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He brings up a good point, here. Take care of it before it gets the chance to escalate further. People are f@#ked up; who knows what can happen if the wrong person knows about it and has too much time on their hands. As an example, I'm a manager at a local auto parts store and I've had to help gay people find paint after having the word FAG keyed into their cars on more than one occasion; seen it with my own two eyes, unfortunately.

So what's the problem, anyways; destroying a Suzuki Sidekick is fine with me

Back in my day when we found out a boy had a bad case of fairy we'd send 'im off to war; straightened 'im right out! So seriously, though; how did your sexual orientation even enter the water cooler small talk where your mom works? Did she make the mistake of thinking she could trust her coworkers and bring it up herself, or.....

Ahh, memories. I owned an '89 Toronado for a brief time in the summer of 2004; it was the car I bought from a local service station to get myself back on my feet after my '90 Cutlass Supreme was totalled. I paid $1200 for it and it had 89,000 miles on it. Damn near every option except the VIC and the telephone. No moonroof as well. Did have the FE3 sport suspension though. I roasted the transmission something fierce a few months later and sent her down the road after buying my '96 Riviera. Funny the interior you posted was burgundy velour; it's the EXACT same interior my car had, color and all. Burgundy outside, burgundy inside. I loved that weird little car! Since having mine two years ago, I can't say I've seen more than three or four in all the time since. Wouldn't mind having another if the price was right, either.

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What the f@#k is wrong with this guy; how did this even look good on paper? Did he actually believe even for a split second that he would even come close to making it?

Correct me if I'm wrong, because I hope I am, but did the announcer guy say V8 engine?! If there's a Cutlass Ciera out there with a factory V8 then it's officially the only Oldsmobile from the 90's that matters and I'd love to see it!

I think my Massachusetts House of Representatives green plate (1977-1988) is pretty nifty. It's brand new and has never been on a car. It's a shame I couldn't somehow get it registered on my '71 Coupe DeVille. I'd be able to double or triple park anywhere I wanted to. Maybe get drunk and bomb around town with a couple girls in the back seat, pretending I'm Ted Kennedy. The possibilities would be endless

1978 Porsche 911 Turbo Targa

Very true. A recent Carfax on my '96 Riviera showed me it started its life out as a lease car in Michigan and didn't make it out here to Massahchusetts until 2000. God knows where the thing could be now.

As far as I know the name "Golden Rocket" was used in 1957 as a commemorative for fifty years of being in business, as a one year-only nameplate for the most modestly priced Oldsmobiles. Also, 1957 was the year the J-2 "Golden Rocket" V8 was introduced; maybe the nameplate was used to promote the new engine?

Camino, dude, I am so sorry to hear that. Words can't even begin to express the loss you've just experienced, so I hope you'll just take comfort in knowing your father's in a far better place now than he ever was here. You and your family is in all of our hearts and thoughts and prayers. Keep your chin up, pal.

Sounds good!

Sending some dude in Illinois my Oldsmobile, for one ...... do you still want the thing or what? Price hasn't changed, just find me a place to drop it off to be shipped for you and I'll take whatever's left after shipping costs. Shouldn't be more than $300 or so I would imagine. Let me know!

I agree with you 100%. Like most other high-end automobile manufacturers, Rolls-Royce finds a basic design they like and stick with it for the next few decades while making minor changes. To me, a Phantom is just a modernized and beefier-looking car from the Silver Shadow/Silver Spirit/Silver Seraph line, the fundametally same goddamn car that was built from 1965-2002 with not much more than headlight and grille changes and very subtle body changes. Personally, I wouldn't give you a dime for any Rolls-Royce made after World War II but, for what it's worth, I don't mind the Silver Dawns of 1949-1955 and the Silver Clouds of 1956-1964 because they still look like someone in the design department at least made an effort on them to make significant changes before they went stagnant for the next 40 years. Kinda like what Cadillac did from 1977-1992; different headlights, different grille, different powerplants and subtle interior changes, but overall still the same old $h!. Foreign Motors West is a local Rolls-Royce dealership here in Massachusetts. Optioned the way I want it, the '06 Phantom I "built" came to $351,600. Sorry to break it to you, James Guyette, but if I had $350,000 specifically earmarked to spend on a Rolls-Royce Phantom, I'd buy this stunning 1928 model instead. With the current exchange rate being 1.8621 dollars to one Great British Pound, I'd spend $238,349 on the car, and I'll round it off to an even $250,000 to bring it home, and first-class at that. In keeping with the original $350,000 figure, I've saved $100,000 on a car that will only go up in value, versus losing about the same amount on a brand new Phantom the second I leave the dealership with it; used 2004 models with under 3,000 miles top out at about $220,000 and can probably be had for less. Anybody who went out and bought a new Rolls-Royce Phantom bent over and grabbed their ankles. And, as Fly mentioned before, they didn't even get a good looking car after it was all said and done.

Hudson! I demand the phone number on the for sale sign on the 1930 Franklin I see in your album!

Nice photos; the 1940 Packard 160 Convertible coupe is gorgeous! Not often you see a senior Packard at a car show anywhere unless it's era or make specific. And also, by any chance do you know how much the owner was asking for the 1978 Buick Riviera LXXV that's for sale?

Saw a Ferrari 328 today, and a bright yellow '77 Datsun pickup truck I'm trying to get Sixty8 to buy

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You said it; I remember at the beginning of the summer there was a 1979 Buick Century on eBay with 250 original miles on it not thirty miles from my house. Why is nobody taking such care of more significant vehicles?

Nope, that's a GM Delco combination CD player/tape deck stereo; first year for it in the car. '95 had a flat dashboard all the way across with a standard radio/tape deck and a slave CD player down in the console. It's the only real way you can physically tell a '95 apart from the '96-'99's unless you get under the hood and see a Series I supercharged 3.8, but naturally aspirated '95's had the Series II 3.8, so the only surefire way to tell a '95 from the others is by looking at the dash.

Mightymouse! Sorry it took like four days for my lame ass to see your PM; hope these photos of my interior you asked for aren't too late! It's a great thread and I like the ideas I see so far. Charcoal gray Riviera interior in a '79 shoebox might actually look pretty neat! Please don't laugh at my cruddy steering wheel; it bugs me, too

My condolences, fellow G-body owner. Got any pictures of your cracked up Aurora?

When the intake manifold gasket went in my '96 Riviera (naturally aspirated Series II 3800) with 131,000 miles on it, I was presented with two basic options. My father, who owns a body shop, could get a brand new, zero miles long block from GM for $2500 (shop rate). I instead opted to buy an engine with 14,000 miles out of a wrecked '04 LeSabre for $1500 from a local yard that deals specifically in late model wrecks. It didnt have to be broken in, and it runs excellent. I was able to go in and see it run and everything. At the same time, I was also offered an engine out of an '02 Regal with 26,000 miles on it for $1300. This was in January of this year, so I would assume prices wouldn't have fluctuated too much either way since then. Hope this helps!