Craig Irwin

I'd rather plan an overnight and take my friends Piper Archer. You don't have the security hassles and I find airliners way too cramped. But it would be a boring world if we all liked the same thimgs.

YES! I love the oldies built stock, allthoe I've been told nobody does that!

But compaired to a 1964 Marauder 2 door..........

I still dissagree on the looks, the best looling ones are just sort of OK at best, but I'll admit the other improvements. GM chisf stylist Harley Earl said that styling a small car was like tayloring a dwarf, all the proportions are wrong.

#1.I own newer cars but admit they are ugly and nothing to get excited about And I do own a 71 C-10 and a 65 VW Manx Buggy. #2.No, there havent, not compaired to whats came before. #3 I love you too.

Every aspect of a cars shape must meet crash standards, lamp size standards, airbag deployment, crush zones, ect. Add the aerodynamics for fuel milage concerns (CAFE requirements) and you get a fleet of almost identical cars with hoods too short, windshields layed too far back, cowl to dash lenghts far too short, and stubby deck lids way too high. Just add a grill and make the lamps have wierd points going all directions and a styists job is done. Even the Porsche "911" (yes I know it's really a 996 or something like that now), Dodge Challenger and Ford Mustang, which are the best looking cars made today, have many of these compromises keeping them from being really great looking cars.

Are you playing standard or open tuning slide?

It's easy, ever increasing government regulations have tied designers hands to the point that todays cars aren't nice to look at. 1973 was the first of the gardrail bumpers, and the start of the death of true hardtops.

My "someday" list has severial early (1967 to 69) historic fiberglass buggys, like the first Mexican 1000 winner.

A local race car fabracator built one for our local supermarket chain, which sold out to Kroger a few years later. Maybe this is where it ended up.

A lot of people need these seats, the kit now has only one!

If I remember right that kit was an Oval window car, 1956?

Mine is an R&R piece, and is one of their best.

Someone broke down the enviormental impact over the life of a Prius and a Hummer H2, from the mining of the materials used in the batteries to the recycling of the cars at the end, and the Hummer was greener than the Prius.

No, he's smilling. I vote "negotiating".

Althoe both were from Bertone the Countach was from 1974, so it may have been the other way around. Personaly I see more FIAT X-19 here than anything else.

The pull start for a VW was an aftermarket accessory, I used to see them in the "Everything Automotive" J. C. Whitney catalog. It went on the generator pully. I own a Farmall F 20, magneto with no electrics so I must hand crank or not ride! I also walk with a limp thanks to an old XLCH Harley Sportster. Old time Harley guys still call a limp a "CH leg". They also would try to run backwards and could pitch you over the handerbars!

I learned to drive a T 20 years ago on an 1912 model thanks to a very kind 80 year old man that was very happy to find someone interested in his hobby car. You never know what can happen when you start a conversation.

Rebirth of the hobby with the release of the AMT 66 Nova around 1987.

Cool! A guy near here had one of those back when they were new.

That's what I'd build for myself.

There were a few left near here, if an hour drive is close, but Indiana switching to DST killed them off. In the summer it doesn't get dark untill 10 PM, to late to show a double or triple feature. Loved 'em.

An updated old car set up for long, fast travel and great handling is cool, but cutting up real muscle cars bad. I'd rather see Chevelles, Le Mans, Belvederes and such cut up than SS 396's, GTO's or Road Runners. Also the big rimsLook really bad on these cars, like it's been said they look like clown cars. Also, the name Pro-Touring has always seemed silly to me. You turned Pro and get payed to tour?

Now that would be far more entertaining than any more F&F movies could be.

Twenty some years ago a local man had a Lamborgini Countach. A real one, not a kit. I dont know if it was factory paint or not, but it was an UGLY brown color, and he painted all of the loose trim, bumpers, wheels, nameplates, grilles and all gold and it looked like he had used spray cans. It looked like a 15 year olds Cavalier ! He even put one of those erector set spoilers on it ! Thats one Countach I would have been too embarrassed to ride in.