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I agree with you one hundred percent. If you're nice and not firm, some people will try and take advantage of you because most people tend to associate kindness with weakness.

Love the collection of flywheels housed in the built-ins next to the fireplace

Early 80's Subaru Justy. Y'know, the ones that are like | | that big. Also saw a '75 Monte Carlo that looked like it had been to hell and back twice, but still going strong.

Amazing fleet you have there, sir. The fourth gen reminds me so much of my mom's triple blue '79 she had when I was knee-high to a grasshopper. I remember many a morning being dropped off for and picked up from preschool in that thing

Letterman's a loser; I've never liked him and here's just another reason why. He's always played second fiddle to Leno, who is like car guy number one. At least they used a cheesy front wheel drive mid 90's LeSabre to squash with a safe; sure beats the very presentable '68 Electra 225 two-door hardtop I've watched used as a pusher in the annual Halloween demolition derby at the local speedway. The kicker? The guy who races it got the car FOR FREE! Some people have no respect. x 1,000,000

Drive it into the ground. See how many miles you can get on the old girl before she finally gives up.

Wow. Just..... wow. This guy is my hero!

I always knew that piracy of computer software was wrong, but it's so much more convincing when a guy that wishes he was Michael Jackson and MC Hammer at the same time does the running man while he tells me so.

Stripper truck?!? Pictures, please! But seriously, it sounds like your grandfather got a nice ride for a steal; hope he has good luck with it!

If the car has only 21,000 original miles, why are they giving it a concours-quality restoration? If they're going for points for originality, what's better than original? Certainly those that are familiar with concourses would know of Preservation Class, yes?

Do it! I would SO buy that. Not even kidding, either. It would be the first entry into the Tight Whips Car Club archive of significant photographs & manuscripts.

Seriously, man. Your grandfather was one of like eight people nationwide that didn't order a car with a vinyl top in the 70's. He made the right decision.

Not a bad looking ride you have there; I'll be looking for her in the parking lot at school!

A picture of my Riviera should be making its way to your mailbox any second, sir!

Funny you ask this; I ask myself the same thing all the time. I smell a story coming on..... For a long time I just had one car as a daily driver; the latest of which being my '96 Riviera. First "toy" I ever bought was my '79 Coupe DeVille. I thought having one toy and one daily driver was all I'd ever need. Then a few months go by and Sixty8 talks me into buying my '77 Cutlass Supreme because I wouldn't feel good about myself knowing I had a chance to buy the car for literally pennies on the dollar, not doing so, and then seeing it junked. Three cars now. Cool, I thought. One toy, one daily driver, and one beater just because. I thought I might be spreading myself a bit too thin after a while, and as luck would have it, a friend of mine needed a car. So I told him to take it and we'd work out a payment plan. A little sigh of relief; I'm back to two cars again. Then the Riviera blows up and I end up driving the '79 Coupe DeVille for two months while the Riviera gets fixed. Glad I had that second car around; it sure came in handy. So then the Riviera's fixed and the Coupe DeVille's on the back burner. No problems there; two is fine. Then my friend gets another car and decides he doesn't want the Cutlass anymore, and gives it back to me. Three again. So I once again decide that's a bit too much and decide to sell the Coupe DeVille and do. Back to two; life is good. So about six months goes by and I'm coming back from a favorite junkyard of mine and see a '71 Coupe DeVille parked on the side of the road. I've always loved the look of Cadillacs in '71 and a two-door was definitely a plus. Not to mention that I missed my '79 Coupe DeVille terribly and regretted selling it. The price seemed too good to pass up for the condition of the car, both mechanically and physically. I talked to the old man, took it for a ride, talked him down another couple hundred and took her home. Back to three, but I was happy. The Olds could be used as a backup car still since it was nothing special and now I had another toy. I also had the space, so no problems there. Three is cool; I can deal with that. Another three or four months goes by and I get an opportunity to trade my '71 Coupe DeVille and '77 Cutlass Supreme to get my '67 Eldorado. I do so, and once again I breathed a little sigh of relief inside. It's not that I was necessarily looking to go back to two cars, but I did like the fact that I had a little less on my plate and ended up with one really fantastic car to focus all my energy on. One daily driver and one toy is great, I thought. So about ten days go by and there's talk of the '74 Continental limousine being junked. I couldn't let that happen! I used to sit inside that car when I was barely big enough to see over the dashboard, put on the chauffer's hat in the glovebox, and make car noises as I brought my imaginary passengers to their destinations. I loved that car! So I asked the guy who wanted it gone if he was given the okay to junk it would it be alright if I were to just take it. Four days later he hunts me down at the place where I keep the '67 Eldorado and informs me of the option to "adopt" the Continental. I do so without thinking. So not only am I back to three; I'm back to three plus, because now one of 'em's the size of a small school bus! So three seems to be the magic number for me right now. I try and try to thin the herd, but sometimes, as in the case with the Continental, you don't find them; they find you instead. So to answer your question, would it be possible to give up cars? f@#k NO! If I had ten acres of land I'd never sell a car ever again. I'd go park whatever I was bored with in the weeds and go get something else! Some day some of this stuff will be either gone altogether or so expensive that it's all but unattainable, so I think it'll be neat to say I've had a little bit of everything before it gets to that point. When I'm 90 and I crap my pants I'll get a kick out of my grandkids fighting over whose Toyota hybrid hovercar is better and start to chuckle. Then I'll open a photo album and show them all the REAL cars I had when I was their age

Sounds about right; you're just not differentiating. All your stories are about dykes; lesbians on the other hand are the nice cool hot ones that do neat stuff with their hot friends. Lesbians are alright in my book; it's the dykes we can't stand.

A poor man's Rolls-Royce Corniche is what comes to mind. What a great-looking little car that is. Puts all those ugly ass opera coupes and cheesy Gucci editions to shame.

And also, if you want sixteen naturally aspirated cylinders, then why wouldn't you go for the better Marmon V-16? It's bigger (491 cubic inches), it's made of aluminum, it has overhead valves, and it had way more sack than a Cadillac V-16 ever did. It had an extremely high compression ratio for the day (6:1) and was second in horsepower (200) only to the previously-discussed Duesenberg Eight (265).

Make enough money at a job I don't mind doing to have a nice home with a good piece of property and so that my family and I can live comfortably. Oh! And a few Brass Era cars out in the garage would be great!

You're absolutely right in that there's no replacement for displacement. But why do you need so many cylinders? What about the big sixes from Simplex? This 564 cubic inch inline six can be found between the rails of a 1916 Crane-Simplex Torpedo Runabout. Y'know, their little sports car. The really big Simplexes had engines upwards of 800 cubic inches! I was fortunate enough to see a stunning Brewster-bodied 1915 Crane-Simplex roadster in person a few years ago at one of the last Concours d'Elegances held at the Crane estate in Ipswich, Massachusetts. This car, too, had the 564 cubic inch inline six in it, and let me tell you, when the owner was driving it up to the show field, it sounded like a f@#king bulldozer was coming up the hill! Unbelievable!

I totally hear you man, and I, too, am a fan of the Duesenberg Eight

I think all of us are more or less in agreement that modern man's three most significant inventions have been fire, the wheel, and the small block Chevrolet, so there's no need to pick that. I like the Cadillac 429/472/500 V8 family. Great smooth-running motors with endless torque. The 368's and 425's have sack too, but they can't match the grunt of their predecessors which are stump pullers all the way.

The collection's being broken up and sold off. The guy kept one or two cars for himself and his kids each took one of the Corvettes, if I remember correctly. Oh, and he's giving me the pair of '70 LS6 Chevelles. ..... and then I woke up

f@#k it; how about a bunch of us get some sort of Cannonball Run thing going on and all take something weird!

Yes, after owning three 70's cars and after trading two of them to get my Eldorado and always looking to go earlier, I was definitely growing a little tired of them. However, exceptions can always be made for free 70's cars, especially when they happen to be running driving limousines Blows your free rotted to death '79 C10 right out of the water