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17968 messages, Last post on Nov 30, 2009 at 6:45 AM
You are in the Classic Cars Forum. Your Host is mr_shiftright
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swiss cheese pontiac
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Replying to: fintail (Jan 02, 2009 6:25 pm) 1. The nicest car the family ever owned... it had a very luxurious interior - to the point of having a pair crystal flower holders. 2. It was silent.... my grandfather loved to sneak up behind people who were walking along (not always family!) and blow the horn. 3. It was incredibly powerful... my grandmother once drove it home with the parking brake on and never noticed. She got caught when my grandfather happened to look out the window and notice her coming up the drive - with smoke billowing from every wheel!. 4. Aluminum body work. My grandfather always claimed some sort of plot by the steel companies stopped car companies from producing aluminum cars after the Marmon. I don't know what model it was - My memory says was one of the Marmon Sixteen's but it was probably a Marmon Big 8. http://auto.howstuffworks.com/marmon-cars2.htm My sister, 1200 miles away) has all the old family photo's - I'll see if I can get her into nostalgia mode deep enough to look for old car pictures! (Wish me luck). The pciture below is a 1930 Big 8 
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Man, talk about "off-topic". 
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Replying to: andys120 (Jan 03, 2009 8:17 am) Shifty the Host |
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Replying to: explorerx4 (Jan 03, 2009 6:30 am)
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Replying to: texases (Jan 03, 2009 10:27 am) finding a picture of the chassis was the only thing i was looking for. 
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jan 03, 2009 4:30 am) Chevy priced the '82-model Cavalier and Celebrity, for what they were, way too high. In '83 both were reduced in MSRP and content added (and in the case of the Cavalier, the engine bumped from 1.8L to 2.0L). Later on, say '84 and later, both lines were strong sellers. Bill |
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Replying to: Mr_Shiftright (Jan 02, 2009 6:49 pm) Heck, if I could get that thing for $100, I'd snatch it up in a heartbeat! FWIW it's up to $2700 now. It's actually been on eBay for what seems like forever now. It'll usually bid up to $6-7K or more, but never hit the reserve, so then just gets re-listed. You'd think that the seller would figure out that it ain't going any higher...he might as well just bite the bullet and sell it while he can, rather than being doomed to repeating history.
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jan 03, 2009 4:30 am) The car was a tinny mess with wafer-thin doors and seats and a finish with such bad orange peel, the car should've been stamped "Sunkist!" It had a gutless 4-cylinder engine and a weird dashboard where ll the instruments were crammed into this skinny deep-recessed slot. Ads proclaiming the Celebrity as Chevrolet's new direction frightened me more than anything Stephen King could pen! |
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