Pictures of the most interesting or vulgar car you ever owned . . .
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My father also had a Cadillac Fleetwood but it was triple red. Metallic red paint, vinyl top and leather all in red. He and my mother used to take it on road trips across the country. His aunt owned a funeral home, it was one of their cars and she sold it to him when she got too old to drive.
He also had a '91 Lexus LS400, so I encouraged him to sell the Cadillac because he was getting older and it was too hard to maneuver. Plus, in the early 90's it looked like a "pimp car". He met someone at a gas station that wanted to buy the Cadillac. She had a Cadillac DeVille Coupe and was looking for a sedan in pristine shape. She wrote him a check, he sold it to her and she drove it home.
I would classify it as interesting and vulgar at the same time.:D
He also had a '91 Lexus LS400, so I encouraged him to sell the Cadillac because he was getting older and it was too hard to maneuver. Plus, in the early 90's it looked like a "pimp car". He met someone at a gas station that wanted to buy the Cadillac. She had a Cadillac DeVille Coupe and was looking for a sedan in pristine shape. She wrote him a check, he sold it to her and she drove it home.
I would classify it as interesting and vulgar at the same time.:D
In 1986 my father gave the Fleetwood to my mom and traded her 82 Town Car for a MK Vll LSC, that was a fun car at the time. He kept that car for approx 7 years (a record for him) and 155K mostly trouble free miles believe it or not..
Only major thing that went wrong was the air suspension started leaking around 120K miles. So on cold mornings you would go outside and the car would be sitting on the ground. It would take approx 15 mins for the compressor to bring it back up..
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Not sure if I would classify it as vulgar, interesting yes, not vulgar.. LOL
In 1986 my father gave the Fleetwood to my mom and traded her 82 Town Car for a MK Vll LSC, that was a fun car at the time. He kept that car for approx 7 years (a record for him) and 155K mostly trouble free miles believe it or not..
Only major thing that went wrong was the air suspension started leaking around 120K miles. So on cold mornings you would go outside and the car would be sitting on the ground. It would take approx 15 mins for the compressor to bring it back up..
In 1986 my father gave the Fleetwood to my mom and traded her 82 Town Car for a MK Vll LSC, that was a fun car at the time. He kept that car for approx 7 years (a record for him) and 155K mostly trouble free miles believe it or not..
Only major thing that went wrong was the air suspension started leaking around 120K miles. So on cold mornings you would go outside and the car would be sitting on the ground. It would take approx 15 mins for the compressor to bring it back up..
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I classify anything that large as vulgar. That includes the current Escalade, Navigator, Tahoe, etc. No one NEEDS a vehicle that large when there are so many other vehicles that offer equivalent room in a smaller package. And yes, I detest the soccer moms with one child who drive GMC Denalis and take 10 minutes to BACK THEM INTO A PARKING SPACE while everyone else waits in line.![Wink](https://www.clublexus.com/forums/images/smilies/wink.gif)
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IMO I consider something ugly as vulgar, so for me a Pontiac Aztek is VULGAR..
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Anyways, if you think big cars are vulgar, I also had a 1995 Cadillac Fleetwood for a while. Didn't go for the "Brougham" option, as that gave you an IMO ugly vinyl roof that didn't compliment the lines of the car. It had 50k miles on it when I bought it 6 years ago, spent some money on speed parts including the pictured Impala SS wheels, 3.73 gears with a posi-track, cold air intake, headers, deleted cat converters, and high flow mufflers. It wasn't too obnoixously loud unless I stepped on it. It straight up moved for a car that was longer than a Suburban, ran a 14.1@96mph in the quarter. The LT1 V8 in it was a great motor, just gobs of low end torque. Main thing it was a great cruiser if you weren't hauling *** in it, extremely quiet, great ride, comfortable seats.
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i think its interesting that my first car i had was a 69 dodge charger rt that had the 440 magnum that i paid $1700 in 1975 with 40k miles would cost upwards of $100k today.
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FACTORY Super engine, FACTORY Rudge knockoff wheels.
I thought $125,000 was ALL the money.
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Though some people will pay almost anything for antique cars today or to relive their youth, I think it should be pointed out (as I'm sure you know) that you can get a brand new Charger SRT-8 today, with a modern Hemi, that will blow the doors off even the 440 Six-Packs and 425 HP / 490 ft-lbs. torque dual-quad-carb Hemis of the late 60s. Even more power, if desired, is available in todays 707 HP Hellcat versions. And one can even get some of the same pastel and bright circus-colors that were available on late-60s Dodge/Plymouth muscle-cars. The only thing about today's Charger is that you have to live with 4 doors instead of two.....but if that is really an issue, then just march down to the other end of the showroom and check out a Challenger. Another far better feature of today's Charger/Challenger is the much better way they are built. Chrysler products of that late 60s era, except for their generally durable engines and TorqueFlite automatic transmissions, were notorious rattle-and-squeak specials that were only partially-assembled at the plants......once they rolled out of the factory, reached the dealership, and were delivered to customers, they needed an endless amount of repairs, re-work, and adjustments to bring them up to the level of what should have been done at the factory in the first place.
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I grew up in the 60s Muscle-Car era, and remember the original Charger R/T well (mechanically, under the body, it was the same drivetrains and running gear/chassis the Dodge Coronet Super Bee / Charger Daytona, and Plymouth Road Runner / Superbird / GTX...though the Daytona and Superbird, of course, had the wedge-front-ends and high wings on the back.
Though some people will pay almost anything for antique cars today or to relive their youth, I think it should be pointed out (as I'm sure you know) that you can get a brand new Charger SRT-8 today, with a modern Hemi, that will blow the doors off even the 440 Six-Packs and 425 HP / 490 ft-lbs. torque dual-quad-carb Hemis of the late 60s. Even more power, if desired, is available in todays 707 HP Hellcat versions. And one can even get some of the same pastel and bright circus-colors that were available on late-60s Dodge/Plymouth muscle-cars. The only thing about today's Charger is that you have to live with 4 doors instead of two.....but if that is really an issue, then just march down to the other end of the showroom and check out a Challenger. Another far better feature of today's Charger/Challenger is the much better way they are built. Chrysler products of that late 60s era, except for their generally durable engines and TorqueFlite automatic transmissions, were notorious rattle-and-squeak specials that were only partially-assembled at the plants......once they rolled out of the factory, reached the dealership, and were delivered to customers, they needed an endless amount of repairs, re-work, and adjustments to bring them up to the level of what should have been done at the factory in the first place.
Though some people will pay almost anything for antique cars today or to relive their youth, I think it should be pointed out (as I'm sure you know) that you can get a brand new Charger SRT-8 today, with a modern Hemi, that will blow the doors off even the 440 Six-Packs and 425 HP / 490 ft-lbs. torque dual-quad-carb Hemis of the late 60s. Even more power, if desired, is available in todays 707 HP Hellcat versions. And one can even get some of the same pastel and bright circus-colors that were available on late-60s Dodge/Plymouth muscle-cars. The only thing about today's Charger is that you have to live with 4 doors instead of two.....but if that is really an issue, then just march down to the other end of the showroom and check out a Challenger. Another far better feature of today's Charger/Challenger is the much better way they are built. Chrysler products of that late 60s era, except for their generally durable engines and TorqueFlite automatic transmissions, were notorious rattle-and-squeak specials that were only partially-assembled at the plants......once they rolled out of the factory, reached the dealership, and were delivered to customers, they needed an endless amount of repairs, re-work, and adjustments to bring them up to the level of what should have been done at the factory in the first place.