Sixty8panther

Wow, i guess need to get more sleep... sorry Moltar, you got it.

WMJ: Before you pass judgment on my decision let me post a thread in the project car chronicles with some pics. and you can decide for yourself.

I love the 300C but it's not a flagship in the same category as a BMW 760iL or M.B. S-class. hahaha-ha. True dat, but it's the most glaring mechanical detail. Almost as horrific as FWd is the Sebring's disgusting styling.

I think Nirvana has it's place in R&R history.... Pearl Jam however is the Who of alternative. Overplayed & over rated IMO. Also Peter Frampton.... STFU dude, Uriah Heep you NEVER EVER hear on the radio nd yet their taking guitar was WAY cooler. (plus Uriah Heep's songs are like 2 minutes long, not 17 minutes like Frampton's)

True. Indeed your guess WAS closest I guess. Someone else's money-pit has once again become MY frugal-beater. Labor is 80% of a money-pit's expense. I'll gladly do a brake line and starter to get a vehicle for free that would otherwise sell for well over two grand or for like $500-$1200 wholesale at auction. ---- On a related note, it's official: The Roadm0nster will be going to automotive heaven in the fall, but not before it delivers a few bone crunching blows to several dozen other "demolition enduro race" cars. Better to go out in a BANG, than to fade rust away...

The Special Speedster, though erroneous it may be, is quoted outside of Wiki. now who can name the otehr two?

Camino nailed it, this is tougher than trying to pick just ONE favorite Cadillac car. S'more classic "rock": - The Ramones, "Blitzkrieg Pop" - The Traveling Willburries, "It's Alright" - Johny Cash, "Folsom Prison Blues"

Seriously. What lame-o "anti-RWD" propaganda. Complete B.S. btw, unless their cops are total losers who have ZERO hours training in their C.V.'s and Chargers in the winter conditions, and yes kill all "environmentalists", they'll have a much lower "carbon footprint" once dead!

Oh, almost forgot: Led Zeppelin, "Immigrant Song" and how could I forget Pink Floyd...? Shame on me. Not sure... "Comfortably numb" is too predictable but my favorite song by them, "One of these days" is too obscure, so I'll go with "Another Brick in the Wall 1+2" and how about "More than a Feeling" by Boston? I know it's cliche'd but I ca get on board with that. How about Billy Idol's "White Wedding"?

As a BIG fan of classic rock I find the Who annoyingly over-rated and over-played. My top 5: 1. Beatles, "A day in the life" 2. U2 "Where the streets have no name" 3. Guns & Roses, "Sweet child 'o mine" 4. Metallica, "Master of puppets" 5. Nazareth, "This Flight Tonight" I love those 5, and that's my "shooting from the hip at 3-am list" but now in retrospect I guess on paper I'm a Tard 'cause that list is pretty tame.

C'mon people..... I've given you lots of clues. Independent, as in NOT the big three. I know you can do it!

Thanks again guys. ---- So here's the (non-Hyundai) Scoupe: A few weeks ago I found out a certain redneck in N.H. had dropped the price of his drivable but in need of a tune-up Mopar classic to near scrap metal $/lbs. levels. This was a car I was LUSTING after when it was $3K, not it was well under a grand.... the ad said you could "drive it home". The car in question? The very last four-door HARDTOP ever made by an American manufacturer, which was also the very last 4-door HT ever to be offered for sale in the USA: 1978 Chrysler New Yorker. (powered by the MIGHTY 440 none-the-less!) I had been formulating a plan to replace the Roadm0nster, which I had decided was getting to the point of no-return. I made mention of my desire to own this 7.2 liter V8 powered dinosaur at UPS at break, which made the half dozen or so Honda owners chuckle. Gas prices, blah-blah-BLAH, MPG blah.... When I tried to subtly tell them the err of their ways my buddy Ronnie who drives a mid-1990s Honda was laughing as we were joking around & he says to me: "Hey my brother-in-law has this BIG old Chevy in my back yard that you'd probably LOVE since you like all that big stuff.... I was going to get rid of it in the next few weeks before the snow...." ME: Are you going to sell it or junk it? Ronnie: Uhhh.... I just want it out of my back yard, I don't care how it goes but there's no room for it since I live in (close Suburb of Boston) and I need the space for snow removal. About 4 weeks later, here I am. I've invested $15 for the tip to the AAA guy to tow it outta his back yard, $42 after tax for a squeaky clean & recently rebuilt starter from the junkyard & I was in business! The funny thing is I stored it in a parking lot owned by UPS for the week until I could get around to the starter, yet another fringe benefit of UPS employment/Local 125 Union that was never offered to me but I still took advantage of on my own terms. Of course with my two jobs and busy schedule with the wife & 2 girls I had to throw the starter in in the middle of the first blizzard we had this season, two weeks ago. I drove back and forth with the RWD Mercedes all day in conditions worthy of a Massachusetts "state of emergency" with almost no one on the roads except for Osh-Kosh airport plows, and as soon as the storm subsided, I drove the 'Burb home through cold, peaceful night, with a nice crispy 3" of packed snow under the tires, Julie following me in the Benzo since she refused to drive the 'Burb, I thought it only fair to keep the truck in 2-WD... with the occasional spirited power-slide around a sharp corners, just for fun. So now, two weeks later I've invested about $53 for 25 feet of brake line & $20 for a used junkyard battery and I still need to replace a P.S. fluid hose but overall the truck has been DEAD reliable & tons of fun. Naturally, after we bled the brakes we had to take it off-road for a bit down some power-line access roads to "test" everything out.... All I the name of safety. 4WD-High & 4WD-Low both work great the transfer case is fully functional and the rear end was recently replaced. So that's my fire-side chat about the FREE 8-passenger 4x4 truck that I got not in the middle of the summer when gas was $4.59/g and 4WDs are not desirable, but in the onset of winter, with gas at a 5-year low.

The depression that hit in calendar year 1957 (model year 1958) was a big part of the problem for sure, but like Balthazar said... the Edsel was not the failure that it is made out to be. The push-button trans in the steering wheel is one of my favorite features, and while I actually like the '58 and '59 model years, I downright LOVE the '60.... esp. the non-production mock-up that never was.... which had a very prominent VERTICAL monolith-style grille in the center of the '60 FoMoCo fascia instead of just the not so bold x-theme that made production. Also, this is kind of cool: the intermediate Edsel that never WAS but SHOULD HAVE BEEN right from the get-go! An edsel COMET!

I'll almost certainly own a 4.2-I6 powered 360 someday.... esp. a loaded up T-Lazer.

It's NOT the Buick Bengal. HINT: none of these cars would be found in the book I mentioned recently,the one I got for Christmas last week....

WE gotz a sitter for both the girls.... so looks like we're going OUT!!! Now I just need to talk Julie into the Olive Garden instead of whatever NON-Olive Garden-esque establishment she's got in mind.

The truck is a 1995. And so far has given me 250+ miles of service... I still need to replace a P.S. hose & figure out how to bleed the brake lines, the ABS UNIT seems to be preventing some of the trapped air from being bled. Anyway overall it's a great truck, needs a good cleaning but it's solid and safe, I'll give you guys the 411 soon. I need to get on that plan as far as my '34 Cadillac V-16 day-dreams go... "Sure Grandma Rockefeller, I'll get it out of your garage ASAP, flat tires or not"

Getting close.....

Yes.... many a time. It's what separates the MEN from the boys! Next, you should get a Suburban! 129" wheelbase FTW!

Uhhhhh.... never watched the sequels, you're right I guess. There was a nice 2nd gen. Pontiac F-body in Corvette Summer, got totaled in the final scene IIRC.

Yeah... I went with that premise for once. Otherwise I would have said: 1961 CdV 2dr hardtop: $6,000 1932-37 Pontiac ANYTHING drivable in great shape: $10,000 $4000 for repairs., restification.

Thank You Sir. I agree.... with gas at $1.57 why not enjoy it while it lasts! More than one friend has already said \: Well I know who I'm calling for an Airport Shuttle/Camping Trip buddy. $4000 was too high $2500 is too high... Keep guessing.

Relax, everyone cam down... THERE'S NOTHING TO SEE HERE! Besides it's just "loss of steering" not like it's dangerous or anything....

Go read some magazines from Y2K, the Trailblazer and envoy got PLENTY of accolades, in fact I sold many a Trailblazer & Trailblazer EXT when I was a Chevy salesman & later Envoys when I sold GMCs. You'd be surprised how many of my customers came in to buy a Tahoe or 'Burb and left in a EXT Trailblazer or sometimes even the short wheelbase TB/Envoy. I, or one LOVE the GMT-360s. As a young optimistic (and a bit naive) GM salesman they represented the future for me. A good BRIGHT future that included BOF trucks, modern spiritual successors to the venerable Chevy 250 I-6, in the form of the Atlas I-6 and RWD based architecture, heck even the GMT-360s styling was VERY appealing in the early 2000s, way to go GM for dropping the ball on a mid- cycle refresh.

My parent's town got a low magnitude one last sunday, I think it was a high 2 on the Richter scale. I guess some of the tectonic pates in the northeast are shifting.