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What general era was your vehichle made:

  • 30s or earlier

    Votes: 38 15.8%
  • 40s

    Votes: 26 10.8%
  • 50s

    Votes: 39 16.2%
  • 60s

    Votes: 52 21.6%
  • 70s-90s

    Votes: 64 26.6%
  • New with classic features

    Votes: 47 19.5%

  • Total voters
    241
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Just saw a Stutz at a car show recently. I like them, but they're just not quite as classically styled as the Excaliburs. Though, if they were good enough for Dean Martin, one would probably be good enough for me :p

I remember when those were new. They had their share of problems. You are better off without one. :p Think about a Stutz instead.
 

Interbak

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Stratford, ON, Canada
Don't think anyone would really call the Excalibur a "classic style" more of a classically inspired pimp-mobile!
Big '70's style floppy hat, preferably in a bright color or even better an animal print, with a matching leisure suit, and you've got the whole package.
 
Just saw a Stutz at a car show recently. I like them, but they're just not quite as classically styled as the Excaliburs. Though, if they were good enough for Dean Martin, one would probably be good enough for me :p

There were a few other notable owners as well:
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Elvis had a black one and a white one. :phttp://www.elvis.com.au/presley/elvis_presleys_stutz_blackhawks.shtml
 
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Location
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It's still far more attractive than anything they're making today. I'm used to people calling my cars pimpmobiles. Doesn't matter anymore.

Don't think anyone would really call the Excalibur a "classic style" more of a classically inspired pimp-mobile!
Big '70's style floppy hat, preferably in a bright color or even better an animal print, with a matching leisure suit, and you've got the whole package.
 

Stearmen

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On a recent episode of Counting Cars, they found Barry White's Stutz and restored it for his widow. Personally, I would rather have a Mercer Raceabout!
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Stearmen

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The 78 Chevy truck reminded me of my 79 Silverado. Here are pictures when we painted it just after I bought it, and just before I sold it. I wired a painters garage in exchange on the flame job! Power every thing, more car then truck, scarry in the snow!
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Stearmen

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Here is a photo of my dad in the late 40s after he got out of the Army Air Force sitting on his Pontiac. Pretty Cool!
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Auld Edwardian

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SW VA Blue Ridge Mountains
I reckon you're right!

On that note, a friend has been telling me for years of this Crown Imperial sitting in his Grandparents' garage he feels I need to buy. Maybe I should look into that a little harder.

If the price is right you might want to consider it, also it has a known history and has been garage kept. On the other hand you could hold out and get a LeBaron which was their top shelf model, or go further up market and get a Lincoln!

My brother in Florida had one of these and had to get rid of it because a neighbor complained he had too many cars. Mind you they all ran, none of them were junkers, and all but the one he drove every day were in his stockade fenced back yard with a matching gate, hence they could not even be seen from the street. I wish I had know when he got ride of it, he ended up all but giving it and the other cars away so as not to get into a disagreement with the town. Some neighbors are just a nice piece of work.

[video=youtube;HdpBFPnTjdw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdpBFPnTjdw&feature=fvwrel[/video]
 
If the price is right you might want to consider it, also it has a known history and has been garage kept. On the other hand you could hold out and get a LeBaron which was their top shelf model, or go further up market and get a Lincoln!

My brother in Florida had one of these and had to get rid of it because a neighbor complained he had too many cars. Mind you they all ran, none of them were junkers, and all but the one he drove every day were in his stockade fenced back yard with a matching gate, hence they could not even be seen from the street. I wish I had know when he got ride of it, he ended up all but giving it and the other cars away so as not to get into a disagreement with the town. Some neighbors are just a nice piece of work.

I straightened out my neighbors REAL good when they tried that. :p
 

Auld Edwardian

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I straightened out my neighbors REAL good when they tried that. :p

If he had a big garage he most likely would not have had a problem as they would not have been seen at all. However his mothball fleet were out in the open, albeit out of reasonable sight. It had something to do with town codes and ordinances and other blah-blah-blah. Another reason we would like to move to the countryside in the future.
 

Jaxworx

Familiar Face
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70
Location
State of Washington, U.S.A.
Oddball vehicle...

Can bikes qualify as vehicles for purposes of this thread?

Recently purchased and (sadly) soon to go on the block. :(

DSC_0142-500x332.jpg


The frame is an 80s-era J&M with a Rotax crate engine in it. Vintage H-D racing livery, all the dirt track bells and whistles including Barnes hub, Marzocchi fork, Excel rims, and braking by Grimeca on the back wheel only. Goes like stink, shakes like a paint mixer, grips like a dirt bike, steers like a roadster, stops... uh, sorta. Has a certain roguish style, to my eye.

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Nice memories of some other rolling stock, including the '54 Chevy 3100 that my daughter drives now, a '66 Mustang (289 4v and a C4 automatic) from decades gone by, and an enduring odd fondness for the 1964 Chrysler 300 -- big block and a pushbutton tranny -- that I barreled around Portland in during my junior year of high school.

The "Crizzler," as we called it, was a true antihero of style, but unbelievably comfortable -- and it ate my buddy's '60 Corvette alive. :D
 

Gregg Axley

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Location
Tennessee
Just saw a Stutz at a car show recently. I like them, but they're just not quite as classically styled as the Excaliburs. Though, if they were good enough for Dean Martin, one would probably be good enough for me :p
No pics?
Tom shame on you!
There was a friend of the family that sold Excaliburs when they came out. Neat concept but bad execution. For the money they could have at least come close to a Stutz.
 
If he had a big garage he most likely would not have had a problem as they would not have been seen at all. However his mothball fleet were out in the open, albeit out of reasonable sight. It had something to do with town codes and ordinances and other blah-blah-blah. Another reason we would like to move to the countryside in the future.

I am int he city and they are in plain view as well. They just know better now after I replied with charges of harassment. :p The police backed off. :p
 
Can bikes qualify as vehicles for purposes of this thread?

Recently purchased and (sadly) soon to go on the block. :(

DSC_0142-500x332.jpg


The frame is an 80s-era J&M with a Rotax crate engine in it. Vintage H-D racing livery, all the dirt track bells and whistles including Barnes hub, Marzocchi fork, Excel rims, and braking by Grimeca on the back wheel only. Goes like stink, shakes like a paint mixer, grips like a dirt bike, steers like a roadster, stops... uh, sorta. Has a certain roguish style, to my eye.

DSC_0119-002-316x500.jpg


Nice memories of some other rolling stock, including the '54 Chevy 3100 that my daughter drives now, a '66 Mustang (289 4v and a C4 automatic) from decades gone by, and an enduring odd fondness for the 1964 Chrysler 300 -- big block and a pushbutton tranny -- that I barreled around Portland in during my junior year of high school.

The "Crizzler," as we called it, was a true antihero of style, but unbelievably comfortable -- and it ate my buddy's '60 Corvette alive. :D

Bikes work for me. I have a few of those too. BSAs and Bultacos but bikes anyway. :p
 
No pics?
Tom shame on you!
There was a friend of the family that sold Excaliburs when they came out. Neat concept but bad execution. For the money they could have at least come close to a Stutz.

Close but no cigar. :p

Rolling stock of memory was a chance I had to drive a Convertible Rolls Royce from the 60s ( I don't remember the model). It was really quiet and had a very tight feel to it. I suppose it shoudl for what my friend's father paid for it. :p If I mentioned who it was you would readily know from a turn his life took soon after that made him infamous nationwide but that is another story. :p
 

Jaxworx

Familiar Face
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Location
State of Washington, U.S.A.
Bikes work for me. I have a few of those too. BSAs and Bultacos but bikes anyway. :p

I've only ever owned one Beeza, a '52 A10 Goldenflash bobber when I was an undergrad at WSU. It was black with white pins, ran open Hooker headers, and used a "Flintstone" brake on the back wheel with a spool front. Lights rarely worked, but the mag was reliable so she mostly always ran. Scared the daylights out of me when an entire sorority pledge group took a left turn and marched across the street in front of the bike. They did look cute with their tasseled white boots, though.

Come to remember, the BSA was another of the three bikes I've had w/o a front brake, the third being a lime green, hardtail-framed Triumph T-100C. That seems wrong when I think about it; I'm mostly a sport/cafe guy.

Sure would love some Bultaco pictures, James. We don't see many of those around anymore.
 
I've only ever owned one Beeza, a '52 A10 Goldenflash bobber when I was an undergrad at WSU. It was black with white pins, ran open Hooker headers, and used a "Flintstone" brake on the back wheel with a spool front. Lights rarely worked, but the mag was reliable so she mostly always ran. Scared the daylights out of me when an entire sorority pledge group took a left turn and marched across the street in front of the bike. They did look cute with their tasseled white boots, though.

Come to remember, the BSA was another of the three bikes I've had w/o a front brake, the third being a lime green, hardtail-framed Triumph T-100C. That seems wrong when I think about it; I'm mostly a sport/cafe guy.

Sure would love some Bultaco pictures, James. We don't see many of those around anymore.

I have a 58 Super Rocket and a few Bantams.

I have a few Camperas. They are decent but not exactly super fast.

My 1966 Campera looks like this:
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I also have a 1969 Campera MKII
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