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Detroit, 6:55 AM
Thu Nov 12
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08/09/09
Either way, it's sacrilege. My 1963 Chevy II Nova wagon is rolling over in it's grave.
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Rattle can paint job: Perfect!
Painted over body cancer: Billetproof!
Various appropriate speed stickers: Love 'em
Lime green donks: WTF were you thinking man!?
08/08/09
The below section is directed at Nibbles' handlers only and should not be construed as criticism of anybody but the ones who foisted this abominable, buggy and unfriendly "new and improved" site format:
[rant]Sirs; your "improvements" are anything but. Picture posting is spotty at best, it capriciously crops and/or resizes images with no real apparent rhyme or reason to it. Sometimes editing your post will cause images to vanish into the ether, other times it does not. Editing posts makes all HTML formatting disappear. Your "improved" galleries will NOT under any circumstances show me any image larger than a thumbnail for more than a second (which requires clearing my browser cache for each view). When comments exceed the set page length, they fall off the face of the internet, never to be seen again (unless you dig them up in the author's profile page, but then you don't get to see any of the responses). The reverse chronological order of comment posting makes reading in order inconvenient if not impossible and leads to many, many repeated comments by people who might have bothered to read through first, if it wasn't such a pain in the ass. There is no real visual distinction between an original post and a reply to it, other than the @username: at the beginning of it, indenting would be nice. somebody posted a nice Greasemonkey script over at Lifehacker that addressed the reply and gray text issues (forgot to mention that one) and made the comments somewhat easier to read, but apparently some changes were made that rendered it useless through anomalous behavior and (AFAIK) most people who loved it have had to quit using it.[/rant]
These are the most glaring of my issues with the commenting system, and by no means constitutes a complete list. Thank you for tolerating my little rant.
[Steps down off soapbox]
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Edit: /hornet's nest, meet stick
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2) Fill hose 3/4 full of lead bird shot (BBs will do in a pinch).
3) Plug the other end.
4) Apply liberally to the perpetrator of this visual offense until he sees the error of his ways, and agrees to replace those horrid wheels with slot mags or steelies and dog dishes.
5) Graciously allow perp to paint steelies green, if he wants.
Seriously, I like the car. I even like the green stripe that seems to offend so many here. Even at its most liberal though, my keen appreciation of all things ironic cannot deal with those horrid wheels.
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I read that as "Graverobber's love child. "
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EDIT: Colour me infuriated with this new commenting system, now.
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@FP - Funny how it seems quiet around here, eh?: The hamsters have been eating goose shit, it seems.
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I wish I had some pictures, but my favorite was a Mustang with wheels so big that the wheel wells had to be cut out and expanded.
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@discontinuuity is missing Uncle Pete, the Auto...:
I always thought the big rims were a Southern thing... probably had its roots in being forced out of necessity to put tractor wheels on your car, because that's all they had at the old general store... sorry, I ramble. I spent some time in Milwaukee, you see a ton of donks there, complete with the requisite metal-flake paint and skittles or mcdonalds decals, but luckily they aren't so common in the Northeast, with the exception of this notable one:
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...or some full moon hubcaps with whitewalls, if he's going for that semi-hideous ratty look.
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That's because at that time GM dominated the bigger car markets -- and that's where the money was. The Chevy II was designed to lure you into the dealer on price but move you into something more . . . substantial. Hey, how about this Malibu over here?
After launching the Chevy II in 1962, GM pretty much forgot about it. As a case in point, the Chevy II was the very last U.S.-built passenger car to switch to curved side windows (in 1968).
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Chrysler: Imperial (1957), other big cars (1965), mid-sized (1966), compacts and pony cars (1967).
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Ford: Lincoln (1966), other big cars (1965), mid-sized and Falcon (1966), T-Bird (1967), Mustang (1965).
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GM: Big cars (1965), Riviera/Toronado (1966), mid-sized (1964), Corvair (1965), Chevy II and Corvette (1968).
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AMC: Senior Ramblers (1963), American (1964).
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Tonyola, the Lincoln switched back to curved glass with the 1966 models.
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JB: The Satellite/Coronet received new bodies for 1966.
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@DrLemming: I see that you've overlooked a very notable American automobile manufacturer. One that had flat side glass until 1982, when they ceased production at their Kalamazoo, MI factory. It might have been a primarily niche vehicle, but was by no means limited production.
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