Sixty8panther

I was mostly just having fun w. the annalogy. :wink:

Yup... all economic turmoil, political strife, childish inner-politics at GM's Renn Center & all their E.U. operations have always been predicted with 103% accuracy by our buddy PCS. Nostradamus whooo???

Yes. That being said: beating the crap out of a car, be it a track-ready SCCA Porsche 911 turbo or your mom's Plymouth Voyager means tire squeel. I've attempted 1-g cornering in cars that had no business trying, the result was usually a lot of noise, much of it coming form the tires!

Well I wasn't even going to go there. In the extreeme heat... (90*s, humid as the Louissiana Bayou) swapped out transmission on 1968 Camaro swapped out rear end in 1968 Camaro gutted interior of 1968 Camaro & installed an aluminum seat out of a Porshce SCCA racecar complete w/5-point harness In the extreeme COLD. (outside, working in the SNOW!) Replaced starter in '95 Suburban Replaced 15 feet of brake line in '95 Burb Swapped out a fuel pump & did tune up on '64 Olds Super-88 Holiday Brake Job on '91 S-10 4x4 Blazer 4.3 V6/5-speed Replaced fuel pump (dropped down tank & such) on '92 Buick Roadm0nster Swapped out H20 pump & belts on '86 Cadillac

Dodgefan: After 11 months & about 13K miles of very minimal maintenenace & ZERO breakdowns with my 1984 Mercedes Benz 500SEC I drove through a nasty puddle (more like a small lake) on Friday morning on my way to UPS. The car stalled out and would not start, at least it happened like 150 yards from the UPS Hub. I got out of work and it started up fine but acted up again during really heavy rain & then the next morning in the foggy, humid air. Long story short, I spent a little cash for new ignition wires because while reving the motor in my driveway wiht the hood open I could see the arcs jumping all over the damn place. A mini-lightning storm was jumping around all over the distributor & even grounding out against the radiator support. The wires did the trick & the Benzo is running great. For the record to the naked eye my ignition wires did not look at all dry-rotted or old. Lesson Learned. An ounce of prevention.... :wink:

I've had good luck with Pirelli & Michelin. I usually buy generic Coopers... but as of late most of my tires come from the local Junkyard. $5 a pop for any wheel & tire so long as it's not aluminum & larger than 16" You'd be surprised how many great deals I've gotten that way. And of course I've also scored some nasty, dry-rotted & bald ones for burnout stupidity.

I don't wax. It's not my thing. But I'll be happy to ask my wife what she uses on her legs... oh, wait I get it. Riiiiight. In all seriousness I have not waxed a car in about seven years. I did wax the Camaro a few times but even that was a waste of time. Besides, I'm all about patina. Of course if a new or newish 5th gen. Camaro ever ends up in my ownership, or perhaps a CTS-V, then I'll most certainly wax it to keep it looking good.

Wow.... cool stuff. Always nice to learmn something new at random. This is the kind of stuff that makes C&G fun, unprovoked tangents we go on just for the $h!s & giggles. It's why Al Gore invented the internet one day back in 1992 after feasting on a Spotted Owl Sandwich & shooting a Right Whale in the face with a forked harpoon.

I'm only a pseudo-FoMoCo fan but an all out GM fanatic, and yet comparing a W-body Lumina to a Lincoln LS V8 just seems to be laughable. It would be like comparing the brand-spanking-newest & best F-22 Raptor to a 9-decade old Sopwith Camel.

Something doesn't quite sound right.... Exactly from conversations past I had the impression you really loved & enjoyed your 2-dr hardtop Corvair.

Your eyes do NOT deceive you:

LOL, emphasis on: Looks to me like a Japanese made Armored Car built off a '79 C/K Blazer.

You know what they say about cheaters? ...they go on to the professional sports or political office.

The one of Hillary is awesome!!!

Nick gets it!

I disagree... How about Melissa Gilbert waiting naked & all hot-n-bothered in the backseat of a '33 Cadillac V16 Madame-X.

One does not (yet?) exist in 3D.

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We've had enough rain recently to last us a month at least. Seems like the windows in the Mercedes have not been down in almost a week, it's been raining off/on for about two weeks. Makes the "WATER SHORTAGE BAN" lawn signs look downright silly.

Good thinking. I was also going to suggest looking for the ABS fuse as Camino said, if the ABS slot is blocked off or empty than you got your answer right there.

Holy cow. Hope the driver was okay!

I'm a picky bastard. Here's my ideal (semi-realistic) M-Benz: 1. Hardtop 2. Turbocharged-Diesel 3. Manual Trans. Built like a tank & RWD goes without saying, that's how M.B. builds everything... at least aside from the A-class & Smart. I'd love to drop a 1/4 scale turbo-diesel V-16 from a U28 Locomotive into my 500SEC if such a mini-V16-TD existed.

Happy anniversary of the day of your termination as a womb-dweller.

Never sen that, would LOVE to. But either way one thing the car-show circuit has taught me: If there is a Phantom arm-chair car-nuts have ever thought of, someone, somewhere has done it. Like the dozens of awesome wagons wearing GTO-Judge, HEMI, Shelby Cobra & GS-X Stage III emblems and many times GUTS. Either way, the only reason why I'm driving an '84 Mercedes instead of a '37 Plymouth Bustleback or '59 Buick Electra 255 Riviera Six-widow is CO$T. And yes, I do understand that is a factor but the way I see it: $4000 solid project + $20,000 restoration on a '70 ElCamino is a better investment than: $300 project '77 ElCamino + $20,000 restoration. You know me Camino, not trying to be a jerk.

not only has a Phantom-Camino been done of EACH of those three years but it's EXACTLY what amino loves to do, phantom cars that SHOULD have existed but didn't. Another great Phantom Camino would e a '64 FULL SIZE Camino, or better yet a FULL SIZE '65 Impala fastback based one. Be still my heart.