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12-17-2010, 02:34 PM
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  |  Dream Cars
What are your dream cars? (You have all the money in the world.) Me, it would be a Tesla YouTube - Top Gear Tesla if the range were better and there were a decentralized power source such as The Bloom Box: An Energy Breakthrough? - 60 Minutes - CBS News Wanting to be socially responsible is a big factor for wanting a Tesla. To be honest, the roar of a big gasoline engine still makes my lug nuts tingle. Like these babies: Spyker YouTube - BBC: Spyker Car Review - Top Gear Atom Ariel YouTube - Top Gear - Ariel Atom - BBC Then just for fun 1973 Mustang Mach 1 YouTube - 1973 Mustang Mach 1 Twin Turbo 408c 9psi holeshot For a back in time cross country trip. 1970 Cadillac Coupe Deville YouTube - 1970 Cadillac Coupe Deville Convertible start up Last edited by sorter; 12-17-2010 at 02:44 PM. |
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12-19-2010, 11:51 PM
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I've owned a lot of cars in my life; in Los Angeles, in my late teens, it was typical to buy a car for $10 or $15 and get a lot of use from it. Oh to have any of them now...'63 Thunderbird, '63 Corvair Spyder, '73 Gremlin. I was going to produce a music album titled "A History Of Valiants And Ramblers" (to follow up my "Crosby Steals A Nash") but it never happened...my music partner-in-crime died in 1989, and it was all I could do to finish the work I was producing at that time. I've always loved (well, since they came out) the '73 Hornet. I thought my dream car would be one with 4-wheel drive. I later bought am '86 Eagle wagon, and it was tired. AMC was soon to go out of business, and justifyably so. Alas, the last of the Ramblers. It's a love/hate relationship with cars, anymore: they're horrible polluters, yet let me shift that F-150 into 5th gear and head on down the highway, pop in a CD (R.E.M.) and I find the love again. Here is the 1964 Rambler American I had in 1976. Last edited by royster; 12-19-2010 at 11:54 PM. |
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12-21-2010, 02:13 PM
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| The family had a '63 Ramble Ambassador for awhile. It trapped my dad's second hand smoke very well.  . Here's my first love except mine was blue with a 3-speed six banger. I successfully changed the water pump in a camp ground outside Atlantic City. The first time I did anything mechanical to a car. It helped that I was too young to realize that I didn't know what I was doing. They were so simple then. I wonder if my Accord even has a water pump.  |
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12-25-2010, 05:19 PM
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| Gee, does THIS photo bring back memories! I never had this model of Rambler, but i SURE remember growing up with them. This one had an optional "push button" transmission available that year. I'm more caught by the "cup holder" indentations on the glove box door; that was standard-issue in those days, and many a cheeseburger got two hands to hold it 'cause there was a place for your soda. I remember listening to the radio tubes warm up in my grandfather's '56 Chevy. |
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