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I spotted an (insert obscure car name here) classic car today! (Archived)
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At the Mopar Nationals at Carlisle a year or so ago, I actually got to sit in this ambulance. As big as this sucker is on the outside, the front seat is pushed really far forward, because there's a partition right at the B-pillar.
What are Checkers like inside? Are their front seats in a fixed position, or can they move back to accommodate a taller driver?
I spent a little bit of time behind the wheel of a 1976 Cadillac ex-hearse (500C.ID.!) that one of our radio stations acquired as a station vehicle. At 5'61/2" I found it confining, the bench front seat was wicked uncomfortable even with the seat rolled back thru 80% of it's travel.
I figured what the , it beats riding in the back.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
At least it looks better than the new Miata, which up front looks like a rejected Saturn or Olds mock-up from a few years ago. :P
When it comes to these little roadsters, I think the Honda S2000 and the BMW Z-3 are probably the best looking. I even like the Z-4, although IMO the new one is a bit stressed and tortured and overdone in the style department. Somehow it seems to work on that car, though.
Think they left a zero out of the price? or left a "1" off at the beginning?
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Bottom line, cars like this aren't worth anything. It's all about supply (a lot) and demand (a little).
About 3-4 years ago, I happened to see a '75 Electra 4-door hardtop for sale locally, for around $1400. It was black with kind of a pinstriped cloth interior. Only thing I could really see wrong with it is that those plastic spacers between the rear quarters and the vertical part of the rear bumper were missing.
Supposedly that's a common problem, but I wonder if it's possible to find reproduction parts for something like that?
I really could go for a car like that, either a '75 or '76 Electra. Although I also love the '75 LeSabre convertible. I guess one of those would really be a better bet, and more fun per $.
This '76 Park Avenue 4-door is pretty interesting, too. I've never seen one with bucket seats and a console before! I wonder if those are left over Talisman parts or something?
I don't think ebay is the proper venue for such machinery....fun to look at though
Shifty-mobile
Seldom seen marque...I think I read about this as well in Automobile Quarterly as a kid
Big money, small car
For the pimp in all of us...and it ends up in Berlin
FoMoCo pimp
They all end up on ebay
Nice DeSoto
This pretty unit from last week got some healthy bids
Neat decked out DS
Pretty ponton in my fintails color
This can't be common
a 1970ish Dodge Dart Swinger, orange with black racing and bumble bee stripes, nostril hood. COuldn't see the tranny, since the front seat was tilted forward (they go at an angle, a neat idea), and no engine badging. Had the typical rallye wheels.
looked brand new, obviously well loved. Seemed smaller than I remembered( or maybe just lower), but I would love one with a 340 and 4 speed.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
I found another guy in the scout troop restores cars. He had a 66 Chev 2 dr htp that he restored down to bare body and back. If it had had the 348? cu in motor it would be worth $80,000. He has a 396 with 348 manifold and tripower on it!!! Even has Cragars. Talk about good old days. I liked those chrome wheels. He has the original spinner hubcaps for it.
That's why the newspaper ad caught my eye. I actually was looking for Buick pricing, but had found the collectible classifieds first.
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80 grand for a Chevy II????? I don't think that's possible. That would be good money for a 57.
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Just so you know its been a " Not hit the reserve " for at least four times now but this time it's just a little higher. Its amazing a car with a non-original paint color can
bring that type of money!!!
Or as I put it "Hope springs eternal."
They dropped the 225 from the Electra name for 1981. I guess they realized by then it didn't mean anything. Originally it denoted the car's length, but by '71-76 they were a lot longer than 225 inches! Although the '72-73 did have 225 hp standard. Then the '77-84 were shorter, only around 221 inches.
Now that I read into it, I'm a bit disappointed...I'd always thought that the "225" had more significance.
It's strange how some cars back then could be equipped, though. I've heard that my '79 New Yorker, even the pricey 5th Avenue Edition, still had air conditioning as an option! :surprise: I just can't imagine someone buying a car like this, blowing an additional $1500 or so for the 5th Ave package, and not wanting air conditioning!
Yesterday surfing on the internet, I found an '84 Cutlass Supreme for sale, with leather seats (that must've been incredibly rare for a car like that at the time), but crank windows!
The Mercedes by the lake is beautiful! The scenery helps too, but it's a beautiful car.
The DeSoto convertible is a rare one in my memory! The DeSoto hardtops were around the area I grew up. But convertibles in Chrysler and DeSoto were rare if any.
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Oddly, that '57 eBay Fireflite convertible appears to have Firedome door panels. Fireflites had integrated armrests and different door handles. I wonder if DeSoto just used the same door trim when it came to convertibles, though?
2009 BMW 335i, 2003 Corvette cnv. (RIP 2001 Jaguar XK8 cnv and 1985 MB 380SE [the best of the lot])
the Maserati Trident in them.
Can't remember when I last saw one.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
As much as I'd love to have a Maserati, this isn't really much of a Maserati, is it?
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
But, as he pulled away, right across the back bumper in 8" high letters...
STUDENT DRIVER
Sure enough.. a commercial driver instruction car.. :surprise:
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Go keep him company and post a comment or two if you get a chance.
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Hahahahaha
There was a time when GM could put a new front end on an existing car and it worked
I have to wonder what's the point, but I guess it's kind of funny
Another nice low mileage DeSoto
I don't know how "Luxus" it is, but I have always kind of liked brocade cloth
Big pimpin
This seller has some interesting old heaps
You can't argue with a gear selector like that
A supposed 100K restoration (yeah right) and the tires are horribly wrong. Nice attention to detail
Shame this is so far gone....sink a mere 25-30K into it and you might have a 10K car. But I still like it
Rare fintail part....maybe a handful of people in the world would care
I must be missing something...surely it's nice, but come on
Very pretty survivor
An almost new very big car
One for Andre...it needs rallye wheels or equivalents
Those skirts are just odd somehow
INTERESTING OLD HEAPS -- you can see that the smart money is on the '49 Packard Woody and the '53 Skylark convertible and the dumb money is on the '58 Cadillac Brougham convertible. The Cadillac is worth half as much as the other two cars but already the bidding is way too much for the car in its deplorable state. The buyer will never come out alive on that one, but the woody bidder might when all is said and done, and the '53 Skylark is easily worth DOUBLE the Cadillac. I wish people would check the market before throwing $20,000 into the wood chipper.
57 Chrysler -- a real survivor that looks to be in fine shape, but not a very attractive car. Kind of loony tunes but some people like that sort of thing. No wonder they fired Virgil Exner's butt. How can a 55 & 56 look so good and this one look so grossly proportioned? VALUE? I'll guess it will be bid to $12,000. Over that is all blue sky and gossamer dreams. On the plus side, these cars handled well for their day, on the minus side, they rust as well as a Fiat ever did.
Even on the big '57 DeSotos and Chryslers, I just think they looked SOOOO much better with quad headlights. When I was talking on the phone to the seller of the '57 Firedome I bought, the first question I asked him was whether it had single or quad headlights!
Love the '76 Delta! That blue velour interior looks so inviting and comfy. I like the two LeManses as well, although yeah, that blue '75 is just screaming for some Rallyes and the red '73 needs to lose the skirts. If my '76 had had skirts on it, I think the first thing I would've done was ditch them!
I'd think a quad light conversion on that Imperial would be pretty simple so long as the fender is the same. Of course, locating the parts almost 50 years later might be a chore.
Seems like back in the 80's, Renault commercials were all over the place on tv, with phrases like "Now more than ever, Renault is the one to watch!" But, a sign of the times I guess, I remember one commercial that was touting zero percent financing on them, and this was way back, before I would've even known what that meant!