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Replying to: andre1969 (Dec 15, 2008 5:53 pm)
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Replying to: lemko (Dec 18, 2008 4:40 pm) |
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Replying to: andre1969 (Dec 17, 2008 6:41 am) Will you be bringing the Catalina to Macungie? I remember waiting to meet up with you before Macungie last summer expecting you to bring the LeMans. I saw this blue New Yorker R-body coming around the curve and thought, "Oh, cool! Andre will like this! Somebody's bringing an R-body!"
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Replying to: lemko (Dec 18, 2008 5:36 pm)  But, it behaved itself for the rest of the trip, although I lost a hubcap en route! I had an old early 70's Chrysler hubcap lying around that I put on it. Doesn't match, but it's better than nothing. I've been checking eBay every once in awhile for the hubcap I need, but never find it. The Diplomat/LeBaron used a hubcap that was similar, but looks cheaper. As long as it behaves itself, I'll be bringing the Catalina to Macungie, too. After all the money I'm dumping into that thing, I'm going to get some use out of it! Hell, if GM and Chrysler merge before then, I'll drive it to the Mopar Nationals! 
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Replying to: andre1969 (Dec 17, 2008 6:41 am) |
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Replying to: 210delray (Dec 18, 2008 6:40 pm)  That really is a nice color. I never thought a pinkish/purplish color could look so tasteful, but GM found a way to make it work! I wonder if Ford and Mopar had some equivalent to it? It's a shame we missed each other at the GM show this past June, but I think it's kinda cool that you at least got to see my disco era relic! It'll be fun to bring the convertible this time, though. I love my '76 LeMans, but the convertible is just soooo much cooler! Of course, if I bring the convertible, watch it end up raining every blessed day of the 2009 GM show! 
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Replying to: andre1969 (Dec 18, 2008 7:26 pm) |
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Replying to: andre1969 (Dec 18, 2008 7:26 pm)
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Replying to: guss (Dec 20, 2008 7:43 am) Here's a pic I took at that show last year, of a '66 Impala in midnight blue. It's a big pic, too big to actually post here. Imidazol97 showed me how to re-size, but I forgot! 
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but I ran into my mechanic at a Christmas party last night. He had been junkyarding during the day, and said "would you have any interest in a Deuce and a Quarter?" Initially I said no, but I did ask for a few details. It's a 1970, 4-door hardtop, green, still runs, and it would probably go for under $500. It's at the junkyard, but it's in an area where they keep the cars that they just got in, but haven't dismantled yet. I hate to say it, but I'm kinda tempted to go look at it, at least. My mechanic also said that they had in some 80's RWD Mopar, but he's not that familiar with their nuances to know what it was. He tried to describe it to me, saying that it wasn't a police car, but it wasn't a 5th Ave either. It was newer and smaller than my '79 NYers, and it was ugly. He said it was nicer than a 5th Ave. I told him that there isn't anything nicer than a 5th Ave. Well, okay, there's lots nicer than a 5th Ave!  But not in the Mopar M-body lineup! Best I can figure out, it was a Dodge Diplomat S/E. Basically, a Diplomat with a plush interior, and a front-end that looked like the 5th Ave, with the headlights below the turn signals, and a crosshair grille. Years ago, my mechanic rescued this 1959 DeSoto Firesweep wagon from the same junkyard. It's no longer his, but he sold it to a local guy a few years back, and it still pops up at local car shows from time to time.
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