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    Fill Your Neighborhood With Affordable Rootes Group Machinery!

    What Do You Drive To The Monterey Historics? Leave The Camry At Home!
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    Image of Armand Armand
    06/01/09

    In reply to Fill Your Neighborhood With Affordable Rootes Group Machinery!
    Oh, shit.
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    06/01/09

    @Armand: All right, in the five minutes since I wrote that comment, I've thought of about a million projects that I could do with those Rootes cars. I don't need them all, of course. I just need that Alpine, so that I could take the wire wheels off it and put them on my Alpine. I also need the Rapier hardtop, which will become a vintage racer and rally car. That's all I need. Also, that Hillman Minx Estate wagon. I'd put the aluminum-headed 1725cc motor from that Alpine in place of the iron-headed 1390cc engine it originally had, instantly doubling the power. Then I could use it to carry parts for my other Rootes Group projects. Also, I'd get that Gerstenslager transport wagon to carry around my whole Sunbeam racing team.

    Then I could take the Rapier convertible to LeMons. Wait, are there any Humbers there? A LeMons Super Snipe would be even cooler.

    Okay, I need to stop thinking about more Rootes Group projects. I should probably lie down, actually-- I'm getting a little lightheaded.
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    06/01/09

    @Armand: As soon as I read the title of this post, I thought....Armand's "Rootes-Group-sense" must be tingling. Alas, the lack of Super Snipes is disheartening.
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    06/01/09

    @SCROGGS!!: The lack of Super Snipes is indeed disheartening, but it's not really a deal-breaker. Instead of using a Humber for LeMons, I'm going to make the Sunbeam Alpine the only car to win the Index of Efficiency at Le Mans and the Index of Effluency at LeMons.
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    05/31/09

    In reply to Fill Your Neighborhood With Affordable Rootes Group Machinery!
    So many awesome PCH possibilities. I kinda want that Celica, too.
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    05/31/09

    In reply to Fill Your Neighborhood With Affordable Rootes Group Machinery!
    I hope that most of the collection finds buyers. I'd hate to see any of it find its way to the scrapyard. If I had any money, I'd do my part.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    05/31/09

    In reply to Fill Your Neighborhood With Affordable Rootes Group Machinery!
    Ye gods.


    I've always craved a Sunbeam--Alpine or Rapier.

    Endless supply of both PCH and LeMons Index of Effluency contenders.

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    Image of John Krewson John Krewson
    05/31/09

    In reply to Fill Your Neighborhood With Affordable Rootes Group Machinery!
    The very idea of communists being in charge in Waukesha is pretty hilarious. The Wiscommunists I know would have dropped the whole thing at the word "museum." No, this is some freaking Kohler-backed HOA, mark my words.
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    05/31/09

    In reply to Fill Your Neighborhood With Affordable Rootes Group Machinery!
    Shit, I need to head on over to Wisconsin. There's something I'd never imagine saying in my life.
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    Image of John Krewson John Krewson
    05/31/09

    @.357: Oh, yeah, by all means, stay away. You'd really hate it. Nothing to see, know what I mean? Best just avoid the place.
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    05/31/09

    @John Krewson: Is that reverse psychology?
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    05/31/09

    In reply to Fill Your Neighborhood With Affordable Rootes Group Machinery!
    Is it wrong that I want the Fiat 500, Gerstenslager Team Transporter, one of the Fageol Vans and the Celica? I mean like, more than anything else on that list.


    I guess I'm weird because the Honda Z600 is high on the "weird old cars I'd like to own" list.

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    05/31/09

    In reply to Fill Your Neighborhood With Affordable Rootes Group Machinery!
    "Outdoor Museum", that's a good one..


    Slantsick to Code Enforcement Officer: "What the hell d'ya mean, haul off that junk Hotpoint stove? That's not a scrapmetal eyesore, that's an open-air artistic tribute to the American Housewife of the 1970s, you philistine!"

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    05/31/09

    @Slantsick: now GALVENIZED: "Oh, you meant the Corolla? Sure thing."
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    05/31/09

    @Replying as a troll: As if I'd have a Corolla in my yard... I have a '94 Buick Century (currently being used as a shed), that's bad enough. I wouldn't turn down that yellow Celica though, they're cool.
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    05/31/09

    In reply to Fill Your Neighborhood With Affordable Rootes Group Machinery!
    I love that song. My buddy who is from WI plays it every time he road trips back home.
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    Image of Captain Liverspots Captain Liverspots
    05/31/09

    In reply to Fill Your Neighborhood With Affordable Rootes Group Machinery!
    Is it wrong that I have unnatural levels of want towards that '67 Alpine? I don't want to restore it or even paint it...hell, I'm not sure I'd even take the wheels out of the backseat. I just want to want to watch the faces of my co-workers scrunch up in puzzlement as I chug into the parking lot, slowly no doubt, and they try to figure out just what the fuck I'm up to this time.
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    06/01/09

    @Capt. Eldrock Bolton: I'd say it's oh-so-right, but I'm probably not the person to ask.
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    05/31/09

    In reply to Fill Your Neighborhood With Affordable Rootes Group Machinery!
    Who wants to win the Index of Effluency at LeMons hands down at every race with a different car every time? Here you go. Your level of awesomeness would redline if you fixed up one of those old COE trucks to be you transporter. I think one's a Ford, might have a flathead V8. Try and beat that for cool.
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    05/31/09

    @CptSevere: My first thought too.
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    In reply to Fill Your Neighborhood With Affordable Rootes Group Machinery!
    cotomer sevis found dis well
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    Image of jduffy13 jduffy13
    05/31/09

    In reply to Fill Your Neighborhood With Affordable Rootes Group Machinery!
    You guys should do a "Name the Top 5 Cars you'd like to Find in a Barn" contest.


    It would be intriguing to hear what vintage cars people covet most.

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    Image of A strolling player A strolling player
    05/31/09

    @jduffy13: Easy.


    '51 Studebaker Land Cruiser

    Citroën Traction Avant

    BMW Isetta

    Lagonda 2.6 drophead

    Toyota 2000GT

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    05/31/09

    @jduffy13:
    First-gen Plymouth Valiant w/Hyper-Pak slant6
    Any '57 DeSoto, Explorer 9-passenger wagon prefered
    Aussie Valiant ute
    1970 Dart Custom sedan, same colors/options as my first car
    1961 DeSoto
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    Image of Stranger than most Stranger than most
    05/31/09

    @jduffy13:

    Any Sunbeam other then Tiger

    Any 1955-1971 Impala, Bel Aire, Caprice, Nomad

    Any 1930-1941 other then 32 Ford coupe (I am sick of looking at them)

    Any 1947-1965 Willy/Jeep Wagon

    1965 Chevy van

    1967 VW Bug
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    05/31/09

    @Stranger than most: That's no fun, let's get specific! '64 Impala only, that's my call!
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    05/31/09

    @Slantsick: now GALVENIZED: Serious MoPar jones. Incurable.
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    05/31/09

    @Replying as a troll: that's 6 right there.

    1968 Impala Fastback

    1965 Bel Aire Wagon

    1957 Nomad

    1964 Impala SS Convertible

    1959 Impala 2 door

    1971 Caprice Wagon
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    05/31/09

    @Stranger than most: That's the spirit! I'd love to see your driveway after that happens. I can do one like that.


    1931 President Four Seasons Roadster

    1951 Land Cruiser

    1964 Daytona R2 two-door hardtop

    1957 Golden Hawk

    1963 Wagonaire

    1963 Avanti R3

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    05/31/09

    @jduffy13:

    Ferrari 250 GTO


    Rolls-Royce Phantom I


    Alfa-Romeo 1900


    Bentley 4½ Litre


    1969 Pontiac GTO Judge

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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    05/31/09

    @jduffy13: In no particular order:

    '67 Pontiac Le Mans Sprint four-door hardtop four-speed


    Lamborghini Espada


    '67 Toyota Crown pickup


    '63 Corvette Grand Sport #6 (which may or may not have existed)


    BMW 507

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