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Posted by sirpsychosexy
Found in a quarry in France, so probably Renault or something.
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I believe you are right sirpsychosexy, Renault Megan Sedan
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Wow nice, you found that out quickly!
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we have a 79 Thunderbird 
429 CJ/C6
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Posted by NotLost
Dsomms - awesome find dude!
...and man, those Toronado were kick butt ~ except that even with the huge fuel tank, you could still watch the needle drop when your foot was in it :-/
Had some fun one day with a Buick Riviera - same motor (445). The Olds hung in there, but the Buick was all over the place.
It was my girlfriends parents car. Oddly they wouldn't let me drive it after I backed into a building flying up an ally in reverse. 16 yr olds think they can do anything :-/
*edit: ...Olds hung in there, but was all over...
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Posted by SDR88
Super sweet find man!
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Thanks guys. Definitely a once in a lifetime find, especially in Detroit.
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Posted by DSomms
Thanks guys. Definitely a once in a lifetime find, especially in Detroit.
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I really, really hope nothing happens to those, as has been said already. Anyone who would even break a window on one of those is not even to the level of human waste, has possessed flawed DNA since day one, and needs to be deleted from the human genome. I hate that shit!
"Walter, what are you doing, man?"
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Posted by NotLost
Dsomms - awesome find dude!
...and man, those Toronado were kick butt ~ except that even with the huge fuel tank, you could still watch the needle drop when your foot was in it :-/
Had some fun one day with a Buick Riviera - same motor (445). The Olds hung in there, but the Buick was all over the place.
It was my girlfriends parents car. Oddly they wouldn't let me drive it after I backed into a building flying up an ally in reverse. 16 yr olds think they can do anything :-/
*edit: ...Olds hung in there, but was all over...
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The Buick Riviera and the Olds Toronado, along with the Eldorado, were actually related and considered to be on the same "platform" together (E-body), even though the Riviera was a rear wheel drive car. They shared some basic body structural attributes.
Up until 1970, the Riviera was still built on the GM "X-frame", it was the last car to use this frame. I have a pic of one somewhere in a quarry I photographed, on it's side, showing the X-frame, TH400 trans pan, weird jellybean gas tank, and the sunken spare tire well along with true dual exhaust with resonators. Made identifying the car easier because I think it was the only car that had a Turbo 400 in it as well as an X frame. Interesting vehicle.
The "445 Nailhead" was actually a 401ci engine, the 445 referred to the torque rating. That was in the original body style Rivs, like the one in "Roadhouse". When the car was restyled in '66 too look like the new Toronado more, they came with a Buick 425ci Nailhead standard I believe, then got a bigger new engine later on (430?). The Olds Toronados used a 425ci also, but it was an Olds engine and not related to the Buick, and then in '69 or so they upgraded to an Olds 455ci.
The later 71+ E-bodies were still related, although the "boat-tail" Rivieras were more closely related to the B-body (Impala, Delta 88, Caprice, etc.). The FWD cars used the same windshield, cowl, and other parts as all the GM RWD "passenger" cars did. In 1977, the Riviera moved directly to the B-body platform for 2 years and was essentially a LeSabre with different quarter panels and roof stamping.
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Posted by Samurai
i briefly had a 1972 Pontiac Catalina Sport coupe... this thing weighed so much i was surprised I didn't need a CDL to pilot it. It was like driving the starship enterprise and when you put your foot down, the big-block 350 would ROAR to life and the gas gauge would PLUMMET towards empty. I think i drove that car two weeks... and this was when gas was around $1.00 a gallon!
this is a 73 and not my car, but this was what it looked like. Mine was like a silver-rust-beige color.
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I have a '74 Impala "Sport Coupe" (lol). The 71-73 Impalas had the same "Sport Coupe" roof as that Pontiac you posted, in 1974 GM added this kind of ugly roofline to the Chevrolets that had huge quarter windows that could not be rolled down, yet the B-O-P cars still had small roll down quarter windows...but you could still get a Sport Coupe for 1974 and '75 with a flat back window and and quarter windows that rolled down like the 1971-73 cars, they were kind of rare when new. I like them the best out of all the 71-76 Chevys, I've had two of them and have yet to see another with this roof in person aside from them...
Sort of a goofy car in some respects but I think it looks like a '72 Chevelle with exaggerated lines...haha.
Mine gets okay gas mileage for the time it was produced, like 20mpg on the highway, (it has some sort of tall rear gear in it for the highway) however it does have an 8 cylinder with a 3 speed auto...I don't think small cars for the era even got what is considered good gas mileage today. My '93 Caprice with 305 and 2.56:1 axle ratio would regularly hit 28 MPG on highway trips, and the underpinnings of that car directly date back to the 1977 Caprice, which itself was based on the 1973 A-body car chassis, pretty crazy.
Someday I'm planning to keep the car stock aside from suspension stuff, and doing a 5.3 LS swap in it with the EFI setup and a 4 spd auto. I'm hoping it will get mid 20s regularly at that point. My 95 Impala SS gets like 19 out of tank, which sucks, but it has something like 3.73 gears installed in it, a posi, and it's pushing 300HP so you constantly find yourself screwing around in the thing even when you're not trying.
BTW Samurai, Pontiac blocks from 326-455 had the same basic external appearance, so there is no big or small block Pontiac, they're all just Pontiac blocks The late 70s 301 and the small displacement 265 V8 had a short deck height though.
You will probably also get a kick out of this video.
http://www.youtube...atch?v=9vACWV5sRcY
Best car chase ever filmed, in spite of the sounds clipped from "Bullitt". No CGI (CGI in my eyes precludes a car chase from being "the best", since they didn't really "do it"), real stunts, gritty NYC which does not look that way anymore, "regular" cars...I give it a slight edge over Bullitt, To Live and Die in LA, and Ronin.
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Posted by MattTrakker
Anyone who would even break a window on one of those is not even to the level of human waste, has possessed flawed DNA since day one, and needs to be deleted from the human genome. I hate that shit!
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Amen, brother!!
Posted by MattTrakker
The later 71+ E-bodies were still related, although the "boat-tail" Rivieras were more closely related to the B-body (Impala, Delta 88, Caprice, etc.).
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Hehe, yeah, it was my buddy I was racing with (don’t tell my old girlfriend), and he had the boat tail. Man, that thing was a . . . well, boat :-/
All I saw (behind me  ) was sparks from him bottoming out on the back roads in central PA.
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Here i sit with my little 96 mustang
maybe i'll get lucky and it will become a rare car later on
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Posted by MattTrakker
I have a '74 Impala "Sport Coupe" (lol). The 71-73 Impalas had the same "Sport Coupe" roof as that Pontiac you posted, in 1974 GM added this kind of ugly roofline to the Chevrolets that had huge quarter windows that could not be rolled down, yet the B-O-P cars still had small roll down quarter windows...but you could still get a Sport Coupe for 1974 and '75 with a flat back window and and quarter windows that rolled down like the 1971-73 cars, they were kind of rare when new. I like them the best out of all the 71-76 Chevys, I've had two of them and have yet to see another with this roof in person aside from them...
https://scontent-b...16_987972893_n.jpg
Sort of a goofy car in some respects but I think it looks like a '72 Chevelle with exaggerated lines...haha.
Mine gets okay gas mileage for the time it was produced, like 20mpg on the highway, (it has some sort of tall rear gear in it for the highway) however it does have an 8 cylinder with a 3 speed auto...I don't think small cars for the era even got what is considered good gas mileage today. My '93 Caprice with 305 and 2.56:1 axle ratio would regularly hit 28 MPG on highway trips, and the underpinnings of that car directly date back to the 1977 Caprice, which itself was based on the 1973 A-body car chassis, pretty crazy.
Someday I'm planning to keep the car stock aside from suspension stuff, and doing a 5.3 LS swap in it with the EFI setup and a 4 spd auto. I'm hoping it will get mid 20s regularly at that point. My 95 Impala SS gets like 19 out of tank, which sucks, but it has something like 3.73 gears installed in it, a posi, and it's pushing 300HP so you constantly find yourself screwing around in the thing even when you're not trying.
BTW Samurai, Pontiac blocks from 326-455 had the same basic external appearance, so there is no big or small block Pontiac, they're all just Pontiac blocks The late 70s 301 and the small displacement 265 V8 had a short deck height though.
You will probably also get a kick out of this video.
http://www.youtube...atch?v=9vACWV5sRcY
Best car chase ever filmed, in spite of the sounds clipped from "Bullitt". No CGI (CGI in my eyes precludes a car chase from being "the best", since they didn't really "do it"), real stunts, gritty NYC which does not look that way anymore, "regular" cars...I give it a slight edge over Bullitt, To Live and Die in LA, and Ronin.
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Growing up, my grandfather had a 77 Impala sport coupe in red... sweet car. He traded it in 1983 for a new Caprice Classic. I learned to drive on a MINT 76 Impala sedan we loving referred to as 'the tuna boat' (it was a silver).
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Yes it's a Megane Phase 1
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Posted by cambrianguy
Ford Pinto surprise.
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Amazing find !!!..
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Audi 80 + Renault Laguna ...
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Posted by DSomms
I found these yesterday.1.
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I see what you did there...
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Citation
'73 Charger
'78 Gremlin 6
'72 Toyota Corona Coupe - I've never seen one of these in person before. Pretty little car.
And a very unhappy '75 VW Bus (automatic)
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i just shed a tear... poor Citation.
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Those gremlins are hideous
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Posted by sleeperspirit
Those gremlins are hideous
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Just when you thought that car couldn't be made any uglier- they changed the taillights.
(Actually... as ugly as the originals are, I think they're pretty awesome.)
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Posted by bandi
Just when you thought that car couldn't be made any uglier- they changed the taillights.
(Actually... as ugly as the originals are, I think they're pretty awesome.)
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Yeah, I'm quite fond of the 70-76 gremlin (had a 73 v8 for 5 years) but those 77-78... Terrible.
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Posted by MattTrakker
I have a '74 Impala "Sport Coupe" (lol). The 71-73 Impalas had the same "Sport Coupe" roof as that Pontiac you posted, in 1974 GM added this kind of ugly roofline to the Chevrolets that had huge quarter windows that could not be rolled down, yet the B-O-P cars still had small roll down quarter windows...but you could still get a Sport Coupe for 1974 and '75 with a flat back window and and quarter windows that rolled down like the 1971-73 cars, they were kind of rare when new. I like them the best out of all the 71-76 Chevys, I've had two of them and have yet to see another with this roof in person aside from them...
https://scontent-b...379516_987972893_n jpg
Sort of a goofy car in some respects but I think it looks like a '72 Chevelle with exaggerated lines...haha.
Mine gets okay gas mileage for the time it was produced, like 20mpg on the highway, (it has some sort of tall rear gear in it for the highway) however it does have an 8 cylinder with a 3 speed auto...I don't think small cars for the era even got what is considered good gas mileage today. My '93 Caprice with 305 and 2.56:1 axle ratio would regularly hit 28 MPG on highway trips, and the underpinnings of that car directly date back to the 1977 Caprice, which itself was based on the 1973 A-body car chassis, pretty crazy.
Someday I'm planning to keep the car stock aside from suspension stuff, and doing a 5.3 LS swap in it with the EFI setup and a 4 spd auto. I'm hoping it will get mid 20s regularly at that point. My 95 Impala SS gets like 19 out of tank, which sucks, but it has something like 3.73 gears installed in it, a posi, and it's pushing 300HP so you constantly find yourself screwing around in the thing even when you're not trying.
BTW Samurai, Pontiac blocks from 326-455 had the same basic external appearance, so there is no big or small block Pontiac, they're all just Pontiac blocks The late 70s 301 and the small displacement 265 V8 had a short deck height though.
You will probably also get a kick out of this video.
http://www.youtube...atch?v=9vACWV5sRcY
Best car chase ever filmed, in spite of the sounds clipped from "Bullitt". No CGI (CGI in my eyes precludes a car chase from being "the best", since they didn't really "do it"), real stunts, gritty NYC which does not look that way anymore, "regular" cars...I give it a slight edge over Bullitt, To Live and Die in LA, and Ronin.
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May i just say your car is beautiful.
Like Really Beautiful.
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