1967 Cadillac Fleetwood Brougham. WOW what a car!! Eight power windows! Yup vent windows in the back. That and the fold down foot rests, tissue holders, what they called pic-nic tables (like on an airplane) and tilt and tele steering wheel among a million toys in that car. The fabric of its seats was tough. Never tried but you'd have a hard time jabbing a screwdriver thru that material. Fantastic ride even without radial tires. Gee does anyone remember blowing a few extra bucks for belted tires instead of just the bias ones?

Cruise control with a dial for the speed you wanted. Auto search radio that actually turned the knob!! Technical but a "splayed" crankshaft in its engine that made it run like it was electric. Chrome everywhere and reading lamps for the front and back. Could fit a small car in its trunk. Truely one of GM's finest cars ever. It's only fault was drum brakes in the front. No option that I know of for that. Olds was playing with them and even had some form of mechanical anti-lock brakes and four piston calipers even back then. The drum brakes took some skill - if you knew you were going thru a puddle you "dragged" the brakes keeping them good and hot so they dried fast or you'd be in for a surprise on your next stop.

That car could get over 20MPG if steady on the highway! Nothing around town but seemed like nobody cared back when.

What was your favorite car? -T

FYI: That car cost about $7,500 new. Big bucks for then.
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I like the 59 Caddie. Gotta love the fins. Beside that my favs are the gen 2 and 3 Trans ams(more specificly a gen 3 with a gen 2 engine) and the early 70's F100s. I own a 71 F-100 and a 78 T/A with a Ram Air IV engine but I'm still working on the 59 caddie(maybe someday I'll have one). I'd love to have a GT40 or a Shelby GT350/500 but I'll keep my dreams somewhat based in reality for now.

427 "R" code engine!! C-6 trick auto trans. Fastest dang thing I ever drove!! NASA doesn't make things that powerful!! Ford only made 500 of these cars TMK. Scary but I'm still here to tell about it, --0 to 60?? who knows? Your watch was under your armpit in two seconds, T
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My all time favorite was my 69 Chevelle Malibu. Bought from my older brother when I was 15 sent the year fixing it up, before I got my driver’s license. Got pissed off at it for whatever reasons, I can’t remember now and sold it.
Been trying to find another that I can afford, but with two kids in university that’s going to have to wait.
Dan
This isn’t mine but looking at any 69 Malibu keeps the dream alive.


Canadian "EH"

I have no children of my own but was blessed with five nephews and a neice. The youngest are 18 and 19 and all are smart whips and just these two are - one in college and the other next fall and my bro and wife are screaming at the expense. It's nasty! Near $100,000US next year!! Uncle Tommy will morgage his house to see these kids get thru if needed. We all planned for this - it just got expenesive.

I can't even fathom how many cars I could buy for that money! I do know that the XR7-GTE - which wasn't mine didn't cost diddle back when and now a mint one could fetch $50,000 no problem!

Dan - get the kids thru as they will benifit for a lifetime as you know. I was the "Black Sheep" of my family going for AutoMechanics - but it wasn't the wrong choice for me. Not the best bucks - but how do you put a price on being happy? My parents could afford anything for me and that was my choice. Funny - when I applied to colleges they could have bought the whole dang college!!

I'm spoiled but only by some direction and knowledge. I NEVER got an allowance as a kid. Just direction on how to make some bucks yourself - no joke!

Want to bring up the subject of T-Birds and a whole lot of fun I've had with them. T
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Way cool cars for the era. Has two at once. '66 had the C-6 trans which was much better then the cast iron auto and strong and the car was heavy but still quick. Would light up it's rear wheels by just punching the gas to the floor!! All kinds of creature features the the earlier two seaters didn't have. For a car that wasn't designed in a wind tunnel it could handle well at incredible speeds.

With a brother driving it, we went over a sharp rise in a northern New England country road going way too fast and the landing after all four wheels in the air caught asphalt that blew up and was all over the car and I was sure it was wrecked but it hurt the road not the car!! NO DAMAGE! Neat car and fun memories, T
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I like the Mopars from '68 to '70. Road Runner, Super Bee, Superbird, Charger, Challenger, Baracuda, Coronet RT. Most of the cars of that era, no matter what company made them, be it Ford, GM, or Chrysler had some real iron under the hood. The streets were a drag strip every night. Good clean fun for the youth of America in those days.

My Bro had a 67 Coronet 2V -318 with "three on the tree" and that was like a race car!! I will never know why that car had so much power and it was OEM??

It would easily get "rubber" in all gears and handled well.

I shouldn't say this on the web but so what it was so long ago. A very , very long time ago and the bad judgement of being young ---- There were blue light blues behind me and somehow they couldn't catch up and I'll never know who they were after ---- I didn't want to know. Wrong move readers. That was youth and stupid.

Fun memories of when cars were cars without nasty regulations, T
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the car i deam of every so often would be my dads 67 gto. 389 fast burn 3 speed on the floor. and he only put 118 octane in the tank. he ended up having to sell it for an old station wagon due to haveing 5 kids to hual around. he still talks about out running the cops in it. they never could catch up. but thats the bad thing about today. yeah you can out run them still but you cant out run the radio. we've out ran one in a 93 camaro z28. like it was nothing. lucky for us we knew the back roads. the other cars id like would be a 67 camaro rs/ss with the 454ss. a mustang with a 427scj, and a 73 trans am with a 455 rocket, an ode to smokey and the bandit. man i wish it was still 1969.

Not sure exactley what you mean by that question. What was your favorite car until what? Until it became too valuable to drive in the winter salt? My favorite car that won't take much abuse from the salt and is really only good for looking good is probably a 59 eldo biaritz (I'll have to look at a lot of pics of imperials to make sure.) My favorite car that can take some abuse from the real world would be 72-74 caddy's because they still have no metric fasteners or catalytic converters but they have bumper shocks so you don't have to worry so much about little traffic accidents. My favorite car that takes some abuse from the salt is a 77 2 door deville (my daily driver) It has plastic inner front fenderwells and a fiberglass front nose and you can get an aluminum hood off a fleetwood. The taillights are for that year only and look awesome! The fuel injected version back then sucked but if you use the same fuel injected manifold with a modern computer it can work great. Not too sure what I like for newer cars. Your 67 fleetwood sounds like a good pick.

To add to the old Caddy. It could get 25 MPG with steady highway driving. People forget some of the brains that went into making cars to begin with and most concepts are still in use.

OK: I'm brain dead in some ways but response to the metric system: I hate it!!!!

I can look and see the size of 3/8 vs 7/16 and all that but can't tell the difference with 9mm or pick some other that won't fit anything you already have like 18mm or 16mm. Are we getting screwed or what? Is this a tool sales scam?

Go ahead and look at WalMart and their limited tools will NOT include very necessay sizes in a set.

Enough bitching for the day, Smile folks,

T
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Are you saying your lincolns have something thats 16mm and 18mm and you bought a socket set that doesn't have 16mm or 18mm? What brand is this set and what was 16 or 18?

The 16 and 18mm thing started in the 80s which is most of my fleet. Damn A/C stuff and belt adjustment items require the two others which I bought separately to complete sets. They are both used a lot now.

I think there are only two sizes that interchange exactly and that is 5/16 = 8mm and 3/4 = 19mm. It's a scam!

I do like torx screws which came along no doubt for ease of assembly and I like that the driver can hold the screw without tape or magnetic stuff.

Had to learn what is metric and what is not on that generation of cars. Think -- the stuff the bolts to the old engines was SAE and if not it was metric -- so bring out all your tools and a dustpan and brush for all the hair you lost!!

Hey -- that's ok. Now you can't even see what you need to get at

Smile, we had some good times back when and if not for rust I'd own my first car right now! T
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mine 67 camero rs dz 302 and my 65 chevelle z16 yellow

All this talk about vintage cars is making me drool. :)

I personally prefer the Thunderbird, but maybe it's just for sentimental reasons. It was my first car, a third-gen '63 T-bird. Now that I have the moolah, I'm actually planning to collect 'em all — from the very early '50s birds to the '05 next gen ones.

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Don't look for earlier than 1955 in the 'Birds as those could only be prototypes

T
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I 'd die right on the spot if I see a Tbird older than '55. I think those were made in very limited numbers, and for auto shows only. I have never been in a car show, so I haven't seen one (yet). :)

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1968 mercury marquis 2 door fastback with a 390 engine.i miss that car!