Battlecars. This is a thing. And I want this MK VIII soooo bad.
My first Photoberkit.
9am to 12:45 got me this.
Knurled wrote:
Let me guess:
In reply to NickD:
Ayup.
Apparently the guys who do them day in and day out can knock out a set of chains in 5 hours. I haven't got quite that level of experience. Maybe in a CTS, not an all wheel drive van.
Although, I did waste a half hour on trying to get one of the tie rod ends off. Brilliant move by GM to use Nylocs on the suspension.
mattmacklind wrote:
One of my aunts had one of these in the early 80s.
I cite the Laguna as proof that stylists in the 70s pretty much hated their jobs, hated management, and hated the consumers, so they just phoned in whatever looked different from two years earlier and went home at noon. "You know how we took the 4-headlight Chevelle and have it two headlights in '71? Yeah, this is like that but even goofier looking. I mean aerodynamic looking. Look at how the headlight buckets are both concave and sloped back, and the headlights have their own nacelles! And we laid back the grille a bunch because the air flows over it better that way. And we kinda forgot to put turn signals in so we hid them in the grille only we didn't, really. Oh and we shoved another grille in the Endura bumper because why not?"
Thus, zero people are upset that all the '74-77 A-bodies got stripped to their frames and turned into Dirt Late Models. And the styling of the 6000 SUX from Robocop seems to be a direct mockery of this kind of "who gives a berk how it looks, let's just throw a bunch of concepts at it and call it done" styling.
In reply to 914Driver:
I dig the truck more than the car
Not sure I know how to play, but here goes:
We should pick a GRM day.
Caption this picture...because I can't and keep it SFW
Knurled wrote:mattmacklind wrote:One of my aunts had one of these in the early 80s. I cite the Laguna as proof that stylists in the 70s pretty much hated their jobs, hated management, and hated the consumers, so they just phoned in whatever looked different from two years earlier and went home at noon. "You know how we took the 4-headlight Chevelle and have it two headlights in '71? Yeah, this is like that but even goofier looking. I mean aerodynamic looking. Look at how the headlight buckets are both concave and sloped back, and the headlights have their own *nacelles*! And we laid back the grille a bunch because the air flows over it better that way. And we kinda forgot to put turn signals in so we hid them in the grille only we didn't, really. Oh and we shoved another grille in the Endura bumper because why not?" Thus, zero people are upset that all the '74-77 A-bodies got stripped to their frames and turned into Dirt Late Models. And the styling of the 6000 SUX from Robocop seems to be a direct mockery of this kind of "who gives a berk how it looks, let's just throw a bunch of concepts at it and call it done" styling.
Rip on the styling all you want, but in the mid-70s, NASCAR had to create a seperate restrictor plate just for the Lagunas because they were that dominant. Then when the new '77 Cutlass came out, everyone jumped to that because it was even more aerodynamic than the Laguna.
I actually like the Colonnade GMs. Infinitely better suspension than the original A-body and you can fit a 13" wide rear wheel without tubs or flares.
68TR250 wrote: In reply to 914Driver: I dig the truck more than the car
Agreed.
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