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A rock-solid barn door square 'Burb would be the perfect trade for the yellow Cadillac. I love that car to death, but my need and want for a truck and looking for a change of scenery (seven Cadillacs in four years, usually owning more than one at a time) makes it seem like a very logical choice. Now, back to the topic of seller's remorse. I failed to mention in my initial post about my Firethorn Red 1979 Coupe DeVille that I also regret having to sell my 1974 Lincoln Continental Executive Limousine. Unfortunately I got this awesome car for free at the wrong time in my life. And the worst part about the whole situation: when I have a big piece of property some day and a place to store such a vehicle, nobody's gonna be around to give me another one for free.

Buy it buy it buy it buy it buy it buy it!!!

A brave soul ventured out on the roads in his 1964 Pontiac Tempest LeMans convertible today; that may as well be the spot of the season around here!

Absolutely! I always regretted selling my 1979 Cadillac Coupe DeVille. It was the first one I ever had and it looked very cool; it was Firethorn Red with a white top and a white interior with black carpets and a black dash. I wanted to kill the kid who bought it when I saw it two weeks later with the windows tinted; who the hell tints those beautiful original aquamarine glass windows and HIDES a white interior? It could have been a beautiful original car with a little love, but instead it has been retired to a life of tinted windows and rims and speakers in every interior panel. Bet he sawed a nice hole in the center of the dash for a CD player too..... *sigh*

Wait! Before you go can you tell me where the secret GM warehouse is located under the volcano shaped like Robert Lutz's head where they keep all the GOOD cars and how I can obtain a few? I need to squirrel away a few B-bodies and big block Silverados for my future! But in all seriousness, your presence here will be missed. Hopefully it won't kill you to drop by and say hi once in a while and perhaps update us all on non-business matters. Take care, bro!

It's shaping up to be quite an election of lesser evils, isn't it? Mike Suckabee is an asshole for helping to edge out the only real Republican running. Hillary vs. Obama vs. McAmnesty has to be the most pathetic lineup in recorded history; it's not even a two-party election anymore! Regardless of the outcome we end up with a Democrat in the White House at a time when it is least needed and most dangerous to have one. Fantastic.

Sad sad sad. A guy we do a lot of business with here at work went through the same thing a few months back. He's the chief mechanic for the fire department (ironically enough) here in town and he lost two antique fire trucks, a '62 Studebaker Hawk, a '68 Camaro, a '63 Chevy pickup truck, a '78 Corvette, and of course all his tools and memorabilia in the barn as well. Thankfully the all original 1935 Seagrave fire engine he drives in parades was outside the barn at the time and escaped with only minimal paint blistering on one front fender from the heat. Also good is the fact that the fire stayed contained to his house, which was attached to the barn by a small breezeway.

Rolls-Royces have something similar where the wheel and tire spin but the center cap on the wheel with the logo stays stationary. That way you can read it when you drive by them so there's NO QUESTIONS as to what piece of garbage that person wasted all that money on!

Very cool. Sounds like there's a lot of whistling in the video; is that a supercharger I hear before and after he romps on it? Balt: It'll be awesome when your car is finally done; I've always wanted to do something like that. I've thought about building up a Cadillac 500 out of a '70 Eldorado (the only one that never really got choked down by government regulatons) and dropping it in a nice '55-'60 Coupe DeVille or Series 62 coupe. Keep at it and stop being so damn stingy with the photographs!

Ordered 2 '07's and got them in like mid-February; didn't bother ordering '08's because I was so disappointed with the '07's. Fly also owes Sixty8 a little chunk of change for the '76 LeSabre he sold him a while back too; he seems to be turning into quite the stiff if you ask me.

35 seconds from immortality and it just didn't happen....... Only in Boston!

An old man driving a pristine early 1980's Pontiac Parisienne that was a beautiful jade green color, factory fender skirts; it was gorgeous. I should have chased him down and demanded that he sell it to me!

Hopefully he doesn't fall asleep in it and accidentally roll it out the night before he's scheduled to get a brand new car from GM when it rolls out of his garage and makes its millionth mile in front of the press. C'mon, who else has seen this episode of Married With Children?!

My father and I are currently in the process of making a 1940 Packard panel truck that never existed new out of a 1940 Packard Henney-bodied ambulance that was slowly being reclaimed by nature in a guy's side yard before we bought it. It's now twenty inches shorter than it was when we started and its windows have been deleted. It's gonna be pretty cool when it's all done! I've seen a few phantoms myself; the two that stick out the most in my mind are a 1970 Pontiac GTO Judge wagon made from a 1970 LeMans Safari and a 1970 Buick GSX wagon (called the GSXpress) made from a 1970 Skylark Sport Wagon.

Forgot to ask you this before: would it kill you to hose the old girl off every once in a while? You live in a salt state; you know what it does! Be nice to the mighty Cutlass and it will be nice to you!

Being independent and being a good provider for yourself and your family (if applicable).

I've always maintained that '61 Oldsmobile (with the exception of the Starfire) have a face that only a mother could love, but even those have been growing on me more in recent years. I think part of it is due to the fact that every time I go to my father's shop I get to see the 1961 F-85 four door sedan with only 9800 original miles on it that a friend of his stores in one of the back buildings. It's a cool little ugly car.

180 versus 140; wheeeeeee! That's only half the horsepower a REAL Hurst has! I'll still take one without the goofy stickers, thanks. Or better yet one of those '72 Hurst Indy pace wagons! I'd give my left nut for one of those!

Dry and brittle, $h!ty when new 20 year-old plastic bushings do usually not fare well on particularly cold days. They'll be on the shelf at your local auto parts store for around five bucks, though; no worries. Shoot some powdered graphite in the door lock to keep things lubricated from that end as well.

Agreed. Only the '84 doesn't deserve to wear the Hurst name and it's too bad the '70 isn't wearing it. Can't fault that gorgeous '70 for not, though; it's still awesome. As for the '84, it's too bad the Hurst name had to end on such a low note; a funky shifter and blacked-out grille does not a muscle car make, especially when said car has nothing but the same wheezy, oil-starved 307 that's under the hood of your grandma's Ninety-Eight Regency or Fleetwood Brougham. I'm all about the 80's G-bodies (too bad every single one around here is either beat to death or rotted to death; usually both), but I'd take a plain one over a "decal GT" any day of the week.

So much for saving a couple bucks by calling your buddies instead of a tow truck.....

Exactly what I was going to say. I remember more than once on cold days the driver's door latch on my Riviera would stick. Nothing a little de-icer and then white lithium grease can't fix. You spent more effort into duct taping that door shut than resetting the latch would have taken. Worst case scenario one of the plastic bushings that hold certain parts of the door linkages broke or perhaps one of the little tabs cast to the back of the door handle did. Ten bucks and an hour of your time could have this problem fixed easy. Just make sure you have a proper panel popper to get the door panel off if it does end up being one of the little plastic bushings or the door handle.

The best one I can think of in recent memory would be from about two summers ago when I owned my '96 Riviera. It wasn't an uncommon thing to get compliments on it or people to come up and talk to me about it, but the conversation I had with a local car wash attendant was the best. He saw the car, came up to me and said that it was beautiful, and then said that Rivieras are great cars and they have always been one of his favorite cars for years. That's cool. I totally agree. Riviera is one of the best nameplates GM ever made. Then he tells me about all of the neat ones he saw and rode around in when he was a teenager back in the late 70's. What was his favorite memory of his younger days in regards to a Buick Riviera, you ask? Well, as it turns out, his friend's father had "one of those Rivieras with the pointed back like a Corvette," (the '71-'73 "boat tail," obviously) and he remembers riding around in it with him and his other buddies on Friday and Saturday nights, and how they would all get a kick out of people's reactions when they would do front wheel drive burnouts(!) because "they would all get so freaked out when the smoke was coming from the front wheels, because that was back when front wheel drive was still new." I politely corrected him and told him that the Riviera was not made front wheel drive until the 1979 model year and asked if it wasn't an Oldsmobile Toronado or a Cadillac Eldorado, perhaps, but he insisted that he and his buddies would sit there and roast front tires at every red light in a boat tail Riv. Right. Your friend's dad must have had a one-off GM test mule on a Toronado chassis then, because hard facts could never be right. You know everything. That's why you're fifty f@#king years old and still work at the f@#king car wash. At that point I just smiled and agreed with him and left.

What's the deal with the little '56 Chevy 210 coupe next to the Camaro; you could make yourself a nice little hot rod out of that one. If that's not your thing, however, then what's your storage situation look like? If you could buy the Camaro OR the 'Bird, do you have a place you could store it where its condition wouldn't get any worse until you were ready for it? I agree with the people that say hold off on diving in and spending all your money on something like this, but at the same time, it wouldn't necessarily be bad to buy it and just stash it away until you had the proper time and energy or money to devote to it, or to chip away at it little by little so as to not spread yourself too thin. That's where I'm at with my '67 Eldorado: I had safe, indoor space for a car so I took advantage of a good situation, grabbed it, and am holding onto it till I can really go at it; until that time comes I've been slowly collecting parts for it so that I have some of it out of the way when the car finally gets its day.

Volkswagen Jettas are hands down the choice of all the gay people I know and see. If they don't have one, don't worry, because they're in the process of hunting one down.