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So, $1400 later, everyone is happy. Okay, only the tire store is happy.
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It's my wife's car. Not going to screw with the set-up she has (explaining the spare, buying a jack, yada, yada, yada). It is what it is. We've had them on two of her vehicles for the last six years, and this is the first tire failure.
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It was a warm Saturday in February, 1994, and I felt compelled to line up the cars, get up on the roof of my grandmother's garage, and take that pic. Hard to believe it's about 25 years ago! Sorry for the bad quality, but I just snapped it with my iPhone...
Anyway, I'm sure the cars aren't that hard to identify, but on top of my '57 DeSoto and my old '68 Dart, that's my '82 Cutlass Supreme at the top, and my '69 Bonneville at the bottom. I always loved the "Light Jadestone" color of the Cutlass. It's kinda funny...the car itself was actually kind of a turd, but sometimes a handsome style and a good looking color can make you forgive a couple of sins...
Do you still have that Bonneville? I don't recall seeing it the pictures you post.
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
Even though that Bonneville had a beak, it really didn't stick out much further than the edges of the bumper/grille combo. Anyway, even though the Bonneville was bigger, I think that angle exaggerates it. The DeSoto is pulled forward, compared to the Bonneville, but from the angle I took the picture, it seems like the eye tends to focus more on the rear, where the difference is really noticeable.
As for the fate of that car, I ended up selling it for parts back in 1996. I had bought it in 1992, from my cousin, for $400. It had an appetite for eating starters and solenoids, and had some glitch where, when you tried to start the car, if it didn't catch, the starter would sometimes keep cranking, until you got out and pulled a cable off the battery. If I had the money, I would have kept it, and gotten it fixed, but one day it died in my grandmother's yard, and I just left it. At the time I was going through a bad marriage that was about to end in divorce, and hemorrhaging money, so I had to cut my losses anywhere I could.
However, when it ran, that Bonneville was actually a pretty nice car. For being a 4-door hardtop, it had a solid sound when you closed the doors, although the trunk lid seemed thin. Also, the sheetmetal seemed a bit thinner than it did on Mopars I've had from that era ('68 and '69 Darts, '67 Newport). It was also pretty quick, and for its size, it was a great handler.
The time I had this Bonneville overlapped the time with my '67 Catalina, and my grandmother's '85 LeSabre. Oddly, the Bonneville seemed to handle more like the LeSabre than it did the Catalina! GM must have made some great strides between '68 (which wasn't that different from '67) and the '69 models. I think the main thing is that the steering seemed quicker and more responsive, with better road feel. The Bonneville also had 15" wheels, compared to 14" on the Catalina. But, I now have 15" on the Catalina, and it really hasn't changed its handling/road feel much. Oh, and the Bonneville had disc brakes up front, versus drum for the Catalina. The Catalina would be good for maybe 1-2 panic stops before the brakes would heat up, whereas the Bonneville was much more resistant to that.
That Bonneville was also a comfortable car...nice, thickly padded seats.
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I did like the Dodge better than any of the other big cars in its class that year.
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Had one once, in Boston, when I had the family with me. After the business part of the trip was completed, we did a mini road trip to the Mystic Aquarium and back to Boston through RI.
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The coupes, I thought, seemed fat and overdone, compared to the '68-70 models. But then, it was the early 70's..."fat and overdone" was in vogue...
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
Mine: 1995 318ti Club Sport; 2020 C43; 2021 Sahara 4xe 1996 Speed Triple Challenge Cup Replica Wife's: 2015 X1 xDrive28i Son's: 2009 328i; 2018 330i xDrive
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
Both of them do a pretty good job at nailing down the "musclecar" look, though. I'm also probably a bit in the minority though, that I think I prefer, style-wise, at least, the '73-74 Sebring. It's a bit more conservative, less aggressive looking, but I think it comes off fairly attractive.