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The Return of the Muscle Car
Opinion Journal ^ | 04/23/03 | COLLIN LEVEY

Posted on 04/22/2003 9:05:55 PM PDT by Pokey78

Edited on 04/23/2004 12:05:30 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: Dan Zachary
how do you find a photos adress
61 posted on 04/22/2003 10:18:26 PM PDT by bigbadfont
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To: arm958
Give me a twisty road and I'll get from point A to point B quicker in my 150 HP Dodge Neon than just about any muscle car. And I'll have plenty of fun doing it.

Give us a twisty road and you will be in the weeds. Not even competition drivers can press a front wheel drive car hard without losing it in some of the corners. You fail to uderstand that the classic muscle cars of the 60s would handle as well as a Ferrari in the turns as well as having brute power. And I was the loser in the Ferrari, so I know.

So9

62 posted on 04/22/2003 10:18:26 PM PDT by Servant of the Nine (We are the Hegemon. We can do anything we damned well please.)
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To: mhking
What's the GTO David Boreanaz drives on Angel? Now THAT people consider the quintessential muscle car and it looks cool in that menacing black.
63 posted on 04/22/2003 10:19:39 PM PDT by goldstategop ( In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: mhking
My wife has been driving a car of similar styling since Jan 1995. I's called a Buick Riviera and although iit's front whel drive it did come with the Super Charged 3.8. We will be taking a look at the SS. I feel an obligation to buy the new GTO as I was one of the Fortunate ones to own and race a Tri Power Goat in 65, 66 and 67. I traded it on a 68 Chevy Step Side that I still have. 65,000 miles. Can you post a pic of the Riviera ?
64 posted on 04/22/2003 10:21:32 PM PDT by tubebender (?)
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To: Servant of the Nine
I have a 69 olds in the garage as my toy. I plan on accumulating a pile of cash and giving it to professionals to do a frame off customization. From what I have read, some modern updating matched with the no emmission controls will be sweet.
65 posted on 04/22/2003 10:22:07 PM PDT by longtermmemmory
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To: bigbadfont
how in the hell do you post photos

LOL. Tell us what it is first.

66 posted on 04/22/2003 10:22:13 PM PDT by paul51
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To: LibWhacker
YAAAHHHH!!! HEMI-CUDA!!!

**drooool!**

My dream car!

67 posted on 04/22/2003 10:23:05 PM PDT by RandallFlagg ("There are worse things than crucifixion...There are teeth.")
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To: LisaAnne
We just sold our loaded with everything Suburban....my wife never liked it. Too big, it was only a year old.

She drives an ML320 and loves it. I have a nine year old Land Rover that I have kept up mechanically which with Land Rovers is beyond paramount. We keep my deceased dad's 95 Grand Cherokee in the garage and jump start it and drive it some as back up and for when I my girls get their DL in 1-2 years.

I got my DL in 1972. My folks would not allow a 69 Chevy SS396 like I wanted. I bought an MGB instead for around 1400 dollars. Fun car...poorly built.

If I just wanted to ride a rocket, I'd buy a Ducati or an Aprilla or Bimota...after I trebled my already hefty life insurance..lol....I did own a lot of superbikes in college.

If I had room and money, I'd like an older Land Rover Series convertible in military green.

68 posted on 04/22/2003 10:23:24 PM PDT by wardaddy (Hootie to head EEOC...)
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To: bigbadfont
If the photo looks to be a good size, don't worry about the height and width.

In a Windows based system, you can right click on the photo, chose "properties" from the menu that pops up and copy the address(URL) that shows up.

69 posted on 04/22/2003 10:23:29 PM PDT by Dan Zachary
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To: B-Chan
I remember when the Judge hit the streets. Mopar even hired Paul Revere and the Raiders to cut a recording of the car's theme song:

Did I hear you say "Mopar"???

70 posted on 04/22/2003 10:24:04 PM PDT by tubebender (?)
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To: paul51
I just need to know how to find a photo's address. I under stand how to put it in HTML code
71 posted on 04/22/2003 10:24:06 PM PDT by bigbadfont
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To: B-Chan

This is as close to my older brother's midnight blue 65 GTO convertible I could find.

He went from that to an XKE and on and on until in 78 got another 65 midnight blue GTO to restore.

Those were other times.

He would take his girl friend's Sting Ray and go way too fast.

A friend had a monster very similar to 29 above except purple and no hood.

Very fast and loud, taking a couple of girls to a Chicago Stones concert, a hundred miles on the Interstate way, way too fast.

He got a Mercedes roadster which is something else.

72 posted on 04/22/2003 10:24:55 PM PDT by PhilDragoo (Hitlery: das Butch von Buchenvald)
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To: Pokey78
Tim "the Tool-Man" Taylor grunt BUMP
73 posted on 04/22/2003 10:25:22 PM PDT by Genesis defender ("Free Republic, a hotbed of Christian Zionist opinionating.")
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To: bigbadfont
Try right click and properties
74 posted on 04/22/2003 10:27:38 PM PDT by paul51
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To: All
Photography by Randy Leffingwell, from his book "American Muscle".


75 posted on 04/22/2003 10:27:42 PM PDT by JoJo Gunn (Help control the Leftist population. Have them spayed or neutered....)
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To: Dan Zachary
uhh that is soo nice!

I'd love to drive a Bentley =)

76 posted on 04/22/2003 10:28:42 PM PDT by MatthewViti
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To: farmfriend
ok

I'll bite.

what is it?
77 posted on 04/22/2003 10:29:53 PM PDT by knews_hound (Anyone else play Day of Defeat?)
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To: Dan Zachary
This is a test
78 posted on 04/22/2003 10:30:11 PM PDT by bigbadfont
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To: farmfriend; mhking
It's so pimp we call it the pimp mobile.

This is true. Her ride shows that it ain't easy, but somebody's gotta do it! ;-)

Diamond in the back

Sunroof top

Diggin' the scene

With a gangsta lean...

And today was a good day...

79 posted on 04/22/2003 10:31:13 PM PDT by rdb3 (It ain't nuthin' to a ballah, baby...)
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To: knews_hound
Hey, you've probably already seen it around the neighborhood. It's a '73 Lincoln Continental Mark IV with custom paint and wheels. It's red, silver and black.
80 posted on 04/22/2003 10:31:59 PM PDT by farmfriend ( Isaiah 55:10,11)
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