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Replying to: magnette (May 17, 2008 9:50 am)  Anyway, here's a screen capture of the '59 from "Leave it to Beaver".
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Replying to: andys120 (May 17, 2008 11:30 am)  i think i saw this car at the henry one time i was there:  it still had the after race tar, etc... on it! |
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| In the hot weather today I saw a few oddballs. A 57 Ford wagon, blue and white. A 64-65 Chevelle Malibu 2 door HT, dark red, in the garage of my building. A very nice late 60s Porsche 911, in silver rather than the usual red. A Triumph TR6, and earlier in the day I saw a black late 40s Triumph 2000 roadster on a trailer. And for a while in light traffic I drove behind a dark green MG-TD. Of course the brake lights didn't work (along with the rest of the electrics I am sure) and the driver used hand signals when turning. | |
I spotted another rarity today, a '65 or '66 Falcon Ranchero, high-line model evidently, it looked to have extra chrome along the sides.
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Replying to: andys120 (May 17, 2008 6:54 pm)  Maybe a 100? Also, the professional athlete who lives by me is back for the summer. Looks like he traded his white Bentley GT for a black GT convertible. |
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on a trip from Philly to Newburgh, NY. These were all on some sort of highway: '69 AMC AMX. Looked nicely restored 1960's vintage P1800 Volvo (Red - and I won't give up the P, since the guy I know that is president of the Volvo club and owns 2 siad he uses it!) Local road, a 68ish Ford (maybe a Fairlane?) 2 door, fastback style. COulda been the Mercury version, but it wasn't too close. Not seen, but I found out the my former BIL is in the process of restoring a 1965 Corvair Monza. Not something you see everyday either. Oh, and in a local pub parking lot Friday, a Ford Dually pickup. With huge chome whells (dubs, or what ever size they actually are) with rubber band tires. Even on the duallys. made very little sense. |
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http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/wayoflife/05/20/geo.metro/index.html
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (May 20, 2008 1:22 pm) IIRC, it's really only the cheapest of the cheap...the 1.0 3cyl/stick models that get good fuel economy. By the time you got up to the 1.3 4-cyl/automatic version, your fuel economy was down to something like 30/34...and that's before the EPA revised their estimates downward for 2007/2008! So in reality, an Accord, Camry, or Altima would match it on the highway. Even a bigger car, like an Impala, or a LeSabre with the 3.8, would come close.
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Replying to: andre1969 (May 20, 2008 1:29 pm)
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Replying to: lemmer (May 20, 2008 1:38 pm)
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