Sixty8panther

Greek

More of my oppinionated rambling/educated guessing. If there IS a V6 it will be becasue one will be forced induction & the other N.A. I for one would be happy buying a Turbocharged Ecotech powered Camaro. Even better would be a modern day veersion fo the B.O.P. 215 V8. No even aluminum per-se but like a 3.0 liter V8 and then a bunch of optional LS motors. i.e. ~ base hardtop: $22,000 with a mini-V8 (200 cu. in.) 210 HP, 225 TRQ ~ Rally Edition: (RS pckg is cosmetic and unrelated) $24K w/ high-perf. 200 cu. in. (275 HP, 240 TRQ) ~ Z/28: $27,000 with a high perf. 4.9 liter V8 (302 cu. in.) 360 HP, 340 TRQ ~ SS: $29,000 with an LS2 V8 (400 HP, 415 TRQ) ~ ZL-1: $42,000, hardtop only & no cosmetic B.S. over the base hardtop! (under-rated LS7) also.... a mini inline six would be a fantastic thing!!! Think Atlas but 65% of the size inside & out. Inline Sixes can be made to run smoothly with DOD and so can baby- V8s. If anything the Camaro should be V8 only with varying levels of DOD, VVTi & DI. A V6 is useless in terms of DOD, so why even bother??? (I'l probably be stuck buying a damn V6)

My prediction 90% possibility: one V6 100% possibility: at least two diff. V8s, if not four. I'd like a base Camaro V8. Back in summer of 1967 when my old '68 Camaro was assembled in Van Nuys it only had three options. ( Base V8 hardtop ) - Automatic - Power Steering - A/C The car was a little over $2700 back then with these three options. I want the 21st century version of that... basically a BASE MODEL Hardtop (crank windows are okay so long as all four drop down sight unseen) with whatever the smallest/cheapest V8 motor they have will be, say a 4.9 liter with DOD, REAL manual trans. (5sp okay, 6 would be nice) and a few other basic features would be great. traction control w/ off mode, ABS & a MP3 compatible CD player will do nicelly. I do not want a sunroof, I do not want T-tops... both of those are stuid & lame compared to a true pillarless hardtop. I also have no use/desire for some "high-perf" V6. F*** that... either give me an Atlas I6, or just a super cheap V6 If I'm paying for anything extra it better have 16 valves & EIGHT big holes bored into the block!

I hope the CTS/V keeps pushrod power... DOHC is for people who eat up marketing jingles and don't mind high maintenence.

Oxygen? (I think it would be a great name for a fun convertible)

Charger (that's what Snipes drives in the Blade movies)

Yeah.... pretty easy to prove an odometer is registering incorrectly. use mile markers or whatever, not that freekin' tough. :roleyes: Did I ever mention how much I HATE Honda.... I do, they suck.

I would not move my '84 Datsun with a Forklift nevermind some over-hyped "exotic" Italian car. Only cars at junkyards with no hope of salvation and missing wheels are meant to be moved with a forklift.

This will not share engineering with Lotus via a DOHC.... so it's not going to be ZR-1. It might be ZL-1 or possibly Sting Ray or Mako Shark.

http://www.mbzponton.org/pax058/people/sch...an_Sweden09.jpg I thought Webasto only made those cloth, full-size sunroofs back in the day... they still EXIST?

Hmmm.... pick up B.V. in Penn and then drop him off on way back up...? That's assuming we first recognize your Millenia as an official member of T1GH+ WH!P$... Rusty Jones has the final say on that matter.

The only pushrods I care about have 16 or more valves... and for ther record I agree with Balthazar, maybe it's too late to retrain the media but those of us in the "KNOW" could be more accurate about our description. IBC makes a lot of sense, even if it is also rootbeer.

Holy f*ck! Congrats... I guess.

Three more links about the Zombie Plymouth: http://www.buriedcar.com/ http://www.plymouthbulletin.com/57plymouth.htm http://www.classiccar.com/articles/cars/1957_Belvedere.asp And for those b!tching about a lack of photos in this thread For some unexplicable reason this identical 1957 Plymouth Belvedere Sport 2dr Hardtop was NOT buried, in fact it was bought new driven, enjoyed and then after years of duty as a family car it was restored. This is the kind of condition most people are hoping the Tulsa car is in to this day. We shall see soon enough. I'm keeping my fingers crossed!

Shut up guys... I do NOT have a 70' Satelite dish sticking out of my @$$!!!

James Dean

Someday in the not so distant future I bet one of Pol-Pot's relatives will start producing cars. They'll be cheap looking and inferior knockoffs of a 1997 Honda Civic but with a ugly waterfall grill. The logo/emblems will look like a Onion is eating a pencil sharpener & doing #2 on a triangle. They'll call it a "Slaughter FU-666" and this goofy looking prick will trade in his 2017 Camry-Solara-TRIPPLE-CAM in one a beige one.

FAB---U---LAHSSS!!! :AH-HA_wink:

My Datsun is cramped too... I can deal with cramped but I kind of decided after my dilema about possibly buying a Cobalt that FWD is not for me. Never again will I get sucked into a car where the effin motor is sideways and the car's unbalanced and all the guts are cluttered & criss-crossed in the engine bay! FWD is my biggest turn-off, bar none. I mihgt buy a Pre-WWII car with FWd someday or (even less likely) a '66-'69 Razorback... but thiose along wiht the Cord 810 and L29 and most other cars that were FWD when it was still an oddity have a nice clean engine compartment with the motor mounted as the God(s) intened... with the flywheel facing the radiator or firewall. And anything more than $19,000 base price for a 2 door hatchback is TOO MUCH for this.

I'll take you up on that... and I expect at least a short ride in your 1972 Monte Carlo... Just drive me down to the local Wendy's so we can have some lunch & back, but all four windows MUST BE ROLLED DOWN. That is the rule of Hardtop ownership here at TIGHT WHIPS car club! The temprature has to drop past 32* (0* celsius) in orer for the windows to be rolled UP.

hmmm.... no one?

drum

Perhaps the problem is not that we dropped two-too many atom bombs on Japan but that we did nto drop enough... but seriously, the Japanese were at the top of their game in like 1974 even then they were not great cars but they were CHEAP and economical cars. They have been resting on their laurels and making absolute junk for the past 20 years and more and more they offer a poor value and yet their snob-appeal goes up steadily. If the car game were a true level playing field GM would be well on their way to earning their 60% of the marketshare in the USA while Ford & chrysler would flip-flop since Ford's lineup is more stale & boring than a plain bagel. (w/ the exception fo the Stang & GT)

It still looks HORRIBLE!!!!!

They're a little goofy looking but I'd buy one if it was like $17,000 for a super spartan model. I'm sure the RWD & drifting crowd is excstatic about this car.