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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #25 on: November 15, 2010, 06:06:57 PM »
I got behind a convertible PT Cruiser today.   What a ridiculous looking car.  It looked like a short fat man with his pants pulled up to his chest.
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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #26 on: November 17, 2010, 03:36:54 PM »



 :drool:
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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #27 on: November 17, 2010, 04:07:45 PM »



 :drool:

That looks like a Jeep and a Hummer had a kid.

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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #28 on: November 17, 2010, 04:10:28 PM »
Looks like one of those Scion boxes got raped by an H3. :gay:
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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #29 on: November 17, 2010, 04:14:47 PM »
Looks like one of those Scion boxes got raped by an H3. :gay:

The early Broncos were boxy like that. Ya'll wouldn't get that?  :mental:



Those Scions are punk.
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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #30 on: November 17, 2010, 04:21:07 PM »
The early Broncos were boxy like that. Ya'll wouldn't get that?  :mental:



Those Scions are punk.
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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #31 on: November 17, 2010, 04:22:01 PM »
The early Broncos were boxy like that. Ya'll wouldn't get that?  :mental:



Those Scions are punk.

Was that when they first copied Jeeps?  :-)

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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #32 on: November 17, 2010, 04:22:22 PM »
Nice Bronco yours? I used to always want one.

No, just a pic to illustrate the original design schemes for the Ford Bronco.
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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #33 on: November 17, 2010, 04:28:16 PM »
Was that when they first copied Jeeps?  :-)

Eh, every U.S. auto could be called a "copy" of the Duryea brothers' car.
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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #34 on: December 11, 2010, 12:14:40 PM »
1987 Buick Regal GNX


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Buick Regal GNX: Hell on wheels, but not for sale

The sinister-looking black coupe sits in a corner of the showroom floor, oozing macho and muscle. Square headlights. Evil sneer for a grille. Six cylinders of turbocharged fury.

If Darth Vader drove a car, this is what you might find in his garage.

This new car is 23 years old. It's a Buick Regal GNX, and in 1987 car enthusiasts including celebrity collectors Reggie Jackson, Burt Reynolds and Sylvester Stallone snapped them up.

This menacing Buick — one of only about 500 — still sports its original $29,389 sticker on the window. Experts say it could sell at auction for north of $120,000, especially since most of its surviving siblings have many more miles of rough roads under their fenders.
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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #35 on: December 11, 2010, 01:43:08 PM »
1987 Buick Regal GNX

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I would be willing to grow a mullet and pull out several of my own teeth to look the part to drive that beast, if someone bought that for me. 


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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #36 on: December 11, 2010, 01:46:14 PM »
The last guy I knew that drove an Olds Cutlass was mostly bald by his 18th birthday and was still sporting a ponytail.  The carburetor on his car would catch on fire regularly and it overheated on a daily basis.
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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #37 on: December 11, 2010, 01:53:37 PM »
The last guy I knew that drove an Olds Cutlass was mostly bald by his 18th birthday and was still sporting a ponytail.  The carburetor on his car would catch on fire regularly and it overheated on a daily basis.

 :lmao: :rotf:

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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #38 on: December 11, 2010, 01:56:32 PM »
:lmao: :rotf:

The odd thing is, I'm sure it's a true story!

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It was one of my brother's trashy friends.  He sold the Cutlass and wound up with a Ford EXP with no muffler on it.  I think I saw his name in an arrest record in the newspaper about ten years ago, but I haven't heard of him since then.
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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #39 on: December 11, 2010, 02:08:11 PM »
It was one of my brother's trashy friends.  He sold the Cutlass and wound up with a Ford EXP with no muffler on it.  I think I saw his name in an arrest record in the newspaper about ten years ago, but I haven't heard of him since then.

Probably because he's still in jail?  :rotf:
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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #40 on: December 11, 2010, 03:11:47 PM »
The last guy I knew that drove an Olds Cutlass was mostly bald by his 18th birthday and was still sporting a ponytail.  The carburetor on his car would catch on fire regularly and it overheated on a daily basis.

That's probably because he was a moron and didn't know how to tune a Quadrajet....... As far as overheating, he probably didn't have sense enough to get a new radiator....
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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #41 on: December 11, 2010, 03:12:35 PM »
It was one of my brother's trashy friends.  He sold the Cutlass and wound up with a Ford EXP with no muffler on it.  I think I saw his name in an arrest record in the newspaper about ten years ago, but I haven't heard of him since then.
Proof that my last post was fairly accurate......  :tongue:
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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #42 on: December 11, 2010, 03:16:41 PM »
I definitely won't argue with your reasoning.  :rotf:
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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #43 on: December 11, 2010, 03:32:22 PM »
That's probably because he was a moron and didn't know how to tune a Quadrajet.......
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I ignored scads of people telling me to dump the Quad on my 66 Toronado. 

Once I got around to getting her squared up, I found it no harder than setting up a pair of SU carbs.  Oddly enough, SU carbs have the same reputation of being manufactured using the dark arts.

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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #44 on: December 11, 2010, 05:52:26 PM »
With  the proper metering rods and some knowledge QJets are awesome!! The only carb I would consider other than a QJet is an Edelbrock carb (for American Muscle) I've tried Thermoquads & Holleys. Holleys leak. Thermoquads are pretty much a QJet knock off and don't work any better than a QJet. It got to the point where I used to be able to rebuild a QJet in a half an hour. Tweaking was only a few minutes.
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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #45 on: December 11, 2010, 07:03:51 PM »
:cheersmate:

I ignored scads of people telling me to dump the Quad on my 66 Toronado. 

Once I got around to getting her squared up, I found it no harder than setting up a pair of SU carbs.  Oddly enough, SU carbs have the same reputation of being manufactured using the dark arts.

The most "fun" I've had with carbs was tuning old British cars with side-draft Webers, and then along came the original Corvette which had THREE side-draft Rochesters.......I still have the manometers needed to tune those puppies.  It should probably be in a museum.

When it comes to conventional four-barrels, I'm an AFB fan.....great carb, easy to tune, and had interchangable venturi up to 2-1/2 inches.  A pair of those maxed out on a ram/log intake system, and you could hear them talking to you a half mile away.

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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #46 on: December 11, 2010, 07:25:01 PM »
1987 Buick Regal GNX
:drool: :drool:
One of the fastest production cars of it's time. And it's a V6! :-)
Did I mention a turbo'd V6? :naughty:

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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #47 on: December 11, 2010, 07:43:08 PM »
:drool: :drool:
One of the fastest production cars of it's time. And it's a V6! :-)
Did I mention a turbo'd V6? :naughty:

Granted it was a clever design, and with some semi-major tweaks, its engine could dyno out at about 700 bhp, but fastest production car of its time.....I'd have to argue with that........fastest in its price/weight class, maybe.

It suffered from the intrinsic problem that all V-6 engines have, vibration and durability at high power outputs, unfortunately though they do  go fast, they don't tend to live very long.

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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #48 on: December 12, 2010, 09:04:25 PM »
Granted it was a clever design, and with some semi-major tweaks, its engine could dyno out at about 700 bhp, but fastest production car of its time.....I'd have to argue with that........fastest in its price/weight class, maybe.
It suffered from the intrinsic problem that all V-6 engines have, vibration and durability at high power outputs, unfortunately though they do  go fast, they don't tend to live very long.
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I had the pleasure of test driving one a long while ago. Not a GNX, but a GN, no doubt. Very nice indeed.
One of my friends at the time worked for this dude that was pretty well off and owned a GN and 2 GNX Buicks. The GN he drove here and there and he drove on the GNX's one in a while. The other GNX he had stored away. He also had a couple of 1966 Buick Grand Sport's with the "nail head" engines. (He was a big Buick fan.)

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Re: Car of the Day
« Reply #49 on: December 13, 2010, 07:10:39 AM »
Saw this posted about a year ago.  Always liked the looks of this one of a kind.  Had two of the three cars used - a 57 Chevy and a 59 Chevy.






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