Sixty8panther

Hhahahah, coulda been a T!GH+ WH1P$ signature. There's always next time. We should get a pic of the BOF's together, my Roadm0nster, your Merc G.Mq & XP's Cadillac '70 deVille 4dr hardtop.

Speaking of Wendy's, (the Fast food thread) here's the 500SEC in front of the Wendy's on Middlesex St. in Lowell, by the CP&T Garage last Sunday... (best place to get sticker BTW!)

Sean is a nut like myself... he only works on old school 'Merican vehicles. He's the one that built the Humm-Burban-lanche, not sure if you ever saw it on the forum, it was an ex-state popo-dot Suburban in white that had a H1- Hummer inspired nose, hand built out of 1/4" steel! Then Sean also took a sawzall to the ass end & made a 1990 Avanalche. I think the newest car he's ever worked on was his son's 1994 Camaro. His son f***ed up the LT1 so Sean decided, since there's no emissions test in Vermont where his son was living at the time (in college) that he would drop in a carburated '60s SBC 327, managed to hook it up to the 6-speed manual too after soe difficulty.

I hate root beer and creamed soda... Moxie, Dr. Pepper & original (classic) Coke is where it's at!

Agreed! I don't think the effort would be worth it on the Roadmaster but more than a few times in recent weeks SP and I have brainstormed a Chevrolet 250 inline-6 and 4-speed manual, shifted on the floor, in the B-59. It would allow me to drive that car everyday without feeling like I'm signing over half my paycheck to Exxon/Mobil. My buddy Sean (the "454, T5 tranny" Crazy Asian) were planning on throwing an M22 in my tripple silver Fleetwood Brougham, hooked up to an original 302 out of a '69 Z/28. Seriously. It never happened but he owed me a favor and if I had given the go-ahead that nutcase would have done it in like 48 hours. He took that 302 out of his '69 Camaro and dropped in a 454 & Super-T10 trans in less than 24 hours, BY HIMSELF!

I personally love the G37, it's a nice little coupe, and I have much less disslike for Niss-finiti than I do for the two big Japanese cookie cutter giants. (Toyopet & HonDuh) If either the G37 or Camaro got a true hardtop greenhouse it would seal the deal for me, esp. if it was the more affordable & close to my heart Camaro.

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"Autobahn worthy handling..." The Autobahn is mostly a straightaway, it's the 30-80kmh roads that cut through the carpathia mountains & snake around the black forrest that warrant "handling"... I hate marketing types that are clueless to cars. Go push more Old Navy cpri-pants & the latest "puke-green" color of the newest must have blackberry-razor-envy deluxe.

Eat that VW "Caddy"!!!

It's all good, I've got the remedy to the brown-bag lunch blues.... LINDT chocolate for desert!

Oh... well I guess I am not up to speed on my late model Suzuki cars and defunct S. Korean brands. Either way I6 > V6 but it's a little silly in FWD/Transverse configuration, Those crazy Asians.

I will agree that your Prizm has some redeming value being a 5-speed manual, so many pu$$ies out there these days insist it simply HAS to be an automatic, as if the alternative was horrific, appauling... or just plain unthinkable! Now if you show me an affordable '59 Buick in decent shape with a 3-on-the tree in ANY bodystyle I'll run out and buy it quicker than a jackrabbitt on crack. I did so very much want to buy that 3-on-the tree flattop (hardtop) LeSabre in New Jersey in 2005 but as Balthazar can tell you the car was toast. It had been completely submerged in water in a flood back in the early 2000s. That was the closest I ever got to buying a '59 Buick other than the one in Freeport Maine and my own 4411 that I now own. When you are in the market for a one-year only 48 year old used car you can not be too picky, esp. since only the LeSabre had the option for a manaual trans in 1959, something like only 38% of the production (258,000 total) were LeSabres & out of those only 12% IIRC were manual 3-on-the-tree cars. In the conservative 1950s manuals were considered old fashioned & cheap, everyone wanted a slushbox, after all, remember even the Corvette was born as auto-only. Now I'd like to see you find me a 1990s B-body with a manual trans... man that would ROCK! Same goes for the 500SEC hardtop, it was THE most expensive M.B. in the 1984 lineup and as such, being the flagship for a luxury car brand in the 1980s you could get any transmission you wanted as long as it was a 4-speed AUTOMATIC.

H4PPY B!R+HD4Y all around.

That sideaways inline-six is form a Suzuki, not Daewoo. It's def. a bizzare setup.

That slighty restyled nose looks sooooo much better than the barcode-scanner style one on the concept, now that the productionn car has been shown to be a very sleek, as sharp as I imagined product I think I really WILL be buying one if my budget allows, if Julie likes it I'll definately look into it when finances are freed up a tad, the eventual conversion to a true hardtop would be well worth the cost. Flipped through a Motor Trend today at a Quicky-Mart & they said the Camaro would be released first as a "hardtop", then later as a convertible..... Three guesses who is going to write them a nasty letter!

Hey DF: Remember how Tall-Paul said we should Fed-Ex - (er... I mean UPS-overnight) one burger each home from the Ku-Ku Diner? Damn I wish that idea worked other than just on paper, that really was the best freekin' burger in the world. I'm off to lunch to eat my microwaveable pizza.

The Intrepid gets impressive MPGs on the highway, but it is NOT fullsize... not in 2008 and esp. by MY standards. Remember that Bicentenial LeSabre that you stored for Fly after I sold it to him? THAT is a fullsize car. In 2008 the intrepid is a bigger car than most bt a far cry to a DTS or Towncar... those are fullsize. As far as the Toyopet-Geode-Prizm, no offense but I'd rather rollerblade to work than drive a FWD, 4-cylinder, car with a valvetrain actuated by rubber-band & about as much room for people & luggage as my Aunt's VW-based Skoda in Slovakia. Not to mention all the Toyo-DUH sourced content. NOT MY STYLE. Different strokes for different folks I guess. :wink: I'm an ENTHUSIAST. I have standards, twisted as they may be, one of my biggest turnoffs is buynig something that was an econobox, no matter how mint or low milage it is. My parents always had a new car, every few years they'd buy one brand new and one 5K-12K mile used car... butg they were never anything impressive. A whole bunch of J-bodys & a few N-bodys. I'd ratehr have a high milage car, that was/is something impressive. Some old man probably bought my Roadmaster when it was new, it might have been a plastic clad, Roadmaster sedan with a baby-chevy V8 but it was still quite impressive as compared to some FWD, 3800 powered Regal, and more so to some 2.3 liter quad4 Skylark N-BODY. If I had to drive a Prizm, after all the FULL size Chevrolet trucks, Oldsmobile Aircraft Carriers, Buick Battleships, Cadillac Yachts & other such high-end vehicles that were either meant to tow an airstream larger than your garage or were meant to be driven by ladies in white gloves &/or executives of companies like WANG, Pan Am airlines, Sinclair Petroleum & Western Electric.... well I just can't bring myself to do that. It would be like asking Hugh Heffner to settle down with a stuffy old, conservative woman with modest looks after the life he's led for the past five decades. Now sure, some of my cars would look at home in a junkyard... the RoadmOnster is one of them, but then again my B-59 and many of my other "beaters" are only a few cosmetic quirks away from being returned to their former glory.

Agreed.

Good post. Very enjoyable. Who's got some salt? I'd love to massage it in Toyopet's wound.

IN. I think outties are bizzare, turnoff on chicks. Then again the chubby ones I like always have innies.

F$#k FWD, a typical W-body woudl have to get like 45mpg for me to deprive myself of my BOF, V8 daily driver... granted the 7.0 liter in the Banana was a bit too thisrty since it breathed/drank gas through a giant 4bbl carb & carried around about 4800 Gross Lbs. I sat down the other day & calculated milage for the RoadmOnster, since the 16.5 figure I postd earlier was from Jan. to March, when I was delivering Chinese food in cold weather, in other words tons of ideling and warm up on cold days... now as of April 4th to lat week the RoadmOnster is getting 18.02 mpg and that's only 1/2 highway, my new job means I drive about 75% highway & I'm going against traffic most of the time... so I think 20 should be realistic. So again, to hell with all those FWD sh!%boxes you guys drive that have 1/2 the Liters/cylinders/torque I do, lug around much less weight, lack a spine and still can't even doub;e my milage! Now I just need to trade up to an LT-1 powered '94-'96 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham with less than 100,000 miles.... for now I'll just drive the wheels off my '92 TBI350 Buick. Long live the B-body!

Talk is cheap. Money (or in this case REAL photos) is what REALLY talks, Bull$h! walks.

We ahve a very limited selection here in N.E. but I'm a Wendy's kind of guy. Amen, I think... no I'm almost sure they either put crack or Heroin in it.

Balthazar has his tastes and strong opinions just like the rest of us, that's why I used the term "RICED" even though I'm with you guys about the fact that it is quite a M-series, Audi-S & Porsche killer. While I'd never in a million years turn down a Mercedes tunned by AMG with a handbuilt motor I think many of their styling "add-ons" look the part: tacked on. I believe that's basically what Balthazar was saying, either way an AMG-motor in a stock CLK with the 320 emblems would be the way to go, sleeper status & elegance. Harley: GM's FULL-full size B-body 4-door hardtops were the last true hardtop, though they were not exactly the most elegant example of their type.... the last of them rolled off assembly lines calendar year 1976, as 1976 model year Chevy Impalas & Caprice Classics, Buick LeSabres & Electras, Oldsmobile Delta 88, 98s (Broughams), Pontiac Bonnevilles & Cadillac Sedan deVilles. But I do not think more than twomor three years has gone by without GM showing/tempting us with a concept car with a true hardtop bodystyle... they just refuse to put their @&$^# moeny where their &*@#$ mouth is. P.S. Before Chrysler Corp. started pumping out K-cars and Mitsubishi clones they had Plymouth, Dodge & Chrysler 4-dr hardtops all the way up to 1978.

I whole-heartedly agree! Even Julie's '84 SEC has a large cross member and high-rocker panels to help in the event of a violent t-bone collision.