Sixty8panther

I've had this idea for a while, a thread about the different smells of classic cars. Every one of my "classic" cars has had a different smell. The 68 Camaro, 64 Olds, 59 Buick, even the 70s junk I've had... they all have a very distinct smell to them, I'd say my favorite is the Super 88's interior. It's devine. The seats & rugs all smell like a million dollars. It still smells NEW, if 2007 new cars smelled this good they'd suck a lot less. Any cars you've owned that smelled good? Can you tell the differance between a 1930/1940/1950/1960/1970 car? How about GM versus Mopar versus FoMoCo? One of the most depressing things about a fully restored car is much of that smell is gone forever. Sitting in the 1964 Buick Wildcat 4dr hardtop the other day when I went to the Junkyard (XP & Dodgefan were along) was so satisfying. It's such a intoxicating aroma.

Yes, very true about start-up noise for the stuff mentioned. Back in the day I owned a couple of GM cars with the 12 valve 3.1 V6s, those have a distinct sound too... but who cares? New stuff is all generic, there's not much sound in today's cars anyway. The real story is all the old school stuff. Ever heard a GTO's Tri-Power 389 going down a dragstrip? Or how about a true DZ302 powered, cross ram 1969 Camaro Z/28 at high RPMs? It's a sound one can never forget. A Cadillac 472 or 500 also makes a very special sound when echoing inside the fenders of a early 1970s car? With some cars it's the LACK of sound that makes 'em so special. Ever heard a super-quiet 1940s car with a 7.0:1 compression motor? Course you haven't, that's the point!

Gorgeous. Thanks for sharing. The entire existance of the U.S. of A. is just a blink of an eye compared to the history contained within those walls. It must be amazing to see it all in person, I can only imagine.

They may be quicker by a split sec. 0-60mph but if you buy an automatic Sky or Solstice you probably do not understand what the car is all about.

That IS a Yaris. They're smaller than the ads make them look.

Hehehe... you know what's funnier than that O.B. is when we went to get the Christmas Wreath for Big Red. Marcia was off at some girly-friend's house and it was like 6:00pm on a Fri. night. We hopped in Datsun 1 and off we went. After we bought the wreath, XP I are driving away & we joked about how the guy at the tree farm stand was probably thinking "the gays can adopt now?" Or perhaps look at that "alternative couple" with their cute daughter.

I love it. From the nose to the profile and from the interior to the rims. That instrument cluster is obviously an attempt to one-up the Camaro concept. No doubt. I'm glad BMW is coming to a good design direction again, if I was to make fun of this deisgn howver, I could do this:

Car Crash Awsome! Good for her. Great way to excersise the 2nd Amendment. No one is hurt in the process but the message is clear as a bell.

Balthazar: As I've said before, one of the things that pushed me over the edge and convinced me that I HAD get a 1959 Buick was your Avatar on this forum. The "Angry All Seeing Eye" as I call it. Still have it right clicked on one of my hard-drives. Now that you mentioned getting flashed, although that has not happened yet a girl in the back of some blue '94-7 Accord whipped out a big sign that said "SINGLE?" and then flipped it so it said her phone number. I had Sofia in the B-59 and XP was with me so I just pointed at Sofia & mouthed "what do you think?" Mustang 84: Yeah... I love '59 Cadillacs but not as much as '59 Buicks. Hell even Pontiacs & Imperials would be higher on my list of personal 1959 favorites. Seems there's 100 Caddys for every one of '59 Buick, Imperial & Pontiac.

....French Poodles perk up cock their head to the side. It's so much fun owning this car. Everyone stares at it, old men & women with arthritis stand up and work through the pain to tell me their personal stories of 1959 Buicks or 1957 Buicks or 1949 Chevys. So far I've averaged about two conversations with strangers every time I've taken out the car, & the Datsun has not moved a mile in the past two weeks. Yesterday I had a short interesting conversation with the G/F's Grandmother's neighbor about the Buick... then I got a hearty thumbs up and air horn from a truck driver in a red Peterbilt 379 with high rise smoke stacks. But then, after picking up Sofia at her daycare I pull out onto the road and drive past a yuppie woman walking her black French Poodles (those silly skinny ones with those stupid looking pom-poms all over the place) and the dogs stop dead in their tracks when they hear me approaching, turn around and stare at the car as the owner stands, slack jawed & stupified. That made my day. Now I have to get a pre-war pickup.

Good, that just leaves MORE cool domestics for the rest of us.

Dear Lord. I want that 1919 Wood Carved Hearse! That's a Ford worthy of a climate controled garage. That's definatelly the pick of the litter, although if there's one car that can come close that 1940 Packard is it. I'd drive the wheels off that Packard if I owned it the only time I'd ever sell a mint 1940 Packard would be to buy a early 1930s car, esp. a V16. I wonder how much they're going to sell that Packard for?

Yeah, I think so. Wasn't there a yellow 1977 Buick LeSabre 4dr in the first Children of the Corn? I've always loved those, but let's get real this one has a 455 and it's a 4dr hardtop. On the other hand even a 1976 is kind of too "modern" for my tastes but a pre-war car is not in the cards right now. I have to slow down, my mind gets ahead of my wallett all too often. Also, there's a chance that I will trade my B-59 LeSabre sedan for a B-59 LeSabre flattop (hardtop) from Arizona. I put the idea out there on B-59.com and there's a collector who wants my car pretty bad and he's got a 1959 LeSabre 4dr hardtop that he's bored with but it's a black Arizona car. Match made in heaven. But here's the cool part: HE will do all the legwork to get the car, he said he'll fly out here to look at my B-59, then he'll pay to fly me out to look at his B-59 and if we're both OK with the deal he will drive up to Hershey in the fall with the car on a trailer & we'll make the switch. I guess he's in the airline industry so he is being more than fair. If I can get a Flattop 1959 in black in the same condition as mine without any financial loss what so ever than why the heck not? I love my 2dr but hardtops are MY thing. I'll do it. Also the only offers he's getting on his B-59 are from Europe so if I don;t trade him for his B-59 it might not stay in the USA. That's a win/win/win scenario, I'll keep you guys posted.

I wanna see that on tape!!!

Cool. Have fun and best of luck with the business portion of your trip.

You know why the old Electra 225s were called that, right?

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The get a 1:43 scale model and call it a day. You can probably rebuild your entire Buick for the amount of money you will spend on maintenance for that car for one year. They have flat-6 pancake motors, Front-Biased AWD and all kinds of electonic problems/overcomplication. Not to mention parts availability. And they only come in Automatic.

Ever seen a Chevrolet Sprint Turbo? Back in 1988 a friend of my Dad's traded his 1975 Lincoln Towncar in for one. So he traded a 21 foot long boat in for a Japanese 5 foot long city car.

Normally I'd be dying of jealousy... but I have a '59 Buick and your T/A is a slushbox. All joking aside, that's one of the coolest cars made in the year 1998. It's a true musclecar, congrats!

Ahhh.... The circle of life! There will never be a Maxima as cool as the first gen. Diesel or not. I6 + IRS + 4wheel Disks + 5-speed = Exeption to T.W.C.C. rule #A001 (A001: "All Japanese Cars Suck")

Some asshole in Westford Mass drove past a parked Cop five times within one hour in a white angry looking 1957 Cadillac Impala 300E.

Subaru's ThunderTurd? I'll drink to that. Often times while intoxicated I write in my old nasty notebook full of Craigslistings for 1929 Chevys & WantAd phone numbers for 1961 Buicks & such I just write whatever f*%#ed up stuff comes to mind. One day I wrote down something that was kind of funny. If in the early 1980s Subaru had an STX Then in the early 1980s Subaru had the SVX So logically, going with the Alphabet and chronology that means at some point in the late 80s or early 90s there was a Subaru SUX

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There's a Delorean sitting in a dude's back yard in my town, 3 miles away. It's under a pine tree and next to some scummy boat trailer & a bunch of fruity bio-diesel cars. The guy is kind of a cool though, a mad-scientist of sorts, always showing up at AutoZone looking for parts for some nutty VW Jetta diesel or some crazy other European car.