So .... a Hemi Panda or an anemic, poorly assembled 4-cyl Crossfire?

[Stinky The Clown]

[cloudbase]

1. Bring back the X1/9

or the Spyder.

[cliffordu]

2. Lotus Europa.

[NYC_SKP]

7. Dude, you mean like1972 Europa?

I wanted one of those SO BAD in high school!

[cliffordu]

8. Yep, that's right you old fart.

:rofl:

[NYC_SKP]

9. First car was a 68 beetle, my second car was this:

A restored 1959 Jaguar MK I, 3.4 liter. Chevy small block and powerglide, pretty quick!

$1500. I later got three more, including a 57, but never got them fully restored.

These were sweet. Four wheel discs, grease fittings on the door hinges, burled maple dash and door trim...

This is NOT me, and it's a 57 with full fender skirts:

[cliffordu]

10. Nice cars!!

My first car was a 1947 chevy.....

My second was an old VW bug - I don't remember the year....


I have never owned a car that ran for more than 6 months....really. I have an opposite midas touch with the fucking things.
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Which is why my ride is a 1985 Specialized Stumpjumper sport, perhaps the greatest rough stuff touring bicycle ever marketed as a mountain bike.

I'm getting ready to take it out for a nice LOOOOONG tour here pretty soon.....The DU homeless camp tour.

[NYC_SKP]

13. You still plan to ride down through the valley?

Gotta hook up!

[cliffordu]

17. Yep.... This we wlll do, my friend

My wife has to go back to indiana and put her mom in a home in the next couple of weeks and I have to take care of the livestock (friggin' cats) while she's gone - so I'll have an itinerary in about a month...


I'll let you know asap


:hi:

[NYC_SKP]

20. Good, lemme know!

I'm around almost all of June and away in July just a few days here and there!

Yay!

:hi:

[tkmorris]

16. How do you have it set up to tour?

I assume you went to at least semi-slick tires, have you altered anything else? Front rack? I ask because my wife and I have a couple of Rockhoppers from around 1990 I have been eyeing to outfit for light touring at least. Believe it or not I just built these bikes a couple weeks ago. They had never been sold, just sat in a warehouse for the last umpteen years.

[cliffordu]

18. I put a Tubus touring rack on the back and a Surly 'nice rack' on the front -

Arkel panniers front and rear.

I use Schwalbe Marathon XR tires...the only way to go for bad road touring.

And a Brooks Professional saddle.

A custom set of wheels - Shimano XT hubs, Velocity DeepV rims....

Phil wood bottom bracket.

yummy.

Your stumpjumpers will work just fine for touring.

Go to crazyguyonabike.com and you can see everything from dime store beaters to 10,000 custom rigs made for touring.

[Fumesucker]

3. Hemi Under Glass of course..

[krispos42]

4. That color is now seared into my monitor

Damn you, phosphors! Damn you to hell!

[virginia mountainman]

5. I go one better...

To me, it the new Camaro, looks an awfully lot like a 70's AMC Javelin....Especially from the side...


I submit to you....

AMC Javelin





2009 Camaro





Striking resemblance.

[CRF450]

6. Shit I wish I had a Hemi in my Dakota instead of the 230hp 4.7 V8...

Fuel mileage wouldn't change but It'd be nice to have better acceleration and pulling power sometimes. Oh well, the 4.7 does ok...

[The Straight Story]

11. Well, think of it like looking for a mate - looks, or performance

:rofl:

[flvegan]

12. I'm actually hoping that Chrysler finally gets better.

It may take them a decade, but Ferrari, Maserati and Alfa Romeo have all gotten gradually better under the Fiat flag. Today, I wouldn't buy a Chrysler with someone else's money.

Hemi Panda (today it would be the 500) though, that's hilarious.

[beevul]

14. None of the above (since were dreaming)

make mine one of these:




'70 ls-6 chevelle



(that there is a "baldwin-motion" camaro)



'58 impala



'69 yenko camaro

The things dreams are made of.

[XOKCowboy]

19. My Mom had that same 70 Chevelle SS 396

Hers was maroon/purple with the same racing stripes, wheels and hood locks. Sweet car when she got it. Then she desecrated it by having a 2bbl carb put on. SHEESH come on Mom!! The terrible thing was that I was driving it when it got totalled. I was stopped at a stop sign when a drunk driver misjudged a turn and plowed right into me. I felt worse than Mom did about it. She was worried that I was hurt (just a couple of scrapes) and I was pissed because I'd always hoped she'd sell/give it to me!!

Man we had some great cars back in the day didn't we? My friends in High School in '72 had Camaros, Goats, 57 Chevys, Boss 302 Mustangs and Roadrunners. Gas was $.59 a gallon and Muntz was churning out 8-Track players. Good Times.

[Stephanie]

15. I thought you were torn btw rescuing a hemophiliac panda bear, or buying a car

This post has popped up all day and I finally clicked. Who knew Panda was a car?