Sixty8panther

Nothing wrong with a Tahoe but I'm hoping to own another V8 2dr hardtop by week's end. VIN starts with a W.

no comments at all? you guys suck.

Yeah... that's a bit harsh. Delivering Chinese food in the Banana and driving it as my daily in the winter and all is a worthy sacrifice, my '59 Buick did not see any salt and in the end 77 Cadillacs are a lot more expendable than '50s cars. At least I did not freeze my nutsack off driving around with NO HEAT in the new england winter. I had that fix done in about 3 days... after you owned the car for 8 months with no solution. (granted the heater core was manually opened with a throttle spring) Driving about 30,000 miles a year is not easy on any vehicle, but let's not forget who insisted the car was NOT LOW on coolant despite overheating. And that roadtrip got you and Amanda the '71 deVille 4dr hardtop for $600. Now as far as my rides.... most of the 47 I could give a $hit less about, some were demolition derbyd so (as Balthy said) they're now coming back as Hyundais & Toyopets. - 68 Camaro: undergoing FULL restoration in upstate NY - 64 Olds Super 88 Holiday: undergoing some amount of work (prob. mostly mechanical) in Holland, EU - 87 Caddy Fleetwood Brougham d'Elegance (white/white/blue) parts car for local Cadillac nut - 86 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham (tripple silver) got SBC swap after 200K miles, living in Vermont - 86 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham (gunmetal gray/gray/burgundy) still daily driven by the gentleman who bought it off me, he lives across town. I see the car almost every day in his driveway. - 79 Granada 2dr (crushed about 3 weeks after I sold it... got impounded & recycled) - 83 Pontiac Firebird (sold with a crate SCB 350 @ 200K miles) still probably hanging around Worcester - 90 Suburban 2500 barn door: (~300k miles) bought by dumb kid who rolled it, now almost certainly crushed those are the more interesting ones...

Oh, and of course that Holden is quite a treat on this side of the pond. :thumbs_up:

From what I can see that gorgeous (& tastefully hot rodded) '35 Chevrolet deserves the prize. As always, first gen. Camaros are by far the coolest. Def. a more awesome gen. than ALL others combined!

Big pet peeve of mine: People who say "at least gas is still less than in (random European country)" 1. All of Europe is the size of New England... not exactly a huge continent 2. Most people's comute is 05%-50% less than an average commute in the USA 3. We have about 03% of the public transport. infrastructure they do 4. those higher taxes they pay are their own stupidity (big reason I don't live there) 5. they GET more out of those taxes (better roads, healthcare, PUBLIC TRANSPORT etc.) 6. you're a dumbass if you make yourself feel better this way 7. grow some balls & tell our government to start helping out the USA for once, not just the rest of the world

Today (Sunday the 13th) was a great day for car shows... the weather was awesome andthere was a "street rod" event at Canobie Lake Park, as well as the Endicott Estate car show where I showed my '59 Buick LeSabre last year, I actually it parked tailfin-to-tailfin with a '60 LeSabre 2dr hardtop. But I missed both of those shows... an a half dozen others. In fact, shockingly I was no where near a paved road. But it's all good because SpeedingPenguin, myself & a few buddies were up in thewoods of New Hampshire at (undisclosed location) "wasting" $200 worht of Ammo & eating $50 worth of BBQ'd hot dogs & cheeseburgers. It was quite an eclectic group of friends, fantastic time all around. My favorite firearm of the day would have to be the small 5-round revolver with .357 magnum hollow points, and the 12-gauge shotgun firing giant super-ball sized lead slugs. Most everyone else was impressed with the K-47 above all else. (I'm big on U.S. made firearms, not Russian ones) We finished the day by blowing up a 1/2 full mini-propane canister or two. The results were not exactly what we expected. enjoy.

I'm with XP... have a big yard sale & unload some junk, esp. that combination cappuccino-machine/pasta maker/food processor/HD-radio/geiger-counter you were telling us about in that other thread. P.S. if fat chicks payed for sweet-lovin' I'd be a millionare!

I wish fluids still came in METAL containers like back in the day.

It is obvious to me by those shots that the production car's tail light/bumper cover gap is 0.00125" too thick and the center console's cupholder pullout slot is made of cheap plastic. Also, the mouse-fur on the kick panels is not up to Lexus standards while being 0.07% darker than the carpeting. All joking aside, their FWD & resulting awkward proportions (esp. front overhang) is the only thing Buick needs to be a REAL contender in the Acura/Lexus/Infiniti/Audi end of the market.

1. dude in the Ram is a dope... obviously a trailer towing newbie. 2. Bank awning reminds me of a Honda Ridgeline in terms of structural rigidity.

Is that a torque steer bulge on your fender, or are you just happy to see me?! Overall this is an absolute ugly duckling. The last TL was quite handsome... even though I dislike Hond-Acura I have admitted that before. Not sure if I ever mentioned I went to high school with a kid who as of 2002 works at Honda as a designer... I disliked his sketches back in H.S. too though as far as his artistic tallent he did have more natrual ability for perspective than myself even back then. Drove a stock, perfectly respectable mid 1990s (back then almost new) two door Accord. I always wonder what he's been responsible for in the Honda lineup. Grilles are supposed to TAKE in air... this whole "shield" bull$h! is absolute stupidity. Does not work on paper, looks like crap and it will probably (hopefully) be short lived as it is another idiotic fashion statement like so many other Japanese car styling cues. Remember in the 1990s when EVERYTHING Japanese had pop up headlights....? Synopsis: 1. grille: F- 2. Front fender bulge: F- 3. The rest of the car: C+ (though VERY generic)

Wow...cool, seems to be shaping up nicely. You know what would be nice? a ZETA Impala to go along with it.

Correct. They're worse. In a WW3 scenario USSR probably would have been sane enough to avoid a nuclear holocaust... China I'm not sure about.

I'd rather have a "Chevy NO GO" than a Toy-oh-duuh Yah-riss.

ok. how about the loss of our manufacturing jobs, the erosion of the dollar's worth, dirty politicians selling this counrty out to our enemies like a dirty disgusting pimp whores out a crack addicted girl?

Agreed... Seems that way. I hope it NEVER happens in my lifetime. My family left communist Eastern Europe in the 1980s to escape that bull$#it, now my dad's job was taken from him after 18 years and sent over the the Chinese REDS. I'd like to send a little "care package" over to Communist China, a daisy cutter sized nuke. F**k that socialist $h!hole.

It's KENWORTH... no S in there anywhere. & for the record, that crappy Zastava (Yugo) would easily fit parallel parked inside the sleeper cab of an average Kenworth W900... Aint nothin wrong with a Cat powered Pacar truck.

I'm with Camino.... (as if you expected any different?) Get ready world, cause here comes the second coming of the Chevrolet Citation, Pontiac J2000, Cadillac C!marron and esp. Pontiac Daewoo-Opel-LeMans.

More Toyopet propaganda.... disgusting. Someone died and its a PR moment for them

1. Iran with nukes is a scary proposition.... No.Korea also. 2. Israel needs to sink or swim on their own. We should STOP being the world's baby sitter, like YESTERDAY. It only gets us true enemies but wins us no true allies. 3. If Isreal is so much more sophisticated and mature than the rest of the $ithole known as the middle east, then why the hell are they still playing by the "eye-for-eye" rules from the old testament as if it was 2008 B.C. Killing a bunch of innocent Palestenians by millitary strike IS NO LESS TERRORISM than a Palestenian blowing up a bomb & killing a bunch of innocent Israelis.

you Sir are a madman, and I mean that in the BEST way possible! I love the updates.

I voted: but I do think that constantly renaming a car (sebment/model/platform) is a BAD thing. It sure as hell does not help consumer confidence, brand recognition or sales. imo. If they were going to change names again I agree they could have resurected an old one like Monza or Nova.

Golf based Porsche, with Front-biased-AWD? "Sporty" like a J-body Sunfire GT, or a Civic CRX... Porshce is the winningest brand at LeMans... they have a rich history of building amazing race cars and road cars that replicate the same formula... an enrty level POrsche? Ok, why not a $18,000 Corvette? or a $30,000 Lamborghini...? Stupid.

The panel DF is referring to is a 1946 Chevrolet that was used by a local gentleman for his laundry pickup/drop off business. And yes, though about 75% original, (tires, valve jobs & such) the truck has almost half a million miles logged on it. The genetleman who owned it retired from the laundry business in the late 1980s... tells you how old he is.