lordairgtar

I took mine and had a local body shop paint my old coaster wagon I use to haul my art stuff around at car shows. I did not paint it red, it's blue metallic.

In the sixties and seventies, at least those cars did look different from one another although they shared a lot under the sheet metal. When the eighties came a Regal looked like a Monte looked like a Cutlass. The Grand Prix did look a bit different from those, but not by much. I remember my sister's Parisienne was nothing but an Impala/Caprice with Pontiac trim.

Biscuit, the 49, 50, and 51 Mercs were different from the Ford range as well. Just look under your handiest Ford and Merc models of the same years.

I hardly would consider Mercury an "Old Peoples Car".

I know what you mean, these sometimes are one hour or an hour and a half in time to make. So I only do maybe three to five at any given car show.

Very nice work on the Can Am. Looks better than my drawings, seriously.

Still no pic.

Anyone ever gonna tell me if'n I was right?

T-1000? Wasn't that a Pontiac clone of the Chevette?

The islands were full of them, but our white Christian missionaries ruined that.

Today, we went to a VFW Post for ceremonies to benefit the post's services to vets and currently serving personnel. An 84 year old vet was there and was telling me about the Omaha Beach landing he was part of. He had pics of the LST he was on. Pics of his mates as well. He was there to honor the memory of his comrades that did pay the ultimate sacrifice.

Danica Patrick didn't finish and some New Zealander won it. An exciting win. Scott Dixon, who had pole position too.

Well, if you consider New Zealand a really huge island, which it is. i don't think the Hawaiians were into headhunting. And how many of us don't like tattoos or bare breasted wimmins...er...wahines!!

No they wont ;)

The Beetle is a popular car to restore these days because of the nostalgia that seems to infect the old hippies still around. I am sure in Texas and other non-salty states, those are still seen. Easy to work on and fun to drive and economical too. Plus, you could still buy up to a couple of years ago CKD Volkswagens direct from Mexico and build your own. I attend a yearly Volks show and two of those Mexican cars come every year.

That's actually a Mercedes

Hmmmm. Maybe we should watch Ebay!

Hmmm, so gramps was right, maybe?

Maoris are from New Zealand, not Hawaii.

Now I have a strange desire to obtain one of those little DOHC Hemis.

Sorry, my memory was a bit shaky. Although the door and windshield resembles the first series VW Scirocco, it is indeed based on the Marathon delivery van, with a body designed by Brook Stevens. The VW reference came from my grandfather who worked at Briggs and showed me the car. He thought some VW body panels might have been used in making the car, but it appears he was wrong. The car is cool and as far as I know it exists still somewhere within the Briggs company.

Borgward Isabella, East German car.

You are right. They did use the bulk of a Scirocco and built the hybrid around it. I think the front was a one off design, although those wheel arches sure look close to the Marquis I used to own.