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For a 40-some-yr old car- that's not in 'sad shape' at all. Completely unmolested except for the replaced axle. Body is very solid. Original transaxle & aluminum front clip have been 'connected' with the new buyer, and a top-shelf resto is in the works. Poking around on the net, the only other completely restored coupe sold for circa $700K, not $500K.

I was watching this one. Amazing eBay story, one for the books. Car is one of 8 coupes factory-built, long missing. 1 restored wagon sold for $462K earlier this year and a coupe sold for $500K - short of a Pontiac concept car, this is the top shelf for collectors, the Super Duty 421 Tempest / LeMans cars, eclipsing even the 14 Swiss Cheese Catalinas. There's 2 coupes left to find; 1 unknown, 1 bought by mercedes in '63 to learn how to build a performance engine. 6 years later, mercedes introduced the famous 6.9 V-8, otherwise known as the Mercedes... 421.

>>"The GTO is pretty much as big as I would want right now, and I certainly wouldn't want something as big as the Challenger."<< Challenger : 191" long, GTO : 190" long. 10"es may 'make or break' it for you, but does 1" ??

>>"Speaking for myself, those traits had no effect on my opinion of it looking huge. It's a large car by itself, no doubt, and far larger than the Mustang. If you consider history, this is no surprise considering past differences in classification. However, the Mustang, as well as the new Camaro, are basically it's only competition and such a vast difference is size is surprising in my eyes."<< There were no 'past differences' in classification (both were 'pony cars') and almost no difference in size : 1970 Challenger : wheelbase : 110, overall length: 191" 1970 Mustang : wheelbase : 108, overall length: 187" OK- there's a 4" difference there, but that's nothing, IMO. Today the difference is noticable, agreed: 9" in wheelbase, 10" in overall length more for the Challenger. Meh- doesn't bother me either way- I struggle to imagine that 10" would ever be a 'break' point for a potential buyer, but I read that same claim here numerous times (usually by the unhinged, but stiill). And yes - 174" is distressingly tiny.

I was riding along with one this morning- what a fricking breath of fresh air, desing-wise. I actually uttered 'Damn!' when I crept up on it in traffic. It was an orange R/T and it looked fantastic. BTW- did not look 'huge' to my eye at all, but I have no doubt the Challenger's lack of a 'diving' and pinched nose and a recognizable amount of decklid foster this impression. Great F'ing job, ChryCo.

2 girls- man, are you in for it! Hearty congrats to you & all your girls, Sly!

Seems pretty pointless, IMO. The sample pics did things like moving eyes - not something I'm aware that plastic surgury can do yet . Sounds completely like something the artistically-challenged could use because they could not do it on their own, yet it's still pointless- like so much 'new tech'.

Yes, F'ing overdue. Haven't had the time. Working tomm & Sunday. Still waiting on the centerlink parts so I can get that exploded assembly off my workbench. Money is depressing me. The few things I've tossed up for sale recently are no-go's, nothing long-term lined up at the moment work-wise; just small stuff, wife works for one of the financials so we're awaiting the guilotine there......... I should really finish the '40 first, since it's much much closer to being done. BTW- the B-59 corpse shown above, along with about 140 of it's mates, did indeed perish in late June. I did not get back in time to save the A-Arms, either, and when I bought 1 about 8 years ago, it ran me $125.

87 : $2.16, diesel : $2.85 I seem to recall the post somewhere on these boards.... "We'll NEVER see $70/barrel again, you can bank on it'. Oil closed at $61.xx today.

>>"everyone picks on jennifer aniston and yeah by now its easy to see she's insecure and psycho but man she is still very sweet looking."<< I still love her. She's got some getaway sticks, eh? She can go psycho on me anyday. Megan Fox is incredible in that pic. Jess Simpson may not have ever taken a bad pic and she comes off as a true natural beauty IMO. Always liked Milano, tho she is a bit toothy. You know- they might get in the way in some instances. To answer the question: I lean towards the improbably scrumptous, physically : Pam or Carmen Elektra. Once the hips get too proportionally wide, my mind wanders....

I have all the breakout totals for year/ make/ model/ trans cars with the Hemi or the 440 3x2. For instance- total '69-72 440 3x2 production : 13,843. Total Hemi production: 10,697 Another stat from my files gives the very close tally; the Hemi / 4-speeds win with 52% over the Hemi/ TF. Even a minority percentage of one of the the most brutal production cars ever --the Hemi Darts / Barracudas-- were equipped with TFs.

>>"Mopars w/ the Hemis and 440s back then were usually always paired w/ automatics, more so than manuals."<< Incorrect. Tho the breakout was pretty evenly balanced, the manuals were more common. For '70, for instance, the Dodge & Plymouth Hemis cars ran : 689 4-speeds vs. 742 TorqueFlites. Go back farther and the balance shifts to the 4-speed, '66 Hemi cars: 1569 4-speeds vs. 1133 TorqueFlites. The 440 6-pack cars were much more often 4-spds vs. automatics. -- -- -- -- -- I had the similar MoPar Pistol Grip shifter in my '73 Charger Rallye 440... actually the car was a 400 Magnum/A904 4-spd, but the previous owner swapped a 440 Magnum/TF727 in from a Police Cruiser.

I'm a 2-dr guy, so I wouldn't touch it. Word of warning -- "Few" is the operative word; these are over-engineered unibodies, so structural rot repair can extremely involved. A '51 Pacemaker Brougham 2-dr was very nearly my first car, and a buddy owns an unrestored '48 2-dr. I would love to own a Club Coupe one day...

I was whoring around over at Dodge.com recently, drooling over those RamBox bedside boxes. Fantastic: I would use the F'ing hell out of those things. Also love the bed divider system.... no wonder Japan Inc gave up in the truck department.

It's not Islamic-related, I know; it was included by me in error from the piece I was typing from. Including something off-topic does NOT "discredit" all the other on-topic examples listed, however.

>>"But to all you haters, either we now have a muslim, socialist, racist, commie.......... or you were wrong."<< How about: not a Muslim, but beholden to Muslims? Would that give you any pause ? How about long-standing ties to CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations), listed by the U.S. Gov as a co-conspirator in a Hamas-funding trial in '07 ? Lib Dem Senator Chuckie Schumer : "We know CAIR has ties to terrorism and links to Hamas". Lib Dem Senator Dickie Durban : "CAIR is unusual in its extreme rhetoric and ties to groups that are suspect". FBI : "The evidence developed by Federal law enforcement places CAIR within a top down hierarchical arrangement of terror supporters..." How about ties to Khalid al-Mansour, a man who raised money for BO's Harvard tuition and advisor to the largest Saudi contributor to CAIR, Prince Al-Walid bin Talal, generous donator of funding to universities & the ISNA ? How about Luqman Abdul-Haqq, a man who is the 'amir' of the United Muslim Movement and landlord to BO's south Philadelphia campaign headquarters, a man who buys up real estate in order to create Muslim neighborhoods in Philly, with further ties to CAIR and the Muslim Alliance in NA (MANA), whose 'amir' there is Siraj Wahhaj, co-conspirator in the '93 WTC bombing ? How about Mazen Asbashi, Obama's 1st campaign coordinator for Muslim Outreach, who was forced to resign when it was revealed that he had served on the board of a subsidiary of the Saudi-sponsored North American Islamic Trust w/ Jamal Said, another co-conspirator in the '07 Hamas funding trial, in addition to connections with numerous other watchlist Islamic organizations ? How about Minha Husaini, the Obama campaign's 2nd Muslim Outreach coordinator, having served as an intern for the Muslim Public Service Network ? Immediately unpon her appointment, she met with a group of 30 including CAIR's Nihad Awad (the former PR Director for the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), quote: ""I am in support of the Hamas movement."), the Muslim American Society's Mahdi Bray (who has publically supported Hamas & Hezbollah terrorists) and Johari Abdul Malik of the Dar Al-Hijrah Mosque in VA, who mantra has advised American Muslims "You can blow up bridges, but you cannot kill people who are innocent on their way to work". How about numerous ties to the racist, violence-advocating Nation of Islam, thru friendships with Rezko (partnered with Jabir Muhammad -son of NOI leader Elijah Muhammad- for decades, and gave "millions of dollars" to), Farrakahn & Wright? Are talks & associations & funding connections with these radicals merely a line of communication, or something more? Do you know ? If the media was more interested in investigation instead of sound bytes and holographic projections of Will.I.Am, perhaps even a crumb of this would have gotten out. The media needs a complete gutting, IMO. >>"For some of you, I realize that last point will be the most difficult to swallow no matter how true."<< How do you prove something 'true' with a complete lack of evidence ? Just because you don't hear about it via Air America or the Daily Show does not mean there's no truth to the rumors. It's fantastically easy to muddle the charge and overstate it to the point of absurdity, but siting Obama's denials as 'evidence' there's nothing going on is like asking a criminal if he is guilty, if you'll pardon the analogy. Credit due: the campaign of feigned affrontment at even mildly challenging questions, and the slippery sidestepping of these very real issues was amazing, worthy of study of subversive tactics, IMO. Perhaps Ayers could teach the course... As for racism- how is Black Liberation Theology being a "Christian", exactly ? Advocating violence based on skin color is a hallmark of a parallel following, White Supremacy.

>>"...toronto went low water use, but was so succesful that it had to raise the tax on water."<< This has happened numerous times in the U.S. also; municipalities preached conservation of a utility and saw a reduction in revenue, forcing them to increase rates.... which is likely to force further conservation.... etc etc.

I thought you never looked back; Clinton was the nineties, ancient history from a different era, no ? Or are you straight-up advocating a 1-party system ?

Seemingly, no one is willing to consider the very real possibility that "change" can just as easily mean for the worse. A guy named Bill Clinton ran a campaign under the tagline "Change", promising 'no new taxes', got elected partially on the back of that, "took a look at the books" and promptly signed one of the largest tax increases in history. Technically, that would fall under the definition of "change", would it not? Did anyone in the media ever ask if BO's sponsored $850T World Poverty Act's cost is figured into his ever-shifting promised tax break ? I'm going to guess: no.

>>"And honestly, with something as important as electing the president, wouldn't you want to make sure that people understand EXACTLY what they're filling out?"<< With something as important as being involved in the political process, wouldn't you want to make sure that people understood EXACTLY what their president was saying in State of the Union addresses & press conferences ? Or are they already always broadcast in Spanish ? Communication does wonders for relationships, why is this opposed ? Declare a national language and get everyone on board with it already.

Sometimes the truth can indeed be "dispiriting", no? A lot more is going to come out once the 'glow' wears off and the reality of the continuing long term recession bites down harder on the public, and people are willing to look past the 'feel good' emotion of 'winning' and start demanding some real answers. At least, I hope it comes to that, for the future's sake. Far too much has been ignored in this over-long campaign process. I've read numerous pieces on these connections, but of course they'd be breezily dismissed here.

>""I'll tip my hat to the new constitution"<< There's a timely, frightening line...

Amazing that someone with no experience, no accomplishments, a racist mindset and a laundry list of subversives & radicals could actually swing this. Thousands of empty-headed idiots out there waving their arms to the rock star, the Messiah, to save them, to give them something they haven't earned and break the back of this country. You libs wanted "change", get ready to pay for it, and in more ways that one. Me, I'm switching to Financial Self-Preservation Mode starting tomorrow, and I recommend you all do the same.

Pretty cool, and what a statement. Would like to read even a summary of how the car is supposed to generate/provide electricity to the home, but the site is a bit light on the tech info, unless I missed it. Didn't miss this, tho: >>"The car cruises at 80 mph on its electric motor but is capable of doing 160, Goodwin said. It will run for 80-100 miles on the batteries, then need to recharge. He said he'd rather convert the Lincoln, which is "a piece of American art," than buy a Toyota."<< Well duh.

>>"...let's just call it even"<< Dems would love for that to happen, and apparently --for a disappointingly huge portion of the voting pool-- it unfortunately has. BO, if put thru the standard background check for federal security clearance, would likely fail.