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I spotted an (insert obscure car name here) classic car today! (Archived)
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My daughter does that. She also flies a lot. Looks like a bag lady with sweats about 2 sizes too big. She just turtles into them and puts on a giant eye mask and noise cancelling headphones and basically cocoons in her seat. Helps that she is only about 5’2” and pretty thin.
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Some credit cards paid for it IIRC. I just forgot to check mine in advance.
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While out on that errand, spotted from a distance a 57 Ford with a continental kit.
I think you can forgive the parking job trying to protect their car in a grocery store parking lot.
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Plus, he isn't taking up another parking space, so that's okay.
I'm a little worried about his front spoiler, though.
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58 Ford in the garage and it's been repurposed a storage rack.
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport-2020 C43-1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica
Wife's: 2021 Sahara 4xe
Son's: 2018 330i xDrive
Yesterday we went to the wedding of a friend’s daughter. The venue had originally been a new car dealership. I thought @andre1969 would find the decor particularly interesting.
Thats an interesting beast. Looks like a 1957 Firesweep, painted in Adventurer colors. However, DeSoto didn't offer a Firesweep convertible in '57. So I wonder if it's a '58 that was made up to look like a '57? Or just a '57 hardtop, with the roof cut off?
Or, is it not even a real car, but a full-sized prop or replica? It seems a bit "off" in some respects. For instance, when you raise up a car like that, the wheels would normally hang down. And from that angle, I'd think you'd at least be able to see the silhouette of the left side rear leaf spring?
At the LeMay Museum, which was wonderful, I smiled (as always) when I saw a '59 Isetta. It's amusing to me to think that was built by BMW at the time. Their display said that the 'Urkel' character on "Family Matters" drove one, though I don't remember that. It would seem appropriate!
I like '58 Fords, but I think it's a lot because my favorite aunt and her son, my older car-crazy cousin, had one well into the late '60's so I remember it well.
I love the '56, like the '57, like the '58, like the '60, love the '61, but just don't like one single thing inside or out, about the '59 Ford.
It seems like he left front suspension is there.
The Grand Prix looks good, at first glance, because its bumper isn't nearly so thick, but if you look at it from the side, it still protrudes just as bad as the rest. I think my problem with them, is when you look at the car from the side, there's little to no overlap of the bumper and the body. The back of the bumper's wraparound stops roughly where the actual body of the car begins. In '73, the Cutlass seemed to be the only one of those midsized cars that had a bit of overlap, which made the front bumper seem at least a bit more integrated.
The Colonnades drove and rode a lot nicer than their predecessors IMHO. In fact, both my one friend's parents' '74 Monte Carlo and my other friend's parents' '76 Malibu Classic seemed smoother and quieter than our '74 Impala at the time.
Once in a while online I'll see a nice, original-looking '73 Laguna for sale. I like the front end but I don't like the body-colored rear bumper. I'd probably rather have a second-half-of-the-year '73 Malibu or SS than a Laguna, overall.
I plainly remember the first '73 Grand Prix I saw at our town's Pontiac dealer. It was a maroon SJ with the finned wheel covers. The interior--dash and seats and door panels--just blew me away. I like the exterior styling of the '69-72 better, but love the '73 interior. I didn't like how in maybe '75 or so they added the flimsy Monte Carlo-style door pull strap right in the middle of that beautiful woodgrain panel on the doors.
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Waze routed me through a small subdivision yesterday and there was a G-body fan. No less than 4 Monte SS’s. Pretty sure I spotted a Cutlass too.
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I like the shape of the regular LeMans dash, but don't like how they have it interior-color around the gauges. If it's black, I think it looks okay (until it fades, at least), but the I've seen it in light blue, and it just doesn't look right. And in buckskin, it looks like cheap woodgrain that faded. But overall, I like how it has a slim look to it.
With the Buicks, I like the overall shape of the dash, but where the instrument cluster is looks a bit plain and cheap in basic black. The woodgrain dresses it up.
The main thing I don't like about the Cutlass dash is the passenger side, with those round vents. They just look out of place to me, like they really belong on a 50's or early 60's car. For some reason, it also makes me think of some kind of cheesy science fiction prop. It's interesting that Olds went through the effort to change the passenger side ducts to rectangular for 1977, considering that would be a 1-year only thing.
Another thing that I just noticed with the Olds dash...it looks like it's staring back at you!
But overall I'd agree with you, I think the Grand Prix/Grand Am/Grand LeMans dash is the best.
Back then I thought the metal glovebox doors on full-size Chevys, and Novas, seemed high-quality, but then it didn't occur to me there was no padding there, LOL.
I can't say I remember Chevy Colonnade dash pads cracking on the right side between the vents, but I definitely remember the full-size panels getting cracks in the upper pads starting in '71 and not ending 'til '90, LOL, and the midsize RWD's cracking with '78 'til the end.
The six-banger '77 Caprice Classic sedan in gold I see tooling around here regularly has the original, uncracked pad, which must be a minor miracle. It's a clean car that sits nicely at all four corners and to my eyes doesn't seem very dated at all, especially if anywhere near the competitions' full-sizers that year, or Caprices even a year older.
I know '70's Chevy authenticity stuff. I lived and breathed it and soaked the brochure stuff up like a sponge. I about lived at the Chevy dealer. At the end of the '73 model year our salesman gave me the '73 showroom album, which I pored over until about a decade or so ago when I sold it. I wasn't into sports and didn't have a girlfriend in high school. This stuff was my life, LOL.
I always say I don't have to be right, but I also don't have to pretend to be wrong to massage someone's ego, LOL. If I'm not sure about something, I word it that way. If I'm certain, you can take it to the bank, LOL.
Unlike the cr** I read on car FB groups spouted as total certainty, LOL.
This one?! I enjoyed that room as well. It was just packed with all sorts of history!
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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
Yeah, there are two for sale on cars.com, about $25k and $45k.
your car wouldn't have a name? LOL
In small town Ohio, small things can be reason for a festival!
It's in Camden, near Miami University home of Oxford Ohio. (Note @uplanderguy's
sweatshirt is for Miami, my alma mater.)
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Both our daughters went to Miami. I used to enjoy visiting the town of Oxford there. Looks like what every TV show or movie about a New England college town looks like!
You'll know that "Love and Honor" is Miami's slogan. My friend told me the address of his apartment in Oxford and I looked it up one visit. There was a big banner hanging out an upstairs window that said "Lovin' On Her", LOL. My friend said, "Yeah, I left that there".
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
First car show was great but smaller than usual because of the "cold" weather.
My wife rode with me to both cars shows and the 35 miles between them. I did treat her to lunch at Chick Fil A on the way to the first.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
I've seen this beauty before, however, most of the time it is stored under a car cover. Today I was able to sneak in a quick pic. I would love to see it up close and view the interior.
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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
and near home at the lumber yard, an orange with white roof K5 blazer square body. with a lift.
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“ a ratty Triumph TR-7 on a trailer”
Wasn’t that factory equipment?
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That TBird Landau must have had the biggest blind spot in the industry then!