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Lee Stewart 08-22-2019 11:42 PM

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The 427 in a full size Mercury was not a big seller at all. For the three years ('63 -'65) it was available, Mercury sold 154 427 powered cars.

Ford on the other hand sold 8,319 427 powered full sized cars in the same time period.

Lee Stewart 08-22-2019 11:50 PM

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Mercury does have one great distinction that probably very few remember. In 1958, they created the very first engine to produce 400 HP - The Mercury Super Marauder 430ci with 3x2.

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 12:06 AM

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Windshield Wipers and Reverse Lights were still options throughout the 1965 model year. Both would become standard equipment on all cars beginning with the 1966 models.

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 12:13 AM

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Approximately 76% of the Z/28s were built in the last 5 production months of the year (March 1968 through July 1968). Early production 1968 Z/28s were very rare. Only 5% were built in the first 4 months (August 1967 through November 1967).

Plant Production:

Los Angeles Plant: 21%
Norwood Plant: 79%

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 12:22 AM

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Buick made 2,140 1967 GS 400 convertibles. 422 had a 4 speed and 9 had the standard 3 speed manual. The rest (1628) had the auto.

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 12:27 AM

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Keith Seymore 08-23-2019 01:10 AM

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Windshield Wipers and Reverse Lights were still options throughout the 1965 model year. Both would become standard equipment on all cars beginning with the 1966 models.

"Two speed" windshield wipers, perhaps?

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Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 03:38 AM

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1972 AMC Gremlin Voyager concept

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 03:38 AM

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Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 03:48 AM

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1964 GTO with dealer option "wire wheel discs."

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 03:53 AM

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The only factory painted Black 1972 Corvette. Executive special order by GM President, Pete Estes

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Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 06:08 AM

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This photo really needs a caption. C'mon guys!

markinnaples 08-23-2019 02:00 PM

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The only factory painted Black 1972 Corvette. Executive special order by GM President, Pete Estes

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Beautiful Vette, but no LT-1?

olredalert 08-23-2019 02:18 PM

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Beautiful Vette, but no LT-1?

----Even stranger being ordered for Pete Estes the car was ordered without the deluxe interior. That would have included leather, cut-pile carpet and deluxe door panels......Bill S

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 05:43 PM

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Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 05:43 PM

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Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 05:53 PM

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Adam Carolla’s studio plans to release ‘Shelby American’ film this fall

Documentary movie scheduled for release in October looks at the life and lore of Carroll Shelby from his early childhood on through the rest of his amazing lifetime

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 06:07 PM

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Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 07:07 PM

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In Midtown West, a popular central area full of new rental units, the average cost of a two-bedroom apartment is $6,648. Elsewhere in the city, $10,964 will land you an apartment in SOHO.

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 07:25 PM

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David Geffen's superyacht Rising Sun

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 08:00 PM

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A library? No . . . it's a bookstore called the El Ateneo Grand Splendid located in Buenos Aires, Argentina

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 08:01 PM

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This bookstore is called the Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 08:02 PM

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Waterstones in Bradford, England,

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 08:04 PM

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Nicknamed the City of Books – it's reportedly the largest independent bookstore in the world – Powell's occupies a whole city block in Portland, OR.

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 08:05 PM

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Livraria Ler Devagar, Lisbon, Portugal

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 08:06 PM

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Daunt Books, London, England

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 08:09 PM

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Boekhandel Dominicanen, Maastricht, Netherlands

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 08:09 PM

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Strand Bookstore, New York City, New York

I have spent many hours in the Strand especially in their basement where you can/could buy brand new books (called reviewer's copies) for 50% off.

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 08:14 PM

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Once again the Trade War with China escalates.

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 08:28 PM

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I don't know why restorers have a problem with the 1971 Challenger R/T. I could post at least a half a dozen cars . . . mostly hemi cars like this one that not only have the 1970 only R/T emblem on the fender, but to make matters worse, they don't position it properly. This one isn't even close!

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 08:57 PM

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When you ordered a 1971 Challenger R/T this was the only R/T callout on the car. If you ordered the shaker hood, you lost it. No other R/T emblems or callouts.

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Little easier to see with the Performance Hood Treatment (RPO V21)

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For $28.50 you could add the stripes on a Challenger R/T and plain (No R/T callout) for the any Challenger. The "side"gills" came standard with the R/T

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Part of the R/T package was the blacked out rear panel area.

By 1971, Chrysler was in dire financial straits. The "bean counters" had taken over and were cutting costs any way they could. Saving a few dollars per car on badges/emblems would help the bottom line.

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 09:21 PM

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A golfer in Florida hit what was akin to a trick shot when he stepped up to his golf ball and struck it just as an alligator passed in front of him.

As the alligator sauntered in front of him, Lafferty cautiously addressed his ball and then hit a solidly struck shot over the alligator and toward the green.

"Golfing in Florida is just different," Lafferty wrote on Instagram.

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 11:20 PM

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Nags Head, North Carolina

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 11:21 PM

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Stonington, Maine

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 11:22 PM

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Capitola, California

Lee Stewart 08-23-2019 11:23 PM

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Rye, New Hampshire

Lee Stewart 08-24-2019 01:25 AM

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In "Monopoly Socialism," an official version of the game manufactured by the toy company Hasbro, players move around the board contributing to community projects "unless they can steal projects to get ahead," according to the product's description.

When players pass go, they get a $50 "living wage" as opposed to the usual $200, and the tokens are all dated artifacts like a typewriter, a phonograph, a pocket watch, an old-fashioned telephone and an old-style TV set.

Lee Stewart 08-24-2019 01:26 AM

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Lee Stewart 08-24-2019 01:49 AM

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Yes . . . the resemblance was intentional. That's Otto Kahn a VERY successful financier and businessman from the turn of the 20th century.

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He built the 2nd largest private home in the USA: Oheka Castle (Otto Herman Kahn) in Huntington, Long Island. Originally it sat on 443 acres. It it prominently shown on the old TV show ROYAL PAINS.

Lee Stewart 08-24-2019 02:00 AM

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Someone recreated a build that was done a looong time ago: put a Corvette fuel injected 327 in a Chevy II


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