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I discovered it while randomly looking around and happening upon This MW test of a W124 diesel
FWIW, my uncle broke a mirror on his car, too. His was the driver's side. I think he just ordered the glass though, and not the whole mirror.
Your Corolla is either a CE or a LE.
CE models are usually basic with non body color mirrors, black door handles, no standard power options (although some had power locks and window pacakges ordered on them).
LE models usually have alloy wheels (nice looking mag wheels instead of wheel covers), sunroofs, all power options, and more.
Either way the mirror should fit your Corolla but like fintail said, if you have a Corolla LE with body colored painted mirrors and you ordered a CE mirror, it will fit but it will have a matte black plastic finish instead of it being body colored.
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I have about:
-2000 auto brochures, most from the 90s to current
-500 issues of various car magazines
-30 to 50 car posters
-other auto and racing promotional items (plaques, license plates, videos)
-some autographed racing items
-400 to 500 Matchbox and Hot Wheels cars, nearly all Hot Wheels unopened in boxes
-another 50 to 100 of unopened DubCity, Johnny Lightning, Fast & Furious toy cars, GM Design by Maisto, original Modifiers
-about 20 or so 1:18 scale cars
-a partial Danbury Mint porcelain Corvette collection with a matching shelf (I didn't know it was porcelain until I got my first one :sick: )
-about 50 books about cars in general (I always get those from family as gifts)
The magazines I have are as follows (I don't have any complete sets altough it would be nice):
-Automobile (80s to current)
-Motor Trend (70s to current)
-Car and Driver (80s to current)
-Road & Track (70s to current)
-Max Power UK (98-02 every issue)
-Import Tuner (every issue since #1 for the first 3 or so years)
-Sports Compact Car (early 90s to early 00s, almost all issues)
-Super Street (every issue from mid 90s to early 00s)
-Lowrider Magazines
-Import Racer magazines
-Mini Trucking magzines
-Every Road & Track Annual Car Buyer's Guide from 1976 to current.
-Every Carguide Annual Car Buyer's Guide from 1991 to current.
-other odds and ends including european car magazines
I also had a ton of car audio magazines which I got rid of because I had no room.
When I have time I'll take all of these out of boxes and sort them out on shelves in my storage locker for easy access. Right now I have is a few books and my select brochures (Rolls-Royce, Lotus, Maserati etc.) sitting on my shelves at home while the rest is in my storage locker.
Here's what it all looked like before I was married and before my wife and I got a place together:
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With a 4 speed, positrac and a 409!
Actually, the 2 dr sedan wasn't bad looking either.
I remember as a kid growing up in the Chicago area that sometimes the greasers would put a lesser engine emblem on the fender of a 409 to try and fake out a drag opponent. I suspect it never worked though - A 283 or a six banger didn't have quite the same engine rumble!
But, otherwise I love '61 Impala Sport Coupes! I'm not sure why, but it always seemed like I saw far less of them than '63 and '64 Impalas...and probably also '62's.
I could enjoy a '62 Bel Air Sport Coupe, as long as it had wheel covers and whitewalls. It wouldn't even have to have a 409!
Bill
The Grand Am had every bit of the Grand Prix's wonderful interior (way better than the '69-72 IMHO and reminiscent of the wonderful '65 Grand Prix panel, probably best ever put in a car IMO), but lacked the creased, formal Grand Prix styling...which to me WASN"T better than the '69-72 Grand Prix!
It seems like most Grand Ams were white with red and blue pinstriping.
The big news was the 4-door Grand Am. In my memory it was the first four-door GM with buckets and console. But as much as you saw them in ads, I'm hard-pressed to remember if I ever even saw one real one.
Bill
The Grand Am might have been a bit better in the sense that it came standard with a 400, while I think the other three just used a 350 as the base engine. And that front-end on the Grand Am was certainly pretty wild. The Grand Am did have a beautiful interior, as well, IMO. It used the same dashboard as the Grand Prix, while the LeMans used a different, cheaper-looking dash. For 1975 though, the Grand LeMans started using that same dash, although you had to pay extra for full gauges, something the original owner of my '76 Grand LeMans chose not to do.
And yeah, I think white was the most common Grand Am color, although I've also seen them in black and maroon. The guy I bought my '76 Grand LeMans from replaced it with a black Grand Am...1974 I think. And years ago, I do recall seeing a burgundy Grand Am 4-door at a local car show. I've also seen one pop up at Hershey on occasion.
In the pilot of "The Incredible Hulk", David Banner had a white Grand Am 4-door. He had a blowout and rolled it over in a meadow. He got thrown out but his wife died in the ensuing fire (I think it's a Hollywood law that every flat tire causes a crash, and every crash results in a fire.) As a little kid, I went through a phase where I was afraid to ride in my Mom's '75 LeMans...I was afraid that it was going to roll over and she was going to burn up in it! :surprise:
I do agree that the Jaguar DOHC Straight 6 was a great engine, but it was not the only good part of the cars....design, ingenuity, modern thinking, IRS, disk brakes, all GREAT parts of old jags.
What am I willing to admit? Oil leaks, Lucas Wiring, slightly temperamental carbs (once set by someone who knows what they are doing they can remain set for YEARS).
As for styling---yes, a real plus. "Modern Thinking"? Pardon me please if I have to laugh at that. No offense intended. What we have in a '55 Jaguar is a wonderful motor and front disk brakes in a 1935 British car.
I loved my XK140s and the 3.8 Mark II sedan. I think I only broke down maybe 5 or 6 times a year. Not too bad. Once I installed a cut-down Lincoln radiator in the 140, with an electric fan, that cured that problem, and an engine heater helped with winter. I know all about SU carbs, so no issues there.
The Chevelle Laguna came out in '73 as a top-level trim, available in coupe, sedan, and wagon (including Estate) bodystyles. It had no sporting pretense whatsoever. In '74, the top Chevelle trim level was renamed 'Malibu Classic' and the Laguna S-3 took over what had been the 'SS' place in the lineup the year before. From '74-76, all Laguna S-3's were coupes and many had the '73 SS-style side striping.
Bill
Also a restored looking white 65 Mustang with year of manufacture plates.
Automatic 2002s were pretty rare here and in the home market but since A/Ts of any kind were so unusual in Europe cars so equipped generally got badges just as American cars did when they wore badges that said "Fluid Drive" and "Dyna Flow" back in the early 50s.
2001 BMW 330ci/E46, 2008 BMW 335i conv/E93
Sadly, it was that shade of blue I used to see on repainted old police cars, and it looked to have 22" wheels. What a waste :sick:
Speaking of franken-cars, I just got a British market MB magazine...there's a story of a crazy German guy who put a 190 Ponton body on a 190E Evo II floorpan/chassis. The only Ponton part is the body, the full interior/dash, and all mechanical parts are Evo II (a rare race-tuned 190). Insane.
As for a 70s Rolls engine, these are expensive and troublesome, neither fast nor efficient powerplant. Definitely the "Rolls on the Skids" era.
http://autos.yahoo.com/used-cars/rolls_royce-silver_shadow-cars209497364
It's not a car for the faint of heart. Generally they will eat any new owner alive. Fortunately, death comes quickly, albeit expensively. If you can go 1500 miles on a 60s-80s Rolls without a breakdown, you are among the Few the Brave the Chosen.
Whenever I see a Shadow now, I think of Clarkson driving one into a pool
It's neat seeing this old German iron in action.
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If you haven't seen 'On Her Majesty's Secret Service' yet, you'll see a very amusing car chase involving a fintail...driven by the bad guys, of course.
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"Pontoon fenders are a type of fender for an automobile. Unfortunately, two entirely different types of fender are defined by this term. The earlier American meaning did not reach all nations. Later, a European use of the term, with cognates in several languages, was accepted by the British.
Some cars designed in the United States in the 1930s had front fenders which encased a wheel and ended in a teardrop's point which was not connected to a running board or the body of the car. Instead, a bit forward of this point, sheet metal narrower front to rear than the fender itself attached it to the body quite a bit lower than the highest point of the fender and well forward of the front door. The Cord 810 and 812 are possibly the most well-known cars of this design. A bit earlier, the same company made the Auburn boat-tail speedster with this feature on both the front and rear wheels. And several French Carrossiers, notably Figoni et Falaschi made several extraordinary cars with this feature as well.
In Germany during the Second World War, however, additional armor for the treads of tanks was devised. These long boxes were attached to tanks primarily on the top edge, and resembled pontoons to the soldiers. Hence cars which had the front fenders not just melt into the front door but extend back to the rear fenders were called by them, in translation, pontoons. Hence a type of Mercedes-Benz car is called the "Ponton". The British took this as the definition, and so use it in such works as the Beaulieu National Motor Museum Encyclopedia of the Automobile. The American term for this type of fender might either be "meltaway" or "full fadeaway"."
egghead got a pretty nice scholarship offer, basically 4 years of T,R, & B for the price of 3, and the stock market had a good day, so i am thinking again about a new car.
i wonder how many people replace the car they own with the same make/model time after time.
my neighbor across the street buys one honda accord after another.
i am pretty brand loyal, but switch models.
for example, i had an 83 tbird, traded for an 86 mustang, swapped for an 88 tbird, which i sold and replaced with a 91 mustang(still have it).
I think for car enthusiasts like us we need to expereince all types of different vehicles from different brands and therefore might not be as loyal to one type of brand or model.
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