Sixty8panther

True. Although I would have used the Toyoya comparison. :camarosmile:

NICE!!! That's a MAN'S whip right there! I love those wheels.... brings me back to 1995,6,7 A family friend fo ours had an EXACT clone of that car, wheels and all, for their "second car", their first being a refrigerator white '95 Isuzu Rodeo. They owned a bakery and used to do the small to medium deliveries in that B-body Kombi.

Cord L29 Cord 810, 812 "coffin nose" Citroen traction Avant 67-70 Cadillac "Razorback" Eldorado 66-73 Oldsmobile Toronado and (personal favorite as far as "modern" FWD cars...) 80-85 Cadillac "Bustleback" Seville

O.B. 17.04 is damn good for a REAL, no B.S. pick'emup trukk. Hope you keep the GMC instead of trading it in on some POS Rabbitt or (worse) Honda.

Wow... that sucks, but as horrible as that sounds is was WWII.... I can't think of more clearcut, good-vs.-evil war in history! I hope a few of those pierce arrow parts were recyceld into ammo that tore through the fuselage of a Mitsu. Zero or a Junkers 88.

me...? daytona yellow SS, I'll apply the '69 RS hockey stick decals myself.

$$$$ Amelia is coming soon.... so that is going to put the brakes on my spending/time for the time being, perhaps a year or two (hopefully not that long) but I think a more realistic roadtrip will happen when the car is back together... maybe to central NJ...?! :wink: If there's one thing cooler than the '30s cars it's kids, man Sofia is such a awesome, positive force in my life, now that she's got a baby (half) sister coming she's been talking about it quite a bit & is all excited.

You know what else goes with everything and helps the car go unnoticed by potential thieves & po-po? gray primer.

ALright already ALIGHT ENOUGH!!!!!! Fine, you win GM, I'll buy a fu65(*&&%$ing hacksaw & get ragtop rear windows and make my OWN damn hardtop, just give it to us already. Seriously, I stand corrected I just might buy a new Chevrolet in the next few years! God damn that car gets a solid A-, but if it was only a freekin hardtop it would be like an A+++++++++!

True dat!

Excuse me... I think I'm going... to... I'd rather do it in the Dog-Van from Dumb & Dumber than in a Toyopet anything... well, never say never but certainly NO Camry-anything! If it was cheap and in excellent condition, I MIGHT, just MIGHT be tempted by either a '67 2000GT or a Celica Hardtop.

Read the post above yours, Paolino! Although, to be fair, plenty of Audi A4 1.8-turbos have been purchased in the past 10 years by upper-middle class Gen-Xers for $32K +. And I used to have a manager at Chevrolet of Lowell who traded his Civic for a MB C280 like three days after a big raise and he LOVED that car like it was a AMG CL63. So a 4-cyl. is not absurd in a $28K-$34K Cadillac IMHO.

66S: Now that's hillarious! As far as the B-59, when I get the motor back together we'll see if I can finally get a PROPERLY rebuilt H2o pump, I have managed to get a few phone numbers & email addresses for people/machine shops that will do a good job the first time. Since the meltdown and engine teardown started I have aqcuired TWO cores, not sure if they're usable but it's a start. Rest assured DF/66S: I WILL drive a '50s car coast to coast someday... unless a Freightliner car-carrier full of rotted-frame Tacomas breaks my Roadmonster in half tonight on my commute home and makes soilent green pudding out of me. :wink: Even cooler though would be a long-distance roadtrip in a pre-war car powered by the block that it was built with! Imagine a trip from Boston to say, North Carolina in a 1937 Buick bustleback sedan, not some silly SBC-350 powered, TH700 shifted, Mustang II front suspended, 12-volt converted & double resevoir master cylinder coupled to four-wheel disk brakes, wearing AR cheesy rims and raised white letter, low profile tires... I mean a car that is 93% original, with oodles of patina and all mechanicals rebuilt & road-tested. I will admit that radial tires are a good investment for ANY car that will be driven at over 45/50 mph. Although, go figure, the Super 88's 1960s era bias-ply tires were 100% trouble free for me... no air leaks, which is mORE than I can say for many of my radials, and I had the car at almost 100mph more than once without any scary shake, balance problems.

While I agree with a 4 cylinder for now, as long as it's turbocharged, I will AGAIN say that the future for luxury cars will be (should be) in MINI-displacement motors of large cylinder counts. Answer me this: WHY, can Cadillac not have a production version of the Sixteen, but with a baby-cylinder, BOP 215 style motor? What horrible things would happen if Cadillac's upper-end models all had a 5.0 liter V16 option? Talk about silky smooth and 30 mpg highway EASY!!! With d.o.d. & a 1:1 final drive the CAFE argument would go RIGHT out the window!!!

Exageration... even if it was "slight" for effect. :wink: No dodge, even a Mitsubishi rebadge, is as soul-less as a Camry. And BTW, your used/new-to-you Panther is making me think about picking up an ex-Mass State Trooper issue Ford Interceptor. I've come close to buying them before.... it's just that damn FORD logo on the grille always makes me reconsider.

Picture this: rat rod, open wheel... late 20s or early 30s.... 2 foot tall A-frame engine mount holding a RADIAL motor from an aircraft of the same era... WWII or later if nothing.... transfer case, or perhaps heavy duty chain drive to a 4-speed manual & you've got one hell of a rat rod. That's my silver bullet. My most original idea ever. Came up with it years ago while on a roadtrip down south. And that was WAY before that dude's slick & sexy 7-cylinder radial chopper. (as in motorcycle)

Cadillac was the first brand in the world to do a 4-cylinder in 1905 or was it 1906... ? anyway something like that, subsequently they were the first to do a V8... although Pierce Arrow, Packard and a few others beat them in the V12 (twin-6) race Cadillac got the last laugh w/ the V16, I think they just managed to edge out Marmon, although Marmon had been fiddling wiht his own double-8 since 1927, Cadillac managed to beat him in terms of production. I guess my point is, as much as I hate compromise & in a perfect world top of the line Cadillacs would have 16 cylinders & economy models would have V8s and V12s... the reality of 2008 gas prices is that a I4-t powered Cadillac CTS is a great one. It would get Cadillac more sales & hopefully if tunned for economy & not just all out performance it might help w/ CAFE considerably.

We'll see how good your rear shocks/springs are in the Intrepid when it is 48 years old... and for he record you guys had like 800 lbs. worth of stuff & there were four people in that car.... I'm only 160 & I was the lightweight by far.

Mercedes SL(380/420/500) has round sealed beam untill 1988.... IIRC Peterbilt 379s & Kennworth W900s also kept round sealed beams into the mid 1980s...

I'd drop THAT pierce arrow motor into the cleanest, most solid affordable Chevrolet/Pontiac... '29 car that is in need of a powerplant since it was lost due to a cracked block or such...

Some things never change regardlessof what continent you're on.

DF: - Worthy proposition. XP: very cool 1st time seeing that... I agree, rather have that all aluminum V16 back in the original MARMON it was meant 4.

Thanks. Moltar: If geography was not as much of an issue.... Either way good luck with it, she should just keep it IMHO.

I love yellow on 90% of cars but I'm not feeling "1970 GSX saturn yellow" on an '86 Electra. Gunmetal gray and more so black Goes with everything/anything.

Agreed. I'll admit, sometimes I do get my proverbial panties in a bunch..... usually it's because a Toyopet living-dead driver cut me off hours before. :wink: