Sixty8panther

Wow! Graet post. Beautiful.

Oh man, I love it!

45 seconds ago I was hungry... now thanks to Ocnblu I"m freeekin starving!!! Although, since we're onthe topic of food. Last night me and Marcia had our 4 year anniversary. We went out to a really fancy restaurant that we reserve for only once or twice a year for special occaisons. It's called Cafe' Escadrille & it's in Burlington. We had stufffed mushrooms for an appetizer. She ordered the prime rib. while I had my usual: Steak & Lobster Grilled 8 oz. tenderloin steak with Bordelaise Sauce. Served with a baked stuffed Maine lobster tail. I can not even begin to describe how awsome this restaurant is. Just incredible. God I'm so hungry now. The funniest thing was both of us laughing as I pulled out ono Rt.3 and left the parking lot... amist the Cadillac Escalades, BMW 7s, Range Rovers & a new Rolls Royce is this 1984 Datsun wiht a squeaky left rear wheel bearing. Marica just laughed and said "well, we sure won the prize for shityest car in the whole parking lot award". I laughed and said I saw two Camrys in the back and she was like "They were brand new!" To which I replied "I'd STILL rather have a 146K mile Datsun instead of selling my soul." http://www.cafeescadrille.com/

Yup the kind I find floating around in my bathroom before I flush. :ph34r:

I was goingto say they can't be all that new since I've had mine haning on the wall for a year+ and it was used on a vehicle for a year.... These came out in 2000. Californi entered the union in 1850. http://www.mce.k12tn.net/civil_war/compromise_of_1850.htm

150 year anniversary of the founding of the state. I've already got one of these in my plate collection. Ebayed it. :)

Okay then, I thought this was supposed to be a series of one liners... but since it has turned into a tennis match: Some closed minded people find it disturbing when an automotive manufacturer makes a vehicle that does not conveniently "fit" into a current segment. If it does not belong in a convenient little box then the marketplace will never support it and it will be disturbingly unsuccessful. Even more disturbing to these people is when a manufacturer CREATES a niche with a new product that has absolutely no history or track record of success. That kind of gamble is the most disturbing of all to people who are afraid of risk taking. But this is why vehicles like the Chevy Avalanche/Cadillac EXT, Cadillac CTS-V and Dodge Magnum are so awsome. They disturb the status quo. More disturing in my oppinion is the complacency to come up with NO new ideas because it might rock the boat.

The most disturbing thing to me about the 2006 Cadillac lineup is the lack of a RWD land yacht sedan with a hardtop greenhouse.

Do it!!! You'll ahve a balst, learn a few things and earn people's respect at the same time. BTW: ASC/McLaren only converted 547 Grand Nationals inot the coveted and rare GNX. It doubled the price of the car and these days colector's prices show it. It's as close as you could get to a Yenko Camaro in 1987. A large percentage went to the feds and local law inforcement. I know where #302 out of 547 is garaged. :D

Nice fu*ked up Windstar! :alcoholic: I'm surprised BV has not commented on the Fiero in the background. :D

I bet they got $0.25 for them too. :rolleyes: Sorry I'm still not liking those bulbous wasp-eye headlights.

Actaully it just used to be the year of issue. Many states used to be like that. I'm a pretty rabbid License plate collector and have a lot like this. Collecting License plates is the only thing that's almost as cool as collecting antique cars. :)

Funny you should say that... me and Ross were talking about evil things one could do to a car that would be funny. I said it would be great to be a Superhero with a car crusher. Drive around with a portable car crusher, (18-wheeler) and one of those magnetic arms and just pick up every ricer in sight, crush it into a cube and leave "Fashion Police Citation" on the remaining cube. Then on the opposite end of things, leave a cashier's check for $20,000 under the windshield of any beat up old American car in need of rear quarters, a left fender and a grille. A note attached would read: this money to be used only towards the restoration of your (1969 Oldsmobile 442). --- OR --- How funny would it be to T-bone some rare POS overglorified Import car in a scummy, flat black 1959 biscayne or a '37 Chevy Rat Rod Pickup? Id' step out of the black beast, radiator hissing & snarling, steam pouring out of the twised metal, the grille looking like the mouth of Jaws. Just calmly walk over to the guy at fault. His 2005 McLaren-Mercedes SLR AMG one-of-one produced in Razor-Red it totaled, ripped in half like a loaf of bread and he's having a hissy-fit! "Do you realize what kind of car this is? This is an SLR, It cost me $700,000 all togeather after the AMG package!!! It WAS the only one like it in the world before your ugly shitbox rammed inot the door at 50mph!!!" I'd step back and say: "You greedy, stuck-up Son-ova-bitch! DO YOU have any idea how hard it's going to be for me to find a replacement grille for my Chevy on eBay!? Fu*k your snobby german shitbox!" Even more satisfying would be the destruction of an Acura NSX, Lexus SC430 or Maybach. You can say it: I've spend WAAAAAAYY too much time thinking about this. :D

You Sly Bastard! :P

Dr. Seuss character? I'll buy that. I think I'll buy a green one & geet a GRINCH vanity plate. :)

There's a guy with a twin-engined Turbo SAAB that's pretty cool too. Gotta love those insane Sweeds. :)

Yes, I've already sent off my 49 cents to Paris France for a set of detialed instructions as to how to make a set of my own using nothing more than "things that can be found arond the house" plus a roll of duct tape and four shower heads. :P

Anyone.... anyone? Bueler?

If I had that kind of money I'd buy a late 30s V16 Cadillac instead. Now that's STYLE and exclusivity. Bentley himself said the word "automobile" falls short of describing the Cadillac V16.

That plasticky brush-guard thing is gross. :blink: But the torque-thrust style rims are hotter than July in Phoenix! :bowdown:

This past Wednesday I opened my mailbox to find a package from my best friend & fellow car enthusiast Jonathan Duffy. This made my day before I even opened the package because Duffy never dissapoints in the gifts department. Last time I got a package from Duffy it was a Haynes Repair Manual for my 1984 Datsun Maxima. He managed to track down a copy in some bookstore in the middle of Arizona. Just south of Cactusville and west of Sand Hill. :P Well this time for a Christmas present he managed to find me a near-mint copy of the classic magazine Motor Age from December 17th 1914. So that makes it exactly 91 years old as of today. The print quality & photos are in exceptional condition and I'm quite shocked to see how little damage/fading/yellowing this bundle of papers has sustained. I wanted to share some of this amazing find with you guys. Here's a few pages, more to follow in a few days. In the mean time check out this trivia that I've set up: http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums/index...?showtopic=4082

While flipping through my ninety-one year old edition of Motor Age magazine I decided to make a quick trivia question. It's very simple, true or false in fact. Good luck & no cheating, just in case you have a copy of the Dec. 17th 1914 issue. All the questions pretain to this issue of M.A. magazine. 1. True or false? The "Detroiter" made by the Briggs-Detroiter Co. cost $985. Some interesting features included a full floating rear axle, red electric flash oil gauge, carburtor above frame, left hand drive & multiple disk clutch in oil. 2. True or false? A California Motorist ascended a very steep grade by using a external feed line & a broken bottle filled with gasoline. He lifted the bottle with the attached fuel line above his head after the car was driven up too steep of a hill for the gravity fed carbureter to function wiht the standard gasoline tank. 3. True or false? A 1914 Republic Motor Truck 3/4 ton with express body, internal gear drive cost $995.00, while a 1 1/2 ton chassis cost $1475.00 4. True or false? An advertisement in the back of the magazine brags about "Racing Type Roadster Seats" "Made of heavy gauge leaded steel, rolled edges... upholstered in black muleskin, $23/pair, or $25 for leather. The address is a "AUTO PARTS COMPANY" on Jackson Blvd in Chicago, Ill. 5. True or false? There is an article with this title: "The Amish Religious Sect Accepts the Motor Car" Central Illinois Colony Has to Rescind Action 6. True or false? The Rexo II was the lowest priced electric horn obtainable at $3.85 while the Aeromobile Exhaust Horn of the Fulton Company required no up-keep expense. 7. True or false? The Hoover Mud Hook was a paddle-like device designed to help the car dig itself out of mud or sand. It was manufactured in Boston Massachusetts by the W. H. Hoover Company. The "hook" attached to the tire with special tanned rawhide straps. 8. True or false? The Jackson Automobile Company advertised their $1650 "48"-six & $1375 Olympic "46" with the slogan "No hill too steep, no mud too deep". 9. True or false? This is the title of the article on page 22: "Washington Puts $13,000,000 Into Its Highways" State Accomplishes Wonderful Results in 2 Years 10. True or false? A Bailey Auto Heater, manufactured in New Castle Pa., worked by redirecting the exhaust gases into the cabin of a closed or open car. It was claimed to be completely odorless & noiseless and yet it reduced back pressure and increased horsepower. Good luck! :)

So I've been talking about buying a 1959 Buick of some sort for a couple months now. I'm dead set on doing it as soon as the Camaro goes off to a good home and as of last week I've made the first step towards completing this mission. I'm now the owner of 0.03% of a 1959 Buick. I bought a '59 Massachusetts License Plate from a classic car junkyard the other day. Set me back a cool $3.00 too. I was walking along with my buddy Ross and I glance at a 1950 Ford and notice a "59 MASS" plate on the back of it. It only took me about 20 minutes to get the damn thing off the back of the car since it was rusted on like a porthole on the Titanic. Now all I need is to buy a passanger side fender, the driver's headlight trim and trunklid for a '59 and I'll tell Marcia "but I HAVE to buy the rest of the car, look at how much I've already collected for the eventual purchase" For 1959 Mass plates had a burgundy background with white text. This one was one solid color: RUST. I cleaned it off with a dirty shop rag & then sanded down the characters/header. N66-477 seems easy enough to remember.

Cool... if I win the lottery I'll pay you double KKB on it. :)

eh, wahtever... not like it's a contest. ... right? :blink: :lol: