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I spotted an (insert obscure car name here) classic car today! (Archived)
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You mean, like this?
Although, perhaps if they did it like how my Mom's '86 was, it wouldn't look too bad. Her car had the hood, roof, and pillars in gray, and the rest in silver. The Colonade might have been a bit too curvy to carry that off as well, though.
It looks too much like the '73 Torino I had with the Windsor 351
engine. Hated it.
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On that note, the other day I was looking for a properly equipped example of a bustleback Seville to post on another forum, and I found this. It was on a photo repository site that seems to glean images from old ads, so it had little data other than this is an 80 Elegante with a 368. This is how I would want a bustleback - high spec model but without much bling, good colors (although I would rather have two tone blue with blue leather, but this is maybe the runner up), and importantly, these wheels, which I believe are an aluminum wheel with a large center cap. The car also appears to have a sunroof. At least someone ordering the car then during the era of wire caps, cabrio roofs, and faux Rolls-Royce grilles knew how to do it right:
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
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I like those wheels too, but the blackwalls, yeesh!
Nice interior. Eldorado instrument panel, American-style lux inside.
I still can't accept the rear end, but I guess it does kinda remind me of the car "Arthur" rode around in in the movie of the same name.
I like them in dark colors and with a full vinyl top. To get the Landau meant you got the Turbine wheels, which to me didn't look as nice as the five-slot Rally Wheels.
Body side moldings, especially when they started making them wide, just really clashed with the styling IMHO.
While the Fashion Tone was garish, so was this, although for some weird reason I kind-of like it. 1976 Monte Carlo Custom interior in vinyl. Kind of neat the the Custom cloth interior (same pattern as this) was available in two cloths--a corduroy insert, or a plaid velour insert. Ah, the days of choice.
Chevy's shtick on split front seats at the time was 50/50. They didn't do center armrests through '76 but the passenger seat was reclining. I'm pretty sure (though not totally) that the 'prestige' divisions didn't do the reclining passenger seat until later.
In hindsight, it's funny that only Chevy and Pontiac stretched the coupe wheelbase four inches for the 'specialty' coupe. All wasted space and all up-front.
I do remember a lime green with white top and interior '76 Monte in my hometown. The green, and the green trim inside, is retina-searing.
We’ve talked about it before but that Seville is the right combo. Same could be said for the Eldorado of the same era. Didn’t they make a “Touring” version of the Eldo that pretty much styled it that way?
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Is this one of those colors that started off as Cadillac-only, and then worked its way down? I tried searching for "1976 Cadillac Lime" and got a bunch of pics of '74 models, in something called "Persian Lime". But, that may have been a different color. Seems like this '76 color was everywhere that one year, and then gone.
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Not being a wise guy, but how did that emblem get located where it was? Body/paint work I'll assume.
I looked at the 1980 brochure for evidence of an Eldorado Touring Coupe. I didn't see anything then. I do remember them a couple or more years later on that same body. Much of the trim was blacked out, and the car had blackwall tires, which to my eyes clashed with the formal look of the car.
Your online old-car searches sure take you farther places than do mine, LOL!
I do recall the 1974 Cadillac "Persian Lime FIremist". It sure looked the same shade to me as what was used on the lesser '76 lines. Chevy just called it "Lime Green Metallic" that year.
The "Monteverdi" reminds me of a story a friend told me when he worked at Avanti in Youngstown. By then, middle-to-late '80's, they were using Monte Carlo chassis. The wags at the shop called the completed cars "Avanti Carlos" or "MontAvantis".
Here is the car I was thinking of. 84 model year
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There was a "touring" type trim for the downsized 85+ DeVille too, I recall in the early 90s a teacher I had in high school bought one, a blue Sedan DeVille, maybe an 87 or so, it had wheels similar to that Eldo. I recall this clearly as he also had a 77-79 Caprice wagon, which by then even here was looking a little tired, but he had a sentimental thing for it, and continued to drive it a bit even after buying the Caddy (fun to think the Caddy wasn't too old then).
re: Monteverdi, they also did a sedan conversion (Monteverdi used Mopar bits on many cars), and it looked the part of a muscle sedan:
The "Arthur" car, a mid 50s Silver Wraith, exists today virtually identical to how it appeared in the movie, here's the bustle:
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Good looking example and very well equipped. I’m dubious of the mileage. The driver’s floor area and mat look pretty worn.
Heading to the comments now to see if anyone else thinks the same.
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But, suddenly it's 2022, and the realization hits me that as of this June, according to the sticker in the door jamb, suddenly my '03 Regal is about to be 20 years and those Darts would be in their 50s.
And hell, my DeSoto is now 65 model years old...it qualifies for Medicare!
Heck, at the time a bought it, going backwards would have been a 1948! So unusable as a daily car even then, but I could still daily that Colt today if I felt like it.
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Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2021 Sahara 4xe
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
I normally like dark colors, but I love pearlescent white.
I wish I could've found something like this, with 6K miles, a 2020, six weeks ago when I was offered $15.7K for my five-year-old Cruze, more than I paid for it new and with original tires and brakes still. I've read that used-car prices have now peaked and are on their way down slightly. I've had a nationwide search for 2020 Impalas and in my email everyday are ones showing up with mileage in the 50's to 60's....way too much.
This pic almost looks like the car was photoshopped there; clean when everything else is dirty.
The Premier, so it has the chrome spear low on the side; this has the wheels I like and not the bigger ones on rubber-band tires. Chromed mirror housings too, which I like.
Just as much drooling as I can bring myself to do on anything other than a basic C8 these days.
Not an obscure or classic car. No comment necessary really. Sigh.
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I’d take one of those loaded up. My 2012 LaCrosse (closely related of course) is still one of my favorite cars that I’ve owned.
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I like those wheels, too, like on the loaded early run rental I had in late 2013.
The 2020 I would've bought, but someone else bought it before the dealer even got a pic on their site, was built in Detroit. Somehow that seemed totally appropriate for that car. I printed out a Monroney label for it based on the VIN that was on the dealer's site....very briefly.
Unrelated, but an old friend of mine, retired university prof, has a C8 on order and it was built this past Friday. He had a VIN no. assigned already and the Corvette Forum online shows the production schedule at Bowling Green, which is pretty cool--so he could see the Friday production date from the range of VIN's shown there.
I like bright trim and chrome accents on the instrument panel, as opposed to matte. A Toyota friend of mine comments positively on the chrome trim on the dash of my Cruze as well as the cloth trim where other cars usually had just vinyl on the dash.
The worst panels had nothing in front of the driver and everything in the center. Sheesh I hate that. Saturn Ion, older Civics, and of course old Jeeps had that. I think Teslas are like that but I’m pretty sure Hondas aren’t like that anymore thankfully.
Add wood and remove chrome and there it is!
Maybe it’s the photo but the footwell looks pretty narrow. It could be the light-colored interior too. I felt similarly about the last Taurus.
The steering wheel design was its worst feature.
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Anyway, fast forward to now, and when I search Impalas, the only thing coming up in the $16,000 range is the old W-body style. There's a 2013 LTZ with 77,000 miles on it for $15,590, and a 2011 LT with only 31,000 miles on it, for the same price. Actually, a newer style did come up, a 2015 2LT, with 110,000 miles on it, for $14,531.
I wonder...are used car prices going to come back down at some point, or are they going to just level off at their high point, and stay there until inflation catches up?
I wonder that too.
I've never seen the new or used car markets like they've been recently.
Chevy Equinoxes being sold at sticker---unheard-of in the 41 years I've been buying Chevys (excluding Corvettes of course).
My in-laws bought a RAV4 locally here maybe four years ago. A Toyota showroom felt strange to a guy like me. I remember the sticker was the price. I was totally unaccustomed to that, LOL!
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Other than I know the factory side moldings of this model were full-length, one can always tell an aftermarket molding by the fact that the vinyl insert doesn't extend into the leading tip of the molding.
I'll be the first to say that I usually am not into a car as phallic symbol, and there's some of that here no doubt, but less than say, having a Ferrari or Lotus or the like I think.
My friend's yellow C8 was built this past Friday and he is picking it up at the Museum in Bowling Green on March 3 at 7:45 CST. He tells me it's on a webcam so I'll be sure to tune in. He ordered it over a year ago.
Here's the color I'd order. Subdued color on a non-subdued car.
Yes, I like that it's an American institution; the car is the same place in the lineup as it has been since 1953, and the name hasn't been moved around or watered down. And this car seems to be a nice bit of engineering at a good price, all things considered. Nothing else domestic like it.
Some beautiful variations on the Vette waiting to be picked up today. Click
through the various Delivery spot cams for some fun!
Delivery spot 8 showed a waiting Corvette being given a final
detail in real time!
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