Sixty8panther

There's another 25 minutes of my life I'll never get back. <_< :AH-HA_wink: And for the record this is the best I could get: WTF is the easter egg? I tried a few things of my own but did not manage to increase it past the 320s.

:cheers: :CG_all: :metal: :) YES!!! so true. (except my daily driver right now is a Datsun)

Nice legs, not so great hair do.... :blink:

My Datsun's inline six displaces 146 cu. in. (that's 2393cc) I'd love to stuff an Atlas six in that little Japanese paper lantern.

A couple months ago I tried to grow out a beard & musa-stache. Marcia said cease & desist. I hate shaving. Such a waste of time. And besides, how cool would it look if I had a ZZ-Top style beard... driving a flat black '59 Buick with a red glow coming from the grille. I can just imagine it. About 15 years from now, polishing the 12-gauge as Sofia's prom date shows up in some Riced out Scion. I'll just give him a dirty look and say: You so much as look at my daughter the wrong way and I'll drive that little Japanese fiberglass buckboard right up where the sun don't shine.

Nick's got man boobs.... J/K

Wow dude, I've always had respect for your amazing artistic ability but now I can say I agree with your viewpoint on life too. This is so true. 3rd trimester abortion is no big deal to some of the same people that complain about a person like this being executed. Makes no sense at all. Kind of like a professional car thief chewing someone out for stealing a loaf of bread. I think that murdering several people in cold blood is considered more than your average blooper. Maybe these people would like to send some flowers to Iraq to Saddam Hussein's two slain sons. Those two bastards died young. Think of all the raping and torturing they could be still doing if they were still alive. :wacko:

Well it's obvious where this guy come up with the idea. I almost forgot about that silly RAM concept.

Wow... sickest this I've seen in the past 40 minutes. :P http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAP...bayphotohosting

GM1: You're absolutely right buddy... my bad on that one. it's a 210 all the way and I must not have taken a good look at the trim since I did not notice that. Kind of a knee-jerk reaction on my part. It's kinf of expecte that these days that if it's a turqoise '57 it's a bel air. Same as how every red 1970 Chevelle in existance to day seems to be an SS. :P Fly: In the 1960s if you were paying Lincoln style prices you expected to have a hardtop optional if not standard like on many Cadillacs. Yes a 1961-64 Luxury car IS lame if it has posts. Sorry but that's how I feel. Now it's time for the inevidable 1959 Buick orgy. You knew it was coming. :wacko:

Time for some GM porn: 1956 Pontiac interior sketches... (4 door hardtops) 1957 Pontiac Chieftan 1959 Pontiac Flat Top (vista roof) too large to post: http://www.tocmp.com/brochures/Pontiac/195...Page_13_JPG.jpg Another '59 Poncho fishbowl Last one I promise: (last '59 I mean) 1961 Pontiac >>> do not click if you have a heart condition <<< 1965 Bonneville 1966 Tempest LeMans HT No it's NOT a GTO. It's a '66 Tempest Custom 4dr hardtop 1968 Pontiac Tempest LeMans And now for someting completely different: a 1959 Oldsmobile

Balthazar: Holy $hit I feel like a: I remember watching some movie as a kid where a few people are stepping to of a '61-ish Conti and it has the stubby pillars. I could have sworn it was a hardtop but I guess not. It's been about 3 or 4 years since I've seen one in the flesha nd up close and I guess I just always assumed that the chrome b-pillar rolled down with the window. Wow... that totally ruins Suicide door Lincoln sedqans for me. I'd never buy a sedan 1961-64 but I do still love the ragtops for obvious reasons. *thinking* Actaully scratch that! I'll definatelly buy a 4dr sedan at some point just so I can install the B-post and windows off a ragtop. THEN there will be at least ONE hardtop Lincoln continental form that era! Even this photo is very deceiving: doesn't it APPEAR like that's a hardtop? (just with the rear window up) You learn something new every day. 1961 Ford engineers: you suck! Moving right along as you've probably noticed I've got a thing for hardtop Mopars from the 50s and 60s... sme more nice ones right here:

WOW! :huh: Four things: 1. the front is gorgeous... detailed, visually pleasing... agressive. 2. The C-pillar is a bit too thick but who gives a F$#& when it's a HARDTOP! 3. It's a true H A R D T O P ! The first one from Mopar in like 20 years! 4. The interior is nice... not incredible but nice. Shifter is badass! P.S. I hope this is the first shot fired in the return of hardtops. The Camaro HAS to be a hardtop now.... If hardtops make their way back into these new musclecars that are hitting the streets in the next few years then I will have a lot less to bitch about. B)

well then might as wel call me a dolt. that's the Datsun's destiny as far as I'm concerned. I'm going to keep it looking 100% stock with those silly 14" 1980s rims and scuffed up bumpers. Going to the dragway with it is already fun... lighting up those rear tires and powershifting that little 5-speed, but imagine trippeling the horsepower (if I install my Camaro's 350) and yet only going up about 300lbs in weight. can you say S L E E P E R ? :metal:

Surrealist, sleek, strange ...call it whatever you want I think the current 5-series is the besst looking BMW in the past 10 years. Only the original Z3 compared for striking eegance.

CD/BP: Love the revealing photo... but O.J. was not a strangler he was /////er.

True.... same as most people can't tell the differance between a great bottle of Cabernet Savignon and the crap that comes in a box. WMJ: You sly fox you. Are you trying to make my heart stop? That '59 Electra 225 Riviera is one sexy bitch. Definition of car porn right there. Id take that over ANY car made in MY1959 including the Corvette and all the Cadillacs. Moving right along, here's some more sexy 4dr Hardtops: 1954 Buick 1957 Chevrolet & here's two 1958 Cadillacs. 2 roofs, 8 doors, Zer B-pillars. :) 1960 Dodge Dart 1961 Lincoln Continental EDIT: nevermind! 1962 Chrysler 1964 Oldsmobile Super 88 Holiday Hardtop 1965 Caddy Calais HT 1970 Cadillac SDV HT 1970 Impala 1971 Cadillac DeVille 1975 Pontiac Grand Ville Brougham HT

Someone give this guy a blue ribbon! :CG_all:

No one is MAKING anyone participate in any thread. If I think a thread is annoying, boring or old I don't post in it. Matter if fact I do not even have to read it. That's the beauty of free will. ------ Empowah: Yes, a suicide door 4dr (RX8, Ion QuadCoupe) does have a b-pillar that "attaches" to the roof and floor but your argument seems flawed to me. A car rolling over at high speed and coming down wiht all of its weight onto ONE post that attaches only at one hard point and has a piece of glass glued to it is pretty damn severe... I'd say just as if not more than a 30MPH impact into the side from a moving car. Inertia is inertia... there's stil two doors wiht metal strikers and hinges on the side of the car... regardless of the number of glass pillars. I happen to think todays technology can and WILL solve all these problems that you're refering to... I mean there's still a solid roof that helps to keep the car intact & can be designed to absorb some of the impact. In either case this was not supposed to be an agrument about 4dr Hardtops vs. 4dr Sedans. It's about the beauty and elegance that comes of this bodystyle coupled with some of the nicest bodystyes of 1949 to the mid 1970s With that in mind here's some other beauties: 1957 Pontiac Chieftan Hardtop 1960 Imperial Custom Southampton Hardtop Sedan 1967 Imperial LeBaron 1968 Mercury Park Lane Broughm 1972 Imperial 1972 Chevroet Impala 4dr Hardtop

Still better than a convertible where there is NO roof and no B or C pillar. If they can make a Solstice meet federal crash standards then this should be no problem. Frankly I'm pretty sick of all this liberal it's for your own good regulation. (no offense Empowah) Stuff like this makes me think of Communist CzechoSlovakia in the 1970s and 1980s. Convertibles were outlawed in the early 70s because they were considered by the government to be unsafe. When I came to the USA as an 8 year old kid in 1987 I had NEVER seen a convertible in my life. There were a few around but I'd never seen one wiht a few rare 30s/40s exceptions. So as far as I'm concerned I want 4 door and 2 door hardtops BACK. BTW: The 89-up Mercedes Benz SL's A-pillar is strong enough to not crush in a collision even if the car rolls over wiht highway styel inertia... so if made strong enough this stubby B-post could be made BETTER than a sedan's. And how about the Ion Quad coupe??? Supposedly (acccording to GM) it has BETTER side impact safety than the equivelant Ion Sedan. That car has NO fixed B-pillar... stubby or not.

Funky: I guess everyone has a crazy story like this. I agree (to some degree) about the victim settig things straight for the rest of us. Same as if and when I own a firearm it will be loaded with hollow-points. I'm not ever going to use it in anything other than self defense. Cars, jewlery, money... they can all be replaced but if I shoot someone in my own home in the defense of my family the bastard will not have a chance to get up off the floor & sue me.

I once read somewhere that in the first two decades of the 20th century there existed something like 1600 car manufacturers just in the USA. I'm sure many shared generic engines and such but still that's amazing. What an amazing time to be alive.

Z28 excelent point. :) Perhaps if Ford had redesigned the Panther cars in the late 90s or early 2000s it would have pushed GM's @$$ in gear. Croc: You logic is right in line wiht GM's Fu*k what people want just give them what's convenient and they'll kep comig back. After all every person who wants to buy a Caprice Classic is actaully a closet-Suburban fan. *sigh*

Stick a fork in it this thread is DONE! :)