Sixty8panther

Except for the clasic VW Beetle (yopu know the 50s/60s air cooled RE/RWD ones) the Scirocco and Corrado have always been my favorites. My best friend Mike had one back in the day... a G60 and he used to race SCCA and ice race it. That car handeled like a freekin go-kart by the time he tunned the suspension in it. Later he got a VR6 one and later still my buddy justin bought a 16valve Scirocco. That little car was a true sleeper after he threw on the turbo. Here's almost exactly what they looked like:

Why is it that I get accused of starting trouble with random threads when most of mine stil pertain to cars... this was freekin out of left field. What if instead of "Rocky" it had been "Sparky"?

Mighty Mouse: Have you been hitting the 'special sauce' agian?

Aint that the truth. :P The pedophelia in the Priesthood seems more rapidly spreading then the Aids epidemic in Africa. Very Tragic. :mellow: disclaimer: I'm Roman Catholic myself so don't go telling me I'm being disrespectful.

Z: you left out a couple very IMPORTANT details... She was wearing spandex and put the coffee cup right between her legs while taking the top of the cup. Stupid. Skin grafts and a lot of the problems she experienced was due to her own careless actions. P.S. I studied this case as well in college, in a Business Ethics course.

I'm pretty sure no one sued McDonalds or any other company back in the 1950s because the customer asked for a hot coffee and received it, and then spilled it all over their lap. And I'd be willing to bet if someone broke inot your house wiht a Ski mask and slipped on your rug while carrying (stealing!) a TV he wouldn't WIN a lawsuit asking for medical and emotional compensation. He would have gotten what he deserves, a swift kick in the A$$ from teh cops and a free ride in a police car. That's it! No money. <_<

Olds, Always a step ahead.

Here's some more cool ones:

I'm on the fence about this one. While it's a free country it is pretty dumb to help the competition by giving them a sale while denying your own company any profit. But what about someone who buys a POS ugly Element and THEN gets a job at GM. He can't be expected to go out and trade his car right away. That would be messed up. If hoiwever someone works at GM for a few years and then runs out and buys a Lexus IS without even testdriving the Caddy CTS or whatever then they're a FUC#TARD, plain and simple. BTW: I'm sure there's a few Impalas and 3-series bimmers in the employee parking lots of Honda and Toyota.

the engine is further back then the driver's butt... of course it was mid engined. I know some were AWD but I thought some were also RWD.

True Story: If you get a Cingular family plan and use it for a few moonths you will average about $180.00 a month. Then, even though your calling habits have changed less than 10% you end up wiht a bill of $900 on the fith month. Customer servise will send you on a wild goose chase and then you wil panic when no one is listening to the fact that there is NO was you have more than quadrupled your talking on the Effin phoone. You cut down your talking taime drastically and in another month (still not haivng figured out the $900 from Nov.) you will get a bill for $1300. Eight weeks: $1300. Then in a few days later it becomes $1400. (late fees and such) You spend about 4 hours between two days on the customer service line and they will MAGICALY have an explanation how you can be charge for roaming in MANIE even though you have not come within 40 miles of that state in two years. Then they will talk cicrles about how you can SIMULTANEOUSLY be on the phone wiht two different peopel at the same time, even you do not have three way calling. You wil be roaming and checking your voicemail even though your toime card at Chevyof Lowell proves you had your BUTT planted in your chair at work! Several months later and after speakng wiht about 7 differnt people at Cingular send your now get a bill for $1600. (it's been shut off since the $1400 bill but thre was more late fees.) And then it later goes into colections and they ask for $1700. Yet durrig the time you were supposed to be talking this much on the phone you were working 70 hours a wek and most of your calls should have been free since you call your Girlfriend (family plan remember?) and you'd have to never sleep in order to talk that much. CINGULAR sucks filthy effin Donkey C*ck! :angry:

My parent's own a 2002 GA GT1 that I sold them as a salesman at Bill DeLuca Chevy/Pontiac. It's loaded wiht EVERYTHING except for ONE option: only the engine block heater was left off. They todl us we were wasting our money unless Sasqatewan was a daily destination. I love these cars, love them. ow tech? YES! BUt I'll take a low tech car that has gobs of torque and killer looks. The most annoying feature is the torque steer. My parent's GA at wide open throtle goign from 3rd to 4th wil side step a good 6-8" even wiht a white knuckle firm grip of the steerig wheel. I even love those They are traguically flawed though... auto and fwd only for the GT. I'd love to reskin a '06 GTO as a 5th gen. Grand Am GT sedan. Or, (probably easier) make a custom tuube chassi frame for the GA body to rest on wiht the LS7 and a six speed manual rear mounted trans. and IRS off a Vette. Marcia's friend Steve just bought a used Ecotech powered 2002 Grand Am. It's nice.

I'd love to buy any of these for my 68 Camaro: http://www.pro-touring.com/featured_cars/C...e/Front_Rim.jpg If I ever get a Datsun 510, 1st gen. Mazda RX7, 60s/70s Mini Cooper or a classic BMW 2002 I'll get these rims color coded: or these: these rims would look awsome on a 1970.5 Trans Am! I like the 7 spoke rims I have on the Caddy STS but these are far nicer. I love THESE! That Better pic. wiht the rims on the car (16") These would look killer on a late 40s early 50s car like a chopped '49 Merc. or similar tail dragger/lowrider. When these came out in 1993 on the McLaren F1 they were both modern and classic. I love these rims. Now there's a million knock offs from every vehicle/aftermarket manufacturer. This basic concept's been really played out. When it comes to classic cars or American mucsle the originals look great 99% of the time. I am sick of seeing Ralley Rims on EVERY 1st gen Camaro I see though. Which is why I got rid of my set.

Cool... for all I know that could be my old Pontiac, before I bought it wiht 183,000 miles on it and a 100,000 mile Crate 350. Still the coolest winter beater I've ever had. B) Yup, that's an Arizona plate on the front, just for $hits and giggles.

Cool thread, I really do not want ot get all that DEEP right now. AS far as my viesws on the world here's my top 3 concerns for my Daughter's future. (in order of importance) 1. Big Brother scares me, a LOT! Our rights & liberties are being taken away ever so slowly. Even the tiniest trickle will eventually empty a swiming pool. 2. Jobs, jobs JOBS! I'm so sick of these retards in the Media gauging the jopb market and the relative state of the economy by the stockmarket... that's no more accurate then my measuring the job market by the going price of a '1960 Dodge on the classic car market. Just because the stock market is doing well or better and the economy is suupposedly recovering does NOT mean that our country men are not loisng hundreds of jobs to overseas every day! WTF is the point of a good stock market and a war on terrorism if I can't feed my family? Oh, wait it just came ot me, that's right the rich get richer while the poor get poorer. :angry: 3. Terrorism. I'm not the genius who is supposed to be monitoring/preventing it but I'l tell you I think we could be doing a better job than wasing our lives/time/resources/money in Iraq. To Bush's credit we have not had another attack since we went ot Iraq so he's doing something right. Now as far as all this bible belt talk of gays being evil and religion it's mostly just a distraction. I think Abortion should be illegal unles it is performed RIGHT away... a baby has a heartbeat at 6 weeks. Muirder is murder. And I think the Pledge of Alegiance DOES belong in schools!!! It does not say anything abo Catholicism or any PARTICULAR God. IF you're a 13 year old Atheist then what's the big deal there's no harm in giving God a 'tip of the hat' every morning. Otherwise consider yourself pledging to YOUR God whom ever he/she/it happens to be. And for God's sake STOP litteraly interpreting the Bible for your extremist oppinions. We do not turn the other cheek neither do we uphold the eye-for-eye rule...right there are two extremist points of view that do NOT mesh. The bible was written by man and altered/edited/butchered for thousands of years, if you live by it as if it was a "Human owner's manual" then you need to join us in the 21st century. BTW: I'm a Libertarian if it was not obvious...

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Awsome! Love the '67 Olds... you should paint it some wacky color like candy apple red or tangerine mettalic... even Walmart Spraypaint flat black would be cool. I swear 2/3 cars GM made between 1959 and 1978 were that pea-soup green. The fact thta your Cutlass ragtop got nailed like that breaks my heart. What a tragic ending to a fantastic car. Hopefully it's runnig around somewhere rebuit wiht a salvage title. One can hope. BTW: why trade a Z28 for a four bamnger S10? :huh:

Miller: Awsome. Thank You for sharing. :) You hear me complaining and making fun of the 4th gen. but it's only cause Chevy Pontiac let them bleed to death on the operating room floor in 2002. The 4th gen. cars are awsome. A nice first gen car is like PURE perfection ot me. My dream car is a '69 Camaro after all... But make no mistake if a '69 Camaro is perfection at 100 points out of a 100, then the 4th ge. cars are not far behind, at like 97. Where as a typical '95 Mustang would rate at 80 or 85 and a Corvette from the same era '96 4th gen. would rate at the same 97ish. As soon as a fourth gen. wiht retro-69 Styling hits the streets I can finally stop subconsiously resenting the 4th gens. for not meeting the market expectations. I almost bought a few 4th gens. but in the end wanted to hold out for a classic one. A 4th gen. LT1 or LS1 car is a hell of a bargain right now!

That Opel is a sexy B!tch! I love it also.... was about to comment on it and then noticed you said my 240X inspider it. Rock ON! :) Damnit I wish I had $280.00 bucks just so I could buy it for Sofia. Marcia's (my G/F) dad made her a CUSTOM built '84 Corvette when she was a kid. Sofia would have a fun toy and at car shows I could casually drop into the converstion how I own a Oldsmobile Aerotech. Third owner.... second guy bought it from an Olds dealer. :P

While I like the Catera (hey it was the lone RWD model and it was made in Germany) and I still love these Holdens I agree wiht you Ocn. These cars are getting mighty long in the tooth. They have that hint of 1982 Corvette desperation in their styling.

YES! I agree with you 100%. Power sliding and steering with your right foot is a ton of fun. Plus if you do enough of it you can navigate your way through bad conditions wiht confidence. As I've mentioned I've had several RWD 80s cars for "winter beaters". I want to find out how much ice-racing costs and where exactly it's held near me. I know they have a few events within a hours drive of my house. Usually between Dec. and Feb. on a frozen lake wiht cones set up. I'd LOVE to do that in my Datsun or the Camaro. A friend of a friend used ot race an early 80s Monte Carlo in ice-racing events. :D (they have FWD, RWD and AWD categories) I would argue that is the DEFINITION of a true performance car. A compromise is a compromise, no matter how small. FWD and an Automatic are NOT performance/fun oriented. This is the same reason I actualy like the Lexus IS300 and classic Toyotas wiht RWD.

Danm, how could I forget... Sean's used to have a burgundy 1998 Suburban that looked EXACTLY like Tony Soprano's 'Burban. Way in the back by the barn doors he had spilled old, used gear oil on the rug. It smelled awful.

Someday you'll see a Bonneville or Aurora like this and you'll feel like we do. :angry:

[quote]Croc: It's gotta be the jealousy...Cali wine has been rated higher than the French stuff in blind taste tests.[/quote] Jelaous of the Californians? nope. And I'm not French and I do not consider French wine to be my favorite. I'm no wine coniseur but I know that Californian wine tastes of sulfur 9/10 times. I like Red wines from Italy & Australia. I'd love to try any other kind. I'm open minded but I find myself getting more and more irritated wiht Calif. wine because I can never find one that cateres to my tastes. [quote]Mustang84: 31. What are you afraid of? Snakes, big ass spiders, state of the world today[/quote] Aint that the truth. <_< [quote]BlaCkViper: 22. to 24. were really childish questions, email related. Tell me them, damnit![/quote] It was really retarded.... like "Do you think the person who sent this to you likes you?" and "How many people are you going ot send this to?" :rolleyes: [quote]ToniCipriani: 20. Hugs or kisses? -bash: 20. Hugs or Kisses?: command not found[/quote] ErroR ERROR!!! :o [quote]Z28Luv: 33. Favorite car? Gimme a Corvette. Any Corvette.[/quote] Okay Z... I'll make a deal wiht you. I'll trade you a 1984 Coupe with 30,000 miles straight up for your Cobalt. It may look a hell of a lot better but the Cobalt will probably run a quicker 1/4 mile than the '84 Cross-Fire Vette. Seriously. [quote]Satty: 29. What is your favorite smell? Antifreeze[/quote] Really? I love the smell of gasoline, engine oil and burnt rubber but HATE Antifreeze. You should smell the coolant in my 186,000 mile Fleetwood Brougham. NASTY! Except for tranny fluid, coolant is the nastiest smell in the modern car esp. used and discolored brown old gunk that flows out of old 307 Olds motors. :P

Wow, news to me. Bites tongue before uttering a BOF vs. Unibody joke. :D