Robert Hall

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Happy Birthday, HWNN!

Maybe GM's European plants are old and antiquated and they've invested enough to make them flexible? Don't know..

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Yep..I wouldn't trust them...just another corrupt Wall Street firm.

That was probably the only angle that it was rendered in (this is a Photoshop creation, IIRC).

Yeah, a HUGE improvement over the '74-'77 cars, even if they fall quite short of the '70-'73s. A buddy of mine in high school had a clean black '81 Z-28 his junior year then traded it for a new dark blue '88 IROC-Z his senior year..talked to him recently on FB, still a Camaro fan--has a yellow '11 SS.

I like the looks of the Z-28s of the '78-81 years...

What strikes me the most about this list is how many more 2drs there were available 15 years ago, and how many were in the now-defunct 'personal luxury' genre. The Eldo and Riv were particularly good looking cars, IMO.

Happy Birthday, guys!

Maybe a bunch of them got C4Ced back in '08...

They have a long tradition of this...66-67 Charger from the rear is one of the best styling elements on any car, American or otherwise, ever...period.... Yes...they also had some great full width taillight treatments on the Chrysler 300 and Dodge Monaco also in late '60s-early 70s...and the '70 Challenger taillight treatment is one of my all time favorites... :wub:

Those LCFs w/ the truck beds are interesting, kind of phantoms, I guess. Though I suppose someone could build one themselves. A LCF Suburban or panel van would be a really neat custom.

The '59 car hauler w/ the '57 Chevy looks neat, but it would be more realistic w/ a load of '59 Chevys.. I'd like to see some of the '60s ones done also. I have a neat Ertl 1:43rd '60s truck similar to the 1:1 you pictured, was probably made 20 years ago. Ertl made a '50 Chevy LCF in that series also, IIRC. Edit: this is the Ertl Chevy I have. There was also a green tow truck version.

I haven't see that yet. New release? I know the single rear axle was also available in orange (Yukon Gold) with the chrome rims - wasn't a fan of that one so I only purchased the blue & white one you posted above. I'll have to look-out for the tandem rear axle model I'm not sure if it's available by itself (I've seen pics of one in the same blue as as the single axle one) or only w/ the trailer in sets (car hauler, etc). I didn't really care for most of the truck & trailer sets I've seen from M2 because them seem to have modern graphics for the trailers and not period graphics...

I like the Charger and Dart lighting, I'm a fan of full-width taillight treatments...not the usual predictable triangles, trapazoids, or melted blobs on the corners that most sedans have.

Interesting...1997 was the year I left grad school for the corporate life. Had my '87 Mustang GT and my '88 Bronco II. Moved from Michigan to Colorado. 26 years old and 60 pounds lighter... I did end up buying a 2dr sports coupe a year later.

They also make the Viking w/ a longer chassis w/ 2 rear axles and chromed wheels.

Yes...when those sensors failed on my GC, those were the symptoms...esp. scary when going 70 on the freeway in traffic and it happened. It didn't trip the check engine light either. I had mixed results after it shut off---sometimes it would start immediately, other times it wouldn't start. Had to have it towed 25 miles twice before the shop fixed it correctly. (after it was fixed, I thought the name was 'crankcase position sensor' until the C&G experts corrected me).

Those are neat...did you see the Chevy Vikings in that series? They are pretty cool also (though the rear wheels are wrong on this one).

Sounds like a 190SL, the entry-level SL that was built '55- '63...you can see the gas cap by the right taillight. The W113 generation that replaced it also had a chrome gas cap next to the taillight...

I find the Mighty FC hella cool...

Neat...B-body roof on a CDV... kind of a neat reversal, since the '67-68 Caprice looked like it had a CDV roof.

I was under the impression that trucks back then had interior metal the same color as the exterior and that only the soft parts (seat, door panels, floor mat) varied in color, or maybe that was just how the low line models were. (at least that's how I've painted my 1:25th scale models of trucks of that era based on photos I've seen of 1:1 ones..

I had a CTS rental in Sonoma, CA over Labor Day weekend....the first time I'd driven one for several days...sweet car (though the front air dam is too low...kept scraping it on kerbs). When I was at the Porsche Rennsport Reunion at Laguna Seca last year I had a 300. Really like both cars, either would be a great next daily driver for me.