Sixty8panther

Thsi thread brakes my heart. GM really should have done exactly what 61Elkamino suggests. I've said things to that effect as well. Remember, one thing that makes the Mustang a sales success is the fact that 65% or so are V6 Grocery getters.

Well, I'm joking abotu the Beer Truck it's just the photo seemed to write the caption when I downloaded it. Kind of a funny Juxtaposition. Anyway just gave XP a ride in the Q. We had to go to Stop&Shop real as soon as Marcia got back from her Grandmothers. We needed stuff... real bad. Like ummm... cookies and a Balloon for Sofia... yeah taht's it. Yes of couorse we just went for a joyride, it was fun. I love this car. SO much more upscale than the old STS, and no I'm not knocking Cadillac just it's FWD, high hard-milage & super low roofline. Unlike the Rib-wich guy I do not have-a-de Buyer's remorse.

Not smart Bro... someday you'll have a cheesy fiberglass body kit occupying your back seat. I've done it to people who were REAL jerks to me first but since I had Sofia in the car wiht me today when it happened I just got the hell away from him and hoped he did not kill someone else. This was totally unprovoked. I was doing like 40mph in a 35 and this asshole cut me off so bad I went from 5th gear to 1st by the time it was over. Idiot. If you're in a hurry, go for it... Cut me off and fly away in you litle POS KIA, but if you cut me off like your wife is bleeding from the Juggular and you need to get to the hospital and then you go 10-bellow the limit it's grounds for a ticket IMHO. YD: I guess it was US only... I see them everywhere in this color or silver.

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Happy Birthday guys... may your day be more 97 Infiniti than 88 Blazer... in other words: best wishes.

The Colbalt, if I get it will be replaced only when I can afford a 5th gen. Camaro. Even if it is just a V6, I will buy one & drive the wheels off of it wiht all four windows down even in the wintertime. And yes, you're right. I think after getting tens-of-thousands of miles for pennies on the dollar in 1987 F.B. d'Elegance Cadillacs & 1983 Firebirds it's going to be nice to ahve a modern car, nevermind a brand new one wiht a warranty. Drumroll Please: & now I officially present the newest addition to the fleet. A 1997 Infiniti Q45. This was about two minutes before Marica drove away in the Q with me behind her in the Datsun. What a caravan. :wink: At the time of delivery the car had 103,779miles. On the way home I got real thirsty so we decided to Hijack a Coors Light truck... Sofia drove the Datsun home & I had drove the truck into the Merrimac River after we emptied out the beer into my basement. :wink:

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How about a thread of just Drew Barrymore pics?

I wasn't kidding. I'm a mental basket-case and I'd just keep the Maserati off the roads inthe winter. (still have the truck & Datsun for that) It would be pretty sweet to drive that to an Import show and say: You think this is a weird car, you sould see my Datsun "Four-Door-Sports-Car"

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My family had 3 J-bodys from the late-80s to the mid-90s. My parent's first new car ever & also first car in the USA was a 1989 Chevrolet Cavalier RS sedan. Now my parent's have 2 Grand Ams and are considering buying a new car to replace the 97 Ga with. I'm hopping they go for a Cobalt or HHR.

Guys, I know it's my own fault for writing a novel but you didn't read my original post. We 're still getting the Q45. As a matter of fact we OWN the Q. Last night we handed over a cashier's check for $7495 thanks to Marcia's Grandmother. WE'll be making payments to her. She's awsome, always a lifesaver. When she foud out our interest rate was going to be about 10% she told us to just have her buy it out-right and we can make payments to her. Must be some of that good Karma comming our way. The Infiniti is being safety checked & the oil is being changed as we speak. We're picking it up around noon, but legaly Marcia already owns the car outright. CadillacKing3: Since Marica has a fantastic four door now I'm free to get a coupe for myself. I'm only buying a Cobalt if it's a coupe. It'll be the car for solo trips or just myself while the Q will be for family trips &/or Marcia. The 2 door Cobalt has great looks. The mini-1961 Bubbletop Impala Look is very appealing to me wiht the swooping c-pillar and roud tail lights. THe sedan lacks these elements and it looks frumpy to my eyes. bobo: I don;'t begrudge you for owning a Lexus IS300, I think they're fantastic cars btu I could not bring myself to buy a new Toyota. Besides I'll be keeping my Maxima for a fun RWD car... and that has an inline-six and IRS. daves87rs: You have to rememebr buddy before the Maxima my last daily diver was a 1986 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham. I'm not ready to go that small. [/spoiled brat] empowah: Way ahead of you on the Mini. But just like the Cobalt SS, it's out of my price range. I'm still keeping a few otehr vehicles and not ready to trim down the fleet to nothing just to afford ONE economy car. The Mini is a great car but if I was to get one I'd want the S anyway and that is way out of my price range I do however love the "English Panther Black Leather" interior on the Mini Cooper. Too bad Marcia HATES the styling. Now as far as Ford goes the only new one I'd consider would be from a local dealer that has some loophle where you can drive away with a black base fleet car with the spotlight on mounted on the A-piller and body side molding delete on the dirver's door. Nudge-nudge, :wink: :wink: Already priced it out, not going to happen. regfootball: You have some great ideas but I've got my heart set on the super-cheap and very appealing Cobalt Coupe. The reason I will not look at certified pre-owned is because a new car is much easier to finance at a good rate, and if I'm buying almost new might as well pony up and give GM a new car sale. Make no mistake about it, if the Camaro concept was not a reality I would not be supporting Chevy wiht a new car purchase. They came through and did the right thing and now, I might thank them wiht one new car sale. 2005 EquinoxLS: I'm not kidding when I say I will go out of my way to drive RWD in the snow. I'm not abotu convention and to me kicking out the tail of a rwd car and taking a corner like a pro while the rear wheels are spinning in 3" of snow is like the adutl version of Disneyworld. Esp. when some timid Soccer mom is having trouble getting around in her Sienna. I'm damn near an expert in driving a RWD in horrible snow, but I have over the ten years I've had my lisence smartend up and gotten better about good tires. I used ot get stuck once in a blue moon but it was usually cause I was driving across some iced over cow-path in 2 feet of snow in a Firebird with 3-bald tires. Litteraly. Ocnblu: As long as she has the Q and can drive that anywhere, anytime she doesn't care if I get a Vette so long as the payment is realistic once we get a house. If I could afford $21,000 after taxes I'd be ordering a Solstice. Camino LS6: Seriously ponders paking a black 1986 Maserati BiTurbo next to a Infiniti Q45 in my mental garage.... Wow, that would be super cool. Only thing is you can't atke my STS in trade which is a MUST so I can erradicate that payment, and I would not be able to finance anything older than 1996, or like 1994 at the VERY oldest. ToniCipriani: No matter, the sedan is not my cup of tea.

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The specific car I've picked out through the dealer inventory Search is $14,140, that puts me at about exactly what I can afford. In reality even that is not a sound financial plan but it's feasable. You'd think that... the Cobalt will probably not see a lot of snow since I specifically drive RWD cars in snow for the fun factor. I'm really not all talk adn no action when it comes to living the RWD lifestyle year round. Besides.... my Sunbird used to suck in the snow, even with almost brand new tires I had to launch it up my parents driveway at like 45mph to avoid sliding back down the hill. WMJ nailed it. I am unstable and a little in the head. Besides, I still have 4 other RWD cars if you count the Blazer & Volvo Demolition Derby car.

It's already been discussed. G/F says if I keep the Cobalt four years, the longest I've ever kept ANY car except my '68 Camaro, I can trade it in on a new Camaro. Boo-Yeah! The 1959 Buick purchase I would not trade for a dozen Qs or hundred Cobalts.

The 5/60 warranty... standard CD player, kickass interior & my respect for the Ecotec since I rented an Opel Astra in Slovakia back in 2001 have made me reconsider my anti-FWd stance. Damn, I was all set to take a photo of the "Fleet" with the Infiniti, Blazer, Camaro, Datsun & Volvo. and make a caption that would say "Panther Fleet: Now 100% RWD" Kind of like my old one.

You might have trouble beleiving this... it's very unexpected & sudden. you ready? no seriously, this is earth shattering... I might be buying a FWD car for myself. No I'm not joking, I'm being 100% serious. Nothing's been finalized but it's a possibility. So here's the scoop. I've been on waiting impatiently for four days now for the Infiniti deal to go through. Long story short financing a 1997 anything wiht 103K miles is tough with all the complications in our credit in terms of buying a house etc. So in order to lower our interest rate to at least single digits if not like 7% we talked to Marcia's grandmother today abotu her co-signing. Her response? To heck with paying interest to some bank, I'll get you a cashier's check for the full amount and you can make the car payments to me... sans interest. Go Gram. This woman has done so much for us it's hard to describe. She's awsome in every way and this si just icing on top of the cake. Not out of character but stil surprising that she's that generous. It's not like she's got tons of money or anything like that. So long story short the dealer flat out tells me to keep my STS because he will not give me more than $800 for the car since the windshield is broken & the air shocks/struts are bad. Supposedly this is what a 1997 Cadillac STS with 143,900 miles & in the same shape brings in at the Auction. I think his original $1500 was fair but whatever. The point is that we're back to sqaure one wiht the STS. We no longer want to invest money in the car & want to stil trade it in. So I call my buddy Kenny & then my old coworker U& friend Mike who are wholesalers & have told them to look for a cheap 1996 B-body for me. Any B-body. Olds C.C., Caprice, Roadmaster, Fleetwood.... just as long as its a clean B-body about 100K at the very most. But then Marcia brings up a great point... if we're going to go up in payment why buy another used car? So here were are five hours later I'm 95% sure that by two weeks form now I'll be driving a 2006 Chevrolet Cobalt base coupe in Rally Yellow with a 5-speed. So there you have it. My insistance on buying RWD lead me to buy a Japanese luxury car which in turn made me guilty about not sticking with GM and therefore I might take one for the team and buy a Cobalt. I mean FWD gets HUGE negative points from me but that is the olny bad thing I can say about the Cobalt. It gets an "A" in every other category. Styling, interior, quality, value, performance & I can get a great 5-speed manual. What seals the deal is the fact that Chevrolet would get one more new car sale. I would be participating in giving Toyota a big F-you with my wallet. And besides the Cobalt ios the one car in the Chevy lineup that should be FWD... econoboxes with FWD are okay as long as they're well enginered. The two things I MUST have is a 5-speed & Rally Yellow exterior. So what do you guys think? P.S. Did I meantion I'd put a big "Toyota Sucks" sticker on the rear bumper?

Oh.... it's $h!, I get it. I thought it was chocolate pudding. :rotflmao:

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.357 Magnum (it'll blow your head clean off!)

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YD: The Excursion (I mean Navigator) still looks worse... I'd much rather drive a badly damaged Cadillac. At least it was a great looking vehicle at one point and the local bodyshop can always return it to normal. I think Oldsmoboi has the best one so far. So very true! Although I would have posted an Armada.

Initial purchase price: $300 (no title made registration a bit tricky but I'm a pro) Maintenance: $140 (tune up, a few oil changes, rear end fluid change & new battery) Repairs: $22 (clutch fan off of a 300ZX and a few miscelaneous bits & pieces) Rice Accessories: $43 (replaced Nissan emblem on grille w/ older, worn Datsun emblem etc..) You know that thing really has been the perfect Beater. Only my 1983 Firebird comes close in terms of the Bang/Buck ratio.

How can I vote when there's no Slovakian on there? At least put Czechoslovakian, me and GT1750 will be sure to justify it wiht our two votes. :AH-HA_wink: Outside of my own Eastern European foods that I grew up on I think Italians heve it fugured out. Rich, heavy, hearty breads, mouth watering pasta & herbs galore. God, I'm starving now and I just te two blueberry "Waf-fulls". { "Hey Marcia: Let's have Olive Graden for Breakfast!" }