Sixty8panther

If THIS is possible than that's a SNAP.

Because of the popularity of the Z/28 name thy just decided to go wiht Z24 for the Cavalier (originally a 2.8 liter), Z34 for the 3.4 liter Monte Carlo... Z26 for the Beretta (2.8/3.1L) and Z71 for the Trucks since it got ot be a well known no-nonsense option package.

My memory is a bit fuzzy on this one but by the front bumper I'll say it was obviously inspired by the 1930s. Is it some Doozy "prototype" /resurection mule?

Why is it riding so high? Needs more ground clearence because of reinforcements to the undercarige?

I'm on the New Hampshire -- Masachusetts border.... close to Nashua NH. I fixed 90% of the damage but the car is still sans grill. It's a driver and that's my biggest priority is to enjoy it for now. As soon as I buy a house wihtt he G/F it's getting the ground up restoration. Here's what the car looks like now. Are you in N.E.?

BV: Okay, you made some valid points. Chevy alone can not be blamed for screwing up Olds and Pontiac however.... GM as a whole has made some retarded decisions in the past decade. I would argue that the three most disturbing mistakes GM has ever made all happened in the past 10 years: 1996 B-body cancelled 2002 F-body goes on "hiatus" 2004 Oldsmobile killed :angry:

Cadavillac: You best not tell me where you live cause I'll come steal that beautiful copper colored Caddy in the middle of the night. :P Love it. take good care of her.

They look "lost" on most vehicles.

Trouble in Paradise... more like a bad day in Pergatory. At least that's the way my social/personal life has felt as of late. But even when I'm not TRYING I still manage to find great deals on "classic" GM cars. I appologize for writing a novel back there. I gues a lot has happened in the past 8 weeks. Actaully I stil left out several funny events.

Okay.... sorry for the delay. A few of you have been in touch with me to finally spill the beans about my absence and all the crazy happenings in my life that have transpired in these last few "exciting" weeks. I've had several very depressing and strange things happen to me recently. I've been very unhappy with my life as of the last few days mostly due ot problems with my relationship wiht my girlfriend. I don't want ot go into it but let's just say I was so upset the other day I contemplated nirvana in the physical sense. Even as I type this I'm sleep deprived, slightly over worked and melancholy. But F$@# that, I want to share all the GOOD craziness that has happened since my last update. So here goes. My first ever Cadillac was a 1987 Fleetwood Brougham Delegance that I bought off my buddy John a few years ago. It had the typical leaky as a faucet valvecover gaskets & loose seals that pissed oil out at an amazing rate. After working 27 hours in two days at Chevrolet of Lowell (huge sale) I got in my Brougham and flew down Rt.3 to get hoem and get some rest. (another 13 hour day awaited) As I came off the exit for Drum Hill I thought to myself I need to add oil to this beast so I don't blow up this deathtrap... I'll stop at Sunoco. As I near the top of the ramp (I can see the gas station) the car dies. Long story short the 307's oil pan had run bone dry and was now smiking out of the air cleaner like a canister of tear gas. Joh had given me the high milage car for $200 so I just wanted to get rid of it and make sure it would not get junked. A month later in Oct. 2002 I sold the car to a gentleman who said he was going to clean her up and drop in a 350 chevy so that his son could have a nice Caddy daily driver. Allan handed me a hundred dollar bill and I gave him the car, an extra battery, two gator-backs off of my buddy's 1991 GTA wiht 75% of their tread, the original 24K GOLD keys and a clean title. He put the car on his flatbed and drove off. I lost his number and often wondered what happened to that old beast. (her name was "Bertha" and she was white wiht a navy blue Delegance interior) almost three years go by.... It's late August 2005 and I have just finished taking some photos of a 1966 Corvair Monza 4dr hardtop I want very badly. I get back in the Datsun and drive towards the enterance to Rt. 125 when I notice a gunmetal gray 1965 Chevelle SS off in the opposite corner of the parking lot. I turn then car around so I can go check it out and all of a suden freeze. I think I'm halucinating. There on a decrepid old 300K mile GMC flatbed (454 four-speed manual) is my old Brougham. I'm 35 miles away from my house where I sold the car and by shear dumb luck happened to be in that used car lot/storage yard because I was checking out the Corvair. I throw the Maxima out of gear and pull on the E-brake and jump out yelling: "That's my old Brougham... I sold you that car! It was Allan right?" Truns out three years go when he drove off wiht the car he dropped it off in a friend's back yard in Andover Mass. (my old hometown after we came ot the USA) it sat there for all that time while some health and financial problems prevented Allan form putting the car back togeather and getting it on the road. The same day I ren into him was the first time he touched the car. It had sat dormant the WHOLE time under a tree while mold and moss grew all over it, it sank inot the ground and the gold hood ornament was stolen. The same day he winches it out onto his flatbed to move it to his storage yard is the exact same day I show up in the same yard and check out the Corvair. Like I said: Twilight Zone! In the front there are still old gas receipts and a few random automtive products I gave him. In the backseat the tires off my buddy's Firebird GTA are still there wiht cobwebbs and dust allover the place. My Metallica sticker is still over the rustsopt on the trunklid. Freaky shit. As I drive off I consider it a sign. I should sell my Brougham and pick up the Corvair. It makes perfect sense. I that old beat up Brougham is still aroudn there's a million more classic Caddys out there as nice or bettter than my '86. Sell it and move on. The Corvair awaits! Later on that day I tell my buddy Duffy over the phone about the whole thing and tell him I've desided to sell the '86 Brougham. "Besides", I say: "I'll just get another one down the line... a NICER one. Perhaps a Delegance with the CHevy 350.... OR even better a late 70s Coupe DeVille wiht a REAL Caddy engine" A few days later I'm browsing eBAy for Coupe Devilles just to see what the future may bring. I decind SOMEDAY I'll own one. Probably within another 3 years. Meantime things get hectic. Work, play, work, work, work.... and then Sean get's desparate to sell his '69 Camaro. :( After all that back and forth we settel on a price, put it on a trailer and brign it down 850 miles to No. Carolina the 7th of Sept. (my mom's B-day) After al kind of Bullshit and back and forth negotiation the car is sold. Sean looses his shirt on it and we end up deciding it would he been better to just sold it localy for $2000 less and saved the agrrevation, gas ($3.29 gallon and we towed the car wiht a 460 big block powered truck) and time. Still I'd never driven past Pennsylvanian so it was fun. I got to meet Sean's brother in Virginia who does Suburban, Excursion and H2s for the Feds. (installs much of the military/inteligance components on the trucks) Over all the trip was fun and I enjoyed driving about 75% of the distance. The bset part was seing my first REAL 1969 Yenko. an original car with low miles that was in the shop where we dropped of Seans '69. Fathom Green and so clean it's technically OVER-restored. The owner even has a photocopy of the original title with Don Yenko's signatuire on it. I was in heaven! :wub: Notice the two other first gens. and there was a fifth in the OTHER garage. (dover white 1969 Z/28) Talk about 6-tee-Eight heaven! Here you see the 430HP 427 BBC that will be going inot the Camror we just sold them. This will become a 100% mint and factory spec. COPO clone. It supposedly will sell for around $57K at Barrett Jackson next year. When I get back to Mass I have a ton of messages wating for me... all kind of bullshit and crap to deal with. My buddy Ross from AutoZone (really nice kid) called me a couple times. All Macia remembered was that he wanted me to "take a look at a car". Things get hectic and I nebver have a chance ot call him. I figure he picked himself up a winter beater since his daily driver is a GORGEOUS 1996 White Diamond Pearl Buick Riviera wiht the super rare chrome wheels. It's not supercharged but it's still gorgeous. He loves taht car and is a true GM fanatic. He has helped me out a ton of times in the past wiht the Camaro and Brougham in terms of tracking down a part or a discount. Real gentleman. Well a few days go by and I get a phone call from him. He picked up a 1979 Cadillac Coupe DeVille off of an old guy for $300. (insert image of a 150,000 mile POS beater with saging doors and rusty fenders here) The guy was getting shipped off to a retirement home and his kids were going to junk the car since it was so useless to them. The rear bumer needs repair since one side is pushed in (the shock) it needs a new radio antena, the driver's side seat needs to be re-upholstered and the right side window is stuck down. That's it. The car starts adn drives well and the bady is 85 % rust free. A few bubbles here and there. Ross had left his number woiht the guy when he saw it sittinfg for a while not being driven and he calls him one day saying "If you still want to car some and get it today otherwise it's going to the junkyard!" (some people are SO ignorant!) So now Ross tells me that he needs to get the car out of his grandparent's back yard where he was storing it otherwise THEY will ship it off to the crusher. He says: "just take the car off my hands PLEASE... you'll be saving it from the junkyard for the second time in two weeks. I'll give it to you for a very reasonable price and you can pay me whenever. I know it will have a good home with you." I tell him I'm working untill about 11:30 pm and so I can NOT meet with him that night, he says 12:00 is okay at AutoZone if it's not too inconvenient but time is of the essance. he has the registration but the old man lost the title (not something I can't get around... I've done it twice now) The night I arrive at the Autozone paking lot at midnight and I see a gorgeous '79 Caddy. Not a rusting hulk of crap with a broken windshield, missing hubcaps and faded paint. He lets me drive it around the parking lot and it runs like a top. It's got only 72K miles and the car has been repainted within the past year The 425 Cadillac block (7.0 Liter) purrs like a kitten and the TH400 shifts as well as it did new. It's FIRETHORN red wiht a white top an leather interior. I'm amazed. I feel like a prick as I offer Ross $450 for the car since I'm not doing great financially. I tell him to not get insulted.... esp. since he just got a BRAND new battery and air filter for it and he's allowing me to pay him back at my conveniance. I'm giddy like a school girl wiht candyin her pocket. We drive the car to my house and I drop him off at his Riviera a few towns over. He thanks ME for saving a classic from an untimely death. I drive off wiht a huge F%&$ing smile plastered to my face. I just scored a pimpin Caddy for $200 less that my Brougham and it's tons cooler, has a huge Caddy V8 and will never need to be emissions tested. Sweet. As it stands I have to sell the Brougham so I can pay Ross and start repairs to the CoupeDeville. But once it's fixed up I'll have a kickass weekend cruiser! So that's the crazy, amazing, strange-but-true story of how my past few weeks have been going. Truth is stranger than fiction!

Yummy!

Sorry Razor, I did not mean to be insensitive. I've got a few weird fetishes most of which stem from dating a TRUE Goth chick in High School. We used ot go for long walks in the cemetary and she'd say that it was nice to keep the spirits company. I would not do it out of disrespect or some kind of necrophiliac urge. ] finally stops digging grave [

I actaully really am tired of the redneck/mullet/white trash comments. Maybe I beat that RWD or classic muscle thing to death but being a CAR forum and all it's less inappropriate then prepetuating false stereotypes. Somewhere out there right NOW I'm sure there's a Mullet head in a 2005 Acura RL or a 2006 BMW 6-series. And the redneck down the street wiht a jacked up C/K Blazer and a Riviera in the back yard... he's the guy who will stop on the side of the road and help you if you're broken down while the peole you DON'T make fun of drive by and give you dirty looks.

S3X.... :rolleyes: Ths acronym namng thng has 2 stp. Its gttng really irritatng. HHR, SRX, G6, ESV.... at least GTO really STANDS for something. A Cadillac should have a name like "Coupe DeVille D'Elegance" not DTS. <_<

"Cell phone ban urged for teen drivers" Good idea but Ix-nay on the "teen". :)

Well, we all know he's married so the hooker giving him a Hummer is a good oportunity to black mail him. Keep shooting pictures!

The worst EVER: The BEST ever: Here in Mass. there's a big tourist economy in Salem around Halloween because of all the witch museums, the House of the Seven Gables, Magic shops, Haunted Houses and ghost societies... one of the cool things to do is to rent a Herase for a tour of the town on or around halloween night. Some goths rent them so they can have crazy kinky sex in them. I'm the kind of freak that would do it given the opportunity. Never have m but I've thought about it. There's also a company in Sydney Australia that does tours about the town in classic Cadillac Hearses. Someday I'd love to own a Caddy Hearse. :)

I'm so sick of hearing about Mullets in regards to any GM late model/classic model.... Camaro, Firebird, Monte Carlo, Fiero... <_<

HUGE improvement. Makes the current Ion look even more retarded than it already does... I hope the rear view does not disapoint.

Wow... I should have known that about BV. :huh: Why is it that Chevrolet, Buick, Oldsmobile, Cadillac & GMC bother you enough for you to say you "HATE" them?

Wow.... just, WOW! I knew some Ricer fans were ignorant of GM's history and technology but this is a shock. Here's some GM cars that are powered by ALL aluminum V8s. 1962 Buick Special (read the ad copy) In 1964 Oldsmobile had the all aluminum 215 AND it was available TURBOCHARGED! IN 1969 Chevrolet produced (and sold throught dealerships) two ZL1 Corvettes and 69 COPO ZL1 Camaros. They all had all aluminum 427 big blocks. My 1997 STS has a DOHC all aluminum V8 that was one of the most sophisicated engine in the world when it came out in 1993. I can honestly say that Honda/Acura had NOTHING even close to this high-tech in that era. Drop this baby in an NSX and you'll really get results. Yes, it's an Euro-spec STS. :o

You're right... although I have not driven it I'm sure from what I hear it is a great car. I didn't want to make the list 45 cars long.... I mean I even like the old '89 Cavalier Z24s with 5-speeds. I'm a child of the 80s after all. But I'd never buy a Cobalt or Cavalier over a Camaro.

Whole lot of skill and a little bit of luck. Good to see everyone got ouyt of it alive.

The Mitsubishi is MUCH uglier!