Sixty8panther

With all due respect, not attacking you DF, just frustrated with the whole absurdity of broke people havnig to spend mega $ on something that doesn't effect drivability or safety on a car that is older than the driver. After 5 or 10 years Cars should not be held hostage to the emissions standards they were designed to operate at when new. It's dumb. In fact it's economic descrimination.

Yeah... ONCE AGAIN I'm 100% with Camino and Balthazar on this one. I'm with Bobo on the privacy issues the milage tax would raise. How about this? Let's stop wasting billion$ on big, ineficient gov. and put those dollar$ to good use. Why do we spend $4,000,000,000 dollars a year of OUR tax money to feed/"help" people of Africa when their own evil regimes that slaughter and enslave their own people are in many cases taking the money & buying weapons used for genocide, armored Bentleys & other evil plots... while the people whom the money is supposed to be helping would rather spit on our flag and dance like a bunch of soul-deprived animals at the "success" of the 9/11 terrorist plot. WTF, can you PLEASE explain to me, don't we take care of our own 1st?

Oh, yeah that's right... what a waste. Why spend money on a new catalitic converter when, as WMJ pointed out, the old one is recycled for $100 while you're charged $120+ for a new one just to make Al Gore happy in some empty belief that you're helping to save spotted owls or something about Polar Bears can't swim and Alaska is the size of Ohio... WMJ: Natrually I would sweep up the paladium and take it to a recycling center.

That shot to someone of MY generation, is remeniscent of only ONE thing: Power Rangers. Transformers were the $hit in 1987 when I was 8 years old & my family moved to the USA. Not until the 2007 movie did I regain an interest in them...

DF: Like we were saying the other day, it's too bad the Benz-Chrysler deal was a short term gain long term loss... I for one have zero interest in any modern Chrysler car outside of the LX cars & the Viper, their trucks have been decent and sometimes spectacular, it's off & on. Exactly. Some are even border line awkward looking like the late 1970s SLs with the USA-spec. bumpers and headlights... but ALL are fantastic cars in terms of safety, reliability & durability.

Ooooooooooohhh..... I misread the title to mean if you could do a nude sceene with a particular celebrity... after all THAT is a sex thread.

I have not seen much of any classics here as of this past week. Winter is knocking hard on New England's back door. Most of the classics are hibernating already. I did however see a 1969 Pontiac GTO Judge just about a week ago on Rt.495 going opposite to me (south) the top was down and it was making good time in the passing lane. I even managed to take a pic since my camera was out taking a photo of a Peterbilt in the next lane. I see that car all the time, it's prob. daily driven but I've never seen it close up. Looks pretty perfect from 40 feet away.

I hate most celebrities and despise people who invest huge chunks of their lives reading about/emulating/worshiping celebrities... BUT, if I play along maybe this would be a fun thread since everyone likes sex. Maybe not the same style but it is a common link amongst humans. I vote Drew Barrymore. Specifically Wedding Singer, Ever After or 50-1st Dates era Drew, maybe Charlie's Angels too... after all she's driving a Z/27*-RS Camaro!!! * NO I did not mistype that, Z27 was the RPO code for the pace car package... you know, Dover white ragtop car with Hugger orange (z/28 style) stripes, ogange-n-houndstooth deluxe interior and optional Indy script.

BTW: Up until recently, like the mid 1990s, Daimler-Benz was ALWAYS run BY the engineers, not marketing types or bean counters. The people in control of the company's direction had a set of calipers on their desk, a scientific calculator in their drawer & a dilpoma up on the wall mentioning an enginering degree from some fancy school. While most of the big-three's products were garbage in the late-1970s and in the 1980s due to safety nazi driven agenda and emissions propaganda the MB brand made cars that are better today, used, IMHO than many NEW vehicles. Consider this: The 1984 MB 500SEC in my driveway has a driver's airbag, fuel injection and a true hardtop greenhouse while being old enough to wear antique plates. It is really a one of a kind car. NO OTHER car fits that description or even anything close to it.

I would be willing to bet my life that NO ONE built a better car from the late 1970s and in the 1980s than Mercedes. I plan to post a thread about the 500SEC & explain myself further, but I have absolute confidence that I will be purchasing many more 1980s Mercedes products if the economy stays where it is and I feel the need for a "modern" car.

It went to $2,225 very quickly but stalled there two days ago... the more it sells for the better the chance of a speedy restoration and thus I hope it sells for top $$$. I love that car, but for me to buy it back would be selfish and pointless. I can not afford to give it the full attention it needs.

I lik trukks and dinosars and playns but i lik my transfermors best as kamaros. Espeshaly if they ar the koncept bassd onez that have no bee-pillors.

Haahah... I looked down at my MB 500SEC's odometer this morning while doing 90 on 495 and it had just clicked to 199,225. I'm almost certainly going to beat you to 200K. Of course my Mercedes is 16 years older.

Dodgefan: I hate to say it but I've heard many people talk of assasination. Sad but true, though I think this is mostly prompted by BHO's race don't forget all the Democratic media puppets have been molding him into a JFK clone so it's not wonder the analogy comes up now that he's due to be sworn in. I don't like Obama, I think his best quality is giving fantastic speeches of blissfully positive optimism, and while I'm in no position to judge him as a president yet since I do not have a time machine I can tell you that prior to JFK's fantastic speeches there was another guy who talked of nothing but positive change, was a huge proponent of gun control/seisure and talked a big game as far as bringing a country out of a massive depression and into economic prosperity. He was amazingly popular before the dark truth came out about his REAL agenda & then it was too late, having given up their right to own firearms, the entire population was held hostage by an evil dictator... of course I'm speaking of Hitler. If Obama was assasinated that would really suck big time, not just for loss of human life on his part but we'd see massive riots god knows how many decades of progress on the front of racial unity would be thrown out the window, and worst of all, this magalomaniac image of a God-like P666litician would be forever hailed as a hero and a martyr. JFK kind of sucked as a President, his ratings were damn poor just prior to his assasination in the fall of 1963.

OR, more likely since he was not wearing his seatbelt, an airbag might have killed him by breaking his neck. If he HAD been wearing his seatbelt, he certainly would have faired much better... at any rate sounds like he's been through a lot of pain, if I was religious I'd pray for him.

It's funny how so many, on this forum and at the polls seem to have blinders on... NOTHING can taint your image of this demi-god you want to beleive is the Chosen One* and will lead our nation through famine, out of wars and into the red sea, parting it for us so we may pass through safely with the comming armies of our enemies drowned in it shortly after. It's obviously no use trying too use logic & reason, if you really beleive Barack Hussein Obama is a man of epic proportions and enormeous potential we'll just have to see... time will tell. Perhaps, maybe, (if only I could beleive this) Obama's promisse to make many of us who distrust him into beleivers will come true. Perhaps the reality of the enormeous responsibility of his position will make the common sense decisions clear. --- * as Betrice, frequent guest on the Opie & Anthony show & an African American comedian called Obama, seconds later saying he did not mean BHO was Messiah-like but mearly that he was "Chosen One" and stated another generality ADMITING THAT HE WAS CLUELESS TO HIS POLITICAL GOALS, CAMPAIGN PROMISSES AND HAD NO INTEREST OR INSIGHT INTO OBAMA'S POLITICAL STANCE, BUT HE HAD TO SUPPORT HIM BASED ON THE FACT THAT HE WAS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN!!!

My 1987 Cougar XR7 was the exact same way. The LCD/digital instrument cluster displayed the milage and car's MPG stats etc... but that info. was stored on some computer burried in the depths of the dash, or perhaps in the footwell or under the passanger seat like on some of my demolition derby hack-job Fords.

Wow... wish him all the best. If there's any solace in totalling that (1994?) Ford Ranger it might be that is still has a straighter frame, even post accident, than many 2000 Toyota Tacomas that have never been in an accident at all! I personally think the Ranger architecture is crap even comapred to the S10 that you love to hate on (talkin to you BV) But in any case the truck did okay protecting your bro.

Australia might be a good bet if I REALY wanted to ge the F- outta Dodge.

G1 was boss... I'm not even sure what the heck all that other mumbo-jumbo is but there aint nothin cooler than a COE 18-wheeler that does magic tricks: like making his huge, (53 foot) trailer dissapear while turning into a three story robot, the '07 movie was freekin awesome too.

Even that can be done, in very selective moderation, without nearly killing someone! Tailgating is ALWAYS a terrible habbit, one I had as a stupid 17 year old & quickly did away with.

Each time I drive the 500SEC I fall in love with it a little more.... what a fantastic, solid car. And to think even OIL STARVATION did not kill it, now with 199,225 miles as of this morning, I have no reason what so ever to distrust its reliability.

I'm happy the barrier was broken, and while I see your point FoG if the right candicate was there with a good message & I trully beleived in the "positive change", political or otherwise that he was proposing I would vote for him/her regarless of race, simmilarity to myself. If, as a crazy hypothetical, Ed Wleburn was running for President, knowing he is a true car guy, loves and respects GM's rich heritage & owns a 1969 Camaro: He'd get my vote in a NY minute so long as he did not also propose Marxist ideals and a no-drilling-for-domestic-crude policy.

Of course, no one but a complete retard beleives the economy will recover fully in less than a decade but his words were VERY carefully chosen to reflect the underlying truth: TALK IS CHEAP, now he's gotta live up to many of those lofty goals he set while he was campaigning. Anyone including the "Chilly Guy" of Boston fame who is a drunk, beligerant, homeless paranoid-skitzophrenic, can say: "YES WE CAN" Can WHAT? Time will tell. It's becoming VERY clear just how much the Clinton's screwed up, along side with Bush, but then again both did good things too, the world is never black & white.

$2.26/gallon. I think that's the cheapest it's been here in the Merrimack Valley since I bought my '59 Buick back in April of 2007, but I could be wrong by a few pennies. It was quite nice to pump over four gallons into the Panzer-top for just ten bucks, flash-back to June when I was driving a Cadillac that was 25% less efficient on fuel & fueling up at $4.50+ a gallon.