Sixty8panther

Seems like the best bang/$ right now is a 3rd gen. Buy a solid one for like $800 and drop in a $3000 SBC mated to a 6-speed and you've got a hell of a muscle car for less money than a beat up 120 horsepower FWD Honda Civic.

Don't be ridiculous... obviously Toyota will not be going to OHV, that's pretty absurd. If anything they'll make a iron block, flathead, 1bbl carb. inline 4 without an automatic starter or front brakes. Or maybe it will be similar to this:

I agree that it might be a shame to subject this car to salt but that's why they make Ford cars, that ugly old LTD B.V. posted would be a great candidate. I know X.P. pretty well and I'll tell you right now he's no sell out. I think he'd rather jump off the Zachim Bridge and into the icey waters of Charles River than drive some Camry. You only live once and I'm getting to the point where I myself want to be selfish and drive a beater 1960s car in the winter & have a few 1950s and 1930s cars for toys. Everywhere I look there's people who are cutting up, "kustomizing" and beating on classic cars. Worse still plenty sit in people's back yards and rot away and then get crushed in local junkyards. To hell with it, I might pick up a rotted '60s beater too after I get my '59 Buick. Too bad the guy with the 1968 LeSabre 4dr hardtop thinks his rotted, bondoifie car is worth $4000.

Hell if I had a $1.00 for every time I did it when I was a kid I'd be able to buy a Duesenberg by now with the proceeds P.S. That video was creepy. The kid looked emotionally distraught. As far as his mom, I'd hit it, poor acting & all.

L.A. You mean as in most of us 20-something year olds have never seen most of these cars in the flesh?

About 5 min after I posted this I realized that that entire "American Classics" portion of thart website was made up of photos borrowed off my Four Door Hardtop thread. look at the first couple pages of my thread & then go to the website and browse soe of the 78 photos on there. Hilarious. http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums/index...ic=4135&hl= . . . .

Excellent point Fly.

So I'm looking for photos on Google and I come upon one of my old signatures. The one of a red '59 Electra-225 Riviera from the brochure, I had labeled the corner of it in a very modern font (Geneva?) and so there was no mistaking it. I went to the source site & it's in Hebrew, or it might be Arabic but since there are stars of david for a rating system I'm guessing Hebew. Anyway I notice a few other photos that turn out to be my old signatures and there's that very unique photo I took of that 1966 Corvair that I photographed in Kingston, NH when I was contemplating buying that car. It was the Corvair 4dr hardtop & I opend up both doors and took a high angle shot of the greenhouse with the pillarless doors and black interior. So someone in a foreign country made a website of American cars that consists mostly of four door hardtops and several of the 78 photos is actually stuff I made using brochure art or actual photograps I have taken. I guess I'm flattered. http://www.cars-club.com/gall/displayimage...=159&pos=73 . . . .

There's a thin layer of bondo and a few rust spots right there by the right tail light. Someone rear ended the car just enough to push the bumper in like a 1/2 inch & years later this is the result. The car was painted recently at that horrible infamous paint shop that us car nuts do not speak of. Basically I'm buying this car from a crotchedy old man who has a classic car collection that includes a much nicer '59 LeSabre Hardtop 2dr & a '59 Imapala 2dr hardtop powered by a big block 348 mated to a 4-speed. This guy has seom real rare cars & as he puts it this one was about to become his winter beater this year untill he decided to trim the fleet and it was spared. He calls it a clunker, beater & even refered to it as the "old jalopy". I hope someday I'm well off enough to have a car this nice to sell for cheap because my collection of rare & low milage 1959 American classica is getting too big for my three properties & a small warehouse in the midwest. I guess that's all he deals with is 1959s. He mentioned 1959 Cadillacs, Chevrolets, Mercurys & Oldsmobiles. He also had an old ex-winter beater next to this car port: a rotted out 1957 Packard with more patina than an unrestored WWII B17.

Yeah... I guess you save a lot of money when you only make the same exact appliance in varying sizes. regrigerator parts are are pretty universal too from what I understand. Back in May of 2006 after the fire department had finally put out the inferno inside the engine bay of the 1970 Cadillac CDV that I had light on fire in my driveway one of the more experienced fireman remarked how modern "firewalls" suck because they're nothing but a piece of sheetmetal. The Cadillac's interior was unscathed by the fire except for the water in the rugs.... he siad if it was a modern car the interior would have been burning and melting before the fire truck even got there.

Happy Birthday. I baked you a Cobalt shaped cake but my dog ate it. I mean cats. Alright there was no cake but I still want my additional three As.

This is like the 4th time this video has been posted here. Yet I still was happy to see it since it never gets boring. GM: please listen to reason.... we're sick and tired of the concept song and dance. No one likes a c*ck tease. You built the SIXTEEN to showcase what you're capable of building when you put your mind to it. now build the dog-damned car and price it whatever it takes to make enough of a profit to justify it. Build 200 of them in a 5 year span, that's 40 a year. Price each one at half a $ million, that's $100,000,000 gross. I can not see why that would not be enough to make a great profit margin. Krist on a Kracker even if you loose $50,000,000 on the deal you're still making out because the SIXTEEN will be the bigggest, best, most over the top rolling billboard for GM in the history of the company. You can not BUY that kind of advertising! Every millionare a$$hole from Keith Richards to Donald Trump will buy one. Cadillac dealerships will be littered with Bentleys & R.R.s as rappers, actors, dot.com survivors, Princes, Sheiks, Sultans, the 21st century Rockefellers of the world & all manner of people born with a Versace 24 karat gold plated spoon in their mouth all flock to Cadillac dealers to own the closest car to a modern day Duesenberg that has existed since the '57/'58 Eldorado Brougham.

I wish there was a few Zetas on that list.

Damn, I forgot about this, I'll try to sketch one out real quick tonight since Thursday nights are wicked hectic. I've done a few craptastic skribbles in the past based on the '59 E-225 Riviera. On a side note if one more person posts a PILLARED SEDAN here and calls it a RIVIERA I'm going to blow a gasket. Riviera originally stood for HARDTOP. It was the car that ushered in the hardtop era. (1949-1978) and as we are witnessing a GM rebirth of sorts we need to stop butchering names. There's nothing wrong with a four door Riviera, but regardless of how many doors it has it MUST NOT have a fixed B-pillar. THESE are true Rivieras: And that's all I'm going to say about that. :twocents:

Still have not FeBreezed those seats, huh?

Manifest Destiny

Balthazar: Good question about the chrome window trim. The LeSabre 2 door post was the absolute bottom of the barrell in 1959. It was the only model that didn't offer the power seat and it had the largest percentage of the 3-on-the-tree/8.25 compression 364 combo. Which is why it would make a fun "COPO-59" if I stuffed a Cadillac 500 & 4-speed manual into it & then ran it on red steelies, dog dish hubcaps or half moons & black wall drag radials. but back to the topic at hand... I have yet to see a '59 LeSabre post 2dr (or 4dr) without the chrome trim around the entire door frames & profile of the greenhouse. Maybe I have seen one and do not remember it but I'm thinking most had the trim since, we're talking about Buick not Plymouth or Ford. In any case I agree, the brightwork on the windows & the fact that the rear windows roll down makes it cooler than any modern 2 door sedan. Your friends 59 site is down BTW, my desktop wallpaper at work is his black LeSabre 2 dr post. I think black looks sharp on '59s, esp. flattops.

1969 Camaros are usually basketcases for $5000, add the 454 and it's almost certain to be a rotted out, buttered up rlling disaster on wheels. Back in 2002 when I bought my 1968 for $5000 it was because I had given up on finding even a I6 powered '69 automatic.

Fly: Agreed, I know what you were refering to but still. 1. The Elantra wagon is actually not that BAD for a So. Korean car. (stylistically) 2. A 1950s car, esp. Cadillacs & Imperials should never be compared to Hyundai. 3. By doing No.2 you are bringing legitimacy to S.K. cars.

Yes... the Imperial is awsome IMHO. The rear does look just a tiny bit "tacked on" but please don't compare it to a stupid Hyundai Elantra. That's just not right.

Prototype Imperial Hardtop two door wagon. Almost like a high end Nomad. http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1959/wagon/index.htm And last but not least: I've heard of rebates but this is just riciculous.

1935 Plymouth you say.... $3900 is either cheap for beater/driver or a bit too much if it's some rotted out shell with a missing drivetrain.

Yup, it's appropriate that SunStar makes the model, their quality and fit & finish is horrible. It's the antithesis of a Bburago. Here's another late 1950s FoMoCo product that turns my stomach.

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Damn FlybrAIn!