Sixty8panther

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So true. I myself used to get into violent fights with arrogant professors who insisted on the validity of the "service based economy" and kept trying to feed me happy horse$h! about Clinton-omics.

Amen.

As a foreigner with crappy spelling skills people who screw up the possessive/contracted "you're/your" drive me crazy. Also "They're vs. Their vs. There." So many times I have to bite my tongue because I want to say "English is my 2nd language & I can get it straight!"

Not a war machine... but it was commissioned by an infamous NAtionalist Zocialist leader. The OTHER celebrity was a Mercedes Benz engineer who went on to found his OWN company. The 44.5 liter displacement is the best clue.

When I casually remark sometimes "I'd love a BMW 328" most people probably think I'm taking about some 2005 4-door sedan but I'm actually refering to one of these GORGEOUS classics. Thanks for sharing Hudson, I learned quite a bit, it's very interesting how the car ended up in the hands of the founder of MiG aircraft. The irony is epic. BMW manufactured aircraft motors for WW1 & WW2 (Mostly Radial Air Cooled motors) BMW powered FW190s & Ju88s battle the handsome but inferior MiG-3s & subsequent variants in Operation Barbarossa & the resulting retreat & the founder of MiG Aircraft gets one of the most beautiful & significant BMWs of all time as his personal "War Reperation" ? Bizzaro World.

I've got a few antiques... pictures are worth a thousand words so I'll post a few pics. as I come across & photograph them. If I could have ONE heirloom from my family back in Slovakia it would be my Grandfathers' 1930s Mercedes Benz Light Duty truck. He bought it at a time when there was no such thing as a "car loan" so he had to mortgage his house that he built with his OWN two hands (with the help of his family). Then WWII started and a dark cloud descended upon Europe. From 1939 to 1945 the Germans came and went but NEVER bothered my family. Our town was lucky to not have been targeted by any hostility by the SS or otherwise.... the typical German foot soldier was polite & did not harass the Slovakian population. The in the spring of 1945 the Russian (Soviet) Communist soldiers drove the Germans across our valley and a "RED" (Soviet) soldier stopped my grandfather and stole his truck at gunpoint. My grandfather was a civilian, he shipped fruits & vegetables from the local farms to the big cities. He was nothing more than a 1930s European version of some independant trucker here in the USA today with a Peterbilt 388 & a load of Apples or Lettuce or Watermellons. And yet he was told he would be shot if he didn't surrender his personal property to the "Liberating Communists". Saddly, this was just the begining of the cold, cruel, tyranical rule or the Soviet Communists over our country. If that truck still exists (very unlikely) and if I had the financial means I'd pay ANYTHING to have it back!

Congrats. Should get you a few MPGs better than the ASStek.

Damn, thank god there was no cameraman in the dyno-room to get hosed with hot oil & bombarded with shrapnel.

How about instead of making immigration laws such a hot topic to divide & conquer the masses if those useless windbags in Washington got off their asses & tackled more pertinant issues: 1. Bringing back manufactiuring jobs to the USA 2. Stopping or at least slowing the out-sourcing epidemic 3. Increasing the GDP 4. National Security 5. Enforcing the laws that DO exist on illegal immigration

I'm a conservative in the sense that these days I call myself a Libertarian. As such I am disgusted at any and all attempts at big government to chip away our civil liberties. Those worried about losing their civil liberties these days should be far more concerned with the Far-Leftists who are running this country and are willing to rip the heart & soul of our great nation only to replace it with Marxist/Socialist/Communist ideals & non-methodology.

Wow... a job well done. There's nothing like seeing the result of a ton of blood & sweat.

It is NOT a flying car. Three more clues: 1. nitrobenzene 2. 44.5 L 3. Autobahn

D87rs: Caddy? Do you mean the '59 Buick?

Reason #44109 why I buy mostly American & German cars.

I wish you the best of luck, I'd rather have a leg amputated than relive a particular visit to the dentist.

HUGE clue: It's a car, but it has WINGS, not tail fins, not a spoiler, WINGS. Also, the power stroke of its' cylinders fights gravity.

SAmadei: You've got too much time on your hands & you're over-annalyzing a silly ad. That being said: are you REALLY trying to paint insurance companies as the "victims"?

Here we go... this one should be a decent challenge: This car has 6 wheels, rear engine layout & a central driving position It was built using a one off, supercharged, fuel injected 12-cylinder, 48 valve motor Two major "celebrities" of the 20th century were involved in this vehicle's birth It's sleek styling resulted in an ultra low darag coefficient: 0.18 The car was to be introduced to the world in a spectacular propaganda event on television but it never came to fruition and it now lives in a museum.

Celebrity Jeopardy (SNL) Sean Connery: "Knock-Knock, Trebeck!" Alex Trebeck: (aprehensively) "Who's there Mr. Connery" SC: "uhhh... I forget the rest, but... Your mother is a whore!"

Carppy ISO setting on t he wife's Sony camera: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cadillac_v16/4523925933/ Snow Day: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cadillac_v16/4287095654/ Julie's BMW 735iL http://www.flickr.com/photos/cadillac_v16/3648327394/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cadillac_v16/3657164682/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cadillac_v16/3995889229/ More Mercedes Benz: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cadillac_v16/4069542054/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cadillac_v16/4202672881/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/cadillac_v16/4203421928/ And one to celebrate the slow painful death of Toyota: http://www.flickr.com/photos/cadillac_v16/4202351856/

Congrats, good to hear you're happy. That being said someday that 96 Fleetwood will be a coveted classic while the Envoy is just another SUV. Still, I do love those Atlas INLINE-6 motors.

Congrats! The Avalanche trully is a truck that OWNS it's segment, mostly because NOTHING like it exists. (aside from the uplevel Escalade EXT)

Also, another problem with Ford's Twin Beam front suspenion: they occasionaly just COLAPSE when the main pin snaps. I once helped my buddy Sean (the Krazy Korean) repair his friend's F-250's front Twin Beam & it involved a LOT of welding & swearing.