A Horse With No Name

Actually, this is one of the best car forums IMHO on the web. We have some people and their opinions, but still... This place, Miatanet, and Grassrootsmotorsports.com are the only real web forums I like. If you want stupidity, go to almost any of the Mustang Forums. (I say that and I am a big Mustang fan.) Stangnet isn't bad, but the rest....sorry. Chris

I also would like to know what happened to that old LeSabre. Chris

...or find some cute little bug/virus to keep any of their type from reproducing and destroy the gene pool. Chris

At least your working on a RWD car with room to work. That would be 4X the pain in the ARSE in a small FWD car. Chris

They are all fine... Chris

...and about the Caddy. The car that I will go TO MY GRAVE and regret not buying is a 69 Cadillac Wagon that was a special build festival car for the 69 Indy 500. Car was in perfect shape, GM only built 3 IIRC. Nice car! However, I bought my 55 Chev. 2 Door instead, and I'd have never enjoyed it if I'd bought that Cadillac. Chris

Ditto on the Olds thing, blu. There is nothing better for a warm summer night than an olds Cutty with a V-8 and a country road...and someone to share the experience with. Seems like the Olds cars, esp. the Cutty's, always rode and drove better than the other GM products, even the Buicks. F-41 Suspension Chevelle comes close, though. Chris

There is a Hurst Olds just like that cruisng around Columbus. Nice car! I would much rather have the 74 GTO However. We'll see how much sleep I'll loose tonight over that car. If only it wasn't a damned automatic! Chris

...o.k., and over the last couple of days I saw some really interesting cars myself. On route 35 (Ohio 35) north of Gallipolis, OH. I hit the mother lode of old cars of sorts. Old 66/67 Nova dDrag car, sixties era, originally yellow painted orange. Old strait front axle intact, crudely flared rear fenders, a real period piece. Same guy had an old Fury (58 I think, like Christine the movie car) along with a couple of more door mopars of the same era. Also a 60 or so Chevy truck flamed and in primer, great looking vintage rod. Old (39 or so) Grahm (remember those, Sixty Eight?) sitting behind the house to the side, along with a rather decrepit 65 Impala convertible and a Buick Skylark (I think convertible, it was under a blue tarp-looked to be 68-69) 66 red mustang coupe and a 71-73 Mach 1 also in the side yard. I have pics but they suck and I'm not sure how to download them from my daughters camera. Didn't want to walk onto the property for fear of getting shot...that and its private property and I respect the guys rights. About 20 miles perhaps or less North of Gallipolis if anyone is out cruising around in Ohio. Also, on South High Sreet here in Columbus, a More door T-Bird from the late 60's. And on Brown Road, beside a house that I have driven past a hundred times and never noticed it...about 6 or seven old Impalas. 65-68 Era, with a red 66 Caprice on Crager (sp?) SS Wheels. A couple more late 40's Ford Trucks in a salvage yard (went back and they were gone). Two Nova's of the 68-72 Variety sitting in salvage yards (two door cars, one with the front subframe gone but both looked restorable.) A 70-ish nova with the finned front fenders and SS-style hood sitting in pieces beside a house in Southern Ohio. Chris

Those old Chebby's had great lines. I was so pissed at the studio for destroying that old (late 30's, early 40's) Chevy in the movie Sin City. At least I remember it as a Chevy. Chris

I'll see you and raise you one... 70 Dodge Challenger, Blue, almost as clean as the Charger R/T you saw. Late 30's Packard, rolling through Columbus on a trailer. 56 Ford f-100 (with the wrap around windshield) also on a trailer, but a very nice looking project for someone. Chris

Good luck! Surgury is no fun, three of my five children have had surgury in the last 6 months and it is definitely a pain in the arse. Chris

Blue color looks good on the Sky. Should be a nice addition. Chris

This is a cool thread...thanks for the pics guys. Sixty-Eight, thanks for the Olds Pic in the O.P.! That's Awesome. Chris

Not just yes but Hell Yes! Chris

It's really going to hurt them for sure, 7 for every truck may not be a bad estimate... Chris

They did destroy a C4 vette though. Stuffed a crash test dummy named "Hank" in it and blew it up from a helicopter. Felt like pointing out to Mr. Clarkson that without a lot of guys named "Hank" he could be reading the owners manual of his new Audi in the German he had learned from boyhood, but so far have not had the chance. Chris

I've loaned cars to H.S. students I've known and not had a problem. Even loaned one I knew was responsible my Miata for two weeks strait. It came back washed, waxed, and full of gas. I can see why you didn't loan the Z, but to me that is why I drive modern cars with insurance. Something happens, State Farm writes a check and all is O.K. Chris

Wrecking aperfectly good 911 was WRONG...butI'd rather they wreck a 911 than a Camaro, even a plain jane 3rd gen Camaro... Other than that great stuff! Chris

1940 Ford Truck (drool)...Wow! This is really bad no matter how you spin it or slice it, agreed. It has convinced me never to buy another Toyota product, for sure. Chris

...personally, I just don't mess with rusty cars... Chris

Buy it for the scrap value, for real. You laugh when I talk of the price of scrap, but that's an easy $350 at the local scrap metal yard. It would also be a cool car to take Ice Racing... Chris

I so much more like a clean look with a nice set of rims and clean, well detailed paint and interior. There are Honda's I like, but the sad thing is that of the ricer movement one of the biggest (and cheapest) up grades would be to just wash the damn car, make sure that it's all one color, and clean the Burger King wrappers and coffee cups out of the damned thing. As far as car spotting goes, for me it has been Jeep, Jeep, Jeep. Jeep. Lots of nice late model prev. generation Rubicons and Unlimiteds, I saw 7 (Yes, SEVEN) nice examples of CJ-7's (one looked superb in silver)(Another one was lifted and on 38's). Also, CJ-8 Scrambler, two of them, including a very clean original blue one. To top it all off, my teenaged daughter had to go down to the Ohio/West Virginia Border to meet some friends. Lots more Jeeps here too. Checked out the 4 Door wranger interior on the local Jeep lot. Oh, and saw a couple of old 50's Willy's jeep wagons in an old junkyard. Nothing like being able to pop the top and doors in summer! If gas wasn't $3.49 per gallon for midgrade I'd be having a Jeep in the driveway. Chris

I so much more like a clean look with a nice set of rims and clean, well detailed paint and interior. There are Honda's I like, but the sad thing is that of the ricer movement one of the biggest (and cheapest) up0grades would be to just wash the damn car, make sure that it's all one color, and clean the Burger King wrappers and coffee cups out of the damned thing. As far as car spotting goes, for me it has been Jeep, Jeep, Jeep. Jeep. Lots of nice late model prev. generation Rubicons and Unlimiteds, I saw 7 (Yes, SEVEN) nice examples of CJ-7's (one looked superb in silver)(Another one was lifted and on 38's). Also, CJ-8 Scrambler, two of them, including a very clean original blue one. To top it all off, my teenaged daughter had to go down to the Ohio/West Virginia Border to meet some friends. Lots more Jeeps here too. Checked out the 4 Door wranger interior on the local Jeep lot. Oh, and saw a couple of old 50's Willy's jeep wagons in an old junkyard. Nothing like being able to pop the top and doors in summer! If gas wasn't $3.49 per gallon for midgrade I'd be having a Jeep in the driveway. Chris

Better that than the Grand Am I saw running around town this week...bright orange paint, wing, body kit, looked like it had been drug up off of the bottom of the North Atlantic condition wise.... Chris