I spotted an (insert obscure car name here) classic car today!

Replying to: fintail (Nov 14, 2008 6:29 pm)

sold them on ebay when I was in college, as cash appealed more than old paper. I also had a few boxes of 70s and 80s examples which my mom sold at a garage sale when I was in school.
 
Oh great, that makes me feel old...I didn't even know what the internet was when I was in college! And on a similar note, my roommate was talking about going trick-or-treating as a kid, and his best friend's Mom taking them around in her minivan. The minivan hadn't even been invented until after I got too old for trick-or-treating!

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It's a Duesie! But a re-bodied one (most of them are actually). Coming from harrah's will help the price but people who buy these cars will check every fact you post, in triplicate, and roast you alive if you're lying.
 
51 Hudson -- what a bizarre creation and what a terrible thing to do to a nice Hudson. Ah, well, it's different!
 
Daimler Century -- forget England...drop it in the ocean on the way over. Hideous!
 
74 Opel -- "not many of these left" -- well that's comforting.
 
60 Lancia -- save every pre-Fiat Lancia, please! I love these cars, they are such little jewels of craftsmanship back in the day.
 
 A 1980 toyota celica "Grand Prix Limited Edition"? Well that just rendered those words meaningless....
 
1912 Cadillac -- you gotta love it. The car that single-handedly sunk steam and electric cars overnight, and for 100 years to come. Significant car. Self-starter and battery/coil/breaker point ignition is introduced to the world!
 
Supercharged '78 Seville-- just shoot me now.
 
Hybrid UNIMOG -- Go, California!
 
 '78 Buick Le Sabre for $2,700? Yer pushin' it, but you might get that. Not on most people's radar and never will be in our lifetimes. The beginning of the End Times for GM.
 
57 Pontiac Fuelie Bonneville convertible --- *very* rare and I'm sure *very* pricey car. The top of Everest for the Pontiac collector. GTOs are chicken feed compared to this. (presuming it's real...ahem...)

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Replying to: fintail (Nov 14, 2008 6:35 pm)

The write-up for that '79 5th Ave amuses me "Extremely rare limited edition". Umm, right. On any given day, if there's only one Mopar R-body on eBay, it's a '79 5th Ave. The car looks like it's in pretty nice shape, looks like it's in better shape than my 5th Ave. Actually, if I had any sense, I'd buy that one and then either unload mine, or just keep it around for parts. But I've had mine for 7 years now, and kinda got attached to it.
 
The 5th Ave is the most upscale of the Mopar R-body, but unfortunately it only came in that two-tone creme for 1979. They sold about 15,000 of them in 1979, which was the most popular year. They did offer additional colors for either 1980 or 1981, but they also only sold a pittance compared to 1979. I think the 1980 New Yorker as a whole only moved about 13,000 units, while the 1981 was down to around 5-7,000. So needless to say, if you really have your heart set on a 5th Ave, be prepared to settle for the 2-tone creme!
 
Even thought it's a cheaper car, I'm just as happy with my "Nightwatch" blue base NYer, because I like its color scheme better. I'd really love to find one of these beasts in the 2-tone green they offered. I imagine that would be rare, especially one in primo condition.
 
That '78 New Yorker is a nice looking car, in that dove gray. But by this time I think I prefer the 4-door, which was a real hardtop. You could still get a true hardtop coupe, but that padded roof/opera-window mess was an extra-cost option, so most of them came that way.
 
That '75 Monaco copcar is way cool. I'd have fun with something like that!
 
I'd be all over that '78 LeSabre coupe if it had a 350 or 403. But I'm still leery of the Pontiac 301.

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Replying to: andre1969 (Nov 14, 2008 6:40 pm)

It's funny, I am only 8 years younger than you (I think)...and it's hard for me to remember a time before minivans. I have car memories before 1984, but not as obsessive as after that time. My earliest showroom memory is looking at a Renault Fuego...that might have warped me into the mess you see today
 
I didn't know that about the 5th Ave color schemes...guess I will never have one of those! I am really not a fan of whitish and beigeish color schemes, and I am very attracted to blue/grey/silver and variants. I'll admit that the factor that made me stop and look at my current car when it was for sale is that I had never seen one in that color (grey).

Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Nov 14, 2008 6:53 pm)

In the little town where my mother lives, someone has a 57 Pontiac fuelie convertible...but when the car was young, something went wrong with the engine and a normal carbed unit was installed
 
Regading the Unimog...GM isn't exactly the most efficient organization, and am sure that homebuilt machine has some quirks.

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