@Skyfire77 Imperial was typically a step up from Lincoln & Cadillac

@pip-bip Quality was job number, um, I don't know, maybe we'll add it to the punch list for next year

@pip-bip with a better safety-related recall record over the past two full model years than any other American car company, and with quality and value that we're determined will beat anything from Germany or Japan

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@pip-bip
On the plus side...it is teal.

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@pip-bip FIAT please! 😄

@Urambo-Tauro
Seems like a perfect high beam scenario to me.

@Vondon302 oof!

@pip-bip — A '63 Newport had round taillights and a grille that was different in detail and was newly shorn of its tail fins (which grew back vestigially for '64).

Quite possibly the paperwork calls it a '63, though, due to some mistake. My '66 Thunderbird, which came my way via one of those donation charities ("I'm surprised when those places get the paperwork right, not when they get it wrong," said a wise older employee at the Department of Motor Vehicles) is titled as a '65. She further advised me to just roll with it rather than try to correct the error unless I really enjoyed hanging out at their office.

@pip-bip — I'm sure that front bumper provides some useful additional functions, but aesthetically, it looks like a Ram with some kind of external orthopedic appliance for a broken jaw.

@RallyDarkstrike same here, no laws for them

@pip-bip — Amazing how the ad game has changed, isn't it? Through today's eyes, wordy, wordy, wordy, and this one uses those words on nerdy, nerdy, nerdy facts. Selling the steak, not the sizzle, as it were.

A nice '65 Newport, though, would be a time capsule in a good way.

@pip-bip As noted in the Plymouth post the other day:
1965 PLYMOUTH BARRACUDA FORMULA S 4-SPEED COUPE - $40,000 (Huntington, NY 11743)
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Looks nice, but I certainly wouldn't spend $40,000 on it.

@pip-bip
When the malaise was everywhere...

@Vondon302 WOW that's amazing. And yes the Rampage is a real Shelby, the hosting show had something about it

@pip-bip said in Hurtan PT Cruiser:

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Reminds me of when Meg had the mumps
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@pip-bip

Available in a single variant, it’s priced at €54,500 (AU$90,915), around €30,000 less than the Jeep Wrangler which is sold in Italy only in plug-in hybrid 4xe guise.

Hahaha....no. Not at that price point. And not the Jeep either.

And that's before we even get to the Chinese made and Italian re-finished nature of the thing. That's a combination that almost certainly invokes immediate quirks.

@ItalianJobR53 FI was a godsend. Growing up in 80s I never thought we'd see HP levels like this.

@flatisflat Mod Top for me. although I'd rather have a Duster.
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@Brickman

Canadian National owns a lot of the railway in Louisiana (highlighted blue in the map below) so it doesn't surprise me much that they would have their police down here.

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@BritsnSwedes-was-MINIGTI Those are the base MSRPs listed on their websites. I have no idea if dealers are at all keen on ordering the base models, or selling them at MSRP with the car market still a bit crunched, but I did see some on cars.com in that range.

I clearly don't look much at these cars as I had absolutely no recollection that the Passat and Mazda6 had been discontinued until I went to look for mid-size offerings from VW and Mazda (I'm not shocked by the 6, it's an attractive car but it's also a design from 2012).

@pip-bip Very cool! I always liked late-80s Chrysler stuff....I know it's terrible, but some of them had some cool styling.

Also, K-cars may have been bad, but they also ran FOREVER. Friend of the family had one back in the day that had like...400k kms on it before he replaced it!

A name (and design) that should have been applied to a better car.

Not sure I've ever seen one in the wild here in the US. It's fun to imagine one with a modern turbo Four, assuming the survivors (they were said to have been a favorite food source for the tinworm) aren't too valuable for such shenanigans.

@pip-bip
Interestingly...the Raptor is the shortest vertically!

@pip-bip Some people think these old big Chryslers are uglier and not as nice as other American land barges of the time, but I've always really liked them....especially the 300G and 300H that had those vertical-but-slanted headlights 🙂
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@pip-bip
From dust to Duster....to dust?

@vdubyajohn said in night oppo:

@pip-bip Gremlins aren't on top because you can't get them wet

I believe the damage is done. Probably refueled them after midnight, too.

@pip-bip Never put black text on a black background.

@pip-bip night

@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera My guess is the lane outside of the parking spaces is the restricted area. If the truck was any bigger, it'd be in violation!

@pip-bip OH limousine wheels and wheel covers included!
Hell yeah sign me up

@pip-bip
There's a lot going wrong in that ad...

@Vondon302 said in night oppo:

FYI that's not a model but the driver.

Apparently they were so keen on the picture they didn't even give her a chance to finish changing out of her fire suit!

Someone say least likely car to be taken rallying?
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Although I do have to admit, I knew of another fella who RXed his TC passenger wagon before he got t-boned in it. Shame, he recently moved to Michigan and was going to face off with eachother one weekend.

@SilentbutnotreallyDeadly said in hour rule:

@pip-bip
...until those bits fell off.

But what a joy to drive until it falls apart. 🙂

I had more fun driving my extremely bare bones 89 Comanche than any other vehicle.

SW Michigan in the winter with a 4.0 I6, 4x4, 5-speed manual Comanche and good tires = unstoppable.
I mean, unbelievably unstoppable.

I took great pleasure in effortlessly driving past the lifted Ford, Chevy, and Ram bro trucks stuck on US 31.
Even pulled a few out of the median with the tow straps I kept with me.

Good times 😁

@Roadkilled It's got a cop motor, a 440 cubic inch plant. Cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made before catalytic converters so it'll run good on regular gas.

@Vondon302 exactly

@pip-bip said in late night oppo:

@RallyDarkstrike true

Hope you had a laid-back day friend! 🙂

@pip-bip I wouldn't kick this chimaera off to the curb.

@Mr-Ontop said in night oppo:

@ranwhenparked Do you think that car sizes will get smaller again like they did in the 80s?

I'd say no because I think the push for small cars of the '80s was a direct response to the oil crisis of the 1970s and the success of small Japanese cars in the US/Canadian market. I don't see a similar shock coming any time soon.

@pip-bip You did give fair warning, so I have nobody but myself to blame for the present emotional climate...

@ranwhenparked
And has vanished since! Still a few in France I suppose.

@ranwhenparked that's brilliant.

@pip-bip Night

@pip-bip -- Lovely vision of American luxury of the period. '64 was the first model after they'd brought in Elwood Engel, who'd recently done one of the best Lincolns. The looks of this era of Imperial have held up very well in my opinion.

@RamblinRover said in late night oppo:

@nerd_racing
What are you saying, that the front end was just a hasty mutilation of the Valiant with almost no independent design direction, and in consequence looked a little wacky?

How dare you.
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That brow ridge hood was so bad... then the "hitler stache" grill... ugh.

@pip-bip

@Ad-absurdum-per-aspera thanks for that.

@Urambo-Tauro said in hour rule:

@pip-bip Nice Saturn!

It's like any other Chrysler of the era. When you start it, it will run roughly for a few minutes, making a lot of noise and spewing a lot of exhaust. For the next 10 minutes, parts keep falling off. After that, the engine cuts out and you have to coast the rest of the way.

@Nauraushaun
Is that cause it's probably not running?

@pip-bip W116 front. Rear quarter windows make me think Valiant/Swinger coupe.