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I spotted an (insert obscure car name here) classic car today! (Archived)
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Yes, it looked like the Cab in your picture, you Roadster photo didn't come out but IIRC those had the fold down windshield with thin pillars (as opposed to the push-out with pronounced A Pillars).
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Gotta love 60 degree weather in central Illinois in January. That mean cars being driven around that are normally in a deep winter slumber.
Saw a late 60's Camaro in real nice shape and sounded very healthy too. I didn't get a good enough look to determine exactly what year. A minute later a late model Viper passed me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ljch2kCg4rM&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g85RbmNkKqA
Not the car I would have preserved, but... :surprise:
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i really like the look!
what I believe to be about a '51 Studebaker, very original looking, in a driveway. Another driveway had a '70ish Belvedere or GTX (just saw the tail), a slightly modded 70s vintage VW bug, a 72 roadrunner (all restored), and a '68 Camaro for sale that looked more like a drag car (huge rear tires, giant hood raise), though it did say on the sign "street legal"
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Several guys have had their classic cars out.
Best sighting was a gray Toronado--it had to be one of the first ones. Paint was dulled but good. It rode low on the front springs due to all the weight for all those years.
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Warmish dry day here too, which in January is something to take advantage of. Had the old car out, but saw nothing. Literally, an 92-96 Camry wagon and a MB W123 was as odd as it got. Boring.
No. It's like it. This is a 66. The one I saw was gray and the paint was dulled but not rust.
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Back to the Toro...remember what those looked like when a wheelcover was lost? The wheels looked like bus wheels!
Also I think the stylists were harkening back to the early days of FWD in America, when all the FWD cars wore big front ends and had lots of power---Christie, Auburn, Miller, Cord, etc. Nothing modest about any of those vehicles.
And the Toro isn't just about styling---the drivetrain was a technical tour de force, even by modern standards. This car "walked its talk" as we used to say in the last century.
The Toro strikes me as authentic, no BS--the real deal.
Today's odd sighting: I walk to the post office, and in the lot is a W124 and not one but two W126s. It was like I stepped back into 1989 for a second.
1954-55 was also another biggie with most cars being new - imagine trying to sell a leftover 54 Chevy in 1955. Huge jump in a year, and music kind of reflected it too. I can't even imagine such a change today, biggest styling development in my lifetime that I can remember was the adoption of flush headlights.
I thought the 1967 refreshes of each were all more successful than the originals. '67 was an interesting year as well with the introduction of the Camaro, Firebird, and Cougar.
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Here's a link to a 1971 newspaper report of the Taylor father-son team who modified a 1971 AMC Hornet to withstand concrete barrier bashing and took their handiwork to DC for the hearings. Check out the pic of that franken-bumper!
I dunno if AMC adapted that prototype to build this 1976 Matador but it looks familiar - and not in a good way. Taylor Devices is still in business and has a long resume of creating shock isolation, liquid springs, and other dampers for everything including NASA and military use. Still, I'd hate to turn these guys loose on a classic E-Type Jaguar.
I think the only big car from 1965 that really doesn't do it for me is the Mercury. The front-end is just too flat-faced and bit generic looking, and the car is a bit boxy, overall.
As for the '67 restyles, I'm sort of with Fintail on that one. They started getting a bit excessive and plump, IMO. I remember, years ago, when I was still married, I was at the repair shop with my wife. On the office wall was a calendar with classic cars, and that particular month happened to be showing off a really nice looking '65 Catalina convertible. The wife, who really didn't pay much attention to cars, turned to me and asked, "How come ours (my '67) looks so fat compared to that one?"
I always liked the big '67 Pontiacs because they have a sleek, unique, futuristic look to them. But admittedly, they do look a lot plumper than the '66 and earlier models.
But yeah, overall, 1967 was an interesting year, as well. Even though all the big cars, with the exception of the Imperial, were just facelifted '65-66 models, the changes were substantial enough that the cars certainly looked different.
I do recall that the US armed forces bought a lot of them-and the Matadors were used as staff cars for generals and admirals.
Of course, as long as you were driving under 70 MPH, and on a smooth highway, they gave a perfectly acceptable ride..the ancient suspensions and RWD were actally as good as anything on the road (from GM/Ford/Chrysler).
Now barking and handling..that's a different story.
I like the aggressive foreward rake of the 1967 Cadillac's front end versus the upright angle of the 1965-66. My DTS kind of reminds me of the 1965-68 Cadillacs with the stacked lights.
The 1967 Ford has an aggressive look compared to the 1965-66, but they threw it all away on the rather anonymous-looking 1968 models.
IMO, the midsize 1968 Mopars are much better looking than the 1967 models.
I remember when the show Adam-12 switched from the Plymouth Belvedere/Satellite to Matadors. I remember one episode where Reed and Malloy are having a high-speed pursuit of a 1972 Javelin somebody stole right out of an AMC showroom.
Too late!:
Even then I hated those bumpers though (and yes, it's similar to the '50 and '51 Studebaker). The inside of the bumper was unfinished, and you could see that! Ick.
One area I thought AMC generally stunk at, was interiors. The armrests they used, and the 'cupcake' shaped instruments, were goofy IMHO, although with the Oleg Cassini trim, etc., they did have some nice seat trim.
But look at the article to the right of that story - Florida House of Representatives banned mini-skirts and hot pants from the building.
I wonder if there were too many "Franken-Bumpers" there as well?
I also remember an episode where Malloy showed up in his new car - was it a Matador Coupe?
I believe AMC got the credit for "Vehicles Provided By...." that year.
Speaking of AMC, my uncle was in some branch of the service for about 20 years starting in the early 70s, and in the late 70s, he actually bought a military surplus Hornet sedan, it was a drab kind of grey green I think, I have seen a pic of it.
Well they do have a point. We men are pigs and can't stop thinking about sex for - hold on I'll be back - more than 10 seconds. Imagine the distraction the hot pants and mini-skirts create?
Best thing about a '62 is the new 327 engine, which was really the best combo with fuel injection in all the C1s.
'62 was also a great year for Corvette in SCCA racing and at Daytona.