When I wiped out my 97 Avalon, the Mercury dealer had Grand Marquies on sale for $18,000.00. I still couldn't buy one, even after owning an 85 Crown Vic 2dr. The cloth foam seat was horrible, no instrumentation, the fake wires, plastic chrome grill, damn it was a great price too.

]]> We need to convert all our cars to run on "Chip Fat", get the quarter pounder and 10 gallons of chip fat to go.

]]> VW is clueless bring the Bakkie back from South Africa, an 83 Rabbit TDI pickup is just what the country needs now, hell they could probably build it in Pennsylvania too.

]]> Amazing any of the Datsun 510's etc are left. Most of this stuff was thrashed in the 80's when they were cheap. That green Datsun reminds me of a pizza delivery ride that was beaten into the ground. CHP is out in force on I80 from Vallejo to Sac and the Sierra's get used to it.

]]> Harrold Ford in Sactown has a blue 500KR marked up to $60,000.00 I guess its a bargain. I still can't believe they pop rivet the scoop on the standard Shelby, yet there is a California GT that has the scoop mounted without showing the bolts. They can keep it. Mexican manual transmissions, German v6's, French automatics, there isn't an American made muscle car anymore...

]]> Real muscle cars meaning 1964 to 1974 most under $3,000.00. These were still considered late models and in the $4,000.00 to $5,000.00 range.

]]> We didn't even want these turds in the 80's when you could still buy real muscle cars. Now that everything is totalled or over priced this shit is starting to look good. What a sad day in America....

]]> Swap a 5.0 drivetrain in it and put a mustang front clip on it, then you would have a Mustang-whatever...

]]> We only wax nostalgic over these because after seeing them in yards for the last 20 years we know it's the end of the line for cheap project cars. A Mustang and two Dart Sports, not to mention the Corvairs, all salvageble.

]]> Instead of trying to clone that fugly mess who ever buys these hopefully will turn them back into Mustangs, and the Challenger into an over the top re-creation hemi clone, ugh..

]]> Ok, technically we had the Opel and Isuzu sedans.

]]> At least they got the one with a trunk. We only had the hatchback when we should have had the coupe, wagon and pickup too.

]]> Nazi hookers are ok, but not those sideburns...What reality are these idiots in?

]]> 25 years, but at the rate there going. You guys dissing these cars never owned them as your first or second car and never worked on them either. Having paid for them myself and repaired them there was a sense of satisfaction in being able to diagnose and fix it.

]]> A bodies were everywhere and cheap in the 80's when most were destroyed. Had a 71 Duster with 230 hp 318, manual steering and brakes which was a fun car. Had a 73 Swinger in the light blue above with blue interioer, again 318 only down to 150 hp and you could tell the difference. Finally had a 76 purple swinger with corporate Duster/Challenger bucket seats, it drove like my freind's 73 Imperial. Big, slow and heavy at the end but still better than the next 250 years of Chrysler crap that followed. Check out the Australian, South African and Brazilian versions built until 1981.

]]> They will eliminate models, trim levels and maybe divisions before reducing content. I for one have no intentions of going back to manual steering/brakes/windows and no a/c.

]]> Buran is a 3/4 scale shuttle. Most payloads won't fit and it would have had a smaller crew. Why we are going backwards with Apollo style capsules is beyond me when scram/ram jets should be the way to go.

]]> So it was the new for 70 "Crop Duster" in corn cob yellow. Had a 71 even with the 318 it was pretty quick.

]]> Interesting how there was more innovation in the first 20 years of the car then there has been in the last 100.

]]> I had a 1979 Ram Charger with a 318 4bbl, in CA no less...The V8's would take abuse and still do 150,00 - 200,00 easy, leaking oil and everything else. Only other problem was having to pull the intake manifold to knock the carbon out of the choke heater tube with a hammer and screwdriver...

]]> Screw the ads give me a Falcon GT Phase III with 351,, 4spd top loader...

]]> Forget the fright pig BMW, I want that 1,530 litre Benz B class.

]]> That looks like a shorter early 60's Falcon.

]]> The loss of parts is what is sad. Even 20 years ago there were plenty of yards in Northern Ca with cars, they have vanished, been zoned out of business or are late model only. Funny, CA is the car capitol of the world, yet politicians hate cars with a passion. If it isn't moving or off the street, they will come after it. Sad to see it get crushed but that's how it is here.

]]> Murliee, don't any of these guys writing these articles know anything? A lot of the designs that went South prove they had many more years left in them and should have been built here longer. Planned obsolecense left the American industry screwed and AMC in the grave....

]]> You want it go buy the Volvo, Ford may not be as stupid as everyone thinks. They will get it together as sales continue down the drain, or else everything will be Mazda based and built in Mexico.

]]> KorvetKeith, dude you have issues that don't belong here.

]]> When China and India and what the hell, Africa too are going green it might impact the environment, in the meantime all the crap there pumping in the air, water and soil will blow over us, wash up and get blown here anyway.

]]> You really would be the "pee-on" under these stupid bastards.

]]> The thing has jumped the shark before it ever hits the street. Transformers III will be out before this ting.

]]> Be glad they buy it. It makes that fugly Camaro and vette possible here. G.M. only needs Chevy - Buick - Cadillac, they should get rid of everything else.

]]> Black Jack was the best. Still have it. I just need a new cord. Build a ramp and jump em as far as they would fly. American made toys that could take some beating. Now kids don't even go outside and most are too stupid to build ramps. At least our toys made us think of ways to destroy em.

]]> The problem is, cars don't last in the yards. Not like the old days where you and the cars could linger for a few months or years. Now it's get it before it's crushed. When you see it you had better have the tools, time and cash to buy it.

]]> Why not diesel electric trucks like trains and going back to rail for the long haul, free's up the roads for us.

]]> Chopped the top off a 68 plymouth fury with a sawzall back in the 80's when they were disposable. It didn't make a good convertible being a unibody an all. Had a 69 Sport Fury Suburban with woodgrain, a 3rd seat and 2 way tailgate. Bought it for $250.00 thrashed it and sold it for $450.00 to another guy who wasted it. The only car I ever made money on... Ford Australia still makes wagons, don't know if they have 3rd seats or not.

]]> Social Security and welfare are expensive. We have to cut corners, we hire the Chinese who spy on us, might as well buy their crap to save a few more bucks. Thank god, or Mao, we have all these political and retired military whores selling off the country and our kids future.

]]> Lexus must be impressed that Lincoln is copying everything they make. Can't waite for the LS clone.

]]> British are wacked out anyway. It wasn't a young boy or a dead hooker so who gives a shit. Most of us gave up on most forms of motorsports, F1 and Nascar included a few years ago...

]]> Too many divisions killed great products, now it had led to medeiocraty. G.M. could have produced a great sports car but it would have been gone by the early 70's without bumpers and smog gear.

]]> Australians don't like American cars period. They didn't want the Taurus, Explorer, F250 or Mustang. They think our cars are too soft and fugly. There right. Ford will fuck it up. It's better to leave the Falcon alone, why should they have to suffer with the same crap we do?

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