Posted on 08/24/2012 11:17:15 AM PDT by Michael.SF.
The BEST car ever.
In 1974 I was 15 and bought a used 1965 Catalina (solid black) with only 23,000 miles on it. I paid $800 and my dad cosigned a bank note for me.
It was my first Batmobile. It had a lot of bells and whistles. You could lie down in the front of back seat and sleep like a bed (and at 16 with a hot girlfriend this came in handy! lol).
I kept the car for 8 years until I loaned to my little brother and he totalled it (badly bent the frame). My dad took the engine out and put it into a 1950 Chevy pickup (he had to slant it).
I miss that car.
I have many but this is foremost and ahead of it’s time!
Check photos to see details and engine, See if you see items on this car that are on todays cars?
Pegaso Z102 B 2.8 Touring ‘Thrill’
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Model history:
Today it is hard to fathom that in the early 1950s the most advanced and fastest road car was built not in Italy, Germany or England but in Spain. It gets a little easier to imagine when we learn that this ‘supercar’ was the brainchild of former Alfa Romeo designer Wilfredo Ricart and built by ENASA in the remnants of the Hispano Suiza factory. On the other hand it must be noted that none of Ricart’s designs were particularly successful and that ENASA specialised in buses and trucks. Regardless they got it absolutely right when they launched the Pegaso Z102 at the 1951 Paris Auto Salon. Well actually not quite but more about that later.
You will be sorry if you don’t link! Other HOT autos there also.
http://www.ultimatecarpage.com/pic/3973/Pegaso-Z102-B-2.8-Touring—Thrill-_12.html
Does that have a 421 in it?
GM’s Future: The Pelosi GTxi SS/RT
June 1, 2009 by Dan Mitchell
Since everybody outside of Washington already seems to understand that government-run car companies are doomed to fail, I will spare you a dull treatise on why the GM bailout is a bad idea. Instead, how about an advance look at GM’s 2012 top-selling car…
The video is funny, but the joke may be on us. A few of you old timers may remember the Trabant of East Germany. How long before our masters in Washington start forcing us to drive similar pieces of junk?
If you haven't seen this already, it's good...
http://danieljmitchell.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/gms-future-the-pelosi-gtxi-ssrt/
Great lines and gas mileage!!
If the first thing you notice is the car...I have some bad news for you.
There's a car in that picture?
Thanks. When I was little, my dad had a ‘65 Chevy II and this car reminded me of it.
Her name is Ferrari?
Funny, there’s a car company with that name.
YES!
that looks like a ‘78 corvette.
There is a car in that picture?
I had a ‘69. Does that still count?
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