@pip-bip

Great find, as always.

The second generation Nova translated to a wagon much better in my opinion. The third generation looks awkward to me. I can see why they didn't follow through with it.

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@Old-Busted-Hotness 😛

@pip-bip That car was about peak oldsmobile. I believe the Cutlass was the best selling car in America for those years.

@Future-Next-Gen-S2000-Owner optional my arse! i hope someone complains to the authorities and GM have to backpedal on it

@pip-bip These were all pretty trim by modern standards

'64 Impala: 209.9 inches long, vs '22 Suburban at 225.7
'64 Chevelle: 197 inches vs '22 Malibu at 193.8 (only one downsized)
'64 Nova: 182.9 inches vs '22 Blazer at 191.4
'64 Corvair: 180 inches vs '22 Equinox at 187.8
'64 Corvette: 175.2 inches vs '22 Corvette at 182.3

Custom Riviera at a local show,
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I'd honestly forgotten that there even was a V6 diesel Olds, and am pretty sure I've never encountered one in the wild. They seem to be fondly remembered by a few connoisseurs, but the reputation of their first generation V8 diesel was becoming so radioactive that I guess most buyers were afraid to approach any GM diesel.

@pip-bip
Built and tested to survive the 12 month warranty period then cheap enough to get another instead of taking the out of warranty risk? Those GM folk were clever...

@pip-bip
I'd still pick the dunny door.

@Esotericars cheers for that.

@pip-bip
A set of Pirelli Scorpion's instead of the Cinturato and...send it!

@pip-bip
So...it's broken down already and it's being pushed by a elephant wearing a boat.

I don't know where to start...

@pip-bip

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@pip-bip the mirrors

@pip-bip I finally figured out why I like it, it reminds me of this old VW body kit:

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@pip-bip At the time, they were trying to brand Pontiacs in a very weird market segment - not as professional as a Buick, not as fancy as a Cadillac, not as big or fast as an Olds, not as... well, poor as a Chevy.
Mostly that was failing and they were just being bought by thrifty old people.

They tried to rebrand more aggressively for "young people too suave to buy a Chevy" at the end of the '50s, which is when they got rid of the chrome hood stripe that had been a trademark for years. The rebrand... sort of worked, but it left Pontiac as the company that built "cooler than Chevys" AND "cheaper than Caddys". Because they didn't eliminate the big boats, because they were money makers.

To this day, you see a lot of well-kept big Pontiacs of the '60s in urban areas and poorer rural areas where they stayed as a status symbol up through the 70s.

@pip-bip While it wasn't much more than an adequate vehicle, I always liked the grill on the Lanos I had. (not mine, but identical to the one I had) 09790f22-c7c3-4358-a3f5-d59f331358d7-image.png

@HFV said in late night oppo:

Altho notice it said “open roof” not convertible. Lol.

They didn't think that far ahead

@ranwhenparked clearly too hard for some

@pip-bip 58 Eldorado Brougham. Night.

@іди-на-хуй-Влад-formerly-known-as-Distraxi
You have a fair point.
My threshold for stupid or idiotic people or behaviour has worn thinner.
The other day I saw a runner, run into traffic, as in head on, to run around a fence (red arrow),
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which was put there so people don't cross there. He'd ran past a subway underpass, a pedestrian crossing and a bridge, not only that but the direction he was running, there was another crossing a 100 metres down the road.

@StuckMTB only if they give me a fleet of every Caprice made in history, all rust proofed, and the government stops using salt in the winter.

@RallyDarkstrike yea

@pip-bip

Boston is one of the few cities in the United States with historic architecture. It just doesn't fit in with the surrounding neighborhood.

@pip-bip I see your dealerships are just as sucky as ours. And GM continues to GM.

@pip-bip
I have to up-vote any landau roof that actually opens, unlike the half-vinyl tops called landaus in the 70s and 80s.

@pip-bip I think that is the turn around in front of Legion of Honor Museum. I surf out to the left on the Marin side of the gate, I live just a few minutes over that hill on the other side.

@pip-bip

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That reminds me that it's derby day. Grab your big hat, a mint julip and the keys to the Merc.

@Urambo-Tauro I noted the remarkably unergonomic looking seatbelts too. Since it was in a junkyard, I didn't try sitting in it to try it out, but I was tempted.

@Old-Busted-Hotness Almost everything was a slow turd in 1980.

@pip-bip
That's a very low bar...

@pip-bip That would be the odd-fire 3.8. Since they didn't use offset crank journals, the 120-degree firing order in a 90-degree block made for some vibrations. Even-fire came later, and is the good 3.8

@pip-bip The CTS V wagon's father. Nice color.

@pip-bip Night

If I could have the Park Avenue interior with the Bonneville exterior, I would be so happy. That said, I'm going Buick.

@pip-bip Night

@drVanTraveler said in Found on Montana Craigslist: Wider is Better Edition:

@trivet I defer to your expertise on the Fiero, but I still think anyone owning this particular modded Fiero is going to need a lift in his garage fairly often.

That's true for any 35+ year old vehicle 😉

@dogisbadob no, they're calling it Townstar this time

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@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly what, you mean North America and Mainland China don't constitute the world?

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@Mr-Ontop That's why everyone called em dustbusters.

@pip-bip I want that Buick!

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Derp Lion strikes again

@pip-bip
The more things change...the more they stay the same.

#platformsharingisbad

@ibrad

Obscure reference For the Win!

@pip-bip
Almost prescient...

@smallscalesydney be good to see one left even as a barn find

(I still think the clutch should be the "next track" symbol, though...)

@tophercrowder A great inning for that '92, and a hell of a story for the '86. I love these big body Chevys. Maybe that's why I ended up with a '13 Caprice!

@pip-bip
I never drove a 1982 LeSabre, but I did get to drive a 1982 Buick Regal Diesel. Acceleration was zero to - hey, it will get there eventually. It did have plenty of room and a soft ride. My sister lived in the Lincoln Park neighborhood of Chicago. Parallel parking that thing was a challenge, but I appreciated the stout bumpers. It was Chicago of the mid-90s and parking was urban warfare. As long as you didn't set off too many car alarms, you were doing fine.

@ranwhenparked said in hour rule:

The fixed windows were supposedly so they could downsize the car without having to advertise a reduction in rear seat width - the back doors were hollowed out, allowing the seat to expand into the space where the window mechanism would normally be

I learned something new today. It was a bad decision though, that's for sure.

@green-truck said in late night oppo:

The best part was the ball chillers under the steering wheel.

Ball chillers are excellent, this we can agree on 🙂