Raymond Loewy designed so many things............The PRR T1 steam engine above, the paint scheme for Air Force One, and the Studebaker Avanti to name a few.
Crazy way cool, love this!
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Crazy way cool, love this!
This should be the ritual for The Club.
As @kat888 put it, naked on the horse with a sign over your head, "Big Angry Piano".
As @kat888 put it, naked on the horse with a sign over your head, "Big Angry Piano".
And noted in the police report.
And noted in the police report.
Gladly be arrested for that.
High risk high reward, do it for the club.
Dude that right there is a show stopper, Im not sure I would notice a Dallas Cowboy chearleader if she was near that machine.
Ok, i've gone a bit to far, good night.
Nice. My bro's was a a dark copper color.
Well, the Javeline is probably the worst handing "muscle car " in history. It looked ok, but it wasn't much more than a decent looking body on a vintage, poor handling platform. I will say though, that blue color in the pic is pretty nice.
All of my Volvos were over 200 k on the clock when I parted with them. The 544 was a beast. I sold it to a vintage collector. As a college kid, I just couldn't afford to keep it.
I also owned an '85 244 that I sold to a friend in '94 whose daughter totaled it shortly thereafter. It saved her life. That was the last car I owned that I could do everything on myself. Massive engine compartment with a 2.3 liter engine. Manual 4 speed with overdrive. Great mileage. Very nice, basic, utilitarian transportation. At times I wish I still had it.
The '87 turbo wagon was awesome. All I ever had to do was keep clean oil and coolant in it, do brakes occasionally, and replace the turbo around 110k. All in all, the cheapest car to maintain I ever owned. I sold it in '98 to a local college kid who wanted it to carry her drum set. Even though she was a drummer, I gave her a break on the price.
The 94' 945 turbo wagon...well..not so pleasant an experience once my teenage son started driving it. Ended up going to Goodwill in '11. Not a bad car, but it had issues.
My 2000 S80 was very nice. But it cost a fortune to maintain; mostly due to the fancy suspension system and other electronics. Finally parted with it a few months ago with 240+k on it. My son totaled it...
Volvos are still great cars. Unfortunately, they've priced themselves out of the middle class market. The company survived being bought and sold by Ford. That in and of itself was an accomplishment. Ford raped it of all its cash and then set it adrift. It is now owned by the Chinese Gili Automotive, which seems to be letting the company forge its own destiny. Unfortunately, I'm afraid it's too late for them to become a world class autommaker again.
Subaru has stepped in and has become the darling of the foul weather/all wheel drive, basic, safe transportation market at a reasonable price. I'll probably keep driving Subies until they put me in the home.
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I hate Volvos. In 1998 my 14 month-old BMW got totaled by one, with me in it.
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And noted in the police report.
It's all fun and games until that body cavity search.
Depends who’s doing it I suppose. ;-)It's all fun and games until that body cavity search.
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The history of big (car) business... Subaru's took over their utilitarian selling point and Prius's took over their owner type.
(as in the slow over-cautious driver)
I love the idea of a Prius, but if I can’t have a manual tranny, GTFO.The history of big (car) business... Subaru's took over their utilitarian selling point and Prius's took over their owner type.
I'm so glad someone is keeping the mid-sixties MOPAR spirit alive. The development of the hemi during that period was historic. Even your 383, which was essentially a bored out small block dating back to the Desotos and Imperials, was a solid engine; far superior to the Ford and oil gulping GM offerings at the time. Heck, most of the early Mustangs that were sold in that era were basically 6 cylinder Falcons.
And I actually liked the looks of the first gen Chargers. Maybe because we had one in the family, but I thought it was a cool car. Call me crazy...
They can be temperamental until the strings settle in. About four weeks. At least the Goth was. Never had an issue with my Gibson.
I'm bummed! I have a pile of pics of my Dad's '55 Ford Customline, but I can't find 'em anywhere
He bought it shortly before he retired, and got to enjoy working on it until he died. He found it down in Texas. The sun had it's way with it, but there was no rust, it was all original, and the motor would turn. He worked hard to get it back to 100%, but never quite got there before he passed. He did get to enjoy driving it to shows & stuff though.
Hey Fix.
My grandmother had a blue '56 Customline. She moved in with us in '72. I got my license in '74. That car was the car our oldies band used in all our promo fliers. We parked it out front of where we were gigging with signs on it. Think of the American Graffiti craze at that time. Cool enough looking car, but it wasn't a Chevy. Frankly, it was a POS with a small block V8 and two speed automatic. Brakes were terrible. Couldn't stop unless you slowed and started braking 100s of feet ahead of time. But it was really cool to cruise the Main Street of my home town in it. And the trunk was HUGE. I'm talking five or six people sneaking into the drive-in huge. Yep, small town, drive- in movie on Friday or Saturday, depending on when the dances were, and when we could score a keg. Good times.
I wish we had a place like that in the seventies. Maybe I could have made it as a bassist and gone on to fame and fortune. Or not. Anyway, very cool your kids are into it.
