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Offline ChaosphereIX

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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1480 on: July 07, 2013, 03:03:54 pm »
Quote from: 1TSX on July 07, 2013, 02:51:56 pm
Alfa Romeo Giulietta.
gorgeous car! Wish we could get them here...would have mine as a black QV...
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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1481 on: July 07, 2013, 03:19:24 pm »
Quote from: ChaosphereIX on July 07, 2013, 03:03:54 pm
Quote from: 1TSX on July 07, 2013, 02:51:56 pm
Alfa Romeo Giulietta.
gorgeous car! Wish we could get them here...would have mine as a black QV...

I saw alot when I was in Italy last summer. Looks best in black.  :drool:
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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1482 on: July 11, 2013, 09:05:29 pm »
I love those old C3 Vette's....Horrible cars really; they ride like trucks, their not particularly fast, and the interiors fall apart at a pretty alarming rate....But the racked back seating position, airplane style gauges on the console and the fact that they look like sex on wheels (well, dirty you really shouldn't do it sex...but sex none the less) make them a winner in my books.
I really miss the `73 roadster I had... :(
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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1483 on: July 14, 2013, 06:16:02 pm »
Old school cool. (C43 AMG)
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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1484 on: July 14, 2013, 06:49:57 pm »
mid-1970s Lincoln Town Car

I've been watching The Rockford Files on DVD lately and the bad guys always seem to be driving these (no wonder Rockford always outdrives 'em).

Still there's something properly majestic about these old Lincolns.  I like 'em.

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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1485 on: July 14, 2013, 06:59:55 pm »
Quote from: Scarecrow on July 14, 2013, 06:49:57 pm
mid-1970s Lincoln Town Car


A friend had one.  IT WAS HUGE!!  Back seat was the size of a couch.  Fuel economy?  8 MPG!!   :o
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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1486 on: July 14, 2013, 07:09:50 pm »
I remember those and the MK IV.  For myself I would like an Eldo 'vert light blue over white leather with the (IIRC) 500 cu in 4 barrel engine.   The absolute ultimate pimp mobile...just to drive slowly around on summer weekends.
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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1487 on: July 14, 2013, 07:36:55 pm »
Oh yeah...those Town Cars were definitely HUGE.  Plenty of room for dead bodies in the trunk.

Speaking of HUGE cars I saw a fabulous 1965 Chrysler Imperial convertible at the Merrickville car show today, in the same colour as the one in the photo below.  The body panels on it were laser straight.  And vast.  I likened the car to an aircraft carrier.



Still, it was totally cool.  Kato and the Green Hornet probably drove one during their vacations.  :pimp:

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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1488 on: July 15, 2013, 08:04:42 am »
Quote from: mmret on July 14, 2013, 06:16:02 pm
Old school cool. (C43 AMG)

a properly quick and good looking Merc there. Love the old styling, it had something that the newbies just fail to capture...
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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1489 on: July 16, 2013, 11:25:39 am »
MMMMMMM....just saw one this morning  :love: :drool:

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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1490 on: July 16, 2013, 02:04:46 pm »
A white Boss 302....a GT in Edmonton, hahahahaha....thats funny. The people around here prefer to show off their wealth with large diesel trucks!!  ;D
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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1491 on: July 18, 2013, 08:45:30 am »
Not obsessing over it, but I had forgotten these G vert's exist.
Do like the look of it, but pretty portly (400+ pounds heavier than the coupe !!) although the reviews i've read say it handles pretty well (with the Sport pkg).  And I love the VQ.
All but impossible to find with a manual, but worthy of a test drive.

http://www.autotrader.ca/a/Infiniti/G/MISSISSAUGA/Ontario/5_17597273_ON20070813094418423/?ursrc=pl&showcpo=ShowCPO
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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1492 on: July 18, 2013, 09:09:07 am »
I never understood the love for the VQ...every noise it makes seems to rub me the wrong way. It sure has power, but doesnt sound good going about its business, and it is not for lack of volume either...

But I do respect its reliability and its power delivery!
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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1493 on: July 18, 2013, 09:17:22 am »
Quote from: ChaosphereIX on July 18, 2013, 09:09:07 am
I never understood the love for the VQ...every noise it makes seems to rub me the wrong way. It sure has power, but doesnt sound good going about its business, and it is not for lack of volume either...

But I do respect its reliability and its power delivery!

i think VQs get the love for the flexibility of power and supposed reliability.   personally i like the sound it emits.  but not the power.  VQ in anything heavier than G sedans/coupes feel anemic..
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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1494 on: July 18, 2013, 09:28:25 am »
the more I read about this car, the more I want it in my garage next to the Alfa.

20v 5cyl turbo with 220hp, but nobody keeps it at that for long. Such a fantastic sound, like the tuned Volvos...

Drove like a demon when I took it out, man this thing is properly quick...

dont know how to attach photos...
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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1495 on: July 18, 2013, 10:05:49 am »
Quote from: ChaosphereIX on July 18, 2013, 09:09:07 am
I never understood the love for the VQ...every noise it makes seems to rub me the wrong way. It sure has power, but doesnt sound good going about its business, and it is not for lack of volume either...

But I do respect its reliability and its power delivery!

Ive driven a few 350Z....the ones with stock intake and exhaust...yeah, about as soul stirring as a electric lawnmover. I drove one that had a CAI, different intake, cams, full exhaust and a good tune.....holy mother, that sounded amazing and went like stink. My Altima didnt inspire much till I stuck in a Nismo cat back system.
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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1496 on: July 21, 2013, 11:36:59 pm »
I'm in love with these cars now...



Probably not what you guys might take as a first choice but I like it!
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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1497 on: July 21, 2013, 11:46:47 pm »
Quote from: MD1987 on July 21, 2013, 11:36:59 pm
I'm in love with these cars now...



Probably not what you guys might take as a first choice but I like it!

Have you ridden in a used one?? Holy rattletrap and for fun check out the reliability ratings......
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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1498 on: July 22, 2013, 10:21:15 am »
Found an 1 hour last night, and was able to vacuum the Mazda5, been trying to do it for a month.  Kinda what happens when you work opposite shifts as your wife, then taking care of the baby, then family visits, taking care of the house, you know how it is..  Hopefully I can find another 1 hour tonight, to clean the leather and plastics.  Next month maybe the exterior....
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Re: What car have you been obsessing about today?
« Reply #1499 on: July 22, 2013, 11:55:21 am »
Quote from: Solstice2006 on July 22, 2013, 10:21:15 am
Found an 1 hour last night, and was able to vacuum the Mazda5, been trying to do it for a month.  Kinda what happens when you work opposite shifts as your wife, then taking care of the baby, then family visits, taking care of the house, you know how it is..  Hopefully I can find another 1 hour tonight, to clean the leather and plastics.  Next month maybe the exterior....
so you have been obsessing about a mazda5? aim higher dude... j/k  ;)

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