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Remsen,
I really hate to tell you what we call them cars down here. It’s just so stereotypical 🙁
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"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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...of really well preserved/restored late 60s/early 70s American cars, especially the big GM ones (I generally hate GMs, but they ruled in this era). I came across this beaut tonight...all 8.2 liters of American V8. I wouldn't want to own one, but I sure like these cars. I think this is a 1970 or so Eldorado. If it had been a 1971 Riviera, I'd have spent more time drooling. That's a mile of hood in front of that hood. Love it! I had a '70 something Chrysler New Yorker years ago. 440 CI, 4 barrel carb. That car moved fast quite comfortably.
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Remsen,
I really hate to tell you what we call them cars down here. It’s just so stereotypical 🙁 Racist Mobile ??? 😁
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Big pimpin'!
Back when my brother and I were both in college we had a 1977 Olds Toronado. Local dealer got it in on trade, one owner, town doctor's car.
Big block cruiser.
Jesus we went through 9 lives in that thing! That the big FWD model? Think about how many of those 500CID Cadillacs and 460CID Lincoln’s never has the “go” pedal pushers deeper than 1/4 throttle ‘cause grandma Owned them…… My grandma had a ‘76 Lincoln w/460. I remember dad taking us for a ride and getting it over 100MPH. It was “floaty”. Best to not have to turn or stop in a hurry.
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Big pimpin'!
Back when my brother and I were both in college we had a 1977 Olds Toronado. Local dealer got it in on trade, one owner, town doctor's car.
Big block cruiser.
Jesus we went through 9 lives in that thing! That the big FWD model? Think about how many of those 500CID Cadillacs and 460CID Lincoln’s never has the “go” pedal pushers deeper than 1/4 throttle ‘cause grandma Owned them…… My grandma had a ‘76 Lincoln w/460. I remember dad taking us for a ride and getting it over 100MPH. It was “floaty”. Best to not have to turn or stop in a hurry. Floaty is the best word to describe them.
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My second car was 74 ElDorado. 500 engine/front wheel drive. I-40 had 12-14" of powder snow on it, and I drove 3 of us back home, from college. I was the fastest car on the road, by far.....while kicking up a huge plume of snow, behind us. Rock solid.
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Pop had a Blue '67 4 door 225 with the 455 engine. It would eat the road up and do it in style. It kind of floated.
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My grandmother gave my daughter her '74 Montego, with the 400 ci engine, back ~ 2000. Car had just under 36K miles on it. Had to have the heads worked on, so she could drive it back and forth to NMMI. She never put a lot of mileage on it. Daughter is keeping it to restore. Needs a new vinyl top, upholstery redo, and mostly some small things.
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I miss big cars in general. Like going down the highway on a couch.
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I miss big cars in general. Like going down the highway on a couch. This+1
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I still remember my dad's '67 Toronado. My neighbor had one. I enjoyed watching that neat speedometer.
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I visited with my neighbor yesterday and he shows me a DeLorean DMC-12 project. Interesting, but not my cup of tea. I need to do some more stalking. Car show season is just kicking off here.
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Remsen,
I really hate to tell you what we call them cars down here. It’s just so stereotypical 🙁 Racist Mobile ??? 😁 Nope,,,, Jew canoe
Founder Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison? And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools, Being native burghers of this desert city, Should in their own confines with forked heads Have their round haunches gored."
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Remsen,
I really hate to tell you what we call them cars down here. It’s just so stereotypical 🙁 Racist Mobile ??? 😁 Nope,,,, Jew canoe Lol
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Remsen,
I really hate to tell you what we call them cars down here. It’s just so stereotypical 🙁 Racist Mobile ??? 😁 Nope,,,, Jew canoe That's goin back some. Dang I miss the racial jokes of the 70's.
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My buddy had an olds with a 455, he out ran the Cops, things were going good until he ran out of fuel. Cop pulls up beside him LOL.
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A good friend of the family was a big car guy in the 70s. He was a professional truck driver, and got hit by a train at a street with faulty crossing bars. He spent the remainder of his life as a paraplegic.
So he needed large entry doors, and he liked big engines. A 66 Toronado. then a 71 El Dorado, and then another Toronado, this one a '73 with dual square head lights out front of that Olds 455. All of which were a sheer pleasure to ride in. I still love the lines of the 66 Toranado.
One of my Aunts drove a pilot car to accompany mobile home transporters across the country in the early 70s. Her pilot car? A 1971 Buick Skylark GS Stage 1 with the high output 450 HP Stage One Buick 455 and Ram Air.
That one ended up on blocks for about ten years needing the turbo 400 rebuilt. Finally it was sold. The buyer got T-boned towing it through the nearest intersection on the state hiway.
My kids knew that I always lusted for a 71 Riviera. When my son was a Senior in High School,(about 2000) he found an old baby blue junker 71 sitting on the back of a used car lot for $400. Between him, his little sister, and his Momma they scraped together the money and towed it home.
It needed the engine rebuilt, the tranny rebuilt, the vinyl top replaced, and the entire interior redone, as well as the trunk floor and rear fenders were rusted through.
I had it about ten years before the price of recycle metal got high enough to recover the kids $400 selling the old car by the ton.
One of my favorite cars was my Mom's 71 Impala Custom two door. I used to drive it to work in '77. It had the convex rear window and ventilated trunk lid a la Chevy Corvair. Just a 400 CID SBC with a Turbo 400 and new radials. But the old girl sure drove nicely.
Then the economics of transportation hit me in the face. I bought my first car, a 71 Toyota Celica, I have been driving 100 HP 4 cylinder cars ever since unless I needed to use my HD pickup.
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...of really well preserved/restored late 60s/early 70s American cars, especially the big GM ones (I generally hate GMs, but they ruled in this era). I came across this beaut tonight...all 8.2 liters of American V8. I wouldn't want to own one, but I sure like these cars. I think this is a 1970 or so Eldorado. If it had been a 1971 Riviera, I'd have spent more time drooling. My wife and I saw one of those yesterday afternoon except it was painted bright, metallic purple with those huge wheels. Pimpmobile to the extreme. 😳
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Piss on the economics of transportation. One of the thrills in life is high horsepower cars or trucks. Gotta live a little before ya die. I’m gonna be 70 tears old this November. I bought a new 2018 Challenger Scatpak. 485 horse and I know for a fact it’s goes faster than 165. Miles per hr. Edk
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