What car would you hope to be never seen in? - Page 4 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

coldwar · #46 11-01-2004, 12:58 PM

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Originally Posted by R Leo

A Chaika revealed...

I could go for one of those! It looks like a reverse engineered Packard to me. Jim B where are you?

#47 11-01-2004, 01:42 PM

supposedly Stalin was SUCH a Packard fan that the old '40 senior body dies were made available to him as part of Lend-Lease...but the resulting ZIS had almost nothing in common with the Super 8 mechanically. North Korea STILL has one of these in service as a parade car.

The Chaika is a mix of mid-'50s Packard influences, mixed with the contemporary Mercury...sort of what happened to Jeff Goldblum in The Fly.

(see link for "Stalin's Packards"

http://www.autogallery.org.ru/zis110.htm

Tirebiter · #48 11-01-2004, 01:56 PM

Hmmm. What is the car I would least like to be seen in?
My vote has to go to ANY police car, eh?

I always liked the looks of the XKE Jaguar that was turned into a hearse in the movie "Harold & Maude".

kmaysob · #49 11-01-2004, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by R Leo

Any/all of the following:
a VIBE
an AZTEC
an ESCALADE
any non mil HUMMER 1,2,3...

i agree
especially about the hummers. the non mil are junk

Jim Anderson · #50 11-01-2004, 02:32 PM

Got to say something about diesels on this thread. My brother had a girlfriend who had a Fiero when Diesel was cheaper than gas. He called me one night and asked how far would a Fiero go on Diesel. I said about 100 feet, and he corrected me and said 50.

boneheaddoctor · #51 11-01-2004, 02:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Jim Anderson

Got to say something about diesels on this thread. My brother had a girlfriend who had a Fiero when Diesel was cheaper than gas. He called me one night and asked how far would a Fiero go on Diesel. I said about 100 feet, and he corrected me and said 50.

And we can guess how they found that out....

Richard Eldridge · #52 11-01-2004, 03:03 PM

I suppose that if I had to choose between riding in a truly ugly car (a 1949 Nash Airflyte, a Nash Metropolitan, a Chaika hearse or even an Aztek) and walking a long distance, I would choose to ride, even atop a pile of hay in the back of a 1946 Federal stake body truck (one of my friends had one of these).

I rare ugly car can still be fun to drive, and serve as a fun conversation piece.

I am pretty sure that IU would not venture out of my house wearing a gauze tutu, but I can't think of a car that I would actually not ride in.

Thanks for the photos of the Zils and the Chaika.

Can you find a Zhaporets? Those were pretty ugly.
The first Saabs (1953-67) were not exactly beautiful.

#53 11-01-2004, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by boneheaddoctor

And we can guess how they found that out....

Wow, it would have taken some real work to put diesel fuel into a gas tank. The diesel nozzle is too big to fit, if I recall correctly

#54 11-01-2004, 03:11 PM

...wonder if the ones the Metropolis Police Department used as "panda" cars had the front seat that folded down into a bed.

There was a really great "In Retrospect" feature on these in the old Car & Driver.

boneheaddoctor · #55 11-01-2004, 03:13 PM

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Originally Posted by webwench

Wow, it would have taken some real work to put diesel fuel into a gas tank. The diesel nozzle is too big to fit, if I recall correctly

Well think back to the 80's lots of cars had the restricters punched out and cats removed, to run cheaper higher octaine leaded.......in that case it would fit

I did it, so I know.......not the diesel fuel thing but the leaded fuel thing.

oldnavy · #56 11-01-2004, 03:24 PM

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Originally Posted by boneheaddoctor

Well think back to the 80's lots of cars had the restricters punched out and cats removed, to run cheaper higher octaine leaded.......in that case it would fit

I did it, so I know.......not the diesel fuel thing but the leaded fuel thing.

Remember she is only 32 and people had stopped doing that over 20 years ago when she was 12 at best.

:p

Richard Eldridge · #57 11-01-2004, 03:24 PM

http://tor.tripod.com/belcars/
This fellow spent quite a while taking pictures of cars and trucks in Belarus.

Worth a look

d.delano · #58 11-01-2004, 03:27 PM

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Originally Posted by KCampbell

A Hummer H2, the dumbest vehicle on the road.

The styling makes me think of those really cheap stereo systems, where the plastic case is molded to make it look as if it's stacked separates, and for some reason there are frequency response graphs printed on top of the speaker enclosures. The goal appears to be to fool you into thinking it's something that it isn't...

I thought the Citroen DS was really cool looking as a kid:

Kevin

those are schweet. they have unique suspension systems. very chic autos. quite plush and sophisticated.
most everyone on the street will tell you a W123 is pretty darn ugly...

Palangi · #59 11-01-2004, 03:48 PM

Just a couple years ago in Austin, TX, I was in line at a gas station behind a Citroen like that. The driver (hippy type dude) proceeded to gas it up, while smoking a cigarette. Seeing this, I was giving him plenty of room. It seemed to be taking a long time to fill up. All of a sudden, gas came pouring out of the door sills. As I was backing away, Mr Hippy, still smoking his cigarette, was yanking the rear fender off the car (it just pulled off somehow). I vacated the area and filled up elsewhere. I never did see anything about it on the local news that night, so I guess he somehow survived his stupidity.

rs899 · #60 11-01-2004, 04:05 PM

The rear fenders of a D-model Cit come off with one bolt.

I'm not speaking from experience as I don't have one (yet) but the car must be a tinkerer's dream (or nightmare)