Sixty8panther

Well the new MINI is like twice the size of the original. Camino: The original MINI is amazing, it may be a bit uncivilized, remember it was from the same era as the "glorious" Nash Metropolitan and all those spartan Crosleys that amount to a LIL RED WAGON with a motor from a weed wacker and lacking basics such as doors. Compare the 1959-up Mini to a 1970s Trabant or other such craptastic turdbucket and you'd appreciate it.

Back in 1984 my wife's Mercedes 500SEC was THE MOST expensive regular production passenger car made by Daimler Benz. You could have bought two Corvettes or one 500SEC. Find me one with 148K miles and I'll show you one who's asking price is 20% of it's original MSRP. That's all I was saying. Not putting down the NSX, I think it's overrated but an exemplary vehicle, one worth a good chunk even with 148,000 miles, but not $24,000.

I forgot to mention earlier: :smilies-38096: :useless:

There you go usig logic and actual numbers again.

Speaking of midgets.... before she was my ex, Marcia came home one day and told me she saw a midget getting into a clown car. So natrualy I asked what the clown car looked like and she said: "one of those bubble-roof, skinny fish-looking things made by the Germans, you said once it was made by the same company that made WWII planes..." So of course she was talking about the Messerschmitt KR and NO she didn't take a photo....

Hhahaahaha. Feelthe love!

Well said. You know I was going to bring up the Airflow too earlier but trimmed it from my post. Remember that "crash test" (Dodge) did with an unoccupied Airflow where they rolled if off a cliff, it tumbled like a misshapen pumpkin and landed on its wheels, and it was driven away? (mechanically unharmed!) I had a photo sequence of this in a book about cars, but the book was from CzechoSlovakia (in Slovakian) and although I know I still have it it got misplaced in the last move.

Please elaborate...? Balthazar's joke did not offend me, and it would have not even if he had said the joke the other way around, or if he or some other member had said something that pissed me off, it might have actually been pissed me off that the thread was locked because that takes away my ability to respond or retort. But whatever....

hahahahah! Awesome.

The S10 is not as bad as some of you say.... But yes, the Exploder did pretty well, any hairline scratches on the tank?

A Chevrolet & Pontiac B-body: That visor on the Caprice is phat!

Wow, that's gotta be C&G all time record! A thread on C&G got locked after only ONE post by me and three posts total. http://www.cheersandgears.com/forums/index...showtopic=25912

right... agreed, but I was saying who (arguing for drilling s a civilian) would NOT want to try to lower cost ($/environment) of fuel/energy? I'm no Al Gore but I thinkk Alternative energy is way overdue.

There's some truth t that.

Yes, agreed. From the amazing art deco cars of the 1930s to the Imperials of days gone by, the WWII-air raid siren HEMI V8s that made their way into so many hot rods and by extension gave birth to the HEMI's second coming in the 1960s, the Virgil Exner era as well as the wacky 1960s and 1970s mopars, to the post-K-car era of cab-forward and RWD..... Chrysler is a bright, shining proud star on the flag of American Automotive (Living) Legends.

Oh there's plenty of the old model around here.... as hideously ugly as thy are! (Dustmite on crack)

That would be selfish and sad. I would miss Chryser, Dodge & Jeep. SPEAK FOR YOURSELF, the market would not miss them. That's a great plan.... have Hon-DUH & Toyo-DUR pick up a nice big chunk of their market share. Without Chrysler, their LX platform, (V10/Cummins TD-I6) Ram pickups of the 1990s, and other daring products like Viper, Prowler, and even the PT, the American car market would be much sadder and more pathetic. This may be a GM forum but spitting on Chrysler's image, history & importance is despicable.

Agreed, Balthazar. WTFFFF!? is it that the standard knee-jerk reaction of anyone who is opposed to drilling is: Frogit the drillin' what we need is to fix us up some ALL-tern-Ah-tiv' enirgee. Who in their right mind would ever oppose alternative energy? The only case of some dope saying something against alternative energy was some member having a blond moment and saying wind power is not a sustainable energy source, which is quite laughable. Not when it come to gasoline or most politicians.

Might be that you have a separate flasher for hazards/blinkesr?

Don't threaten ME with good news!

Holy $#it! it's too early in the morning for this. This coud be terrible, yes... but what if, WHAT IF!? it went well and could be executed the right way? I could see the ultimate company emerging! ------ The Hindenburg was supposed o be filled with 100% harmless helium, not hydrogen. We, the USA refused to supply Nazi Germany with helium... the rest is history, as we have seen in those photos from New Jersey & heard in the "Oh the humanity" audio. The Titanic's doom (Achilles's heel) was FOUR FOLD: 1. Hubris 2. Not enough lifeboats (see no.1) 3. Poor quality of steel, made worse in ultra-frigid waters 4. Design of the (non-sealing) water compartments

*bump* So Camino, do share your thoughts.

You get what you pay for. What good are cheap goods when cheap goods are JUNK!?!?!? If had the $$$ I'd gladly buy a Cadillac CTS like yesterday. If there was a Chinese knock-off of said Cadillac available for such short change I could afford it, but with the obvious and unavoidable quality/content discrepancy I would NOT buy it no matter how tempting the price. Perfect example: My pregnant wife has gone through THREE defective instant thermometers in her complicated and semi-dangerous pregnancy. THREE. Not one of them worked well.... or honestly AT ALL!!! So am i happy to be abe to purchase this seemingly complex and futuristic device for as cheap as $6.99? F#%$ NO! I' pretty sure my wife's and my baby daughter's LIVES are worth more than a $10 or $20 dollar savings!

Camino: Okay, so I guess thanks(?) for posting this, I just watched the first movie, instead of getting at least a few hours of sleep to help with my 14 hour day. It's 2:53am, I gotta be at UPS and loading trucks in less than an hour and as it turns out... my new buddy that I've been having a lot of deep discussions with (the absence of any plane wreckage at Pentagon, 9/11 etc.) is probably well aware of this movie since he has THREE different bumper stickers on his Jeep that elude to it. Thought Provoking is right. The most powerful lesson I can think of at this moment, as my mind races: regardless of how much of that movie is legit/b.s. the right to bear arms is the single most important tool that we, as a society, country, humanity have been given, for it is the best & possibly only way to someday free our selves from Oppressors, be they past, present or future. F***, Its almost 2:59 am... gotta go jump in the shower.

Cheapest here so far was $3.11 (down the street 4 hours ago)