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253,000 and counting now! Still runs like a champ!

My vehicles are paid for, meaning I have ample funds for any need that may arise. And seeing as how I need the Burb seven days a week, I would never think of giving it anything but the best quality stuff possible. So far, it's returned the favor by never letting me down.

So hot, but so incredibly dumb

I know how you feel; I run a tight ship as well. I have virtually no debt of my own, live within my means, and make a weekly contribution to my savings account, but I still don't feel right spending any money I don't absolutely have to. Last week, the exhaust on the Burb broke almost in half along a small rot hole I should have addressed last fall. I briefly toyed with the idea of just having it redone from front to back for about $350, no big deal, but in the end I ended up just buying an off the rack pipe from NAPA and clamping it in for about $40. Good as new.

A long time ago a friend told me to get a facebook, so I did. I spent five minutes setting it up the night I got it and haven't looked at it since. Couldn't remember the password if you had a gun to my head and don't really care, either.

A beautiful machine and one of the last true Packards, before they all became Studebakers with flattened noses after 1956. Great story about the transmission swap in the driveway; that's what I call customer service! Please post anything more you might have if you dig up more pictures. Also, what happened to the Wildcat with dual quads?

Because that's the last time the US built everything in their lineups truly awesome?

I want my Eldorado done and the Burb done over and retired to weekend warrior/road trip machine, which means I need to find a new daily......

f@#k new cars! Buy a '60 Cadillac! (a long-term want of mine )

Didn't you say there was somebody in your neighborhood that had one of these? Any idea if they still do and if so, is it in decent shape? Do they want to sell it?

Wow, that picture is taken from such a bad angle. Anyways, the project is on the back burner for right now as I am currently helping my father gut and refit his new 34-foot Webbers Cove downeast sportfishing boat. That and his '40 Packard panel delivery are taking up every inch of available work space for projects, so the Eldorado is back in storage for the time being. But I am still ever so slowly getting little things done (gonna send out the pair of carbs I have for it to be rebuilt soon, front brake calipers the same, etc.) and hunting for parts.

I'd love one of those Cummins-powered '67 C30 cab & chassis

Well said.

GTX High Mileage 10W40 in the 'Burb with a quart of Lucas Oil Stabilizer; has 250,000 miles on it and doesn't burn but a few drops between changes (every 3,000). Only time I ever used Mobil 1 was after I swapped the new 3800 into my '96 Riviera because it put me back to 14,000 miles and I figured it was worth it for a basically brand new engine. Speaking of synthetics, anybody used Royal Purple or Amsoil? If so, is it as good as they say it is?

I dunno, this guy had a lot of toys too: ..... and we all know how HE turned out :AH-HA_wink:

A valid concern. I know I was pretty rough on some of my father's Matchbox Models of Yesteryear when I was younger. High shelves didn't deter me; just carried a kitchen chair over and grabbed them. Might I suggest investing in some sort of lockable display case until they get older?

I will vouch for Sixty8; his collection really is THAT huge. Anybody who thinks they have a lot of Hot wheels & die casts needs to visit his parents house so they can see how much a lot really is. And I just got to see what was loose; according to him there's boxes & boxes of ones still in the packaging in the attic. As for me, I like Hot Wheels and such, but am beginning the process of thinning out my collection to drum up funds for one of my true collecting passions: antique large-scale toys. Smith-Miller trucks and Doepke construction toys are my two favorites (a 1948 Doepke Adams Motor Grader should be at my door by Monday afternoon). Pedal cars too, if they are original and not cheesy modern Chinese repros. Will probably be picking another up tomorrow afternoon. Some day I'll have the space to adequately display it all. SO, if anybody has any of that stuff they may be willing to part with, PM me. Also, if anybody is interested in any of the Hot wheels I'd like to get rid of, either PM me, or if I'm feeling ambitious I could post up what I have in the Member Marketplace section. Maybe we could trade?

Just drive the thing, no need to get cheesy 2Fast2Furious rice boy headlights. Poor guy; living in Lawrence and seeing those cars day in and day out is really starting to get to you, isn't it? Before you know it you'll have an aircraft aluminum triple wing and TYPE R stickers from the AutoZone bargain bin all over your car and you won't even know why. I thought you were moving to a place where normal members of society drive normal cars. Time for a C&G intervention, methinks!

That'll buff right out! ^^^ nearly new '38 Packard under a dump truck, might have to shovel it out before you buff it.

NH is, which is one of the many reasons why I moved up here. Meanwhile, in ASSachusetts, I can break into your house, steal your legally registered firearms, blow away an entire school bus full of kindergarteners, maybe a puppy or two, and then YOU would go to jail because you didn't keep them hidden well enough. Awesome.

I have so far not owned: -Pontiac -GMC -Chevrolet car (but have owned two trucks) -Oakland, LaSalle, Marquette, Viking, and all the other neat ones that are no longer with us. Saab and Saturn and Geo and Daewoo don't count; never have and never will. Hummer also doesn't count unless it's an H1, which I haven't owned but hope to have for a yard truck/plow truck/dump runner some day (preferably in camouflage or desert camouflage)

It's pretty much impossible to buy a whole car from a junkyard; doing so from a private party is probably easier. However, when going to dispose of the hulk, some junkyards even go to the point of only issuing a check for the hulk to the name of the person on the title after you provide a photo ID proving you're that person (I know from experience: went to junk a '78 Coupe DeVille I had picked up for parts and the yard wouldn't make the check out to me even though I was dropping it off with paperwork. Lucky for me it WAS titled in my girlfriend's name, from when I had to keep it at her house for a few months) Best way to go is just to find a place that deals with low-mileage late-model wrecks and give them a shopping list. Atlantic Auto Salvage in Lowell is probably the best in our neck of the woods; that's where the engine for my '96 Riviera came from. It came out of a totalled '02 LeSabre with 13,000 miles on it. They even let me start it up and let me see and hear it run before I bought it.

At my high school a few the janitors supplemented their incomes by stealing all of the school's VCRs, laptops, and other luggable electronic equipment over summer vacation and dumping them at the pawn shop downtown. Apparently the asset tags on the bottoms of them didn't deter the shop owners one bit; they paid out and the janitors made a bundle.

+1, Seriously. Honestly, is anybody surprised that some loser ghetto rat is at the center of this kind of news story? Anybody? Anybody? Yeah, didn't think so. Stereotypes exist for a reason: every single one of them is based on fact.

Hmm, famous people, let's see....... Can't recall ever meeting or seeing any actors/actresses in my life; all of the famous people I've met have mostly been athletes, mostly from the Boston Bruins when I was young. Got Cam Neely's autograph at the Bruins wives carnival one year, got Lyndon Byers's autograph at a charity event a while back. I also saw Bobby Orr driving his big silver Mercedes one day a few miles out of Boston (he has a home down here and is still involved with the team). Uhhhhh I saw Hillary Clinton right after she became the First Lady; she was making a speech at one of the local universities and all us grade school kids stood in the yard and waved as her motorcade passed by. That's about it, really; nothing too special.