Sixty8panther
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My Diesel Mercedes is screaming for dear life @ 85mph. Seriously. My old tripple silver 1986 Cadillac with 185K miles would see 110mph almost every week on my business trips to Hartford, CT. Those big old Cadillacs are geared super-highway... to save fuel, but it comes in handy if you like the fast lane. That Cadillac averaged 15-18mpg and yet my average speed on the highway would be in the high 80s.
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Now if we're talking Torana vs. Avenger, well Pontiac would totally kick ass!!! The Avneger is awkward and a silly caricature of the Charger with ubber overhang. Besides being vastly superior due to its RWD/RWB-AWD the Torana is sexy as hell.
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Balthazar: Hmmmm, that newly opened junkyard sounds absolutely mouth watering. The year is not over yet. I promissed to make a valiant effort to come down there w/ my B-59. You... never... know.
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Which one is getting a RWD conversion first? -
It's been pretty steady here... they're quite common, as compared to Bentley Continental GTs.
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-----> Julie's new Mercedes Benz
Sixty8panther replied to Sixty8panther's topic in Member's Rides Showcase
LOL, true that. That's what happens when you daily drive on bias-plys. I'm just a hair under 59,000 miles in the B-59. I got it in April with just over 53,900 and keep in mind I've also owned like six other cars this year: the twin Datsun, 97 Infiniti, 77 Banana Boat, BiCentenial LeSabre, RoadMonster Estate, F.B. & I daily drove the '71 Murder Car for most of July & August. Saddly my current financial situation has not allowed for those much needed Radial tires I've been planning on. -
I'd take any old beat up '63 split-window coupe over this!
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While researching how to make Julie's Mercedes a vegetarian I happened upon a blog where some hippie girl was saying she sold her Prius to buy a MB diesel so she could convert it to run on on WVO and therefore WALK the WALK, ulike her Toyota which she had realised after her purchase was all green TALK and no action...
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They're different cars, nothing says one or the other has to suck, different strokes for different folks. I agree with Fog & DF, the Charger looks like it's going to a knife-fight, the Pontiac is more of a white-collar muscle car. Reg: I despise that kind of redneck analogy, I think guys who keep their balls in their wife's purse and therefore drive a Camry or Taurus are the people who perpetuate it...
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I was expecting a bobble-head Lutz.
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Yeah, esp. considering where the St. Therese plant was located...
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Funny Stuff. Most of today's motorcycles have more oomph than a Metro. Still for super fuel ecoomy you can;t beat those little turd-buggers.
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No $hit Sherlock! Congrats Capt. Obvious. Free trade is one of the biggest problems with the USA today.
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Awwww-some! GM should set an example by not producing any FWD cars period for Pontiac, Buick, & esp. Cadillac. For Chevrolet FWD should be limited to the Cobalt & subcompact cars.
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And you thought Qashqai was a bad name
Sixty8panther replied to Farkas's topic in Site News and Feedback
Those made my pregnant wife want to puke, more than usual. Talk about BLATANT rebadging. -
-----> Julie's new Mercedes Benz
Sixty8panther replied to Sixty8panther's topic in Member's Rides Showcase
That plate is "on loan" to XP, I got it at the junkyard off an old-man-special Mercury Grand Marq. with a bunch of gawdy acccessories. It readds: I heart: vacations wekends & paydays I've got a good pic. of it somewhere... or search for BIG RED since I installed it on that car and almost every photo I have ever posted here has that plate on the front. -
DF: You deliver Pizza for a living... enough said. That's about as stop-n-go & idle all day as it gets.
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Some facts requested by the many knowledgeable members
Sixty8panther replied to Intrepidation's topic in The Lounge
Still true today... they are not allowed to be worked on by any bodyshop other than a Toyota delership. Woah, is this true? The battery packs cost like $6,000 -
BV: Converting a sedan to a hardtop is a little more tricky than upgrading a stereo.....well it used to be anyway.,
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BV: Converting a sedan to a hardtop is a little more tricky than upgrading a stereo.....well it used to be anyway.,
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If I had some I would have used them when I still owned the Banana Boat, now that it's your car the priority of finding a few was put on the back burner.
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If I was not a hard-core GM guy I;d say it's a dead draw between the G8 & Charger. I hate the name "G8 GT", which is why I call it a "Catalina" or "Grand Prix SJ" to be funny... except for the alphanumeric name & somewhat more "status quo" styling I love the G8 about as much as I can love a pillared sedan. BTW: I was one of the ones who hated the Charger's styling at first but it has won me over and now, when I see a black SRT-8 I just stare & drool.
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Some people on this forum get their panties all in a bunch over stupid things like the texture of the dashboard grain, gaps in the airbag & center console and even radios & a few HVAC buttons. I personally would buy a car with or without a radio if it was the right product...
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I'm sick of hearing the phrase: "It's a toyota, so you know the engine will run forever..." Even if that were true, which it is NOT, the typicl Toyoya around here in New England rusts out quicker than ANY other brand, save for perhaps Honda. And besides, there's more to moving down the road than just your motor, the crappy trans, flimsy ball joints and sludged up oil pump may cause a few problems.
