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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #450 on: November 23, 2006, 04:41:33 PM »
I had a disco era Z28 so I know all about long doors. My Dad's Taurus (at the time) tried to kill me once. Driving down the highway and the power seats moves all by its self to the closest position crushing my legs. Pulled over, extracted myself, moved seat back and gingerly drove the rest of the way without a further incident.
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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #451 on: November 23, 2006, 09:08:48 PM »
Shades of CHRISTINE...any other Strange But True Car Stories?


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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #452 on: November 23, 2006, 09:43:22 PM »
Quote from: Tifosi on November 23, 2006, 04:23:16 PM
Talk about your weird car stories...once I opened my car door on an incline, reached over to pick up something on the seat, and started to get out of the car only to get my head caught between the top of the car and the window...the door swung back to close as I was getting out.  It was an '81 Dodge Mirada with frameless glass, and it almost broke my neck.  Honest.


Boy, was that a car...killer looks, leather seats, 3500lbs with an 85 hp Slant-Six...and looonnng, heavy doors.


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You know, I've never actually seen a Dodge Mirada. Sometimes I suspect that cars like that were just made up by the older generation to scare us youngins.
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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #453 on: November 24, 2006, 01:27:38 AM »
Once in a blue moon they'll show up on EBay, usually with a 440 stuffed under the hood, or rusty enough you can see through them...Chrysler built them from 1980-1983 as an anti-Cutlass Supreme.  Mine was probably the most unreliable car I ever owned...kept it 5 years  and only put 50,000 miles on it. Couldn't keep an exhaust system or front brakes on it, the trunk hinges broke because the automatic opener would literally shoot the lid open so hard that if you stuck a rock on the closed trunk and opened it from inside, you ran a serious risk of busting your own windshield.  Andd those !!!**&@&**!! doors...


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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #454 on: November 24, 2006, 05:37:07 AM »
Yikes!
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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #455 on: November 24, 2006, 06:26:07 AM »
And I forgot to mention that my ex father-in-law and I had to put a new rearend in it.  Tightening spring bolts is fun...also, had to replace the catalyst right after I bought it...at 25,000 miles...the cat was clogged, and backpressure from the exhaust was blowing up through the carburetor, making a shreiking noise when I hit the gas.  The engine got so down on power that it could hardly climb a moderate hill in Marion, IN [just a river bluff...]; and I was on a double date.  Very embarrassing...



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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #456 on: November 24, 2006, 06:33:57 AM »
AMC sold 671,475 Gremlins. Dodge sold 53,000 Miradas. The Aspen/Volare roots weren't buried deep enough.  ;)
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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #457 on: November 24, 2006, 09:18:22 AM »
Off to work I go. Time to experience Black Friday from the other side of the register.
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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #458 on: November 24, 2006, 10:05:32 AM »
Quote from: KarnUtz on November 24, 2006, 06:33:57 AM
AMC sold 671,475 Gremlins. Dodge sold 53,000 Miradas. The Aspen/Volare roots weren't buried deep enough.  ;)

Maybe THAT'S what clogged my catalytic convertor...



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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #459 on: November 24, 2006, 10:25:49 AM »
I'm off to Sask this week - 28C and I'm driving the $400 truck 600kms each way. Wish me luck!
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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #460 on: November 24, 2006, 04:37:57 PM »
Good luck and Mazdaspeed...



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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #461 on: November 24, 2006, 04:57:49 PM »
haha - thanks ;D
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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #462 on: November 24, 2006, 10:18:20 PM »
I'm watchng The Last Stingray on Speed...




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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #463 on: November 24, 2006, 11:00:09 PM »
Yeah...I had to stop before they got to the C6's.....too much temptation these days.... :o
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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #464 on: November 25, 2006, 01:22:39 AM »
I miss my Beretta GT...




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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #465 on: November 25, 2006, 03:30:55 AM »
I never drove on of those.

I was watching part of the Stingray marathon last night, until the wife put on yet another one of her forensics shows. She watches the documentary  and the 'ripped from today's headlines' dramas. I call the latter 'corpse operas'.

I'd be happy to watch a forensics investigation of a bank heist or something once in a while, but murder sells, I guess.

Sad that they will never run out of murders to detail. Sickening.
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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #466 on: November 25, 2006, 03:49:58 AM »
...There are too many forensics shows on TV!"

-GIL GRISSOM



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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #467 on: November 25, 2006, 06:44:30 AM »
Yep
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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #468 on: November 25, 2006, 12:09:59 PM »
I'd kill to see fewer murder shows....
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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #469 on: November 25, 2006, 04:02:10 PM »
So, whaddaya think of Nancy Grace?


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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #470 on: November 25, 2006, 05:12:03 PM »
Quincy started it all.
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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #471 on: November 25, 2006, 07:03:39 PM »
I think Nancy Grace is better looking than Quincy....but that's not really saying much.....
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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #472 on: November 25, 2006, 07:53:43 PM »
Frederika Whitfield...now THERE'S a hottie in the news...




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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #473 on: November 26, 2006, 03:11:47 AM »
I don't care for her, Nancy or Quincy.
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Re: The "Must Post" Thread
« Reply #474 on: November 26, 2006, 03:38:06 AM »
A quick Google image search for those who don't know what she looks like reveals..... <me>:

Nothing.

I am destined to remain uncertain as to your assertation, Tifosi, until you provide some sort of photographic corroboration.

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