Sixty8panther

SOunds like a nice trip. Giggaty-Giggaty!!! Awww-right! -

I'll keep it in mind... it's a pretty unique wheel, even at a swap-meet it's not too hard to spot

My take: GM should offer an ALL aluminum Camaro "ZLX" or something like that,... that would be a great way of addressing the weight issues.

Yeah, I guess I just beat the piss out of my cars to no end.... never maintain them properly on top of it compromise safety all the time. That's why out of dozens of cars I've owned I've taken more than a few GM "beaters" past the 200K mark. My wife's 1992 Roadmaster which is a $200 winter beater, has a jimmy rigged exhaust pipe and cosmetically looks like it was driven through Afghanistan on three tours of duty & an off road rally race, but at 120+ miles it's still running every day and has never experienced a breakdown. There's a reason why you decided to sell me back the Banana, it's a great old Cadillac but like so many late '70s cars, GM or otherwise, it has annoying issues and quirky '70s wiring. Let's think, you said you drive "five miles a day" I drive a LOT, probably 24K on an average year, & as much as 30,000 one year between the '86 Cadillac, '97 Cadillac, '84 Datsun & '68 Camaro. As of the last few months (my 2nd ownership of the Banana) I've been driving more than ever, while delivering Chinese Food I'd often times drive 150 miles in one night... also still going back & forth to UPS. Now with my new job, and high gas pries I'm probably averaging less than 17K a year since I almost never go anywhere and both my jobs are close, UPS is pretty much just across town and the other commute is just a few exits up 495. But in any case my 40+ miles a day made any and all of the cars quirks & weak spots surface, your commute to school and work, as you said, is close enough to walk to. Now instead of trying to throw me under the bus for over heating the Banana how 'bout you think back to why I do not have a winter beater? What happened to my high-MPG $h!-box that would super come in handy right now? The s#itstorm that resulted when that idiot from Western Mass totaled my Datsun three days before Christmas is still not over. I'm assuming you also carry just basic comp. coverage through your insurance since you'd be paying $4000 a year, so imagine for a sec. some jerk totals your Burban, you're stuck with a useless vehicle in a wrecking yard, towing/impoud fees are a slap in the face after (despite a witness who saw the other guy run a red light) you see ZERO compensation. You miss work due to your resulting lower back, knee and shoulder injury. You take time out for physical therapy 2 days a week and on top of that not only do you NOT see a dime months later, but you have to pay $270 worth of fines to the state of NH for "abandoning" a vehicle that you'd much rather have kept & parted out, had it not been for the $2000 in impound fees from the towing yard. Someday when I get what is owed to me in small claims court I MIGHT, if I am lucky, receive due compensation, and I will most certainly spend a chunk of that money on the B-59 & the rest of the fleet. Having a second child on the way & working 50-70 hours a week does not help in terms of finding free time to even begin the work I would like to do to the B-59 and Banana. As far as being a miser towards my cars & never spending money, WTF do you call it when I walked into NAPA the DAY I got my UPS bonus and dropped the ENTIRE amount on a full motor gasket set, plugs, wires, hardware, oil, trans fluid, hoses, P.S. fluid etc. on the B-59? You get back to me when you have an ex & pregnant wife already telling you that you're spending way too much time/$ tinkering with your cars. Oh how I wish I had nothing but a girlfriend, '67 Eldo, '70 deVille & '90 Burban to worry about... I'd love to go back to college and live the life again. So again before you go lecturing ME try getting up at 2:45 am & going into UPS to load trucks like a crackhead on ice skates, then get out and 9am, clean up, hit the highway & get to your next job 20 miles away, show up for 10am looking presentable & working until 5pm and then either driving home to pass out or driving 30 miles south to pick up your daughter at daycare before 6pm, during rush hour traffic.... speaking of which, I've got places to be and Sofias to take on a short roadtrip.

LOL I just thought of something: 7.0 + 6.0 + 5.7 = 18.7 liters. I love this counrty! and once gas settles down it will be way cooler.

1. I'm like 99% sure I will never deliver (chinese/pizza whatever) again.... $4/gallon only makes that $1.35 tip MORE insulting! 2. I'll buy a modern FWD car when I see a '80-'84 Seville on craigslist for $300 in mint condition. Never before. ---- XP: Let me just say one thing about my reluctance to spend money on my cars: Talk to me when you actually pay RENT, living with mommy & daddy makes throwing away hundred$ on multiple cars a LOT easier. You often times forget to live by your own standards, I seem to remember a certain Oldsmobile of yours that you bought, beat the $h! out of without ever doing so much as a basic safety insp. and come to find out 10 minutes after you did a massive burnout in it the car's 350-rocket was 2 quarts low on oil. Let's not get nasty and start exaggerating for effect.

what this about PCS ucfking sheep?!

If there's any BMW in that design it's there in the same sense that a 2009 mustang has some '63 Galaxie in it.

I would not go that far, but post 1972 I will agree!

If anything I'm used to keys coming out of the ignition VERY easily and many times even with the ignition in the on position since old school GMs are like that, some by design and the newer ones because of wear. I've never owned a GM vehicle from the 80s or later with over 100,000 miles on it that locked the keys in the ignition when turned on...

Congrats! That's a very worthy whip.

wow..... I'm freekin jealous. That's a Ford I'd LOVE to own... more so than ANY mustang ever.

Wow.... absolutely awesome. I'm still pissed about a certain *cough-cough-B-pillar* topic that bugs me to no end, BUT I will say that this is the most exciting product launch for a non-Corvette Chevy in over a decade. That interior is great. And also, like I predicted, the production headlights are much nicer IMHO. they give the car more personality and fit the fascia much better. Overall I give it a solid A, however if this was a hardtop I'd be putting down a deposit at the dealership. Maybe i WILL buy one new... a skilled body man should be able to do the metal work for a hardtop conversion & the rest I can do myself.

"Banana Boat" ('77 Coupe deVille) 14.0 mpg average "Roadm0nster" (wife's '92 B-body Buick) 16.2 mpg average {can u say leadfoot?} "B-59" (1959 LeSabre) 10.8 mpg last time it was driven, Feb. 2008.

I may be wrong but I thought it was just a re-skinned Cordoba? those were BOF, no?

soooooooooo..... what ever DID happen to Fly BTW?

Never had a padded vinyl roof but I would not go to any extra length for it either way... car wash should be fine. You know the only BOF/RWD/V8 Mopar from my lifetime I want? 81-83 Imperial. :woot-woot:

I wish I had $3800 burning a hole in my pocket.... I could buy a certain '62 Cadillac 6-window hardtop on CL. or, better yet that '38 Chevy Master Deluxe barn find.

I am at complete and utter amazement. Take that beige '67 VW KdF.

I'd like to see them really "throw down the gauntlet" ...by making kickass product. - a modern day small scca/grocery getter special. (think early 1970s BMW 2002 or Datsun 510) - CTS & Zeta 2-door hardtops... to make everyones 2-door sedans look cheap & ugly by comparison. - a mini pickup along the lines of the old Datsun/LUV pickups... perhaps unibody but NOT fwd!!!

The Challenger is pretty damn cool but the Camaro wipes the floor with it in terms of proportions, overall styling and esp. the small details. The Challenger's more chunky (vs. muscular) styling is not flattering to the car's retro styling... the Camaro seems to be close to concept and that was superior to the Challenger;s concept as well. The YF-22 comparison rings true.

as far as the unexpected part, did you notice the canister-fireball shot up like a rocket and landed far right (60 feet? away) just a few yards from where our buddy was standing?

LOL, we too were making "Rusty Shackleford" referances.... "my only mistress is a girl called propane, and I'm tricking that lady out all over this town" H.H.

That's a big part of the problem... but the unions, while harmful, can never do as much damage as the other, deeper problems with our fine country. For starters, eliminating the gold standard was a bad move.

Congrats DF. I see my reverse-brainwashing was completed successfully. You are 100% bona-fide TIGHT WHIP$ approved now. Thats your family's first V8, RWD or BOF car since I've known you... two unregistered unibody Cuda's aside. Except for the cheesy padded 1/4 roof (gaaawd) she's a fantasti-cool Ford-bubble.