Comments by "Roger Smith" (@rogersmith7396) on "Ed's Auto Reviews" channel.

  1. You can never have enough brougham.
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  2. Its a new move back to traditional luxury. Recaro seats are a bitch in a daily driver.
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  3. They say he managed to screw up the Air Force and Navy too. I met his sister once.
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  4. You mean KISS.
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  5. In the 50s Cadillac was seen as a superior car to the Rolls and there was not a lot of price seperating them.
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  6. Cotton resin fender flares would look good. Maybe a cotton chin spoiler.
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  7. My dentist had a Murkur. He told me how much it cost. I was appalled. I had to bite my tongue to not tell him what a POS it was.
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  8. I've got my "Happy, Happy, Joy Joy" on order from China now. Of course its the XLGLTDSTurbo ExtremeLuxo 2000 Brougham Cabriolet Model. I'm no fool.
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  9.  @andrewallen9993  You have never owned a British car have you. They were offering ancient technology right into the 90s. They are happy to sell you complete crap for high prices. I assume the 50s Rolls would run more or less most of the time but their squirrly air over fluid truck braking system was always a problem. The modern Rolls are absolute mechanical nightmares. And remember the Lincoln Mks were available in the 50s. Very high priced. People who buy these prestige cars now expect to pay a fortune to keep them running. Otherwise they would buy Toyotas. Rolls and others have completely lost the thread of what quality means.
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  10.  @k.c.slawncare6046  Well not really a 60s band but the makeup and costumes and general lack of talent reminds me of GM. If you get technical maybe the Rolling Stones.
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  11. He shows a keen appreciation of spending silly amounts of money on completely un necessary things. Must be American.
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  12. Learn to speak Chinese.
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  13. Rented a VW Polo in England, it was smaller than any VW sent to the US. Found streets with parking where the mirrors barely cleared the parked cars on both sides. At that time Saab 900 cs were the big family car in England. They completely filled the parking spaces.
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  14. Get her a thick seat cushion.
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  15. They should make him wear a sombrero while at work.
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  16. The 1960 T Bird was a beauty.
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  17. The Olds Vista Cruiser is legendary. That 70s show was built around it. Windows in the roof Ooo la la!
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  18. Its a company run by marketing and they are poor at their jobs. People are not fooled.
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  19. GM killed Saab when it sold in the 100,000 range. Buick is already dead. GM will probably be wanting another bailout.
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  20. Chevrolet Chevette Brougham. AMC Gremlin Brougham. Ford Maverick Brougham.
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  21. Exner was thrown out of Chrysler in the early 60s. Within 5 years the forward look was an embarrassment. He would'nt quit.
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  22.  @bobjohnson1587  Forward look made him a star. He may have legitimately thought it was great. But looks changed often to juice sales so it was out dated a few years later. I always thought the 67 Charger was hideous then the 69 was stunning. Same for the Barracuda. Go with good looking not silly. And part of it was Chrysler mistakenly thought downsizing was going to rule the industry when GM and Ford actually went bigger. They screwed up. Its interesting how companies actually competed and worried about sales. Not like now. They worry about stock price.
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  23. They would crush like an egg shell. At least the kiddies could watch Sponge Bob on the way to the wreck. The Chevy Astro was known for splitting in half behind the engine compartment.
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  24. I'd buy one. Or a Simoroon.
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  25.  @h.mandelene3279  As said the British car industry was stuck in the 20s and 30s due to lack of funds. The American car industry had unlimited funding. Yeah I thought Rolls used GM automatics for many years.
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  26. I heard their sales have been in free fall for years and there was talk of discontinuing the brand.
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  27.  Kirk Wolfe  I see fools with heavy pickups who think they have Ferraris.
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  28.  @MaximilianvonPinneberg  I'm there. Send me two. People try to correct his pronunciation but he evidently feels we are all wrong. There have been movies named Cimaron. Haleys Comet. Its not like the correct pronunciation is a secret or something. I have been to Holland. They speak English pretty good. Especially the hookers and drug dealers.
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  29. European cars were crap until the 1970s. Fiats and BLMC cars were crap longer than that. Not a whole lot of people lined up to buy BMW Isettas. The early Hondas and Toyotas were crap too. It was the oil crisis which forced Americans and I say forced them into small foreign cars. Why does everyone buy 6000 pound pickups and SUV? Its because thats as close to a land yacht as they can get today. The Foreigners all make land yacht trucks too.
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  30. And the Plymouth vans and K cars were CHEAP!
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  31. A great Pimpmobile.
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  32.  @turnne  The Fiero was said to be about 90% great then they cheaped out.
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  33.  @sirloin4372  You said no one likes them not me.
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  34. They called the P 47 "the Jug". I could see a car named Jugs.
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  35. I think a big vacume tube on the front of the car would be good.
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  36. Cleveland beats Windsor.
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  37. I follow reviews from Austrailia. Its said if you park a Chinese car too close to the ocean it will rust away before your eyes.
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  38. They were still a low volume production car. I have a 70 Eldorado and they made about 24,000 of those. They make a lot more new Corvettes.
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  39. I think Tuckers grandson has a Youtube channel and is a wealth of information on the car and restores them.
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  40.  @creamwobbly  Don't forget the Aztek.
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  41. I would buy a car named "Shaft" any day.
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  42.  @derp195  Its just another dumb truck/pimpmobile. Cadillacs are designed for low IQ high bank account types.
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  43. I had an operating toy amphicar as a kid. Our next door neighbor drove over it. I never talked to him again. Which was OK byhim. There is a business in FL. that has several amphicars and takes people out on a lake. Adam the Woo did one. They have bilge pump and the door seals must be perfect. Easily swamped.
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  44. Its the floor delete option. Much faster.
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  45.  @jimjamauto  Mass baby, mass.
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  46.  @kevinbarry71  Lots of people killed in transit buses. Usually big fiery deaths.
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  47.  @jimjamauto  Well we always hoped Dorthy the driver would get it first. She was a real piece of work. This was when adults could beat the shit out of a strangers kids.
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  48.  @robbchastain3036  The only problem with the corvair was the independent rear suspension which could tuck in on very hard cornering. This was very common on imports IRS at the time. There were very few accidents attributable to this. It was usually a low speed phenomina. Nadars main problem was it was a small car. As many now think big heavy cars are safer in collisions. Premium foreign manufacturers have laid that myth to rest. My dad used Corvairs in his business and bought several all the way through the production run. The Corvair was a big success for GM and they made them for almost 10 years. The later ones were a lot better looking than the early ones. They made vans, pickup trucks, station wagons and others. There is a van close to me. Used to know a guy who had all the models. The van was kind of like a VW bus. Leno has a pickup where the entire bed side folds down. As an aside, people think the AMC Pacer was a bomb. Actually for the first two years they sold all they could make. Pintos, Vegas, and Chevettes were quite popular too. The Corvair was a very ambitious project for GM, almost a Porshe. Designed to compete with German air cooled cars. Yenkos are of course very valuable.
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  49.  @murphman76  I see one maybe once a year. I see more Teslas and I live in the sticks.
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  50. Prius huh?
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  51. He should have bought the Family Truckster. " You think you hate it now but wait til you drive it".
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  52. Not.
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  53.  @andrewallen9993  Always wanted a 2 door Jag with manual. Saw one in England. Wanted dark red. For a while MB was making biodegradable wire. Those are disasters. I think they quit doing that. I have a GM Saab that has miserable wire. No chasis ground, too small a wire diameter. It probably barely worked when new. Add rust and you never know what will work on a given day. 18 wires ran to a bolt on the firewall which was a ball of rust. Cleaned that up and it helped. My TR 6 had copper wire connected to aluminium fittings. Always corrosion shorts. Cut out the clips and soldered the wire to the fittings. Solved that problem. Oil under it, oil in it. Hoovies Garage says those diesels always leak. The Yanmar in my boat was clean.
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  54. My grandmother had like a 61 Lincoln with roll down rear window. We could about get onto the trunk lid on the freeway. Never seemed very safe.
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  55. Corvairs actually sold very well and were made through the 60s. The rear suspension was changed after 2 years. It was a common type on many cars. I think Nader criticized small cars as unsafe in crashes thus leading to the still current fetish for big gas hogs. You missed the opportunity to show Corvair vans and pickups and station wagons and all the models. My dad drove Corvairs as company cars for many years as did his employees.
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  56. And before Taylor Swift gave prestigeous college commencement speeches about her genius. Oh my God, this country is so screwed.
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  57. You missed Mr. T and the A Team.
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  58. Knew a guy who bought the Chrysler van with every option. Nothing worked right. Don't know what he did with it.
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  59. Hey I live in Versailes. You pronounced it exactly right!
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  60. Most people.
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  61. As the resale is poor there is a used market for some Cads. Its like taking over moms town car to drive to school til it dies.
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  62.  @JasonFlorida  I hear most high priced vehicles fall into that category especially German and Italian cars.
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  63. Like how bout today?
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  64. Its an inverse TARDIS. Strickly Timelord stuff.
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  65. Patoo in the trunk.
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  66. The homeless will inhabit them for years to come.
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  67.  @fazole  They were fleet cars along with the Plymouths.
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  68. Ditto US Government. The end is nigh.
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  69.  @emilyadams3228  As long as a young Pamela Anderson comes with it.
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  70. Well done Ed.
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  71. It depends on if you buy the Turbo Ego Boost model.
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  72. Still waiting for the Avanti Ed. Fastest car in the US.
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  73. Studebaker and Packard should have joined AMC.
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  74. I have a 70 Eldorado. Its fast and handles OK.
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  75. How could they do the styling on the T Bird and Continental and come up with this turd?
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  76. Dodge. The name says quality-Al Bundy.
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  77. I see lots of Japanese minivans.
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  78. I have a 70 Eldorado. Its fast and a tank. The gas mileage is no worse than these modern trucks.
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  79. But they think like 80 year olds with money. The people on social security buy Suburbans.
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  80. Please learn how to pronounce Cimaron. You are not even close. And I am rather tolerant of these things.
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  81. Hoovie is a clown show. You watch it for laughs. I personally don't like the guy but hes funny. I believe his 49 Cadillac restomod is his best view getter. He has an unfortunate fetish with Mercedes which can be boring. Cold War Motors show how people without money collect cars.
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  82.  @antjeeismann4684  I had a GT 6. A 74 Caprice rolled right over that thing with me inside.
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  83. Does'nt look like an Avanti.
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  84.  @MaximilianvonPinneberg  Amstel light.
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  85. See Segway.
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  86. They do not want to build low volume cars, there is no money in it. How many times has Roll Royce been in bankruptcy? How about Jaguar, Aston Martin? Did'nt Ferrari get a bailout?
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  87. The old V 16s were top of the mark. I think I like them better than the Duesenbergs.
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  88. It was all of GM. They thought cheap gas would go on forever. Times changed, GM did'nt. Their attempts at change were clumsy.
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  89.  @danielulz1640  I'm still a few years away from my final statement.
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  90. I think Studebaker hung on to the Dictator name until they went out of business in the 60s. Wierd.
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  91. Bye. You should have bought premium cheap skate.
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  92. All American auto makers were highly competitive in the late 50s and 60s. They did'nt want to see any sale get away to the competition. Now none of them gives a hoot. Only stock price and compensation packages matter.
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  93. Yeah, all that rust is making the roads impassable. May need a blade on front to get through the Dodge detrious.
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  94. They get bonuses based on cost saving. 1. Get Chevy truck. 2 Spray paint Cadillac on it. 3. Raise price by $30,000. All done.
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  95.  @welleffitthen  All I remember was it was extremely expensive. Like lower level Mercedes.
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  96. I seem to recall they were fakes.
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  97. But Dutch farts are notoriously powerful.
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  98. We never could.
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  99. You can say penis on YT, just not f you or f off. Important safety tip.
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  100.  @Doshiba  Everyone likes a good hummer.
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  101. Maybe one big fin down the center. Call it the Shark.
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  102. So apparently Holland needs Bobs Big Boy or at least Sonic. No friggen Gouda on the burger please.
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  103.  @mpetersen6  The Prince of Darkness.
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  104.  @MarinCipollina  Ed calls it a smoking window. We kids loved it.
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  105.  @dr.krunkenstein5466  Well I have a 50 year old Cadillac, could be. Not sure how they would look on a McClaren. I do have a functional 8 track and good tapes. Old Chryslers had turntables in the glove box. I have enough problems with CDs skipping on bumps.
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  106.  @brokenursa9986  Unfortunate as my favorite movie is "Mother, Jugs, and Speed".
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  107. Toyotas logo really sucks.
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  108. Basic Life Support. Yep its a Cadillac all right.
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  109. Theres a PT Cruiser here with eyelashes.
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  110. "If you can find a better car, buy it". Hes lucky no one took that seriously. Was a Ford guy.
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  111. GM does'nt want to build low volume cars. Even the Corvette is pretty high volume.
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  112. And how the car behind you does'nt try to hump yours.
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  113.  @chrisfreemesser  A guy I knew with a Toyota van used to drive it like Dan Gurney at the Indy 500. The bumper only being a foot in front of the driver always worried me.
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  114. The Leaf is considered to be the worst EV ever made. Nissan is close to bankruptcy.
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  115. The Ballin 2.0.
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  116. Very few German cars in the US for a long time. Maybe starting in the 80s.
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  117.  @curtcollett2893  And don't actually plan on driving it on those little English roads.
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  118. The car is'nt too big the spaces are too little. At 16 took my driving test in Moms 70 Cadillac Eldorado. I chose this car over dads 66 Mustang as his car did'nt have power steering and brakes and I was worried about parallel parking. Took the test in the Eldo and nailed it. Cars don't get big until they are over 20 feet long. 2 tons, Oh please. Current American trucks are over 3 tons.
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  119. Was the Midget in the trunk?
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  120. Needs to get that wire mesh screen behind the driver like in cop cars. Maybe some sort of sleep gas activated from the drivers seat.
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  121. I think of Eastwood with a Torino. People can think what they want to think. It better be a 426 or a 440. A 426 engine is north of $50,000.
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  122. Its interesting that the Dutch and the Swedes would piss on a new Mercedes in favor of a 59 Caddy. They are so radically different and preposterous to a European car.
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  123. The bounce was fine. The car not so much.
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  124. The GM turbohydramatic 425 on the older Cads and Olds was the best transmission they ever made. It was used on 13,000 GVW motor homes it was so strong. Used to do burnouts with moms 70 Eldo 500 CI.
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  125. How does it compare with a Nash Metropolitan?
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  126. You could have one if battery powered. Call Elon.
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  127. Jay Leno has a vid driving in Francis Ford Coppolas Tucker. It had problems.
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  128. Rolls, Bentley, and Rover are crummy cars which cost a fortune. They are pure prestige. It works in Europe too.
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  129. A true winner.
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  130. If you run out of ideas you can always mine out Mr. Beast who has raised stupidity to an art form.
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  131. You can't strap your kids to the roof of a Civic.
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  132. Gull wings. Maybe in a Lambo.
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  133. But they don't seem to do muscle cars.
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  134. You've never seen curb feelers. What about those black roofs new Mercedes have? Love them?
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  135. Clint Eastwood used to blow them up pretty regularly in his cop movies.
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  136. How come Mercedes don't have vinyl wood on the side. I thought they were supposed to be up market.
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  137. Gm stopped making cheap cars. They priced the Chevys right by Pontiac and Olds. Also nameplate engineering. No body fell for it.
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  138. Well "KIA" always says you bought the wrong car. Maybe they were trying to change that.
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  139.  @turnne  They were put in museums as cutting edge manufacturing. They used Chevette steering and suspension and an old 4 cylinder. GM finally corrected the problems at the end of production but by then no one wanted them. Classic GM. My dad bought an 84 and had few problems until it wore out.
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  140.  @Mountainshields  4 WD was an oddity in 1966.
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  141.  @Mountainshields  Its hubris and an utter contempt for their customers.
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  142. I'm sure the Prince of Monte Carlo has several.
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  143. It was Ace Venturas favorite ride. Never seen a car that knackered still run.
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  144.  @O-plaat  They don't want to send their money out of the country. Americans used to be like that.
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  145. Kitsch. Totally unsophisticated consumers. Like the strip in Vegas. Flashy.
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  146. So while you are monkeing around with all the buttons, who is driving the car? It seems like an infantile play room like a ball pit.
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  147. Lake of the Ozarks here.
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  148. They are good for transporting illegals from Mexico.
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  149.  @theoldmanriverwalk9472  Nope.
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  150. GM needs to get rid of all the legacy styling especially grills and tail lights and start with a blank sheet of paper. Have the Italians design it if needed. There is no point in reminding people they are buying an old design nobody wants.
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  151. I would say the Pontiac logo is an arrow head. So still associated with Chief Pontiac.
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  152. I hear a lot of 5 mpg. Their drivers are leadfoots with no economic sense. Too much sexual compensation. The teeny weeny factor.
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  153. Needs a British butler serving tea.
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  154. It could have joined AMC and lasted through the 70s.
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  155. Whats the price of Gouda canonballs and a dozen tulips? Wooden shoes?
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  156. Merkur was a big flop.
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  157.  J Richter  Until its time to replace the seals.
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  158. Need video of Ed driving the Mk III. Preferrably on the Champs E'lise in rush hour. See one being ripped apart in "The French Connection".
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  159. Pontiac was all rentals when they croaked. Hard for me to believe growing up in the 60s.
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  160. They are the new land yacht. 6000 pounds and 10 mpg. People never change.
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  161. Its designed for shallow people. Sophisicates need not apply.
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  162. I think you are thinking of the Cadillac "Shitmobile". It was bottom line under the "Cheapskate".
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  163. So I have to buy a Cadillac to go with my 80 foot yacht? What about those Hawaian shirts? Can I still listen to the Ramones?
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  164. Yes. Would rather see Johnny Depp as a pirate.
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  165. See the French auto market.
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  166. And we've hated you ever since.
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  167. Canadian cars need bigger bumpers to knock moose off the road.
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  168. As long as you junk everything from the motor back. See Hoovies Garage. He may have one for sale with the time bomb Northstar.
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  169.  @sonofagun1037  He had two. One with an overhauled Northstar which sold fast and one with a unoverhauled engine which was sitting around the last time I saw. I think its in the airplane hanger. Not that long ago.
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  170. Did you forget Jaguar? Rolls?
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  171. Its already Chinese. It is gone.
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  172. My 85 900 is sitting in the garage. Needs a harmonic balancer.
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  173. My guess is they were based on land yacht chasis and the land yachts disappeared. Never rode in one that was'nt a rattle trap from new. Even Cadillac hearses.
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  174. So he traded a nice white Cadillac for a smokey Plymouth, Nice. Would he trade his Lincoln for my Metropolitan? Oil under it, oil in it.
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  175. He did'nt even get the clear square steering wheel. The Edsels push button transmission was a nightmare.
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  176.  @nickrustyson8124  So cheap carpet instead of the rubber mat.
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  177.  @robertmorris6529  SS. My friend had an SS. With the Special Performance Group.
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  178.  @nickrustyson8124  I remember a special Maverick which was white and Ford blue.
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  179.  @robertmorris6529  Yeah it had a better battery so it would start most of the time.
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  180. Option on your Simeroon.
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  181. See Land Rover and MB boxes.
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  182. So we can all get Buzzed. Should be a hit in California.
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  183. If GM survives they will always want a luxury model. I imagine the name will continue. All of top management needs to be fired. They are a very backwards looking company continually dreaming of the glory days of the 60s. Dump all of their traditional styling. All they really have to do is make an exact copy of a Merc and sell it for $20,000 less. Bingo. Then make a sporty exact copy of a BMW and sell it for $20,000 less. Bingo.
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  184. Tesla SUVs.
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  185. And Detroit on the Detroit River produces Detroit Diesels. In Detroit.
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  186. Everything was operated by engine vacume and push pull cables. No stepper motors and computers. My 70 Eldorado has the same power window motor and gearbox as the 50s Cads. They are made of cast iron and weigh about 10 pounds. I believe they did'nt replace them until the late 70s. They never wear out.
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  187. All car companies do have one owner. Wall Street. Bean counters rule.
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  188. Now do several hours on the idiotic Lexus grills.
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  189. Because 85 year olds with more money than brains want to be hip and cool.
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  190. Mercedes and Triumph made finned cars.
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  191. How many freakin Broughams did they build.
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  192. Don't forget the "Homo Designer" Series.
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  193. He also has over a million subs.
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  194. Low price.
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  195.  @bobroberts2371  Did it have drag slicks and traction bars? SS stripes?
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  196.  @jcolella  The Austrailians just bought some nuclear ones.
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  197.  @jcolella  I liked the Leo Decaprio picture better.
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  198. Good one boss!
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  199.  @warnold909  Its a drinking game. The Dutch are big boozers.
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  200. Senior cars were for little old ladies to drive to church. See Rambler. Unless yours was a GTO. Chevy IIs could be made into powerful drag cars.
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  201. Wheres the display how Henry loved Hitler and wanted to put Catholics in concentration camps. What a guy!
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  202. See the moivie "Tin Men". Everyone drives a classic Cadillac. For prestige. Danny DeVitto.
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  203. The guy on "Rare Cars" has every land yacht ever made in museum condition. The dude must own Microsoft.
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  204. Good move.
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  205.  @Trendyflute  Yeah I just can't see it. Trucks are for hauling dirty construction supplies not women in pearls and evening dresses. It makes me laugh.
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  206. Definition is spelled wrong. You are welcome.
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  207. Gee that happens all the time here. The dealers just giving away cars willy nilly. NOT.
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  208. Plymouths were notorious rust buckets. Like Fiats and Lancias.
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  209. Well but at least they fixed things with the Flex.
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  210. Yeah its a shame Mercedes got rid of those swastikas they used to put on their cars.
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  211. Its what they do. The 50s tailfin cars rusted out in about two years and no one would be caught dead in one after 4 years. Their muscle cars were completely over the top.
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  212.  @alphatrion100  So far my Jeep appears to be very good quality. Fingers crossed.
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  213. What you need in Europe is that dealer plague from that big Texas dealer in the shape of a large state of Texas. Be the envy of your friends and never have a girl say no to you again. You are welcome.
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  214. A few Maserattiis around here . I think the nearest dealer is 250 miles away if not in Chicago 500 miles away. Just greasy spoon garages with HS drop outs running them. No training certificates of any kind. Good luck with that.
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  215. Always looked leaky and faulty to me, especially the powered ones.
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  216. The tailfin was designed to ape the new jet fighters of the new Air Force in the massive flush of WWII economic expansion. The 49 Ford even had a jet intake on the front. The taxpayer was being soaked to buy all of the Air Forces new toys. Considered necessary to defeat the evil reds. When people no longer wanted cars that looked like airplanes the tailfins died.
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  217. My opinion is Trump won. Oh wait, thats not fact either. Damn! Why is life so hard? Now I need to find a TV crew and go refuse a life saving vaccination. Any suggestions where?
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  218. GM guarentees they will do at least 50% of the developement work to make a good car. Take it to the bank.
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  219. They were all poor schmucks cars in my neighborhood. We had an Eldo. One guy had a Rambler. The funeral home guy had a Caddy hearse, in fact several.
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  220. Oh Ed, so many trivial questions. People are being slaughtered in Ukraine by an insane dictator threatening nuclear anihalation because mommy did'nt show him enough love. Give it a rest.
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  221. It was in the 50s when Europe and japan were broke and on our dole and their countries were destroyed. They thought about getting their next meal not luxury cars. Starvation was rampant in Holland in 1945.
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  222.  @jjll9244  Can't comment much on Mercedes beyond saying they were unknown in the midwest untill late 70s to 80s. Used to see 450 SLs on Hollywood TV shows with starlets driving them. Of course there is the Janice Joplin song from the 60s. Lord won't you buy me a Mercedes Benz. My friends all drive Porshes I must make amends. And of course that song was a complete put down of the 60s yuppies. XKEs were pretty common on TV. A local Dr. drove a 250 or 280 SL something like that and he was a freak. The gull wing was a 50s car but it was some hyperexpensive limited production model for Steve McQueen types. BMWs had two stroke engines and no reverse gear. The 1200s/1600s were pretty much junk by American standards. Would'nt mind having a 2002 especially turbo. The British car industry was flat on its back from top to bottom offering 1920s and 30s technology and awful build quality. Motorcycles too. The US industry was the world leader.
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  223.  @jjll9244  Or you are.
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  224. If we all make $500k a year.
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  225.  @jimbosc  All he has ever said is he works short term gigs in IT.
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  226. My understanding is Chinese MGs are crap.
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  227.  @no1DdC  My understanding is Germans are appalled at what Americans pay for German cars. Saab used to refer to it as "a mystery of the sea". I know most run of the mill German cars are thought of in Germany as quite utilitarian. For unknown reasons in the US they are status symbols.
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  228.  @no1DdC  I watch John Cadogan from Australia at times. He tells of Chinese cars parked by the beach which rust away in months. I hope the US has enough sense not to let them in here, at least not without local manufacturing.
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  229. Rear windows don't retract if the car has portholes.
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  230. They still have them. Very passe. Of course the Lexus and Audis are the worst.
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  231. People evidently used to dress better in cars. Put on the suit and tie dear we are going to buy some cabbage at the store.
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  232. See the 49 Ford.
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  233. The 50s and 60s showed intense competition between auto makers, even in economy models. And there were losers. Hudson, Nash, Studebaker, Packhard. Unlike now when they have largely abandoned economy models, seek to bankrupt people with high price models and basically all churn out the same stuff at what ever price Wall Street tells them to.
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  234. You should have gotten the big Buick not the economy model.
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  235. The Chinese love Buick. Mao had one. Its the only place in the world you can sell a Buick. Too bad, in the 20s they were good cars.
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  236.  @Flies2FLL  Did they crush his trade in before he got the fabric seats? Those pre rack and pinion Fords (and Chryslers) in my experience, drove like shit. The steering was like the wheel on a boat. Turn it several times to alter course matey. The brakes were like shoving your foot into a bucket of grease. I guess the ride was OK. Fords were always cheap looking inside. You had to get a Mercury to get anything decent. Remember in "Magnum Force" Clint blows one up with Hal Holbrook inside. Those and Plymouths were police beaters. Not much of a recomendation to me. Cheap and serviceable. They used to wreck em by the dozens in Hollywood. The Torino would be far better.
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  237. My dad bought pretty good cars. He drove a Corvair for his business and supplied them to employees but bought mom decent stuff. 59 Impala, 88 Olds, 98 Olds, 66 Mustang instead of Corvair, 73 Camaro which I picked out, burnt orange metallic with rally wheels and white letters, 70 Eldorado, a couple of other Cads which shall remain nameless, 84 Fiero, 84 Mercedes 190 brought on by the Cadillacs which shall remain nameless. Instead of the Camaro I was pushing for a Formula 400 Firebird with the big hood scoops or that fastback James Bond Mustang but they were a lot more money than the Chevy. The Camaro was $3800 delivered.
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  238.  @Flies2FLL  As per the list of my fathers cars people were encouraged to trade cars in every 3 to 5 years so if you did so it probably would'nt be a rust bucket. I had a 91 T Bird for almost 30 years. At about 15 years I saw a trace of rust on the rocker panels and went to fix it before it got bad. When I got into it I found there was about 3/8 inch Bondo on the whole panel and the steel had esentually rusted away. The steel had never been painted let alone rust proofed and the back of the panel was open to road debris and water with no real drains. So it was all putty. I fixed that but then noted rust on the front shock towers. Turns out they had sprayed open cell foam in them for sound deadening and the open cells were just a big sponge for water.. Then I checked the floor boards. Drivers side completely gone like a flintstones mobile. They had put jute padding on the firewall side of the engine for heat/sound deadening. It had been soaking wet since the car saw its first rain. I fixed it up as best as I could but it developed mechanical problems and went to the scrapper. All of these things were known by the designer/ builder. "At Ford quality is job one". Of course my oldest car is a 70 Eldorado.
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  239. In the US they don't honk if they want you to get out of the way. They send bullets through your windows.
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  240.  @andrewallen9993  I put a J overdrive on the TR 6 but modified it to operate on all gears giving 8 speed. Its of course useless on 1st and 2nd. The TR 6 has a 373 diff. I was'nt sure if Jag sedans with manuals were ever imported to the US. Guy here has a V 12 XJS. I guess its a horror story.
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  241.  @SuperDirk1965  So did Alpha Romeo and Saab that I know of. IRS generally gives a poor ride quality. I am sure there are lots of European cars that had sraight axels.
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  242.  @SuperDirk1965  HHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
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  243.  @perrydear  He knew what a POS Rolls was.
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  244.  @lightmarker3146  I have a 70 Eldo and took my driving test in my moms, even parallel park. You obviously have good taste.
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  245.  @andrewallen9993  I have a copy of Uriah Heeps Salisbury. And a GT 380 Sebring. And a Dunlop inner tube pool float.
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  246. Mr. Toyota says so.
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  247. So while they were worrying about Europe the Japanese completly wiped them out. Banzai!
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  248. Much heavier guage steel in pre gas crisis cars. My Saab 9000 has styrofoam inserts to keep the fenders from collapsing.
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  249. They are nostalgic geri rides. Old people stuff. Dreaming of the good old days.
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  250. My 70 Eldorado came from the factory with a white pinstripe tire. No longer available. I put a 1 inch stripe Hankook on it. Micheline started the red stripe with their radial Xs in the 50s.
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  251.  @jnstonbely5215  My opinion is they are trying to revive Harley Earl and styling wise produce show car looks. I hate the Buick Y Job. This Jetsons angular styling of Cadillacs is stand outish but ugly. I would say they need to make a BMW 3 with manual trans, and a Jaguar Sedan with manual option. Trucks suck. They could toss in a BMW 5. Forget the over complicated and unreliable and expensive electronics. Once converted to EV preferably hydrogen fuel cell they could make a traditional big car American sedan. EVs will bring back land yachts. I have a 70 Eldorado and that is far better looking than anything they make now. The Lincoln MK 4 is nice too. A 66 Tornado would be good too. They should make European quality interiors and produce a quality product. Give the injection molded plastic a burial. Forget the glitz. Old Cadillac interiors in the 50s were quality. Cadillac lost it when they gave up quality and went for glitz like around 1971. GMs problem is they keep trading on past glories. The bankruptcy should have cleaned house and started with all new clean sheet design. If you want to charge for European quality then dammit make European quality.
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  252.  @mikeblatzheim2797  Well no I stand by what I said. I can't comment much about German or French cars. The French have never had a reputation for reliability. I had a French taxi in Egypt which I thought was quite nice looking. Peugot I think. The mini was and is total crap. It was the cheapest hunk of junk Morris could make to compete with the subsidized Beetle and try to get some of Englands poor on wheels. They were rust buckets. The new ones are unreliable with idiotic prices. I think the looks suck. They must have totalled those cars used in "The Italian Job". If you have ever driven a Beetle 1200 or even bigger you know what a hunk of junk that was. Once again designed for the impoverished as an alternative to shoe leather and bicycles. I love the spare tire windshield washer. My friends threw a rod one time on the freeway. My brothers Scirrocco was a POS. Currently in the US VW sales are in free fall due to low quality and high prices. Italian cars have always been junk. Rust buckets, can't run from one week to the next. I like old Alphas but I would never expect one to be reliable. The British had a class action suit against one Italian rust bucket. Lancia I think. I guess 124s were built for so long they managed to get most of the bugs out of those. Fiats were once again something for the impoverished. Oddly I own a Jeep Fiat. So far so good. Watch Top Gear UK. All driving around in massive Rovers and pickups while telling you Rovers are shit quality. I have seen Rovers with rivits showing through the body work because they forgot to putty them in properly. Of course they should'nt have been riveted in the first place. Lots of defective paint. And you may not understand the American truck market. I have no doubt you can spend $125,000 on a truck here. If you got the money they will put anything you want in it. If you wanted an F 150 to Bently conversion they will do it. $50,000 trucks are quite common here thats why everyone builds them., Guy down the street has a Kenworth pickup truck conversion. maybe $200,000. The landlord has a 70 foot tractor trailer RV conversion. Yeah trucks are idiotic but thats what sells here. If someone wants to drop dime on an F 150 they will get a 250 or a 350 or a commercial 450 or 550. See how this works. Hitler liked SSKs, so do I . There is a considerable gap between that and the 1970s when Mercedes became a thing in the US. As far as I know Americans pay twice what Germans pay for these cars. Its unfortunate we don't have any Mercedes garbage trucks running around here like in Germany. Maybe that would help people put things in perspective.
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  253. Canadians really love Plodges. See Cold War Motors.
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  254. They aped all the new jet fighters the Air Force was buying in the 50s. The golden age of jets. They were as fast or faster than new ones are now.
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  255. The problem with the VW was if you put anyone in one it did'nt have the power to move.
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  256.  @thecianinator  Hey man gotta have those 22s with spinners. Yowza.
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  257. New pickup truck on the way.
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  258. There just is'nt enough dancing in new car showrooms these days. Old timers had class.
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  259. Need the propane bursts from the tail pipes.
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  260. Catepillar.
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  261. Virtually no export sales and no foreign competition. The big three plus Rambler were trying to wipe each other out.
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  262. China is going to take over all the car companies.
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  263. With the picture I thought he was going to have a car named "The Pussey".
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  264. Do a pimpmobile Humvee combo.
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  265. Leonardo DiCaprio or Brad Pitt would be better.
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  266. Or as a tatooed Nazi biker gangster.
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  267. Renault made a pretty good WWI tank. Apparently still trading on that reputation.
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  268. Lincolns always cost more than Cadillacs.
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  269. I have a 70 Eldorado. Yes they are tailfins. If you follow the progression of the post WWII Cadillac forward you will see them get bigger maxing out around 1960 then get smaller through time. Whats a matter you Europeans ain't got no subtlety? Call Michaelangelo, he will vouch for this. You haven't showed the Mercedes or Triumph tailfins yet. Do you have tailfin envy? Yours not as big as ours? My dear poor chap.
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  270. Lincoln should of made a Pinto. The Tightwad.
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  271. Ah yes the mid 70s Plymouth Valliant. The Cadillac of crap cars. He was indeed a fortunate man. Maybe insane. He should have waited for a crap K car.
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  272. Naw you are just becoming a secret American. Have another Coke mein herr.
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  273.  @O-plaat  It could be certain DOT requirements. The European interiors are just not constructed the same way. Most Germans are astounded how much Americans pay for plain Jane German cars here. Like double the German market.
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  274. Lexus and Audi should be given awards for the worst looking vehicles. They are in a class by themselves. The Edsel is a beauty queen by comparison.
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  275. As long as you are Chinese. I did off road a Skylark rental. It was the best rental for bashing through rock and sand. Got stuck in Death Valley though. Built a bridge out of the dry wash and got it 3 feet into the air. Yeah, pretty solid.
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  276. They have to get their prices way down.
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  277. I had been watching a German cop show. The bad cop was a big guy about 6 foot 4. He drove a Volvo wagon. I felt large people in Europe prefered the wagon as the cars are too small for them.
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  278. A hover boat might work better.
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  279. I think you could mount a 40 mm Bofors canon on top for the African market.
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  280. Ed is cluless.
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  281. They just need to get the head commie to drive one.
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  282. With enough tatoos he could be the next Justin Beiber.
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  283. How much sludge fits in your van!
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  284. Well built and incredibly boring. Little old lady boring. Drive me to my funeral boring.
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  285. I am skeptical about weather you will sing again. You might want to give 48 hours notice.
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  286. Every coke dealer has an Escalade.
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  287. One of those tracked arctic train vehicles a block long. He can keep the animals in the back.
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  288. Standard round is 7 inch for two and 5 1/4 inch for four. Was the same in motorcycles too.
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  289.  @Movableobject  Well the EU has its own standards but there was no EU when tungsten headlights were the thing. They made millions in the US and UK so my guess was they were cheap and available worldwide. I replaced the tungsten lights on my 73 Triumph GT 6 with Marchall Halogens which were after market only. They rusted out exactly as the US DOT feared. My 86 Saab 9000 has E code lights from the factory although my 85 900 has standard square sealed beams. To me they look better. The main thing about sealed beams is they are freekin cheap. Bought new Halogens for my 70 Eldorado for about $7.00 each times 4. I think those 9000 lights are around $300.00.
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  290. Classic Aire. Get some AC.
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  291. An Impala would be better. Or a Fury.
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  292. I don't know. Thats where we are at.
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  293.  @Jack_Russell_Brown  That chrome was the best part of the bird. My favorite years. Like a 1950s rocket ship.
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  294. He just can't say Cimmaron to save his life.
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  295. No they knew better. Their customers really wanted soft rides, no roadfeel, soft seats and quiet. The customer was just confused.
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  296.  @JackBWatkins  I grew up with GMs, switched to Fords and imports. Currently have a Jeep. Special ordered an 88 Corsica as a BMW killer. Had a Getrag 5 speed which was its best feature. It was a POS from the start, got rid of it before 50,000 miles for a T Bird. T Bird died 2 years ago.
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  297.  @JackBWatkins  My YT name is made up. Have lots of problems with google. I am much poorer than a CEO. I bought a 70 Eldorado and remade it as a duplicate of my moms car I street raced in high school. Thats about the only GM product I ever wanted and its fine on its own merits. Obviously not an economy champ. Special ordered a 88 Corsica with high end suspension and deleted all other oprions as a BMW killer. Getrag 5 speed. It performed well but unfortunately it was still a Chevy with parts falling off and engine stalling etc. Traded it for a 91 T Bird. The headlight switch on the Corsica was what is called a piano switch. I pushed it one day and it sprang back and hit me in the forehead. They worked the bugs out in the latter years and dumped the 2.8 V 6 I had for a 3.1. The T Bird lasted until 2 years ago then hit the wall. Floor pan, shock towers rusted out due to Ford putting jute insulation on it. Can you imagine? Once the jute blanket gets wet it stays wet and thats how you get rust. Used open cell foam for sound deadening which also holds water like a sponge. The rocker panels from the factory were covered with 3/8s inches of Bondo. By the time rust came through there was no metal left, just Bondo. Mediocre laquer paint job. Trans started leaking like a stuck pig then the final blown head gasket. I would have been willing to restore it but just did'nt have the time. Replaced by 2019 Jeep Cherokee which has been trouble free and has gotten 35 mpg. But I don't think its a real Jeep. I have done lots of trails in CO. and this thing seems like a grocery getter to me. Oh well, no complaints. I think of GM as all show and no go. They over promise on everything which is a lie. Ford seems more honest. What you see is what you get. I have owned and do Triumphs, and Saabs. At one time I thought about trading the 85 Saab and the T Bird on a demo Corvette. Probably early 90s. They wanted $27,000 for it. Its still my favorite body style. Don't care much for the Ferrari wannabe style. I set in the Chevy and it was damn uncomfortable. About 2 inches off the floor, thin seat padding. and the left front wheel well was were my left leg should be meaning you had to sit sideways. Saw the same thing on a Testarossa in Miami. Nope. I kept my cars and was happy. Even my TR 6 is more comfortable.
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  298.  @JackBWatkins  I drove a neighbors new 914 once. It had the racing 5 speed which I don't like. I was driving a GT 6. Apparently the neighbor woman thought I was'nt dating enough for a high schooler and this was to prompt me to get normal. Don't think it worked. I have used several 4.0 Cherokees on trails in CO. Would be glad to get one but they are all shot and expensive. About 19 mpg max. Had a different neighbor with a 914, liked the interior. In Johnson county KS. they are an uber classers car and are routinely vandalized. I blew a turbo Carrerra into the weeds once with my Ninja 1000. All over before I even hit second gear. This neighbor started a cell phone company back in the days of the "brick". He was bought out by Sprint or someone and ascended to uber class heaven, moving to The wealthiest area of town.. I knew he had money the day he showed up with a 1941 Cadillac woodside convertible. He said only 800 made. Also had hyper expensive Italian bicycles. Back in my HS Eldorado days my friends mom had a high end T Bird like a 72 or something 429, maybe 460 white leather interior. I thought it was the equal of the Eldorado. I like what is I think 3rd gen T Birds like early 60s with the wide mouth grill. Interiors looked quite a bit like dads 66 Mustang. Other cars, Corvairs, Oldsmobiles, Impalas, Camaro, Fiero, MB 190, Nash Metro, 49 Ford, 77 Coupe deVille, several motorcycles. All my friends in the days had muscle cars so I know all about them which most kids don't. Thats the history.
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  299.  @JackBWatkins  I drove a Triumph GT 6. Always overheated. Pretty crummy car but looked good. Mini XKE. Spedometers are notoriously inaccurate. Rode in a Hurst Olds on the freeway, don't recall if it had the 455, maybe earlier model. He pegged the speedo at 140 but I never felt we were going particularly fast. It was a convertible with top down. White with gold stripes. If the car had a 373 or 410 diff it could'nt have gone that fast. Kids think the muscle cars were the high end of the product line like 7 series BMWs. Of course the opposite was true. The were the cheapest of the low end. Real Americans aspired to Cadillacs and lincolns not stripped out Chevy IIs and crummy Plymouths. I was hot to buy a Cuda and do a restomod on a 225 or a 318. Prices were outrageous. Finally saw what I was looking for at the Post Office one day. What a hunk of junk. No sound proofing, tinny sheet medal, the big blocks used to twist them into pretzels. Crummy interiors plasticy. Saw a restored Challenger, still looked cheap. The original GTO was the cheapest car Pontiac had with the biggest engine they had. A friend had one. It was great. One of my favs. The Judge was a decal job. A real dog. Had another friend with one of those. They were all fun cars but probably unsafe and not made to last. Cars did'nt get disc brakes until the early 70s. 4 wheel drums were crap. No brakes when wet. I was big on bikes. Used to drag race lots of hot cars and win. I got stomped by a GT 500 Mustang and a 301 57 Chevy with fiberglas front end. They were probably Pro Stockers. Still have that bike but its nothing compared to my Ninja 1000. That thing is just unsafe. The 67 Eldorado had drums. I bet your Packard had $100,000 or more in the restoration. Its a rich mans game.
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  300.  @JackBWatkins  Let me guess, your friends name is Leno. For me the main thing about being on a bike is not to relax. I have wrecked when I quit paying attention. I used to ride because it forced me to blot out every thing else. As I got older that was'nt possible. I had a girlfriend with a 1st gen Firebird OHC 6, with powerglide. A decent car but I paid attention to her. Got the TR 6 in 1976 after the GT 6 was run over by an uninsured motorist in a 73 Caprice. You know the precurser to the M1 Abrahms battle tank? Unfortunately I was inside at the time. The TR has been competition prepared with racing coils, Konis, high compression and an original Kastner S 2 street cam. It will peak at around 6500 rpm. Modified Strombergs. Mikunis would probably be better or FI. Dangerouse to rev a 2.5 as it only has 4 main bearings and they are very weak. Would like to replace with a BMW I 6 turbo. Some are using Buick 3800 V 6s. Very hard to put a V engine in a TR6 I think the beemer is the way to go. 300 Fords can be built but I don't know. Maybe a Datsun. 225 Chryslers are difficult. The TR went to a Corvette specialty shop one time for suspension work. Don't remember why. Sent by my Triumph specialist. Behind the KC Chiefs football stadium next to the abandoned Chevrolet factory. TR 6s have long stroke tractor engines so they can be driven at low RPM. I lightened my flywheel so you have to have some revs up. A friend had a 340 Duster in yellow. What a screamer. Kind of the ultimate street racer. Cheap and fast. He let me take it and his wife at 14. Great fun.
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  301. The Dumb and Dumber van with the fur on the outside was cool.
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  302. They were geek mobiles.
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  303.  @kailahmann1823  Which is why Cadillac does'nt want to go there. Packhard in the 20s and 30s made beautiful custom cars. They were always a small manufacturer. About 50,000 cars a year I think when they closed. Rolls and Ferrari do about 20,000 a year each.
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  304.  @nickrustyson8124  GMs problem was and is between its ears. They got onto the bigger is better bandwagon and still are with Escalades and trucks. It still appeals to unsophisticated people which is why sophisticates have totally abandoned GM. They are stuck and see no way to get out of this business model. Now they have to scrap all their big sellers and go electric. They are truly a short sighted hapless company undeserving of taxpayer funds. Ford looks like a ballet dancer by comparison.
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