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Not sure if I'd be a jerk to ask so soon after the accident but do you have any "after" pictures of the Camaro?

Not a thing wrong in the world with a Model A roadster. Keep us posted!

Three years ago I was driving a 3800-powered 1996 Buick Riviera. My two previous cars were a 3100-powered 1990 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme and a 3800-powered 1989 Oldsmobile Toronado. In that time period since, I've bought eight older Cadillacs, all of which have a displacement well over 400 cubic inches and enough torque to pull a house: 1967 Eldorado: 429 1967 Eldorado: 429 1970 Sedan DeVille: 472 1971 Coupe DeVille: 472 1971 Sedan DeVille: 472 1977 Coupe DeVille: 425 1978 Coupe DeVille: 425 1979 Coupe DeVille: 425 I also had a 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme in that time period with a ballsy Rocket 350. I also had a 460-powered 1974 Lincoln Continental Executive Limousine. Also, my daily driver is now a '90 R1500 Suburban with a TBI 350. And I also had a '90 V1500 Suburban with a TBI 350 before that. I think it's safe to say the bigger is better mentality is alive and well in my fleet! I was actually looking for a big block 2WD Suburban when I started searching for my next one, but when you find one as clean as mine is, beggars can't be choosers. Plus it is nice to have something halfway decent on gas with the way prices are. I'll have a big block some day.

One of my coworkers just bought a 2000 Escalade in showroom condition with only 30,000 miles for $8500. It has a tasteful body kit on it, HID conversion, custom dual exhaust, custom intake, brand new 24-inch rims and tires with the stickers still on them along with the stock wheels and tires, monitors in the headrests and flip-downs from the ceiling, and a system with enough speakers and bass to liquify any surrounding wildlife. I'm normally not into that stuff, but this thing is cool. Another coworker, upon seeing this, is now looking for a Navigator for himself. A friend of a friend just picked up a showroom condition 2002 Expedition with 35,000 miles for $3200. If you've got a couple bucks in your pocket right now, you'll be in the driver's seat for pennies on the dollar!

Possum Van or CATBUS?!

You seen this big ugly blue 15 passenger 3500 Ram van on craigslist that was one of a handful converted to FOUR WHEEL DRIVE(!) for the Army Corps of Engineers? You totally need to buy it and make it a big nasty one of a kind off-roader/snow beast. I decided for you. There's no getting out of it. http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/car/751968008.html I'd better be getting a ride in this on 38" Super Swampers by Christmas!

-The only reason your '59 Buick didn't see any salt this winter is because that one's been blown up and doesn't run due to neglect also (once again, repeated overheating and finally some sort of fire completely killed it. Why spend a hundred bucks to have the water pump rebuilt and do things properly when you can just drive around with a couple gallons of water in the back seat!), because it certainly saw salt the winter before when you bought it. -The heat in the Cadillac failed about a month before it came under your ownership: I didn't let it go for eight months. I didn't fix it because I had zero time and because I do about five miles of driving on an average day; I can put on my coat like a big kid and handle the cold for ten minutes. It was probably stupid to do, but I did it. Turned out to be some stupid little vacuum pod way up under the dashboard had stuck closed and left the door that channels warm air into the cabin in the closed position, which I had suspected because the car's astroventilation didn't work either after it had happened. -I thought the car was not low on coolant the first time the warning light came on at about mile 15 of an 80-mile round trip, going on your information that you'd just filled it up. Of course it would be low after you continued to drive it for the other 65 as it boiled over the whole way. I also offered numerous times to call the seller of the '70 DeVille and cancel so that you could turn around and drive the car home without further damage but you drove it anyways. Tell the entire story, not just half. Bottom line is you beat the living daylights out of stuff and hurt things that shouldn't be able to be hurt due to a complete lack of care and refusal to fix things the right way. Tell everybody about the '64 Oldsmobile you bought that hadn't run in a quarter-century: you rolled it over, slammed the hood, and took her for a ride. I was in that car on more than one occasion where you stomped on it and floated the valves. After that one was beat to the point that it didn't run anymore you sold it to some dude in Holland on the premise that it did. What's your explanation or justification for that, I wonder? One would think that for someone who claims to love cars so much they wouldn't be so hard on them. Find one POS to beat the crap out of and at least maintain if not improve your old stuff. Or at least fix it properly when it breaks. Bubble gum and duct tape only goes so far.

Suburban: 18.1

Where in New Hampshire? If you have an address I could take a run by the house some day.....

You suck! Come to New England sometime!

Saw a flawless early 1980's (1984, maybe?) Mercury Grand Marquis two-door, black with a burgundy interior. Haven't seen one of those in forever.

QUOTE(capriceman @ Jul 13 2008, 11:49 PM) [snapback]411587[/snapback]Seriously? I mean if you dish out 40k for a boat and think to your self wow $5 a gallon, guess im not taking the boat out. Boats are a lot of fun. And Most of it is a Domestic Industry still which you should support. I mean On the 32 foot Formula with 2 120 gallon tanks average fill up is about $900 compared to the 100k price tag its nothing. I mean last year i think i spent only 2300 on gas but memories and fun that will last forever. Like taking twin Chevy 454 and sending a mean wake towards those damned kayakers Guy my father worked with has a 40 foot sport fisherman with twin 350 MerCruisers; it spends 99% of its life at the marina and he goes out fishing in a 10-foot Zodiac rubber raft! And you're absolutely right, boats do rule. But I'd gladly take a little Detroit or Caterpillar diesel over twin big blocks if I'd be spending any time at all on it, regardless of the price tag (I realize this isn't an option on the kind of boat you have but it would be on the stuff I'm into!).

I also wonder what happened to the 1987 GMC Sierra Classic C1500 my father had when I was young. His father drove it off the lot new in 1987 and my father inherited it upon his passing in 1990. Drove it daily for the next decade and traded it in on a dealer leftover 2000 Chevrolet Silverado in early 2001. The truck had seen over a quarter-million miles and was on its second engine and had received a frame-off freshening up with new paint and everything else in 1997. If I could find it I'd buy it back in half a second simply for the fact that it belonged to my grandfather. Don't care what it would cost to redo it. I should try and find some paperwork on it and mooch off somebody's CARFAX if I ever find the VIN. I'm also curious as to what happened to my father's 1952 Chevrolet half-ton standard cab pickup truck. He bought it in 1976 when he was only 15 years old and restored it once, drove it daily until 1986 (along with other vehicles) and wore it out, let it sit for five years, and restored it again. Started its life out as forest green with steelies and dog dishes and a 216 cubic inch inline six with three on the tree, ended up fire engine red with Corvette rallys and derby caps and a 350 crate motor with four on the floor and a posi rear out of a '73 Grand Prix. In the mid 90's he sold it to a guy in Maine who had dreams of a big block swap, but the guy seemed like a real slapdick (showed us pictures of an old car he had, can't remember what, and proudly told us of where rotting sheet metal on the leading edge of the hood had been replaced with a section of fence post because the curvature of it was "close enough." Yikes!) and I bet he either sold it, f@#ked it up and then sold it, or took the nose off of it and the 350 out and there she sits in a barn or under a cover. Sad.

Hmm, let's see. In the order I got them: -1990 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme sedan: totalled, not my fault. Insurance paid out and I sent her to heaven in summer of 2004. -1989 Oldsmobile Toronado: transmission went, sold it to a guy the next town over for $500 in fall of 2004. A friend of mine spotted it in a different guy's yard on the other side of town about a year later, sold some time at the end of 2005. Whereabouts unknown. -1996 Buick Riviera: sold to a man in southern New Hampshire in summer of 2007 who bought it for his daughter. Whereabouts unknown. -1979 Cadillac Coupe DeVille: sold to some wigger on the other side of town in spring of 2006. Saw it on occasion for a few months after that, most of the time being driven by his girlfriend. Took him about five minutes to tint the windows way beyond legality and saw a hole in the dashboard for a CD player. Whereabouts unknown. -1971 Cadillac Coupe DeVille: traded to a guy in New Hampshire in fall of 2006 for my 1967 Eldorado. Called him about a month later and he told me the transmission blew. Most likely sitting in his yard with the other 40 Cadillacs he has there. -1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme sedan: also traded to the guy in New Hampshire in fall of 2006 for my 1967 Eldorado. Supposedly he was going to trade it to a friend of his for another Cadillac. Whereabouts unknown. -1967 Cadillac Eldorado: still got it, in storage, restoration on hold. -1974 Lincoln Continental Executive Limousine (Moloney Coachbuilders, Inc.): lost storage, sold to a Lincoln collector in upstate New York for the paltry sum of $900 in summer of 2007. Currently undergoing restoration and I still keep in touch with the guy. -1977 Cadillac Coupe DeVille: traded to Sixty8Panther in spring of 2008 for my 1990 Chevrolet Suburban R1500. He currently drives it daily and has pretty well beaten the $h! out of it as he does with all his cars. Runs like $h! with much lifter noise and knocking and a little smoke after repeated overheating, constant overloading of the trunk has led to numerous blowouts so the new set of tires I put on it are no longer a set (now has mismatched junkyard tires on it), white duct tape all over the interior, perpetually filled with garbage, broken heating vents in the dashboard, holes in the previously flawless vinyl top, etc. Very sad. My girlfriend actually started crying when she saw the condition of the car after a few months and remembering how it was and all I had done to it when I had it and got pissed at me that I had given it to him. -1967 Cadillac Eldorado (the other one): $200 rotted out not running $h!box I parted out for my other Eldorado and sent to heaven as a stripped out body with one door and a broken windshield left in summer of 2007. -1971 Cadillac Sedan DeVille: sold to a guy in Brockton, Massachusetts in spring of 2008. Probably being made into a donk given the guy's personality and taste (showed Sixty8 pictures of an 80's DeVille he owned whose interior was redone in dollar bill fabric, no lie!). Normally I'd be mad, but this car was so beat to death, it may be the only way the car would have survived. -1990 Chevrolet Suburban Silverado V1500: sold in winter of 2007 to a guy in Hudson, New Hampshire who wanted the nose and engine and for an '82 K10 stepside he was building. Probably junked the rest because it was a rotbox. Whereabouts unknown. -1978 Cadillac Coupe DeVille: $400 $h!box I parted out for my '77 Coupe and junked in spring of 2008. -1990 Chevrolet Suburban Silverado R1500: still got it, daily year-round driver. -1970 Cadillac Sedan DeVille: still got it, summer driver and weekend money pit.

I paid $3.95 for regular the other night when I filled up the Burb, but it is just over $4 at some other stations around here. I paid $4.26 for premium for the DeVille today and I think the regular was $4.03 there. Went fishing last Wednesday and regular was $4.83 on the water!

Got any useless crap you could unload at a yard sale? I would think you'd have at least a few hundred dollars of junk you could do without sitting around the house like the rest of the world does. Maybe you could divest yourself of some of those useless kitchen items you were talking about in that other thread.....

Believe it or not, my Suburban got a hair over 18MPG on its last fillup in mixed driving. Not bad for a two-ton school bus with a TBI 350 and a 700R4 with a 3.42 rear end. I wanted a big block when I was originally looking but with the way gas prices went soon after, I'm glad I just got the 350. I recently stumbled upon a diesel Burb and am seriously considering it. Anybody have any idea what they get?

Was it red? Was Tom Selleck driving it? That's the easiest way to tell.

I come across a nice 1980 Fleetwood Brougham with the iron block 368 V8 from time to time; I'll keep my eyes peeled for ya!

I've said it before and I'll say it again: I see redoing a lot of old Cadillacs and Chevrolet and GMC trucks in my future. I'd rather rebuild engines and weld patch panels and sand body filler for old C/Ks and DeVilles for the rest of my life before I'd ever even consider setting foot in a General Motors dealership for a new vehicle of any sort. They haven't built anything exciting or worth owning in about a decade now, and it would appear as though they could give a $h! less if they ever did again; this current round of decisionmaking is shaping up to be the final nail in the General's coffin.

Bet you anything the Corvette will "fall off the truck" in some officer's driveway; happens all the time. Believe it or not, this is how one of the original 1948 Tucker Torpedoes was saved after it was found abandoned along the banks of the Mississippi River in Memphis, Tennessee. Although totally destroyed, a Memphis police officer had the car "impounded" and then eventually towed to his house. It pays to be connected. I guarantee you a local cop will be driving that car very shortly.

Wow, that's quality! Did you take that photo yourself or find it somewhere?

Since when? The only car I ever remember Captain Nelson having was a blue '66 or '67 GTO convertible, and I think in the first season which was in black & white he had a white '65 GTO convertible. I think Major Healey may have had the Firebird you're thinking of.

Really? Because I was gonna say they reminded me of the wheels on my father's boat trailer. What a cheap, cheesy POS! Who in their right mind would ever drive such a faggy, cheap, unsafe pile of junk like that?! At what point does fuel economy trump safety and self-respect? Because I don't think we're even close to being there yet.

How about a '32 Confederate rumble seat coupe?