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Used, always. Let somebody else take the hit on devaluation.

Wow! That's a pretty large and detailed tattoo to get done all in one sitting. How long did it take?

1990 Suburban: 247,000 / 1990 = 124 years old and still going strong!

Got any Billy Beer

Man I'd love to have one of those little junior Pontiacs restored and sitting in my living room!

I bought the 17th copy ever printed, numbered and signed by the author (first edition printing of 1000 copies), for my father a couple years ago. Found it in a used book store in Boston. It's an awesome book!

Great idea; I bet his calendar's wiiiiiiiiiiiiiide open. Well, at least until the next boat show or whatever other nonsense washed up B-list actors appear at nowadays.

'Shut Down' and '409' by the Beach Boys are musts for all the old men in woody wagon-themed Aloha shirts that make up the majority of B-J spectators and buyers. 'No Money Down' by Chuck Berry 'Down Payment Blues' by AC/DC 'One Piece At a Time' by Johnny Cash I'll have to think of more...... EDIT: those top 10 car song lists pretty much all blow. The girl who picked Christina Aguilera and Usher is a retard and the guy whose list is 100% Springsteen should be kicked in the balls until his eyes bleed

Excellent answer. That makes sense to me and you didn't recycle what others have said about it. Do I still get props for my Wayne's World reference in my original post

Hmm, the auction link is no longer valid..... obviously the Walter P. Chrysler made a private offer the owner couldn't refuse.

*clears throat and points* Lame. So very very lame. To you and anybody else who has chosen or is considering choosing this, please explain why it should be considered one of the GREATEST ROCK & ROLL SONGS EVER without using any of the cliches people have been digesting and regurgitating for the last thirty years. We've all seen the crappy countdown specials on VH1, so please, skip the textbook answer and offer something original. Same goes for anybody considering Hotel California as well. Now: how can anybody talk about "greatest" rock & roll songs without mentioning Chuck Berry, without whom rock & roll as we know it may very well have never existed? Every artist/band widely regarded as a God in the rock & roll Pantheon either cites him as an influence directly, or cites those influenced by him as influences, and have been very publicly singing his praises for the last half-century. Listen to songs like "Roll Over Beethoven," "Johnny B. Goode," "No Particular Place to Go," "Down the Road Apiece," "Maybellene," "House of Blue Lights," and many others, and you will hear rock & roll in its purest form. Then listen to the early work of a group like the Beatles or the Rolling Stones and the similarities will astound you. It all stems from him. Three greatest rock songs? I don't even think I could pick three of the "greatest" artists/acts without some serious time to think.

That's really cool; definitely not anything you'd find in a New England barn, what with the weather being what it is out here. That's one Dodge I'd be proud to own!

Have a safe and wonderful holiday, everybody!

Thank you and Merry Christmas to all. Don't worry, my Tyrone Biggums avatar isn't going anywhere! Also: if anybody would like to buy me this for my birthday, I will build several churches in your honor. http://boston.craigslist.org/bmw/cto/966396340.html

Every year in New England, more salt is applied to the roads than there is in all the oceans combined. Seriously. I don't know where they even find as much as they do.

I just threw up a little bit in the back of my mouth, thank you. +1 on the General killing Saturn. What a waste of time/money/resources

No reason, just a neat pic I found while dicking around online here at work, thought it would be an acceptable replacement for my '58 Chevrolet one-ton panel truck/bookmobile trailer combo that had been up since summer. Can't go wrong with a three-pack of 1959 Buicks, one in each basic bodystyle (two-door/four-door/wagon).

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Happy birthday to our resident GMC truck fan!

Saw a '68-'69ish C-30 dump truck this morning in black/rust, still pushing snow around after all these years. Pretty cool.

At least that doorway you posted gets to be saved: the Packard museum in Ohio bought it at auction earlier this year for $161,000 and will be on display in the future. Another similar doorway was also recently purchased by the Packard Proving Grounds association and will be displayed there. It's a shame that area is just so completely devastated that all the old automobile factories can't be retrofitted for offices and apartments (I come from a city full of cotton mills from the Industrial Revolution that have been retrofitted as such with great success) and will eventually be torn down. I also still remember hearing the news back in 1989 that the General Motors/Fisher Body plant in Framingham, Massachusetts would be closed. Now it's just a huge warehouse for ADESA, the auction giant. As a lifelong New England resident, I still dream of happening upon a numbers-matching Framingham-built GTO in a barn/backyard/garage.

Can I choose "beach person," but modify it to "ocean person?" I like the beach/coastal environment, but hate beach crowds (read: throngs of obnoxious kids that caravan up in daddy's car and act like retards because they just drank their FIRST BEER EVER OMG!!!!). I've been around this environment my entire life; my grandfather was a commercial lobster fisherman and I've been fishing with my father since I was old enough to remember. Driving to the coast with him and poking around in marinas and boatyards are some of my fondest memories I have from my childhood. This winter he and I are completely gutting and redoing a 34-foot Webber's Cove lobster boat he bought a few months ago to ready it for next season. I'd much rather be ON the water than merely at its edge.

In an age where we're now forced to choose what color jellybean we like the best, I would argue that all three of these cars are equally cool for different reasons. There was no mistaking any of them for one another, which can't be said for hardly anything today. What I wouldn't give to have lived in a time when these cars were on the road in daily use. PCS: that photo of the Packard factory in your signature makes me sad

+1. Almost bought a '71 Imperial four door hardtop down in Connecticut a few years back, but it was pretty beat and its owner was truly one of the biggest retards I have ever met; he destroyed several pieces of the car right in front of me as he was showing me the car's features. I'd still like to find one that was better cared for some day, but that's a pretty tall order up here in New England where whatever didn't rust away and get scrapped was driven in demolition derbies by the local hicks.

+1. Almost bought a '71 Imperial four door hardtop down in Connecticut a few years back, but it was pretty beat and its owner was truly one of the biggest retards I have ever met; he destroyed several pieces of the car right in front of me as he was showing me the car's features. I'd still like to find one that was better cared for some day, but that's a pretty tall order up here in New England where whatever didn't rust away and get scrapped was driven in demolition derbies by the local hicks.