Sixty8panther

HO HO HO Green Giant: Image Google search. :)

I just can't stop myself....

CHUD: Your posts make me cross-eyed. :P

Holy F***ing shit. Well that settles that. If I had at some point for some reason had an inclination to move to GB I'll NEVER live there now. The UK really is becoming our worst nightmare of Big Brother. Time to get Paranoid my Anglo-Saxon friends.

According to AW it's technically a mid engined car. The entire engine is behind the frton axle(s). Anyway this is the formula for the Mallett: + 4 decades

http://www.firestone-tire-recall.com/pages...uck_photos.html

Here's a 1961 T-bird. Yes, the blatant similarity is there. :) And the Corsair was actaully Englissshh!

Even though it lacked a steering wheel it was setup to accept "compact nuclear propulsion devices" Ha-ha... do you have any idea how much an ounce of Plutonium goes for these days! :lol: Still if it lasted 600,000 miles it would make for a bargain.

Oh BTW Ocnblu: You're HIRED! :P

Happy Birthday GMTruckGuy! Happy Birthday Fijian!

Same as ther probably would not have used 300 O since it would look like 3-thousand. Like I said I'm a sucker for chrome trim and emblems. I see your point Balthazar.

I've mentioned this car before: A few years ago I bought a "winter beater" 1983 Firebird since my daily driver for that Summer was my 1968 Camaro. I paid exactly $500 for it. It was towed and impounded twice before I finally registered it instead of just "transferring plates". I was taking this whole budget beater thing a little too seriously. Anyway this is the story of this glorious machine: The car was bought new for $12,XXX in 1982. It had a two tone white-over-black paint job like so many Firebirds & TAs from that era. T-tops, Stereo with cassette and automatic trans were the only options. Very spartan. It was probably bought by some Secretary. I can just imagine a 27 year old professional assistant with big hair buying this car when it was shinny and new. Going to the gym in it with pink & purple sweat bands on her head and arms... leg warmers & a Walkman the size of a Bible in her gym bag. He-he. Anyway back to the car: In the early 90s it was left for dead in a Junkyard with about 130,000 miles when the engine (305) ceased to run. I wish I had the real details but I just have only bits and pieces of the car's tale. Someone saved the car. (give them a medal!) And here's the best part... after they bought it off the junkyard with a salvage title (even though the car was never hit) they dropped a GM 350 truck cate engine into it. The passanger side exhaust was C-clamped to the manifold. No joke. The whole car was a loud, obnoxious exhaust leak. When I bought it the car had some wiring issues and it got to the point that I could be driving down the street steering with one hand while replacing a 25 amp fuse with the other without ever taking my eyes off the road. I went through about 70 [25 amp] fuses before I found the short circuit in the tail lights. I loved it though. '83 is the last year of emmissions exemption in Mass. That's all I cared about. Since someone had "touched up" the paint with a can of cheap white spray paint and it had leaked all over the side of the car and down onto the balck it was NOT a cosmetically pleasing car. One day I did some stop-gap bodywork to it and just decided to buy 4 cans of "Canary Yellow" Spray paint at Wal*Mart. The results of that can be seen in the photo below. It's not like I have any dignity or self respect. :P In the year and 14K miles I owned that Firebird there was only one time I opened the hood except to check/change the oil. I hit a speed bump at like 30mph and the cable fell off the battery. I replaced the cable, reprogramed my stations inot the radio and set the clock and that was all I ever did for maintenece. I did open the hood here and there to show off the shinny almost new "Goodwrench 350" stickers on the valvacovers and the underhood documentation by a Chevy dealer that it was a fresh 350 crate motor. Later in the spring when the car had 190+ thousand miles I painted it flat black. I took off the t-tops and drove it to the Worcester Summer Nationals Burnout Contest in 2003 and did a world class smokeshow. Thick, white, noxious smoke mixed with hot carbon monoxide and sticky chunks of tire rubber flying through the air. On the back of the car I wrote in glass chalk: $700 o.b.o. As I was removing the blown rear tires with a 4-way a kid even younger than me approached me and said he loved the burnout, he asked if I'd take $500. I ended up throwing in a set of 25th Anniversary seats and installed them in place of the worn ones that were all faded and under TWO sets of seat covers. I hope that somewhere out there a flat black '83 Firebird is still driving around with 1992 Camaro seats (with Camaro stitching) and doing burnouts in Dunkin Donuts parking lots. Balthazar: Love that double-bubble in your sig. :)

Gotta love the Holley Carb. ad... there's also a Stromberg ad in the other thread I posted: http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums/index...st=0#entry61186

Razor: that's a good comparison. exactly.

I'd love to own one jus for the entertainment value. It would be worht buying the truck just for the conversation at the registry. Lady looks at the title/registration and goes: Serious;y, enough joking around... where's the REAL paperwork. That is the real paperwork. "Dodge Dude"??? :blink: Yes, that's correct.

Ding Ding DING! What does he get Johnny? A lifetime subscription to Cheers & Gears! Congrats Razoredge! :P

Oh man I love this trivia thread. Waht a hoot. Here's the crazy irony: A car by this same name WAS imported to Australia but was a rebadge of a previously stated product. AND here's another crazy hint: It shares it's name with a WWII fighter plane BUT it's not the one you're probably thinking of... although the more commonly thoght of and famous once did spawn a car by this same company and the concept fo that car shares it's unique engine type with this car. no joke.

LOVE IT!!!!!! I'm a sucker for old schoolemblems. Even if it is just plated plastic.

Those gothic rims are top notch on a 3rd gen ragtop. :D

American Muscle Musclecars from the Otis Chandler Collection by Randy Leffingwell If you're a fan of Muscle cars & you don't own this book SHAME ON YOU! :AH-HA_wink: I'm kidding. Mostly. The Great Camaro by Michael Lamm I've got like seven other books about the Camaro but this one is by far the best in terms of telling the true story of the 1st generation of the F-body. Art of the American Automobile by Nick Georgano Page 166 shows the tallest and most overdone fins on any car I've ever seen in my life. An experimental 300C wiht side scoops almost like a mustang but more elegant and subtle and the tail fins are about 8" away fomr being higher than the roof of the car... also the tail lights foreshadow the '67 Razorback's.

Some more... And look waht the cat dragged in.... a couple of 1961 Continental prototypes: Check out the MISSING B-pillar. Too bad the production version did not stay true to concept. I'm still feelng shell shocked from this whole no hardtops after '60 thing. But at least I know I'm not going crazy since I've seen this photo before.

My friend Ross said it best: The ad for that product should have a testimonial. Something like this: "The Bailey Auto Heater keeps my 1911 Dodge so warm and cozy that my wife fell asleep after riding along with me for only a few minutes. Three years later she's STILL in a coma. A nice, relaxing, peaceful coma. Now I can fu*k the secretary without fear of getting caught." Thank You Bailey Auto Heater Co. Sincerely Benjamin Bradford Bloomingdale III

NOS: I was just trying to say something retarded to make the picture appear even funnier than it already is. It's an early 60s? Dodge COE 8-lug dump, and says "8 cubic yards" on the dump body but then advertises water drinking... W T F ? :wacko: For some reason I love dumb $hit like this.