Sixty8panther

This constitutes a "new" model...?

Great thread concept... my number is in the high 30s... BOLD: still own RED: Demolition Derby cars BLUE: Stored at my house, driven by me but never legally owned it GREEN: Parts Cars ------ 1994 Pontiac Sunbird Coupe (2.0) 1993 Oldsmobile Achieva S sedan 2.3 quad4 1987 Mercury Cougar XR7 5.0 (first car bought & registered by me so of course it was RWD!) 1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera 3.1 1997 Pontiac Grand Am SE 3.1 1968 Chevrolet Camaro "Sixty 8 Panther" (377 hp crate 350sbc) 1987 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham d'Elegance 307 1997 Cadillac STS, 300hp Northstar 1979 Ford Granada 2dr I6 1983 Pontiac Firebird T-top (crate 350sbc) 1991 Chevrolet Blazer S10 2dr, 4.3 V6, 5-speed 4x4 1990 Ford Probe 4-cylinder auto 1993 Buick Park Avenue (3. 1987 Chevrolet Nova sedan 5-speed 1993 Ford Escort 4dr hatchback, 5-speed 1992? Mercury Topaz, 4-cylinder 1990 Chevrolet Suburban (350, auto 4x4) 1986 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham 1990 Mazda 626 sedan, 4-cylinder 1984 Datsun Maxima (inline-6, 5-speed) 1994? Mazda 626 sedan, 4-cylinder 1979 Cadillac Coupe deVille, 425 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme 1983 Volvo 240 sedan (2.3 auto) 1988 Chevrolet K5 Blazer 4x4, 350sbc 1970 Cadillac Coupe deVille "Mr. Death" 1997 Infiniti Q45 (ex still has it) 1964 Oldsmobile Super 88 4dr hardtop, 394 1974 Lincoln Continental Limousine, Melone 2' stretch (460) 1979 Chevrolet 1500 reg. cab, short-bed, (250, auto) 1987 Mercury Topaz GL sedan, (2.3, 5-speed) 1984 Datsun Maxima (inline-6, 5-speed) "with sunroof" 1959 Buick LeSabre 2dr sedan 1977 Cadillac Coupe deVille, 425 1976 Buick LeSabre 4-dr, Hardtop (455-4bbl) 1994 Buick Roadmaster Estate (LT1) 1971 Cadillac Sedan deVille hardtop (472)

Yup... there's a Volvo T5 in our servise dept. RIGHT now with 20 snapped valvestems due to a ripped timing BELT. One of the valvestems is MELTED into the top of the piston. This will be the 4,832,675th time I say this: Why the F*** would you use a rubber band where a METAL timing chain should be!?!?

Mustang84: I see you corrected your Miles/KM discrepancy. Daves87: Yes indeed, 2.0 is right, I was merely trying to say that it was NOT the beefier 2.8 liter V6.

+1 But B.V. it's just as retro!

Sorry..... please return to your regularly scheduled fixin' of $h!ty modern cars.... no style, no substance, just the same old $h!. I bet in 2002 there was more than one Mopar guy accused of beating to death his complaints of FWD boring jelly-bean sedans. I like to rock the boat. If no one rocked the boat we would not have EVER had a (C5) 1997 Corvette, Kappas would be just a whimsical story told by GM reps of what could have been, in a parallel universe.... & you can bet your sorry ARSE that Zetas would NOT EXIST!

Not yet but I'm workin' on it. My chances are VERY good with Julie.... with Marcia it was always that carrot at the end of the rope.

Yes I HAVE seen broken down Toyotas... just saw a broken down 2ng gen. Avalon (wrong-wheel-drive, non-I6 Cressida) the other day!

Oh.... and back in 2003 I almost bought a 1994 Cadillac STS (white diamond) with 288K miles. Earlier this year I came close to buying a rusty & beat up 1983 Mercedes Benz 240D, 4-cylinder diesel, 4-speed manual trans. with just over 1/4 million miles but for a MB diesel of that vintage that's actually relatively LOW milage. SP's friend Polish Rob has a 1994? Blazer K5 that looks to be in perfect cosmetic shape and is in great mechanical condition except for the broken sway bar, it has well over 330K miles. A co-worker has put over 600K miles collectivelly on his two Astro vans, one he sold at 330K still running & drivng and the otehr got totalled at 270+ by a drunk driver. Julie's friend Kelly had a Beretta (2.8 V6/5-speed) that went over 300K miles before she sold it to some college kid. Aaaaaaaaaand cue Dodgefan and his Shaddow story:

One time at the Chevy dealer I used to work at (Chevrolet of Lowell) we had a customer come in with a gold Cavalier sedan, it was a 1985 IIRC and it had just over 1/4 of a million miles! 2.2 I4/auto. All original. It had the type of rust in the rear wheel wells that occurs in most Hondas at 80-100K miles.

That's just BAD P.R. right there on the UFO's part.... Look at all that heat/emissions/CO coming off the after-burners! That's a major contributor to global warming & the hole in the ozone right there, that's what that is! Someone call up Al Gore.

Wow.... that's ALMOST Cadillac V16 cool!!!!

That Riviera was a 1972. It was MINT!!! Beautiful inside & out. French guy owned it, (slight accent so I asked) he's had the car for about 7 years, he just finished the restroration. He offered to trade it straight up for the 2006 Corvette (manual, coupe) we have with 15K miles, I was tempted to say "uhhh.... sure" give him the keys to the late-model Chevy & take off the in the Rivi. Others today: - 1970 Buick GSX in saturn yellow... at Autozone w/ the hood up. - 1949? DeSoto 4-dr in battleship gray - 1965 Mustang notchback hardtop in burgundy :yawn: - 1967/8 Mustang ragtop in baby blue/white roof - 1954 Chevrolet Corvette, 99% original (but I see it everyday, it's on the 3rd floor) - 1960 Oldsmobile Super-88 four door hardtop "flattop" in white (ex-neighbor's) - 1973 Mercury Cougar hardtop in red (have not seen this gen. Cougar in 6+ years) not the car I saw but to illustrate the bodystyle: -

1/2 hour ago in front of the Cadillac showroom...

Coldplay.... clocks

Dodgefan: Cool.... different. BBQZ28: I also had a 19-sixty-8 Chevrolet that left the factory "Ash Gold". It was my namesake '68 Camaro built in Van Nuys, Calif. in August of 1967. underneath a dozen re-paints (mostly Macco) was the original ash gold.

I can not disclose more.... at this time.

That's one thing I LOVE about Julie... she's got a pretty "modern" mindset.

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c67_1186270976 The guy in the background is funny: Oyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyooyyyyy!!!!! Anyway some of those Euro-compact RWD pocket rockets seem like fun little Rally cars.

If you do not beleive in Aliens you should take a look at my Green Card. Anyway that F150 test video below is even MORE scary!!! Love the CGI on the flying hubcap video.

SP: I can't beleive you forgot about this one... my personal favorite. Written using my right hand while steering with my right at about 75mph somewhere between Connecticut & New Jersey. "This is a Fly-by-night operation"

T-minus 3 minutes: Mass-Penn LeSabre Roadtrip. Here's the Turbo Daytona @ Camino's house. Aaaaand here's a new sig.

PCS: Dude, seriously... don;t beleive everything you hear. IF you did it and ALSO rewired both cars etc... on paper sure it's possible but I'm pretty sure you can file that with the cell phone gas station fire urban legend.

Um not only do I remembner the thread with the pics. but it erupted into another thread where most fans of modern cars were saying "so what... it's a B-pillar?!" and "who cares"... well the B-pillar is ugly and I DO CARE as will many Challenger customers. I think it may be another case of a real world focus group thing.... make people think you will dumb down the product, after all any publicity is better than NO publicity, right? it gets the internety buzzing and then in the end you deliver the product and come out smelling like roses! IOf the Challenger & Camaro come out with B-pillars I will be distusted & shocked... I might just NEVER buy a new car ever! Or I'll buy a gently used 2006-ish Mercedes CLK.

Before I even knew such a brand as Cadillac existed, before I was aware that GM was the biggest (& BEST ) Automotive manufacturer in the world, as a kid living in Eastern Europe I saw a picture of TWO Bustlebacks when my mother visited the USA in 1985. It was in the parking lot of Lechmere in Dedham, Mass... in August of 1985 and one was gold and the other was baby blue my mother loved those cars and had my dad take a picture of the two of them side by side, that would be the first American car I'd become obsessed with as a kid after drooling over Porsches, BMWs and other European exotics. It's a personal thing.