Sixty8panther

Before Saturn was branded the new Buick-Opel, before the HUMMER deal was made, before they sold Subaru & wasted billions on FIAT.... GM should have dropped SAAB like a bag of rocks. Sell it to BMW, or DCX or Ford, screw SAAB they're not doing anything positive for GM.

HotWheels made a black 1930s retro Maybach looking sedan called "Unobtanium", it's in their 1:64 mainline.

I hope not, never say never but that would STILL not mean "the death of the V8" Like Balthazar said it's not in our genetic chemistry to want to unerachieve, well not for most of us non-Prius/Camry drivers. Consider this: durring the greatest depression of the 21st century when most people had a problem fueling up their Model-Ts Cadillac was busy churning out V16 powered long wheelbase towncars, phaetons & formal sedans.

Well $hit as long as we're beating a ... why not just talk in terms of subjectivity? This became silly at page 3 so why not just go back and re-read what most of us have already said.

Thanks so much GM1, yes she's a great kid, cute and somehow even with my feeble parenting skills she has turned out polite & patient. We drag this kid all over New England to go look at '63 Plymouths, '84 Cadillacs, '71 Rolls Royces & '97 Q45s of all things. She's got some funny one liners already... like if we're at a red light for a while and it turns green she starts yelling: go, go, GO, GO! Other times she'll say "cool car" and the Super 88 has become the "niiiiiice car" according to Sofia, although she bestowed that honor on a teal-green '58 Buick at a carshow today. Anything taller/longer/higher up than a Ford F350 is a "BIG truck" sPenguin & XP keep trying to get her to say TIGHT WHIPS.

Yeah... it was posted on newengland-motorsports.com and I thought I'd share, that intercooler is very cool, but it does make the car useless even if just a shopping cart bumps it.

Fly: I WAS being sarcastic although I was unaware the Super 88 name dates all the way back to '51. I recently saw a flat black early '50s Buick Super sporting moon eyes. It was pretty cool. I guess I should have used a smiley.

Well, as much as the kid inside wants to blast down rt.495 down to PA & N.J. it's not going to happen for a while. If nothing else I need to do a coolant flush, oil change, carb. rebuild, two new headlights, four new tires, brake shoes & brake bleed, vaccum hoses, new fan belts and most important of all the timing is probably about 179* off. But assuming the radiator & rear end and all the other weak points are good afterwards and all the aforementioned fixes go well I will take this Rocket on a few monumental road trips.

Looks very close to concept... very good GM.

I hate to be a prick but... *cough cough* I told you so!

PICTURES?!?!?!

Check out the inter-cooler setup on this 04 GTO. http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Pontiac-GTO...648598206QQrdZ1

Lethargic

Super was an Olds not a Buick... but hell make a zeta-based Roadmaster Super already! The Velite was nice but a HT Riviera along the lines of the 71-72 Boat Tails would be even cooler and more revitalizing for the brand.

Jezus... this is sad... depressing.

That's right my high compression 1964 Olds takes gas that is not even sold to the consumer anymore. LEADED premium that was by far better than the crap they give us today. Some of those Sunoco super-blends from back in the 60s were probably the equivelant of 102 octane. I'm happy to report that by driving the Super 88 for 13 miles yesterday I managed to offset three years of Toyota Prius production. I hate cold, YAY GLOBAL WARMING!

At one point I had a fleet of FOUR vehicles, each with a V8. (STS, Camaro, F.Brougham & Suburban) My 240Z powered Maxima is the only NON V8 in my fleet right now, if I ever get rid of that car I just might never own a NON-V8 car again. Or then again I just might follow through with my plans of stuffing an LS1 or LS6 into the Datsun. FU$% four bangers, screw V6s and to hell with hybrids. The only way someone is going to get me out of an I6/V8 powered car will be a flat-four turbo or a rotary.

If it was possible for me to sqeeze it into my schedule you would need not bribe me with gas money. Next year, it's very possible I could make it down, just give us all advance notice. I'd love to do a roadtrip like that in the Super 88.

So which is it?

Since your choices are all FWD and "safe" choices I voted Impala because it's the least borig IMO. It's grown on me quite a bit but I'd still take a Charger or 300C over one in a heartbeat. Shoot I'd take a Crown Vic or Grand Marquis over it any day.

'nough said. Most of these wussys will be people who just shouldn't drive in bad weatehr PERIOD.

I'd rather be Mopar than FoMoCo or GM right now.

Ahhh... great point.

Stay away for this one.... transmissions suck!

Holy cow O.B. That's just... depressing. It takes so "little" to loose your life sometimes if you get stupid behind the wheel, I wear my seatbelt about 97% of the time... after that story I'll try to make it closer to 100.