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Hugger Orange. Leave the roof white. It'd look good with the white/black/gray interior the car already has. But enough wishful thinking; just get the friggen thing home first!

No. Hopefully she died in a fiery wreck involving said Volare, thereby removing herself from the gene pool. But take note, GMTruckGuy, because what Sixty8 says is true, and these are the retards you have to deal with in searching for your dream vehicle. Hope it all goes well for you!

If it's a '55-'57 GMC you're looking for, then I suggest you get looking like yesterday. The truck market has exploded in the past few years and television auctions and the internet is quickly bringing an end to the days of the good deal; every old man thinks that rotted out four door sitting in his backyard on four flats covered in pine needles and $h! is now worth retirement money. You need to find an acceptable starting point soon and worry about the details later. Case in point: my '67 Eldorado. I've wanted one for a looooooong time, a great opportunity to own an exceptional original example came up (traded two cars I had a grand total of $1800ish in for a car the guy wanted $3500 for), and I scooped it up. I own it outright, and it has indoor storage out of any weather and is kept under lock and key. I don't care if I start the restoration tomorrow or ten years from now because all that matters is I now have a really nice solid one, I got a good deal, and it isn't getting touched until I have the time and money to do it right. So get cracking and secure your dream truck before you're dipping into your kid's college fund for it. And until you're ready to do it up, get a cheap, fun driver to bomb around town with in the meantime. That's what I'll be doing in a certain Lincoln limousine for a few years, anyways.

Just got both my calendars in the mail today. Took a month but it was worth the wait. Thanks again, Fly!

1961 Pontiac Tempest Well, winter beater/daily driver. It's such a departure from the land barges I'm into, but I've been looking to get into something old for a daily driver and the little four-banger might be a fun alternative to having a modern gas sipper. Seems cheap for what it is if the description is accurate, too. Any thoughts?

This is an EXTREMELY ambitious restoration project that is not for the faint of heart, so I agree with balthazar in that the biggest question you have to ask yourself is if this car is one to keep or one to simply play with and send down the road in a little while. If it's the latter you're looking for, as a sort of stopgap to owning your REAL dream vehicle, then save your pennies until you can plunk down what's needed for an acceptable driver and just have fun with it while doing minimal work.

Pretty retarded if you ask me. I don't think not owning the place you live in makes you a loser at all, but the reason you don't might. For example, if the reason you don't own the place you live in is because you're approaching middle age and have never been required to be independent or take any sort of responsibility for yourself and still live in the same bedroom you have since the day you were brought home from the hospital in the little blanket your grandmother knitted, then yeah, I'd have to say you're absolutely a loser. How people like that don't wake up every day and feel like failed human beings when they look around and see other people enjoying the lives that they've made for themselves is beyond me. But, for the rest of the world that doesn't own the places they live in, they don't seem like failed human beings to me. If they make rent or a mortgage payment on time every month then chances are they have a job that makes them able to do so. Going out into the world every day to make a living doesn't strike me as being a characteristic of a loser, but by these standards it appears as though I'm going to be a loser until at least my 40's. After I'm done school I plan on moving out and renting until I feel I'm able to buy, and when I do buy, the bank's gonna own my house for at least the first 15-20 years. Guess I should go sit in the bathtub and slice my wrists open now, huh? Did anybody mention that the reason some people like to rent rather than own because of the convenience? If something breaks, they're usually not paying to fix it. No landscaping, no snow removal, no bull$h! associated with home ownership. What if they live in a big city and work there as well? Does enjoying the convenience of getting on the subway or a bus or into a taxi twenty feet from your front door make them a loser because they don't own the place? Did anybody call into that radio show and mention that there are a fair amount of celebrities and captains of industry, whom we are all supposed to regard as the gold standard by which we should all judge ourselves because they're better than we are, do not own the places they live in, but rather simply pay the rent for lavish apartments in luxury highrises and exclusive gated communtities? Would they be considered losers as well? Would they be considered even BIGGER losers because in addition to not owning the place they live in, they don't own their vehicles either? They may be new and expensive, but I bet a good portion of them would have the name of a company on the titles and registrations rather than that of an individual. One of the perks of being successful, or a loser, if you like to take life advice from the radio, I guess. Significant others are wonderful. I love mine to death and honestly couldn't see myself being happy without her. But are they for everybody? f@#k no! Some people would rather their romantic encounters come without strings to leave their lives uncomplicated, as someone mentioned before, while others simply suck at relationships. I have an aunt and uncle that are far better friends divorced and living in separate locations than they ever were while married and under one roof. There are millions of other people out there that are exactly the same way. As for the whole getting some thing, well, yeah, it's awesome; show me someone who says it isn't. Many of us have already come to that bridge and crossed it, but only you can decide whether it's right or not when the opportunity presents itself. At the risk of sounding like a cheesy 80's sex education video or after school special, the decision to wait doesn't make you a loser. As for the if your vehicle is ten years or older thing, don't even get me started on that. If the weather in New England wasn't what it was, I'd try my hardest to never own a vehicle built after the Nixon presidency ended. f@#k new cars. I only drive my '96 Riviera every day because it's one of the few new cars I liked the styling of and it doesn't break my heart to be out in a snowstorm with it. Rest assured, though, that If I lived someplace where the roads weren't treated with an inch of rock salt every time there's a cloud in the night sky from October to April, or wherever Flybrian lives that's full of geriatric kamikazes in late-model Toyotas, that any Riviera in my fleet would be built no later than 1972. Most new cars are plain, uninspired, cheaply constructed, and blend into the background. I've gotten more thumbs up and compliments driving around in old beater Cadillacs with the fender skirts falling off and pieces of the vinyl top flapping in the breeze than I ever have in any new vehicle. But I know they're not for everybody, and that's why people do buy new vehicles. However, the age of the car isn't what should make that person a loser, but rather the condition if anything. If someone's driving a filthy, smoking, rotted out, twenty year-old something with mismatched body panels, bald tires, blown shocks, and what appears to be most of their worldly possessions in Hefty bags in the back seat, then yeah, I'd say it's probably fair to assume that person may have made a few bad choices after high school. But what if the car's in great cosmetic and mechanical shape? What if the last new car your grandfather ever had to buy was bought in 1975 and is driven sparingly, always garaged, and always dealer-serviced? Is he a loser because he didn't trade it in as soon as the last payment was made? Or is he comfortable enough in his own skin where he doesn't give a f@#k about what others think and doesn't feel the need to keep up with the neighbors? Cort, I think you need to find yourself a new radio station, son.

Agreed. The more I think about it, the more I'd love to stuff my Riviera in storage and not look at it for twenty years until it, too, becomes sort of an "old" car. Meanwhile there's a big ugly brownish colored '69 Delta 88 four door post on craigslist Boston with a 455 that's calling my name as a daily driver. I also have an '80 Sedan DeVille (with the good motor, the cast iron block carbureted 368 and NOT that aluminum HT4100 bull$h!) lined up for short change, but the Delta would be first choice. Why can't I have money and space when I need it?!

I got a 24

The gray rear aprons on it say Ford to me (the old cool ones before they started painting them blue), but I'd have to see it from the side before I said anything definitively

I, too, am addicted to cheeseburgers, but my number one is hot dogs. I eat hot dogs like it's my last day on Earth; Sixty8 will attest to this as I probably owe him about $17,000 worth of the damn things. It's not my fault that his girlfriend buys the jumbo box of those awesome German ones

Done and done.

Y'know I thought the same thing. That's why I paid for 'em on December 19th. Here we are three weeks later and I still don't have 'em. Are you too busy to pull over and throw an envelope in a blue mailbox, or.......

1978 Ford LTD, navy blue with a white top. BV, is your buddy's still for sale?

$1100 for an oil pan? Is it solid gold? I think it's high time you get to the boneyard, son. .... and with the luck you're having buy two or three wrecks and leave 'em in the backyard for spares

While in Boston today I saw, honest to god, a 1999 Buick Riviera Silver Arrow. Me and the girlfriend were in the city for the day and we're walking down State Street and she points and goes "look honey, a car like yours!" So I look and see a silverish looking last-gen Riviera, but then I do a double take as I notice the special emblems on the quarter panel in place of the standard Riviera script, as well as the car proudly wearing the Maine vanity plate SLVARW. This thing is obviously daily driven because it was FILTHY! If I didn't know any better I'd say the car just got back from mudding. Sad to see it so scummy, but very cool to see one out on the road being used. Also saw a late 70's Oldsmobile Omega sedan in Chinatown and a '74 Cadillac Eldorado convertible in front of the Museum of Science.

I think I'd like to have the Imperial out of the bunch, simply because of the weird factor and because Mopars are the one thing I still know virtually nothing about. That and because I could drive it every day and not feel bad because it's not the best looking and the interior's already been redone, like balthazar said, in a cheesy and completely non-original way. It's got daily driver written all over it. The Olds is too bland for me, although it looks to be a very presentable driver. However, don't you all be so quick to judge it as immaculate as some of you have; "walk by" white is an easy way to hide $h!ty bodywork. The lack of two-toning on this particular car in spite of the chrome trim as an easy breaking point (which is why 99.9% of cars like this are two-toned) seems to lend itself to that. I bet she's a little wavy up close. It's still a car I'd drive any day of the week and would have a ton of fun with, but not something I'd pay nearly what they're asking for. Price is too high for what it most likely is, but too low for it to be really nice. My guess is it was treated to said paint recently and the person who paid for it is trying to get back what they spent. The LeSabre is too boring for me and I'd much rather prefer its bigger brother, the Electra 225, any day of the week. Maybe I'm biased because I can think of about a dozen (literally) '67-'68 LeSabres around here being driven on a regular basis. I see them too much for there to be any sort of novelty there and would never want the car that everybody else has. That Caddy is nice, though; it's a hardtop, low mileage, appears to be in good shape for its age, great powerplant, great looks, and plush interior appointments that make me wanna drive across the country in it. Still a tad too pricey, though.

In Communist Russia, car assemble YOU!

Being manufactured in Japan, England, Italy, or France.

Y'know, a person could take that one of two ways......

Guess I'll start this off with a 1974 Plymouth Satellite Sebring two-door hardtop and a '62 Thunderturd

$1000 for the Maserati and I can come get it TOMORROW

One of those stupid-ass Red Bull Mini Coopers with the back cut off on a flatbed, bright yellow Nissan Xterra with New Hampshire vanity plate SHRTBUS

Knight, as in Willys-Knight

So a Swedish car with a carriage top really sets your heart a-flutter, huh? And a non-Presidential Edition carriage top at that! You're an even bigger fruit than I thought!