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All I know is theywere sourced out of Australia. No idea what, if anything, they were based on. Never drove one (don't think I ever even sat in one), but I don't think they were anything special, but seems like could be some cheap fresh air (if you can get parts of course). What is that clunker? Looks like a Lt. Columbo Peugeut
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Replying to: stickguy (Jul 16, 2009 4:58 am)  He didn't like it, and it wasn't all that reliable, so he ditched it for the Capri. Eventually, I think he settled on something he really liked...a 1972 Corvette. Red, 350 small block, and IIRC, it had the targa roof. So it was kinda like having 2/3 of a convertible, I guess. The last time I saw him, 1999 I guess, he still had the Corvette, but I can't remember if he had the Capri or not. I never did get a chance to ride in it. |
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Look at what entered the burnout competition at the Carlisle Mopar Nats this year! I missed it while it was in action, but later that evening, this 5th Ave was parked next to mine. I was pulling the wire hubcaps off my car in preparation for leaving, as I'm sure it would lose them, when a couple guys came up to me and asked me if this was the car from the burnout competition. I didn't know what they were talking about, but then said maybe it was the one next to me? Well, we went over to it, and while he had his good tires back on by that point, you could smell the burnt rubber. And looking at the pic, it looks like he lost a trim piece when the rear tire blew. Too bad I didn't actually see this in action, but I was eating dinner at the time. And ironically, I had always joked about putting my 5th Ave in the burnout competition, but I'm just afraid that I'd shred the transmission! Once the show is over, I still depend on that car to get me the 130 miles back home! |
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Yesterday, on I90 heading west, a pickup was towing a trailer with a car, cream colored, that had "Wasp" logo on trunk and on side. Looked like something from late 40's, 50's.
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when a couple guys came up to me and asked me if this was the car from the burnout competition. Never could understand burnouts, doughnuts by presumably "adults". Can understand mentality (or lack of) teen-age guys laying rubber on streets, rural roads late Friday, Saturday nights. What's with the nascar guys.
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Replying to: xrunner2 (Jul 17, 2009 6:25 am) I'm not into those events either. One that bothers me is taking a good old big-engined car and putting spark plugs in the tailpipes and running rich somehow and igniting the gasoline for backfires. They had a competition for that at a small church cruise-in nearby a couple years ago. I was watching and just thought, "Why?" I'm always most impressed by a car that is really stock down to the hubcaps/beauty rings/ Rally II wheels that the cars came with. Or at most the typical Cragar type aftermarket wheel put on that type of car when it was young. |
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....let's see, '82 Celica GT, low-option, automatic, awful color, but SUPER low miles apparently makes it worth the low-low price of: http://www.autotrader.com/fyc/vdp.jsp?ct=u&car_id=213301844&dealer_id=585851&mod- el=CELICA&style_flag=1&start_year=1981&search_type=both&distance=50&end_year=199- 3&default_sort=priceDESC&address=60651&sort_type=priceDESC&seller_type=b&make=TO- YOTA
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Replying to: ghulet (Jul 17, 2009 7:56 am) |
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....which makes it a shoo-in for several birthdays there, if they're serious. Not to mention the myth that these are 'going up in value'....not that one, it's ALL wrong. And the main draw (the miles) means ya can't drive it (and in Chicago it'd turn into a rust bucket in two years anyway).
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Replying to: ghulet (Jul 17, 2009 8:01 am) |
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