Sixty8panther

The world is a better place as of 11 / 07 / 2008

That grille, those sweeping lines, aircraft like streamlined split windshield, low mounted single headlight and splashes of chrome... And that's just the cosmetics, the supercharged inline-8 under the butterfly hood... later replaced by an (approx 27 liter) aircraft V12, well let's just say this just might have been the inspiration for about a half million pre-war Jalopies that were, in the '40s, '50s & '60s modified with the help of a BIG (nailhead, hemi, rocket, sbc...) V8 motor. This is the Hot Rod Demi-God, the Holy Grail, the ultimate variant of the ultimate car from an era that will never be trumped in style, grace, man's quest for perfection and the gritty, blood-sweat & tears of men who were MEN! No computers, no ABS, no tire warmers & DMPFI, just a man with balls driving a rocket with four wheels across a dry salt lake bed, 70% seat of his pants, 30% calculated risk, 0.00% pie chart. --- While the bumper is quite spectacular I prefer the race-track-ready look of the car with just the red frame rail caps on the front.

but damn I want it... just felt like sharing that.

Yeah, as much as I love my PILLARLESS Mercedes I would be very tempted by a CTS-estate if I lived in Germania.

Saw that one on a pickup worthy of TIGHT WHIPS recognition.... some scummy, beat up primered 1970s Dodge... or was it Ford.

*nudge*

HUH!>?!? Why? Dear Lord who the F%.... it's 2008 for chrissake, the car is (was) half century old. Man that pisses me off that before it finished donating the rest of its organs it w was crushed &melted just to make another '10 Toyopet. A moment of silence please...

What that ^ guy said.

HAhaha-ha! It's worth a laugh but talk about waste of fabrication time/$.

- - - - WMJ: The B-59 is sitting patiently, safe and sound under a car cover, for me to get off my a$$ and rebuild the 364... there was an engine fire that occurred this past January, & I have not found the time and the last $200 or so I nee to get her running again. It WILL happen, Amelia's impending arrival was a part of the reason why work stalled.

One more quick (crappy cell phone) picture;

The 1995-2002 M.Y. Buick-derived-3800 V6 powered Camaro & Firebird were in their day capable of keeping up with Mustang GTs, which while no match for the LT1 or LS1, were not exactly dogs. I have driven several4th gen. F-bodys with 3800 power, and had I not been scared of two car payments since I was still paying off my 1997 Cadillac STS that I bought as a 5-yr old used car, I would have bought a particular 2002 Camaro with ONLY 11,xxx miles on it, it was a "hardtop" coupe (no t-tops) & powered by the 3800. It had very minimal options and to make it sweeter still it was a 5-speed. If I had the money at the time I would have made that car my daily driver/winter beater, since my EX was driving the STS at the time. All B.S. aside, while slow compared to my all out drag car '68 Camaro that was borderline illegal for the street, that 3800 powered 4th gen pulled & chirped the as well if not better than many a 350TBi & 305TPI third gen cars I had driven over the years. I whole-heartedly endorse your flirtation with a Fireball-Buick powered 4th generation F-body, esp. if you can find a 5-speed!

It was built during, as your great-grandfather might say, "the BIG ONE!" It was short-lived and a power plant of its type, at an affordable price was introduced 15 years later by a rival manufacturer, only to go unchallenged for 23 MORE years by the original manufacturer.

It's like you pull the pin out of the grenade, throw it into your OWN foxhole as your buddies stare dumbfounded, and run away screaming: "I know what I'm doing, stay right where you are, I'll be back in a couple years!" I'm kidding Oldsmoboi, and for what its worth it was last night when XP & I were talking that we decided that if you're running away to Germany you should not have a vote in an election that effects THIS country. The one that you're leaving. All joking aside, I wish I could take the B-59 on the Autobahn, maintain a steady 100+ (she's done it) and just stare over casually and wave at the stupefied kids in their VW MkIV Golfs, BMW 320s and Opel Astras...

The Benzo got a nice long sip of regular last night to the tune of $2.299/g, that's def. a huge improvement over the $4.599/g I was being charged to fill up the Banana in the middle of the summer, but I'd be even happier if we got to $1.8xx/g like many of you. It really might be time for that old school Pontiac hardtop I keep dreaming of... perhaps some late '60s Catalina or Grand Prix... powered by a healthy Pontiac iron block 400.

wow....

I can't beleive Satty's Priss has not made it into this thread yet.

Balthy: Yes, yes.... how could I forget Carmen Electra. ....and, Alicia Silverstone Not "Clueless-Alicia" but "Aerosmith-Music-Video-Alicia") Amen. There's nothin better than some "cushion for the pushin" Haha-ha! You've always had a way with words XP, I swear you say some of the dumbest $#it but word it so I almost piss myself. I think that is half the reason Amanda is with you, you get her going like a hyena at times. I still think this is friiikin hillarous. Great teamwork! - - This thread NEEDS to be resurected. http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums/index...3606&st=120 - - -

Funny cause it's true. Or, a sticker on the back of said ('67) Delmont 88 that says: "I'd rather be fishing at Chappaquiddick" That's actually a poor joke, not for Teddy-Kennedy's poor actions and the lack of punishment for his horrible crimes but for that poor girl's lost life, cut way short by a selfish, piece of garbage, self-serving politician.

Also kind of funny, yes the thread might have started with an UN-P.C. angle but the last 30% of the thread was a silly game of ping-pong between Reg. & me about my obsession with hardtops & our shared love of Kate Winslet. Nothing offensive there. ...unless you DON'T like chubby/curvaceous chicks in which case you can go $%@&* yourself cause you're just plain &!$# wrong and I #*$% hate your guts. :AH-HA_wink:

I'm gonna vote for "Candidate-X" because I beleive in his matra and I beleive in change & this country. So I'm moving to D_ _ _ _ _ land to show just how confident I am in his leadership. I'm kidding. (mostly, somewhat...)

1.) Use the already paid for and easily transferable 350 crate from the Mothertruck in the 'Camino. 2.) Do NOT sell the Mothertruck project, it's to cool to sell, esp. for the chump change you'd get these days with the soft economy and anti-truck political climate that still exists due to the recent & possibly repeatable $4.59/gallon ga$.

With all due respect that is an ignorant, unfair & erroneous statement. Remind me who it is that keeps kicking V12 DOHC Ferrari's a$$es at the 24 hours of LeMans in France every year? Oh, right the "Silverado V8" powered Corvette. Wow... GM is capable of some incredible stuff if their "archane-as-a-box-of-rocks" pickup motor can keep up, or beat V-12 Ferraris.

Lamar: LOL, true dat. I'm pretty sure if I just let nature take its course, and expose both the girls to enough REAL cars at the local cruise nights etc. then they'll both know what does and does NOT pass for acceptable transportation. I gotta post the photo from this summer where Sofia was gawking at a Factory-5 Shelby Cobra 427 Roadster and the owner, a gentleman who looked as if he might be a grandfather himself, asked her if she's like to sit inside... So at age four she's got a photograph sitting behind the wheel of a car that fof the most of my parent's lifetime held the record for the 0-100-0mph. Sofia used to alway say she loved "Beelte cars" to which I always said Yes, me too, mostly the classic ones or only the ones that do not ever need a water pump. Now, past few months, esp. since this year's summer-time car show season where she saw a several 1950s & 1960s Volkswagen Beetles, when she notices a "Concept-1" FWD, water cooled Beetle she says how it would be even cooler if it was an "OLD" Beetle car because. (insert my logic here) Like the other day she said the older ones are better than the new ones becuse of all the shiny metal bumpers and easy to fix since they don't drink water. A year ago she'd have just responded "I like the old Beetle cars AND I also like the NEW ones too" Julie calls this my "Brainwashing" Amelia will be easier to teach the ways of "T1GH+ WH!P$" since her big sister will be well versed in the ways of the RWD, simplistic superiority of pushrod-V8s, the beauty & grace of (pillarless) hardtops & the awesome strength of cars with steel spines. (BOF) ---- Balthazar: I know, I know... it's gonna be interesting. By the time they are in high school I shall have to polish my 12 gauge on the front porch on a daily basis, staring down any unsavory boys driving past the house in Anut Jamima 10-minute Civics.