM, and even adds a jack in the back so you can plug in your iPod and enjoy all your modern tunes through the stock radio and high-quality modern speakers of the same size as the originals mounted in the stock locations. Why that method doesn't appeal to people I don't understand. It's the best of both worlds: modern music with the original appearance. You'd think it would be a no-brainer.

Imagine that, GM left this thing inside a container on top of a building for ten years. A priceless GM concept car just hanging out on a rooftop, waiting to be discovered. Anybody want to chip in and rent a helicopter with me?

$900 for a police package WAGON?! You actually need to ask if that's a good buy?! Are you feeling okay?

TMI!

I agree that the old fuselage Mopars were quite rad, especially the bigger ones. I almost bought a '71 Imperial down in Connecticut a few summers back until I watched its redneck owner destroy a couple expensive components and beat the f@#k out of it as part of his "presentation" of it to me. Shame, too; there's one of those things around for every hundred Cadillacs out there. I still want one.

Probably on the front seat.

http://boston.craigslist.org/nwb/cto/808179596.html I'm not so big on late 70's "muscle cars," but I have always sorta liked the Pontiac Can-Am. This one is not for the faint of heart, but $1200 seems like sort of a deal if it is indeed a real Can-Am, which all the photographs point to (stripes, rear window louvers, duck tail spoiler, etc.). I'd imagine that just the parts alone would probably be worth it if it were indeed a real one.

Hurst

Were it not for the fact that my daily commute will be getting substantially longer in about two weeks, I'd be driving my '70 Sedan DeVille in as-is condition every day..... ..... not that a '90 Suburban is much better!

Well dude, he WAS 83 years old. Let's see how well YOU can control your bowels at that age!

Wow, what a beauty! Can't go wrong with a white interior. One question: what's the deal with that little nuclear symbol next to the odometer? Flux capacitor?

The sheep are panicking and paying above top dollar for any econoturd they can get their hands on. The ones I see most frequently are: - Geo Metro (hatches and 4-doors and even the occasional convertible) - Geo Storm - Ford Festiva - Hyundai Excel - Toyota Tercel - Toyota Paseo

Well with all the rain around here, it's been kind of a lame month for car spotting. However, I did see something yesterday that brought back a ton of memories of my grade school days: an early 1960's International Loadstar BOOKMOBILE! I couldn't believe it! I was driving down the highway and came up on a big two-tone yellow and orange box; when I pulled around the side, I saw the black lettering that proudly read "LIBRARY ON WHEELS," clearly hand-painted and nicely faded just like the rest of the truck. I have no idea who owned it or if it was still in service, but I would give anything to have an old bookmobile like that, in exactly that condition. Don't ask me why, I just think they're cool.

Happy birthday, dude!

First solidified propylene oxide (rocket fuel) packed into Michael Waltrip's intake manifold, and now two Gibbs cars have magnets under the gas pedals to throw off the dyno readings: http://www.comcast.net/articles/sports-mot...Gibbs.Cheating/

Working for Randy Ema restoring Duesenbergs and all of the other great marques.