Sixty8panther

nikivee: Great Colection. Thanks for sharing so many cool pics. XP: tell everyone how you FOLLOWED her to her house after she eluded you for a few months. Go over and ask her to trade straight up for Big Red... that's more her demographic anyway.

Who cares about it breaking when it's a POS product even when in 100% mint condition. Most Chinese cars are gross and horrible... even if they WERE reliable I'd never buy one. Wake up people! It's a communist country. Christ, am I living in Bizaro world.

Sounds like the decision is obvious and a has pretty much been made. Do I hear a few skeptics munching on foot? J/K

Wow... so cool.... Wow! Great post. B)

Fihian: My favorite part of your myspace site....

Food for thought. IN a parallel universe where bean counters do not exist the 2nd gen Camaro hardtop exists. I'm not sure exactly what the hardtop 1970 prototypes looked like and how big the rear rol down window was but I would imagine this is a good guess. Someday I'll do this to a 1970s Camaro wiht a banged up roof section/c-pillar.

Blathy: This is mildly depressing but of interest to you... that awsome junkyard I meantined in a previous thread that has a few hundred 1920-1970s cars... XP715 and me visited it again and my heart was broken... TWICE. That's right, a '59 Buick ragtop & a '59 Buick Flat top reside there... lonely and vandalised by a forklift... 99% junk. I just ran my hands down the fenders like a shell-shocked soldier on the beach in Normandy. So... depressing. The only consolation is that 90% of the cars's usable parts were already gone... hopefully on the road bolted to a running & driving '59 Buick. I'll post pics later. My digital died before we got to them... I took a 140 pictures of classic cars in ONE section of the junkyard alone... many group shots. We got to the '59s and it died... almost like it felt too depressing of a sceene to preserve in pixles. Anyway the good news is the other day I got Marcia to finally stop fighting me on the topic of me buying a '59. XP715 called me and told me about a 1962 Cadillac Flower car (I'm NOT making this up!) i the WantAd... knowing I like flower cars and 1961 Cadillacs he thought he'd mention it. I dialed the number he gave me like it was a 911 call and there was a half-dozen ax murderers in the house. My stubby fingers pushing down the numbers while my mind was racing. If this thing is savable I'll figure out a way to score the $1500 in the next 20 minutes and drag the car home with the Datsun if I have to. Three rings and a friendly "hello" from a middle aged male. I stumble over my words and explain I'm intereseted in the Cadillac Flower Car, he says: already SOLD... it was savable but needed a COMPLETE restoration. I hang up the phone and tell Marica about what jus happened. She says "I don't want no creepty Flower car... just get the 1959 Buick so we can BOTH enjoy it... flower cars are weird" So that seals it. It took less than 3 months to break her resistance. I'm in like Flynn. God works in mysterious ways.

Happy Birthday Balthazar. He mentioned earlier this week that today is his Birthday. All the best buddy. I hope that classic Cab-over Ford and Bubbletop Invicta are completed and giving you many safe miles and ear-to-ear smiles.

First off let me say I love all Camaros. I'd save a 4-cylinder auto 1983 one fron the crusher given the opportunity... just so were clear. But like anything i the real world I love differetn Camaros to varying levels. So here goes. 1967: first year, awsome car, likes: vent windows, dislikes: round blinkers on non-RS cars 1968: I own one. Nuff said. Sleek and Sporty. Makes 68 Mustang look very dated. 1969: Only year I like better than 1968, has for years been my favorite car of all time. Definately my favorite musclecar ever by a landslide. The sleek but muscular styling is just the tip of the iceberg. No other single-model-year car in the history of man has been offered with such an amazing variety of engines, trans, cosmetic trim, stripes, interior options, add on goodies fro the factory and race bred technology. By 1984 The 1969 Camaro was still ahead of it's time. Four wheel disk brakes available The first gen cars were also the first production cars EVER to get a functional rear decklid spoiler that was borrowed off the race version and was not cosmetic but necessary for aerodynamics. Hence all those many Trans AM victories. 1970.5: Great looking car... really is. But honestly I think a sad note in Camaro history. No more convertible... not more hideaway headlights, huge weight gains and those bulky doors are also awkward. The biggest problem I have with the 1970-2 Camaros? Everytime I look at them I see that stupid rear window delete. The car was supposed to be a hardtop but some retard itching for a promotion suggested that eliminating the rear window would save GM $18 per unit. True story. What, you didn't think that 3.5 foot wide C pillar was always awkward? So with the 2nd gen they killed the F-bodys compact dimensions, convertible and hardtop bodystyles were eliminated, it gained tons of weight and then to make things worse the fuel crisis killed performance while the safety Nazis killed elegant styling. ANd yet, even this poor dowtrodden car managed to sell like hotcakes durring the last years of the 1970s. Moving right along: 3rd gen cars: Yeah they started their life ball-less and with corny stripe packages, but given short change and a little ambition they cane be made into amazing super cars on a budget. Many a mean G-machine has been built off a 82-92 Camaro. Thsi si the Camaro of my childhood and it was an era when things were getting better all the time. Tunned port came out, the 350 returned, 1LE made for a great sleeper & t-tops aided the chick-magnet element. Anyone ever see that 1992? Camaro for sale in the DuPont Registry in the late 90s? It was one of the first of the big-money G-machines and supposedly was street legal and did 0-60 in under 3 seconds and the top speed was like 220 or something approaching the McLaren F1. 4th gen cars: I have a love/hate relationship wiht these. Along with their Pontiac bretherin they were the most performance orianted, no bull$h!, f*** ergonomics and political correctness muscle cars ever made. That crazy 65* windshield slope, the torpedo shaped fusalage & ridiculous overhangs were just too much. "Too much" in a good way and bad. By the late 90s I was really getting worried abotu "where the hell do we go from here" the next step in that design direction would have been a Countach. Anyway I do still slightly resent the lost sales that occured beacuse of this extreeme Camaro, but hell atleast the Camaro never got as lame as a lot of other cars. Almost getting discontinued because you offer too much perfornace bang-for-the-buck? That's kind of like getting kicked off the Hockey Team because you knock out too many teeth. Kind of a cool bragging right. And now for this 2006 Concept. Well, it's been eight years coming for me personally and I think that it's been worht the wait. A retro Camaro taht we can all love? YES PLEASE! B)

Cool. Small world.

This thread is in the twillight zone! Yesterday I saw a Renault Gordini for the first time in my life... It as at the junkyard next to a 60s Jaguar. I was laughing about the cool/dorky hardtop design combined wiht the webasto sunnroof. XP715 broke a vent window on it beacause he said it made him "angry just looking at it". It was the topic of conversstion off and on for the rest of the day. Hours later we were driving around in the Datsun and he's just like WTF is up wiht that Gordini. Jeeezus!

"Huh?" I think my post is pretty self explanatory. Talking on the phone while driving can be dangerous because it's a conflict between the left and right brain. I'm not saying I don;t ever do it, but I think overall I exercise more caution snapping a pic with my digital then trying ot figure out dinner on the phone with the G/F.

IMpressive, most impressive... but you're not a Jedi yet! Cause Effect

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fusea...iendID=29543936 Lemmings, all of us.

yeah I've had my share of lost connections sux when you type a post, click submit and it's lost.

yeah... the weather here has been very warm for January as well. It's been averaging like 40* in the middle of the day this past few weeks... two years ago same time of the year the average was like 7*. SO damn cold we had problems starting certain diesels. Me and XP715 contribute it to our efforts & contributions to global Warming. Me with the Camaro & Fleetwood Brougham and more recently him with "Big Red".

Since I got this POS NIkon digital in 2003 I don't think a week's gone by without me using it at least once on the road. Cruise on, 65/70mph on a four lane HWY is not the most unsafe place to be taking a pic. I'm not going it in the middle of an intersection for chist's sake. It's not like yakkin' on a phone where you're completely distracted due to the fact that it's a left/right brain conflict. Besides... I can drive a stick, eat chicken nuggets and looks for CDs at the same time. J/K

NOS that sig is AWSOME!!!! Dude taht car was born to wear dover white with hugger orange stripes. B)

That Solstice coupe is a favorite of mina and I think it fits your personality the best... HOWEVER... the Porsche one would complement OCNBLUs very well... sweet. still the Kappa Koupe is the way to go IMHO. B:

LOL @ WMJ I'm still loving that Valiant sig.

Not sure if it's GM... could be if this Crotch Rocket is made by Suzuki. I snapped this photo out the driver's side window of my Datsun summer of 2005... this chicks' butt is IMHO the definition of HOT.

34. Your political views are left of Castro but your Governor is a Republican Mr. Universe.

Holy cow... Kris is hotter than Phoenix in july. That 2002 Trans Am is nothing to shake a stick at either. Thanks for putting a smile on my face. I saw a really hot chick in a Cobalt the other day... she was a blonde with a kind face. About a year ago I gave the knowing look to a really hot MILF in Vernon Conn. She was very sexy and dressed for a corporate job. There was salt and snow on the side of the road and it was 20* outside but she was driving her C5 Vette to work. Sorry no pics right now.

Avanti: Do you live in Maine? It's such a cool state. Love Bar Harbor & Acadia... And the urinal looks like it's made of cardboard right? BV: Dude, you're creeping me out with these soft-core porn posing Lakefire: That shirt is AWSOME!

I'd love a Kappa Caddy... I really would but a car best suited to SCCA racing is not the priority right now IMHO. First they need a flagship that will dethrone the Bentley & Maybach. A modern day Deusenberg or Pierce Arrow. Instant classic, evry celerity, Sheik, Millionare with a napoleon complex will buy one. They can make a business case for it at $100,000 but it can really sell for more like $200,000 if need be. Next, now wiht the image of the ultimate luxury brand a $50-80 Deville replacement in two & four door variety would be great. Northstar V12 power in the high end model. After that a modern day RazorBack Eldorado for thier 6-series/CLK fighter. THEN (outside of updates & redesigns) a Kappa Caddy. [/wildest-fantasy]