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Replying to: andre1969 (Jun 25, 2009 11:10 am) If you did kill your 5th Ave, you'd have an excuse to go after that primo example with only 4K miles on it somebody posted a few days back!
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Replying to: lemko (Jun 25, 2009 11:40 am) That 4K mile 5th Ave was nice, but I think I'd be afraid of a car that nice and that low mileage! If I ended up killing the transmission in my 5th Ave, I'd probably just get it rebuilt. It's simple enough that it's probably still less than $1000. Now the engine, that might be a different story. But then, if that engine did blow, that would give me a good excuse to put something a little hotter under the hood! 
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jun 25, 2009 7:48 pm) 
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Replying to: lemko (Jun 26, 2009 6:41 am) I have to make one of those. Too bad the kids yawn at cars I try to point out.
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Replying to: fezo (Jun 26, 2009 11:55 am) I'm hanging out at a nearby hotel now, and going back tomorrow morning. It's supposed to be a beautiful day, although pretty hot. We tracked the Catalina's fuel economy coming up. Not too bad actually. 16.8 mpg over 118 miles of mostly highway. Going pretty much with the flow of traffic, around 65 mph. Not too bad for a 400 V-8 I guess. Fezo, how far is Allentown from where you live? There's a car show we always hit the first Saturday in August out that way, in a town called Macungie. I registered the Catalina for that show. Unfortunately, cars have to be at least 25 years old for that show, so Lemko's Brougham has to wait another 5 years.
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jun 26, 2009 2:00 pm) I ended up in the ER. I'd rather have been up checking out the leaky Catalina. I checked out OK. Worried because of headache that could have been related to ministrokes from seven years ago. They weren't. Not a good way to spend your day. I'm about 2-1/2 hours from Allentown. There's a maybe.....
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Replying to: fezo (Jun 27, 2009 6:09 pm) |
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Replying to: fezo (Jun 27, 2009 6:09 pm) I'm back home now, chilling out and trying not to think about going back to work tomorrow. We lucked out and didn't get much more in the way of rain, other than what hit us on Friday. There was just enough sprinkle on Saturday to make me put the top up on the show field. And coming back home today, we ran into a light drizzle. We put the top up at a rest stop when we got back into Maryland, but luckily it didn't rain hard enough to make the car start leaking any more. Depending on how the weather is tomorrow, I might take the Catalina to work, so I can fill up again. I topped off just before coming back home, and I'm curious to see what kind of mileage it got coming back. While we were running back and forth to the hotel, going out to eat, driving around aimlessly, etc, I figure I got around 12.5 mpg, in a mix of local and highway. So again, not too horrible, for a car that size I guess.
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Replying to: andre1969 (Jun 28, 2009 1:40 pm) Grbeck and I had a close call Saturday night on the way home from Carlisle. Some knucklehead in a Buick LaCrosse almost rear-ended the Brougham as we were about to merge onto another road close to his place. It's a tricky merge and you've got to pay attention. No, it was not my girlfriend angry at me for leaving her home all day! Other than that, the Brougham ran flawlessly averaging about 21 MPG for the 263-mile round trip.
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Replying to: lemko (Jun 29, 2009 6:11 am) About the only incident we had was a few drops of rain coming back. Once we got back into Maryland, I pulled off at a rest stop and we put the top up. It didn't amount to much more than a light drizzle. At highway speeds, the air flow probably would have kept it out of the car if I left the top down! I drove the Catalina to work today and filled up. I ended up going around 324 miles total, between driving up there and back, and various running around. Fuel economy came out to around 13.7. Not too hideous I guess. While I was impressed with that 16.8 I hit on the ride up, going back I took a scenic back route that took us over a mountain ridge. Probably not too good for the fuel economy! Plus, the flow of traffic going back was faster than coming up, which no doubt hurt.
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