Sixty8panther

Hey C&D, MT, R&T, Automobile, AutoWeek... (& anyoine else who decided to "evaluate" a pickup) It's a PICKUP TRUCK! Key word: PICKUP, with an emphasis on the TRUCK. It's not an Audi A8 or S8, or a Cadillac DHS, nor is it trying to be. Yeah... I know, huh. The GMC is the better looking of the tow in GMT-900 skin, that;s for sure imo, but that being said I'm warming up to the "Wide-Load" look nose.

Yup.... the bumper is interesting but the car looks best SANS. As far as die-cast cars & resin kits, I've got a "few" My Bugatti die-cast is an already assembled 1:24 in metal, painted that gorgeous powder-blue that is associated with Bugatti's race cars.

What I find funny about the classic ealry '60s VW Beetle making a cameo in the new VW ads is that while I LOVE the utilitarian, super functional & wonderfully bulletproof KdF, the VW cars of the last twenty years are, by in large, nothing but expensive, over-complicated, boring & uninspired electronic-gremlin-riddled econoboxes that might be best described as average.... At least back in the 80s there was the hyper-agile & well priced Scirocco, the later Corrado, as good as it was, already showed VW's idiotic prepentioin for trying to reinvent the wheel & coming up short/ dissapointingly unimpressive.

YOU LIKE TO DRIVE FROM THE FRONT?

If they fixed the front it could be quite a looker, this is better still: I agree, it's even cooler than the Viper, esp if the gave it a OHV straight-10! & produced it. When I first saw this car as a kid, in C&D & R&T my jaw literally fell to the floor, & I hadn't developed an appreciation for 1930s cars yet. (BTW, it was straight eight powered!) ----- Here's four photos of the Round Door from 4 decades:

What about SPEARING a WHOPER? Did you bring a spear gun into BK again...?

Mmmmmm.... Lobster.....

That' way too logical for the state of Mass, or the 2st century.

my favorite part:

Moltar: As far as the Aeromax... not a big fan of the nose, I have to agree with one Automotive journalist who said it looked as if it ran into a telephone pole, The split-window-boattail rear is quite interesting & worth mentioning.

I agree with you guys.... DF: Yes, it is timeless and would look great done up as a retro EFIJI style car. --- Moltar: Yup.... Art Deco 1930s cars are the only thing better than 1950s chrome & tail fin encrusted yachts & muscle cars. --- Balthazar: Nice to see you approve of this design, I always find your opinion insightful and was wondering what you might pick apart on this car, which I think is fantastic.

Yeah.... the law is often times.... above the LAW. I voted "stop, wait 20 sec." Although I usually wait more than 20se.... usually I wait like a minute at least. I run into this basic scenario in the suburban/urban areas I rive through to get to UPS. Because I'm typically going into work at 3:00am or so, I get quite frustratd because many of the lights on my commute are on pressure sensors. For some dang reason long wheelbase cars like my B-59 that I was driving in last year & like the Suburban now, often times do not trigger the light to turn green. I had at one point, about a year ago in the 59, rocked the car back & forth to get the light to tur an it honestly took about 90sec. even though NOT ONE CAR had traveled the otehr way in the whole time I was there. That' flippin' annoying. As far as blatantly running a red light, unless it's in the middle of the desert & you've got a clear view for 1/2 mile plus in all directions, that's asking to die or worse, kill someone else!

Moltar: You're thinking of the Talbot Hot Wheels car I bet.... I have about a half dozen of them all in different colors. The Bugatti Type-57 "Atlantic" is also gorgeous! I've only ever seen one in person, it was at the Museum of Fine Arts, the Ralph Lauren collection.

Holy Cow, that super-low slung "centennial concept" Corvette is making my heart skip beats! Produce that as the 7th gen. GM, pleeeeease! It's not an improvement IMHO.

Yup.... 1925 chassis, 1934 body: Feast your eyes on THIS: I love the way the windows "open", they don;t roll down so much as they "rotate out of the way". This has to be one of the best looking European cars ever. x million . . . I'll post more pics. later... (I'm at work, can't f*** off) . . .

Thanks Mr. Negativity. :wink: Yeah... too, many "GM enthusiasts" buy Phord Fusions & ToyoPet Pri-ASSes. Anyway back in the late 1970s plenty of people were saying: "buy a Corvette while you can... there will not be a 4th gen!" I seem to recall something simillar about convertible Eldorados.

With all the retards in mASS hogging the passing lane I'd love to get: RVO3VOM There's tow problems with that: Even though this state has a huge population Massachusetts still insists on no more than 6-digits in their plates, & even in a Vanity plate you can NOT "intermix letters/numbers" Mass = teh suxor.

Cool post. I love the way you think!!! It would make the Camaro the only true Hardtop in its price range... The cheapest hardtop right now is a "base model" 3.5L V6 Mercedes CLK at just over $50,000. That COULD (if GM made an effort) be used as quite a marketing tool... not holding my breath though. I will admit that my emotional investment, (spanning two decades) in the Camaro has overcome my hatered of the ugly, eyesore of a B-pillar. I was "reading" a car magazine to Amelia the other day... [it's important to converse with babies, even if you're talking to yourself, so instead of reading a car magazine or some book about pre-war cars, I read it TO her.] and I found myself drooling at all the shots of the production Camaro. I actually found the Concept's headlights to be one of the weak points of the design, they were too small & looked to be tucked too far into the corners of the hooded grille, the production Camaros headlights actually win me over. The 1969 Camaro is my all time favorite muscle car bar NONE, & it is the NON-RS big-eyed '69 Camaro that I prefer so I'd love a mid- cycle refresh in the guise of adding the wheel-well speed lines, or creases or whatever you call them that make the '69 stand out from the 1967/1968. Anyway here's my point: I'm back in love with this car, after writing letters to GM for almost a decade and always stressing to anyone from GM that would listen that we needed a retro-Camaro I feel like I had a small but important part, along wiht other 1st gen. F-body enthusiasts, in bringing the 5th gen. out of history's "shoulda-coulda" dust-bin into reality. And you know what, even if I do have to spend $1500 to get the B- pillar switched out for the (eventual) Convertible's rear windows so that I have a TRUE hardtop, so be it. Though, for the record GM, instead of paying $1500 for some wicked cool exclusivity I'd gladdly pay $300 more for a production Camaro & have a run of the mill hardtop like everyone else. Oh-well. Viva la RWD, Viva la 6-speed manual, Viva la LS_x V8 for the masses, Viva la Camaro! I'm back in love.

About a week ago I saw "FRIDAY" on a 6th Gen. Corvette (I'll post a photo., not downloaded yet) I thought that was quite cool, esp. since the Vette owner was driving it in the dead of winter, salt smeared all over the car, including the roof & rear hatch. Hell why not? What's going to rust? The Aluminum frame or the fiberglass body? Anyway he's probably got something REALLY worth preserving in his garage, like a '59 Caddy or a '39 Buick.

Not really, that's not at all an ultra-rare occurance in a car of this sort. Even the 1990s ultra-exotic, BMW-powered McLaren F1 had a set of matching luggage, it all fit perfectly into the car's side compartments, almost like a PeterPan bus... only PeterPan busses weigh a lot more than 2600 lbs. and can't go 231 MPH, at least not stock. -

Great point. Why the F*** doesn't Al Gore have a windfarm on his propertie(s)? Maybe the state of california can chip in for a Veggie-conversion & giant, thruster-mounted-catalitic converters for his Leer Jet.

Yes indeed. Wouldn't it be great to go back in time and meet this guy? Easily THE most influential person in Automotive history in terms of Automotive design & styling. The "Art and Color" department was what bridged the gap between the spartan, function driven Model-T and the coachbuilt Duesenbergs, Parkards & Bugattis that were basically works of art on wheels. I personally would love to meet Harley more so than almost any living celebrity, be it an Athlete, Musician, Actor, Politician or whatever. Then again GM classics are No.1 obsession.

And let's remember Balthazar, that 469 horsepower output is coming from a motor that has been updated & gained forced induction but the meat-n-potatos of the motor, like the entire block & guts have been around in production form since fall of 1992. That's the most recent update of a 17 year old motor. Not that I'm trying to put down Hyundai but if we're going to draw comparisons there's one that nobody is making.

Well, in any case much of what he describes does jive with characteristics that I myself dislike strongly in most Hon-DUH/AcCura cars I've driven... Their AUTO transmissions are crappy, worse even than my 1997 Infiniti Q45's in sloppyness. Then again, if you buy a Honda product with an AUTO then you're a complete lost cause.