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1964 Corvette Sting Ray? That full powered 327 V8 would rip right through any of these ricers. Damn japs don't know how to make a car. I also bet that Lexus can't make a car as attractive, elegant, comfortable, roomy, and luxurious as my 1964 Cadillac. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIcmnPHllGA

In a mile drag race?

In a mile drag race?

With its easily bribed police, Period built buildings, lack of organized society, poor defenseless citizens, and weak government Mexico in some ways still symbolizes the very image of the old west. With a Colt SAA, a Winchester Model 1887, an 1866 Winchester Golden Boy/1873 Winchester, Coach...

But secretly underneath the hood you had a Very high performance V8 with the original engine block to hide the sleeper even more? Would you manage to hustle them? Would the aerodynamic design of cars from the 40s give it less resistance than boxy newer cars?

Five quid? Wouldn't cover the petrol getting to the garden centre.

Five quid? Wouldn't cover the petrol getting to the garden centre.

Five quid? Wouldn't cover the petrol getting to the garden centre.

...into a 1947 Chevy Fleet? Fleetline Aerosedan? I wouldn't mind those looks with a more reliable powertrain!

If a massive cloud of exhaust was coming from my old car would I still be entitled to be pulled over by you coppers? Can you really report my solidly pre-smog vehicles?

Cadillac or Chevrolet Impala? What would go through your mind? What assumptions would be drawn? Would you think ill or good of them?

When its stopped it idles rough, occasionally white smoke comes from the engine bay (the mechanic says this is because its from before PCP or PCV values, whatever it is). I thought that to until I noticed that whenever I put too much pressure on the accelerator the engine starts to sputter and...

next to each other? What would your response be? Would it bring back any memories?

losing him the election? Yesterday MP Kevan Jones said: 'I apologise unreservedly for any offence caused to Joanna Lumley by my remarks to the Home Affairs Committee. This was nor intended.' (To pay her back for showing up the twerp the Minister for Immigration Phil Woolas).

Is it their quality? Their great reputation which spans a century? Their elegance and beauty? or perhaps it is something deeper, something that can't be seen. It could be the confidence and freedom to choose one gets in a General Motors dealership. You see, a thrifty man or one who may not have...