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on 287, a nice C3 blue convertible Vette. Also a chrome bumper car (both ends). and a red T Bird. A '63 with a hardtop on it.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
A week or so ago, in a parking lot, I saw a very clean, dark green, bone-stock-looking '71 or '72 Corvette. In a sea of today's dullsmobiles, it stood out and I have to say I admired the car.
I'm ashamed to admit I kind of like the later (like 78+) malaisey disco era models.
A friend and coworker had a '77 Corvette. I remember that for as nice as the seats looked, they were the thinnest/flattest bucket seats I had ever sat in.
Not a really obscure car, but the family members I am visiting right now have a teenage son with a 92 Corsica that was gifted to him. 90K miles, maybe 80% of the paint still on the car, didn't age well but apparently runs OK. I am trying to talk him into making some kind of blacked out bomber out of it.
I guess perverted minds think alike! FWIW, for awhile I was thinking the same thing of much of Mazda's current lineup. Although to keep it a bit more G-rated, they were also making me think of a handpuppet shaped like a snake. Especially something like a Mazda 3 with that big, gaping mouth of an air intake. I do like the more recent Mazdas though, with the more trapezoidal grille. A bit more sexy, rather than sex-shop!
(the one I saw was a E300, of course)
I don't believe they were using a topcoat at that time.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
That lowline E200 would have been something, looks like it even might have a cloth interior.
The paint used probably varied with the color as well as with the plant and whether it was being updated with the water-based paints for the future or being phased. Pollution requirements of the environs where the plant was located also played a part.
Despite the errors on the part of the chemists at the paint companies, the car companies caught the crap for the problem.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
I told the fellow who restored my white Lark that I was a nutcase about this and those individual "LARK" letters on the front fenders better be in the right place. He laughed. They were perfect when I got the car back.
Writing this post I just realized that I almost never see 1st-gen Neons on the road any more. They used to be everywhere not long ago.
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Saw a MB W116 that looked like it was doing duty as an oversized load pilot car, what I think was a late 50s Triumph TR-10 sedan, and speaking of early Neons, a decent enough looking coupe.
They actually got pretty good press for the time. I remember some reviewer calling them "What the Tempo and Topaz SHOULD have been!" Although those commercials where they played "Over There" and tried to position these cars as fighting off the premium German cars of the era might have been a bit too ambitious...
Oh, I saw a Dodge Dynasty today, on the DC Beltway. One thing that really struck me as how TINY the car looked, in today's traffic. And that wasn't just because it was behind a semi, and I was in my Ram. At one point, a newer (but not the latest iteration) Beetle was beside it, and I swear the Beetle made it look small!
I had to laugh too, because the driver reminded me a bit of the mother of a girl I used to date back in college. And she made me think of that old joke, that went along the lines of, "You might be a redneck if your mother doesn't need to remove the Marlboro from her lips before telling the State Trooper to kiss her hoo-hah!"
Back in those days though, her mother drove a '71 or so Lincoln 4-door, green, pretty beat up. The girl I dated drove a black Olds 98 4-door sedan...either a '78 or '79, with a 403.
He was the guy who said that AMC built Fifth Avenues better than Chrysler did!
Back to the Lancer/GTS--I never liked two vent windows up against each other, though. Ford always seemed to do that.
The only car-related thing I did this weekend was take my DTS to the Cadillac dealer for state emissions/inspection and an oil and filter change before I put it away for the winter. I was looking at a loaded XTS-4 in the showroom. MSRP was $71K! Yikes!
I think Honda just recalled a number of Odyssey minivans because the rear name plate was in the wrong place, Honda didn't want the owners penalized by the appearance the van had been in an accident.
My uncle had an E-class, I remember it had one of those lucite/plexiglass hood ornaments that interested me when I was a kid:
Funny memory of the Caravelle - when I was a kid, I already knew what a Renault Caravelle was, as there was one in my town. I saw a Plymouth Caravelle, and assumed it had some kind of French connection, I guessed it was a Canadian model.
For 1989, it was replaced by the Plymouth Acclaim. The 600 was replaced by the Dodge Spirit. The Dynasty-style New Yorker had come out for 1988, but I believe they held the older style over as well that year, and offered it only with the turbo. I think 1988 was the last year of the LeBaron GTS and Dodge Lancer, as well.
The best part about that car was of course the fact that it talked!.....
2023 Mercedes EQE 350 4Matic / 2022 Ram 1500 Bighorn, Built to Serve
The one that tried to tell everyone that it was able to transform a solid object into another?
"Your door is a jar"
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I had one of those as a loaner, I believe. Maybe a New Yorker? Not used to anything that luxurious with my lowly Buicks.
It talked all the time: windshield washer fluid was low, door ajar, trunk ajar, floor mats out of place, etc..
I started it inside the garage to go to work the next morning, turned the key, and it said, "The sky is overcast and chance of showers." I thought, "How the 'heck' did it know what the weather outside was. Of course, I was a little dopey from not having been up too long and no coffee til I get to work.
Turned out I just hit the short weather comment on the radio station when I turned the key to ON, and I thought it was the car with yet another of its messages. Talk about a Smart Car.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Something that Toyota and Lexus should have taken advantage of.
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(couldn't get a front shot)
I loved that car. other than the rat belts.
2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
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I cannot post images here anymore. There are no icons. Anyone else having that problem or know how it fix it?
Yes. Open a second window of the forum with the normal reply window that is NOT in response to a particular post. Paste your link in there, click the IMG button to apply the html symbols, and then copy that into the first window where you are replying to a particular post.
2014 Malibu 2LT, 2015 Cruze 2LT,
Is there any news about when we will get our buttons back so that we can dispense with these elaborate workarounds (including the one I had to use to italicize the text above)?
2009 BMW 335i, 2003 Corvette cnv. (RIP 2001 Jaguar XK8 cnv and 1985 MB 380SE [the best of the lot])
"Open a second window of the forum with the normal reply window that is NOT in response to a particular post." The italics got lost when I cut and pasted the text and there is no italics button either.
This was such a cool site before. I usually downsized images I posted here to make them look good without taking up much space. I cannot figure out how to do those things now. There are no buttons or icons although I am writing an original message and not a reply.