balthazar
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From an auction back in 1987, local Jersey character who once ran for President. Had a fascinating collection of mostly military surplus, but was not adverse to fire trucks, locomotives and blimp gondolas.
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Seems probable tune packages (aftermarket) could get the 700 TRQ up closer to the light duty DuraMax's 910 TRQ.
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ooooOOOOOooooo; so this is a CUV/SUV. I really never heard where it was supposed to 'go'. Anyone have a pic of the lift gate open?
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Guess I'd say trucks; I had no interest in them as a teen/early 20s person, but they've come into full acceptance from me now.
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Front & rear fascias are fine, if a little busy. It's the 3/4 and profile views that show it up as ungainly. Wheels don't help- it could use 2" smaller dia rims to get the proportions a little more palatable. I've been wondering for a few years now how the growing SUV and shrinking car segments would ultimately come together in a stylistic hybrid... but if this is it, no thanks.
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Factory-built supercharged '53 'E' ~
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While the performance is, of course, incredible, they RUINED the design by going with the same old-same old 'super car' cues; pulled the front wheels back to the door seam, gave it a ridiculous front overhang, big wing, raised rump.... Rimac made it completely 'run of the mill super car' in a sea of the same, when they had a very unique & distinctive design in the Concept One.
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You keep singing the same song but the audience left hours ago.
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That's just a snapshot of page 1. Point being, not looking to jump into a car with multiple oil-related problems.
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But recall that the '350 debacle' is what generated the legalese 'GM vehicles produced with engines from various divisions' or the like, precluding any class-action suits/ complaints. The initial PMD OHC I-6 was 230 CI, but it may have enlarged to 250 by '69.
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35-in rims. Packard, I believe '21.
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Chrome Cheesecake 2 ~
• To address one of your likely 'back seat thoughts', TCB - at the time my girlfriend/wife was driving the '87 stang, I was driving a '78 Plymouth sedan, which I soon upgraded to a '64 Catalina sedan. I don't have the Cat's specs at my fingertips, but the '59 Buick coupe rear seat was a smidge over 66" wide. • Pontiac ditched their proprietary OHC I-6 the year before. But with the focus on the plethora of V8s available in any given GM car, I guess the usage of the Chevy I-6 was of no consequence then. Supporting that theory is the bru-ha-ha only 4 years later with the 350s. 'Don't mess with our V-8s!' consumers grumbled. • It's funny how ingrained brand loyalty was 'back in the day'- in hindsight it's hard to grasp how deep those roots ran. My grandfather & father (and in turn; me) were Pontiac men since 1955. Both of them also had a smattering of Olds' & Buicks (and I have my B-59), but Pontiac was the king of the '60s because of the hardware (engineering, styling, race heritage & image).- 67 replies
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I don't want a volvo either. Not many people do.
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