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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
Fake sidepipes of the 70s...good times!
As garish as they are though, I'll admit in person, they're kind of cool. Some of the details seem a bit Exner-ish.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stutz_Blackhawk
And then there were the fake "custom" sidepipes which appeared to be poking out of the front fenders which looks similar to that disco inferno from Chips.
Oddly enough, can't believe this didn't come to mind, fintails also have a slight taper in the B-pillar window openings, accentuated by the chrome frames:
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Then, the tow truck driver offered the guy 50 bucks for it, but Ponch offered a bit more, and bought it. Later on, not in this episode, Ponch did fix it up.
As for Jon, for seasons 2-5 (he left the show for the 6th season) he drove that GMC. When I was a kid, I LOVED that truck! It also seemed to suit him, as he was a bit of a redneck, and from Wyoming. Oddly though, in the first season, they had him driving around in a Mini Cooper!
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Factory cloth interior. The nylon Chevy used in the Monte Carlo and (by owner's choice) in the Caprice then, wore like iron:
My favorite car of the show--'51 Chevy wagon. I almost never saw Chevy wagons of the '49-54 era when I was a kid, although I saw a ton of four-door sedans. I liked the various vacation-spot stickers on the side rear windows:
Old friend from a year ahead of me in school hollered out my name and sent me this pic. I put 141 miles on the Stude yesterday:
Never watched the show but this pic from wiki looks a little like the Bluesmobile behind the Chips Firebird mashup.
Here are the rules for yesterday's cruise, handed to you when you pulled in. Yesterday was also a benefit for a fellow in Jamestown (up the road from Greenville) who was ill but I can't recall what with.
"St. Paul's" is a very large senior living/care place way upon a hill on the east side of the valley in Greenville, where you can own your own home, have assisted living, or nursing home care. It is associated with the Lutheran church. Folks from all three areas there were out in lawn chairs/wheelchairs waving. I think I saw my fourth-grade teacher Miss Christopher just outside the door of the nursing home but it may have been wishful thinking, as I had just been wondering about her. She had a solid black '56 Bel Air four-door sedan when I had her in '67-68, and later drove a light blue '65 Mustang six-cylinder as her daily car, well into the early nineties. I spoke to her a decade ago and mentioned the Bel Air. She replied, "Yes, that was the first car I bought when I graduated college", which would have been about right if she'd bought it new.
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later, out driving, a mid-80s brown Buick full sized 4 door. Looked very clean.
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He says the monoblocks came off of another W126 he bought for a parts car.
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You do have a myopic view of the vehicle world.
Late 90's Contiental.
I can't even recall what a Continental V8 FWD, looks like outside.
If it's what I'm thinking, I like the styling of the DTS better, but a lot of it is what you're used to. Through the decades, when I got into something that wasn't GM, I often-thought things like the instrument numerals, odometer numbers, door lock buttons, armrests, radio, etc., seemed weird to me, LOL.
Nothing was more weird than those few years Ford put the horn-honker on the stalk.
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Didn't Ford get something like 275 hp out if the Continental's version of the 4.6?
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When I thought about it more--excluding the Eldorado--de Villes were V8 and FWD starting with the downsized ones that came out in '84. I lived in Atlanta at the time and I remember going to a dealer to see them. Talk about being underwhelmed, LOL.
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At the Carlisle PA swap meet the other week, someone had a Pontiac 6000 they were selling. It had a 350 under the hood! It actually fit a lot better than you might think! Here's a couple pics...
I also remember my Granddad starting to get fed up with new cars, once emissions controls got more complex and downsizing was all the rage. He said that downsizing made the engine bays too cramped to work on, and the emissions stuff just made them overly complicated. He was born in November, 1916, so when he turned 60, GM's downsized B/C bodies had only been on the market a couple months.
Granddad was so fed up with the way cars were going, he did something that, inadvertently, is probably what got me turned on to old cars as a kid. At the time, he was retired, and had a '76 GMC crew cab pickup. Grandmom was still working, and drove their '72 Impala. But her commute to work was less than 2 miles. In '78, Granddad bought a '53 DeSoto Firedome from his brother in law. His rationale was that he could fix it up, and between the DeSoto and the Impala, it would put off the need for getting a new car for years to come. Of course, then the second Arab oil embargo hit, and I think that made Granddad lose interest in getting the DeSoto fixed up.
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I also remember seeing a Ford Focus, the first-gen, with a 351 engine. That wasn't quite as extreme, but still...interesting. And also converted to RWD.
And, I haven't seen it in awhile, but at the Carlisle Mopar show, I used to see one of those Dodge Daytona/Chrysler Lasers, that had been converted to RWD, and had a 318 under the hood. It used to be in the same class as my '79 5th Avenue, which was sort of a catch-all/leftover class..."1975-89 RWD stock/modified."
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Correction: That would've been the '80 Seville, which I liked up until behind the rear doors.
First transverse V8 FWD car was those shrunken Cadillacs that came out in '84.
Not to mention that fintail took a photo of a Greenville, PA fire truck in a museum in Germany when he was there!
All too strange.
As it was, the Eldorado/Seville was something like 204-206" long, and on a 114" wb. They weren't all that wide, something like 71-72" I believe. As for interior dimensions, they were quite comfy as a 4-seater, with plenty of legroom both front and rear. The only shortcoming was shoulder room. Going off memory, I think they had around 56", whereas the older RWD B/C bodies were around 61" (sometimes the really plush trim levels were less because of thick padding or pull straps on the doors), and the downsized-as-is '85 C-bodies were around 58-59".
They could have taken something like a Seville, made it a couple inches wider, maybe stretched the wheelbase a couple inches for the back seat, and redesigned the rear, with a bit more overhang for trunk space, and ended up with a car that, while bigger than an '85 98/Electra/DeVille, would have still been notably smaller than the outgoing '84 models. And, would have been a much classier looking car, in my opinion, and still had plenty of interior room. But, on the down side, that E/K platform was heavy, so basing something even bigger off of it wouldn't exactly be a featherweight! It would probably end up being even heavier than the bigger C-bodies it was intended to replace. So, I guess that probably answers my question right there...it simply wouldn't have worked.
Kinda sad, because nowadays they can make a 2+ ton vehicle that can really move, but get good fuel economy when you keep your foot out of it. But in those days, the concept I'm thinking of would have probably come with gas guzzler surcharges!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji3dIGpTYlQ
BTW, that is Chris Schenkel, at the time one of ABC Sports lead play-by-play personalities and a longtime fixture there, doing the voiceover.
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Maybe this is like "Laurel' or "Yanni"?, LOL.
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