Sixty8panther

Goof off is good stuff, esp. on price-tag glue. Most of the time WD-40 works similar to Goof Off but not sure about modern automotive paint.

Wow... some of those ads are awesome. And I agree Camino, 1LEs are worthy of preservation. Keep them away from Satty.

Now another question: wht the heck is that '39/'40-ish pre-war car facing it in the interior shot?

Very cool. Almost like the grandfather of the Porsche 928.... (who's designer, BTW: credited the AMC Pacer for the rear end!) Now that is a hybrid I'd love to own!

Well then that sounds good to me. And as far as the Flex, AND the chops based on it: Dear lord those make the Sienna look attractive.

I've already owned a M.Benz that had about 70K miles more than you Shadow, do you WANT me to post pictures of the rocker panels on that car? It was more solid than the Prizm, never mind the Shadow.

Okay then... the real surprise is that Satty did NOT start this thread...

I guess I should just try to be constructive then and agree when members of this forum try to make a disposable-camera on four wheels into something the likes of a Barrett Jackson featured classic I'll just act stupid, as if my standards were that low too. Good for YOU!

Have fun in the "real world".... the Banana Boat was one thing but my B-59 does not need to apologize to ANYONE, it drove my ass around for about 7000 miles last summer! Plenty of "modern" used cars bought for MORE than the B-59s' price can't go that kind of distance between major issues. Oh, and What LX? We were talking about the LH as in his FWD Dodge Intrepid. You call the 300M a "big sedan"? I guess that about sums up where our differances lie. And the comparison between a 1959 Buick & Toyota Camry is both absurd and insulting. Back in 1959 GM made good money on every car made without playing dirty like Toyota and their market share was well over half the USA car sales. It's pointless, all you guys will always just keep making excuses as to why modern cars suck and have to continue sucking, and that is why things will never change. I hope I die a quick death if I ever put things like the amount of cup holders or ease of finding parts high up on my list of 'must haves' in a car. What many of you consider to be "nice, respectable cars" I find to be disgusting, ugly pieces of garbage... esp. the $h! made by Toyota & Honda. If you're going to defend those piece of $h! appliances than we're on opposite sides of the fence... but for the record YOU are the one in EASTERN Germany FYI. :wink:

The shocking part.... it's RWD, BOF and V8 powered! DF's mom bought a mid 1990 Grand Marquis in tan with a padded cholocate roof after her minivan was totalled. I got a ride in it the other day, I guess it's been a good purchase so far, only major flaaw is the power windows all have something wrong with them, one has a broken regulator, the other one has a fried motor, etc.... ahould not be too hard of a fix.

DF: you cna probably get one on ebay for like $2.50 + s&h. That's why I'll often spend my last $.99 on a HW if is is likely to be rare. I have like 6 or 7 of the white diamond '63 Cadillac hearses that MB came out with, but only 2 black ones... I passed on a few and thought I'll buy one later, I opened one for myself & opened one for Sofia and now I don;t have a black one in a package. You guys get the '69 Cadillac SDV hardtop from matchbox? It's gold & has the same ('60s knock-off hub racng wheels) rims all the MB classic cars have been wearing past 2 years. I have the Camaro ragtop concept, have not seen the GTO-J ragtop or the ZR1.

While very cool and wild, neither one of those would be based off an HHR... they'd have to be based off a RWD chassis...

It's funny cause it's true! /homer_simpson Kidding DF.... mostly.

New England is due for a big one, but our "big ones" are like 3.5

Agreed! Eh.... not impressive, if you like stacked headlight Cadillacs the 65/66 Caddys are boring compared to the later '67/'68, their raked noses, poinitng forward almost like a Battleship, is way more cool! '62 is nice, but again: why 62 AND not 61. 1962 is basically the same as a 1961 EXCEPT with smaller, less raked, less pronounced tailfins and with some brightwork deleted.

Anyway that '40 Cadillac is for sale, & EXACTLY within the $60,000 budget. http://www.gatewayclassiccars.com/displayc...mp;location=STL ---- P.S. Diesel Dave owns a way cooler mopar limo... a late '50s (1958 Chrysler IIRC) airport limo, in red. I'll have to dig up the photos and post them for ya. The red tail finned limo is quite impressive, & it is parked next to a 100% complete but in need of one or two mechanical repairs '80s Bitter. Yup, the ultra rare German GT car.

SEXY, long, elegant... perfect. Oh, Dodgefan: didn't I ever TELL you that's "Diesel Dave's" 1963 Chrysler Limo sitting in the woods, rotting slowly? He's a fruity nutcase who owns a bunch of $h!pile rusted cars, some awesome some useless even if they WERE restored. He had a diesel I6 out of a '84 Datsun Maxima that I would have loved to buy and drop in my Datsun, had it not been sitting in the woods in the dirt for 5 years... but it's okay, there was an old scummy truck cap over it. He also owns a bunch of Yugos, one a convertible sitting in the back of a box van, ha also has many more $h!pile European city cars from the dark days, one such fruity french car is sitting INSIDE a Suburban shell. Litterally. About a half dozen Amphicars litter his prperty as well as an awesome Flxible tour bus wiht the glass ceiling... His daiy drivers are a bunch of diesel $h!boxes he rotates, a Chevette diesel, a couple Peugeots, BMWs, Volovos, you name a F***ed up diesel car he OWNS it, most of them not running. He also lays claim to a Volvo 240 wagon that is sitting in a shallow riverbed 1/4 mile away from his house in the woods of NH, I bought some parts off that car for a friend with a '89 240 sedan. That's another LOOONg story. Last time I saw it was about two years ago, at his "property" He does own a caddy bustleback diesel but it's been sitting in the woods for about a decade, with one of the windows down. Once, XP & I walked his property when there was like 27" of snow on the ground. The only car he owns I'd pay good money for would be the '60 Eldorado 2dr hardtop that is sitting under a tarp stretched from two funky buses in his back yard.

Well in that case, here's some worthy examples (not for sale per se) ragtop limo! Aiii-ght! Good thing this next one is a '64, not a big '64 fan so I'm okay with it being cut up. (looks around cautiously to see if Balthazar is around) not very impressive but worth including: Hey look, a '65 Cadillac what has a windshield interchangable with my '59 Buicks' (seriously) my favorite post-war limo from this entire thread:

Oh... well to supplement the silly-super-stretched stauf most places here have a few regular sedans or Town Car L-s for airport runs and such, that's what I drove most of the time at my last job.... just a clean, green TownCar.

In Montana: http://montana.craigslist.org/car/747492512.html

ok... so this one needs a complete restoration, but it would SO be worth it.

1968 Chrysler Imperial - $6000 (Enid,OK) 1968 Chrysler Imperial, one owner 47000 miles. Gold exterior, Bronze Leather interior, 440 cubic inch V8, auto transmission, AM/FM radio, Air, cruise, pdl,pwr seats, ps, tinted glass. Excellent condition. http://dallas.craigslist.org/dal/car/744938138.html Not a fan of the goold but i think Cadillac's "white diamond" (pearl white) would look great!

I've never heard of a Cadillac FREEWOOD... this is the ENTIRE desription: This dope has 4 photos of his '62 Caddy...not one showing the selling point of the car: the tailfins! Obviously he knows more about micrscopic life on Mars than he does about this Cadillac. http://miami.craigslist.org/mdc/car/751613091.html

I submit to you.... a 1969 Fleetwood post. http://boston.craigslist.org/nos/car/773871988.html $3000. How's that for going under budget?

Yes to '70s Eldos... but my point is that I despise them for being so damn overpriced. Makes me not want one at all. If I ever find a cheap mid-1970s Eldo I'll use it for a winter beater so long as I can afford to feed that thirsty 8.2 liter. Just to piss off all the stupid morons who walk right past a clean, original '49 Cadillac fastback or '61 Sedan deVille hardtop, only to drool at some ugly-assed '78 Eldo. "coupe" LA: While I still think they're disposable appliances I will agree that 1980s Toyotas were more exciting, original, durable & interesting than anything the company makes today. Not to mention back then they were a decent value. Nowadays a moron who got a D+ in home economics back at his high school should be able to see they are amongst the most over priced and over rated crappiles out there. I love how, in the late 1990s when Toyota had the "Echo" one of the Auto rags was quoted as saying: The Toyota Echo is one of the cheapest and yet also most overpriced cars sold today in the USA.