Sixty8panther

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Also: the steering wheel looks very out of place. Like someone installed one of those dummy air bag covers instead of the real thing. And the bulky oh-$h! handle in the wrong place is very lame... why does the driver need one anyway? I'd hope he'd have something to hold on to already like... umm... the steering wheel.

The G6 just plain looks well planted... although that obviously-FWD-stance is not appealing to me.

Love the WWII annalogy. So in other words Mitsubishi will be selling a big fat ZERO in the USA soon.

There were other clandestine ones that never made it out the Chevy design studios' doors but I think the Z11 was the most famous and relevant one.

From about 1992 to 1997 I thought the Viper was awsome. Then later, esp. after the 2001 Corvette Z06 was released I have not thought highly of them anymore. In the ealry 1990s the Viper was relevant & cool, now it's just kind of a four-wheeled stereotype. The Z06 kicks its ass with one run flat tire tied behind its back....

The Cosworth Escort was the WRX - STi of the ealry 1990s, kicking ass & taking names. Like the WRX the Cosworth Escort was purpose built to battle in the World Rally Championship. It's trully one of the most amazing pieces of automotive craftsmanship in that it can hold its own on a paved circuit or on a mud-sand-snow covered mountain path in New Zeland. I thought since it's featured in Gran Turismo 2 some of you video-game-era kids might know it well from that game alone.

Sounds a lot like Upstate New York, Albany area and such.

Next Sedan deVille? Look at the "porthole" just behind the front wheel just like the new Escalades', the Caddy-like head lights and the egg crate grille which even looks like it has a Creast & Wreath in the center. Perhaps they'll keep the FWD DTS and call this a Fleetwood Brougham or something along those lines. That's the best case scenario. Just like in the 80s & 90s a FWD & RWD big sedan for Caddy so that no one feels left out or has an excuse to not buy a Caddy.

Stuff I've been listening to as of late: - Juno Reactor - Black Eyed Peas - Nikleback - Moody Blues - Rob Zombie But nothing beats the classics like the Beatles, G&R, Metallica, CCR, Alman Bros., Foghat, ZZ-Top, Scorpions, Pink Floyd....

Sometimes late at night I stay up thinking about stuff like that... & also how cool it would be to drive a 1959 Buick from Bar Harbor Maine all the way across the USA to L.A. California via. Detroit, MI & the Grand Canyon.

At any rate it sounds like you're having fun & you're doing your own work. I commend people who turn their own wrenches, esp. on cool worthwhile cars like your F-body versus some 4-banger swap to gain 0.2 liters & DOHC on some riced out Civic. Keep us informed, don't get your license yanked.

I'm also seeing a front end loader, translation: Wrecking Yard/Junkyard Most Junkyards around Mass have a few cars for sale that illegal mexican imigrants have jimmy-rigged together using anything they can find in their yard. One day there's a wrecked 1993 Nissan Sentra sitting in mud with no rims/tires and the trunklid is in the backseat... next week it's sitting on a I-beam stand with hodgepodged blue rear quarters and a red trunklid while a grease-monkey works underneath with a torch & welder A week later some unsuspecting kid buys it thinking it's a really good deal for a clean car with nothing more than some paint issues.

Bigfoot's D!ck

Everytime I start to think I might be a bit too harsh when I say Toyota is useless & lame something like this reminds me just how stuid The Hat&Cowboy brand really is. http://www.carbase.co.uk/image/toyota-logo.jpg Seriously look at it... it's a cowboy in a 10-gallon hat from bird's eye view. What a lame logo for Japanese company that sells pseudo-trucks.

The answer is the Ford Cosworth. The Rally Car Legend. But even the half-assed Cosworth RS2000 had a transverse mounted motor. I mean the REAL Cosworth Escort. One of the best Ford ever made and one with an amazing track record. These little AWD Winged wonders go like a Cheetah that drank a gallon of coffee. http://www.wrc-cosworth.org/pics/pics1/Coche2.jpg http://moto.wp.pl/gid,8102151,img,8102159,...?T%5Bpage%5D=11 The connection was the 1970s Cosworth Vegas and therfore Cosworth was the missing link. :wink:

- 1st gen. Saturn SL? - Cavalier base coupe? - Pontiac Firefly Sedan? - Suzuki Eteem? - Pontiac Sunbird base coupe? Nope? Well I'm tired of guessing, enlighten me.

Stratus = FWD = laugh away!

Better stance than 95% of GM cars made after 1996!!!

Bitchin', Let the good times roll! [Ric Ocasek]

Margret Thatcher on a cold day... baseball, baseball.... Donw boy, down! I'm in love... if you blur your vision you can see a white Impala SS & pewter Caprice Classic. :wub: :wub: Damn even the Boy-ricer wing looks good.

Bimmer: I would rather drink Kool-Aid than eat plain white RICE!

Hey Penguin: All us GM freaks aside how many people do you know that could resist laughing at such a ridiculous sight. The Honda looks like it's courtseying! It's silly and to a weirdo like me it's hilarious.

My bad... I would never buy a convertible with a savage title and yet I'll drive around in a four-door hardtop with my 2.5 year old daughter. What does that tell you? A few weeks ago my brother-in-law-to-be asked me to go take a look at a few cars with him. He's a Volvo fanatic but likes the RWD stuff. He has a 1989 740 right now and has wanted a 960 for a while now. We looked at a few cars in person that were on eBay and the discrepancy between eBay & reality was pretty harsh. Just for $h!s and giggles we looked at a super cheap late 90s 850 Turbo. It was black, 5-speed & fairly low miles so I told him why not consider it? He's about as anti-FWD as I am but the Turbo and 5-speed was tempting to him. So we show up and the car is fuc%ed. On eBay it looks like a nice straight car but in person it was a disaster waiting to happen. Both passenger side doors looked as if they were ajar when closed. I could fit my THUMB between the front & rear doors and between the rear door and the rear quarter. Not to mention the trunk is all misaligned, and guess what? as soon as I look at the spare I see it floating in a 4" puddle of water. NICE. This car was a mess. A parts car in reality and to top it off there's white smoke oozing out of the valve cover when the oil fill cap was removed. Needless to say John is going to fix up his bread & butter 740, at least it's a solid car without a freaky accident history and he's got leather. I really think some sleazeball pulled the frame on that Volvo 850 with a F350 and a heavy duty chain and then welded up a rear quarter using a roll of masking tape to align the panel. Seriously how about this Miata? If it was hit hard & repaired even 99% correctly you might have all form of problems & nightmares. Suspension mount points, panel gaps, unibody structure, torsional rigidity and even convertible top fit might be severely affected. Not saying don't buy the car, but do NOT buy the car sight unseena dn without at least a lengthy test drive. Some lessons in life are hard learned.