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Uplanderguy and I were discussing this change over at the Postwar Studebaker forum on September 22nd at post numbers 2149 and 2150.
Just I tried to post the image from yesterday. I see it on the preview but it disappears after I edit and post this message to the site.
No.
They disappear when you click the "reply" button.
Hence, my recommendation to keep a second window open to the Naked box that is not a reply and insert your post there, edit, and apply the html codes. Then copy your message to the reply box.
Or just insert an image in the box with the buttons, apply, and copy only the image with the proper markup coding.
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2020 Acura RDX tech SH-AWD, 2023 Maverick hybrid Lariat luxury package.
1st generation Monte Carlo (lots of "patina" on this one)
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and darnedest thing, a few minutes later, coming the other way, another one, but this was a 60s vintage (original style) that looked brand new.
unless there was a hippy convention of a grateful dead concert nearby, the odds of seeing 2 of them back to back like that were long.
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The Buick dash, I thought, also looked pretty nice for the most part but I didn't like those square cutouts for the gauges, either. And the silver-faced gauges that the earlier ones used were worse. Later models used a strip speedometer that had huge numbers on it. And, there was the digital dash that gave you very little useful info...just speedo, fuel, and a tach I think. IIRC, you couldn't even get full gauges in a Regal, until the final-year GNX. Even in the T-type and Grand National, I don't think they offered a full complement of gauges.
The Pontiac LeMans/Grand Prix dash, I think, tried to mimic the '73-77 Grand Prix dash, but it just comes off a bit awkward IMO. I think making the HVAC vents into little circles was just overkill. And worse, they replaced what would have been one large rectangular vent with two small round ones. So in addition to the two big gauges for the speedo/fuel and the four small ones for idiot lights/extra gauges, you got an extra EIGHT round cutouts for the HVAC!
As for obscure cars, the only thing old/interesting I've seen this weekend is in a video game. My roommate got the latest "Grand Theft Auto" and at one point asked me "what kind of car is that?" I went and looked, and it was a pretty reasonable facsimile of a Sedan DeVille...around a 1978-79. In the game, he had been driving it, but stopped and got out, and when he went back to it, it wouldn't re-start!
Oh, now that I think of it, I did see something kinda sad. I had gone into DC on Friday night. On the way home, I saw a nice black '85 or so Crown Vic sedan, that I usually see parked along the street. VERY nice shape, although it could do without those blingy 20's. Alas, this time there was damage to the rear door, as if it had been sideswiped. Couldn't tell if the damage extended beyond the rear door or not thought. Actually, the trailing edge of the rear door looked like it had been pulled out some, so I wonder if someone opened the door and a passing car hit it? Or maybe it happened when they tried to pry the door open, after it was sideswiped?
Kinda sad though, seeing a nice car like that succumb to the brutalities of city life. But, I guess it can happen anywhere...after all, my 2000 Intrepid was totaled by a hit-and-run in a parking lot in the 'burbs.
Yes, I know it's still kingpins up front that are the same part no. as a '49 Chevy, but to me, I can't think of a 'Vette that says "Route 66" more to me than that year.
I'd be delirious with even a 250 hp 327 and Powerglide, as long as it was not bright red.
I know the '61 is similar, but I like the 327, narrow whitewalls, single-tone paint, and cleaned-up trim of the '62 much better.
The tractor looked new, but LR did not.
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And yesterday, when I picked up my '85 Silverado from the shop, they had a burgundy '37 Chevy 4 door in there that was good looking, resto-modded with modern wheels/tires, at least. I had to ask what year it was, although I guessed pretty close with 1938. They also had a 1978 Malibu coupe up on a lift, with all the wheels off. Looked like it was in pretty good shape. It was green, but a non-stock looking green. Sort of like that "Spring Green" that was used in the early 1970's.
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Here's something I just noticed, in my area anyway, Craigslist now has the ability to search vehicles by year.
Sorry about the pole, but I was stopped at a traffic light and that was the best I could do!
Also a final run/facelift (94-95) MB W124 in the background - that design aged very well.
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I bet he gets 6k easy.
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Still in limbo, at the shop, and nothing's been done for quite awhile now. I know I should try to light a fire under the mechanic, but I've been procrastinating myself now!
Ford tends to get credit for kicking off the "luxury compact" craze with the 1975 Granada and Monarch, but the domestics must have had some kind of foreshadowing, that there was a demand for nicer, more upscale compacts even before that. The Dart and Valiant, for example, started going for a more pretentious look starting in 1973, and they even started adding ritzy Valiant Brougham and Dart Special Edition trim levels for 1974. But then, the Maverick LDO came out in 1972, so perhaps this is no big surprise.
I think Chrysler really started going for those more pretentious, upright front-ends starting in 1974, with the redesigned Newport/New Yorker and Imperial. The Newport/New Yorker grille seemed more Mercedes-inspired, though. I wonder if the Imperial's hidden headlight look, which would transfer to the New Yorker in 1976, was inspired by Lincoln, or simply done because the '69-73 had hidden headlights as well?
For 1975, the Plymouth Gran Fury and full-sized Dodge Monaco offered top trim levels that had upright grilles. The Monaco had hidden headlights and looked pretty sharp, IMO, although the Plymouth, with a big Mercedes/LTD-esque grille, and an odd mis-match of a single headlight and big rectangular turn signal didn't work as well, IMO.
Some styling features, such as aircraft-style doors, large windows, and low-slung profiles are always "modern" in my opinion, so much of today's fleet is actually pretty throw-back, style wise. FWIW, the T-bird's windows weren't all that large for the time, but by today's standards they certainly are.