the funny thing to me is when people assume that for some reason i dont know my own car. at a local car show here in Pittsburgh: stranger: wow...was the engine swap easy? me: (looking confused) say wha? stranger: well i see you put an LT1 in your Roadmaster. me: no sir, thats factory...its a 96 they all had the LT1 stranger: no, these had 3.8 v6's me: (sounding a little annoyed) perhaps you are confusing this with a century, those had v6's .....3.1 not 3.8's but the Roadmaster was always a v8 and 94-96 were ALL LT1. stranger: (sounding angry) I know this is a Roadmaster and i know what a century is ...i had a century. and i know this had a v6, your not gonna bull**** me, Im not an idiot...i just asked a simple question. me: (very annoyed and a little suprised)I am not gonna sit here and argue with you about MY OWN CAR.....go home and look it up stranger: (as he walks away) asshole!
Fakers are bad news,they're just thieves, really. And as far as the movie goes, I remember drooling down the 4 mighty (ha ha)holes in that 4GC on top of my big sister's '63 Impala SS with a 327. Keep busting the crooks!
Well what do you know! My buddy's car is for sale on Craigslist! :laugh: http://longisland.craigslist.org/cto/2117599378.html Funny how he has it priced far below what a real Boss 351 would sell for in similar condition.
The 425 was actually available in '63 as well, but only in the Rivieras. And if I remember correctly, I believe it was painted silver, a one year, one model thing.
I think some of you are being a little hard on some of the car show goers. A lot of them know very little about cars and just their to look at some beautiful cars. We shouln't expect them to have a gear heads knowledge of cars. However that doesn't go for the "know it all" a** h***s like a1a's "friend". You can only hope he went home & looked it up & then felt like a complete dick wad! Notice that the Boos owner doesn't say it's a clone tho.
Having been to too many car shows as both a spectator and a participant, I'm always surprised by what people will attempt to pass off or say about their cars and others. I've seen guys who don't know a thing about their own cars, some never even look under the hood, (they've got "people" for that) and others who try and pass off clones as experimentals. I've had guys tell me that my car is all wrong, and that the engine it has is out of an AMC product because they had the same one in a Javelin, or that Buick never built an overhead valve straight 8 only Chevy did. Most of these automotive authorities only added to their own insult by being people who would have genuinely "been there" by power of being old enough to have actually stood in the showroom when any of my cars were built. I love it when an old guy gets his dander up by being told by a "young" guy (I"m 46) that he's wrong, and he doesn't know what he's talking about. That after he told me that Chrysler should have never dropped the 401 that was in my Buick... It just goes to show a person that one should be on one's toes and always know what they are talking about, because there's either someone out there who genuinely knows about cars or a complete idiot mis-educating his entourage by posing as an authority because he knows how to tune up a Toro lawn mower and is considered as a mechancal genius by his friends. Keep 'em coming; they make good reading...
Actually it was a lot more than I thought; over 1.75 million. When I was Texas A & M, the folks that lived next door had a Vega, it had a plague on the dash and stickers on the door handles that said "1 millionth made"
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That's OK. It's a good way for them to learn. I've got a lot of respect for someone that, asks to be told about a car. I've got a lot of respect about someone that wants to share their knowledge about cars. I've got NO respect for someone that, blathers on about which, they know nothing.
My 69 Skylark convertible is a... GS Stage 1 Prototype "Delete" And my 70 GSX Stage 1 is a Skylark Prototype "Delete" :Smarty: But after we're all dead...their all just the same hunks of metal and plastic. Buick Eric :3gears:
Really old thread, but since we're here anyway, my older brother's first car was a '73 Vega GT, orange with white stripes and interior, and a 4 speed. It too said 'Millionth Vega' on the door handles. Dad paid $450 for it as a bank repo in 1978. Engine melted shortly thereafter. Patrick
Dr. James Alexander, my friend, who worked here at University of Florida Shands Teaching Hospital and the #3 rated heart surgeon in the world before he retired developed a procedure that revolutionized pediatric heart surgery 25 years ago. It was adopted by Thoracic Surgeons worldwide. Some heart doc in California went on 60 minutes claiming he developed it. The staff went nuts and wanted to sue the guy and 60 minutes. But "Zander" in his easy soft North Carolina drawl says "let it go, every Thoracic Surgeon in the world knows it was me, he may look like a hero to the world but he looks like an a## to the surgical community". You gotta wonder about people. Mikey
I see this guy at Marks that has made a CREATION of a GSX something... He has a for sale sign on it so I ask him, he says I want 70 Grand for it because the real ones go for more so I should be able to get 70 Grand... I asked him if that was a real price, that I'm interested and he said "yup I won't come down"... I just laughed at him and said "good luck" as I walked away...
Z-28s never came with a big block.They came in the Camaro SS.Early cars came with a 302 DZ and later ones had a LT-1 359
My 61 Buick is a 1 of 1. It's the only one to have had my arse in the drivers seat. Everything else is irrelevant. That's what I tell people at car shows. Oh and when they call me a dickhead for it, then I say no, not an original dickhead I'm a poorly disguised clone of you sir.....
Had a couple of Vegas never thought they were that light. Guess that's why my little Vega with lots of Clifford Performance goodies always ran door to door with my brothers '72 GS small block.:grin:
$70k for that. You'd think he'd at least put a horn button on that Grant steering wheel for that price. Seats are ugly, anyway.
For 70K I want head & armrests. Hell, I want 'em at 10K. And when people admire our Buick, I'll claim credit for the mechanical side, but not for the bodywork. Had fun at a small car show years ago. Spent a good 5 minutes looking over a '32 Chev, walked right past the Falcon Cobra, and spent another 5 minutes on the Monaro next to it.
