Sixty8panther

@&$#%*!??! after all that talk of performance & weight savings it's an AUTO!?!?!? blasphemy!

So yeah... fu&k this, I'll get a Corvair HARDTOP or nothing and laugh at the pumps just like the guy in the Civic EX except my balls will be in my pants =, not in my wife's purse. Needs some serious TLC but I'm looking at this car tonight: http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/car/673553689.html

It's decided. Gas just hit $3.77 down the street today. Were getting raped without a reach around & there's not a damn thing we can do about it! The end of an era. I had three, four and sometimes even FIVE V8-powered cars in my fleet at one point just in the past few years... now I'm down to only three cars, and while they're all V8s that's got to change as my wife is on dissability right now due to her very difficult pregnancy. She's not going to receive any pay since she wasn't with the company long enough. Missed it by ten days. So as much as it kills me, I've got to let either the B-59 or Banana go, and that's like deciding between who is you favorite child... not cool. So I've decided to let both go. Here's my theory: Right now I have tow big HONKIN V8 powered 2-door POST sedans.... big V8s cost fuel economy... but hardtops in and of themselves do not. So maybe the solution is to downsize to a flat-6 and inline-6 car for Julie and I and mean time finally go for the Automotive jugular for my classic: PRE-WAR. Here's the long term goal for the latest fleet changeover: Julie's daily driver: sell '92 RoadmQnster ----> buy '80s or '90s BMW 3-sedan or possibly (I hope) a MB 300CE 2-dr hardtop My daily driver: '77 CDV sell "Banana Boat" ----> buy 1960s Chevrolet Corvair Classic Toy: fix up & sell "B-59" LeSabre ----> buy one of my three "realistic" dream cars: 1. 1959 Buick Hardtop 2. 1961 Cadillac hatrdop 3. pre-war car... mid-1930s GM or maybe a pre-war Mopar like the '37 Dodge in this thread -------> http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums/index...c=23804&hl=

Heard about it on Opie & Antony... hilarious. At 13 years old, if I had scored a hooker, I will tell you RIGHT NOW I;d be doing something very different than playing X-box!

The truth is out there.... just start paying attention. I started observing this with my college friends years ago, then I befriended XP and SP and a few other local car guys and I get txt messages DAILY about "my theory". The other day at the local AutoZone SP saw not one but TWO Toyopet drivers hop a curb. Have I done something stupid like that before? Sure. But what are the chances that two people would do it in the same day and BOTH would drive a Toyota. Again, I AM adjusting for the fact that Toyotas are more plentiful than any other car in my area... they are everywhere but it's still a disproportionately LARGE percentage that are driven by clueless retards who deserve to own nothing with a GVWR higher than a Segway. That's why I made the per caRpita joke, a few of you obviously did not read that part of my last post. If 20% of the cars on the road are Toyota... but six out of ten bad drivers you observe on the road are in a Toyota, Lexus or Scion, it does NOT take a math wizzard to figure out that it is a clear indication of Toyopets being driven, on average by people of inferior driving skills.* * lets pretend it is that high, but it;s probably closer to 12% But this is a very rudementary example of the breakdown: 20% toyota 10% honda 15% GM 15% ford 15% chrysler 10% german makes 10% other japanese 5% "other" XP: Braindead is a good example. I remember the story of the dome lights.

I gots a flickr account, not hard to look me up.

I love Maine, and there's plenty of awesome people in Maine and things I like about the state/residents/locales/visitor traps... but I gave also met the kind of people XP is referring to.... that aside this guy is a blatant retard. He deserves a slap and/or kick in the balls.

I love classic Chevys but 70% of the time, even back in the 1950s and esp. in the '60s and '70s Pontiac had a better styled and often times, better performing car for a very modest premium. The twin port, double/split air damn/grille/scoop thing, big, bold & beautiful chrome beaks & wrap-around bumpers are reason enough to buy a Pontiac over a Chevrolet, what with most Chevys having that much more cheap-looking bland grille.

Fu*%in' awesome. The guy sounded like a Mime choking on a croissant when he saw the Vette pass him like a bullet. (yes that was a subtle French joke)

It's true, per car-pita (yes I know there's a LOT of Toyotas out there) Toyota drivers are the most absent minded, clueless, most out of touch with reality, most non-enthusiast and in some rare cases even blatantly rude of the bunch. Yes there's a lot of good people drivng Toyotas but on average in my experience (90% of my driving being Mass & N.H.) I would say at LEAST 55/60% of dangerous, awkward or otherwise bad driving experiences are the result of a Toyota car/suv. Not so much the pickups but they too partake. I hope to God that 55-60% of the cars on today's roads are not Toyopet, Sigh-on or Lexi. I think the number would be closer to 15-20% depending on the town you are in. That's depressing enough! Where do I begin.........................? 1.) You are aware of my point [bad drivers gravitate towards toyota] and are just being an A$$. No one buys a Toyota or SUV or a Riced Civic or for that matter a musclecar without that purcahse, to at least a small degree, reflecting who they are/want to be preceived as. 2.) YOU have no place to talk... NONE. You used to beat to death this concept of 3rd gen. F-body = Mullett & asshole diver. Didn't you once have a whole thread about how you hate 3rd gen. F-bodys and they should all be crushed, esp. the Firebirds/Trans Ams & IROC-Zs because of ONE experience with a neighborhood kid who drove his 3rd gen. around your neighborhood obnoxiously and did burnouts & smokeshows at 3:00am keeping you up??? You have time and time again stereotyed cars/drivers on this forum? 3. You bought a Toyota Camry-Solara after totalling your Saturn, and shortly after totalled it in a ROLLOVER and then went on this forum to tell us about it.... except you could not even explain how exactly it was you made the car go shiny-side-down!? So, how can I say this politely? .....How 'bout a cup of STFU?

A good buddy at work and fellow pre-war car fan (esp. Buick) got hit by a dumb lady in a Highlander... but he was on his "beater" bike, a late 1970s Honda. Damn near got killed. He said the lady in the Toyota NEVER looked, beeped his horn not once but twice as she ran the stop sign, braced for impact & then 3sec. later he had a bent fork, fu&$ed up hand/wrist/leg/arm not to mention a host of other injuries & damage to the bike. Sooooo fu#%ing typical of a Toyota owner. If you walk into a Toyota dealership chances are you should really be buying a buss pass, economy pack of metemucil &/or extra-absorbent depends. (not to make light of bladder control) Let the Toyopet bashing begin!

Ever stop to think... and forget to start again?

jDepends on the vehicle: I bet if you shoehorned a 3800SC into a Yamaha crotch rocket it would get 25-40 MPG but on the other hand a 3800 NA powering a breadtruck full of lead bricks at 80mph with a poweglide would get about 4-7 MPG. Hope that helps.

I hate W-bodys but I have no problem with my PUSHROD V8 powered, 4-speed shifted RWD BOF cars!

It's a topsy-turvy world out there....

WOW! Thanks B.V. that's a right good deal, too bad it's so far away. And yes, I do need to clean out my inbox.

Wow... a V16 Duesenberg SSJ would mean 64 valves & two crank-driven superchargers!

What about Mary Kay?

new sig time...

Yeah, those are all common quirks to owning a cheap beater. Balance your tires... (once you have four decent ones) I participate in "$5/tire-on-steel-rim day" at the local junkyard quite often so I payed $20 for all for of my almost matching winter tires on the Roadmaster. That's even cheaper than balancing a set of four around here. You have to embrace owning a beater dude, exhaust leaks requiring tac-welds are a commonplace thing for a car you buy for a couple hundred bucks. At the end of the day the little G-body 2dr gets you from point A to B, right?

CapriceMan: I can appreciate your point. For the record the Cord 810 was LATE thirties (as opposed to the late twenties Cord L29) & the Austin Mini was 1959.

Good example...the W-body GP, Intrigue, Impala & Regal, as lame as they were in many ways *cough*FWD*cough-cough!* they had their own 100% distinct looks to a larger degree than most unrelated modern cars.

What a sad f***ing day. An AWD Cimarron-wagon? No thanx! Why don't I just buy a Geo Tracker & dry-wall screw an SRX grille to it?!

In most cases (flips to make $$$ aside) I'd take a 4dr hardtop over a ragtop.