Sixty8panther

I know of several Buick fanatics in my neck of the woods... they're some of the smartest, ingenious & resourceful of all car guys. One in particular has owned some muscle cars that most mortals can only DREAM of, like a '70 GSX, GS ragtop, (actually like 4 of them) as well as a few Grand Nationals, all recently, and all the while the wife is driving an Impala SS & his summer time daily is a NEW Corvette Z06 that later got traded for a brand new '06 GTO.

Exactly. Princess Di died in a M-Benz S300 that hit a CEMENT pole at over 100mph, and she STILL would have lived had she had her seatbelt on... and the car did NOT rip in half. That 6-series BMW, seriously, was probably doing 115mph when that accident happened, or at LEAST 80mph. That story is certainly not accurate!

Oh..... funny thing is it really is just a coincidence. Between the two jobs, two girls and a bossy wife I'm happy just to get the URL of this place right. Here's another:

Yeah, that's effin annoying. I'm on it like Flys on stink. Actually not really cause right now I'm off to bed. I had an exhausting day. Did a lot of work underneath the dash/instrument panel of the BMW. I swear I have never seen a car with 89,000 miles that had so much broken on the interior... someone really abused this thing. I will keep my eyes peeled for you. One more quick note... the wrong-fluid theory Caprice mentioned may be partially to bame but my friend's grandfather had a 1994 Eagle Vision with the 3.2 and the trans blew at 24k miles, no prior service or problems....

The BlackViper Manor: Where cars come to die. 1st it was the Grand Am Now it's a Mazda Millenia, G-body Cutty Coupe & VW Jetta.

Wow... sad day indeed when this is posted on a GM forum. Sadder day still when it's posted by the founding member. Damn straight.

Yeah DF, buy a salvage-title 300M that was hit in the ass so hard the windshield popped out.

Pre-War SUV.

Wow.... caddycruiser gotz a Gee-Ate? I'm jealous!

Those right there are IT for 2009 GM cars w/ a backseat that I care about, the rest can rot & crush for all I care. So true. MAXIMUM reward, minimum co$t.

I do not plan to buy new for at least another 5 years, but either way I'd buy NEW non-GM in a heartbeat so long as it was everything I wanted, and I'm picky. The new Gen.5 Camaro (even with its B-pillar ) is certainly a worthy new car, but if GM did not exist, as much as this would have SHOCKED & ANGERED my 2002 or 1997 self, I'd buy a Mercedes CLK or Dodge Charger/Challenger or maybe even a Mustang GT. ---- But chances are I'll buy something from the 1960s as soon as the 'Burb sells.

Gross.... now THAT is EPIC_FAIL! BTW: A.M. you of all people should KNOW that blob is 46" too high to be a Lagonda! Evil Knievel is gonna kick your square in the rears!

Yeah.... I do NOT have any buyer's remorse, I love this thing. Bought the BEST pair of front brake pads at NAPA last night, since he DIC keeps telling me the car's in need of them, and they me back a WHOLE $52.00. Yeah, that's about $3.00 more than for a Taurus or Camry or what not.... who's laughing NOW?!

Yeah, video games are fun.... Gran Turismo 1-4, Heroes of the Pacific... but if you stop living your life to PLAY 24/7 in a virtual one, well, the word PATHETIC comes to mind.

Cool post. Balthazar: I love the car-carrier Idea!

Yes, prob. as 63% of a Toyota Tacoma. (I'm sure it got junked/crushed)

There were no winners in this Jousting Competition.

My '68 Camaro hit a guardrail as well (see photo above) But thank God it was more hard angle sideswipe, not an impalement like the new-style BMW 3. That's like a train wreck.... I can't look away. I have a morbid curiosity. Once I spent like 2hrs. on Rotten.com I thought Ford Cosworth (Escort) RS2000... it might be a more tame FWD/transverse mounted motor POS run of the mill Escort, but it's NOT a BMW.

O.B. makes me LoL!!!

It's confusing the whole TALL gear versus. SHORT. The simpe part is the physics of it... gear ratios are all math, once you've settled on a final drive it WILL determine mpg/0-60/top speed & that's that.... you can't really call even the 300M to be a gas hog though, so I say to hell with it, just get the 3.5 with the shortest gear trans.

BEST COOLEST BMW EVAR! It's a classic It's a BMW It's a HARDTOP 'Nuf said! I love the crazy CSL racecars as well but the rollcage ruins the lines. If I could buy one I'd design a "hardtop-style" rollcage for it.

Here's a personal painful memory.

Thanks guys. See title of thread. The hardtop is not going ANYWHERE. That will be my new daily driver, at least until I sell the '95 Suburban. I passed on a navy-blue '86 BMW 6-series in favor of the M 500SEC, of course the MB's hardtop body-style was the deciding factor but the BMW was my backup plan.

I love it... but instead of the wrinkled 17-compound curve C-pillar just make it a hardtop-bubbletop.

Damn dude... [sorry] As they say, whenever one door closes another one opens. :wink: ---- The only electronic "modification" that a different ECM or other computer can do is to change the SHIFT points, like for instance when I gave you a ride in the 735iL and I romped on it a few times I forgot to click the button over to SPORT mode, and since it was left in ECONOMY mode it shifted well before its redline, even the times I gave it WOT. But as O.B. pointed out the guy prob. meant he did a motor & TRANS swap, thus changing out the gear ratio. Despite all of the electronic tom-foolery they try these days with new cars a computer cannot magically change the number of teeth in a metal gear. Same as displacement on demand does not make your V8 a V4, it just RUNS on four cylinders. I got lucky with my 25 year old Mercedes, even oil starvation could not kill that beast of a car... although the SOHC V8 does have quite the tick. The Panzer Hardtop is at 204,000 miles now.