A Horse With No Name

And I think your right on the "Endura Cars." I seem to remember a Mayfair Miaze 68 GTO around here that looked good. Back to car spotting, 65 Impala. Forgot to tell you guys about that one. Chris

As for me myself I think GM cars do look realy good in dark colors. As far as Chrome bumper GTO's and dark colors, I think having neighbors that had a maroon 66 Tripower GTO convertible probably ruined me for life. Without that car, I would possibly be watching baseball and be worried about the Yankee's or something. As it is.... And I'm glad to get some Bonneville love here. The later 60's Bonnevilles are kind of overlooked by a lot of people. Chris

I'll take any color I can get...even if it's Iris Mist (which I like, light purple) or Panther Pink. Creativity is the whole key to the muscle car thing. And actually I like orange also... Esp. Orbit Orange on a 70 GTO. Not to bright but different. Chris

Oh,and if you ever come to Columbus Ohio, and happen to go to the Dublin Car show in July... We have a Camaro that shows up at that show and a few others, but it is mostly garage kept. It is a 67 SS/RS 396 that was bought new for drag racing andonly has like 4,000 or 5,000 miles on it. It is about the same light yellow color, and it is God's own original survivor. No chips in the original GM paint and the interior damn near smells new. I'm talking it might as well be 1968. I'll post some pics if I see the car again...it just makes my jaw drop every time I see it. Chris

Who said a 60's PMD had to be masculine? Back in the day, when cars actually looked like something other than an Acura crapbox, women actually liked cars and what they looked like. I have not only a wife, but three daughters as well. For me, having a car that is "wife friendly" and "daughter friendly" shares my love of cars with them. Like I've said before, my wife/girls loved our 55 Chevy, which was two tone baby blue and white. And my mother still talks longingly of 50's and 60's cars. Besides, I'm tired of seeing muscle cars in red, blue and black. One of the best looking cars I saw last summer was a real Hemi GTX ragtop at the mopar nats...and it was light yellow also. Just a little bit different. YMMV. Chris

For some unknown reason, I have faith that GM will get the next small cars as right as they got the Malibu, Corvette C6, CTS, Camaro, G8, Solstice, Sky, et al. With the Ford Focus coming from Europe and Fiat helping Chrysler we may very well ahve some very good small cars in 3 or 4 years. Guys...this shake up in the auto industry has been coming since the early 1970's. I am suprised our domestics have done as well with it as they have. It is going to take until 2013 or 2014 for the new product to come out. REALITY CHECK-go to your nearest Chevrolet dealer, sit in a new Camaro, and think...this car took 5 years to get here and it was worth the wait. Let's have a little faith in GM. I get discouraged, and make some pot shots on these forums...but lets have a little faith. Chris

I do agree with the idea that Buick does know how to do an interior. Just love how well put together and laid out it is. And I do agree the Tundra interior leaves a lot to be desired. Chris

+1. Cheers and Gears is a place where we all love GM. We don't love only GM, but we all love GM and wish the best for it. For GM to prosper, it must have free market competition. We also celebrate what the competition gets right, because we are sane, rational individuals. We celbrate our diversity of opinion here, and welcome all voices that are rational and thoughtful. That is the Cheers and Gears I love. Chris

The Japanese have built some brilliant cars (NSX, 240Z, Miata, MR2, Supra, et al) The Americans have built some brilliant cars (GTO, Camaro, Mustang, Impala, Et al) and the Europeans have built some brilliant cars (BMW M3, GTI, Audi TT, et al). Get over it. And I have a good friend who is a Honda engeneer. Honda has done some brilliant things. As well as some dip$h! things, as the styling of the Acura lineup will relate to... Cheers Chris

I think I just read a post from cmicasa that got deleted about what should happen to my father because he drives a Toyota. Hmmm....my wife chose a Toyota product also. Let me guess...you only believe in the free market and freedom of choice if someone chooses GM, right? FWIW my father works on the red cross blood drives, helps with special olympics, is in volved with Civitan, works to raise money for college scholarships for worthy teenage high school students...and drives a Toyota. Yet somehow he is less worthy as a human being because he drives a Toyota. Got it. Chris

+1 to the 1 millionth power! Chris

...and my father owned a Passport, bought it new. Most miserable piece of $h! he ever owned as a vehicle. THANK YOU GM AND HONDA! My father is now a very loyal Toyota customer thanks to this vehicle. Chris

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...and caddycruiser, thanks for the Camaro pics! Chris

Balthazar-Mayfair maize is one of the best looking colors IMHO for a goat...wish I could ahve seen that. 2002 Corvette Pace car/Indy, outside of Carl's townhouse, the greasy spoon where I eat breakfast. C6 Black corvette and a Black Solstice GXP on the road when I went out to get a couple of gallons of milk. Yellow sky roadster. 50's GMC truck, (48-52 Era) Chris

+1 Chris

...or Friday the 13th. Chris

Setting their asses on fire and providing a guided tour wouldn't help either. Chris

Road and Track and Grassroots Motorsports are about the only domestic car mags I read, the rest is pretty much trash writing IMHO. Chris

Packaged and marketed correctly, a Buick (Astra) should sell well and be a great car. A little more power and a little better interior trim out would have made the previous Astra a MINI fighter, IMHO. (everyone here will disagree with me, but I loved the prev. Astra. Next one should be much better.) Chris

RWD is great, however great handling cars don't have to be RWD. Honda Prelude and Cobalt SS SC or Cobalt SS/TC would come to mind, both of which are great handling FWD cars. VERY few people will ever race, track day or autocross their cars, and a good FWD package ought to do for 95% of the population. That being said, my daily driver is RWD. Chris

About 60% of what I have owned has been GM, including two trucks, two vans, Two Cutlases, Two Chevelles, Two-Tri5 Chevy's, A Cavalier and a Skylark, etc. With all of these cars coming in two's we should worry about a biblical flood before we should worry about a Ford....And I hardly think owning one vintage Mustang in my life has hurt GM in the least. Seriously, I wanted a Solstice so badly it made me weep and now that is gone, at least as a new car proposition. Methinks my next GM vehicle will be a 1950's Chevy or GMC truck. I've always wanted an old truck. My next new car puchase will probably be a MINI Cooper S. While I am a huge GM fan, I love everything from British cars to brass era classics. FWIW my real love right now though is SCCA racing and autocrossing, a place where the Solstice is strong. If you get real bored check out the national winners in Solo/autocross and Showroom Stock racing...you'll see I have a real reason to love the Solstice. Chris

Actually, DF I have to agree with you. Back in the day when the Sunfire was built I had a FWD Mopar, an Omni 2 door (looked like the Shelby charger, but was a two door Omni). Mopar was building some cool little FWD stuff back in the day...right up until the idiots from Daimler took over. Chris

This is true, and in 4 or 5 years I expect GM to be much stronger. However, right now making fun at their expense is about like fishing with dynamite. Chris

Right now someone in the Renncenter is surfing CarDomain.Com to see if someone has put an Accord motor in a W body Impala. Chris