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RUST is FREE!!! I doubt this old girl will ever be down the road under her own power any time soon...if ever! How much do you think the car will cost to resurrect versus what it is worth? And with the notoriety that car has in the collector community (i.e. RUST BUCKET FROM HELL) do you think it will ever be marketable?

They only seem interested in the cobbs for some reason! :gay: Just kidding...don't kill me. Couldn't resist. Congrats to all who choose to go this route. Happy for you all. Now you can be as miserable as us straight couples!

Ferrari struck by train during 911 call.. Seriously, should this guy no longer be allowed to call himself a man doing something this stupid? Just goes to prove that you do not have to be smart to have money...

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Here is the problem I have with this plan: The complete destruction of the US Dollar. Our government is buying up all of the bad debt in the country right now. AIG, bad mortgages, bad paper in the banking sector, and now will end up with the legacy costs and bad debts of GM (and others we have yet to begin to discuss). Let us not forget we are still fighting wars abroad, as well as picking up the tab for every natural disaster that GOD can throw at us! (Does anyone buy insurance anymore???) While I am all about saving GM (I Love and only buy it's products in the automotive sector) I worry that the Government meddling and printing money to cover all of this bad paper and what it is going to do to OUR standard of living, as well as that of my children. What all of this bad debt/paper is going to do is de-value our currency and make buying our debt a bad idea to foreign investors. This is why China floated the balloon this week about a new WORLD currency that would move everyone off of the US Dollar and onto a united currency. China now holds over 3 Trillion of our bonds, and if they stop buying them, our financial sector will collapse. Thier balloon was a warning to the US to stop ruining our own currency. So, the question in this story will be: How much bad debt will WE the People get stuck with, and will it be the straw that breaks the camel's back?

I read about this on-line today at KWWL...only 55 years old. This is a tragedy. Keep your eyes on the roads folks - the person that hit him crossed the centerline and hit him head on - hope it was not a cell phone or ipod that caused this senseless loss. She was only 51 - both were WAY too young to go. Let's all do OUR part to concentrate on the road when we are driving and lead by example. Really sorry for your loss Mustang.

Congrats! You went to my second favorite car company...a company that builds cars for people who enjoy the driving experience. I have a huge soft spot for BMW and their engineering. I wish you great luck, and most of all: PROST!

That Blondes have more fun??? that is a very...nice...mesmerizing...wet...picture.

We all have regrets - in fact I think regret should be a four letter word - but I digress back to my original post about the one that got away. We all have been there, a car that to you was either a pain in the ass, no longer willing to dump money into it so you sell it cheap - or worse - junked it! I am talking about the abused of the abused, the downtrodden, and the cars that we did not appreciate at the time, but wish we had them now. Maybe it was a car you never got to drive or own, but saw it slip away because it needed more than you were willing to give or did not have the money to own/fix. For me, it was a lovely 1970 Buick GSX Stage 1 in Apollo white that I spotted in the back lot of a cheesy used car lot. It was all there, a four speed 455 car with the wing and the cold air intake in the hood - IT WAS ALL THERE! Dad drug me away from her before I could talk him into it, but he thought it was too much car for me at 16. This was 21 years ago, and I can still remember it to this day! (It needed a full on restoration, but it was the most beautiful car I had ever seen). The only cars that I have personally junked were an 84 Chevette and two Mazda B2000 pickups that were parts cars - and no regrets there. The only classic I killed was a 1962 slant 6 dart that was so rusty it did not even have paint on it any more. My buddy and I destroyed every inch of that car behind the garage and then had it hauled away and shredded. It was gone when we got it. So, that is an example of ONE that got away- of many - and four I have killed, so let's hear your stories.

EXACTLY! DEAD ON! YOU READING THIS GM??? Mazda and Hyundai both had copies of the Enclave on the streets before you did! Show it at the auto show and tell everyone that is excited about it to go BUY ONE TOMORROW AT YOUR LOCAL GM DEALER. You keep tipping your hat and everyone gets tired of waiting and buys elsewhere and your competition moves quicker to market with your ideas! (See SSR, CTS-V Coupe -I know this is a weak example as it is coming pretty damned quick comparatively, Camaro, Enclave...pretty much every launch since what - 1977?) Again: Show the Car/truck/crossover at the autoshow that corresponds with the release of that automobile. Just like it was back in the good old days of GM when it was on the Ed Sullivan show last night and suddenly in the showroom TODAY!!!! Let's get the EXCITEMENT back into GM and the buying public back into the showrooms.

The body on that car is fantastic! Whoever SCULPTED that body is an artist. Wild. I love the gullwing doors and the cam cover sticking through the hood. Seems they need to get a pop up trailer, though.

You know. Cerebus is crying for money...this car looks complete. If they are hauling it to be crushed, why does it still have so much on it? The go-wing? 20-inch wheels? Deck lid, hood, doors? All of that could be re-used (I am assuming it probably has a driveline in it as well) on other project cars around the shop I would think (I know liability would keep those parts from seeing a customer car) This stuff all costs money! And does anyone have any guess about the # 14 sprayed on the door? Are they keeping track of how many they are sending to the scrapper? I am a Camaro fan, but I really got ill thinking that great looking car was heading to the crusher.

I say the same thing about EVERY Japanese car I get into; "What is the big deal here?" My brother's Acura TL...yawn. His Sienna...pos (been in the shop more times than all of my "JUNKY American Cars" COMBINED) I had an Accord wagon. It started. It drove. It stopped. It sucked in snow/rain/wind - and boring does not even begin to describe that car. Nothing about owning it made my heart skip a beat every time I saw it or drove it. I just do not get anything out of the designs or the driving "experience". I do not get the infatuation at all.

As of two weeks ago tomorrow, I have been going daily - twice a day. I swim daily at lunch, then go an do an hour of cardio and another hour to an hour and a half of weight training with a partner who kicks my butt if I do not get to the gym. She has really been a great help in keeping me motivated and we make sure the other is up to the workout every day. We do take one day off a week for recoup, but I still hit the pool on that day for a mild swim, just to stay loose. I have been lacking in this department for years, then three weeks ago my son just looked at me and told me I was getting really fat. Turned a light on for me that I had been ignoring the soft glow of for far too long. Now, if I could just get my wife to go to the gym too! I have been feeling a lot better, and my productivity everywhere is MUCH IMPROVED. If you have the inkling - get to the gym and get moving - you will be better off in the long run.

What do I win??? :smilies-38096:

Kaiser Darrin? OH WAIT! YOU ARE ON A BMW KICK LATELY!!! BMW Z1!!!

While they will not win any awards for build quality or fit and finish, they can be fun little cars and are becoming a rarity on the roads these days. I have always loved the V6 GT with the flying buttress rear ends. From what I know: Clutches can be expensive to put in, but the drivetrains are pretty common and off the shelf GM parts. It is also quite popular to drop in the supercharged V6's out of full size bonneville SSEi's or Buick Ultras - and the other common drop in is the Northstar V8 and auto out of a Cadillac. I personally would love a T-top GT with the V6 and 5 speed to use in the nice months as a conversation piece.

Whatever it is...the wipers were on when she went down....somebody took the whole "your car is a Boat" thing way too seriously!

This one apparently did not get Q's Submarine Button...

And I must add that we have had a bad experience with a brand new GM car, and it was fixed very quickly. Brand new Buick Rendesvouz threw a valve in the 3.4 at the 700 mile mark. Onstar told me not to drive it, but I did - right back to the dealership (about three miles) and hammered on it because I was pissed! Turned out to be a broken valve spring and that car was bulletproof from that point on. But honestly, in all of the new GM cars we have owned, that is the first problem that was what I would deem extreme. I was pissed when the intermediate shafts kept going out of the steering sectors of the GM trucks we have had. The safety was not a concern, but the annoying feel of something rattling in the steering sector really pissed me off. Here is the truth about cars guys: Cars are designed and built by human beings. Humans are flawed creatures, so it makes sense that the products they make are also flawed. I think about this every ime I fly on a plane, and I hope that the mechanic that put the pin in the motor during the inspection wasn't fighting with his girlfriend or getting over his hangover from the party yesterday... I have said it many times, but the reason I continue to ONLY BUY GM cars and trucks is that not ONE TIME in over a Million miles has a GM left ANY MEMBER of my family stranded on the side of the road. That cannot be said for Ford, Chrysler, Toyota, Jeep, or BMW - all of which have had to be walked away from or towed into a dealer for unexpected repairs.

That WAS a BMW 3 Series...I believe it was the 320Ti Click on the photos and hit properties and it says BMW in the description. There is an Audi A3 somewhere out there in Cyberland that is just about as bad... Audi A3 crash in Portugal

BMW M5

Not to sound like a Kool Aid Drinker, but have you thought that maybe your friend got some bad gas or something that caused the limp mode to kick in? I need more information as to why the car went that way!

Surely it will buff right out!

OOOOH! I forgot to tell you guys about this one: 1934-35 Ford Delux Coupe with Rumble seat, V8 hubcaps, original paint and it was all there, right down to four wire wheels and Diamond tread tires (the ones that were still holding air, anyway!) It was on a trailer headed to Kansas, and it was leaving a trail of dust behind it as it was moving for the first time in many years after being rescued from a barn! The plates said it was last registered in 1946! I really wanted that car, what a great project.