Sixty8panther

True Dat, but if he trick out that tight whip all the Bitches'll be blowin' up his celly, A'ight.

Cool. If I was some old salt of the earth farmer I'd be proud to have an all GM fleet.

whole-wheat turkey club (sandwich)

GM1: ( I posted while you were posting ) Thank You, you're a real gentleman. I agree it's nice to see people finding true happiness. Not money or something selfish and tied to ego but just pure happiness. I've said it about a half dozen times since last night: If this car had a v@g!na I'd give it a diamond ring and marry it.

Fly: It's been decided that the car will be "Big Red II" RED/WHITE/WHITE. (remember the firethorn red 1979 Coupe deVille?) So the whole car except for the greenhouse will be blood-red-metallic and the roof will stay white, eventually maybe I'll paint the roof white diamond and redo the interior in WHITE with a black dash & accents. As far as the powertrain it's not the fancy stuff but I'm happy. The car is powered by a baby Nailhead 364 cu. in. (6.0 litres for us Europeans) 4.125 in bore x 3.40 in stroke It breathes through a 1 bbl Rochester twin-jet carb. I'm not sure "breathes" is the right term, suffocated would be more accurate. THe transmission is the Dynaflow Twin-Turbine. The great grandfather to the CVT. I like the car a lot better w/out the wheel skirts although from her reaction and the nasty cut she wanted to keep her hem line at a more conservative length. I'll post more photos soon, I took at least 30 more photos of her today in about a dozen different locations. Thoise of you who know me well know that within a few weeks I'll have hundreds of photos of this car in many interesting locales. SS 623: I think it is safe to say that the 1959 Buick is the angriest looking car ever made. I think it is anyway. I can't wait to have some dude in a tan Camry ask me "why is your car so mad?" so I can respond "Because you're driving a crappy, ugly Japanese car!"

At least 15 minutes... sometimes as long as 3 weeks. But seriously I'd say the average lifespan of a vehicle in my fleet is right around one year. There's a few I've kept a LOOONG time like the 1968 Camaro I had for four years but then others like my Suburban or first Fleetwood Brougham I only kept for a few weeks.

Maybach 62 of course. Q45 is not available in the USA? (you're right, it's not on their website) WTF?!

Ricidulous.

Yeah I was shooting from the hip & I was WAAAAAYYYY off. Balthazar is not one you want to mess with when is comes to this stuff. GREAT QUESTION BTW.

That was one of the funniest 3 minutes of TV EVERRR!!!

These things are AWSOME! I love all three. Seriously. They are by far more original & interesting looking than the entire Scion, Honda & Kia lineups and yet they borrow some of gthe better ideas from the Scions. SWithout any amount of bias I can honestly say these are the three best lookking city cars ever, with the possible exception of the 1959 Mini. The Trax is the coolest by far but the Groove and Beat are very stylish and handsome for city cars. Seriously, these things are freekin' neat. Original b ut crisp styling and the interiors took a cue from the Camaro concept. I like 'em.

What an ugly lookig toaster. It should be called xB-XXL but I guess Flex is lame enough as is.

Exactly. This is the car guys equivelat of the yellow sticker on the microwave that says "do not dry off your pets inside this device."

It's a joke, a predictable & very played out joke. Still I laughed when I heard it too.

KnightFan: Dude, you know if it is at all possible S-Penguin & I will make it ot there for at least a quick visit. I'm looking forward to it! WMJ: THe roadtrip you should plan on is Tulsa, June 15th!!! Satty: Right, great point. Also, even if it did end up being a money loosing situation the fun of driving a stick versus slushbox is worth the price of admission to me. Camino: Let's see some more pictures of that gorgeous 1938 Dodge! Also: drop the Jag, Maserati & a truck or two but keep the 1998 Firehawk, that thing is way too awsome to sell. The story behind it alone is worth keeping it. That letter you have is a riot. I'd never sell that red Hawk now that the '02 is history and you've freed up garage space. Just my $0.02

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Thank You kind Sirs. Talk about a team effort. I must mention that our own Balthazar was a huge help in this whole ordeal. Back in 2005 when I drove down to New Jersey & looked at that turqoise flat top with three-on-the tree I was impatient to buy a 1959 Buick and he talked me into reason. "There made 285 THOUSAND Buicks in 1959, have patience" Not only did he take time out of his schedule to look at that car with me but he's given me hard earned advice that only a 1959 Buick owner could even know. And of course I have to mention XP715 who found the ad to this car in Hemmings and then also Speeding Penguin who puts up with my crazy shenanigans all while taking my side when the Girlfriend is yelling at me for buying ANOTHER car or what not. The funny part is when XP read the ad to me last November and I heard "two door sedan" I thought never in a million years, it's going to be a hardtop for me or nothing. Thank God I reconsidered that & decided to call. I got the car for $1500 less than he was asking and the price seemed to good to be true to begin with. Also, last night I spent $14 on scratch tickets and ended up winning $20 on the LAST one. I gave XP & SP each one $2.00 ticket but I guess they had no such luck. On a bad note about a half an hour ago I removed the wheel skirts off the car (not a big fan in this case) and I managed to slice open my index & middle fingers on my right hand so bad that there is litteraly a red puddle in the snowbank outside. I lost about half a quart of blood before I stopped the bleeding by clogging the cuts with Neosporin and using oversize band-aids. Stupid move. Not that I care, kind of hard to be in a bad mood when there's a pissed off Buick outside your window.

Remember that time Thomas broke all those records with the help of a runnaway Jet engine? That was WAAAYYY faster.

99% chance it will suck. 100% chance it will still be better than the Honda Ridgeline!

1959 Buick LeSabre 1984 Datsun 810 Maxima 1984 Datsun 810 Maxima 1997 Infiniti Q45 1997 Cadillac STS (partially dissasembled) 1964 Oldsmobile Super 88 1974 Lincoln Continental Limousine 1987 Volvo 240 DL sedan 2005 Chrysler PT-Cruiser 1986 Jeep Comanche All ten were spotted today in my driveway. The first five belong to me.

After almost ten weeks of stress, aggravation & many, many dead ends I have finally sold my Super 88 to a worthy buyer. At 11:20 in the morning of April 4th 2007 I received a "subtantial" sum of money in my PayPal account. Just a few short hours later I was driving my 1959 Buick LeSabre home in a blizzard. While XP715 had Sofia in the back seat of his 1996 Buick Riviera I was behind the wheel of a 48 year old two door LeSabre with SpeedingPenguin riding shotgun. So the car drives awsome. It has 53K original miles and looks 95% presentable. There is some peeling paint on the hood due to a small carb fire that the previous owner caused but luckly put out quickly. As far as my Super 88 it will be getting that much needed valvejob which is being paid for by its new loving owner whoi happens to reside in Norway. He will be in Massachusetts in May to see the car loaded onto a cargo ship and brought across the pond to Europe. At that point I will no longer be in possession of a hardtop for the first time in five years. All five of my cars will be sedans. But you know what? I'm not all that upset about it. After all, a two-door post LeSabre from 1959 is still a cooler vehicle than anything made in my lifetime, if not ever. Here's some photos of the car. The first one is from last year, it was taken by Mr. Lawrence. The rest are all from tonights amazing roadtrip.

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Ask them if they can expand the RWD product. Also please stress how important it is that the Cadillac SIXTEEN become a producton reality. Hardtops (pillarless, that is) should make a comeback and things like bench seats are not something that dies away. They should always be offered, hell I still wish they still made three-on-the-tree for god's sake. Praise Zeta, pushrod V8 technology... like displacent-on-demand & of course the fact that a retrp Camero became a reality. We need more manual transmissions BTW.

That is one of the funniest things EVAAAAR. SHe's got a great sense of humor. That haircut is hideous though, her bangs look like an old scool bottle opener.

yeah, seen it, so that poster is legit? Not liking the car, looks like what a 1996 NSX should have looked like if they has restyled it.