A Horse With No Name

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

At the rate we are going, the 2019 Corvette will be based on a W body platform, and built in a quonset hut in Flint by Scout troup 439 as part of their "Eagle Project" Chris

+1 Chris

+1 Had we not built the interstates, we wouldn't have these problems. No rail network in the world is profitable as far as I know for passenger use. However, given the fuel savings, congestion savings, land savings, global warming benefit, etc. I think rail is an excellent idea. Chris

Too bad that #1 it's sold and #2 I couldn't afford it, but check this one out... http://www.classicdreamcars.com/51PontiacSedanDelivery.html Chris

Keep the pics coming...glad she's on the road! Chris

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Any day above ground seems to beat the alternative. To me the best days of my life are any days I am with my family. I skipped the SCCA autocross today just to spend the day with my wife and kids. Skipped a car show I wanted to go to yesterday to spend the time with my wife and kids. Nothing beats family, IMHO. Chris

Did Pontiac build a car based on the (66-67) Nova in Canada? I seem to remember reading something about that about eleventy billion years ago... Chris

Looks great! Maybe I just wasn't clear in my other post. I like the Charger from the outside, I just need more rear seat headroom (three teenage children living at home). That is a big advantage the FWD cars have over the (new) RWD Chargers. Tell us about the test drive with everything all together! Chris

+1. Make Buick a car people want to buy. They need a sports car, (Bengal, which will now never happen) A fullsize RWD, intermediate FWD, A convertible, etc. However, all of this takes money, nothing happens without money, and time. GM doesn't have the billions it needs to retool Buick, and it doesn't have the 5 years bringing the new cars to market will bring. Chris

All the advertising in the world won't work until GM builds relevant exciting cars. Chris

You all can scream at me but my nightmare is... Make Buick relevant and exciting. I like Buick and they have built some great cars over the years, but making Buick relevant, given GM's corporate culture, now that's a nightmare. Chris

I think there are a couple of Boat tail riv's back in there, if I get a chance I'll take the camera out this week and see if I can get a pic or two... Chris

The Chargers low roofline in the rear just kills it. i have a few friends who work in car sales, and one of them took an SRT8 Charger in trade on a Shelby Mustang. He had me come out and look at the SRT8 Charger (never mind I could never afford it!). I was in love until I sat in the back seat....ughhh...low roofline... BTW, the SRT8 was also silver and looked just fabulous! Another car you almost never see in silver that looks good in silver is the 66-67 Charger. That roofline looks so good in silver, just kind of flowing. Chris

Indeed. Hot Rod (or was it Car Craft?) built one up out of a nice looking stocker into a race car. I saw that exact car headed out to Muncie Dragway when I was a kid living in Indiana. If I can find them, I have pics of an old 60's Nova like that with a straight axle front end that my daughter and I found sitting outside of someones house in southern Ohio. I'll see if I can dig them up when my daughter comes back from summer camp in August. I also remember the bodystyle right before that as a drag car. I've seen a few of them, and I remember building a model of one when I was a kid. We also used to have a really sweet cranberry metallic 63 Nova Convertible running around the local car shows here. And I also remember a few people building the 66-67 cars into "Phantom" convertibles. Chris

I could be wrong, but they do sell "paint pens" at hobby shops IIRC. Using that and then a coat of high temp clear might save you a lot of time masking. Just a thought. Chris

Thanks for the link, GMCTruckGuy74... Chris

It's not a sig, and I am not getting rid of mine. I am a computer idiot, and I was testing my ability to upload from Photobucket on a friends computer. The shiny black Charger isn't going anywhere! Chris

First one indeed is a 68! Chris

Actually, it's not just SSR's that got painted purple. My friend Chuck Groome got one almost new that was purple from the factory...NICE looking intrepid. What I loved about my Concorde was that it was such a "wife friendly" car. The LH cars will handle, and my wife just loved driving ours. And DF, I'm glad someone else noticed that about black. Our receptionist at work drives a black Z71 extended cab, and she had it repainted so that it would be a true black. BIG difference. Worst color seems to be from Toyota, seriously, I've seen it on some Scions and some Tundra's, it's a black that's metallic-really just a really dark grey and it looks like dog crap. The nice thing about the proportions with the car is the interior layout...you, Camino and Rob can look at the outside all you want. I enjoyed the long car trip+plenty of rear seat room+comfort for the wife=no arguements and an enjoyable trip. Chris

You have made your point sir...however...you do have to admit the LH looks good in silver, yes? Chris