Always been one of my favorite sayings: "I make 400 HP at 4500 RPM, your civic makes 120 HP at 45,000 rpm" :laugh: :beer
Even if I had the money, I'd be hesitant to own a Superbird or Daytona wing car just because of the image the ricers have given 'em over the past few years. Seems all the car shows are going that way too with new ones popping up all the time. I just don't get it but prolly not supposed to since I'm too far removed from that generation. I'll just be content to mow 'em down on the streets when they cop those attitudes. Rice... it's what for dinner. On that GN wing..... I thought only stupid stuff like that only happened here in the deep south. You know, down here in Dukes of Hazard, NASCAR lovin' country. I'd sure like to read an interview on the GN Superbird owner on why he butchered that car!
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well, i AM that generation. people seem to forget that we're not all idiots, i cringe at this stuff, too, and likewise try and hold my laughter when some kid starts telling his stories of 'racing' his 110hp honda civic.
David, I don't think Evans Ward was knocking your (our) generation as a whole, but more or less the ones with fartpipes and wings stuck up their arses. Come to think, I don't think he was knocking it at all. Kinda like why we don't understand why their generation was into olive green kitchen appliances:laugh: :laugh: I watched Fast and the Furious the other night...it has LOTS of rice in it. I don't think I would want to mess with those guys if I met them at the line in my LeSabre though. Damn 10 second go karts.:blast:
Adam, Thats Avacado....you young whipper-snapper....:grin: Sorry, I couldn't resist, I'm only 34 so I only have memories of the Avacado stove in my first apartment(in 1990)
:eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: :eek2: some people just shouldn't play with cars!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock: :shock:
:eek2: maybe the 50yr old geezer could not see where the rear of the car ended and needed a reference point so he could parallel park when he goes to the local wallgreen's for his medication.:error::spank:
Boy are you right! My first house had an avacado stove, refrigerator and WALLS! and that was in 1980! They said the fridge didn't work, but it stunk, and some charcoal and baking soda cleaned that up real quick and it worked the whole 4 years I lived there! Who knows the folks that bought the house with the avacodo appliances may still be using it! All I can say is to each his own, if this guy with the wing is happy with his GN wannabe a Superbird, that's ok, he probably needs some attention and that's his way of getting it! That's cool, but going fast and whipping the ricers on the street gets noticed without the added attraction! Fast and the Furious, what a interesting show, watched it last year, with my co-partner for the Norwalk Raceday, Bill Wills, and we laughed and laughed at all of it, unfortunately the young folk think it's cool, someday they will realize what the '70s cars were all about, but only if we keep that alive by keeping our cars out and in the street or preferrably drag strip to be on the safe side, against their ricers, there is of course the fuel issues, and money issues of continuing our choice of fast, but some of them will see the 'real' side of horsepower vs cool, and those are the ones we need to recruit! So don't let down on your fast with class project, there are protege out there to convert to the 'other side' the "real" muscle car! BUICKS of course! RV
The good thing I see is a lot of kids go straight to tech school and they learn to work on "real" engines as opposed to rice steamers. Most of the kids driving those winged sh*tboxes are mama's boys with trust funds who don't know their ass from a hole in the ground. They go for image only, and some of them get lucky enough to find ways to actually make their cars run reasonably quickly. The kids who learned on the big blocks are the ones driving primered rust buckets with 500hp muscles. Unless they happen to be trust babies too, then they're driving a sweet ass ride. BTW, I just added a section in my Buick Parts webpage that is basically a gallery of everyone's Buicks. Soooo, feel free to email me any links to your pages, or send me some pics and your name and some info about the car(s) and I'll be glad to post them!
I have been getting a kick out of reading the things we say to characterize the ricers! Fartpipes, coffee cans, fart cans, etc. I laugh every time I see someone making reference to any of these. I guess because it's so true, it's sickening. I'd hate to see a ricer read some of the posts we have made...they might go home and tell mom on us:blast:
Well, that would have been a 40 year old's parent's generation that was into the Orange / Harvest Gold / Avocado colors. :gt: Like my parents. Bad taste from my generation, How about a jacked up car (usually a Nova) with a flourescent day glo painted rear axle. With lights rigged up on the lower shock mounts and or inside the rear wheel wells? With prismatic tape in strategic areas. I just happened to think of Joe Dirt. I'm glad I ran with the BOP, Caddy crowd.
For you fogeys that don't get it, All I have to say to you is dingleberries, air shocks and side pipes. 'nuff said. I think every generation has awful styling cues, this is just a particularly bad one.
I don't know how this post ended up where it is but....... Nobody has mentioned CB radios ( hole drilled in deck lid for antenna) , shag carpet ( orange or green), and my personal favorite....... FUN FUR on the rear window ledge. And lets not forget for the guy who has money.....cut a hole in the roof and put in a SUNROOF!! Ah yes, the 70's Definitely a good arguement against the recreational use of marijuana. ou:
