Sixty8panther

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.

I bet it's RAFI....

According to my estimates, in order for me to travel the 3200 miles from my house in Massachusetts to Tulsa, Oklahoma & back in my Super-88, taking into account premium fuel, lead substitute, tolls/food etc. I'll need just about $800. If I can split the gas bill with a friend... (XP715 you reading this?) then my cost drops down to about $450. Now why the hell, you ask would make my one vacation of the summer a roadtrip to a not-so exciting town in Oklahoma, 1598 miles away? First, I've been saying for a long time now that I want to meet up with my buddy Duffy at some halfway point in the USA this year. He lives in Phoenix AZ and just sold his steel-roof 1991 Pontiac GTA (350TPi) and bought a >MINT< 1961 Rambler American with 18K miles. It's got a inline-six flathead and three speed auto. Pretty much as spartan a car as you could buy in 1961 while still buying American made. So one fantastic vacation would be to have our two classics from the 1960s meet up at some half way point i the great U.S. of A. But why the hell Tulsa, Oklahoma? & why on June 15th of this year you ask? THIS IS WHY!!! http://www.topgear.com/content/features/st...ories/22/1.html Now my question to you guys is how many other C&G members can meet up with me/us to see this Fifty-7-Belvedere get dug up after a 50 year nap under the Tulsa sidewalk in front of the courthouse? C'mon.... Knightfan? Anyone? ~~~~~~~~~~~ On June 15th, 2007 T!GHT WH1P$ will be witnessing the ultimate epoch of 1950s Mopar originality! http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums/index...showtopic=14872 “Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.” - G. B. Stern (British novelist)

Someday in like 30 years, I'll probably see a guy at a carshow with a MINT 1985 Aries station wagon with plastic faux-wood paneling. If I do not die of a massive laughing fit I will ask him "WHY, WHY IN GOD'S NAME?!?!?!"