Sixty8panther

Drag your feet for about 20 years and you just might be able to buy a mansion with the money you'll get at Barrett Jackson.

The longer we have the Q the better I feel about buying it. Marcia still says she misses the power of the mighty Northstar and the Driver Information Center but she "loves" the Infiniti and she's pickier than I am. But speaking of less power & cu. in. in the 4100 Infiniti V8 it does have an upside. I just calculated the fuel economy and the numbers are good. The best we ever averaged with the STS was just about 20 mpg. Usually just under 20. If I drove it a lot it was 18.0 on the nose. But with Marcia's driving it averaged high 19s. One time I drove like 57 in a 55 for like half an hour so I could bump up the average to 20.0 on the D.I.C. because Marica had been averaging 19.8. Well so far we've driven 1990 miles in the Q45 and in that time the car has burned through 109.7 gallons. So the car has been getting 18.1 miles to the gallon. Keeep in mind that 90% fo those miles were on 2 bad Knock Sensors, a malfunctioning MAF and no 55mph driving was involved. As a matter of fact Marica has done about 60% of those miles while the other 40% was me doing 0-70mph runs at every stoplight and doing business miles in light traffic at 30mph or at night going 83mph. I'm pretty confident with more gentle miles & all the maintenance taken care of now we'll get close to 20mpg. This is not bad since the car is RWD, full size and hefty. It's also a lot less aerodynamic.

Fly: Sorry to hear about this THIRD accident. That sucks. Almost as if the car is cursed or something. In any case good luck getting it repaired quickly, and more so, correctly! Leaks are often a problem when a car is hit like this and repaired incorectly. Make sure the body-shop you take it to has a rock solid reputation.

Awsome Effin Party! (that's me last night using about 1/2 gallon of Lighter Fluid in 23 sec.)

Yes... very cool, please do post the photos. Old School Datsuns pretty neat... great for stuffing pushrod V8s into for awsome power-to-weight distribution.

To be honest my desire to buy a Cobalt is a mixed bag of emotions. I have to say that honestly about 66.7% of the reason why is so I can reward my favorite company i the world with a new car sale. I may talk a lot of hate, but I love GM and always will. From the LaSalle to Chevy & Oldsmobile to Opel. I love GM. I even liked Subaru, too bad GM sold it to the evil empire. After seeing the Camaro concept and having my dream of about eight years come to life like that I've found a new appreciation for the General.

Baby Ruth (cheap American Chocolate)

Exactly, she just proved that she's not worth your time anyway. Screw it. There's lots of fish in the sea.

That's the thing... you guys would think I'm an asshole who just beats the F#$@ out of cars all day but trust me, when the '59 Buick is my classic car I'll be doing all my Burnouts in the Datsun. I'm not going to beat on that car. I want a hardtop so I can cruise down the street, listen to Johnny Cash and Buddy Holly, perhaps on occassion some 1960s classic rock if I'm not in the mood for 50s Music. I'll take Sofia & Marcia out for Ice Cream and me & XP will take crazy roadtrips. What better excuse to take a roadtrip in a 1959 Bick than to go buy a scratch ticket.... from Maine. But when I get some serious power in the Datsun that car will become the beater, burnout, smokeshow, crazy freekin' drifting at the Mall paring lot, ice racing on a lake in the White Mountains kind of car. I'm going to get a turbo for the Datsun form the junkyard and do it up on a budget, if I blow up the Inline Six I'll stuff in a V8 or possibly a BMW inline six.

Well, my B-day is the April 10th. (monday) But Marica had been secretly ploting a suprise party. When I dropped off the baby at the in-laws I grabbed a few cigars from Ayottes and drove home. Mean time I was beggining to suspect that something was up. There was a few fishy things that seemed to point to a party of the surprise type. So I drive home & slowed down by the local pizza joint, it's called "Pizza Pizzaz" and they're litteraly an 1/8 of a mile away from the house. So I took a hard look in their huge parking lot but did not recognize any cars. Not the Egg, the Dodge Ram, Rustang Cobra, Beretta, Robin's truck... not one car was there that I'd recognize. So I was like, Woah... I guess we're not doing a suprise party after all. Then I pulled inot the driveway & parked the Infiniti next to Kevin's Ram 1500, his new Kawasaki ATV is strapped down in the bed, so I'm thinking we are just going to hang out wiht Kevin & his G/F Jenny. But when I open the door a flash goes off and a small mob screams "Surprise!". It was a cool party, XP715 & SpeedingPenguin showed up later and a good time was had all around. XP was playing Redneck Golf which got my G/F pissed but that's to be expected, it was a good party as partys go. ell it would have been perfect had there not been a few annanounced people who showed up. If I'm drinking etc. and a bunch of my buddys are over it's cool because we only invite people who are respectful and we can trust. But I'm in no mood for having friends of friends show up who I've neevr met or ever heard about. It's not the right vibe. I'm not in my own element and frankly I'm too old for this type of freekin drama. I'll be turning 27 tomorrow, this si like H.S. $h!, showing up annanounced and assuming you can crash a party even though you've never met the people before in your life. SpeedingPenguin was the youngest guy here and he was one of the most respectful people at the party unlike a few who just showed up unannounced. In any case I've made out pretty damn well with my presents this year! - My Dad & Mom got me a Laptop!!! (I'm C&Ging form the living room) - Marcia got me a whole bunch of clothes & two pairs of shoes, & some super cool boxers... Pink Floyd Dark Side of the Moon with the moon on the ass, and even better, a pair of Lynrd Skynrd boxers. Now that's a bitchin gift! - Audrie got me a really cool COLIBRI butane lighter wiht my last name engraved into it. And she got me a refil bottle cause she thinks ahead. - Ross (XP) got me a Datsun Bluebird Model - Speeding Penguin (Chris) burned a bunch videos of my recent foolishness onto a CD as Quicktimes! That's a super cool gift right there cause now I can post some of that sillyness. - Robin got me a gag gift (1:12th scale Suzuki Crotch Rocket model) but he didn't ave to get me anything since he hooked me up wiht a playstation 2 this past Christmas. For his B-Day last year Marcia & I mailed him a big Priority Mail Envelope full of discount Porn. - Kevin & Jenny got me a gift card to Autozone! Now that's a cool gift. - Chris & Izabela bought me a gift card to Trader Joes so I can fight off being home sick for Slovakia by scarfing down some good quality Chocolate of the hazlenuts, raspberry & German Milk Chocolate variety. I love that place... god it's the only place besides Lindt that has decent Chocolate in the USA. (I love American cars but the Chocolate & Beer we are not so good at) - Rich "Naydoe-Tornadoe" got me one of those briefcase-bags for my Laptop. And I'm sure I'm forgeting a few things.... like the wireless router, wireless optical mouse etc. BTW; Love those 2" wide white walls on that Bitchin Wagon. Perhaps if the payment on the Q comes out higher than we hope for I'll just start looking for a 1996 Fleetwood Brougham. that's both a classic car, a super comforteble Land Yatch with a Floaty Suspension & it's a Cadillac. Not just any Cadillac, the last true Caddy. No compromoises, no bull$h! just a super-fine looking body on a full size frame with a powerful pushrod V8 pushing the car down the road wiht two rear tires hidden under wheel-skirts. The reason why that's realistc is because I can still finance it. It's 10 years old this si the last year I can maybe pick up a low milage one without having to pay cash for it. As much as I would die for a 72 Boattail daily driver I live in N.E. and I can not subject a car like that to the salt and sand all over the roads here from Nov. to April. Plus I do not have $6000 cash to buy a classic with. I'll be lucky to get $4000 for my Camaro if I sell it wit the motor and take the money and run. Then it's 1959 B uick time! Alright I'm hungover and rambling... Thanks for the sugestions guys... all excellent vehicles that I would be proud to park in my driveway, except for the Lincoln LS, never been a big fan of the I"'m a BMW Lincoln". But it's still a LOT better than the Zephyr. Still shocked by the 15K original Fleetwood.... wow.

Man if I could finance tht I'd drive to Hawaii to pick it up!!! !5K is super low, after all my old F.B. had 185,000 when I sold it. I miss it ofen but the Q's land-yacht suspension has made me feel rright at home. Thanks for the suggestions guys, I'm in the middle of my Suprise B-day party so I gotta run.

Hiroshima

Dude.... I still can not beleive you'd part with that car. I'd rather sleep in the back seat and collect soda cans for a living rather than sell a car that rare. It's about as close to a modern day SD455 as you can get.

This might just be the coolest Datsun EVER. I'd love to won this baby! Listen to that SBC exhaust note with a hint of supercharger.

I'm not a fan of FWD Maximas but when I stumbled upon this I thought it was worth sharing. It's a 1999-up Maxima ad. and the portrayal of the Grim Reaper is classic. http://youtube.com/watch?v=CPdpmeNS5po&search=%20maxima

Wow... I'm not sure what to say. It sucks but on the other hand it could be much worse. Many people got screwed out of jobs at my dad's company with no pension, buyout, dignity... NOTHING.

Who knows about the headlights... it makes me mad that European designs have to be "dumbed down" for us. I guess we are preceived as a bunch of conservative pussys that drive Camry LEs.

Imune? How? Can I build up a tolerance by eating it or something?

But that's pretty stupid.. it will be a black sheep among the rest of the bills.

I'm going to go do this sometime at Pheasant Lane Mall for $h!s & giggles. My best friend Duffy did his senior thesis on the unnecessary demise of the F-body in it's 4th generation. He worked on this paper from 1999 to may of 2000. We actually met as a result of a mass email sent to the entire campus regarding his project and the Chevy dealer's involvemet. A part of this project was a simmilar random survey of cars on Connecticut & Mass roads in late 1999. His paper was the longest senior project ever at Bradford College. Since the school went bankrupt he'll havethis braggin right forever. It was 220 pages long IIRC.

Agreed. I'd love to own a R34 GTR Skyline though. Inline-6, Rear-biased AWD & turbocharged to boot. Sucks that they no longer use Inline sixes. With the exception of the Buick 3800 I think V6s suck compared to inline motors. One of the reasons why I love BMW and my little POS 1984 Maxima.

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I've been saying I'd get these uploaded since I joined the site in 2004. Well here they are: several videos of how I occasionally abuse my poor Camaro. The car is tough as nails, unrestored, pretty rough cosmetically and pretty much all of the mechanical hardware is factory save for the crate motor. Enjoy.... & let's see your own shenanigans too! * these are all only 15 sec. quicktime movies with no sound. They were taken with my ancient Nikon digital camera. This footage was taken at the same place where I did my burnout photo that got published in Car Craft. As a matter of fact this was only about 2 months after that photo was taken. July of 2004 or so. All of these videos are from 2004. Oooopps.... I drove over the leg of the tripod a little bit. Just a quick lap around the parking lot. I need a cameraman... this tripod bull$h! is not effective.

Alright let's try something new. We start off with a picture. When you view the photo/drawing/whatever you post the first thing that comes to mind... So for instance if the last post was a picture of the Canadian Flag and you think "Bryan Adams" then type Bryan Adams and post a new picture. It can be related to the last photo or phraze but it does not have to be. Like you could post a Hockey Stick as it relates to the Canadian Flag but you could also post Ghandi just for the sheer randomness of it. I'll start us off: Scion Xb and now my pic for the next person:

Once we get used to them I think people will like them fine. It's just the first time you see one that it seems shockingly different. They are much more counter-fit discouraging. I love European money and stamps... they make ours look plain and unartistic. Latest issue of all six bills: