Sixty8panther

The race for the coveted Tight Whips Trivia Trophy continues. Five questions down and 54 to go. Durring his long and impressive career this designer worked for several US Automotive companies, some more obscure than others. Over the course of a few decades he designed dozens of GM cars including a few LaSalles, as well as cars for Mopar & FoMoCo, Packard, Cord, Stutz, Auburn, Duesenberg & Dietrich Body Company. And that's an incomplete list as he was also a freelance designer for years.

Agreed. Reg. is 100% correct though. FWD & AWD make it much easier in the winter to drive... Drive into trees Drive into guardrails Drive into telephone poles Drive into snow banks Drive into stone walls Drive into parked cars Drive into curbstones Drive into oncomming traffic...

WMJ: One of two 1969 Camaro ZL1-RS produced. This car included ZL1 emblems & the rare bumperettes.

This has been sitting dormant in my Photobucket account since the big crash of 2005.

Thank You! So very true. That's for the same reason why FWD is a must for so many buyers and "soft plastics" are considered luxurious. We've turned into a bunch of soft, femenine meatheads.

I voted NO because compared to SpedingPenguins Malibu and my buddy's '67 Camaro my engne is downright filthy. Well... the Super 88s is semi-clean but I don't really want to clean it as the car is so original I'll probably do more harm then good and the Q45s has not seen a winter since it's been steam cleaned by the dealership we bought it from. Cleaning my engine has never been a top priority for me. I'm not a clean freak when it comes to the mechanical components in a car. Then again with my eventual 2010 Camaro which I'll probably buy new I will most likely be more A.R. about cleanliness etc.

The 1953 and 1954 Pontiacs had provisions to accommodate the V- 8 finally introduced in 1955. Some people have reported seeing possible 1953-’54 prototype V-8 cars in Pontiac Detroit area junkyards. I'd give my ::::::: to have a 1953 Pontiac prototype with a '55 V8 motor. There was a 1959 proposal for a Pontiac version of the El Camino. One prototype still exists in a private owner’s hands. Name? Camino... it's your ultimate whip. A Pontiac elCamino. I wonder if this one ever had a working name? Wasn't the later 1980s A-body Camino with a Bonneville nose called something? An engineering drawing dated 8-23-65 shows the cast iron styled wheel/brake for the 1966 Tempest. It shows eight lug nuts. It had 24 cooling fins versus 16 on the aluminum version. This wheel never went into production due to high weight and distortion. This was a great concept that I think might have held a lot of promisse. The weight savings if enginered properly would be great while cooling and brake efficiency would be absolutely spectacular. I know a certain someone on this Forum who has a complete set of these in his garage... I've seen them with my own eyes. Pontiac built a 1967 Firebird with a ground effects machine in the trunk to increase traction. WTF is a 'ground effects machine?' In 1969, Pontiac built a 230 OHC 6 "Hemi". It had 325 gross hp. Holy Coolness Batman. Around 1969, Pontiac Engineering installed a 318 cid Plymouth V-8 in a Catalina for a performance and economy study. Mean time Toyota was busy disassembling & reverse enginering Corvairs, Camaros, Falcons, Opels, VWs, Morris Minors & Minis. Some 1970 GTOs were equipped with an optional vacuum controlled exhaust system called "The Tiger Button". A knob, similar to that used for RAM AIR, changed the exhaust sound. Few were sold before the option was canceled. Now I really really want a 1970 Pontiac GTO. The 1970-1/2 Firebird came close to having a production Bendix Fuel Injection System (TBI type). How very cool that would have been? Too bad it never happened. For those that wonder: Yes, the candy apple green color on the 1971 evaporative emissions line clip near the canister is correct! So in 1971 Pontiac was trying to already looks like a "green" freindly company? No 1973 production "A" cars were produced with functional NASA scoops. However, one prototype, now in private hands, does exist. In addition, some other units may have been sold through GM Parts Division and installed. You mean NASCA scoops right? The ones that look like this: XXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXX L.S.D. is bad. And no I don't mean Posi-Trac or Sure-Grip. Many factory photos and Product Description Manuals (an assembly guide) are incorrect versus how the cars were actually made. True for most manufacturers. I'm still hopping to find a Chevrolet Panther emblem on eBay someday. The 1979 Firebird Type K came close to going into production. The build process required that a Firebird be partially built in the plant, transferred to an outside body facility, and then returned to the plant for completion. As a result, the total number of Firebirds able to be built was reduced due to the assembly line interruptions. A financial analysis of the situation showed Pontiac would lose profit from this situation and the project was canceled. They should have done it SLP style... no interuptions in the production line. Just like a custom built Cadillac Opera Coupe, a Hearse or Limo where the sheetmetal is getting rearranged but the chassis/motor is untouched. ------- Must be... although you'd think something with a werid engine like that would not get convoluded in my memory banks with the I4/V6 Fiero. I'd love to see this X-4 motor. Technically isn't an X-4 motor a "radial"? Agreed... although we may have to wait till GM is healthier and has a better financial lookout to set up individual dept. for each division. How about just four diffeent ones? Chevrolet/Pontiac Chevrolet Truck/GMC/Isuzu Buick/Cadillac Saturn/Opel/Vauxhall/SAAB Or how about each division has their own separate heads, intake, exhaust, pistons & cams for the same block (i.e. LS-series V8)

I'm not married Razor................................................................... just FYI. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m301...181/ai_79007325

Agreed... (O.B. & Balth.) I'm still in love with 2nd gen. Corvairs. Often times I wonder what happened to that 1966 4dr hardtop that I almost bought about a year ago. I hope it went to a good home. http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/6237/19...rmonza4dr4y.jpg

Score one point for Olds Guy. You went well above & beyond in your explanation. I also did not know it was painted at the factory by Chevy. This car shows up in a lot of books, web sites & magazines.

I'd even prefer the name C!marron to more Alphabet soup.

Just like: In Theory in before 1989 when the Miata hit showrooms it was declared that there was no place in this world for cheap sports cars... in 1982 some retard decided that the future solution to all of man's automotive problems would lie in FWD and then later in the late 1990s if you told a layman or a dumb journalist that affordable RWD would come back in a huge way & also that Chrysler & Dodge would be the ones to get us RWD sedans with Hemi V8s they'd say: There's no market and such products will not sell. Time to stop saying stuff like: "big coupes don't sell anymore" If GM builds a Riviera again they'll be the first ones to prove this erroneous thinking wrong.

I get it now. GM cars suck unless they're FWD & Chevys are lame. Your problem Sir is that you're on the wrong "enthusiasts site". You might want to take your biased dislike of Cadillac/GM to one of these forums. http://www.jaguarforums.com/ http://www.jag-lovers.org/ http://www.jaguarforum.com/

O.B. is killing me. I can't beleive none of the Camaro obsessed have not identified this car. It's one of the best looking 1st gen. Camaros and is historically significant.

Nope... for obvious reasons. For every one Ferrari they'd sell they would have to print 35,000 brochures. Plus they're too pretentious and will tell you they don't need brochures, because the cars sell themselves, blah, blah-blah.

THIS MEANS WAR !!!!

Shame on you guys... 10 hours and nothing.

Well, I walked right into that one. [/Flanders]

About a week ago I was at the Mobil station dropping $40 on 3/4 of a tank in the Q45... a BMW X3 pulls in and drives up to a pump with a banana sitting on the right front corner of the hood. She drove off Rt.3, a major highway and the banana never went anywhere. I walked up to the X3 which was white BTW and asked her if she knew there was a banana on her hood and the owner (45-or so YO lady) says "Oh, that's where that banana went... 10 miles and it didn't even fall off... amazing." Freekin' Massachusetts Drivers.

The Chronos as the Imparial? Great idea O.B. I'd much rahter see that than the Imperial concept... That thing is fugly.

A house is a house... God's not making any more real estate you know. Congrats and good luck. Looks like you have your work ahead of you. With any luck you'll double the value of the place just by repairing the basics.

Damn I love that 3" thick patina on the paint though. I hope my eventual '59 Buick looks like this but is solid underneath like an Arizona car. This kind of patina is always cool on a old car.

Bingo. http://1929buick.com/albums/1929buickimages/aao.jpg Harley Styled the 1929 Buick to be the first production car with the look of an upscale coachbuilt car. It was kind of a disaster but little is written about it. Here's a very basic synopsis of the misrepresentation of the design.

Never say never... the competition might be stiff but who cares... I've already decided if I only ever buy one new car as long as I live this will be it. The 5th gen. Camaro, so long as it's a true B-pillarless hardtop will be the coolest new car to grace the showroom of a Chavrolet dealership since 1969. The only way the 5th gen. Camaro could be any cooler would be if it cured cancer, organized your junk drawer & spent some "quality time" with your G/F while you pounded down a few beers while watching 'shark week' & eating pizza.

Yes. Enough with the alphabet soup... it's getting pathetic. Lincoln is emulating it so you KNOW it's bad.