Sixty8panther

Unimogs are cool. Hino trucks are disgusting. For those not in agreement... whatever but I think that the HINOs are the ugliest & most poorly (stylistically) designed trucks EVER. Z28LVR: Yes agreed. NO continuity. WMJ: That Euclid is HOT! See that's a dynamic design. Form follows function is beautiful when done right.

Yup... If I ever buy a post-WWII FWD car there's like a 99% chance it will be a Razorback. Always admired them but having gotten a few rides in XP's bronze-boat & also having had an opportunity to drive it on one occasion I can say that these cars are awesome. While FWD they do have a longitudinally mounted motor & the chain driven 400TH is quite an engineering feat in and of itself. Like Balth said, you can spend hours soaking in all the compound curves, creases & sharp edges of this design. If there's ONE post-war design that I can say makes up for the *cough* blunder of FWD this is it. Someway if I own a car collection of about 130 vehicles I'll have three or four FWD ones. And a mighty gorgeous 500-powered Razorback with the '68 nose will share garage space with a coffin nosed Cord 810 & a diesel '80 Bustleback.

Fine... x-out Streisand... substitute Michael Jackson post-1998.

1907 Oldsmobile commercial truck: AWWWWWW-SUM! 1923 Ford Model-TT pickup: Pretty damn cool for a Ford, nice pre-war dinosaur. 2008 Hino light duty truck: (chassis) UGLIER than Barbara Streisand. It's even worse in the flesh... a profile shot would make you gouge your eyes out! This is something that irks the $hit out of me. More and more and MORE Hinos are showing up on new england roads these days. Many local salvage yards/towing companies have bought Hinos for roll-back truck duty and they are showing up in large numbers as delivery trucks. Laundry services, meat packing plants & even occasionally as flat-bed haulers. I personally think that upright COE/bus style windshield combined with the raked nose of a Freightliner/International is sinfully grotesque. Never mind that big pig-nose & awkward design on the WHOLE fascia. Anyone else with me here? I can't look at these trucks without fear of puking. Why does everything Toyota touches turn so FUGLY? Hino, Subaru, Diahatsu... seriously!? 90* completely VERTICAL windshields do not belong on ANYTHING this side of the early 1930s UNLESS it's a BUS, or perhaps a very flat nosed cab-over-engine design. I mean seriously the damn subway cars o the Boston Green Line have a rake to their windshields these days.

Yeah I like the more traditional 1980s-2003 style ones.

I've owned 25+ year old BOF junkbox beaters that had rotted body mounts, rotted floors, rottted wheel wells, rotted/rusted through lower door panels/rockers/rear quarters & all sorts of other rust issues but I've never heard/seen anything this bad in any vehicle, including those lightweight (& cheap) Datsun/Isuzu/Mazda/Toyota pickups from the 1970s.

O.B. I for one liked a lot about the last gen. Grand Am, if only in GT form. The raspy 3.4 ram air, stiff chassis & unique interior (yes even the dash hood that reminded of tits) was a nice change from the status quo that was the late 90s... lets not forget when that car showed up in showrooms in the fall of 1998 Chevrolet's Malibu was nothing but a Camry-clone (even Chevy admitted that flat out) and the top of the line Chevrolet, their flagship was the pathetic LUMINA.

Yeah... I like 'em stock too... maybe aftermarket rims/snow tires for the winter though.

I did look at the A-pillar angle but it seemed like it might just be the angle of the camera... (or wide angle lens?) That is quite a sexy interior. Agreed about the skirts, that's why I decided to get rid of mine the first day I owned my '59 Buick.

Very cool, I've seen a '64 "nomad" like this once, didn't realize they're THAT rare... 2700? holy cow!

I'm not a fan of cigarettes... it's a gross habit. I have been known to enjoy a good cigar from time to time and for a short time used to enjoy "alternative tobacco" if you get my drift...

1930 Cadillac V16 being flogged durring high speed testing, before it was stripped out in the guise of a '60s hot rod.

Seen one of these 6-wheeler Toro-limos on Ebay, though I think it was a diff. M.Y. I think this is quite retarded mostly the FWD drivetrain. This is actually an even lamer/stupider case of FWD coachbuilding than modern FWD Deville/DTS hearses. My $0.02 = (though the skylight roof is quite cool, reminds of the SantaFe double decker trains & Flxible skyview buses)

That's what I was thinkin... almost HAS to be '58, def. not later than '60.

Balthazar: What year/trim Pontiac is that interior.... I'd guess '59 Bonneville but that does not seem correct. From the wrap around whidshield it almost HAS to be a '59/'60... right? Here's a very sexy customised '59 Bonneville, the stance is too low but otherwise it's HOT!!! http://www.rodandcustommagazine.com/featur...nd_figures.html

So since when is the G6 RWD? (3rd paragraph)

Whatever... if GM just made a hardtop they can put three freekin' corny emblems on each panel, these days emblems do not leave holes like back in the 50s/60s/70s so I can always just peel them off & toss them. Now as far as cheesy oversized stickers those are more hassle but a good heat gun and a few minutes with a credit card will take care of those.

Even more impressive than this super blow-by-blow narrated photo montage was my visit to Balthazar's house in the fall of 2005. His garage was full of many amazing wonders. Pontiac 8-lug drums just sitting in a box, B-59 parts on shelves, Buick & Pontiac memorabilia hanging up on walls & dozens upon dozens of "what the heck is THAT?" items. I managed to talk Balth into letting me lighten his Automotive packrat burden by donating an antique pre-war car jack... (my Automotive packratness has reached epic levels) and I took a few photos of the B-59 which was laid out like a life sized version of a half-finished AMT 1:25th scale model. Also in the garage was a menacing & fascinatingly awesome 1940 Ford truck, but not some run-of-the-mill pickup like every farmer was driving in the 1940s... this is a COE and Balth has some very cool plans for it as a rat-rod. The 1963 Pontiac Grand Prix (black hardtop, 8-lugs) I forget weather it's got the 389 or the 421 but in any case it's just chillin' under a tarp, inside its gorgeous interior time stands still... the garage keeps the cancerous rust at bay and I'm confident someday the car will get the attention and care it deserves. Then there's the 4-dr post Catalina sitting in the weeds, a victim of a dumb deer... I'm sure Balth can tell some of those stories when the sage of the B-59 is updated.

Swampcooler huh? seems like a good idea. There's another example of good 'ol yankee ingenuity giving us a better example than modern technology... I bet a well built swamp cooler is much more energy efficient than some "enegry star appliance" AC. I too think that Red Cat awning is the $h!, I'd love to install it on a 1929 Duesenberg.

You have a sporadic case of Know-it-all-ism... We all told you to stay away from that moneypit but you were too busy telling people (in some cases twice your age) that you had a handle on things... and you're doing it again witht he Cutty. Stuborn Youth.

& here's a few recent photos of the Banana Boat with its new CHiMSL from a 90s STS (I've got like 7 of these things in the barn) I have not driven the poor B-59 as of late since I have not even started to work on the head gasket/carb./fire damage repairs. I have taken a few photos of it in the car port, just chillin' like a villain and awaiting some much needed TLC.

- 2009 blood-red Tin Indian G-VIII Gran Turismo. (that's the only new car that I've seen that I actually care about, - except for that raven black '08 CTS Now for the eye candy... these are from the past few months since I've been slacking on posting them: '29? Model A... pretty cool for a Ford. '41 Chevy... daily driven in the summer That '39 Nash I recently mentioned This Impala 2dr hardtop caught my eye the other day. This Buick made me sad.... it is one of about a dozen classics I discovered in a farmer's field about a month ago. What is it with the Fords... people just LOVE mediocrity in their classics I guess. This is a wicked cool mostly original truck but I'd much rather have a Chevy or GMC anyday. This is what I'm going to be driving if the scumbags in Washington let gas get out of hand... I'll park my classic car & drive a 1960s "Porsche Rabbitt" Small world.... this is a '79 SEDAN deVille that lives 3 miles away from me, and old couple drive it a few times a week. It's not quite as spiffy as my '77 CVD though, the sedan has a tan interior which just kind of pales in contrast to a white one.

Plain-Jane & uninspired styling has aged poorly... what a difference those quad-circular tail lights & other subtle differences like the sleek roofline make in the coupe. This car is very bland and the coupe is also starting to look dated but the TURBOCHARGED four should make for an awsome sport-compact!!! A styling refresh and some less generic wheels would make this car put the smackdown on anything in Honda's "sport-compact" stable $-per-$.