Sixty8panther

Thanks Camino. Here's a few more, some are from a few years back but I'm pretty sure none of these have ever been posted on C&G. I'm also posting 3 more photos of that GORGEOUS, very original 1933 Chevrolet, I love this Pre-War classic like a fat kid love cake.

Hey O.B. did you say "spiders" or "Spyders"???

Balthazar: Any photos of the '67 Eldorado...? <3 As far as the Lotus dealer that's down the street from you I stopped by there the day after I visited you on my roadtrip back in 2005. I must admit I have a soft spot for Lotus. ---- Since I've been absent from C&G for most of 2009 into the spring of 2010, I'll post some of my favorites from this past year:

Thanks guys. I made the snub-nose machine gun hood ornament from a .50 cal German MG from my (Me.109G / Ju.88 A4) Mistel 1 kit. (it would be mounted in the nose of the plane if it were a regular production Ju.88)

I can't help here except to add that the diesels were sourced from Isuzu.

Quite a solid, durable chassis. This might not be a bad deal, idiot owner aside. The "w140" hardtop is amazingly impressive. The window glass is 3-sheets, it seems like the damn car's door/glass is bulletproof.

Great piece of history.

Thank you, that 1930 model-A in the background of the last photo was another basketcase, there were like two dozen pieces missing off it, half of them in the bottom of the dusty, crusty box it was tossed into. I used the Model-A & Model-T parts cars from that box to piece it back together. It was unpainted, molded in grass green. I painted it in navy blue & then sanded it down to give it a somewhat convincing patina.

Moltar: I wish 1902 was almost like 1962. Seems like i pay a lot more 4 for my magazines, books & antiques from the turn of the century than I do for the same from the early 1960s. Should've traded my1962 Special for a Brass Era Car. =/

Henry Leland was a humble & awesome soul.

I NEED those Cadillacs!!!

I've had quite a few 5-speed cars for daily drivers. I racked up about 20k miles in my 5-speed 1991 Blazer S-10 4x4 (4.3 V6) in less than a year, then later between the two 1st gen. 5-speed Datsun Maximas I owned I drove probably about 45k miles. Those cars were cool, inline-6 w/ IRS, RWD nice easy clutch & shifter linkage. I wish my '68 Camaro had been a 4-speed, though its ratchet B&M shifter was as fun as an automatic gets.

Never driven a RHD car, though many Americans have asked me ''what's it like to drive on the left side of the road?" when I tell the I'm originally from Slovakia. So then I have to explain it's only the UK, Australia, Japan & a few island nations that still drive on the left side of the road.

Back in the days when I was renting the house with huge barn we at the T.W.C.C. often times discussed oddball cars, the Chevette scooter was one of my personal favorites for years and one time XP found a diesel Chevette on Craigslist/newhampshire but it was not to be. Even more of a fascination of mine is the Pontiac T1000. I always thought they should have done a Terminator tie-in. I've only seen TWO T1000sin the 21st century. One was in a junkyard that is now long gone & the other was in the parking lot of a retirement home.

Sooooo true! One of the LEAST fun to drive cars with a manual transmission I've ever driven is the Honda S2000. The few times I drove an S2000 for a decent length of time it's so aggravating that you have to keep the RPMs in the neighborhood of a dentist's drill to stay in the power band. It's not that I can't do it but I don;t see the joy in it. How about instead of having 4 cylinders spinning at 7,000-10,000 rpm I have a V8 with more power & the same highway MPGs spin at 2,000-5,000rpm.