Sixty8panther

I hate you XP.... you've acquired a lot of nice "grown up toys" as of late. So now you have THREE old school, giant pre-war transistor radios, all of which at some point broadcast the fireside chats. You're lucky too, to have a G/F that shares many of your hobbies, cars and anything antique included. She's not too bad for a person of the XX chromosone persuasion. If only my wife was a little less leniant w/ me beig a CAR-parphenalia pack-rat. On a (somewhat) related note I always loved Everclear's "AM RADIO" even before GM bought the rights to it for their commercial. "You can hear the music on the AM radio, Am radio, AM radio...."

gm4llife: Another great point.... Dems. seem to always want to PUNISH the wealthy by HIGHER taxes, so in other words, this is America,home of the free, land of opportunity, but if you actually manage to ACCOMPLISH the American dream, you'll be PUNISHED FOR IT. The wealthy should pay EXACTLY the same percentage tax wise as the rest of us.... not a penny LESS (as some Republicans think) and not a penny MORE. EXACTLY the same. Anything other is stupid and unfair. It's like a gas-guzzler tax on low-mpg vehicles; The low MPGs of a Viper or Hummer H1 ARE the taxes, stupid. Fu%$ing what kind of logic is that?: your Hummer is going to cost you three times as much fuel wise as a Corolla-S.... therefore you should be TAXED for it. You're paying THREE times the taxes at the pump, what kind of double dipping is that!? Many (not all) Democrats are lazy mot#erfuc%ers that have no motivation in life and will NOT & can NOT ever even fathom working hard enough and making enough sacrifices to get ahead in life and someday become wealthy... soif they're going to smootch off the rest of us working class folk by staying on welfare & being worthless losers all their lives OF COURSE they want HIGHER taxes for the rich, so that their handoutis ensured. It's disgusting! I'm broke like a joke and came from an immigrant family, my parents struggled to stay in the very lower echelon of the low-middle class by working 2 jobs each all my life, but someday I would hope that either I or one of my two daughters (Amelia should be here any day now) will reach the American dream by owning my/their ow business or just making god money by working for someone else's well established business... meantime I'm not going to work hard to make sure when that day comes (I or they) am taxed extra HARD to keep the lazy, and ignorant (who can't help themselves) well fed and therefore perpetuating the (broken) system!

all I can think of (now at second glance) is: combine the tall, frumpy, awkward stance of the last gen. Corolla with the generic, "safe" styling of the current Civic coupe: VOLT!

So the radio says (Hurricane) Ike will hit Florida... The internet mentioned (Hurricane) Ike might hit No. Carolina and/or Florida Meantime the TV says Ike might hit Georgia & Louisiana, But I think if anything, Ike will hit Tina Turner.

$750 vs. $3500? 1:4 $ ratio.... and as cool as that Oldmobile is, esp. wwith the swiveling buckets, I have no desire to ever own another non-hardtop, 2 or 4 door. More and more I'm having a hard time justifying non-hardtops... there's so many reasons why it's worth it to hold out for hardtop. and for $3500 I'd be buying another 1959 Buick or a pre-war car, not some 1970s colonade sausage-on-wheels.

I wonder what is more of a time drain/distraction? 1. Bill Clinton's B.J. whores & cigar antics 2. G. W. Bush's Playstation-3 time? 3. Palin's 1 y.o. mentally challenged son

You know how a few on C&G tell me that I'm consantly about hardtops, RWD, V8s etc... I have made my opinion clear and preach the err of their ways OFTE enough. Honestly, do I seem like the quiet & restrained type

Seems you and I DO agree on quite a bit! So what, if we all march on washington if and when an evil oppressive government takes over they're going to nuke the whole population? Not likely.

That is an erroneous & exreeme generalization. (not that I have naver been guilty of it here) I work in the union for UPS & it makes me sick to my stomach to admit this but the UPS parkig lot is fu&%ing LITTERED with Toyotas just as much, if not more than ANY parking lot in the same town! I FACT I am known as the guy how hates Japanese cars, esp. Toyotas by many of my union-membr co-workers (everyone except for the Supervisors, & mangment is unio at UPS) Just off the top of my head, of the dozen of or so friends I've made at UPS, here's the ones who's rides Iknow: - Tommy: 2003? Civic coupe - John: 2002? Tundra (only non-union person, my sup.) - Karen: 2004 Focus 3dr - Dave; 2008 Civic coupe - Super-hot chick, just hired: 200? Matrix - Nicole: 2007/8 Honda CRV - Chris: 2009 Yaris (just bought it 3 weeks ago) - Benn: 2005 Mazda MP3 - Tom: (late 1990*s) Tacomaex-cab - Matt: 2004-8 Accord - Kyle: 1996 SL Satrun sedan Now there are two more people of who's rides I know of... neither one of them work with me or even on my sideof the building but I got to be friend's with both of them ONY becuse of my months of daily driving the B-59 last fall and then this year the Banana boat, one has (his daily and ONLY driver year round) a 1972 Cadillac sedan deVille 4dr hardtop and the othr guy, owns a 86? Buick Cetury winter beater and a mid-1990s GMC 2500 4x4 pickup... BUT also in his & his dad's garage are a bunch of projects including a 1938 and 1937 Buick, several rare British cars, including a runing & driving Alard and (rotting in the weeds, amongst 3-dozen parts cars) a super rare 1952 Imperial. So, for obious reasons the GMC/Cetury & Cadillacdonot count. NOW what say you about union workers? Sad isn't it? I hate hypocracy.

Bull$hit. The criminals have their pick at ANY weapons they can dig up on the black market, including firearms converted(back) to FULLY auto, to BAN ANY firearm for use by law-abiding citizens, (anyone without a criminlarecord) is by extenson not only 100% unconstitutional but also indirectly supporting violent crime! The only gun law I agree with is that anyone with a criminal record should never have legal access to one, altough they're always goign to be in the streets illegaly in high numbers in the real world, bleedaig heart-liberal propaganda & Bono aside! You think I'm passionate about hardtops, V8s and RWD? The 2nd amendment trumps all those put togehter. It's not ABOUT hunting or ANY "sport" or hobby involving firearms, it's about one thing: Our government should be AFRAID of its' people, NOT the other way around!

Agreed Camino, like yesterday. ....and before I forget I am proud to call myself a Libertarian, IF I had to get "boxed in"

First off , most people live in a gray-area... the world, or most of the world anyway, is NOT black & white. I picked conservative, because push come to shove anything but the most moderate Liberals are at heart , socialists or communists or in some extreme cases, modern-day-nazis. Hitler was the first modern political leader to 1st REGISTER and then systematically take away a whole population's firearms, & we all know where THAT got Germany... I grew up in a socialist country & I firmly believe that many of the same liberals here in the USA that preach ultra-liberalism, are just naive idiots that lack a firm grasp on the ugly, cold hard truth of human nature & society. In the real world, some people are lazy and useless and do not EVER deserve a handout, some criminals esp. violent ones and ANYONE who hurts a child or has been proven guilty of rape, will NEVER get rehabilitated, and should IMHO just be eliminated from the gene pool no questions asked, that is the only way to deal with the cold hard reality of child abuse, rape & other evil crimes. The reality is thousands of illegals come into this country every year, now think about how much SMALLER & easier to conceal a firearm is compared to a person, guns, will ALWAYS be easily available to criminals, so to constantly attempt stricter, more elaborate & very arbitrary rules for the LEGAL, law abiding citizens who REGISTER their firearms is disgusting. Gun laws aimed at law abiding citizens who have REGISTERED guns are PRO-CRIME laws that perpetuate the cycle of violence , plain and simple, if you can't see that then IMHO you are a waste of human life & just another communist zombie. Without the 2nd amendment the 1st would be in constant jeopardy! ---- I'm technically in the EU since I'm still not a US citizen... Slovakia is in the EU now.

Oh agreed, I've already done some considerable floor repair to the RoadmOnster w/ a friend's help; (he owns the welder) This thing is ugly as sin, what a gross car, even for M.Y. 1974 it's pretty hideous, but I do love the hardtop body style, inline six motor and the indestructibility of these kraut-wagens. I'm just unsure weather I want to get involved w/ yet another project right now, I NEED to give the B-59 the attention it needs, and this is yet another distraction.

Wow... and once again GM leaves me speechless, NOT in a good way. The overall styling? Blandis an understatement, esp. for a M.Y. 2011, speaking of which, usually you do not inroduce product TWO years before the launch date, talk about cock tease! And that thick, gross gloss-black trim under the Greenhouse? I"ll reserve my final judgement untill 2010 when I actually see a real production model,but so far all I ave to say is: Honestly...WTF is this? Some kid of GM-take on those "Hot Firefighters" calendars aimed at post-menopausal women and gay men? Ridiculous.

I'd rock that bitch like yuppies rock Lexi & AcCuri. Rusty Jones is a legend!

1979-LS&-powered-Corvette: You make some excellent points..... Speaking of the economy the dot-com & Y2K boom shielded and put off temporarily the $hitstorm that was headed our way, predicted by Perot and other peope in the know, and made much worse by Sept.11.

The Tweel thing both excites me and scares me..

Now THAT is funny. If I had $10,000 (minus $1) to blow on a ragtop it would probably be a '67 Corvair or a '71 Eldorado or a '64 Catalina not -this-

yup... noted. I'll try my best in the future.

It's true... I'm like a blind guy with a dull knife

I'd never pay $3000 for it, but it's something I've never seen or even heard about. I guess it's worthy of saving being an Olds & all....

LOL at O.B. (do they sell male blow up dolls? is the air-valve stem on the penis?) I wanted to go to the New England Air show tomorrow.. not looking good right now.

Past six weeks or so: 1. 1968 Dodge Charger, black with flat black scallop stripes. Julie actually saw this one like four times in our neighborhood and her descriptions included girl-lingo like: it was like one of those old-school classic muscle cars, from the sixties or whatever... BIG giant drag tires and it had those baby-rollerbalde tires mounted on bars that stick out from under the rear bumper like a REAL dragster, and it's mean and has something cool to look at from every angle! Turns out she was right, this Mopar dragster makes Vin Diesel's F&F Charger look like a Camry LE. By comparison, the average big-block powered, ready for the strip "pro-street" car is damn stock '75 Mustang II. 2. Nissan Sentra 2-door hatchback... (1988-1992?) NEVER seen one before, ever 3. '79 Camaro hardtop, 100% stock & original that was cleaner than an average Pierce Arrow on the lawn at Pebble Beach. I as driving the Benz and gave him a hearty thumbs up. It seemed to make him proud that some kid in an '80s yuppie rocket was giving his '79 Chevy a compliment. 4. late 1960s era Peterbilt (359) carrying a tank-long distance gun that (to my not-so-trained-eye) made a M1a Abrams tank look like a pea-shooter! [i got photos of this, thank god will post them soon....] 5. clone of our 500SEC, down to the paint, except with th ugly, bulky US bumpers, but customized with all-white (clear euro) lenses and a kickass set of 20" rims.

no... can you elaborate? Is it like Sim-City but with trains/railroads?

Yeah.... sorry what stupid thing did I word awkwardly now? Between my pregnant wife and the cat trying to sleep on my keyboard as well as the constant distraction of Food TV... Mmmmmm.... red meat & seafood, *drool* huh? what...? oh, right, so yeah I sometimes post redundant sentances or non-sensical pargraphs. That being said, can you be more specific as to this thread?