Car thread: Is nothing sacred?

[Rich Jones]

I gag everytime I see one of those new four-door Jeep Wranglers. It just ain't right, I tell ya. A Wrangler isn't a Wrangler unless it's got just two doors. Four doors? Then it's just another SUV. And a crappy one at that.
Then, today, I see a four-door Porsche! A Porsche sedan?? What's this world coming too? It was a nice looking car, but it just ain't a Porsche with four doors. Then it's just another over-priced luxury car. Porsches were meant by God Almighty to be two-door sports cars!
A true mountain goat of a vehicle and a true sports car turned into something they're not supposed to be. Shameful.
I wouldn't be caught dead in either one. Then again, most people wouldn't be caught dead in my old rusty pick-up truck. But, at least it's the real deal!
Any other cars out there that shouldn't be?

[Glen Longino]

Cadillac pickup truck?

[P-man]

Cadillac pickup truck?

or Lincoln.

[Peerie Maa]

[Iceboy]

I think Jeeps really bit the dust with the end of the CJ and the use of plastic dash boards. My rag top was cold in the winter but the heater would make it bearable.

I gag everytime I see one of those new four-door Jeep Wranglers. It just ain't right, I tell ya. A Wrangler isn't a Wrangler unless it's got just two doors. Four doors? Then it's just another SUV. And a crappy one at that.
Then, today, I see a four-door Porsche! A Porsche sedan?? What's this world coming too? It was a nice looking car, but it just ain't a Porsche with four doors. Then it's just another over-priced luxury car. Porsches were meant by God Almighty to be two-door sports cars!
A true mountain goat of a vehicle and a true sports car turned into something they're not supposed to be. Shameful.
I wouldn't be caught dead in either one. Then again, most people wouldn't be caught dead in my old rusty pick-up truck. But, at least it's the real deal!
Any other cars out there that shouldn't be?

[jack grebe]

For me, jeep bit the dust when they had to buy out the competition
(IH Scout) in order to dominate the market......I'd still rather have
a scout

[Iceboy]

I had 2 Scouts. A 65 800 and a 74 Scout II. The 65 kept breaking front axles in 4 wheel drive and met it's end when both tie rods broke on the beach one day. The Scout II would rust away before your eyes in Great Lakes rust belt weather.

For me, jeep bit the dust when they had to buy out the competition
(IH Scout) in order to dominate the market......I'd still rather have
a scout

[Todd Bradshaw]

Fred, I had a neighbor who bought some sort of big old army truck in "kit" form. Most of the parts were crated and heavily greased-up with cosmoline or similar and the first step was to wash it all off with solvent, which took a long time. He did eventually get it together and it ran, but the gas mileage was so horrible (even back when gas was cheap) that he sold it off pretty quickly.

[Phil Y]

I have a friend with a 4 seater Lamborghini from around the 70's. And its an automatic. Just wrong. Like this

[leikec]

Wouldn't you really rather have an Aston Martin than that Miata?

Give me the Miata every time....

Jeff C

[purri]

I knew someone with 3. While the other 2 were being repaired.

I have a friend with a 4 seater Lamborghini from around the 70's. And its an automatic. Just wrong. Like this

[leikec]

Jeff C

[devout]

Look at this lovely.



Should be against the law.

[Rich Jones]

When my son turned 17, he bought his first car (with my financial help, of course). We're at a dealer looking at used Jeeps. One was a Wrangler, the other a Cherokee. Both had automatics. I thought for sure that a 17 year old guy would go for the Wrangler. "But dad", he says, "it's got an automatic! That's a girl car!". The Cherokee having an automatic apparently was no problem, so he bought that. To him, a Wrangler wasn't a REAL Wrangler unless it was a stick. In my mind, anyone driving a stick on Long Island with it's huge traffic problems is totally out of their minds!

[John Bell]

Wouldn't you really rather have an Aston Martin than that Miata?

Oh dear! That is so wrong.

[Phil Y]

When my son turned 17, he bought his first car (with my financial help, of course). We're at a dealer looking at used Jeeps. One was a Wrangler, the other a Cherokee. Both had automatics. I thought for sure that a 17 year old guy would go for the Wrangler. "But dad", he says, "it's got an automatic! That's a girl car!". The Cherokee having an automatic apparently was no problem, so he bought that. To him, a Wrangler wasn't a REAL Wrangler unless it was a stick. In my mind, anyone driving a stick on Long Island with it's huge traffic problems is totally out of their minds!

But a big 4wd off road vehicle (with an auto box) is a rational choice?

[snudz]

I have a friend with a 4 seater Lamborghini from around the 70's. And its an automatic. Just wrong. Like this

Looks like the Pink Panther car.

[Garret]

The Lincoln & Cadillac pickups are about as wrong as it gets.



Italian 4 door sedans: I had a Maserati Quattroporte for a short while & it was a blast to drive. 2 couples going to the drive-in in a Maserati? C'mon - how fun is that?

$50 Jeeps in a crate: A guy I knew bought (at first) one of those. Our best guess was that it'd been dropped from a plane & the 'chute never opened. He then bought another & finally a 3rd. The last one completed the parts needed to make 1 good one. Of course they were simple enough to where the disassembly/assembly wasn't terribly hard & he did end up with a zero mile Jeep.

[Canoeyawl]

[leikec]

Jeff C

[Bob Adams]

[leikec]

Jeff C

[Rich Jones]

But a big 4wd off road vehicle (with an auto box) is a rational choice?

Hey, what can I say. You expect a testosterone charged 17 year old to be rational??

[leikec]

There's a lot of stupid out there....

Jeff C

[Canoeyawl]

[Curtism]

I'll agree with most all the picks here but, come on, that 4 door bug with suicide rears is pretty cool.

Maybe (part of) my attraction is the thought of how much easier it would be to rip out the rr seat cushion, after it makes contact with the battery terminals, prior the horse hair stuffing bursting into flames.

[Curtism]

The Lincoln & Cadillac pickups are about as wrong as it gets.

No, it gets wronger.

A young fellow agross the street has the Chevy version of that, also black with the alloy wheels . . . it's practically identical. The top rail of the tiny bed is almost shoulder high and at 6'1" or so, he needs a 6' step ladder to wash the roof of that beast.

When he parks on the street it's just about centered in the view from my kitchen window . . . and some weekends it's hooked up to an equally eenormous, color coordinated jet-ski.

He's a pretty nice guy and seems to like his rig but we had to put up curtains in the kitchen.

[Garret]

I'll agree with most all the picks here but, come on, that 4 door bug with suicide rears is pretty cool.

Maybe (part of) my attraction is the thought of how much easier it would be to rip out the rr seat cushion, after it makes contact with the battery terminals, prior the horse hair stuffing bursting into flames.

I have to agree - on both counts.

[Upshur]

I gotta stick wit me Stang....

[bobbys]

I gag everytime I see one of those new four-door Jeep Wranglers. It just ain't right, I tell ya. A Wrangler isn't a Wrangler unless it's got just two doors. Four doors? Then it's just another SUV. And a crappy one at that.
Then, today, I see a four-door Porsche! A Porsche sedan?? What's this world coming too? It was a nice looking car, but it just ain't a Porsche with four doors. Then it's just another over-priced luxury car. Porsches were meant by God Almighty to be two-door sports cars!
A true mountain goat of a vehicle and a true sports car turned into something they're not supposed to be. Shameful.
I wouldn't be caught dead in either one. Then again, most people wouldn't be caught dead in my old rusty pick-up truck. But, at least it's the real deal!
Any other cars out there that shouldn't be?

.

Although the looks of a 4 door may not look as cool I believe its the last true 4wd out there with a solid front axle.

My 95 Cherokee is not as nimble as a wrangler but the 4wd beats the new 4wds that would not last for long in the woods..

The Wrangler even the 4 door one would be the pick if one was really going to get in the back country.

We have a jeep liberty, its 4 wd but its as a going through some snow to the store 4wd..

My brother has a wrangler Rubicon in Alaska.

He loves it but wishes he had a Cherokee as there is just not enough room.

[Canoeyawl]

[John Meachen]

I still think this takes some beating:

[DanSkorupka]

Porche 928s and 914s tend to be very popular for electric conversions.
Old school hot rodders will not be happy to learn that a Lamborghini on E-85 or a racing only muscle car running LL 100 will have its ass handed to it by street legal electrics in the quarter mile.

[purri]

The horror, the horror...

I still think this takes some beating:

[leikec]

Bump

Jeff C

[Jim Bow]

As the former owner of a 45 GPW, and the current owner of a 47 CJ2A, I must say that real jeeps don't have doors at all.
Or tops. That's what hats are for.

[leikec]

As the former owner of a 45 GPW, and the current owner of a 47 CJ2A, I must say that real jeeps don't have doors at all.
Or tops. That's what hats are for.

I agree

Jeff C

[Flying Orca]

As the former owner of a 45 GPW, and the current owner of a 47 CJ2A, I must say that real jeeps don't have doors at all.
Or tops. That's what hats are for.

You must live in a forgiving climate.

[Garret]

You must live in a forgiving climate.

Nah, he's just a real man. Just like real sailors don't have biminis.

[John Bell]

I can't figure out how to link it from this Kindle, but will someone please Google "Gremalibur"?

Ugliest. Car. Ever.

[John B]

Thats horrible. but not as horrible as jabba/ kermit thing here.

[John Bell]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Gremalibur!



http://www.tedvernon.com/Gremalibur/...oor-726TV.asp#

[Flying Orca]

That's not so bad. I'm partial to the XKE hearse from Harold and Maude, myself.

[John Bell]

That's not so bad.

{shaking my head} You aint' right...

[Rum_Pirate]

That's not so bad. I'm partial to the XKE hearse from Harold and Maude, myself.

[Rum_Pirate]

[Flying Orca]

{shaking my head} You aint' right...

Aw, c'mon. It's the best looking, uh, thing I've ever seen that had a Gremlin somewhere in its ancestry.

[Peter Malcolm Jardine]

I gag everytime I see one of those new four-door Jeep Wranglers. It just ain't right, I tell ya. A Wrangler isn't a Wrangler unless it's got just two doors. Four doors? Then it's just another SUV. And a crappy one at that.
Then, today, I see a four-door Porsche! A Porsche sedan?? What's this world coming too? It was a nice looking car, but it just ain't a Porsche with four doors. Then it's just another over-priced luxury car. Porsches were meant by God Almighty to be two-door sports cars!
A true mountain goat of a vehicle and a true sports car turned into something they're not supposed to be. Shameful.
I wouldn't be caught dead in either one. Then again, most people wouldn't be caught dead in my old rusty pick-up truck. But, at least it's the real deal!
Any other cars out there that shouldn't be?

Jeeps are a nasty poor quality POS anyway.

[Garret]

Jeeps are a nasty poor quality POS anyway.

Other than that, they're good though, eh?