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Dodgefan, I'm about twenty miles up the Merrimack from you in Lowell, and yeah, it's bad. Pawtucket Boulevard and Middlesex Street are closed from the Rourke Bridge to the University Ave. Bridge. Homes and businesses are flooded everywhere, but thankfully I live in the Upper Highlands section of Lowell, so I'm high and dry save for half an inch of water in my basement. I'll try and get some pics up of what we're looking like here later.

White trash cars, eh? I nominate my own 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme sedan! I love this car but if you don't think it's the car that an abusive alcoholic husband in some shitty made for TV movie would drive, you're lying to yourself. :lol:

That Camaro looks very clean; great starting point. What are your plans for it in terms of engine/drivetrain?

Certainly isn't very far off, dude.

You're just jealous because you don't own a high class antique luxury automobile like I do! Actually I think my '77 Cutlass goes good with a flannel shirt and a restraining order, and that's why I love it so much; great patina with just the right amount of dirtbag mixed in. But I must say, as Sixty8 alluded to before, everybody at the show was nice and respectful, and was genuinely interested as to where I found such an unusual car in such original shape. I told people straight up that I knew it was the scummiest car there, but every inch an Olds and that was the important thing I thought; and with the purchase price of $230, nobody could argue with me that it was a great buy. But yeah, she certainly isn't a show car in any stretch of the word, but that's how I prefer it. I plan on driving the wheels off of it. I think if I was the only car there that day I might have walked away with a third place trophy Sixty8: do you have any more pictures of that burgundy '64 Starfire that was there, like the second to last one closest to the front of the dealership? That car was absolutely flawless and the paint was a mile deep; I'd love to see more photos if you have any.

Hey genius, there's a thread in the member's rides section that's been desperately awaiting those Tuned Port-powered Alero pictures, y'know. Go post 'em there too!

Who the f@#k cares what the next Knight Rider car is going to be; how about not speculating at all because it's a f@#king retarded idea, just like bringing back everything else that was popular 25 years ago for faggy little kids to act nostalgic about something they never grew up with is. I always get a laugh out of some little prick in a KNOW YOUR ROOTS trucker hat with a picture of an 8-bit Nintendo controller on it saying something like "Oh my God, remember the A-Team?!" And it's like yeah, I do, sort of, but you weren't even a stain on the sheet when it went off the air, so what the f@#k are you talking about?! All this $h! is poorly executed garbage that only really serves to cheapen an original that used to be pretty decent. I don't recall Knight Rider winning any Daytime Emmys or anything, but it wasn't a bad show by any stretch. Cheesy, yes, but it was par for the course for the time in which it was made. Personally I'd like to see a return to original thoughts. I'd like to think that all the good movies and television shows and songs haven't already been written. I'd like to see people writing new scripts and recording new songs instead of seeing what people were into a few decades ago and tweeking it, but apparently that's way too much to ask. Unfortunately it'll probably take casting some no-talent douchebag like Ashton Kutcher for a role originally played by John Wayne before the film industry begins to realize how devoid of fresh ideas they are.

Bad Company- Shooting Star

If by got it going on you mean he's an incredible loser then yeah, I guess so. Seems to me like someone watched National Lampoons Van Wilder too many times and thought it was actually a good idea.

1961 Cadillac Fleetwood, and yeah, it's looking pretty good for its age in comparison to some of the other cars there, I guess. Probably why they have it up front.

I only have that one pic; Sixty8 I'm sure has plenty more, though.

Yeah that '60 Phoenix is really something else; too bad the tree that fell on it turned the driver's side tail fin into a fender skirt!

Hah! great sig; thanks!

I'm a mick, through and through. Mostly Irish with some English and Scottish in there too.

Well how about I just post it since Sixty8's dragging his feet and I'm the one who took him to the all-Olds show in my beat up '77 Cutlass Supreme sedan.... What do you get when you plop a 2001 Oldsmobile Alero coupe on an S10 pickup truck frame with the L98 350 Tuned Port out of an 80's Camaro? The only Alero that matters! Even cooler was the fact that it was driven in by the gentleman in his late 60's that built it. I hope General Motors is taking notes on this one!

Pink Floyd- Comfortably Numb

Great article; my only complaint is that a diesel-powered bustleback Cadillac Seville wasn't also used

Sixty8.... I was wondering when you were gonna post pictures of this place. Good highlights, but the whole place is more or less a highlight. Three mid 50's Cadillac Fleetwood limousines, 1947, 1960, and 1966 Cadillac Fleetwood combination hearses, the incredible 1959 Chrysler Imperial LeBaron four-door hardtop (one of 622 made, the single most expensive vehicle you could buy from Chrysler in 1959 at $6389) that will sadly never see the road again, and countless others. Heartbreaking, yes; I totally agree with you all, but I think you're missing the bigger picture. Maybe it's because you've never been to a place like this, but there's something satisfying about seeing all those old cars together out in the woods, left to rest out of respect. As stated before, new cars are crushed in short order and nothing old is stacked. For whatever reason, this is still the car in this salvage yard that makes me wish I had money to burn on a wildly ambitious restoration project the most. Unfortunately separated from its nose many years ago, this 1965 Pontiac Bonneville U.S. Navy Ambulance is far more impressive in person than any photograph could ever show; the scallops in the body are exquisite and thankfully not damaged. If I could ever find the space to keep it from further weather damage until I could find the money and time to restore it, I would.

Isn't it an Opel with a Saab engine, meaning getting parts for it is a clusterf@#k? Not to mention the fact that they're a nightmare to fix. Only redeeming quality I see in 'em is rear wheel drive. From what I understand, it's like some sort of miracle if you break 100,000 miles with one. Ask speedingpenguin about it; he's had one for quite a while as a backup car.

Some asshole in a faded red '77 Cutlass Supreme sedan

'96 Buick Riviera: -Radio/climate controls on the steering wheel -Passenger AND driver "oh $h!" handles -Door panels that come out on the top to meet the edges of the dashboard that complete the look and feel of sitting in a cockpit '79 Cadillac Coupe DeVille (even though it's gone now) -High beam switch on the floor (last year for it) -Light to indicate high beams being on is a tiny Cadillac shield -Light indicators at the tips of the front fenders -Little Cadillac shields here, there, and everywhere! -Old "V" style emblems used on the quarter roof and trunk -Floor-mounted gas pedal as opposed to the stupid hanging ones we have today -Cadillac 425 (last year) as opposed to some piece of garbage V8-6-4 sequential shutoff motor or the HT4100 or converted Oldsmobile 350 diesel or Oldsmobile 307 boat anchors that the 80's saw '77 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme -High beam switch on the floor (why was this ever done away with?) -Ornamental pattern embossed into the leather on the bottom of the armrest that can only be seen when it's in the up position -Extra Oldsmobile emblem in the passenger's side of the dashboard where a clock should be -Oldsmobile rockets in the taillights -Oldsmobile rockets on the hubcaps -Neat grilles that roll up onto the top of the header panel -Middle of the panel under the trunk lid flips up to put fuel in as opposed to the flip-down license plate that most cars had around this time

I've always used "the rod" as one of the factors in determining whether a car is a cheesy piece of garbage or not. Gas struts or the big nasty coil springs all the way!

1996 Buick Riviera- 134,343 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme- 77,844 1938 Whizzer Motorbike replica- 91

I can only speak for the 3800 from personal experience, but it seems like they're acting like the dreaded intake manifold gasket problem came out of nowhere; it's happened to a million people, myself included. My '96 Riviera ate it hard back in January and now has a 13,000-mile engine in it from an '04 LeSabre. Soon after we had the gasket done in my mother's '99 Bonneville as a precautionary measure. Bottom line is it depends on quality of materials. I know the earlier 3800's have a plastic intake manifold while the later ones are made out of aluminum; the gasket material didn't change for many years but it seems that the ones with the plastic intake manifolds leak more often than not. Maybe if GM hadn't cheaped out on the first generation Series II 3800's and other engines they wouldn't be facing this bull$h! lawsuit now.

There's a guy that lives literally right around the corner from me that owns a Lincoln Blackwood; how many of them did they make anyways?