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Feel bad for the murderer? Are you for real? Let me guess, you would have been amongst the cowards that got up and walked off the bus while the guy was being butchered a few seats away. I wonder how you'd feel if (God forbid) it happened to a friend or relative of yours. Sorry, but this is inexcusable any way you slice it. I don't give a f@#k what the guy has wrong with him.

Oh good, another mentally unstable piece of $h! illegal immigrant Asian asshole that has no business being on this half of the globe AT ALL flips out and takes an innocent life. Virginia Tech, anybody? How many more times does this senseless bull$h! have to happen before somebody puts a stop to it?! CLOSE THE f@#kING BORDERS IMMEDIATELY! We have enough problems inside them already that we don't need worthless, bottom of the barrel, can't scrape off trash like this arriving on our shores daily.

That's the myspace of the guy that was killed? That's terrible. What a waste. Guy still had his whole life ahead of him.

Hey, Assholes! Re-Do Tops, Omitting Pillars! Crude, but to the point. Which is what these people need because simple, polite requests and heartfelt dialogue doesn't seem to register with them at all.

I'd like to meet whoever it was that walked into a Chevrolet dealership in 1973 and ordered this and then took such meticulous care of it for all these years. Save for a new set of tires and a cheesy homemade console that can easily be removed and thrown in the trash (step one if I ever got a hold of the truck!), this thing is completely original. What a time capsule!

Whoever came up with the "Viva Viagra" ad campaign should be dragged out into the street and shot.

True, but we're not talking about not having a post on another ho-hum front wheel drive $h!box sedan for the masses. We're talking about not compromising on features on a vehicle that is marketed specifically towards the very car nuts you speak of.

Totally agree with that. How many more Hannibal Lecters need to pop up and do something like this before people grow a pair and put an end to it?

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Cars-Trucks...6.c0.m245.l1318 This is everything I want in a Suburban with exception of maybe a 4-speed. Completely stripped out. Power NOTHING. Three vinyl benches. Rubber floors. No privacy glass. Barn doors. And a big nasty 454 mated to a Turbo 400 with a 12-bolt. Yeahhhhh buddy!

CTS all the way. It's one of the only new cars I'm excited about, period. Maybe there will be one in my future, someday.

That's exactly where I'm at. The only reason my daily driver isn't from the 60's or 70's anymore is because in a salt state, it really doesn't pay to drive anything nice year-round. I feel like a big enough jerk driving my Suburban year-round after the first 18 years of its life were spent in dry, sunny Texas; never mind driving a car that's 30 or 40 years old! Rest assured, though, that if I lived in a part of the country that didn't get snow, my Suburban would be a '50 instead of a '90!

Probably have to get a spark plug socket with a universal joint at the top; the ones back towars the firewall are alwaus a bitch.

Highly doubt it was Pierce; they were all done before the war even started. The handful of 1938 Pierces out there were all assembled from leftover 1937 parts after the company went into receivership.

If you can get an '80 Eldorado or Seville with the carbureted 368 V8, those do just fine. But I'd avoid an HT4100 or a V8-6-4 like the plague. My mother had an '85 Eldorado with the 4100 when I was little and she got plenty of miles out of it (had around 140,000 on it when my parents got rid of it), but not without being meticulous and anal about maintenance. I remember many a Saturday morning spent at the local Cadillac dealership with my father waiting for the car to have those special tablets ran in the cooling system that kept the dissimilar metals in the engine from heating up unevenly.

A stripped out K1500 Sierra ($21000ish) and spend the rest on a basket case 1932 Packard Light Eight coupe-roadster

I thought the Futurliners were built in 1952-1953, in between they had a similar looking vehicle built in 1941, and before that (1936-1940ish) they used the Streamliners talked about here: http://www.futurliner.com/stream.htm Does anybody know if any of the Stremliners survive today? Also: is it possible that the 1941 style buses were slightly re-styled to become the "1953" Futurliners we know today?

Well that's always best, but sometimes a rare old engine survives even though the car it belongs to left us long ago. For example: just last week on eBay there was the first eight feet of a 1929 Pierce-Arrow frame, no body or nose save for the cowl, with a running engine and transmission still mounted properly; it had been modified and powered a small sawmill in rural Pennsylvania for the last fifty years until the seller was able to pluck it from the woods. At that point, the new owner has the right to do whatever they want with that engine (but I still hope the new owner bought it to fix or have spares for another '29 Pierce!)

Happy birthday!

Troopers are often very expensive to maintain and difficult to get parts for; I'd totally rock the Buick wagon if I were you. $h!, just reading this thread makes me want to go out and get one!

My God is there a lot of corrosion on that car. Apparently the Chrysler Norseman isn't the only Mopar that spent time at the bottom of the ocean!

That's hot. And the lack of a spoiler doesn't bother me where it usually would. Very cool!

Maybe this one will interest you (or balthazar) a little bit more: http://boston.craigslist.org/sob/car/776316496.html I like it!

After amassing the worlds largest collection of Simplexes? I dunno, I'd probably do something along the lines of this Marmon V16-powered '34 Ford roadster, only I'd choose something cooler to use as my base car.......... or maybe just keep it in the Marmon it belongs in! http://www.ru2inc.com/inprogress4.html EDIT: I would also scour the countryside to find, purchase, and restore my grandfather's 1966 Peterbilt 352 COE

Hey now! You might be onto something here. Maybe if this is what we called it when we were referring to cars with ridiculous dubs, it would shame people out of it. Rimming = rollin on dubs Rim Job = getting ridiculous dubs put on your car

Oldsmoboi: You clown! I would have GIVEN you my '74 Continental Town Car limousine when I had to get rid of it if you're at all serious about starting a linousine service! You could have restored it five times with 60K.