Sixty8panther

Agreed Balthazar... If I had enough cash I'd give Jay Leno a run for his money. Perhaps someday I'll make that Northstar V16 that I'm always talking about.... but with 16 Webber carbs. under chrome velocity stacks and mated to a 5-on the tree setup in a 1983 Cadillac Bustle Back with a streched nose and RWD w/ IRS. I'd love to also make my own 1930s retro cars with wacky styling like that but with modern suspension and brakes.

I say if you can afford the Charger do that... although there's no shame in owing a daily driver G-body coupe. P.S. I wish the Charger came with a 5-speed MANUAL.

That A3 has Daewoo written all over it.

Look through the Want-Ad. It's a much better resource for buying a cheap used car than eBay. I'm just not into FWD cars at ALL, and add an automatic trans & I'm very much turned off. Why not at least look into something more sporty or a manual trans, if not RWD?

Blame the father... that was his bad. Some 14 year old kid who is ignorant about a manual transmission should NOT be given the keys to a car, esp. not a musclecar. He was obviously clueless about driving a car, let alone a stick.

BUMP!!!

I think an official T!GH+ W#1P$ roadtrip to ILL, or at least half way or so will happen someday in the not so distant future, perhaps Deeee-troit.

The Concours 2-door's 4" thick B-pillar is exactly 4" thicker than all the cool 1960s Chevrolet 2dr. cars that I'm into. Cool stuff though.

I wish I could drive out to ILL to hang out and watch "Cars". At this point if I had the time and gas money I'd drive out the Super 88... I've already driven 2200 miles in it without one problem. Well, once I drove over a bad pothole and the negative cable on the battery came loose & the car stalled out but that was my fault for not tightening it down enough. I got her with 24,800 and now she's got over 27,000. You know I just might drive the Super out to Hershey next year if I still have not flipped her for a 1959 Buick.

T1G#T WH!P$ TROPHY TRIVIA In the next few weeks I'm going to post 59 different trivia questions of all different forms on C&G. Multiple choice, photo identification, photo match up & even some true or false. Some questions will be multiple part and others a simple one word answer. At the end of the 59 individual trivia thread questions all the winners will be added up and a trophy will be mailed via the USPS to the over all winner of the first annual Tight Whips Trivia Trophy. Best of luck to all, I encourage everyone to participate. ...................................................... Current Score: Fly: 11 WMJ: 9 Yellow_Dart: 9 Balthazar: 8 OldsGuy: 7 Chevelle7.4L: 4 OcnBlu: 3 American_Revolution2005: 1 SmallChevy: 1 ---------------------- T1G#T WH!P$ TROPHY TRIVIA #54 Name, year & brief history... if you know the first two you'll know the story behind the car and how it came to be.

Correct! Any 1st gen. F-body can exchange windshields with another one so long as they're both ragtops or both hardtops... the convertible 1st gen. F-body's windshield was cut down a few inches as compared to the hardtop's. Not very noticable.

Balthazar got a dozen correct... Too bad the questions number a baker's dozen. Y.D. got this same question wrong.

LAAAAAAAAME. DIE FWD CADILLACS!!! Just fu*king die already damnit. RWD is the future for ANY & ALL luxury cars, w/ rear-biased AWD optional.

You've got a few incorrect answers there Y.D. For what it's worth you are 100% correct about the Bustle Back Sevilles... they were made from 1980-1985. That was what you might call a "keystroke error" on my part.

About three months ago durring a late night session of an official TIGHT WHIPS meeting back in Tyngsboro I was "smashed" & XP & SP had me make a couple prank phone calls... the only one I remember is asking some random lady out of the phonebook (Anita Bath) at like 1:30am "Do you really need a bath...?" She hung up.

T1G#T WH!P$ TROPHY TRIVIA In the next few weeks I'm going to post 59 different trivia questions of all different forms on C&G. Multiple choice, photo identification, photo match up & even some true or false. Some questions will be multiple part and others a simple one word answer. At the end of the 59 individual trivia thread questions all the winners will be added up and a trophy will be mailed via the USPS to the over all winner of the first annual Tight Whips Trivia Trophy. Best of luck to all, I encourage everyone to participate. ...................................................... Current Score: Fly: 11 WMJ: 9 Yellow_Dart: 9 OldsGuy: 7 Balthazar: 7 Chevelle7.4L: 4 OcnBlu: 3 American_Revolution2005: 1 SmallChevy: 1 ---------------------- T1G#T WH!P$ TROPHY TRIVIA #53 13 TRUE OR FALSE questions 1. The flathead V16 Cadillac motors of the early 1930s were redesigned as 60 degree OHVs in the late 1930s. 2. If I needed a windshield for a 1969 Camaro hardtop I could get a used one out of a 1968 Firebird convertible. 3. The 1984 Pontiac Fiero shared some front suspension components with the Pontiac T1000. 4. 2007 Ford Crown Victorias share their basic architecture with 1978 Ford Fairmonts. 5. Access to the spare tire on the Honda Ridgeline "pickup" in unrestricted & convenient even when the bed is full of cargo. 6. The 1980-1986 Cadillac Bustle Back has a longitudinally mounted motor just like every single Cadillac prior to 1982. 7. Originally the 1959 Buick was going to be an even more over the top version of the 1958 design with MORE chrome. 8. BMW got inot the car business by rebadging british "economy" cars. 9. The gullwing Mercedes C111 concept/experimental car was powered by a twin turbo DOHC V6 motor. 10. Cadillac introduced the world's first synchromesh transmission in 1931. 11. Other than its diminiative size the 1959 Austin MINI was most revolutionary for its longitudinally mounted motor. 12. As of right now the last hardtop (fixed roof, pillarless) production car from an American automotive manufacturer was in 1976. 13. The dual cowl pheaton bodystyle was pioneered by Packard & Cadillac.

If you'er goign to a be a stickler 0n spellnig thwn youl'l have a filed day wiht ym posts.

Cool. Bone crunching and often painful but still cool.

Yes... Pontiac SHOULD go 100% RWD! (with AWD optional but still REAR biased)

Do it! Fieros are still cool... they're still the only PORDUCTION car from GM ever with a mid-engined setup.

OCN: Uou stole my thread idea! No seriously as some of you know I come inot contact with THOUSANDS of names between my full time and part time job so I have a whole list going... I've got about 300 or so written down that are funny, some in a raunchy or horrible way otehrs that just have a funny ring to them or rhyme. Here's some of my top favorites, these are 100% REAL names: (off the top of my head, the list is at home) - Anal Bahts - Oral Plummer - Han Fuk - Harry Bush (I've run into more than one) - Harry Ball Jr. [he's a Junior so you KNOW there's TWO Harry Balls] (a friend of a friend...) and a really cool name that I think is BOSS: - Thomas Wackerfuss

I can not beleive that O.J. has not been killed by a "stray" bullet, random car accident or perhaps a runnaway golf cart. I wish he just up and died or crawled into a hole and STFU. He's a waste of sperm & oxygen.

Razor: have you visited ebay recently???

Yes, that's right. OldsGuy got it. 1965 Cadillac Fleetwood LIMO. Yes that roof dates back to 1959/60 and the sheetmetal is 1964.

If Datsun 510 were such junk why did they kick BMWs butt in racing and become cult classics. Yes, I agree that compared to a 1968 GTO the Datsun 510 is almost worthless but then again I'd crush and melt down every Japanese car made in the past two decades to save just ONE 1970 Nissan Bluebird (510) Hardtop SSS. Japanese cars peeked in the late '70s in terms of fun factor, value, variety, originality & coolness. Late 1970s Japanese cars were true to their promisse, cheap econoboxes that afforded average quality, good MPG & decent bang for the buck while still offering a few cool styling elements, even if they were all ripped off late 60s American cars. I have a soft spot for many of those cheap-steel death traps, esp. the hardtop ones. True affordable RWD in a cute package.