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Fiat Humor How do you get spare parts for a Fiat? Just follow another one around. What's the difference between a Fiat and a Jehovah's Witness? You can close the door on a Jehovah's Witness. When should you do the first oil change on a Fiat? When it gets to 50,000 miles or -- in other words -- never. Have you seen the latest Fiat anti-theft device? They enlarged the "Fiat" logo. What occupies the last six pages of the Fiat owner's manual? The bus and train timetables so you can find your way home. How can you get a Fiat to do 60 miles an hour? Push it over a cliff./ A friend went to a dealer the other day and said, "I'd like a gas cap for my Fiat." The dealer replied, "Okay. Sounds like a fair trade." How do you make a Fiat go faster? Tell the tow truck driver to speed up. What do you call a Fiat on a hilltop? A miracle. What do you call Two Fiats on a hilltop? Science fiction. What do you call Three Fiats on a hilltop? A funny place to build a Fiat factory. Chris

Bad Chinese Food! Chris

63 is cool but I prefer the 64-65-66 Corvettes. They just had a cleaner look IMHO. Why I don't know, as I love the 58 and it was a lot more chromed up than the 56-57 or even the later 62. Chris

Does this whole bipartisan push for clunker laws bother anyone else here? I am by no means a conservative, but this just trikes me as a huge waste of government money when we have sooo many other good current uses for the money. Plus, think of all the cars that will be crushed... Plenty of B body big cars. Think of the Caprices that could be fixed up, or the third gen Camaros, or the post 72 El-Camino's, or the decent shape GM trucks that could find a life hauling around a farmer or a mason or something. Don't like this one bit. Thoughts? Chris

That has to be one of the most over looked GM cars ever, Camino. I remember one running around town like that only tan when i was a kid. Chris

That it would... On the other hand, That would be the car we need driving around the parking lot doing smokey burnouts... I'm sure the Sienna/Prius/Camry/Accord/Pilot drivers wouldn't know what to think. Chris

Not to sound like sixty eight, but I could see that, as the 49 Buick and the 49 Caddy both look awesome as two door true hardtops. To me, this is the very begining of the really bright era of GM cars that started dieing off about '72. But if we were going to go with a 49 I almost might be tempted to submit the Caddy. Chris

Still an awesome car though. About time the Camaro tuners started putting something in the face of the Shelby boys. Chris

I think 65 WAS the high sales year, as I was born in 65 and always thought it was cool I was born in the high sales year of the Impala. Chris

Suppose the Smithsonian would cave and let us bring twenty cars? We need a national auto museum so that we can preserve our American auto heritage. There is more beauty in the full width tail light lens of the 66-67 Charger than in every Toyota and Lexus ever built. Chris

Not to mention it probably is more widely accepted from a demographic standpoint. The lowrider guys, the resto guys, racers, people who just love old cars...this car still has a lot of appeal to a lot of people, so putting one on display would be a good way to show the best of GM. Plus it is perhaps the high water mark for the Impala, which was the best selling car of Chevrolet, the best selling brand. Keep em coming boys... Chris

This is why I wanted to get this thread going. I've seen the 57 Seville in person, and to me visuially it is much better than the 57 Bel Air. NICE CHOICE, I like it as well as anything suggested so far. Chris

The Caprice might not make it on visuals, but it does in a way represent GM thinking over the 1975-2000 time period pretty well.

Believe it or not there are a couple of those running around Columbus. I took pics of them and am eventually going to download the pics so I can post them here. Alas, one of them is painted pink. Chris

Let's see what everyone comes up with. It maybe the most famous, but in my mind it isn't the best looking. To me the 55 Nomad looked much better, as did some of the 30's Cadillacs and Lasalles. What else does everyone else think? Chris

Katie, the teenaged girl who lives down at the corner, has an Aztek that color and everything. Steve, her dad, has a beautiful C4 Corvette in an unusual shade of green. That Vette is just damn near flawless. The Aztec was until Katie tried to voilate the laws of physics with it... Chris

Ahhhh....I owned one...Turqoise and white with the two tone turqoise interior. For some reason the 57 looks good in every color but red IMHO. Had a chance to buy a 57 Bel Air two door post that was silver on red when I bought my 55 two door post. In silver/red that car is just stunning. Chris

Since we seem to be on a nudity kick in this thread... NAKED CATS! Chris

Stuupid question...but when you had your bird, how bad was the "heat gain" during the summer with that big back window? Chris

Off topic but... I saw just the car for you today. Yellow 72 Corvette, beautiful, driving down a beautiful tree lined street with the top down. Black interior. Chrome was perfect. You know my passion for C3 cars.

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Since we seem to be at each others throats a little bit lately...let's take it "out into the parking lot" and fight over "cars' instead of stupid stuff. Here is what we can argue about-Suppose you have been picked by the Smithsonian to pick ONE GM car as a historical visual "high Water Mark" of North American car production. Let's suppose the Smithsonian will buy an example of this car and put it on permanant prominent public display. What would you pick? Also-Has to be built in North America, so PCS can't flood us with a fleet of Holdens. My pick-58-62 Chevrolet Corvette. To me even better than a 55 Nomad, 65 GTO, or other notable GM cars. That car just has the look, if you know what I mean. What is your pick...not as your fav. car...but as the all time visual high water mark for a GM car? Let's fight away, guys. Chris

Yuck...however, having done electrical and refrigeration work in food processing plants...I've seen some strange things... Chris

Didn't know you were a ragtop kind of guy. The ragtop on the 4th gen flows better with the car when the top is up than the top on the third gen cars, which is slightly awkward when the top is up. Chris