Sixty8panther

Cool. Congrats.

THAT F.B. wasting away in the junkyard is a crime against the Automotive world.

66: There's plenty of rust-buckets out here trust me. BTW: If there's someone here with an insatiable desire to own a nice semi-classic Fleetwood Brougham with a white leather interior & baby-blue exterior stay tunned, I'm going to take a look at a possible candidate today. The car just materialized in town at a local car lot the other day... no details yet.

You must be referring to the "happy village" Bonneville.

Yeah, seems like 70mph into a brick wall!? I wonder how the new "five star" cars would fare against that wall at that speed, better but not by much. Even if you're driving a Peterbilt 379 hitting large slabs of solid concrete is NEVER a good idea.

Pathetic. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7241909.stm Gotta love this kind of logic. How does all this air get compressed? By magic? I'm certain that no fossil fuels will be burned to that end...

Yup. Reason number 378,149,552 why I despise flimsy Hondas (the poster-child for weak unibody design) and why I love owning a large body-on-frame car that's built like a low-long-sleek truck.

66-Pony: I agree... in most cases I prefer manual transmissions for reliability, durrability & fun factor. That being said Ford sucks at transmissions. That is just a fact of life. Even my pampered '87 Cougar XR7, as awesome as it was, had a typical Metric trans issue that haunted me for a while. I just learned how to drive the car gentle and how to manually shift if into OD. Now a typical GM transmission from a truck or RWD vehicle... be it an old-school (two-speed) powerglide, TH350/TH400/700R4 or what have you is about as solid, smooth and reliable as they get. Remember at one point Rolls Royce, Jaguar, BMW & Mercedes all used automatic transmissions from GM in their big sedans!

VonVeez... My parents have owned a few formal rental car Pontiac Grand Ams, some of the weird problems that came about always made me wonder if it had anything to do with all the abuse the car takes as a rental.

WMJ has the right idea. Aaaaaaaaand that's why I'm rockin' a '77 Coupe deVille! The cheaper insurance, lack of a new car payment, availability of cheap parts (NOS/aftermarket & used) comfort, reliability & safety of these big boats is why they make more sense than a new car, esp. some of the newer crap that is way overpriced. I can't believe what people pay for a typical stupid mid-size sedan days. $30,000 for a FWD $h!box that's constructed like a piece of Japanese ore gamy? NO THANKS! But here's the REAL reason why I'd rather drive an older car than a new one.... because for $2000 or $3000 I can find/buy a clean, solid used RWD semi-"classic" that gives me MORE enjoyment than any other car, new or used for TEN times that! Other than possibly a new $55,000 Mercedes Benz CLK550 (V8) hardtop or perhaps a CTS-V for $50,000 I can't think of a cooler car than the Banana Boat or even more so, my B-59.

Sounds like you bought a "former-rental-car" special! My parents have driven the wheels off their 2005 Cobalt and they have reported no issue whatsoever, I think they have about 45K miles on theirs and they're HARD miles.

You see a rust hole/flake/bubble/spot anywhere on that '62 Special? There's plenty of solid cars out there... just gotta make the effort & find one, nothing in this life that;s worthwhile is free/effortless!

I've owned and driven at least five of every modern, mainstream American GM Brand except for GMC. (Saturn does NOT count, except for the SKY they're all useless) Chevrolet/Chevrolet truck Pontiac Buick Oldsmobile Cadillac I've driven a few SAABs, owned one I got for free but never got the s#itbox running. Only ever drove one Opel, a 2001 model year Astra 4dr hatch that I had in Slovakia as a rental car, FANTASTIC car (for a FWD econobox) by the way. Great trans/clutch good power from the usual 1.6 liter four banger and a very nice interior for the $. Holden, never even sat in one, '04/'05 GTO excluded... Vauxhall: nothing. Never even sat inside one. I've yet to own some of the COOLEST Brands from GM that most of you will not even think of... LaSalle, Okland, McLaughlin Buick and some of the fringe stuff like REO.

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Well, he failed to return several of my voice mails when he was still posting here like every 12 minutes so I've got NO idea why he's disappeared into thin air. I just hope and pray some Toyota Sequoia didn't crash & launch off a guard rail, rollover, land on the LeSabre's roof & crush poor Fly to death.

WOw, great deal... just don't crush the shell, someone can use it I'm sure. That's a darn good deal, a local junkyard is paying $250 for cars delivered with a catalitic converter... (drive it in or tow it) so that means even the cheapest $50 car around here has shot up to $300. I remeber when you had to PAY $50 to have a junkyard take a car away!

Wanna know the best part? I bought that Buick for $800.00 Seriously! That's why I call so many of you guys wimps for talking yourselves out of a classic car again & again. I bought a '62 Buick for eight bills, had a ton of fun driving it for a few days, installed a new ground wire for the headlights/highbeams, replaced 3 lightbulbs, one sealed-beam headlight, hard-wired in a 12v dual power outlet (cigarette lighter) for my cell phone & GPS chargers (remember it was my DAILY DRIVER) so that I could deliver Chinese Food in it at night and I also replaced a corroded stop-lamp switch, ($6) even though the old one just needed to be cleaned.... All told I spent about $30.00 on odds and ends, turned a few wrenches and screwdrivers and then traded the car for a truck worth easily double what I had invested the Buick, by the time XP cleans the Burban up and fixes a few cheap quirks he could flip that for $4000 too, although I hope he keeps it, being as awesome & rust free as it is! So explain to me why all you guys are so damn afraid of buying a car from the '60s or '70s? All the best cars were made when AM radio ruled, bias-plys were commonplace & Gray-haired Grandmas drove pea-soup green Pontiac hardtops with bench seats & three-on-the tree.

This guy is a REAL car guy... he's not some tool just in it for the money. His little dealership has more personality than some car museums I've been to... in his garage a Tri-five Chevy panel wagon was being restored while his truck inventory was quite expansive and mostly old school C/Ks with clean interiors. When I found this little Buick it had been sitting for about six months next to barn, waiting for someone to driver her again.... I put her back on the road and DROVE the car, figured out a few quirks & fixed them. By selling it to this guy it ENSURES the car will not be left to rot again.

My wife made a duct tape wallet back in the day, she's quite creative. I myself never have but you would not beleive the kind of stuff I've fixed with it...Also, s peaking of duct tape one of the times a photo of mine was published in a car magazine was in Car & Driver's top ten back in 1998 or so... it was a photo of a crashed Lincoln Conti Mk9 that was crashed, the bumper cover & fenders were pushed in & the hood was baddly missaligned, the lady used about 3 rolls of duct tape to make sure the hood would not fly open on the highway since the latch was broken. She was a witress at the local Ground Round. When I took the photo she was just walking up to her car and laughing about it, she turned red and said "what else can you do on the side of the road to make sure the hood stays shut?"

An '80s G-body is a GREAT choice... but I agree with XP, if you can try to find a nice '70s A-body.

Never even attempted to watch that one... seemed like it was Power Rangers cheesy.

Sweet Sedan KF: Suburban/Bonneville guy also has a rust free, tripple orange '79 Sedan deVille from California that had a low-end wrap, he's dropping in a SBC. I have found that there's nothing quite like an old school Caddy with a white leather interior... only thing that is a NEGATIVE about my CDV is the B-pillar. Someday, I hope to have an exact replica of Danny DeVito's '61 hardtop from that classic movie TIN MEN. That's the ULTIMATE "Banana Boat"!

I looooooved KnightRider when I was a kid. I was born in 1979, that show was THE coolest show of my childhood, bar none. I have the first season on DVD, own several collectbles... yes I'm a big fan. That being said this new 2008 show was garbage. KITT as a Mustang? F- Here's what KITT should have been, end of discussion. (the is a chop I did a while back)

XP: You need to get a Boat tail before they get way too expensive.

Over my DEAD body! One of my UPS co-workers saw my new ride (the '77 Coupe deVille) & said "you deliver Chinese food in THAT? you need a Honda..." I was so disgusted I just said "Only way I'd drive a Honda would be over a damn cliff" "My love is bigger than a Honda, it's bigger than a Subaru..." -Bruce Springsteen