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I wholeheartedly second that....... take notes, Washington!

Supposedly he had a massage therapist scheduled to meet with him later in the day; I don't think anybody would schedule such an appointment if they were intending to off themself. Didn't he have like severe pneumonia or something at the time?

Not a bad little nugget to toss into the savings account......

He still owes Sixty8 money too......

I'd love to have that 1959 Buick in the background in the junkyard photos!

I've got thousands I'd love to own before I die; wonder how many I'll end up with!

I, too, love the Fuselage Mopars and they are some of the few cars outside of the realm of GM I would have and hold onto. I came | | that close to buying a '71 Imperial in Connecticut the summer before last until I discovered that its owner was the biggest retard in recorded history and there was no way of getting him to get down to where the car was actually worth, even after I witnessed him destroy several pieces of the car in person. I'm still looking, though; even Mister Cadillac fancies a nice Imperial or two!

So this guy's got eleven of the damn things and he won't even give up one?!? What a selfish prick! ....... I'd be the same way if it were me

http://newyork.craigslist.org/lgi/car/544953258.html For those of you not into 70's fuselage Mopars, there's a 1959 Buick parked across the street!

I looked at a '67 Miller-Meteor combination last winter but decided against it with these stories in mind. At the moment I have no safe, out of sight parking options for such a vehicle and wouldn't want my hard-earned restoration dollars to go to waste when some ignorant prick feels the need to destroy something he doesn't understand. However, at some point in my life I WILL own a hearse AND an ambulance; I want to ride around in both BEFORE I die!

Agreed. It's a shame that people's ignorance forces those with a legitimate hobby (a good chunk of which have a background in either funeral services or emergency medical services and just want to hang onto a piece of the good old days) to have to hide it away from the rest of the world until a specific occasion arises.

Are you kidding me?!? Go check out the Professional Car Society messageboard and read story after story of people's experiences with anonymous and not so anonymous vandalism, threatening letters, town ordinances, and other bull$h!. Here's a few excerpts: "I was out working on my 76 m-m ambulance tonight with my dad and it was getting pretty dark out. I had the car parked in the alley and my dad was just walking around the back yard and I went in to get some water to put in my radiator. I came back out and my dad said a white car just drove through the alley and paint balled my car. I looked at it and I was at least glad that no damage was done. I washed off the paint right away before it dried. My dad said he ran out behind the car with a flash light and couldn't catch the licence number. We did report it anyways. I have a feeling this isn't gonna be the only time somethings gonna happen to it." "I've had my share. I've gone to car show once and I was the only hearse. I pulled in and in between two cars. Some guys came up to me, kicked my doors in and they yelled "Get that piece of Sh@# out of here". I had over $2000.00 in damage. They refused to pay. I took them to court and of course won. I demanded a public appology at their next car show. I've even had a church group curse at me and call me evil and they threw rocks at me and the hearse. Another guy pushed a shopping cart into another hearse of mine repeatedly." "last summer some girl threw a plastic pop bottle at my coach while driving down the street because she thought that cruising around in a hearse was sick" "someone threw a pop at our vice president's '73 Crown Sovereign" "Dad's and my first ambulance (yes, there had to be a first one) was a '69 M-M Volunteer, which we purchased from a volunteer ambulance squad in Philadelphia. Between when we agreed to buy it and when we picked it up, it was parked outside and someone shot out the window in one of the side doors" "A local kid however got the exact opposite. He was a high school kid who got a 74 M-M. It needed a bit of work, but he though it would be fun. He even participated on the old board. His car was frequently vandalized in the school parking lot when he drove it to school. His neighbors didn't like the idea of the hearse in the driveway and constantly called code enforcement and the police for him having a commercial vehicle parked in the driveway. Once while driving with his mother, they were chased by some punks from school who were wielding baseball bats. Shortly after that, he sold the car." "I went to Wal-Mart this afternoon to pick up a few things and when I returned, there was a note on the coach saying they've got calls into the Police Department and City Hall to make me get rid of such a vehicle. I was informed that "any decent person wouldn't be caught driving one of those things". Well, upon my return home, I did indeed call both City Hall and the Police Department. The note was true and over 100 citizens have filed complaints, or should say TRIED to file complaints, saying I need to get rid of the hearse. I was also informed by City Hall, there is about 150 or so trying to get a petition going to have an ordanance banning the private ownership of such a vehicle in the city limits as well." ...... and that's just the tip of the iceberg!

If it weren't for the fact that everybody who sees a hearse out of a funeral setting turns into a miserable asshole and resorts to everything from anonymous vandalism to bitching to local government to try and make it illegal to have one parked in a residential setting, that would already be in my driveway. It's been up for about a month and I LOVE the odd white leather/ivory paisley interior it has. Shame people just can't learn to live and let live, appreciate the vehicle for what it is if nothing else, and not automatically jump to the conclusion that the owner of such a vehicle is some sick and twisted f@#k that wants to kill their children and burn them at some sacrificial altar in the woods.

Unfortunately, in this day and age, the thing that we all have to remember is that pussies and bean-counters run the show; not enthusiasts. This means that everything we enthusiasts love, everything meaningful with depth and history, all of our passionate and authentic experiences, will be misappropriated, mishandled, watered down, cheapened, re-packaged, marketed horribly and sold to the people we hate. Who was it here that posted that "endless summer" GM internal promo video a while back; I thought that was fantastic. Now if they only practiced what that video preached......

A tasteful Hawaiian Punch-themed 1973 Caprice donk, perhaps? http://atlanta.craigslist.org/car/541045290.html x 1,000,000,000 Up here in a salt state like ASSachusetts I can't even find one of these for reasonable money and people down south do retarded $h! like this to a car that used to be cool......

That Toronado is a nice, acceptable front-driver, but that Tore-ass station wagon better not be yours!

I'm a member then; just happened to me five minutes ago (for like the tenth time)

Two-tone gray/silver four door 1977 Caprice

International CXT

How about some badass Chevy/GMC truck with a lift kit that would put a Hummer to shame

Hah! That's awesome! I wonder if there's any Econolines with Mustangs on the side or G-series vans with Chevelles on the side out there anywhere.....

Agreed. Both of my cats have come from a shelter and I wouldn't have it any other way. The way I see it is that an animal at a breeder or pet store has a guaranteed spot in somebody's home because if I don't buy it then the ten other people in line behind me will. The animals at a shelter, however, have a limited window in which they can be adopted before they get euthanized and tossed in the oven. THAT is an awful, awful waste.

Tacky?! Absolutely! Huggy Bear is definitely jealous of some of the cars I've owned; I know this. I'm sure if you ever saw me get out of the thing you'd wonder where my white belt and white shoes and captain's hat were. Maybe it was from riding around in my mother's triple Colonial Yellow 1985 Eldorado as a child that did it to me, but there's just something about an ice cream-colored Cadillac with a fruity interior that makes me smile. I like and have owned many other things, but Cadillac has always been my knee-jerk reaction when I needed or wanted a cheap car in a hurry. If you read what I have said, not once did I ever suggest that my taste (which goes far beyond vehicles that could be found on the set of Superfly) is the only acceptable taste when choosing an automobile because it's not. Anything by Cadillac from the 1980's would be far worse than a '77 DeVille could ever dream of being; I think you need to do a bit more homework. Lethargic as it may be, the 425 is still a smooth-running torque monster in the vein of what a true Cadillac should be. It's not one of the finicky (and, let's face it, frightening) fuel-injected models of the same engine family, it's not an oil-starved by design Olds 307, it's not an Olds 350 diesel, it's not an 8-6-4, and it's not an HT4100 whose dissimilar metals cause the head bolts to pull themselves out with age, just to name a few. I was also fortunate enough to happen upon a rock solid example from Oklahoma with 88,000 easy miles on the clock for $700. Since then she's given me 7,000 miles of faithful service with nothing but oil changes. And, god forbid if something happens, anything short of the block splitting will cost me a fraction of what anything beyond a simple tune-up on a car like this Jaguar will cost. As stated before, I just find it funny that as of late, how eager some people here are to throw money at something completely illogical (like a high-mileage English luxury vehicle or a $500 front wheel drive Buick from the 80's with even higher mileage as a few of many examples) after being overly cautious to the point of turning down far more car for far less money in terms of both initial cost and overall investment for some asinine reason like fuel consumption or size.

Not even close to what I'm doing, just stating the obvious. Don't get your panties all in a bunch just yet. I just find it really funny how many of the people here see some neat old car (or new car, for that matter) that is TOTALLY worth their time and effort and will bring them countless hours of enjoyment (and have a real value should they ever choose or need to get rid of it) and they rant and rave about how great it would be to own themselves, but always pussy out and end the story with "..... but I could never drive something like that," and dismiss it for some lame reason like it burns too much gas or something. But then a car that will have a #1 restored condition value of $3000 after $11,000 worth of work comes up or a perpetual money pit like this Jaguar comes up and everybody's high-fiving the poor bastard that's seriously (like, crunching the numbers and calling their insurance company seriously) considering it and telling him how awesome would be when in reality nothing could be further from the truth. I guess in a way I consider a good chunk of you guys friends to some extent, and I don't like seeing friends using poor judgement and getting burned on something down the road. And there's hardly a faster and easier way of getting burned that I can think of than buying a high-mileage English luxury car. Fly, steer clear of this thing. Invest your money in that cool old LeSabre or nitpick at your Aurora until it's perfect. The price of admission for the Jag may seem like a good deal, but looks can be deceiving. Stick with something that will make you happy in the long run and also won't put a major dent in your wallet.

So like, does anybody around here take an interest in GOOD cars anymore or what? Between $h! like this and everybody crapping their pants every time some FWD 80's piece of $h! with T-Type badges glued onto it pops up on eBay Motors I wonder where everybody's good taste went. Does anybody have any neat old cars or trucks they have an interest in? Is there a '68 Buick or '55 Oldsmobile on somebody's front lawn you drive by every day on the way to work that grows on you a little bit more every time you glance at it? A 1980's Caprice or GMC truck, even? Anybody? Fly, if you buy this thing, then good luck. The repair bills will soon eclipse the purchase price of the vehicle and you'll wonder why you didn't get something that was a lot more fun, a lot more interesting, and made a lot more sense. Did this car have its cylinder head redone at 120,000 miles as recommended? If not, then watch out because it's a ticking time bomb. Check the acidity of the coolant, or better yet just flush it and refill it right away as the Jaguar I6's are incredibly prone to head gasket failure. Some of their water pumps are also prone to impeller failure resulting in over heating which also leads to head gasket failure and head warpage. Timing chain tensioners are another thing that love to go in these cars, they have oil pressure issues when cornering, and the list goes on. But, if you really can't live without a burl wood shifter knob and rock hard uncomfortable leather seats that European car manufacturers are famous for then this tarted up English Ford with a cat on the hood is right up your alley, I guess.