balthazar

Look at the wheel cylinder pics in post #42, and look at these babies : Back early and nicey-nice! Planning on using DOT 5 brake fluid since the entire system is brand new and the truck will sit far more than it drives; DOT 5 is non-hydroscopic. I don't want to go thru all this again.

It's far easier to move a model up in price classes with a product redesign/upgrade, than it is to move a model WAY down in price class, ALA the maybach. Those buyers, already smacked hard with massive depreciation, might be looking at a newer model selling for 100,000-200,000 LESS but with the same name!

Happy to see you put 'small' in quotes, as that's a full-size truck there in everything but width! Enjoy!

'67 Chevy Chevelle 2-dr hardtop, med blue, restored, in driveway. '65-esque Chevy II 2-dr sedan, grey primer, behind garage. '60 Chevy (I think) partially covered, in a carport right near the folks. Red. Have to investigate further. '58 Chevy Bel Air 2-dr hardtop, white over red, restored rolling thru some driving rain (& likely not having fun with vacuum wipers).

Pre- Pontiac (1926), tho I neglected to write the year on the reverse. I would guesstimate 1924 tho :

Wasn't toyoyo giving Tacoma owners like 150% of retail value for their irreparable trucks? Talk about hush money.

Interesting question, actually. Fisher built all the bodies for GM product; their plants were nearly always adjacent to the assembly plants, so the answer would have to 'yes' (I'm talking post-war here). I dug around via repro parts sources and apparently the trucks (in the '60s and '70s at least) did not have sill plates with 'Fisher Body' emblems.

I can't imagine much sound reasoning to consider a Tacoma, what with the 45-50 million recalls over the last decade for toyota, and the dismal rot issues / buyback 'n crush program for the Tacoma specifically. Foolhardy, IMO.

I have a whole folder of these. Wish I could decently scan the 1929 all-division ad I have, I think it's 12 pages. So classy. - - - - I think putting 'CHEVROLET" back in the bow tie like above might appease those whining the current bowtie looks "cheap" (however they come to that conclusion). - - - - Shame that of the above 9 car Divisions, only 3 are left (even if 2 of those were only around about 2 years).

3 / 4 series is outselling the (rest of) BMW !!!

Apparently this is NOT an "official" Batman (the comic character) vehicle as far as being the 'car Batman used', but a one-off licensed by D.C. to promote Batman & Robin dairy products. http://www.forgottenfiberglass.com/fiberglass-car-marques/one-offs/build-your-own-concept-car-the-1963-all-stars-dairys-batmobile/ Still, of course, an interesting custom story.

1 / 2 series continues to flop like a half dead fish. Just think if BMW folded that funding into bringing the 7-series into the 21st century... In reality; the 3/4, the 5 and the X5 are the only reason to turn the factory lights on.

Don't worry; once personal IC transportation means are banned, it'll all be besides the point.

Finally got the wheel cylinders & MC in the mail to Minneapolis today. Going to see if they have new WC cups (none available locally) - 2 of 4 have 'chips' in the leading edges that may leak slightly. Realized I am also missing any sort of dust boot for the MC. Next up is to finish the rebuild on the carb and the fuel system is done. Carb has been sitting out, clean but apart, on my bench for months. I lucked out & picked up a carb at an auction for $4 last summer, so I have a back-up.

Via the sales brochures, '78 was the first year @ Cadillac. Interestingly short offering, but I don't believe they were ever remotely popular. I've seen one period car with a factory CB. Random : not listed as available for the '79 Sunbird but was on the Grand Am.

http://www.lov2xlr8.no/brochures/cadillac/78ca31.html At Cadillac (^1978^), it was available, factory, across the board. I do see it 'down the line' in at least the '78 GP, too.

sweet shape. i've always a bit of a soft spot for an ETC this gen; repowered of course.

^ Agreed. It smacks of the fallacy that a mercedes headlight assembly actually costs $1300- it's not credible. Accounting/PR spin, IMO. Add to that this eye-opener; if audi spends 15 times the R&D money yet barely eclipses Cadillac in sales (clearly; audi is on the same crushing volume track MB/BMW is), that's a terrible ROI for R&D dollars. And by that token; to get to MB levels they'd seemingly have to spend 200 billion! I don't see significant marketshare upswing for audi in the foreseeable future, they're already in most lux/ entry crapbox segments, they have diesels, sports cars, performance variants, AWD….. where are they going to go?

• No one knows or cares what platform is under a vehicle. • If the s-class was the 'king' of the MB line, where did that place maybach 1.0?? • Using the name of a recently discontinued brand that failed for lack of sales makes no sense on any level whatsoever. • Coming out reportedly with 75 HP LESS than the failed version. - - - - >>"Mercedes is keen to stress that Mercedes-Maybach is not an equipment line, but a sub-brand that in future will deliver additional models."<< Can't WAIT to see what they price this at.

^ That's what Daimler thought with maybach 1.0, remember? We'll see.

Not according to the press release; Daimler is calling it a "sub-BRAND". Which is stupid when it really is (besides a wheelbase stretch) just a Cadillac-style egg crate grille, more chrome, wheels & badging (on the outside). How is that a different 'brand'??

It can't do it; it has rubber band tires with no tread. It's like a submarine with no props.

Looking QUITE bloated. Wonder if it will be available in the prior, swinging' 70s 2-tones the Maybachflop was. The nameplate is going to be an albatross- should've bought another, long-dusty & unrelated nameplate and started fresh. 'Maybach' just reeks of failure.

It's worth quoting myself- this is like FoMoCo introducing the 1963 Edsel. Except mercedes put out far less effort this time than last. And talk about badge-engineering. Allow me to act like a few choice internet idiots : "This should've been the base S-class, and it should've come out 10 years ago."