Stars, Stripes and Spots

[Robert Hall]

For some reason, I like vinyl tops on many '60s-70s cars, esp. Mopars. Chrysler went wild with shades of green w/ vinyl tops it seems.

Rob

Edited July 21, 2009 by Cubical-aka-Moltar

[balthazar]

66stang - >>"Back in the day, when cars actually looked like something other than an Acura crapbox, women actually liked cars and what they looked like. I have not only a wife, but three daughters as well. For me, having a car that is "wife friendly" and "daughter friendly" shares my love of cars with them."<<

Perfectly legitimate and admirable... I was just stating 'my' opinion. Wish I could get my wife interested in the B-59...

Certain era & intent cars wear certain colors better than others (and I think one could collect a strong consensus on that). Whereas a --say-- '68 Firebird might look great in --say-- an Orbit Orange... a '68 Bonneville... not so much.

Later 'Endura' GTOs wear the lighter, brigther colors fine, IMO, but the chrome-bumpered cars I prefer in non-pastel-ly colors. In general, I don't care for yellows or oranges on 97% of cars.

Jest my take...

[A Horse With No Name]

As for me myself I think GM cars do look realy good in dark colors.

As far as Chrome bumper GTO's and dark colors, I think having neighbors that had a maroon 66 Tripower GTO convertible probably ruined me for life.

Without that car, I would possibly be watching baseball and be worried about the Yankee's or something. As it is....

And I'm glad to get some Bonneville love here. The later 60's Bonnevilles are kind of overlooked by a lot of people.

Chris

[A Horse With No Name]

And I think your right on the "Endura Cars." I seem to remember a Mayfair Miaze 68 GTO around here that looked good.

Back to car spotting, 65 Impala. Forgot to tell you guys about that one.

Chris

[GMTruckGuy74]

And I think your right on the "Endura Cars." I seem to remember a Mayfair Miaze 68 GTO around here that looked good.

Chris

You mean like this one:

Spotted it at a local car show this past weekend. Pretty nice car, I think the first I've seen in this color (on a '68 - '69 A-body).

[Robert Hall]

Spotted it at a local car show this past weekend. Pretty nice car, I think the first I've seen in this color (on a '68 - '69 A-body).

I remember seeing a '68 GTO 'El Camino' (homemade or dealer one off) in Muscle Car Review magazine about 20 years ago in that color.

[Robert Hall]

Out and about at lunch, saw 3 MY '10 models----not one, but two '10 Priuses, both white, in the same parking lot..one parked, one driving through. Back at the office, spotted a yellow '10 Camaro SS w/ a temporary tag. Cool.

[A Horse With No Name]

Today-40 Buick, really clean 70's Toranado, nice 60's Eldorado, several C6 Convertibles.

Chris

[Camino LS6]

I'm with Balthazar on the orange and yellow- I very rarely like those colors on any car.

[A Horse With No Name]

That's perfectly Okay.

So long as you guys don't mind me enjoying the GTO in balthy's post and the GTO in GM truck guys post, we are all good.

Chris

[A Horse With No Name]

...and FWIW my wife is with you guys on Orange. She hates it on a car.

Blue on the other hand...she loves.

Chris

[ocnblu]

OMG, she came out and told you that? It was supposed to be our secret.

[A Horse With No Name]

Oh,and today two cool GM vehicles.

#1, irony of ironies, was a 66-67 Nova headed westbound on I-70 on a trailer behind a nice Z 71 Chevy. Red, americans, looked very clean.

#2, also irony of ironies... a yellow Solstice GXP. I still like yellow cars, Dammit, even if no one else does.

Chris

[A Horse With No Name]

OMG, she came out and told you that? It was supposed to be our secret.

Kind of hoping you'd fathered a few of my kids actually. I could use help paying for them!

Chris

[Robert Hall]

Speaking of yellow, saw the yellow '10 Camaro SS at work again today. Must be management, they have one of the coveted covered (car port) parking spaces.

[A Horse With No Name]

Have to admit it, the new Camaro is growing on me.

Chris

[ocnblu]

Green, late-model Regal with huge, park bench wing. Also a '76 Regal coupe, factory orange metallic with white landau top and interior, looking perfect, parked along the street.

[ocnblu]

One more bit of pain: BRG MGB I posted about for sale a few days ago... replaced by an Eagle Vision. Talk about a let-down.

[Robert Hall]

Saw two more '10 Camaros in the afternoon commute---a bright red LT and a silver SS, within a mile of each other.

[balthazar]

'63 Corvette split window, exc unrestored.

'63-67 Corvette roadster, black w/ white top, sidepipes, mint, same driveway as 1st one.

'63 Corvette split window, on a flatbed apparently back from paint (no trim or bumpers).

[Robert Hall]

Today at work, I parked between an orange Honda Fit with a huge 35 MPG! decal in the rear window and a bright green Hyundai Accent. Was fun to park the nearly 5000lb 25 yr old panzer beast between them. It gets 15 mpg, maybe.

Rob

[A Horse With No Name]

I think I've made a resolution to never buy a "normal" car again.

Driving different stuff is just too much fun.

Chris

[§carlet §wordfish]

Found out that the bumperless black '63 'Vette I saw a week or so ago belongs to a former classmate. It's actually a one-off custom body on an '84 chassis.

Also saw an early '90s Regal sedan with the upper front fascia punched out and two round headlights sticking out of it, with three redneck gentlemen inside.

[Robert Hall]

Saw yet another '10 Camaro this morning, a black one on the freeway. In the last week, they really have started popping up everywhere.

Rob

[A Horse With No Name]

Really cool GMC 70ish truck, orange, in a customers bodyshop. 2500 4x4. I'll try to get pics if I can tomorrow...slow day at work today.

Chris

[GMTruckGuy74]

Not seen in person (yet!), but I got yet another e-mail from another friend about this wonderful clasic '63 GMC for sale in the local Auto Shopper magazine:

Autoshopper link here.

[balthazar]

GMTG -- that's YOU !!!!!

[A Horse With No Name]

Only if I don't get there first. NICE truck.

chris

[GMTruckGuy74]

GMTG -- that's YOU !!!!!

Only if I don't get there first. NICE truck.

chris

Well, the Auto Shopper website doesn't show the price, but another site I first saw the truck at had a price slightly at or above $10k. That's just way too out there for me now. I'll be lucky to hold onto the small amount of cash I had hidden away during this time of unemployment (first paycheck won't come to the 2nd week of September after I return to work on Sept 1). The truck isn't that far away from me (30-45 mins), so I will definitely try to get out there to see it in person soon.

[Camino LS6]

Cool GMC!

[ocnblu]

But is it as cool as the Carryall we all (Roger included) saw at the GM Nats? hmmmmmm?

[Camino LS6]

But is it as cool as the Carryall we all (Roger included) saw at the GM Nats? hmmmmmm?

Nope.

[Robert Hall]

Saw a metallic burnt orange Smart ForTwo Brabus on the road this afternoon. Totally badazz in a wannabe sort of way.

[ocnblu]

The gold 2010 Mustang in Ford's ad inside the back cover of the July 27 issue of A/W magazine makes me drool.

[A Horse With No Name]

Speaking of Mustangs, saw two of the new blue ones (the bright grabber blue) today.

Also-

2 C6-Z06

Solstice, Black.

69-72 Grand Prix, also black.

Solstice GXP, yellow

69 Camaro Convertible, SS but not RS, black, black interior, black top, polished American Racing Wheels

[Oracle of Delphi]

The gold 2010 Mustang in Ford's ad inside the back cover of the July 27 issue of A/W magazine makes me drool.

It's not the car making you drool, it's called old age ...

[balthazar]

Saw a brand new fit on the side of the road, hood up, battery pack charger and cables hooked up, owner standing around looking pissed. :rotflmao:

[A Horse With No Name]

I also saw a Fit broken down on the side of the road, but it was yesterday and the prev. model Fit.

[Robert Hall]

I also saw a Fit broken down on the side of the road, but it was yesterday and the prev. model Fit.

Strange...I saw a Prius w/ it's flashers on the side of the freeway this morning, far left breakdown lane by the HOV lane. A Toyota? breakdown? That's unpossible!!

Rob

[§carlet §wordfish]

Red Mercedes-Benz GLK. It's very... angular.

[Camino LS6]

Speaking of Mustangs, saw two of the new blue ones (the bright grabber blue) today.

Those "grabber" colors are just nasty!

[Robert Hall]

Driving to work this AM-- a 20-something blonde driving a clean green and white '69-70 longbed Chevy pickup... Cool.. a very clean red w/ black top '67 Mustang coupe. Another '10 Camaro, this time a bright red SS. This makes 6 different '10 Camaros I've seen in the last week....

Rob

[GMTruckGuy74]

But is it as cool as the Carryall we all (Roger included) saw at the GM Nats? hmmmmmm?

Nope.

While that Suburban was really nice, especially for a survivor, I'd go with a GMC pickup over anything else every time.

And for those of you not knowing what ocnblu & Camino are talking about, here's the GMC Suburban at the All-GM Nationals in Carlisle:

[A Horse With No Name]

I just saw a two door burban or caryall or whatever just like that. Believe it was a 67.

Chris

[GMTruckGuy74]

1967's didn't look like the one I posted, and '67-'72 were three-doors (no more two-doors).

[A Horse With No Name]

Let me Clarify, I know a 67 isn't "like that" completely.

But I did see a two/three door 67 today. Didn't see it for long, but it did have a 67 se and it wasn't a 4 door 'burban.

Sorry I wasn't clear in my post!

Chris

[Robert Hall]

In the afternoon commute, I saw a clean white w/ red interior '64 Ford Fairlane 500 ht. Also saw a blue Chevy Corsa sedan and red Chevy Astra sedan, both with Sonora plates.

Rob

[ocnblu]

Stone White Challenger R/T at Muddy Run Park, sitting in wait under a tree for his owner to return. Two-tone green 1958 Impala 2 dr ht in pristine shape, gliding as if on air (not sure if it was an air suspension car for real, as I understand a lot of those were converted to steel springs due to the frequency of air spring failure).

[Robert Hall]

Saw a '58 or 59 Chevy Apache pickup, a longbed stepside, kind of a brick red w/ white bumpers and grille....good condition.

Rob

[Satty]

On the way out to the drive-in we went through some pretty dumpy towns, all of which seemed to have its fair share of 50's GM iron. A bunch of Chevies and a yellow Cadillac that, if restored, would be a pretty cool addition to my fleet.