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Its great that its RWD, but I think the overall look is so-so. I don't like the steering wheel, which may be a completely new part, but to the average Joe, it looks too close to the wheel GM has been using on cars for what, 7 years? I also don't care for the horizontal vent setup that I agree with the others that GM is overusing. I don't like the completely nonexistant trunk... I also feel from the rear the car looks way too narrow. The front emblem is too large, and the bezel around it makes it look like a CTS part on a 3/4 scale CTS. The headlights look kinda gimmicky to me... especially the plastic strip reaching halfway to the windshield. This fad is just awful. The four grill setup is also looking like a copy of every other GM grill setup... including the Cruze/Malibu, if you remove the divider. One of those grills is going to get somewhat obscured when a front license plate is affixed. The greenhouse, the short trunk, headlights and grill setup make the car look very much like all GM's other sedan offerings... the only design feature unique here really is the space between the front door cut and front wheelwell. I prefer the CTS.

Yeah, the HAMB rocks. Lately, I've been pretty hooked on the Duke University Digital Collection... http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/collections/ Its not all cars, but the search will find a lot of outside billboards with copious old traffic and lots of brand specific advertising.

Car and Driver would have still featured the Buick Kadett in a junkyard. It would have still failed miserable. Buick's rep would have taken a bigger hit and sales plunge. Buick itself would have been phased out in 1981. Better A, X and J cars are built due to not needing a Buick version, and they successfully fend off the Asian invasion. Oldsmobile moves upmarket and fills the Buick void, but Pontiac moves into the sweet spot and becomes GM's biggest division on massive global Sunbird sales. GM is broken up in 1995 due to antitrust violations. ;-)

I was going to say that, because deep in the back of my memories, it was my understanding ALL police cars in NJ must be of either US or NA build... but I couldn't remember the details. And I remember the Crown Vic and Charger being built in Canada was a possible hitch in that concept. But then again, times change. NJ used to be against photo enforcement, but the traffic light cameras are still moving in.

This will be a problem for NJ State Police, as well.

Yep the Chevrolet FS sold about 1 million that year and Imps & Belairs had the same lights. Caprice was still ramping up from 65 intro so they're harder to come by I think the price on the Caprice was $10K. Thats kinda insane for a sedan. It had better be brand new in all aspects.

H said he wanted a '68- not that common to find. I like the '68s- on the funky side. But I'd prefer the 1st gen, specifically '64, before they bloated up. So you mean he wanted a '68 GP coupe... No convertibles made in ANY year other than '67. While I like the '68 fullsizers, I really don't care for the '68 GPs...

Balthy is right. The cameras had a slit shutter, which exposes the film top to bottom... which is inverted, of course, but during the exposure, the car moves... giving it the forward lean. The whole effect is called focal plane shutter distortion. Read more here... http://people.rit.edu/andpph/text-slit-scan.html

I don't really have any available, except perhaps the originals the previous owner sent me... If I come across them, I'll post 'em.

Interesting... I don't recall ever seeing a '67 Chevy B-bod with 6 red taillight segments and the whites in the bumper. Must be a Caprice thing... just like I didn't recall the two-segment Biscayne ones. I guess the Impala red-white-reds outnumbered the others during this one-year taillight permutation.

IMHO, if you have less than $5K liquid, you are basically broke. You are quoting '90 Hondas with 150K at $2K and being a maintenance nightmare, but that it not you have previously owned... your previous maintenance problems were a Camaro, '80s Regal and a Jeep. You don't have to have a '90 Honda to enjoy relatively problem-free bliss... you can have a W-body Impala and pay $1000 for it. But this is all conjecture because going to that from a brand new Challenger is like going back to a digital watch after have an IPhone... people fight tkaing a step backwards in apparent status. But your 20s are a time when you need to invest in the future, not splurg on luxuries. Either stick it out with the Challenger (if you can) or buy something dirt cheap. Anything in between is a boondoggle. You will have plenty of time later to buy something sweet.

One of my favorite GM cars of all time... and one I actually own. Unfortunately, its nowhere near that condition.

Flat pull out? I feel this is the first step towards China throwing GM (and other foreign companies) out. It don't affect China... they will go making Wulings and Buicks without GM. GM gets a kick in the nuts short term for investing so much in China and a stab in the back when China eventually starts dumping rebadged Wulings in the US for chump change. Unless China plays fair, I don't see how GM could exit China gracefully.

I need a time machine so that I can go back and kick my ass. Wait until you're 40 or so...

Due to Wildwood, NJ being a popular destination for beach going Canadians, I remember these invading south Jersey every summer for years between '88 and '95. It was especially interesting to me, as my car was what I thought was the last of the Tempests ('70). Some days I'd see 2-3 of them. Needless, to say, in those days before the Internet became popular, it was MUCH harder to explain what was going on. Had they made a coupe, I may have seeked one out, simply for its novelty factor. Edit: Typo.

Is CheersamdGears.com an evil twin site? ;-)

Yeah, same here. White walls bigger than 3/4" are just a bit too early for most of my automotive 'zone'. Edit: Same for 'blue dots'. Also agreed, however, the OEM steering wheels, especially the clear sections, didn't always age well. Cracks and the clear turning cloudy and yellow make a decent argument for many to "upgrade". Who would have guessed one could get their original wheel remolded 50 years later. Edit: I prefer the vintage aftermarket items like Cragers, Hijackers, Hurst, Fuzzy Dice, and all the vintage window stickers of the era...

Actually, the wheels and steering wheel appear to be vintage aftermarket, which would make them somewhat collectible to someone. Not my thing, but still cooler than then modern overplayed 20" wheels and billet flame steering wheels.

What kind of car? I've typically gotten 80K-100K plus a recut and 80K more... however, in the last decade, I've stopped getting rotors cut, as thin (yet in-spec) tend to warp more... and I REALLY hate warped rotors. Plus, these are rear rotors, and see much less wear.

This is an old photo thats been floated around on the 'net for awhile. I discussed it somewhere else, and I surmise that it was a combination of well used rotor and a caliper that likely froze so only the inner shoe was pressing on the rotor... once into the venting, it probably only took a few thousand miles to eat the whole rotor apart. Keep in mind that the last parts of the rotor probably fragged apart. Also, being a rear wheel, were brake usage is very low, I suspect something may have failed in such a way to keep pressure on the inner pad... the heat would have also accelerated the wear. I really don't think that this was simply an issue of maintainance failure... as properly working calipers would have needed 300K to eat that rotor up, and would have been picked up eventually. Unfortunately, I don't know what the true story behind those was.

Staged. A cat might have crawled into the pipe, but would be unable to turn around. So some human loaded that cat in there. Not that it makes a difference.

That's only a small one. I've never been so lucky to hit a small one. All the ones I hit had huge racks.

Yeah, more than NVH, as Balthy mentioned, the odd fire engines ran very rough. At least rougher than the public would accept. I suppose to some, it sounded like a constant miss. A friend of mine had a V6 powered '61 Special. I don't recall it being too rough, but I was young and anything that moved under its own power was acceptable to me. Of course, it was slightly possible someone swapped in an even-fire late model V6, but I really would doubt it.

Wikipedia has a good explanation of this under 'V6 engine'. Basically, it has to do with design limits of the early V6s based on V8 designs, where three shared crankpins were arranged 120 degrees apart. This caused the firings to occur at odd intervals because of the 90 degree banks... 0, 150, 240, 390, 480 and 630 degrees... instead of 120 degree intervals. The even fire design uses split crankpins, 15 degrees apart to achieve an even 120 degree firing interval.

I figured the hood and roof rotted away. Usually when people take a hood, they leave behind the hinges, which pop up. The hinges are not popped up, so either they were taken with the hood... possible, but unusual... or the hinges are rust frozen in the down position. I'd love to see what the engine was like. I wonder if it is still there... I have to assume the city would tow it away (or more likely, sweep up the remaining solid parts) after it reappeared.