Sixty8panther

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.

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Like all places the Communist State of Taxachusetts has it's pros and cons. I hate the red tape and bureaucracy but I like the fall and history of many of the towns, Salem with it's Witch Trials, Plymouth with its Pilgrims and Boston with it's architecture & old relics like the "H.M.S. Beaver". Then there's the roots of our Counrty's existence like the Revolutionary War battlefields in Lexington & 350+ year old cemeteries in towns like Concord. There's a cemetery in that town that reads like an index in a history textbook & literary who's-who. The weather here also SUX. 70% of the time we have either rain, unbearable heat, snow, sleet or some apocalyptic combo. of a few of those in one day.

Everytime I look at that photo it makes me laugh... even now 3 days later.

XP told me a funny joke a while back... it would be perfect in this post.

Does it have a felatio friendly quick release? :wink: No one wants a girl to give up on it because she can't gain access. [/msp]

Is the car fixed? There's a whle marketplace out there for fix-it-yourself totalled cars... you get a salvage title and a car for $1000 that has a KBB of $7500 except there's a telephone pole shaped dent in the door & rocker panel & driver's seat if you get my drift.

If you still have that LeSabre I'd love to take it off your hands... bent bumper or not.

Drown them in a vat of pig's blood. That would be the ultimate F&%$-YOU! to some Muslim extremist scum. 70 virgins? I think not.

Hey now... a 1999 Bonneville with like 160,000 miles deserves a new fuel pump. I'd have no hard feelings.

I like the WRX because it's a great car inside and out. It has REAR-biased AWD and a boxer motor. It's different and intriguing. THe Lancer EVO is a dressed up FWD $h!box. You can't polish a turd. The last Mitsubishi I realy liked was the 1995 - 99 Eclipse and even that was F-W-biased in its AWD guise. I'd love to own a Starion, it's probably the only MItshibishi I really like although I'd much prefer the Plymouth Conquest. As a dumb kid in the early 90s I had a few hot Mitsubishis hung up on my wall but now even the 3000GT is lame to me. I'll bring a 24 case of Heiniken or Sam Adams. What kind of chips you like? BBQ, Sour Cream & Onion or Salt & Vinegar?

Awsome! (I'm neither Republican or Democrat BTW) XP/Enzora: C'mon now, even mainstream radio plays a few god rap songs once in a while. How about Tight Whips? I wonder if some kindergarden kid wrote that song and his brother stole the lyrics. Even worse though is this song: http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/bigtymers/sundaynight.html Went to Miami - bought a Lam', and sure 'nough My Bentley, Fresh Bentley on twenty-inch dubs Monte Carlo's, Cadillac's, and Jags If it ain't a V-8, that $h! ain't fast Vettes, Vipers, trucks, and bikes Pullin' all that $h! out on a Sunday night Neighborhood superstars, cars, and broads Everybody wan' f@#k a Hot Boy Mercedes trucks Lexus trucks Cadillac trucks All the best for your buck Six TV's with DVD's Twenty-G's worth of sound so a nigga can hear me We shine and floss We pay the boss Ten-G's a night - we buyin' the ball But one thing, nigga: things ain't changed Find me at a second line doin' my thing I'm rockin' ice I pocket pipe Corner pocket goin' down - we gon' be there tonight It's wall-to-wall Killers and dogs Niggas actin' crazy - they ready to ball I like how he manages to rhyme Trucks w/ trucks & trucks.

Josh: There's a girl I had a crush on in H.S. who was wayyy out of my league. She was one of the girls who's always in the IN crowd... not a snob but one of the Andver-Princesses. I'd melt if I saw her even today & I've been out of H.S. for nine years, so I know what you mean. This chick has been the watermark by which all other girls are measured for years now. C A M A R O

Thanks O.B., my stomach is growling like a creature from a horror movie! Damn that sounds good!

Variety is the spice of life you d@uchebag. Killing off divisions is NOT the answer, financially or othewrwise.

I aim to confuse... sometimes it's fun to see people cock their head to the side like a dog. :AH-HA_wink:

If you don't see the Aurora, Alero & Intrigue as an attempt to Euro-Nippoise the brand than I can't convince you otherwise. I am entitled to my oppinion and I think the last true Oldsmobies were the Cutlass badged cars, yes even the Cieras, the B-body Custom Cruiser & the Toronado Trofeo. Those still had classic styling cues and hit their demographic like a smart bomb. So you don't want super conservative styling a bench seat & coulm shifted auto? Well many of Oldsmobile's customers did. THe Aurora was/is a great car but it should not have been the only big Oldsmobile in the lineup. It has stylig derivitive of an offspring of a Trans Am & 1990s Taurus. Reinventing a brand like Olds was a dumb idea... I think any layman without any insight into the industry can tell you that Olds tried to reinvent the wheel and failed. Time might have helped but those newer cutting edge designs would have needed a few conservative siblings in order for the brand to live on into the 21st century. I do not have any hate for the Aurora or even the Shortstar but I do not think they appealed to the people who walked into Olds showrooms.

Yes they pay their employees well enough... but can you honestly say they play fair in any way they don't have to?

worst offenders EVER are the Mercury Milan & Lincoln Zephyr. Not just because they're basically a Ford Fusion but because that's basically a rebadged Mazda and all three look like Chinese knockoffs of the last gen. VW Jetta

Facial Hair delete... GM1: you should have your dad take a picture of you in the Malibu coupe. Do you guiys still have it? Seems like those Mini-BOF wonders are all the rage these days. Both Mighty Mouse & SpeedingPenguin LOVE theirs.

Hudson... I guess the point is that a car with FWD has never worn the blue&white propeller, so the ad is truthfull advertising. Minis are one of the 3% of cars in existance to actually take full advantage of the transverse mounted motor and FWD. If ony ONE car was to stay FWD and all others were to go RWD/Rear-biased-AWD then I think it should be the Mini. The original Mini and the new one are near-miracles in compact packaging. They do not pretend to be something they're not and as such do not bother me. A MINI should be FWD, but a Grand Prix, Impala, Park Ave, Deville, Eighty Eight LSS & Ford 500 among a million other cars should NOT. :twocents:

I think the regular version of Freebird is too short actually... XP introduced me to the Platinum & Gold version of Freebird, that song is about 34 minutes long with a half dozen piano solos.... and like a f&%king intermission.