227" long? Put that in perspective, it's an inch *shorter* than my Dad's '57 Eldorado Biarritz.

EDIT: Guess I was misinformed, the Eldo is *only* 222" long. This Honda has it by 5".

Two cars I almost bought in HS / College.

Senior year I nearly dropped $800 on a '75 Hurst Olds W-30. Seriously ratty, it needed $1200 of body work in the greenhouse alone. Still, I love the colonnade cars and Hurst anything, so this was just full of win. Hurst Hatch T-tops (leaking and cracked across the roof from one to the other), dual gate shifter, swivel buckets and the W-30 455. Alas, I need a practical car to take to college, not a project.

In college I came across a '72 Z-28 with a 4 speed for $1,000. The interior was out of it and it had been hit pretty good in the quarter. '72 is my favorite year because of the strike in Norwood make them relatively rare. I think only 1,800 or something Z-28's that year. Once again the practicalities of college prevailed (I needed the money for tuition and had no place to store it) and I let it go.

Saw one of these in the Columbus OH Arthritis foundation show back in2008:

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The featured GM that year and had some great GM rarities present. Check out the '76 Caddy pickup in my gallery and the '76 Buick Century Free Spirit pace car.

I think that's how all the turbo cars came.

I think that was shown in Tokyo earlier in the year, but the van to be shown in Chicago is likely to be a thinly disguised version of the coming all new 2011 Odyssey. That's the typical Honda way, they put new wheels & lights on the production design and call it a show car. Witness last year's CR-Z show car, the Pilot and Ridgeline were done the same way.

I'm working on getting them scanned and on the web somewhere. He's got a bunch of great old car pics.

The Ford never got done, he sold it after 20+ years in his garage. He drove the Cuda daily until 1982 when it was totaled. Now, he's got a '56 T'bird and the '57 Eldorado that he and Mom dated in when it was my Grandfathers daily driver.

Nice, but the '65 is the nicer looking of the early Barracudas. Dad had a '65 that he bought new in El Paso TX just before being discharged from the Army. He then bought a '37 Ford 4 door project car before returning to Toledo OH. He used the 'Cuda to flat tow the Ford home. Dad's got pictures of the two together.

So, flat towing the roller home is definitely a possibility.

For the record, that's not a Bullet Bird, that's called a Flair Bird (I'm not sure why). The Bullet Bird were the '61-'63, this one is a '64-'66.

Passed the written 100% and the on-the-rod driving 100%, but failed 'cause of the 5 cone parallel parking thing. I was driving Dad's '77 Cutlass - big car and you can see absolutely nothing of that sloping rear out the back. Hit a cone and it fell over. Touching a cone, not stopping in the right place, etc. all get you points. You can get up to 25 points and still pass. Knocking a cone over is 26 points.

Next time out I think I got 20 or 25 - I passed, but just barely.

Whenever I see some kid practicing with cones in a parking lot, I'm tempted see if I can give it a go now.

Oh, as far as build quality, the Citation was definitely worse, although we seemed to have one of the better screwed together first year models around (not saying much). But, in terms of a car a teenager wants to be seen in, the Toro is more embarrassing. Toro had the landau vinyl top and fake wire wheel covers and screamed "Grandma!" (or "Step Grandma!", I guess), the Citation was a plain white economy hatchback, but it was a 4 speed so I could do impressive wheel hopping burnouts in the parking lot.