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:rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: There's your answer right there. Want to know why she hit your car? Because she was angry. She suddenly realized, as everybody else already had, that she had absolutely nothing going for her as she sat in her refrigerator white Dodge Neon with her wigger boyfriend. She lost it and took it out on your car. No worries, though; everything will turn out in your favor. Keep smiling, meng.

*bump* ...... I've been wondering that myself. It looks like it could kick the ass of that giant steam-powered iron spider from Wild Wild West (and from the same era too!).

-1981 DeLorean DMC-12 -1957 Chevrolet 210 sedan (in primer) -1954 Chevrolet pickup -1968 Buick LeSabre hardtop sedan -1966 Buick Electra 225 hardtop coupe

I'm sure grandma would be happy to know that her beloved Horizon was taken care of by her precious grandson

Massachusetts is #1; hard to believe.

All those cars are gorgeous; even the '61 Continental even though it's been hacked up a bit. The Hudson Hornet would definitely be my first choice, followed by the fuselage Chryslers. I almost bought a 1971 Imperial sedan down in Connecticut last summer before I knew how much of a retard the seller was. He only moved down $400, but only if I would also give him my 1977 Cutlass Supreme as well, and this was after I watched him destroy the hood of the car trying to open it and then listening to him tell me that if I didn't buy it that it would either (and Sixty8 can verify any of this as he came along for the ride): -Go straight to an episode of Unique Whips -Be sold for parts as it would be an excellent parts car for anybody restoring a '71 Imperial convertible (which doesn't exist) OR, and this is the best one of all..... -Have the interior swapped into his '67 Newport coupe drag car. Yes, that's right. He would swap the interior from a 1971 Imperial SEDAN into a 1967 Newport COUPE. He claimed the only difference would be that "the front seat won't flip up." He also told me that "every once in a while some nigger comes in from the city and offers me $1500 for it but I tell him no because I'm like that." This was all after he gave me the nickel tour of his "collection," and showed me, among other things, a Volkswagen-based kit car that sorta looked like a Ford GT40 that was supposedly some one of three made fruity grand prize in some f@#ked up Parnelli Jones Pepsi giveaway contest back in the 70's or some other friggen thing and claimed it was a real GT40...... with an air-cooled Volkswagen Beetle engine. Perfect example of a person who deserves nothing having everything. And another bunch of fine old cars die at the hands of a retard who is all talk and no action, and brainless to top it off.

Dodge/Chrysler/Plymouth Conquest/Mitsubishi Starion?

He should do the world a favor and put that same staple gun to his head

That article on the '67 Eldorado makes no mention of the optional rear window defogger in the list of options and accessories at the bottom. Makes me wonder how rare it is. Also makes me happy to have gotten the complete setup out of my parts car to be put into the one I'm restoring

Saw a DeLorean DMC-12 this morning as well as a late 60's Mercedes sedan

For sale, side by side in one guy's yard, a 1969 Oldsmobile Toronado and a 1969 Cadillac Eldorado. Both in beautiful shape and both overpriced.

Not a bad looking ride; I've always thought the second generation Corvairs to be good-looking. Post some pics when you see it!

Same here, dude. I sold my beautiful '96 Riviera and have completely rejected new vehicles until GM builds things that will excite me again. I'm proud that the newest vehicle I now own and drive daily is thirty years old. The pressure's on to restore my '67 Eldorado too; after doing not much but staring at it and the occasional ride around town since picking it up last October, I picked up a parts car through craigslist for $200 and have been ripping it up ever since to stockpile anything I might need for my restoration. I'm excited to finally be underway. There is zero pride in working on a new car because it sucked before you started and it'll suck when you're done. Old cars rule.

Not really impressed. Now if he'd taken that body and put a proper drivetrain in it and made her push instead of pull, then I'd be impressed. ........ and he wouldn't be out three transmissions and had to have sprung for titanium axles. That's just retarded At least he ruined a '70 which is the $h!tiest looking both inside and out; good choice. I'll stick with my stock '67 and perhaps go find a nice '68 or '69 down the road after it's all done.

Quite a story, indeed. I can definitely say that last Sunday was officially the weirdest day of my life. I had met William Jones briefly last summer when he came into the place I worked when I owned my 1971 Coupe DeVille. Having more or less the same car, we shot the $h! for a few minutes and exchanged phone numbers so maybe we'd be able to catch up with each at a car show some day or something of the like. Apparently he saved my number in his cell phone under some sort of heading that eluded to the fact that I either owned or liked old cars or Cadillacs or something because his father called me Sunday afternoon, and proceeded to burst into tears as he explained to me who he was and what had happened to his son. He then told me that I basically had to come get the car or else it would be going to a junkyard because he just couldn't stand to look at it anymore. So I drove the 50 miles, dropped a battery in her, and drove her home with my girlfriend following me back. It was easily the worst purchase I've ever gone through; the young man's uncle gave me all paperwork associated with the car under direction of the young man's father who spoke to us via Nextel two-way while he was at the cemetery! It was unbelievable. I couldn't imagine being at the grave of my child while a complete stranger gets ready to drive away with his project car on the other side of town. Apparently a friend of William's was coming by later in the day to take his motorcycle, as well. Is the car f@#ked? Absolutely. Parts car is a fair description all day long. The rear dog legs are all but missing and the fender skirts are held to the body with drywall screws. But if the $300 I paid for the car is what it costs to give a grieving family a small step forward in the healing process, then it was money well spent if you ask me. Now Sixty8 gets to babysit my second '71 Cadillac for as long as he likes and I'll get it back whenever he decides he's done with it. I love these old tanks to death, but this is the last way on Earth I wanted to end up with one. At least the car is in good hands, as it was before the life of its owner was cut tragically short.

Agreed. That's why I keep moving backwards in years when choosing my "new" cars. That's also why I'm taking as long as it takes to restore my '67 Eldorado back to as perfect as possible, because I want to drive that car as much as possible as new cars no longer excite me. The last "new" car that I had any sort of affinity towards would be the last generation Buick Riviera. I owned one for two and a half years, put way too much money into it, and needless to say, the magic is now gone. I still love 'em, but will think twice about ownership of any modern computer-controlled front wheel drive vehicle. A nice example of the last of the B-bodies is about as new as I'd like to go as it stands right now.

I might try it out of curiosity if it was some piece of $h! I didn't care about, but if I wanted a show car then I'd just pay to have the car painted properly.

Certainly is..... ..... Wish she was mine

Yes, that's right; as of Sunday I now own two 1967 Eldorados. Picked me up a nice parts car off craigslist for $200 that somebody lovingly smothered in a half-inch of bondo and painted beige with house paint some time in the 80's and then beat the f@#k out of it for the rest of its days. Unfortunately the old girl is past the point of no return, so I'm doing the next best thing as opposed to letting the car go to the junkyard whole and becoming a pedestal for some stupid ass front wheel drive DeVille (which was a very real possibility before I scooped it)

Wish I was, but sadly my banana does not have the sack that the '78 with a built 500 does. The 425 is easily the most lethargic of all the Cadillac big blocks and not worth trying to build with performance goals in mind. However, it still gets these big cars down the road quietly and comfortably, and the power is there if needed. As far as drag racing a Cadillac, though, I will soon have nothing but the shell of my $200 beige house paint '67 Eldorado parts car in case anybody here wants to volunteer to make it race-ready with a cage and a proper drivetrain (RWD). Any takers?

You can't say it wasn't awesome to see that 3800 get its juices squeezed out like it was a watermelon, but Clarkson really is sort of a turd. I, too, do not get why he thinks American vehicles are so damn awful when his country makes some of the worst $h! going. I think it says a lot about the quality of British vehicles when a high profile figure of theirs like Princess Diana gives back the Jaguar she got FOR FREE and turns right around and PAYS for a Mercedes. So not only was she dissatisfied with a Jaguar, but she also did not see it fit to go out and get any other British vehicle, most likely for free as well, when it was up to her to find a replacement for the Jaguar she hated so much. Guess she wanted something that ran on foggy days too.