Sixty8panther

Dear lord, and I've been warned of expensive repairs on the MB 500SEC. You buy a 924/944/968 and you DON'T work on your own car, you might as well get an AmEx and give it to your mechanic, just because they can be bought for $5000 used does NOT mean they do not command Porsche epic repair bills.

ASS-cot is right.

My RoadmOnster's 5/7 liter V8, as beat to crap as it is, turns at just UNDER 2000RPM at 75mph! 4-cylinder $h!box @ 75mph with the motor at 3250rpm is not much better than a big old honkin V8 turning at much lower RPM....

Daaaaaamn. Just got your "tight whips emergency" txt msg. COPO-Burban indeed.

Tunned Port B-bodys in great shape.... (not like my tired & beat to $hit '92 throttel body injected beast) are reported to get just a hair over 29 mpg with a light foot on the highway! I forget who, but someone on this very forum made a comment at one point about it.... also I think it might have been the more aerodynamic wagons. Either way that is with 1.1 liters MORE than the Ford. My buddy Kenny has at his dealership, a 4.3 liter SBC powered 1994 Caprice Classic in immaculate shape... the car needs NOTHING! (the little known 267 LT1)

DF: Ever see the '71 Cuda that frequents local carshows.... sits a bit "different" At close inspection it's VIPER powered, (8.0 liter V10) and the unibody shell rides on a customised Dodge Dakota frame! BTW: it was made by the same guy who made the wicked cool 2-passanger Olds Alero 2dr that sits on an S10 frame & is powered by an tunned-port 350 that was borrwed from a totalled Firebird.

That's sad. And you sell cars!!!! I'll post a crash-course on the topic tonight, time permitting.

Harley, you know you're tugging at my heartstrings, right? If there is ONE thing otehr then RWD that I think makes a car worthy of restoration despite rust up to the door handles, it's a hardtop greenhouse. --- I think a lot more people would appreciate and favor a hardtop if they only knew WTF it IS! Most of today's public would not prefer a blackberry over a regular cell phone at twice the cost if they thought the only benefit was a plum-metallic case. CARVE THIS INTO WAGONER's FOREHEAD!!!!!!!!!

Kaiser made some cool $h!... and NOT high on my list is that fiberglass monstrosity with sliding doors and very poor build quality, futuristic and cool as it might have been, either way Kaisers had the Art-deco look well into the 1950s, even though most other manufacturers abandoned it somewhere between the early '30s and late '40s.

Still hoping for $2.50 by next year. you know what they say.... hope springs eternal

Yup... nothing wrong with the Grand Mrq. Although the B-body was always one step ahead in terms of fuel economy AND performance, until GM decided to have looer elfs from cookie companies run the show and kill the BOF car as it existed. Ford's super-parasitic, often-oversized transmissions are always a crutch... and yet they still mnaged to be less durable than GM's smaller TH-variety. go figure.

That (early '70s looking) Chevy Opala hardtop is HAWWWT!!!! Very nice lines... As far as the rest: !!!! Esp. the Mazda Pinto II & Mitsubishis

Who cares if you cna do a veggie conversion?! :wink:

'71 Cadillac SDV, (very tired 472 cubic inches) ----> 8.5 MPG (90% city!) '77 Cadillac CDV (well running 425 cubic inches) ----> 13.5 average MPG (50/50 mix) '86 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham [gray/burgundy] (poorly running, tired 307) ----> ~ 16 MPG '86 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham [triple silver] (excellent running 307) ----> 18.6 MPG Just someting to think about.

One hollow point bullett would save the Canadians a lot of wasted tax money... There is NO effin way this guy will ever be able to do anything good for society & if some feel-good ultra-left (sorry DF, generalization...) psychobable doctor ever fascilitated his parolle I bet by non-severed head there would be another victim. Just like the piece of $hit governor of ours who helped to get convicted rapists & murderers out of jail only to have them strike again! Disgusting. This kind of 'filth of society' needs to be cut out of existance like a bad cancer.

CTS-V, 6-speed. Corvette is always in the top-3 though... but no back seat means it could not be a daily driver.

I agree with O.B., like a lot of cars witht eh II sufix in their name the Chevy II was never a great looker... it just rode the lkine between plain-jane and ugly... BUT that having been said I respect it for the cool as beans little econo-box it was. And YES, the Chevy II could be ordered to be one of THE best/most serious sleepers of its day, 327/4-on-the-floor! Many an old man can tall you stories about that.

Celebrities? LeBarons?, Sentras? Sorry but the only one I'll agree with you on is the Datsun 240SX/Silvia & MB E190. But the much cooler, two-door hardtop 300CE is the only baby-benz I'd pay any REAL amount of money for... (my old 240D we purchased for $500 and I flipped it for $1500)

Apparetly this is like if I wrote an article in the Newspapaer that was titled:

okay... so he stabbed te guy 40-50 times, then beheaded him.... all in a split second, with no time between the knife being shown & the beheading for someone to at least try to stop him!? Right. Let's not act too quickly, give the guy a chance to explain himself.... There's probably a perfectly rational reason why he beheaded his victim. Oh absolutely... "swiftly" is the word I'd use. 50-stabs to a human torso & the severing of a human head and spinal cord takes mere split seconds! One person, just one, with a firearm, could have prevented a death, or at least stopped this horrific murder before the victim was sliced up into a headless, bloodless tenderized corpse. Reason #9,426,783 why a society where at least a small percentage carry firearms, concealed or otherwise, would be much safer than one where only psychopaths, hardened criminals & vicious killers are the only ones who are armed with weapons.

I spent about $150 a week on gas in the Banana... Now, granted it dropped $0.20 last week, but the RoadmOnster got me point A-to-B-to-C-to-D....-to-Z... ALL week and I'm still exactly on half a tank which cost me only $95 to begin with! Damn, I done more than doubled my fuel economy and I'm still rockin' a 5.7 liter V8!

Modern era: '06 Camaro concept-clone in transformers. (it had no b-pillars either!!!) Classic movie, dead tie between: 1. Chevy small block V8 powered '55 Chevy in American Graffiti and 2. Chevy small block V8 powered '32 (Driver Returns On Foot) non-GM "hot-rod" also in American Graffiti Either way that race turned out GM was going to WIN!

Only GM... aluminum block with IRON HEADS! LOL

2010 Bugatti Veyron, red over black. 1930 Cadillac V16 Boattail Roadster, bodied by Pinninfarina in Italy (the TIGER-HUNT) car Then I would have only TWO cars but together they would have 32 cylinders!!! Oh... way to dry up a wet dream! Since the Camaro is not on sale yet... 2009 Pontiac G8 GT, well optioned, what would that set me back, like $31,000 real worldl. A nice, mechanically solid pre-war with great patina. 1933-1939 or so. (remaining $19,000) I'd prefer a Pontiac, LaSalle, Cadillac, Buick, Chevrolet, Oldsmobile, Plymouth, DeSoto or Chrysler in that order...

WOW! Why is that car not in your driveway like yesterday!?!? One of my best friends, and fellow 1950s car nut Duffy bought a 1991 GTA "hardtop" (steel roof coupe, TPI350-auto) at 60K miles and drove it as his daily driver until 2006, when he replaced it w/ his (one & only car, 80 miles a day daily driver) 1961 Rambler American. IIRC the GTA had 140,000 on it... I was sad to hear he got rid of it, living in Arizona he could have just parked it under a carport for a while... He loves telling people that his one and only car is the Rambler he bought with like 30K original miles but I'm sure he misses that '91 GTA from time to time. Many a time and dozens of gallons of Sunoco 94 was burned off in his GTA stop light racing my '68 Camaro. We had a drag-race one day just about a week after I bought the '68, that lasted about 4 miles, both of us pushing 100mph on a 2-lane highway, then down a twisty-backwoods road where due to his reason and common sense, and my stupidity and lack of fear & respect for my over-powered car, I lost him and got so far ahead that I was able to sneak into a side road, pull a J-turn, and wait for him to blow past only to come out on the "cat" end of our cat-n-mouse game we were playing... Ahhh... good times. 2002 AD, when gas was $1.80/gallon & my 1968 "Panther" Camaro was the only responsibility I had.... xcept for my girlfriend and rent. Time marches on.