Sixty8panther

3 years and 40,000 km is definately time for a new air filter. It's pretty damn important for you engine to get oxygen down to the combustion chamber for everythig to work properly... as far as the plug THEY were probably the idiots who damaged it. Either way I'm not feeling a good vibe about that, but it could have just been it was tossed already.

Happy to report that the ancient air ride system in my Brougham is still 100% perfect shape. I can jack the car up so high the front bumper almost touches the ground. Seriously. Stil have not had a chance to install the air ride setup from Arnott ($650 delivered) in ym G/F.... STS. It needs them BAD. The car has been driven all of 50 miles in the past 2 months. I'll get around to it as soon as work slows down a bit and it finally stops raining.

I'm 95% in agreement with the last few threads... esp. this last one. Between the Riviera, Roadmaster sedan/wagon, Regal/Century & Park Ave./LeSabre it seems Buick has taken the biggest "hit" of the GM Brands in the psat few years wiht the obviuos exception of Olds, who is no more. As much as I despise the cancelation of the B/F bodys Chevy still has a few "core" products but the slate has ben wiped clean at Buick. I love Buick so it saddens me to say that it seems as if it is going to hell in a hadbasket. When the "Minivan" in the buick lineup is the most handsome one it would seem we have a problem.

Yes, my spelling sucks, let's start a separate thread to talk about it. I was nine years old when I learned english and coming form a culture/country where everythign is phonetic it's kind of hard to learn perfect spelling in english. I think we established that my spelling is as bad as Paris Hilton's acting a while ago. (like the day I joined this forum) Half of it is my horrible typing skills... which is why you see words like "Caamro", "Wehn" and "teh" so often. My typing skills suck and I do not take the time to type slow as I'm always in a hurry, even when relaxing. I'm a bit hyper. Most people who don;t know me suggest I cut down on Coffee not realising I do not drink any. Anyway getting back on the toipc at hand... Why do you think English is the only language to have spelling bees? No toehr language is as fudged up and miscombobulated as American English. No phonetics, no real rhyme or reason to the rules or grammar... very odd language. At least I learned the language unlike some people who live here.

I love Buick, not for what it currently is but for what it was back in the 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s 80s, and even 90s. and more importantly what it COULD be. I went to the website the other day and was kind of saddened by the lackluster model lineup and crappy model names. With a rich history of awsome names like Century, Electra, Invicta, Riviera, Roadmaster, Regal, Centurion, LeSabre, Park Avenue, Super, Special, Skylark, Grand Sport, Grand National, Wildcat you'd think at least a fe of them owuld be used to resurrect the brand, but nope... instead we get two cars and two SUVs. WTF? This is not the Buick that's going to win backl serious sales. There was another Brand that was fouled up by GM management. They failed to gain a decent amount of new customers while they alienated all their core customers... what was that brand again... oh yeah... Oldsmobile. Even when they went under they atleast had three car models. All of their names were new and clever sounding. Alero Intrigue Aurora Silohuette Bravada Now it's Lacrosse Luscerne Randevous Rainer Pretty pathetic. Let's hop[e history does not repeat itself this time. It seesm GM is either blind, stupid or both. Either way they sem to be setting up another brand for a nasty fall. Why do you have to F**** everythign up GM? :angry:

I want to like this car as much as everyone else but all I see is a 2002 Nissan Maxima with a vertical grille. At first all the hype got to me but now I'd just rather have a nice used P/A ultra, even the No* does not make up for it's underwhelming styling.

If there was a way to just "wipe" one person from their existance on this space-time-continium M. Moore would be in the top three. Hillary Clinton might beat him out though, that carpet-bagging bimbo. Nader would be in the top 10 BTW.

Where's the "other" option for Jamie Lee Curtis and others like her? :ph34r:

The higher the horse the harder the fall. I'll be mentioning this next time a friend/coworker/relative mentions the 'fantastic' Prius. But like FoG said this wil be hushed up and forgotten unlike any recall GM has had, or ever will have.

Last gen. Park Ave. -- S O L I D --

with the exception of the porthole motif which is kind of neat the Luscerne looks like ass compared to this: This car makes the typical new Lexus or Acura look like a 1995 Hyundai.

That's it right there in a nutshell. 100% on the money.

RBB: FoG is going to kill you. :P I get a few a month telling me I'm a narrow minded FWD hating idiot.

Yellow Dart: Exactly... waht I forgot to mention and yopu touched upon was that the most dangerous accident is stil with a tree, stone wall, telephone pole or whatever else will not budge at all when hit by a car/truck. Look at how Princess Di bought the farm. If they had hit another car, or a guardrail thta would budge slightly she'd probably be alive. But at 120mph into a cement post she ended up with small fragments of radiator embeded in her chest. No joke. Stil they say wiht a seatbelt she might have even survived that. So as much as these tests err on the side of mildness sometimes even in the real world people survive the unthinkable. And this was an SL300.

So true! This is a great and beautiful country and someday I hope to travel to all 49 states in some old school classic car (with updated mechanicals). Hawaii I'l fly to. :P Imagine going coast to coast and everywhere in between in a 1961 Cadillac ragtop powered by a 4.4 SC Northstar. Or a 1969 Camaro wiht an LS6. Or perhaps I'll get the big huge motorhome with a car in tow on a trailer.... a '70 Trans am? or a '59 Electra. Sweet. That being said the most exciting roads I'ev ever driven were in my home country of Slovakia. Imagine going up a mountain road in a 2001 Opel Astra 5dr in 1st gear at 15mph and you're at 4500RPM. It litterally feels like the road is going up at a 45* angle. Crazy stuff. There's places where the guardrail is 5 feet tall so if your brakes go out you don't go flying off a 300 foot high cliff. Or (also 100% true) imagine driving 130 kmph in a 100 kmph zome on a two lane road in Austria in your little rental Astra and having a guy in a BMW 5-series wagon (combi) pass you at what seems like 200 kmph (120mph) while giving you the finger for holding him up..... and he's got two kids in the backseat. :blink:

Check out these classics on Ebay right now. They're not going for a fortune but saddly I can't afford them. Always nice to dream though. :) 1961 Cadillac Coupe Deville 1961 Cadillac Fleetwood Limo 1955 Oldsmobile Eighty-Eight Holiday 88 2nd gen. Corvair Saved the best of last! :wub: 1959 Buick Electra 225

- Arizona is awsome to visit in the winter. - Despite the preconceived notion that you can speed in the middle of the desert and no one is there to give you a ticket, I got a big speeding ticket. - If you're driving a Dodge Stratus 4-banger in the desert at 110 MPH wiht the A/C cranking and you go over a gentle hill and see a lightbar on a Caprice Classic lay on the brakes so that he only radars you at 95. It makes the ticket less expensive. - Do not say to the officer: "There's not a house, guardrail, tree, telephone pole or anything else for that matter for miles around. What the heck am I going to hit out here? A cactus?!?!" - Do not speed when traveling to the North Rim of the Grand Canyon... not because you'll get pulled over again but because there's ALWAYS animals all over the road. - Arizona is a cool place to see old military equiptment, planes, helicpoters, not to mentinon tons of classic cas just off the road. If you know where to look. - New Mexico is pretty neat too... but it's just like Arizona for the most part. Love those stretches of desert road taht go perfectly straight for like 20 miles. - Utah is another fun drive, never been to Salt Lake City though. - There's the coolest little log cabin Motel in Utah, I just don't remember what part of the state. - Colorado is neat. Quite different from Southpark but still tosn to see. Didn't get to see enough of it. - Nevada. What can I say, simply awsome. One minute you're in a Store24 in Vegas buying a Cherry Coke, it's brighter than high noon outside from all the Casino lights and there's three dozen cars stopped at a red light. A few minutes later you're in your car doing 75 down a two lane patch of asphalt in pitch black, looking up at the milky way. - There's snow less than an hour's drive from Vegas. Year round. - California really is just like in the movies. Superficial and in your face. - Malibu, Hollywood, the Beaches & L.A. are all neat to see but once you've seen them you can't help but feel like it's all so over rated. NOthing can live up to that kind of hype. - Love the red/yellow blinking lights on the two lane on ramps in Calif. It's like a legal drag race everytime you go on the highway. - Have to make it out to PCH, I think that will be the one part of California I wil really love. - Still have not sen the Golden Gate Bridge. Another must before I die.

Cool thread Knightfan. :) Let's see, I'm going to list some off the top of my head. - Massachusetts is pretty damn small, it takes less than two hours to get from Boston all the way to the New York border. But get of the highway and you can drive for 3 hours on back roads and never really get anywhere... thought it's more fun then the highway. - Massachusetts' Appalachian Trail is a must see in the fall. - New Hampshire has hundreds of awsome destinations year round. - In the summer it seems my destination in New Hampshire always turns out to be New England Dragway or Star Speedway. - Every single town in New England has at least one "abandoned" classic car in a backyard that I'd love to own. '65 Impala, '53 Olds, '79 Trans Am, '57 Mercury, '67 Electra... they're around if you look hard enough. - Maine is freeking HUGE! A map does not do it justice. It's an enormeous state. - Maine is a "misplaced Southern State" - Bar Harbour Maine is one of the coolest & most overlooked destinations in New England. - Every gas station in Maine has home made Beef Jerky for sale. - Fresh Beef Jerky is to die for. - Vermont has some gorgeous scenery. - Some Vermont State Troopers Drive LS1 Camaros. Sneeky Bastards. - Connecticut may be small but there's a lot to see. - In Conn. you're more likely to get pulled over if you're going 85 in your ex-girlfriend's forrest green 1997 Toyota Camry than if you fly at 120mph in your own forrest green 1997 Cadillac STS. Go figure. - Rhode Island is beautiful, Newport is a MUST see. - Rhode Island is so small you could drive from one end of the state to the other on five gallons of gas... in a Big Block Chevelle. - New York State has a lot to see but it's spread out. - Niagara Falls definatelly looks better from the Canadian side. - NYC looks depressing without the Twin Towers. Like a big empty crater where a old friendly 200 year old oak tree used to be. - New York State Troopers also have a few LS1 Camaros. - The opening credits to Sopranos are truly what northeast NJ looks like. Concrete Jungle, cement, overpasses and industry. - New Jersey is not all gross and concrete slabs. Drive through the state and you see green everywhere. Garden State is right, IF you're at least 30 miles away from New York. - Maryland seems like one big suburb to me. NIce state but just filled to the brim with wealthy politicians & government workers. - Delaware: it's bigger than R.I., by about 2 sq. miles. - Washington D.C. Traffic nightmare but it's worth seeing. I wish the Enola Gay was still on exhibit in the Smithsonian but some P.C. Nazi decided it's not apropriate. - Pennsylvania is wicked cool. Lots of Slovakian-Americans living there and it seems like everywhere you look there's a classic car. - Philedelphia is a really nice city, wish I could have spent more than just one afternoon there. - I'd love to go to Pennsylvania to see the sights; Carlisle, Hershey and the historical tourist attractions. - Virginia is really nice, so clean and so many churces. Love the history and all the different sceenery. huge bridges, all kinds of Civil War Battlefields and historical sights. Another state I have to retrun to. - Norht Carolina is a lot like Southern New Jersey. Lots of green Everywhere. Big, huge foliage everywhere. - Midland Norht Carolina is nowhere near MID-state. It's about 80% fo the way to Tenn.

A car wiht a lot of mass like a S500 Benz (4500lbs) will have a lot more inertia and will crush/slow down less than the Civic 3dr (2800lbs) it hits. In the end the steering column will not move regardless of desing because if both cars are going 30mph it will seem like a 20mph accident to the Benz and a 40mph accident to the Civic. I don;t care how cushy, soft, energy absorbing a car is... if it folds into a ball like a Beer can then it's a safe bet you'll be dead anyway. Would you rather gat you head torn off by a steering wheel on a 1958 Bonneville or get crushed to death and your chest impaled by a Vtech motor in the newre Civic?

http://nmxs-images.forbesautos.com/streame...0523_03?WID=336 Cool Volvo stunt to show off the structural integrity of their models. (erly 1970s)

If you have considered buying a Ford Tempo/Mercury Topaz in the past for some unexplicable reson this is a good reason to not. Ever. I got one of these shitboxes for free for the demolition derby once but luckily junked it cause it did not seem to be runnig very well. Some random European cars... look closely, MASS matters more than anything else. Pure Physics. http://nmxs-images.forbesautos.com/streame...0523_03?WID=336

1990 Olds Toronado Trofeo One of the few cars I think SHOULD be FWD. After all it's a Toronado Tradition. Never been anything but FWD, althought too bad they had the 3800s mounted transversly.

1989 Oldsmobile Toronado (just like Ross's old one)

As a teenage kid in the mid 1990s seeing the Grand Prix 300 GPX at the international Autoshow was the equivelant of a religious experience. That car had the muscle car stance and proportions. Too bad it's mechanicals were a tad dissapointing because the styling was awsome. This car made the Taurus SHO and INtrepid look like @$$.

Oh Boy... Toyota will once again present us with the honor of overpaying by $7,000 for a POS Camry just because of some nicer leather, bizzare headl lights and a little plastic "L" in place of tthe Hoola hoops. :rolleyes: Cough, COUGH Cimarr0n, cough! WTF: the Cimarr0n is considered a dirty word here and automatically cnsored?! :lol: First two times I typed it the post just read ######