balthazar

I can remember many, but 25-acres of cars is a sh!t-load. A rough calculation comes up with 2000 cars; you're not going to ask me about Montes, are you? Sorry; I've never been a Chevrolet fan (tho there are a handful I like). A 1st gen MC is a nice car, but I would run, not walk past one to get to a '70-72 GP instead. Even AMC/Ramblers got more attention from me. Here's 3 treasured pics from circa 1990: This is Row #2. You cannot get any idea of the size here. There were about 28 rows, mostly organized by make. The black car in the left foreground was particulally rare: a '58 Buick Limited convertible, 1 of 839 built. Restored they are roughly $100,000, but sadly this one was already too far gone even 20 years ago. The silver hardtop to the right was a '60 Invicta with factory air. I still recall the 2 stickers in the rear window: a waving 48-star U.S. flag and a white on blue rectangle: "This car equipped with Buick AIR CONDITIONING". This here was a '57 Pontiac Super Chief 4-dr hardtop. Both my grandfather and my father-in-law had '57s- unfortunately both long gone before I 'arrived' or I'd own them now. Gorgeous machine. Brake pedal had "BRAKE" stamped in the stainless trim, which is not unique, but the "POWER" stamped into the gas pedal was. Attached quite differently or this very car's pedal would be in my '59 Buick. '59 Cadillac Sedan deVille. I used to be bigtime into these. Last time I saw it someone had cut the entire rear clip off: hopefully to repair a runner rather than make a couch out of it... tho as it turned out- I would take a couch rather than send the entire thing to the crusher. Damn sweet memories of wandering this 'DisneyWorld' for hours on end. Would rather be there (junkyard) than most any other place I can think of.

I knew a guy who owned a 318- it was a $h!box with the worst seats I have ever spent time in, period, which matches the little feedback I've ever heard about them. More than once I've seen them listed as one of bmw's failures. And how old is this tin can; looks like circa 1990. I thought you didn't want something "too old". If it's like 14 years old, $5K has to be complete rape. I haven't (noticed) one of these on the road in years, and this in a state where bmws follow each other in packs of 2 or 3. As for the loan question and 'seeing proof': Pick up your ViperFone & call 'Brookville First National': they set the rules for loan approval- not the state. Your folks' insurance company and the PA DMV will be able to tell you if you can register it under your name & insure it under theirs (which I doubt). An internet message board is not the research source for this level of specific information. Good friggin' luck.

'60s Hi-CR motors require better gas than has been available in years. A 10.5:1 motor requires 98 octane (Research or RON). Modern fuels are rated as motor + research / 2 = octane rating. If the modern 94-octane is less than 98 on the research scale, the Electra may still ping under load. >>"...wouldn't mpg have increased over 2 years..."<< No-ooooo; if MPG increased by 1/yr from 14 in '64, a big Buick would be getting 56 MPG by now, no?

It's not (or shouldn't be) about "retro" or not; the issue should only be about good, lasting, engaging design. Which a vast majority of the so-called "retro" cars have in great quantity. Thusly: bring it on!

Hoo boy- do you really want to know? I tracked every tankful over a 2-year period when I was driving my '64 Catalina. I have a very heavy right foot and treat every traffic light like a Christmas Tree. It averaged 14 MPG with a well-tuned low-compression (regular fuel) 389 2bbl. The Electra 225 Custom has a high-comp 401 4bbl. It should return around 12 provided you do not heavily engage in lighting up the rear tires (which would push it down to more like 8-10). There was no regular fuel option as far as I know: you will need to feed it 94 over even 93 octane unless you retard the timing to avoid detonation. My advice?- to hell with fuel costs: you're profiling! Look at your buy-in price and figure out how long you'd have to drive a worthless POS 2-yr old sentra or corolla to break-even and enjoy yourself. Or get a knowledgable appraisal and throw the beast on eBay. It's worth some good bucks being what it is. Bucket seats or bench? Where are my damned pics??

Last winter I was working about 55 minutes from home, driving thru a rural area I used to frequent years back. The one road took me right past a 25-acre yard stuffed with vintage iron. My buddies & I had been there hundreds of times, knew every row. This time I could see 'things were different': the site was far off the road but there were no more winks of chrome thru the trees. Owner died and the widow had the yard completely crushed out in the late '90s, I found out from local sources. Tons of great cars just gone- tremendously sad.

Nice looking ride! Too bad 'General Motors can't build anything that anyone actually wants to buy'.

vintage pseudo-production domestic. Kno what- nevermind, it's so obscure that the explaination of the answer is likely the only thing that would take longer than the guessing. And the answer is: Mohs.

I do not shop nor have investigated the segment, but I always thought the camry and the impala were in the same segment, not camry/Malibu. Isn't the average Malibu much cheaper than the average camry, not to mention being notably smaller??

The 'new stuff' seems to work pretty well overall, but the systems & components that should be 'iron-clad' by now continue to have problems, which is disconcerting. Manufacturers are re-engineering for the sake of minute change, adding needless complexity and encountering problems. At some point the complexity has to reach a saturation point. For sure: the rate of increasing complexity is far outstripping the actual return.

Anyone able to name the car that offered nitrogen-filled tires from the 'factory'?

Frankly; I don't see this as being even remotely possible, never mind being "allowed".

I read all thru that a while back - did I waste my time on a big fat hoax???

LOT of modern cars look very similar to each other- it's really quite alarming and depressing. That said, I do not see great similarities between the passat and Lucerne's taillamps as pictured above.

haha mister, you made a funny joke!

>>"...those side vents. At the precise moment when Caddy’s luxury SUV should swagger into town with unabashed American style, the ‘Slade arrives with its main design cue “borrowed” from Land Rover’s Range Rover Sport...."<< If anything, the LRRR "borrows" it's main design cue from the '03 Sixteen, which is clearly where the Escalade was drawing from. Thank you.

nevermind the DW edition; that is one awfully-dated truck- looks like a korean rip-off of the '97 F-150. I'm sure the toyota loyalists are going Pavlovian all over it anyway...

So with the money spend on 2 variants of one new car/platform, the entire Pontiac lineup could've been 'refocused as a whole'? How?? And again, we've been over this numerous times: the CTS IS a 3-series-sized RWD car. Not every car that competes in that price range/segment is exactly the same dimensions as the 3-series, so why is it only the CTS 'doesn't compete'? Nevermind, I am far too weary of this uber nitpicking to discuss it all again. Some people will simply NEVER be pleased, and that is fine; to attempt to do so is pointless. Ocnblu is right on with his post.

I've owned 19 vehicles to date, 12 have been General Motors product. Zero have been bought new. Of the 19, only 1 has been bought new- a Ford.

My question wasn't facetious, why was your answer?

Vent windows.

At least GM isn't investing billions in brand new plants to build hundreds of thousands of brand new segment full-size trucks with brand new unprecedented platforms with brand new unprecedented engines. Y'git me?

'57 F-250 Styleside.

Lots of Grand Prix owners are very enthusiastic about their cars. What is your source for the survey on the public opinion on the GP?

If the article information was inconsistantly presented or misinterpreted, such does not imply that the opposite is then true. Undoubtedly the Solstice (and the discontinuation of the B'ville) is incrementally lowering the ABA of Pontiac buyers. But as stated above, people want to believe what they want to agree with even though it is false.