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Today I saw a pink Mary Kay Cadillac SRX. I hadn't seen a Mary Kay car in ages and thought they had maybe gone out of business. Years back I used to see a lot of them in the DFW area. I think they were headquartered somewhere in that area. This driver had to be a big producer or the manager on top of the sales pyramid I suppose.
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You could buy a Scotsman and an Adenauer at the same place.
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Dimension VW Tundra F250
Height 56.25" 76.4" 79.8"
Width 64.5" 79.9" 79.9"
Length 171.5" 247.8" 246.8"
The Tundra and F250 are about the same. Of course, you can pick the LWB F250 which adds about 20" to the length.
Fintail people consider W111 coupes and cabrios to be fintails, too.
Nice day here today, saw the same very nice 66 Mustang I see now and then, a very clean silvery blue later run W123, Buick Skyhawk ca. 1986, Vanagon Syncro, dark blue on white ~70 Caddy convertible.
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A friend of mine is in California and visited the MB Classic Center. He spotted these things - a W111 fintail in the showroom:
And a peek into a shop or storage area - another fintail in there, a W110:
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Right after that, a same era Caprice Classic that looked cherry. Black and gray two tone with wire wheel covers.
It was black with a couple of pink bondo patches. Looks like a restoration in progress.
I'm trying to picture that, but I can't see the car pulling it off.
Those wheels were first offered on '91 Caprice Classics and offered through '96, though never available on Caprice wagons of that era.
The '75 full-size Chevrolets never offered an aluminum wheel from the factory--or anything but a steel wheel with a wheel cover (unlike Monte Carlos which could be had with the urethane 'Turbine I' wheels).
Although the wheel size is probably the same, I'd think the tire size of what was normally put on '75 Impalas was bigger than what was put on '77 and later Caprices, although I could be wrong. I'd wonder if those wheels would support a '75 Impala, long-term.
I used to like the brown ('saddle') Herringbone cloth interior available on '75 Impalas and Caprice Classic convertibles. Looked like a sport coat. I think when the herringbone interior got older though, the two colors of thread started to bleed into each other.
FWIW, here's a pic of that '75 Impala...
I'll try to get the rest of the pics from yesterday up soon.
I remember the '75 full-size brochure bragged up about the two versions of body-side moldings that year being a first in that holes weren't drilled; they were glued on. I can remember seeing new cars on dealer's lots with the side moldings laying on the ground next to the car.
I guess this car's moldings are long-gone. A narrow side-molding was standard on Impalas and a wide molding with 'argent' center was optional.
The most insane thing I've seen.
I skipped taking pictures of all the usual American Muscle cars, Ferrari Enzo's, etc...
Ok last one was a mistake.
Carlisle PA Spring 2015 swap meet.
Oh, and as a bonus, there's a video at the end of my drive into Pennsylvania. I always get sort of a giddy feeling every time I cross the border and leave Maryland...
Another friend of mine posted some pics on Facebook of Carlisle, and it made me miss it and Hershey, neither of which I've been to in a few years. I can only take a certain number of days off so close, and I've chosen the annual South Bend Studebaker swap meet at the end of this coming week. South Bend is the only place in the world where absolutely everybody knows what a Studebaker is! I've been daydreaming of a light blue metallic '64 Daytona Hardtop, blue buckets, R2 supercharged, disc brakes and Powershift automatic on the floor. Not that I've seen such a car, or for sale, or that I could even buy a wheelcover for one right now, but nice to dream.
I am getting the itch for a big multi-make meet though.
I'm going to try and visit a privately-owned Hudson collection that's open to the public, in relatively-nearby Shipshewana, IN on the way home Sat.
One car there that really caught my eye was the reddish/burgundy '73 Olds Ninety-Eight hardtop coupe. It looked almost brand-new, and was low mileage. I think they wanted something like $10,900 for it.
then local, driving around a good looking Dodge Dart. 63-66 someplace. I think a 63. V8 and I think lightly modded.
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next-to-last photo--it's between the two red cars behind the Metropolitan Police vehicle.
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Saw a few things today - a lowrider-ish 62 Impala 2 door HT that was really well done, 2x Vanagon Syncro at different times, the 67 or so Chrysler that used to live near me.
But what is this vehicle?
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My wife and I liked that black and white Buick.
It had a plastic covered ad in the open hood posted from the newspaper at the time(Drive it home for 2386!), including half a dozen local Buick dealers.
I'll be impressed if that Bug has a modified elephant motor Hemi like one in my picture.
They also have a Ranchero in the fleet.
What I found doubly interesting was that despite having no memory of actually taking these pictures 25 years ago (!) they were shot in virtually the same exact spot I picked last fall when I got the ATS and wanted to get some pics of it.
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I still see those around here and there, as I live in a gentle climate.
I lived in an apartment building at the time so I was able to park it in the underground garage, though I don't know how much good it did. I understood that parking a car driven in snow and salt in a heated garage may do more hard than good as the salty stuff melts into brine and rots things more quickly. I didn't drive it to work every day but did drive it in winter otherwise. It was actually quite good in snow even without snow tires because of the weight being over the drive wheels. It only got into trouble in heavy snow when it would bottom out because of low ground clearance.
In '88 I hit a critter on the road and the lower front valance was damaged, so it went into the body shop for repairs. They did discover some rust there that needed extra work not covered by insurance, so it was probably on its way to a untimely fate, though it still looked quite good otherwise. I sold it privately in '89 for what I thought was a very good price. It didn't have a whole lot of miles on it - I forget the number - but it had blown a head gasket after overheating (or maybe vice-versa) which was repaired under warranty and I never felt the same about it after that, plus the throwout bearing was starting to make a worrying noise. It had a lot of other niggly problems too while it was under warranty. It was actually quite troublesome during my ownership. Hardly a paragon of quality and reliability.
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That's my son in the driver's seat, when he was just 6 months old or so.
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ab348, I think your experience wasn't too unusual. Even reliable builders make cars on the Friday before a holiday weekend, sometimes it shows. They were still working on interior quality then, too.
Spottings today - filthy Fisker Karma, nice W126 300SD and early R129 500SL, K-car LeBaron, Ciera, Ferrari 456GT - still nice looking ,clean.
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