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mechimike
07/25/09

In reply to Move Some Iron, Malaise Era Style: Dealer's Choice Board Game!
Mille Borne! I loved that game...we play it every Christmas, its a family tradition. When my brother and I were younger we used to run around the house holding up cars at each other to signify how fast the other should run. We'd hold up like a 200 card and then hold up an Accident card, and the other person would go careening across the room into the couch or something. Good times.

I never heard it called "Touring". "Mille Bourne" sounds so much cooler.
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VadinDadger
07/25/09

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"all flash, no dash" was always my favorite... I seem to remember it coming up frequently with the Continental Mk II. Oh, and that new blue Monte Carlo on the game box cover? I could cry...
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Accident
07/25/09

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I actually still have this game somewhere, but if I remember right the cards have been seperated from the rest of the game and I need to find them.

I've never actually played the game though, everyone always wanted to play Life instead...
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Black Stig Lives!
07/25/09

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That tank seems a little under blue book. It must not be DOT approved.
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UDMan
07/25/09

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Murilee, this was also a game of my youth, only when all the boys (and there were 4 of us) memorized every piece, we actually tripled the number of cars offered, and made up some more values for the additional vehicles. I remember including a Ford Econoline, A Buick of some sort, a Stationwagon (or 2), a Pickup Truck, a Vespa Scooter, and other odds and ends.

What a trip down memory lane.....
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Timtoolman, sporadically speaking
07/25/09

@UDMan: I bet I can find this one in my attic. Without looking (the pics did not load) I know there's a Corvette, a Reo, and I believe something odd, like a tank. Anyway, it was an education into how to swindle your siblings in order to win a game.
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Pastrafer
07/25/09

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Well, I suppose that if Murilee had played Monopoly instead now he would be an investment banker or real estate mogul.

I use to play the Milles Borne game, in acrimonious, hatred-filled sessions with my sisters too, only we called it "los Mil Hitos" in Spanish even when the spanish version was called simply "1000 kilometros".
My mother bought it because she played it too with his siblings and I liked the Renault 5 Turbo on the cover. The actual drawings on the cards were exactly the same as the ones on the french version
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Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
07/25/09

@Pastrafer: We played Milles Bornes through two years of high school French class. It was about the most teaching the teacher thought she could get away with. Excellent training on how to be busy without being productive.
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Pastrafer
07/25/09

@Pastrafer: I used the game of course but I used to play it, then my mother is a little Mediterranean by American standards but certainly I wouldn't mistake her for a man, ask me how I know.

There somebody that is selling a game of 1000 kilometros on ebay in its unopened box for 50€, I guess spanish playing cards powerhouse Fournier must have discontinued it
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Number_Six
07/25/09

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Amazing; it just oozes camp 1970s America.

Here's the game that turned me into a complete car/bike/aircraft/helicopter anorak:

http://www.ultimate-top-trumps.co.uk/ace.htm
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Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
07/25/09

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This is exactly the sort of life training that would have come in handy. Of course, with the benefit of hindsight, I'd feel fortunate to have bought any of those cars for the price.
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Brian
07/25/09

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Wow. There are exactly none of these cars that I would welcome into my personal Fantasy Garage. Except maybe the tank. The neighbors might complain about that.
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HoonThatFerrari
07/25/09

@Brian B: But then, considering you have a tank, they wouldn't complain for long... now, would they? ;)
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Murilee Martin
07/25/09

@Brian B: You wouldn't want a '47 Chrysler Town & Country woodie wagon? Communist!
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smalleyxb122
07/25/09

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Just good to see that I didn't overpay by too much when I bought my Checker for $2026.
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Novaload
07/25/09

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Hmmm. This has the makings of LeMons Penalty.

Actually, I disagree that insurance from roving bands of chickens is of "no value." Do you know the kind of damage those shitsters with their velociraptor claws can do to a paint job? And the eggs, the eggs. Ruination.You just have to give up and call Earl.
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danio3834
06/22/09

In reply to 1982: It's A Malaise-O-Rama $2188 Sale At Bert Weinman Ford!
I'll admit it, I love big ass malaise era cars. I'm sick like that.

My favorite car of all time is a '79 Continental Town Car.
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John Krewson
06/21/09

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Sorry, but I can't get excited about these things. They were big and clunky and poorly-thought out and brown, and they seemed to match the world of 1982 all too well. I was 13, the age where I should have liked any car regardless of anything, but these were the cars we had to sit through while waiting for the future to catch up with us.

Just a few years before that, though, a backwards-facing rear seat and a long road trip was all I asked from the world.
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eggwich del fiero
06/21/09

@John Krewson: Sitting in the rear-facing seat in the back of a Country Squire gave me my first captive audience (whoever was driving behind me). Just forcing adults to look at you is more power than most 8 year olds can handle.
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John Krewson
06/21/09

@darth eggwich del fiero: No kidding. More than one comedian of my generation has said the experience featured prominently in their early development.
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Novaload
06/21/09

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We had that model Merc.

Ah, for the days when those dinosaurs ruled the earth! Luxo-barges with interiors the size of living rooms.

And one of the wagons -- MoPar maybe-- had seating for 3 in the front, in the rear seat and two facing bench seats in the rear, for 3 more on a side.
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Tossed Accord taco salad over Malibu face
06/21/09

@Novaload Misses Murilee:

Whats a front bench seat?

Dinosaurs..
Have you seen the latest Expedition / Armada / Toureg
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.357
06/21/09

@Spilled Accordtaco salad over Malibu:
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If FromaBuick6 has to watch one more Chevy commercial, he's going to punch Howie Long in the face
06/21/09

@Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer: Cutlass S?
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.357
06/21/09

@FromaBuick6: Yes, a 72.
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UDMan
06/21/09

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Am I so screwed up that I'd rock each and every one of those 1977 cars? The Malibu? yes. The LTD II Brougham Hardtop? Yes. The Grand Marquis? Definitely Yes. Oh, but the daddy of them all, that 9 Passenger Squire Wagon, even in that light blue color.... wow. Of course, back in 1981, I was just making $18,000 per year, with a mortgage. And I just took delivery of a 1982 Jetta, only my second import. I didn't truly appreciate these maliase Mobiles then.
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Tossed Accord taco salad over Malibu face
06/21/09

@UDMan:

Would you rock one of these HARDER than a Exploder, TB copy, Tahoe or current 7-9 pass vehicle?
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MushyHeirloom
06/21/09

@Spilled Accordtaco salad over Malibu: I sure would. Almost as safe (assuming shoulder belts) and they're wide enough that you probably won't roll it.
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Serious Mopar Jones- Incurable
06/21/09

@UDMan: I know it's probably ridiculous to split hairs over malaise styling, but I'd pass on the Malibu.. I've never liked the looks of those. Although, my mom had a '75 Malibu wagon (briefly) when I was a kid, and I remember being impressed by the sheer hulk of that pig. Now, I'm faintly insulted that GM called that a "midsize" car.

And in 1981, I was rockin this fine set of wheels:

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