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  1. balthazar
    That's not really intended for production, is it?
  2. balthazar
    My brother had a C60 dump truck, he sold it when he upgraded to a Mack single axle. We did a good amount of work to that truck, including replacing the non-original 350 with a rebuilt BB366. I like the HD trucks, but I can't say his C60 wove any sort of spell on me. Maybe it was too new (I think it was circa a '79). Nice 'business' exterior lines, tho.
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    My bus used to pass an old garage in the small town I lived near, and under their carport were some dusty rides. I had no attraction to the Lotus Esprit, but that '58 Cadillac Series 75! now there was something different than the plastic-bumpered crap the roads were littered with. I never got around to inquiring on the S75 (I was always into performance, and that baby had to be HEAVY), but that era (late '50s thru mid 60s) has ever since been the most appealing to me, even tho I was too late to have grown up with them. My first car; I lent my buddy $100 to buy this car on the condition he gave me first chance to buy it if he wanted out. 1964 Grand Prix. Still have it, tho I think it's time to let her go.
  4. balthazar
    Bentley has some truly bland, pedestrian vehicles. For being a badge-engineered Rolls for so many decades in the past, Rolls today is light-years ahead in presence. And yes; I see Bentleys often enough on the road to have a solid in-person opinion. It just has no distinction, almost like a 'generic big car' illustrated to avoid depicting an actual brand.
  5. balthazar
    Roger, I met up with a guy here in central Jersey (to look at a car for sale), and in talking to him, he mentioned he owned a 1914 GMC. I didn't see it, but that's a rare beast; there were only 708 built that year, and at 99 years passed, can't be but a handful left.
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    MightyFC

    balthazar posted a topic in Jeep

    I don't click a lot of Jeep threads, it's not my thing. However, this is just too awesome :
  7. balthazar
    Moltie got my similar one- Hudson's 'Twin-H Power'. Dodge did use 'Powerdome' officially to refer to at least one of their '70s hoods. • • • Powermaster Six ~ DeSoto
  8. balthazar
    Not enough.
  9. balthazar
    pow- what's that from? I have a similar one, don't want to double-up.
  10. balthazar
    PowerFlite
  11. balthazar
    Thanks for the addition. Still a very brief experiment within the 60s. I don't think ChryCo touched it in the 60s. What imports started using separate liter call-outs (as opposed to part of a model name)?
  12. balthazar
    Current s-class door handles look like they cost 50 cents. We have no price comparison here to judge whether or not $1.80 is an upgrade or not. S-class door handle : XTS door handle : Don't know what this cost, but it looks far more upscale & unique than the lump above it. Whatever.
  13. balthazar
    ^ Production car displacement badge; I believe so. There were larger production engines, but I don't believe they wore badging (beyond cylinder count). • • • cletus :: >>"ford also did the metric thing back in the 60's with the galaxys and the fairlanes correct?"<< Briefly yes; the Galaxie "7-Litre", new for 1966 : "7-litre Sports Package" was offered for '67, but the actual badging reverted to "428" that year. The factory race Fairlanes, the '64 Thunderbolts, were 427s, but I see no evidence they wore badges. However, they were commonly lettered with '427' designations, and the '63 Galaxie lightweight race cars wore '427' badges, too. By the time the production Fairlanes/Torinos got RPO 428s (at least by '69, maybe earlier), they were badged as '428's.... so in the 60s at least, Ford seemingly only dabbled with liter designations for 1 year on 1 model.
  14. balthazar
    In '68 the OHC-6 went to 250 CI : before that it was 230 CI : 455 Grand Am : These are the ones (beside the GTO & T/A) that spring to mind WRT Pontiac. Cadillac used the '8.2 Litre' badging on the Eldorado when the 500 CI came out in '70, it was used at least a few years after that :
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    Is pretty beat up for only 50K miles. I never cared for this one (tho it has a host of interesting details), but like any other period concept, it deserves restoration.
  16. balthazar
    Ain't nuttin' to NOT like there.
  17. balthazar
    Right, the 389 GTOs wore '6.5L' badges, the OHC six Firebirds wore '3.8LOHC" badges, the Grand Am wore '7.4L" badges.... and the later T/A 6.6s, but in between we had many '428's, '400's, '350's, '326's... Pontiac played it a bit loose with switching the displacement systems up; the GTO kept using the emblem cletus posted above in '67-68, even tho the cars were then 6.6L (400s).
  18. balthazar
    It is distinctive, but its very tired-looking. Designed in the last century and all.
  19. balthazar
    Standing back a bit, I could certainly get behind the Malibu & Impala becoming a single model (aside from the emotional reaction to dropping one of the nameplates). The Azera/Avalon analogy doesn't hold great import, as those cars sell in relatively small numbers (well, the Azera does). IMO, these classes of car just aren't that different functionally/size-wise that their parallel existence is so mandatory, they're just different flavors of the same ice cream (same goes for the import examples cited above).
  20. balthazar
    ^ Ahh, but the mini should fit into your definition of mass-produced appliances, being FWD and all, no?
  21. balthazar
    ^ Pontiac was the first US marque to do that, but it really never caught on; the engines were referred to by the public for what they were: 389, 400, 421, 428, 455, etc. Maybe because Pontiac used it intermixed with CI designations : ...on later GTOs, too.
  22. balthazar
    Mercedes doesn't have any 7-passenger cars.
  23. balthazar
    Feels like almost 20. "Went on sale July 2001" - so coming up on 12 years old. An "eternity" in the opinion of most armchair auto industry critics, who begin to sweat when a car goes without changes after 2 years.
  24. balthazar
    ^ Agreed; the 'trip down memory lane' has played it's hand, and Mini is locked into the look so rigidly they are unable to deviate from it. That said, the design is now coming up on TWENTY YEARS OLD, with the sole MCE being an incredible mirror image. Development is dead on the vine.
  25. balthazar
    No, it's pretty much the same place. But I believe dfelt was referring to the flair & fluidity (& level of uniqueness) of the SS concept, whereas this SS gives a rather generic serving of the 'same old'.
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